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Name: espnet
Version: 202609.post1
Summary: ESPnet: end-to-end speech processing toolkit
Author-email: Shinji Watanabe <shinjiw@ieee.org>
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<div align="center">

<img src="doc/image/espnet_logo1.png" width="440" alt="ESPnet"/>

### End-to-end speech processing toolkit

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**[Documentation](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/)** ·
**[Installation](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/installation.html)** ·
**[Recipes](egs2/)** ·
**[Model Zoo](https://huggingface.co/espnet)** ·
**[Notebooks](https://github.com/espnet/notebook)** ·
**[Discord](https://discord.gg/hrCs85gFWM)**

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ESPnet is an end-to-end speech processing toolkit built on [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/).
It covers speech recognition, text-to-speech, speech translation, speech enhancement, speaker
diarization, spoken language understanding, singing voice synthesis, speech language models, and
more — with [Kaldi](http://kaldi-asr.org/)-style reproducible recipes from data preparation to
evaluation, and hundreds of pretrained models on Hugging Face.

## What's new

- **[ESPnet 202609](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/releases/tag/v.202609)** —
  ESPnet3 complete on [`egs3/librispeech_100`](egs3/librispeech_100) at ESPnet2
  parity, CI rebuilt on a prebuilt image (compute per run halved), OpenBEATs
  pretraining, ten new recipes (ASR, TTS, SER, ST, audio SSL), Python 3.12-3.13.

<details>
<summary>Earlier releases</summary>

- **[ESPnet 202604](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/releases/tag/v.202604)** —
  Docker-based CI, PyTorch 2.9.1 support, FastSpeech2 inference ~1.9x faster
  at batch 8, new recipes (Kinyarwanda, Emilia, kosp2e).
- **[ESPnet 202511](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/releases/tag/v.202511)** —
  parallel-processing primitives, refactored inference and evaluation pipeline,
  expanded SpeechLM support.
- **[ESPnet 202509](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/releases/tag/v.202509)** —
  Python 3.9-3.13, Debian 12 CI, the LID subsystem completed,
  multi-optimizer training (`HybridOptim` / `HybridLRS`).
- **[ESPnet 202506](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/releases/tag/v.202506)** —
  ESPnet3 groundwork (data organizer, trainer, model), LID training and task setup,
  `codec1` recipes, USES2 speech enhancement, IPAPack++ S2T recipes.
- **[ESPnet 202503](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/releases/tag/v.202503)** —
  PyTorch Lightning trainer support, Hugging Face front-end, scaled dot-product
  attention, ML-SUPERB 2024 recipe.

Full history: [Releases](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/releases).

</details>

## Install

```sh
# Install PyTorch first: https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/
pip install espnet
```

<details>
<summary>Other installation options</summary>

```sh
pip install "espnet[all]"                       # optional dependencies
pip install git+https://github.com/espnet/espnet  # latest master
```

- **Full setup** (recipes, DNN training, Kaldi-style tooling): see the
  [installation guide](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/installation.html).
- **Docker**: see [`docker/`](docker/) and the [Docker docs](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/docker.html).
- **Task-specific tools** live in [`tools/installers`](tools/installers).
- **ESPnet1 is no longer supported** — use ESPnet2 (`egs2/`) or ESPnet3 (`egs3/`). See [the ESPnet1 notice](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/espnet1_tutorial.html).

</details>

<details>
<summary>Tested environments (CI status)</summary>

|system/pytorch ver.|2.9.1|2.10.0|2.11.0|
| :---- | :---: | :---: | :---: |
|ubuntu/python3.12/pip|[![ci on ubuntu](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)|[![ci on ubuntu](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)|[![ci on ubuntu](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)|
|ubuntu/python3.13/pip|[![ci on ubuntu](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)|[![ci on ubuntu](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)|[![ci on ubuntu](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_ubuntu.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)|
|debian12/python3.12/conda|[![ci on debian12](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_debian12.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_debian12.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)|||
|windows/python3.12/pip|[![ci on windows](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_windows.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_windows.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)|||
|macos/python3.12/pip|[![ci on macos](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_macos.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_macos.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)|||
|macos/python3.12/conda|[![ci on macos](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_macos.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/actions/workflows/ci_on_macos.yml?query=branch%3Amaster)|||

[![pre-commit.ci](https://results.pre-commit.ci/badge/github/espnet/espnet/master.svg)](https://results.pre-commit.ci/latest/github/espnet/espnet/master)
[![Code style: black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg)](https://github.com/psf/black)
[![Imports: isort](https://img.shields.io/badge/%20imports-isort-%231674b1?style=flat&labelColor=ef8336)](https://pycqa.github.io/isort/)
[![Mergify](https://img.shields.io/endpoint.svg?url=https://api.mergify.com/v1/badges/espnet/espnet&style=flat)](https://mergify.com)

</details>

## Quick start

**Run a pretrained model** — any model from the [ESPnet Hugging Face organization](https://huggingface.co/espnet):

```python
import soundfile as sf
from espnet2.bin.s2t_inference import Speech2Text

# OWSM v4: multilingual ASR, translation, and language ID in one model
s2t = Speech2Text.from_pretrained("espnet/owsm_v4_small_370M", lang_sym="<eng>", task_sym="<asr>")
speech, rate = sf.read("audio.wav")  # 16 kHz
text, *_ = s2t(speech)[0]
print(text)
```

Task-specific entry points follow the same pattern — `espnet2.bin.asr_inference`,
`tts_inference`, `enh_inference`, `st_inference`, `spk_inference`, and so on.

