Guided Source Separation Meets a Strong ASR Backend: Hitachi/Paderborn University Joint Investigation for Dinner Party ASR

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Kanda, Naoyuki, Boeddeker, Christoph, Heitkaemper, Jens, Fujita, Yusuke, Horiguchi, Shota, Nagamatsu, Kenji, Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 26.06.2019
• Subjects: Automatic speech recognition; Separation; Speech processing; Training; Voice recognition

In this paper, we present Hitachi and Paderborn University's joint effort for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in a dinner party scenario. The main challenges of ASR systems for dinner party recordings obtained by multiple microphone arrays are (1) heavy speech overlaps, (2) severe noise and...