Publications

2024

1. Less Peaky and More Accurate CTC Forced Alignment by Label Priors

   Ruizhe Huang ,  Xiaohui Zhang ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Li Sun ,  Moto Hira ,  Jeff Hwang ,  Vimal Manohar ,  Vineel Pratap ,  Matthew Wiesner ,  Shinji Watanabe ,  Daniel Povey , and 1 more author

   IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024
2. Folding Attention: Memory and Power Optimization for On-device Transformer-based Streaming Speech Recognition

   Yang Li ,  Liangzhen Lai ,  Yuan Shangguan ,  Forrest N. Iandola ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Ernie Chang ,  Yangyang Shi ,  and  Vikas Chandra

   IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024
3. An Empirical Study on the Impact of Positional Encoding in Transformer-based Monaural Speech Enhancement

   Qiquan Zhang ,  Meng Ge ,  Hongxu Zhu ,  Eliathamby Ambikairajah ,  Qi Song ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  and  Haizhou Li

   IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024
4. On The Open Prompt Challenge In Conditional Audio Generation

   Ernie Chang ,  Sidd Srinivasan ,  Mahi Luthra ,  Pin-Jie Lin ,  Varun Nagaraja ,  Forrest Iandola ,  Zechun Liu ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Changsheng Zhao ,  Yangyang Shi ,  and  others

   IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024
5. Stack-and-Delay: A New Codebook Pattern for Music Generation

   Gael Le Lan ,  Varun Nagaraja ,  Ernie Chang ,  David Kant ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Yangyang Shi ,  Forrest Iandola ,  and  Vikas Chandra

   ICASSP 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024

   arXiv

2023

1. Exploring Speech Enhancement for Low-resource Speech Synthesis

   Zhaoheng Ni ,  Sravya Popuri ,  Ning Dong ,  Kohei Saijo ,  Xiaohui Zhang ,  Gael Le Lan ,  Yangyang Shi ,  Vikas Chandra ,  and  Changhan Wang

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10795, 2023
2. FoleyGen: Visually-Guided Audio Generation

   Xinhao Mei ,  Varun Nagaraja ,  Gael Le Lan ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Ernie Chang ,  Yangyang Shi ,  and  Vikas Chandra

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10537, 2023
3. Enhance Audio Generation Controllability through Representation Similarity Regularization

   Yangyang Shi ,  Gael Le Lan ,  Varun Nagaraja ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Xinhao Mei ,  Ernie Chang ,  Forrest Iandola ,  Yang Liu ,  and  Vikas Chandra

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08773, 2023
4. TorchAudio 2.1: Advancing Speech Recognition, Self-supervised Learning, and Audio Processing Components for PyTorch

   Jeff Hwang ,  Moto Hira ,  Caroline Chen ,  Xiaohui Zhang ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Guangzhi Sun ,  Pingchuan Ma ,  Ruizhe Huang ,  Vineel Pratap ,  Yuekai Zhang ,  and  others

   2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2023

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5. Software Design and User Interface of ESPnet-SE++: Speech Enhancement for Robust Speech Processing

   Yen-Ju Lu ,  Xuankai Chang ,  Chenda Li ,  Wangyou Zhang ,  Samuele Cornell ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Yoshiki Masuyama ,  Brian Yan ,  Robin Scheibler ,  Zhong-Qiu Wang ,  and  others

   Journal of Open Source Software, 2023
6. TorchAudio-Squim: Reference-less Speech Quality and Intelligibility measures in TorchAudio

   Anurag Kumar ,  Ke Tan ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Pranay Manocha ,  Xiaohui Zhang ,  Ethan Henderson ,  and  Buye Xu

   In ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2023

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7. ESPnet-ST-v2: Multipurpose Spoken Language Translation Toolkit

   Brian Yan ,  Jiatong Shi ,  Yun Tang ,  Hirofumi Inaguma ,  Yifan Peng ,  Siddharth Dalmia ,  Peter Polák ,  Patrick Fernandes ,  Dan Berrebbi ,  Tomoki Hayashi ,  and  others

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.04596, 2023
8. Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages

   Vineel Pratap ,  Andros Tjandra ,  Bowen Shi ,  Paden Tomasello ,  Arun Babu ,  Sayani Kundu ,  Ali Elkahky ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Apoorv Vyas ,  Maryam Fazel-Zarandi ,  and  others

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.13516, 2023

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9. Ripple Sparse Self-attention for Monaural Speech Enhancement

   Qiquan Zhang ,  Hongxu Zhu ,  Qi Song ,  Xinyuan Qian ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  and  Haizhou Li

   In ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2023
10. Reducing Barriers to Self-Supervised Learning: HuBERT Pre-training with Academic Compute