**Train and evaluate a recipe** — every corpus follows the same interface:

```sh
cd egs2/librispeech/asr1
./run.sh                      # full pipeline: data → features → training → scoring
./run.sh --stage 11 --stop_stage 13   # or run selected stages
```

New to ESPnet? Start with [`egs2/mini_an4/asr1`](egs2/mini_an4/asr1) — it runs end to end in minutes.

## Supported tasks

| | Task | Template | Highlights |
| :-- | :-- | :-- | :-- |
| 🗣️ | **ASR** — speech recognition | [`asr1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/asr1), [`asr2`](egs2/TEMPLATE/asr2) | Hybrid CTC/attention, Transducer, streaming, Conformer / [E-Branchformer](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00077), Whisper, SSL front-ends |
| 🌏 | **S2T** — multilingual multitask | [`s2t1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/s2t1) | [OWSM](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13876): open Whisper-style models trained on public data |
| 🔊 | **TTS** — text-to-speech | [`tts1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/tts1), [`tts2`](egs2/TEMPLATE/tts2) | Tacotron 2, FastSpeech 2, VITS, JETS, multi-speaker / multilingual |
| 🎤 | **SVS** — singing voice synthesis | [`svs1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/svs1), [`svs2`](egs2/TEMPLATE/svs2) | VISinger 1/2, Xiaoice, DiffSinger; merged from [Muskits](https://github.com/SJTMusicTeam/Muskits) |
| 🎧 | **SE/SS** — enhancement & separation | [`enh1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/enh1), [`enh_asr1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/enh_asr1) | Unified encoder–separator–decoder, TasNet / DPRNN / beamformers, ASR-integrated |
| 🌐 | **ST / MT / S2ST** — translation | [`st1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/st1), [`mt1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/mt1), [`s2st1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/s2st1) | End-to-end and cascaded speech translation, speech-to-speech translation |
| 💬 | **SLU** — language understanding | [`slu1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/slu1) | Intent + transcript multitasking, pretrained ASR/NLP encoders |
| 👤 | **SPK / LID / DIAR** — speaker & language | [`spk1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/spk1), [`lid1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/lid1), [`diar1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/diar1) | Speaker embeddings, verification, language ID, diarization |
| 🧠 | **SSL** — self-supervised learning | [`ssl1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/ssl1), [`hubert1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/hubert1) | HuBERT pretraining; [S3PRL](https://github.com/s3prl/s3prl) upstreams as front-ends |
| 🤖 | **SpeechLM** — speech language models | [`speechlm1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/speechlm1) | Unified sequence modeling across speech and text tasks |
| 📦 | **Codec** — neural audio codecs | [`codec1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/codec1) | Discrete speech tokens for downstream tasks |
| ➕ | **More** | [`uasr1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/uasr1), [`cls1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/cls1), [`asvspoof1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/asvspoof1), [`lm1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/lm1), [`sds1`](egs2/TEMPLATE/sds1) | Unsupervised ASR ([EURO](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.17196)), audio classification, anti-spoofing, LM, spoken dialogue |

Each template ships a corpus-agnostic pipeline; see [`egs2/README.md`](egs2/README.md) for the full list
of 200+ corpora recipes.

## Why ESPnet

- **Reproducible** — one `run.sh` per corpus, from download to scoring, with published results.
- **Unified** — the same recipe structure, config format, and trainer across every task above.
- **Scalable** — DDP, multi-node training, [Slurm](https://slurm.schedmd.com/)/MPI,
  [DeepSpeed](https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed), sharded training, on-the-fly feature extraction.
- **Open** — hundreds of pretrained models and demos on
  [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/espnet), plus [W&B](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/espnet2_training_option.html#weights-biases-integration)
  and TensorBoard logging.

## Demos

| Demo | |
| :-- | :-- |
| Real-time ASR | [![Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/espnet/notebook/blob/master/ESPnet2/Demo/ASR/asr_realtime_demo.ipynb) |
| Real-time TTS | [![Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/espnet/notebook/blob/master/ESPnet2/Demo/TTS/tts_realtime_demo.ipynb) |
| Speech enhancement | [![Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1fjRJCh96SoYLZPRxsjF9VDv4Q2VoIckI?usp=sharing) |
| Streaming enhancement | [![Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/17vd1V78eJpp3PHBnbFE5aVY5uMxQFL6o?usp=sharing) |
| Hugging Face Spaces | [ASR](https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/espnet2_asr) · [TTS](https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/ESPnet2-TTS) |

More notebooks: [espnet/notebook](https://github.com/espnet/notebook).

## Learn

- [Documentation](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/) · [ESPnet2 tutorial](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/espnet2_tutorial.html)
- Course tutorials at CMU: [usage](https://youtu.be/YDN8cVjxSik) · [adding new models/tasks](https://youtu.be/Css3XAes7SU) ([materials](https://github.com/espnet/notebook))
- [Interspeech 2019 tutorial](https://github.com/espnet/interspeech2019-tutorial)

## Contributing

Contributions, questions, and feature requests are all welcome — open an
[issue](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/issues) or a pull request.
First time here? Read the [contribution guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).

