Interspeech 2025 Best Student Papers

Winners

• "On the Relationship between Accent Strength and Articulatory Features", Kevin Huang, Sean Foley, Jihwan Lee, Yoonjeong Lee, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan

• "OWSM v4: Improving Open Whisper-Style Speech Models via Data Scaling and Cleaning Models", Yifan Peng, Muhammad Shakeel, Yui Sudo, William Chen, Jinchuan Tian, Chyi-Jiunn Lin and Shinji Watanabe

• "Attention Models and Auditory Transduction Features for Noise Robustness", Cathal Ó Faoláin and Andrew Hines

Nominees

• Piotr Masztalski, Michał Romaniuk, Jakub Żak, Mateusz Matuszewski, Konrad Kowalczyk, "Clustering-based hard negative sampling for supervised contrastive speaker verification".

• Junqi Yang, Yuhong Yang, Weiping Tu, Xin Zhao, Cedar Lin, "Band-SCNet: A Causal, Lightweight Model for High-Performance Real-Time Music Source Separation".

• Seungu Han, Sungho Lee, Juheon Lee, Kyogu Lee, "Few-step Adversarial Schrödinger Bridge for Generative Speech Enhancement".

• Chao Yi-Wen, Yizhou Peng, Dianwen Ng, Yukun Ma, Chongjia Ni, Eng Siong Chng, Bin Ma, "A-SMiLE: Affective Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Adapter with Multi-Task Learning for Spoken Dialogue Models".

• Tianhua Qi, Shiyan Wang, Cheng Lu, Tengfei Song, Hao Yang, Zhanglin Wu, Wenming Zheng, "PromptEVC: Controllable Emotional Voice Conversion with Natural Language Prompts".

• Yifan Peng, Shakeel Muhammad, Yui Sudo, William Chen, Jinchuan Tian, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Shinji Watanabe, "OWSM v4: Improving Open Whisper-Style Speech Models via Data Scaling and Cleaning".

• Minji Ryu, Ji-Hyeon Hur, Sung Heuk Kim, Gahgene Gweon, "Pitch Contour Model (PCM) with Transformer Cross-Attention for Speech Emotion Recognition".

• Byeong Hyeon Kim, Hyungseob Lim, Inseon Jang, Hong-Goo Kang, "Towards an Ultra-Low-Delay Neural Audio Coding with Computational Efficiency".

• Filippo Villani , Wai-Yip Chan, Zheng-Hua Tan, Jan Østergaard, Jesper Jensen, "Analysis and Extension of a Near-End Listening Enhancement Method Based on Long-Term Fractile Noise Statistics".

• Wang Dong, Jiqing Han, Tieran Zheng, Guibin Zheng, Yongjun He, "Dual Orthogonality Sub-center Loss for Enhanced Anomalous Sound Detection".

• Cathal Ó Faoláin, Andrew Hines, "Attention Models and Auditory Transduction Features for Noise Robustness".

• Kevin Huang, Sean Foley, Jihwan Lee, Yoonjeong Lee, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan, "On the Relationship between Accent Strength and Articulatory Features".

• Le Xuan Chan, Annika Heuser, "Relative cue weighting in multilingual stop voicing production".

• Jingran Xie, Xiang Li, Hui Wang, Yue Yu, Yang Xiang, Xixin Wu, Zhiyong Wu, "Enhancing Generalization of Speech Large Language Models with Multi-Task Behavior Imitation and Speech-Text Interleaving".

• Chetan Sharma, Vaishnavi Chandwanshi, Shreya Shrikant Karkun, Aditya Anand Gupta, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, "A real-time MRI study on asymmetry in velum dynamics during VCV production with nasal sounds".

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