Audio and acoustics

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VERSE: Voice. Exploration. Retrieval. Search.

July 18, 2019 | Adam Fourney

People with visual impairments are expert users of audio interfaces, including voice-activated virtual assistants and screen readers. Through interviews and surveys of this population, we learned that virtual assistants are convenient and accessible, but lack…

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Meeting Transcription Using Virtual Microphone Arrays

Takuya Yoshioka, Zhuo Chen, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, William Hinthorn, Xuedong Huang, Andreas Stolcke, Michael Zeng

MSR-TR-2019-11 | July 2019

Published by Microsoft

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Cross Modal Audio Search and Retrieval with Joint Embeddings Based on Text and Audio

Benjamin Martinez, Shuayb Zarar, Bhiksha Raj

IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | May 2019

Microsoft Research Blog

Believe your ears – Hitting all the right notes in spatial sound rendering at ICASSP 2019

May 15, 2019

Mixed reality (MR) applications and devices are seeing increased adoption, integrating computation into the fabric of our daily lives. This requires realistic rendering of virtual audio-visual content to deliver sensory immersion to MR users. Producing…

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Speech Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Network

Sefik Emre Eskimez, Kazuhito Koishida

ICASSP 2019 | May 2019

Event

Microsoft @ ICASSP 2019

May 12, 2019 – May 17, 2019 | Brighton, United Kingdom

Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of the 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) May 12 – 17, 2019, in Brighton, UK.

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Non-intrusive Speech Quality Assessment Using Neural Networks

Anderson R. Avila, Hannes Gamper, Chandan K. A. Reddy, Ross Cutler, Ivan Tashev, Johannes Gehrke

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | May 2019

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Single-channel Speech Extraction Using Speaker Inventory and Attention Network

Xiong Xiao, Zhuo Chen, Takuya Yoshioka, Hakan Erdogan, Changliang Liu, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, J. Droppo, Y. Gong

ICASSP 2019 | May 2019

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Adaptive Sampling For Sound Propagation

C. R. A. Chaitanya, John Snyder, Keith Godin, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Nikunj Raghuvanshi

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | May 2019, Vol 25(5): pp. 1846-1854

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Directional interference suppression using a spatial relative transfer function feature

Sebastian Braun, Ivan Tashev

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | May 2019

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