<a href="https://github.com/espnet/espnet/graphs/contributors">
  <img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=espnet/espnet&max=100&columns=25" alt="Contributors"/>
</a>

## Details

<details>
<summary><b>Full feature list by task</b></summary>


#### Kaldi-style complete recipe
- Support numbers of `ASR` recipes (WSJ, Switchboard, CHiME-4/5, Librispeech, TED, CSJ, AMI, HKUST, Voxforge, REVERB, Gigaspeech, etc.)
- Support numbers of `TTS` recipes in a similar manner to the ASR recipe (LJSpeech, LibriTTS, M-AILABS, etc.)
- Support numbers of `ST` recipes (Fisher-CallHome Spanish, Libri-trans, IWSLT'18, How2, Must-C, Mboshi-French, etc.)
- Support numbers of `MT` recipes (IWSLT'14, IWSLT'16, the above ST recipes etc.)
- Support numbers of `SLU` recipes (CATSLU-MAPS, FSC, Grabo, IEMOCAP, JDCINAL, SNIPS, SLURP, SWBD-DA, etc.)
- Support numbers of `SE/SS` recipes (DNS-IS2020, LibriMix, SMS-WSJ, VCTK-noisyreverb, WHAM!, WHAMR!, WSJ-2mix, etc.)
- Support voice conversion recipe (VCC2020 baseline)
- Support speaker diarization recipe (mini_librispeech, librimix)
- Support singing voice synthesis recipe (ofuton_p_utagoe_db, opencpop, m4singer, etc.)

#### ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition
- **State-of-the-art performance** in several ASR benchmarks (comparable/superior to hybrid DNN/HMM and CTC)
- **Hybrid CTC/attention** based end-to-end ASR
  - Fast/accurate training with CTC/attention multitask training
  - CTC/attention joint decoding to boost monotonic alignment decoding
  - Encoder: VGG-like CNN + BiRNN (LSTM/GRU), sub-sampling BiRNN (LSTM/GRU), Transformer, Conformer, [Branchformer](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/peng22a.html), or [E-Branchformer](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00077)
  - Decoder: RNN (LSTM/GRU), Transformer, or S4
- Attention: [Flash Attention](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention), Dot product, location-aware attention, variants of multi-head
- Incorporate RNNLM/LSTMLM/TransformerLM/N-gram trained only with text data
- Batch GPU decoding
- Data augmentation
- **Transducer** based end-to-end ASR
  - Architecture:
    - Custom encoder supporting RNNs, Conformer, Branchformer (w/ variants), 1D Conv / TDNN.
    - Decoder w/ parameters shared across blocks supporting RNN, stateless w/ 1D Conv, [MEGA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10655), and [RWKV](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048).
    - Pre-encoder: VGG2L or Conv2D available.
  - Search algorithms:
    - Greedy search constrained to one emission by timestep.
    - Default beam search algorithm [[Graves, 2012]](https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3711) without prefix search.
    - Alignment-Length Synchronous decoding [[Saon et al., 2020]](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9053040).
    - Time Synchronous Decoding [[Saon et al., 2020]](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9053040).
    - N-step Constrained beam search modified from [[Kim et al., 2020]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03577).
    - modified Adaptive Expansion Search based on [[Kim et al., 2021]](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9250505) and NSC.
  - Features:
    - Unified interface for offline and streaming speech recognition.
    - Multi-task learning with various auxiliary losses:
      - Encoder: CTC, auxiliary Transducer and symmetric KL divergence.
      - Decoder: cross-entropy w/ label smoothing.
    - Transfer learning with an acoustic model and/or language model.
    - Training with FastEmit regularization method [[Yu et al., 2021]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11148).
  > Please refer to the [tutorial page](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/tutorial.html#transducer) for complete documentation.
- CTC segmentation
- Non-autoregressive model based on Mask-CTC
- ASR examples for supporting endangered language documentation (Please refer to egs/puebla_nahuatl and egs/yoloxochitl_mixtec for details)
- Wav2Vec2.0 pre-trained model as Encoder, imported from [FairSeq](https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/fairseq).
- Self-supervised learning representations as features, using upstream models in [S3PRL](https://github.com/s3prl/s3prl) in frontend.
  - Set `frontend` to `s3prl`
  - Select any upstream model by setting the `frontend_conf` to the corresponding name.
- Transfer Learning :
  - easy usage and transfers from models previously trained by your group or models from [ESPnet Hugging Face repository](https://huggingface.co/espnet).
  - [Documentation](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/mini_an4/asr1/transfer_learning.md) and [toy example runnable on colab](https://github.com/espnet/notebook/blob/master/ESPnet2/Demo/ASR/asr_transfer_learning_demo.ipynb).
- Streaming Transformer/Conformer ASR with blockwise synchronous beam search.
- Restricted Self-Attention based on [Longformer](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05150) as an encoder for long sequences
- OpenAI [Whisper](https://openai.com/blog/whisper/) model, robust ASR based on large-scale, weakly-supervised multitask learning

Demonstration
- Real-time ASR demo with ESPnet2  [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/espnet/notebook/blob/master/ESPnet2/Demo/ASR/asr_realtime_demo.ipynb)
- [Gradio](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio) Web Demo on [Hugging Face Spaces](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces). Check out the [Web Demo](https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/espnet2_asr)
- Streaming Transformer ASR [Local Demo](https://github.com/espnet/notebook/blob/master/ESPnet2/Demo/ASR/streaming_asr_demo.ipynb) with ESPnet2.

