Publications

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  •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Watanabe, T., Orlik, P.V., "DNN-based Overhead Reduction for High-Quality Soft Delivery", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), DOI: 10.1109/​GLOBECOM38437.2019.9014124, December 2019.
    BibTeX TR2019-133 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Fujihashi2019dec2,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {DNN-based Overhead Reduction for High-Quality Soft Delivery},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)},
    • year = 2019,
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9014124},
    • issn = {2576-6813},
    • isbn = {978-1-7281-0962-6},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-133}
    • }
  •  Baskar, M.K., Watanabe, S., Astudillo, R., Hori, T., Burget, L., Cernocky, J.H., "Semi-supervised Sequence-to-sequence ASR using Unpaired Speech and Text", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2019-3167, September 2019, pp. 3790-3794.
    BibTeX TR2019-100 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Baskar2019sep,
    • author = {Baskar, Murali Karthick and Watanabe, Shinji and Astudillo, Ramon and Hori, Takaaki and Burget, Lukas and Cernocky, Jan, Honza},
    • title = {Semi-supervised Sequence-to-sequence ASR using Unpaired Speech and Text},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {3790--3794},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-3167},
    • issn = {1990-9772},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-100}
    • }
  •  Karafiat, M., Baskar, M.K., Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Wiesner, M., Cernocky, J.H., "Analysis of Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition Systems", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2019-2355/​/​, September 2019, pp. 2019-2355.
    BibTeX TR2019-103 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Karafiat2019sep,
    • author = {Karafiat, Martin and Baskar, Murali Karthick and Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Wiesner, Matthew and Cernocky, Jan, Honza},
    • title = {Analysis of Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition Systems},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {2019--2355},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2355//},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-103}
    • }
  •  Seki, H., Hori, T., Watanabe, S., Le Roux, J., Hershey, J., "End-to-End Multilingual Multi-Speaker Speech Recognition", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2019-3038, September 2019, pp. 3755-3759.
    BibTeX TR2019-101 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Seki2019sep,
    • author = {Seki, Hiroshi and Hori, Takaaki and Watanabe, Shinji and Le Roux, Jonathan and Hershey, John},
    • title = {End-to-End Multilingual Multi-Speaker Speech Recognition},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {3755--3759},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-3038},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-101}
    • }
  •  Seki, H., Hori, T., Watanabe, S., Moritz, N., Le Roux, J., "Vectorized Beam Search for CTC-Attention-based Speech Recognition", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2019-2860, September 2019, pp. 3825-3829.
    BibTeX TR2019-102 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Seki2019sep2,
    • author = {Seki, Hiroshi and Hori, Takaaki and Watanabe, Shinji and Moritz, Niko and Le Roux, Jonathan},
    • title = {Vectorized Beam Search for CTC-Attention-based Speech Recognition},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {3825--3829},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2860},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-102}
    • }
  •  Yalta, N., Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Nakadai, K., Ogata, T., "CNN-based Multichannel End-to-End Speech Recognition for Everyday Home Environments", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), DOI: 10.23919/​EUSIPCO.2019.8902524, September 2019, pp. 1-5.
    BibTeX TR2019-094 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yalta2019sep,
    • author = {Yalta, Nelson and Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Nakadai, Kazuhiro and Ogata, Tetsuya},
    • title = {CNN-based Multichannel End-to-End Speech Recognition for Everyday Home Environments},
    • booktitle = {European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {1--5},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.23919/EUSIPCO.2019.8902524},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-094}
    • }
  •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Watanabe, T., Orlik, P.V., "HoloCast: Graph Signal Processing for Graceful Point Cloud Delivery", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), DOI: 10.1109/​ICC.2019.8761819, June 2019.