    William Chen ,  Xuankai Chang ,  Yifan Peng ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Soumi Maiti ,  and  Shinji Watanabe

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06672, 2023

2022

1. TorchAudio: Building Blocks for Audio and Speech Processing

   Yao-Yuan Yang ,  Moto Hira ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Artyom Astafurov ,  Caroline Chen ,  Christian Puhrsch ,  David Pollack ,  Dmitriy Genzel ,  Donny Greenberg ,  Edward Z Yang ,  and  others

   In ICASSP 2022-2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2022

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2. Time-Frequency Attention for Monaural Speech Enhancement

   Qiquan Zhang ,  Qi Song ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Aaron Nicolson ,  and  Haizhou Li

   In ICASSP 2022-2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2022
3. ESPnet-SE++: Speech Enhancement for Robust Speech Recognition, Translation, and Understanding

   Yen-Ju Lu ,  Xuankai Chang ,  Chenda Li ,  Wangyou Zhang ,  Samuele Cornell ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Yoshiki Masuyama ,  Brian Yan ,  Robin Scheibler ,  Zhong-Qiu Wang ,  Yu Tsao , and 2 more authors

   In Proc. Interspeech 2022 , 2022
4. Towards Low-distortion Multi-channel Speech Enhancement: The ESPNet-SE Submission to the L3DAS22 Challenge

   Yen-Ju Lu ,  Samuele Cornell ,  Xuankai Chang ,  Wangyou Zhang ,  Chenda Li ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Zhong-Qiu Wang ,  and  Shinji Watanabe

   In ICASSP 2022-2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2022
5. A Time-Frequency Attention Module for Neural Speech Enhancement

   Qiquan Zhang ,  Xinyuan Qian ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Aaron Nicolson ,  Eliathamby Ambikairajah ,  and  Haizhou Li

   In , 2022

2021

1. WPD++: An Improved Neural Beamformer for Simultaneous Speech Separation and Dereverberation

   Zhaoheng Ni ,  Yong Xu ,  Meng Yu ,  Bo Wu ,  Shixiong Zhang ,  Dong Yu ,  and  Michael I Mandel

   In 2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) , 2021

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2020

1. CHiME-6 challenge: Tackling Multispeaker Speech Recognition for Unsegmented Recordings

   Shinji Watanabe ,  Michael Mandel ,  Jon Barker ,  Emmanuel Vincent ,  Ashish Arora ,  Xuankai Chang ,  Sanjeev Khudanpur ,  Vimal Manohar ,  Daniel Povey ,  Desh Raj ,  Zhaoheng Ni , and 1 more author

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09249, 2020
2. Mask-dependent Phase Estimation for Monaural Speaker Separation

   Zhaoheng Ni ,  and  Michael I Mandel

   In ICASSP 2020-2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2020
3. CUNY Speech Diarization System for the CHiME-6 Challenge

   Zhaoheng Ni ,  and  Michael I Mandel

   In Proc. The 6th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2020) , 2020
4. Improved MVDR Beamforming Using LSTM Speech Models to Clean Spatial Clustering Masks

   Zhaoheng Ni ,  Felix Grezes ,  Viet Anh Trinh ,  and  Michael I Mandel

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.02191, 2020
5. Combining Spatial Clustering with LSTM Speech Models for Multichannel Speech Enhancement

   Felix Grezes ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Viet Anh Trinh ,  and  Michael Mandel

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03388, 2020
6. Enhancement of Spatial Clustering-based Time-Frequency Masks using LSTM Neural Networks

   Felix Grezes ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Viet Anh Trinh ,  and  Michael Mandel

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01576, 2020

2019

1. ONSSEN: An Open-source Speech Separation and Enhancement Library

   Zhaoheng Ni ,  and  Michael I Mandel

   arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.00982, 2019

2018

1. Unusable Spoken Response Detection with BLSTM Neural Networks

   Zhaoheng Ni ,  Rutuja Ubale ,  Yao Qian ,  Michael Mandel ,  Su-Youn Yoon ,  Abhinav Misra ,  and  David Suendermann-Oeft

   In 2018 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) , 2018
2. Sound Signal Processing with Seq2Tree Network

   Weicheng Ma ,  Kai Cao ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Peter Chin ,  and  Xiang Li

   In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) , 2018

2014

1. Anatomical Entity Recognition with a Hierarchical Framework Augmented by External Resources

   Yan Xu ,  Ji Hua ,  Zhaoheng Ni ,  Qinlang Chen ,  Yubo Fan ,  Sophia Ananiadou ,  Eric I-Chao Chang ,  and  Junichi Tsujii

   PloS one, 2014