#### TTS: Text-to-speech
- Architecture
    - Tacotron2
    - Transformer-TTS
    - FastSpeech
    - FastSpeech2
    - Conformer FastSpeech & FastSpeech2
    - VITS
    - JETS
- Multi-speaker & multi-language extension
    - Pre-trained speaker embedding (e.g., X-vector)
    - Speaker ID embedding
    - Language ID embedding
    - Global style token (GST) embedding
    - Mix of the above embeddings
- End-to-end training
    - End-to-end text-to-wav model (e.g., VITS, JETS, etc.)
    - Joint training of text2mel and vocoder
- Various language support
    - En / Jp / Zn / De / Ru / And more...
- Integration with neural vocoders
    - Parallel WaveGAN
    - MelGAN
    - Multi-band MelGAN
    - HiFiGAN
    - StyleMelGAN
    - Mix of the above models

Demonstration
- Real-time TTS demo with ESPnet2  [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/espnet/notebook/blob/master/ESPnet2/Demo/TTS/tts_realtime_demo.ipynb)
- Integrated to [Hugging Face Spaces](https://huggingface.co/spaces) with [Gradio](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio). See demo: [![Hugging Face Spaces](https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%A4%97%20Hugging%20Face-Spaces-blue)](https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/ESPnet2-TTS)

To train the neural vocoder, please check the following repositories:
- [kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN)
- [r9y9/wavenet_vocoder](https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder)

#### SE: Speech enhancement (and separation)

- Single-speaker speech enhancement
- Multi-speaker speech separation
- Unified encoder-separator-decoder structure for time-domain and frequency-domain models
  - Encoder/Decoder: STFT/iSTFT, Convolution/Transposed-Convolution
  - Separators: BLSTM, Transformer, Conformer, [TasNet](https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07454), [DPRNN](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06379), [SkiM](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10800), [SVoice](https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02329), [DC-CRN](https://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~wang.77/papers/TZW.taslp21.pdf), [DCCRN](https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00264), [Deep Clustering](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7471631), [Deep Attractor Network](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29430212/), [FaSNet](https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13387), [iFaSNet](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.14104), Neural Beamformers, etc.
- Flexible ASR integration: working as an individual task or as the ASR frontend
- Easy to import pre-trained models from [Asteroid](https://github.com/asteroid-team/asteroid)
  - Both the pre-trained models from Asteroid and the specific configuration are supported.

Demonstration
- Interactive SE demo with ESPnet2 [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1fjRJCh96SoYLZPRxsjF9VDv4Q2VoIckI?usp=sharing)
- Streaming SE demo with ESPnet2 [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/17vd1V78eJpp3PHBnbFE5aVY5uMxQFL6o?usp=sharing)

#### ST: Speech Translation & MT: Machine Translation
- **State-of-the-art performance** in several ST benchmarks (comparable/superior to cascaded ASR and MT)
- Transformer-based end-to-end ST (new!)
- Transformer-based end-to-end MT (new!)

#### VC: Voice conversion
- Transformer and Tacotron2-based parallel VC using Mel spectrogram
- End-to-end VC based on cascaded ASR+TTS (Baseline system for Voice Conversion Challenge 2020!)

#### SLU: Spoken Language Understanding
- Architecture
    - Transformer-based Encoder
    - Conformer-based Encoder
    - [Branchformer](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/peng22a.html) based Encoder
    - [E-Branchformer](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00077) based Encoder
    - RNN based Decoder
    - Transformer-based Decoder
- Support Multitasking with ASR
    - Predict both intent and ASR transcript
- Support Multitasking with NLU
    - Deliberation encoder based 2 pass model
- Support using pre-trained ASR models
    - Hubert
    - Wav2vec2
    - VQ-APC
    - TERA and more ...
- Support using pre-trained NLP models
    - BERT
    - MPNet And more...
- Various language support
    - En / Jp / Zn / Nl / And more...
- Supports using context from previous utterances
- Supports using other tasks like SE in a pipeline manner
- Supports Two Pass SLU that combines audio and ASR transcript
Demonstration
- Performing noisy spoken language understanding using a speech enhancement model followed by a spoken language understanding model.  [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/14nCrJ05vJcQX0cJuXjbMVFWUHJ3Wfb6N?usp=sharing)
- Performing two-pass spoken language understanding where the second pass model attends to both acoustic and semantic information.  [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1p2cbGIPpIIcynuDl4ZVHDpmNPl8Nh_ci?usp=sharing)
- Integrated to [Hugging Face Spaces](https://huggingface.co/spaces) with [Gradio](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio). See SLU demo on multiple languages: [![Hugging Face Spaces](https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%A4%97%20Hugging%20Face-Spaces-blue)](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Siddhant/ESPnet2-SLU)


#### SUM: Speech Summarization
- End to End Speech Summarization Recipe for Instructional Videos using Restricted Self-Attention [[Sharma et al., 2022]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06263)

#### SVS: Singing Voice Synthesis
- Framework merge from [Muskits](https://github.com/SJTMusicTeam/Muskits)
- Architecture
  - RNN-based non-autoregressive model
  - Xiaoice
  - Tacotron-singing
  - DiffSinger (in progress)
  - VISinger
  - VISinger 2 (its variations with different vocoders-architecture)
- Support multi-speaker & multilingual singing synthesis
  - Speaker ID embedding
  - Language ID embedding
- Various language support
  - Jp / En / Kr / Zh
- Tight integration with neural vocoders (the same as TTS)

#### SSL: Self-supervised Learning
- Support HuBERT Pre-training:
  * Example recipe: [egs2/LibriSpeech/ssl1](egs2/LibriSpeech/ssl1)

#### UASR: Unsupervised ASR (EURO: ESPnet Unsupervised Recognition - Open-source)
- Architecture
  - wav2vec-U (with different self-supervised models)
  - wav2vec-U 2.0 (in progress)
- Support PrefixBeamSearch and K2-based WFST decoding

#### S2T: Speech-to-text with Whisper-style multilingual multitask models
- Reproduces Whisper-style training from scratch using public data: [OWSM](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13876)
- Supports multiple tasks in a single model
  - Multilingual speech recognition
  - Any-to-any speech translation
  - Language identification
  - Utterance-level timestamp prediction (segmentation)