    BibTeX TR2019-026 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Fujihashi2019jun,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {HoloCast: Graph Signal Processing for Graceful Point Cloud Delivery},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
    • year = 2019,
    • month = jun,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICC.2019.8761819},
    • issn = {1938-1883},
    • isbn = {978-1-5386-8088-9},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-026}
    • }
  •  Baskar, M.K., Burget, L., Watanabe, S., Karafiat, M., Hori, T., Cernocky, J.H., "Promising Accurate Prefix Boosting for Sequence-to-Sequence ASR", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2019.8682782, May 2019, pp. 5646-5650.
    BibTeX TR2019-006 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Baskar2019may,
    • author = {Baskar, Murali Karthick and Burget, Lukas and Watanabe, Shinji and Karafiat, Martin and Hori, Takaaki and Cernocky, Jan, Honza},
    • title = {Promising Accurate Prefix Boosting for Sequence-to-Sequence ASR},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {5646--5650},
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682782},
    • issn = {2379-190X},
    • isbn = {978-1-4799-8131-1},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-006}
    • }
  •  Cho, J., Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Baskar, M.K., Inaguma, H., Villalba, J., Dehak, N., "Language Model Integration Based on Memory Control for Sequence to Sequence Speech Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2019.8683380, May 2019.
    BibTeX TR2019-007 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Cho2019may,
    • author = {Cho, Jaejin and Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Baskar, Murali Karthick and Inaguma, Hirofumi and Villalba, Jesus and Dehak, Najim},
    • title = {Language Model Integration Based on Memory Control for Sequence to Sequence Speech Recognition},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2019,
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683380},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-007}
    • }
  •  Hori, T., Astudillo, R., Hayashi, T., Zhang, Y., Watanabe, S., Le Roux, J., "Cycle-Consistency Training for End-to-End Speech Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2019.8683307, May 2019.
    BibTeX TR2019-002 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hori2019may,
    • author = {Hori, Takaaki and Astudillo, Ramon and Hayashi, Tomoki and Zhang, Yu and Watanabe, Shinji and Le Roux, Jonathan},
    • title = {Cycle-Consistency Training for End-to-End Speech Recognition},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2019,
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683307},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-002}
    • }
  •  Le Roux, J., Wichern, G., Watanabe, S., Sarroff, A., Hershey, J., "The Phasebook: Building Complex Masks via Discrete Representations for Source Separation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2019.8682587, May 2019.
    BibTeX TR2019-008 PDF
    • @inproceedings{LeRoux2019may2,
    • author = {Le Roux, Jonathan and Wichern, Gordon and Watanabe, Shinji and Sarroff, Andy and Hershey, John},
    • title = {The Phasebook: Building Complex Masks via Discrete Representations for Source Separation},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2019,
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682587},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-008}
    • }
  •  Wang, X., Li, R., Mallidi, S.H., Hori, T., Watanabe, S., Hermansky, H., "Stream Attention-Based Multi-Array End-to-End Speech Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2019.8682650, May 2019.
    BibTeX TR2019-005 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2019may,
    • author = {Wang, Xiaofei and Li, Ruizhi and Mallidi, Sri Harish and Hori, Takaaki and Watanabe, Shinji and Hermansky, Hynek},
    • title = {Stream Attention-Based Multi-Array End-to-End Speech Recognition},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2019,
    • month = may,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682650},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-005}
    • }
  •  Le Roux, J., Wichern, G., Watanabe, S., Sarroff, A., Hershey, J., "Phasebook and Friends: Leveraging discrete representations for source separation", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​JSTSP.2019.2904183, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 370-382, March 2019.
    BibTeX TR2018-199 PDF
    • @article{LeRoux2019mar,
    • author = {Le Roux, Jonathan and Wichern, Gordon and Watanabe, Shinji and Sarroff, Andy and Hershey, John},
    • title = {Phasebook and Friends: Leveraging discrete representations for source separation},
    • journal = {IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing},
    • year = 2019,
    • volume = 13,
    • number = 2,
    • pages = {370--382},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/JSTSP.2019.2904183},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-199}
    • }
  •  Cho, J., Baskar, M.K., Li, R., Wiesner, M., Mallidi, S.H., Yalta, N., Karafiat, M., Watanabe, S., Hori, T., "Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition: Architecture, Transfer Learning, and Language Modeling", IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), DOI: 10.1109/​SLT.2018.8639655, December 2018.
