Audio and acoustics

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Cities Unlocked – Introducing 3D Sound for Greater Mobility and Independence

May 13, 2021 | Amos Miller, Jarnail Chudge

Microsoft, Guide Dogs UK, and Future Cities Catapult launch the results of the first phase of an exciting project which will revolutionize how people with sight loss, and the sighted, experience the urban landscape, by…

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Detecting, Classifying, and Counting Blue Whale Calls with Siamese Neural Networks

Ming Zhong, Maelle Torterotot, Trevor A. Branch, Kathleen M. Stafford, Jean-Yves Royer, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | May 2021

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Can You Hear My Heartbeat?: Hearing an Expressive Biosignal Elicits Empathy

R. Michael Winters, Bruce N. Walker, Grace Leslie

2021 Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2021

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Sound Capture and Speech Enhancement for Communication and Distant Speech Recognition

April 28, 2021 | Dr. Ivan J. Tashev and Dr. Sebastian Braun from Audio and Acoustics Research Group in Microsoft Research – Redmond

In this talk we will discuss the general architecture of speech enhancement pipelines for the needs of hands-free telecommunication and distant speech recognition. The talk will discuss both classical approaches using statistical signal processing and…

Sound Capture and Speech Enhancement for Communication and Distant Speech Recognition

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Exploring Machine Speech Chain for Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation

Fengpeng Yue, Yan Deng, Lei He, Tom Ko

ICASSP 2022 | April 2021

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Rethinking GPS navigation: creating cognitive maps through auditory clues

Gregory Dane Clemenson, Antonella Maselli, Alex Fiannaca, Amos Miller, Mar Gonzalez Franco

Scientific Reports | April 2021, Vol 11(1): pp. 7764-7764

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Streaming end-to-end multi-talker speech recognition

Liang Lu, Naoyuki Kanda, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

IEEE Signal Processing Letter | April 2021, Vol 28

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The New Future of Work: Research from Microsoft into the Pandemic’s Impact on Work Practices

Jaime Teevan, Brent Hecht, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Rachel Bergmann, Matt Brodsky, Bill Buxton, Jenna Butler, Adam Coleman, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Houck, Ginger Hudson, Shamsi Iqbal, Chandra Maddila, Kate Nowak, Emily Peloquin, Ricardo Reyna Fernandez, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Tiffany Smith, Margaret-Anne Storey, Siddharth Suri, Hana Wolf, Longqi Yang

MSR-TR-2021-1 | January 2021

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Exploring End-to-End Multi-channel ASR with Bias Information for Meeting Transcription

Xiaofei Wang, Naoyuki Kanda, Yashesh Gaur, Zhuo Chen, Zhong Meng, Takuya Yoshioka

SLT 2021 | January 2021

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Investigation of End-To-End Speaker-Attributed ASR for Continuous Multi-Talker Recordings

Naoyuki Kanda, Xuankai Chang, Yashesh Gaur, Xiaofei Wang, Zhong Meng, Zhuo Chen, Takuya Yoshioka

SLT 2021 | January 2021

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