#### DNN Framework
- Flexible network architecture thanks to Chainer and PyTorch
- Flexible front-end processing thanks to [kaldiio](https://github.com/nttcslab-sp/kaldiio) and HDF5 support
- Tensorboard-based monitoring
- [DeepSpeed](https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed)-based large-scale training

#### ESPnet2
See [ESPnet2](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/espnet2_tutorial.html).

- Independent from Kaldi/Chainer, unlike ESPnet1
- On-the-fly feature extraction and text processing when training
- Supporting DistributedDataParallel and DaraParallel both
- Supporting multiple nodes training and integrated with [Slurm](https://slurm.schedmd.com/) or MPI
- Supporting Sharded Training provided by [fairscale](https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairscale)
- A template recipe that can be applied to all corpora
- Possible to train any size of corpus without CPU memory error
- [ESPnet Model Zoo](https://github.com/espnet/espnet_model_zoo)
- Integrated with [wandb](https://espnet.github.io/espnet/espnet2_training_option.html#weights-biases-integration)

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<summary><b>Benchmark results and command-line demos</b></summary>

#### ASR results

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We list the character error rate (CER) and word error rate (WER) of major ASR tasks.

| Task                                                              |     CER (%)     |     WER (%)     |                                                                              Pre-trained model                                                                               |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- | :-------------: | :-------------: | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: |
| Aishell dev/test                                                  |     4.6/5.1     |       N/A       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/aishell/asr1/RESULTS.md#conformer-kernel-size--15--specaugment--lm-weight--00-result)                |
| **ESPnet2** Aishell dev/test                                      |     4.1/4.4     |       N/A       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/aishell/asr1#branchformer-initial)                                                                  |
| Common Voice dev/test                                             |     1.7/1.8     |     2.2/2.3     |    [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/commonvoice/asr1/RESULTS.md#first-results-default-pytorch-transformer-setting-with-bpe-100-epochs-single-gpu)    |
| CSJ eval1/eval2/eval3                                             |   5.7/3.8/4.2   |       N/A       |                 [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/csj/asr1/RESULTS.md#pytorch-backend-transformer-without-any-hyperparameter-tuning)                  |
| **ESPnet2** CSJ eval1/eval2/eval3                                 |   4.5/3.3/3.6   |       N/A       |                                        [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/csj/asr1#initial-conformer-results)                                         |
| **ESPnet2** GigaSpeech dev/test                                   |       N/A       |    10.6/10.5    |                                          [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/gigaspeech/asr1#e-branchformer)                                           |
| HKUST dev                                                         |      23.5       |       N/A       |                                  [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/hkust/asr1/RESULTS.md#transformer-only-20-epochs)                                  |
| **ESPnet2** HKUST dev                                             |      21.2       |       N/A       |                                    [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/hkust/asr1#transformer-asr--transformer-lm)                                     |
| Librispeech dev_clean/dev_other/test_clean/test_other             |       N/A       | 1.9/4.9/2.1/4.9 | [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/librispeech/asr1/RESULTS.md#pytorch-large-conformer-with-specaug--speed-perturbation-8-gpus--transformer-lm-4-gpus) |
| **ESPnet2** Librispeech dev_clean/dev_other/test_clean/test_other | 0.6/1.5/0.6/1.4 | 1.7/3.4/1.8/3.6 |    [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/librispeech/asr1#self-supervised-learning-features-hubert_large_ll60k-conformer-utt_mvn-with-transformer-lm)    |
| Switchboard (eval2000) callhm/swbd                                |       N/A       |    14.0/6.8     |          [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/swbd/asr1/RESULTS.md#conformer-with-bpe-2000-specaug-speed-perturbation-transformer-lm-decoding)           |
| **ESPnet2** Switchboard (eval2000) callhm/swbd                    |       N/A       |    13.4/7.3     |                                             [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/swbd/asr1#e-branchformer)                                              |
| TEDLIUM2 dev/test                                                 |       N/A       |     8.6/7.2     |                 [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/tedlium2/asr1/RESULTS.md#conformer-large-model--specaug--speed-perturbation--rnnlm)                 |
| **ESPnet2** TEDLIUM2 dev/test                                     |       N/A       |     7.3/7.1     |                 [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs2/tedlium2/asr1/README.md#e-branchformer-12-encoder-layers)                                          |
| TEDLIUM3 dev/test                                                 |       N/A       |     9.6/7.6     |                                              [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/tedlium3/asr1/RESULTS.md)                                              |
| WSJ dev93/eval92                                                  |     3.2/2.1     |     7.0/4.7     |                                                                                     N/A                                                                                     |
| **ESPnet2** WSJ dev93/eval92                                      |     1.1/0.8     |     2.8/1.8     |       [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/wsj/asr1#self-supervised-learning-features-wav2vec2_large_ll60k-conformer-utt_mvn-with-transformer-lm)       |

Note that the performance of the CSJ, HKUST, and Librispeech tasks was significantly improved by using the wide network (#units = 1024) and large subword units if necessary reported by [RWTH](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.03294.pdf).

If you want to check the results of the other recipes, please check `egs/<name_of_recipe>/asr1/RESULTS.md`.

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#### ASR demo

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You can recognize speech in a WAV file using pre-trained models.
Go to a recipe directory and run `utils/recog_wav.sh` as follows:
```sh
# go to the recipe directory and source path of espnet tools
cd egs/tedlium2/asr1 && . ./path.sh
# let's recognize speech!
recog_wav.sh --models tedlium2.transformer.v1 example.wav
```
where `example.wav` is a WAV file to be recognized.
The sampling rate must be consistent with that of data used in training.