    BibTeX TR2018-175 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Cho2018dec,
    • author = {Cho, Jaejin and Baskar, Murali Karthick and Li, Ruizhi and Wiesner, Matthew and Mallidi, Sri Harish and Yalta, Nelson and Karafiat, Martin and Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki},
    • title = {Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition: Architecture, Transfer Learning, and Language Modeling},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
    • year = 2018,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/SLT.2018.8639655},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-175}
    • }
  •  Hayashi, T., Watanabe, S., Zhang, Y., Toda, T., Hori, T., Astudillo, R., Takeda, K., "Back-Translation-Style Data Augmentation for End-to-End ASR", IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), DOI: 10.1109/​SLT.2018.8639619, December 2018.
    BibTeX TR2018-174 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hayashi2018dec,
    • author = {Hayashi, Tomoki and Watanabe, Shinji and Zhang, Yu and Toda, Tomoki and Hori, Takaaki and Astudillo, Ramon and Takeda, Kazuya},
    • title = {Back-Translation-Style Data Augmentation for End-to-End ASR},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
    • year = 2018,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/SLT.2018.8639619},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-174}
    • }
  •  Hori, T., Cho, J., Watanabe, S., "End-to-End Speech Recognition with Word-Based RNN Language Models", IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), DOI: 10.1109/​SLT.2018.8639693, December 2018.
    BibTeX TR2018-176 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hori2018dec,
    • author = {Hori, Takaaki and Cho, Jaejin and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {End-to-End Speech Recognition with Word-Based RNN Language Models},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
    • year = 2018,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/SLT.2018.8639693},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-176}
    • }
  •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Watanabe, T., Orlik, P.V., "FreeCast: Graceful Free-Viewpoint Video Delivery", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, DOI: 10.1109/​TMM.2018.2870074, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 1000-1010, September 2018.
    BibTeX TR2018-134 PDF
    • @article{Fujihashi2018sep,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {FreeCast: Graceful Free-Viewpoint Video Delivery},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Multimedia},
    • year = 2018,
    • volume = 21,
    • number = 4,
    • pages = {1000--1010},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.1109/TMM.2018.2870074},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-134}
    • }
  •  Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Karita, S., Hayashi, T., Nishitoba, J., Unno, Y., Enrique Yalta Soplin, N., Heymann, J., Wiesner, M., Chen, N., Renduchintala, A., Ochiai, T., "ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit", Interspeech, September 2018.
    BibTeX TR2018-136 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Watanabe2018sep,
    • author = {Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Karita, Shigeki and Hayashi, Tomoki and Nishitoba, Jiro and Unno, Yuya and Enrique Yalta Soplin, Nelson and Heymann, Jahn and Wiesner, Matthew and Chen, Nanxin and Renduchintala, Adithya and Ochiai, Tsubasa},
    • title = {ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2018,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-136}
    • }
  •  Seki, H., Hori, T., Watanabe, S., Le Roux, J., Hershey, J., "A Purely End-to-end System for Multi-speaker Speech Recognition", Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), July 2018, pp. 2620-2630.
    BibTeX TR2018-104 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Seki2018jul,
    • author = {Seki, Hiroshi and Hori, Takaaki and Watanabe, Shinji and Le Roux, Jonathan and Hershey, John},
    • title = {A Purely End-to-end System for Multi-speaker Speech Recognition},
    • booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
    • year = 2018,
    • pages = {2620--2630},
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {Elsevier},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-104}
    • }
  •  Barker, J., Marxer, R., Vincent, E., Watanabe, S., "The CHiME challenges: Robust speech recognition in everyday environments" in New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning, Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R., Eds., chapter 14, Springer, July 2018.
