James Walker

17 papers 173 citations h-index 5 2012–2026

A Conformer-based ASR Frontend for Joint Acoustic Echo Cancellation, Speech Enhancement and Speech Separation

We present a frontend for improving robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR), that jointly implements three modules within a single model: acoustic echo cancellation, speech enhancement,...

Beyond the Meta: Leveraging Game Design Parameters for Patch-Agnostic Esport Analytics

Esport games comprise a sizeable fraction of the global games market, and is the fastest growing segment in games. This has given rise to the domain of esports analytics, which uses telemetry data...

7 citations 2023-05 AIIDE

A Conformer-based Waveform-domain Neural Acoustic Echo Canceller Optimized for ASR Accuracy

Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is essential for accurate recognition of queries spoken to a smart speaker that is playing out audio. Previous work has shown that a neural AEC model operating on...

9 citations 2022-05 Interspeech

Mask scalar prediction for improving robust automatic speech recognition

Using neural network based acoustic frontends for improving robustness of streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is challenging because of the causality constraints and the resulting...

5 citations 2022-04 arXiv.org

Spatio-Temporal Techniques for User Identification by means of GPS Mobility Data

One of the greatest concerns related to the popularity of GPS-enabled devices and applications is the increasing availability of the personal location information generated by them and shared with...

77 citations 2015-01 EPJ Data Science