Available pre-trained models in the demo script are listed below.

| Model                                                                                            | Notes                                                      |
| :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------- |
| [tedlium2.rnn.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UqIY6WJMZ4sxNxSugUqp3mrGb3j6h7xe)            | Streaming decoding based on CTC-based VAD                  |
| [tedlium2.rnn.v2](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cac5Uc09lJrCYfWkLQsF8eapQcxZnYdf)            | Streaming decoding based on CTC-based VAD (batch decoding) |
| [tedlium2.transformer.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cVeSOYY1twOfL9Gns7Z3ZDnkrJqNwPow)    | Joint-CTC attention Transformer trained on Tedlium 2       |
| [tedlium3.transformer.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zcPglHAKILwVgfACoMWWERiyIquzSYuU)    | Joint-CTC attention Transformer trained on Tedlium 3       |
| [librispeech.transformer.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BtQvAnsFvVi-dp_qsaFP7n4A_5cwnlR6) | Joint-CTC attention Transformer trained on Librispeech     |
| [commonvoice.transformer.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tWccl6aYU67kbtkm8jv5H6xayqg1rzjh) | Joint-CTC attention Transformer trained on CommonVoice     |
| [csj.transformer.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=120nUQcSsKeY5dpyMWw_kI33ooMRGT2uF)         | Joint-CTC attention Transformer trained on CSJ             |
| [csj.rnn.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ALvD4nHan9VDJlYJwNurVr7H7OV0j2X9)                 | Joint-CTC attention VGGBLSTM trained on CSJ                |

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#### SE results
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We list results from three different models on WSJ0-2mix, which is one the most widely used benchmark dataset for speech separation.

| Model                                             | STOI | SAR   | SDR   | SIR   |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ---- | ----- | ----- | ----- |
| [TF Masking](https://zenodo.org/record/4498554)   | 0.89 | 11.40 | 10.24 | 18.04 |
| [Conv-Tasnet](https://zenodo.org/record/4498562)  | 0.95 | 16.62 | 15.94 | 25.90 |
| [DPRNN-Tasnet](https://zenodo.org/record/4688000) | 0.96 | 18.82 | 18.29 | 28.92 |

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#### SE demos
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You can try the interactive demo with Google Colab. Please click the following button to get access to the demos.

[![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1fjRJCh96SoYLZPRxsjF9VDv4Q2VoIckI?usp=sharing)


It is based on ESPnet2. Pre-trained models are available for both speech enhancement and speech separation tasks.

Speech separation streaming demos:

[![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/17vd1V78eJpp3PHBnbFE5aVY5uMxQFL6o?usp=sharing)


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#### ST results

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We list 4-gram BLEU of major ST tasks.

#### end-to-end system
| Task                                              | BLEU  |                                                                                         Pre-trained model                                                                                          |
| ------------------------------------------------- | :---: | :-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: |
| Fisher-CallHome Spanish fisher_test (Es->En)      | 51.03 | [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/fisher_callhome_spanish/st1/RESULTS.md#train_spen_lcrm_pytorch_train_pytorch_transformer_bpe_short_long_bpe1000_specaug_asrtrans_mttrans) |
| Fisher-CallHome Spanish callhome_evltest (Es->En) | 20.44 | [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/fisher_callhome_spanish/st1/RESULTS.md#train_spen_lcrm_pytorch_train_pytorch_transformer_bpe_short_long_bpe1000_specaug_asrtrans_mttrans) |
| Libri-trans test (En->Fr)                         | 16.70 |       [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/libri_trans/st1/RESULTS.md#train_spfr_lc_pytorch_train_pytorch_transformer_bpe_short_long_bpe1000_specaug_asrtrans_mttrans-1)       |
| How2 dev5 (En->Pt)                                | 45.68 |              [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/how2/st1/RESULTS.md#trainpt_tc_pytorch_train_pytorch_transformer_short_long_bpe8000_specaug_asrtrans_mttrans-1)              |
| Must-C tst-COMMON (En->De)                        | 22.91 |          [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/must_c/st1/RESULTS.md#train_spen-dede_tc_pytorch_train_pytorch_transformer_short_long_bpe8000_specaug_asrtrans_mttrans)          |
| Mboshi-French dev (Fr->Mboshi)                    | 6.18  |                                                                                                N/A                                                                                                |

#### cascaded system
| Task                                              | BLEU  | Pre-trained model |
| ------------------------------------------------- | :---: | :--------------: |
| Fisher-CallHome Spanish fisher_test (Es->En)      | 42.16 |       N/A        |
| Fisher-CallHome Spanish callhome_evltest (Es->En) | 19.82 |       N/A        |
| Libri-trans test (En->Fr)                         | 16.96 |       N/A        |
| How2 dev5 (En->Pt)                                | 44.90 |       N/A        |
| Must-C tst-COMMON (En->De)                        | 23.65 |       N/A        |

If you want to check the results of the other recipes, please check `egs/<name_of_recipe>/st1/RESULTS.md`.

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#### ST demo

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(**New!**) We made a new real-time E2E-ST + TTS demonstration in Google Colab.
Please access the notebook from the following button and enjoy the real-time speech-to-speech translation!

[![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/espnet/notebook/blob/master/st_demo.ipynb)

---

You can translate speech in a WAV file using pre-trained models.
Go to a recipe directory and run `utils/translate_wav.sh` as follows:
```sh
# Go to recipe directory and source path of espnet tools
cd egs/fisher_callhome_spanish/st1 && . ./path.sh
# download example wav file
wget -O - https://github.com/espnet/espnet/files/4100928/test.wav.tar.gz | tar zxvf -
# let's translate speech!
translate_wav.sh --models fisher_callhome_spanish.transformer.v1.es-en test.wav
```
where `test.wav` is a WAV file to be translated.
The sampling rate must be consistent with that of data used in training.