    BibTeX
    • @incollection{Barker2018jul,
    • author = {Barker, Jon and Marxer, Ricard and Vincent, Emmanuel and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {The CHiME challenges: Robust speech recognition in everyday environments},
    • booktitle = {New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning},
    • year = 2018,
    • editor = {Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R.},
    • chapter = 14,
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {Springer}
    • }
  •  Erdogan, H., Hershey, J., Watanabe, S., Le Roux, J., "Deep recurrent networks for separation and recognition of single-channel speech in non-stationary background audio" in New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning, Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R., Eds., chapter 7, Springer, July 2018.
    BibTeX
    • @incollection{Erdogan2018jul,
    • author = {Erdogan, Hakan and Hershey, John and Watanabe, Shinji and Le Roux, Jonathan},
    • title = {Deep recurrent networks for separation and recognition of single-channel speech in non-stationary background audio},
    • booktitle = {New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning},
    • year = 2018,
    • editor = {Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R.},
    • chapter = 7,
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {Springer},
    • isbn = {978-3-319-64680-0}
    • }
  •  Hershey, J., Le Roux, J., Watanabe, S., Wisdom, S., Chen, Z., Isik, Y., "Novel deep architectures in speech processing" in New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning, Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R., Eds., chapter 6, Springer, July 9, 2018.
    BibTeX
    • @incollection{Hershey2018jul,
    • author = {Hershey, John and Le Roux, Jonathan and Watanabe, Shinji and Wisdom, Scott and Chen, Zhuo and Isik, Yusuf},
    • title = {Novel deep architectures in speech processing},
    • booktitle = {New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning},
    • year = 2018,
    • editor = {Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R.},
    • chapter = 6,
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {Springer}
    • }
  •  Karafiat, M., Vesely, K., Zmolikova, K., Delcroix, M., Watanabe, S., Burget, L., Cernocky, J., Szoke, I., Novotny, O., "Training data augmentation and data selectio" in New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning, Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R., Eds., chapter 10, Springer, July 9, 2018.
    BibTeX
    • @incollection{Karafiat2018jul,
    • author = {Karafiat, Martin and Vesely, Karel and Zmolikova, Katerina and Delcroix, Marc and Watanabe, Shinji and Burget, Lukas and Cernocky, Jan and Szoke, Igor and Novotny, Ondrej},
    • title = {Training data augmentation and data selectio},
    • booktitle = {New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning},
    • year = 2018,
    • editor = {Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R.},
    • chapter = 10,
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {Springer}
    • }
  •  Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Miao, Y., Delcroix, M., Metze, F., Hershey, J., "Toolkits for robust speech processing" in New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning, Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R., Eds., chapter 14, Springer, July 9, 2018.
    BibTeX
    • @incollection{Watanabe2018jul,
    • author = {Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Miao, Yajie and Delcroix, Marc and Metze, Florian and Hershey, John},
    • title = {Toolkits for robust speech processing},
    • booktitle = {New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning},
    • year = 2018,
    • editor = {Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R.},
    • chapter = 14,
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {Springer}
    • }
  •  Xiao, X., Watanabe, S., Erdogan, H., Mandel, M., Lu, L., Hershey, J., Seltzer, M., Chen, G., Zhang, Y., Yu, D., "Discriminative beamforming with phase aware neural networks for speech enhancement and recognition" in New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning, Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R., Eds., chapter 4, Springer, July 9, 2018.
    BibTeX
    • @incollection{Xiao2018jul2,
    • author = {Xiao, Xiong and Watanabe, Shinji and Erdogan, Hakan and Mandel, Michael and Lu, Liang and Hershey, John and Seltzer, Mike and Chen, Guoguo and Zhang, Yu and Yu, Dong},
    • title = {Discriminative beamforming with phase aware neural networks for speech enhancement and recognition},
    • booktitle = {New Era for Robust Speech Recognition: Exploiting Deep Learning},
    • year = 2018,
    • editor = {Watanabe, S. and Delcroix, M. and Metze, F. and Hershey, J.R.},
    • chapter = 4,
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {Springer}
    • }