Available pre-trained models in the demo script are listed as below.

| Model                                                                                                        | Notes                                                    |
| :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------- |
| [fisher_callhome_spanish.transformer.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hawp5ZLw4_SIHIT3edglxbKIIkPVe8n3) | Transformer-ST trained on Fisher-CallHome Spanish Es->En |

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#### MT results

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| Task                                              | BLEU  |                                                                        Pre-trained model                                                                         |
| ------------------------------------------------- | :---: | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: |
| Fisher-CallHome Spanish fisher_test (Es->En)      | 61.45 | [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/fisher_callhome_spanish/mt1/RESULTS.md#trainen_lcrm_lcrm_pytorch_train_pytorch_transformer_bpe_bpe1000) |
| Fisher-CallHome Spanish callhome_evltest (Es->En) | 29.86 | [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/fisher_callhome_spanish/mt1/RESULTS.md#trainen_lcrm_lcrm_pytorch_train_pytorch_transformer_bpe_bpe1000) |
| Libri-trans test (En->Fr)                         | 18.09 |          [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/libri_trans/mt1/RESULTS.md#trainfr_lcrm_tc_pytorch_train_pytorch_transformer_bpe1000)          |
| How2 dev5 (En->Pt)                                | 58.61 |              [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/how2/mt1/RESULTS.md#trainpt_tc_tc_pytorch_train_pytorch_transformer_bpe8000)               |
| Must-C tst-COMMON (En->De)                        | 27.63 |                               [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/must_c/mt1/RESULTS.md#summary-4-gram-bleu)                                |
| IWSLT'14 test2014 (En->De)                        | 24.70 |                                     [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/iwslt16/mt1/RESULTS.md#result)                                      |
| IWSLT'14 test2014 (De->En)                        | 29.22 |                                     [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/iwslt16/mt1/RESULTS.md#result)                                      |
| IWSLT'14 test2014 (De->En)                        | 32.2  | [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs2/iwslt14/mt1/README.md)  |
| IWSLT'16 test2014 (En->De)                        | 24.05 |                                     [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/iwslt16/mt1/RESULTS.md#result)                                      |
| IWSLT'16 test2014 (De->En)                        | 29.13 |                                     [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/egs/iwslt16/mt1/RESULTS.md#result)                                      |

</div></details>

#### TTS results

<details><summary>ESPnet2</summary><div>

You can listen to the generated samples in the following URL.
- [ESPnet2 TTS generated samples](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1H3fnlBbWMEkQUfrHqosKN_ZX_WjO29ma?usp=sharing)

> Note that in the generation, we use Griffin-Lim (`wav/`) and [Parallel WaveGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN) (`wav_pwg/`).

You can download pre-trained models via `espnet_model_zoo`.
- [ESPnet model zoo](https://github.com/espnet/espnet_model_zoo)
- [Pre-trained model list](https://github.com/espnet/espnet_model_zoo/blob/master/espnet_model_zoo/table.csv)

You can download pre-trained vocoders via `kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN`.
- [kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN)
- [Pre-trained vocoder list](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN#results)

</div></details>

<details><summary>ESPnet1</summary><div>

> NOTE: We are moving on ESPnet2-based development for TTS. Please check the latest results in the above ESPnet2 results.

You can listen to our samples in demo HP [espnet-tts-sample](https://espnet.github.io/espnet-tts-sample/).
Here we list some notable ones:

- [Single English speaker Tacotron2](https://drive.google.com/open?id=18JgsOCWiP_JkhONasTplnHS7yaF_konr)
- [Single Japanese speaker Tacotron2](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fEgS4-K4dtgVxwI4Pr7uOA1h4PE-zN7f)
- [Single other language speaker Tacotron2](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q_66kyxVZGU99g8Xb5a0Q8yZ1YVm2tN0)
- [Multi English speaker Tacotron2](https://drive.google.com/open?id=18S_B8Ogogij34rIfJOeNF8D--uG7amz2)
- [Single English speaker Transformer](https://drive.google.com/open?id=14EboYVsMVcAq__dFP1p6lyoZtdobIL1X)
- [Single English speaker FastSpeech](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PSxs1VauIndwi8d5hJmZlppGRVu2zuy5)
- [Multi English speaker Transformer](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_vrdqjM43DdN1Qz7HJkvMQ6lCMmWLeGp)
- [Single Italian speaker FastSpeech](https://drive.google.com/open?id=13I5V2w7deYFX4DlVk1-0JfaXmUR2rNOv)
- [Single Mandarin speaker Transformer](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mEnZfBKqA4eT6Bn0eRZuP6lNzL-IL3VD)
- [Single Mandarin speaker FastSpeech](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ol_048Tuy6BgvYm1RpjhOX4HfhUeBqdK)
- [Multi Japanese speaker Transformer](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fFMQDF6NV5Ysz48QLFYE8fEvbAxCsMBw)
- [Single English speaker models with Parallel WaveGAN](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HvB0_LDf1PVinJdehiuCt5gWmXGguqtx)
- [Single English speaker knowledge distillation-based FastSpeech](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wG-Y0itVYalxuLAHdkAHO7w1CWFfRPF4)

You can download all of the pre-trained models and generated samples:
- [All of the pre-trained E2E-TTS models](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k9RRyc06Zl0mM2A7mi-hxNiNMFb_YzTF)
- [All of the generated samples](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bQGuqH92xuxOX__reWLP4-cif0cbpMLX)

Note that in the generated samples, we use the following vocoders: Griffin-Lim (**GL**), WaveNet vocoder (**WaveNet**), Parallel WaveGAN (**ParallelWaveGAN**), and MelGAN (**MelGAN**).
The neural vocoders are based on the following repositories.
- [kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN): Parallel WaveGAN / MelGAN / Multi-band MelGAN
- [r9y9/wavenet_vocoder](https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder): 16 bit mixture of Logistics WaveNet vocoder
- [kan-bayashi/PytorchWaveNetVocoder](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/PytorchWaveNetVocoder): 8 bit Softmax WaveNet Vocoder with the noise shaping

If you want to build your own neural vocoder, please check the above repositories.
[kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN) provides [the manual](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN#decoding-with-espnet-tts-models-features) about how to decode ESPnet-TTS model's features with neural vocoders. Please check it.

Here we list all of the pre-trained neural vocoders. Please download and enjoy the generation of high-quality speech!

| Model link                                                                                           | Lang  | Fs [Hz] | Mel range [Hz] | FFT / Shift / Win [pt] | Model type                                                              |
| :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :---: | :-----: | :------------: | :--------------------: | :---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [ljspeech.wavenet.softmax.ns.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eA1VcRS9jzFa-DovyTgJLQ_jmwOLIi8L) |  EN   | 22.05k  |      None      |   1024 / 256 / None    | [Softmax WaveNet](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/PytorchWaveNetVocoder) |
| [ljspeech.wavenet.mol.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sY7gEUg39QaO1szuN62-Llst9TrFno2t)        |  EN   | 22.05k  |      None      |   1024 / 256 / None    | [MoL WaveNet](https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder)                  |
| [ljspeech.parallel_wavegan.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tv9GKyRT4CDsvUWKwH3s_OfXkiTi0gw7)   |  EN   | 22.05k  |      None      |   1024 / 256 / None    | [Parallel WaveGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN)      |
| [ljspeech.wavenet.mol.v2](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1es2HuKUeKVtEdq6YDtAsLNpqCy4fhIXr)        |  EN   | 22.05k  |    80-7600     |   1024 / 256 / None    | [MoL WaveNet](https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder)                  |
| [ljspeech.parallel_wavegan.v2](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Grn7X9wD35UcDJ5F7chwdTqTa4U7DeVB)   |  EN   | 22.05k  |    80-7600     |   1024 / 256 / None    | [Parallel WaveGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN)      |
| [ljspeech.melgan.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ipPWYl8FBNRlBFaKj1-i23eQpW_W_YcR)             |  EN   | 22.05k  |    80-7600     |   1024 / 256 / None    | [MelGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN)                |
| [ljspeech.melgan.v3](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_a8faVA5OGCzIcJNw4blQYjfG4oA9VEt)             |  EN   | 22.05k  |    80-7600     |   1024 / 256 / None    | [MelGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN)                |
| [libritts.wavenet.mol.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jHUUmQFjWiQGyDd7ZeiCThSjjpbF_B4h)        |  EN   |   24k   |      None      |   1024 / 256 / None    | [MoL WaveNet](https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder)                  |
| [jsut.wavenet.mol.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=187xvyNbmJVZ0EZ1XHCdyjZHTXK9EcfkK)            |  JP   |   24k   |    80-7600     |   2048 / 300 / 1200    | [MoL WaveNet](https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder)                  |
| [jsut.parallel_wavegan.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OwrUQzAmvjj1x9cDhnZPp6dqtsEqGEJM)       |  JP   |   24k   |    80-7600     |   2048 / 300 / 1200    | [Parallel WaveGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN)      |
| [csmsc.wavenet.mol.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PsjFRV5eUP0HHwBaRYya9smKy5ghXKzj)           |  ZH   |   24k   |    80-7600     |   2048 / 300 / 1200    | [MoL WaveNet](https://github.com/r9y9/wavenet_vocoder)                  |
| [csmsc.parallel_wavegan.v1](https://drive.google.com/open?id=10M6H88jEUGbRWBmU1Ff2VaTmOAeL8CEy)      |  ZH   |   24k   |    80-7600     |   2048 / 300 / 1200    | [Parallel WaveGAN](https://github.com/kan-bayashi/ParallelWaveGAN)      |

If you want to use the above pre-trained vocoders, please exactly match the feature setting with them.

</div></details>

#### TTS demo

<details><summary>ESPnet2</summary><div>

You can try the real-time demo in Google Colab.
Please access the notebook from the following button and enjoy the real-time synthesis!

- Real-time TTS demo with ESPnet2  [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/espnet/notebook/blob/master/espnet2_tts_realtime_demo.ipynb)

English, Japanese, and Mandarin models are available in the demo.

</div></details>

<details><summary>ESPnet1</summary><div>

> NOTE: We are moving on ESPnet2-based development for TTS. Please check the latest demo in the above ESPnet2 demo.

You can try the real-time demo in Google Colab.
Please access the notebook from the following button and enjoy the real-time synthesis.

- Real-time TTS demo with ESPnet1  [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/espnet/notebook/blob/master/tts_realtime_demo.ipynb)

We also provide a shell script to perform synthesis.
Go to a recipe directory and run `utils/synth_wav.sh` as follows:

```sh
# Go to recipe directory and source path of espnet tools
cd egs/ljspeech/tts1 && . ./path.sh
# We use an upper-case char sequence for the default model.
echo "THIS IS A DEMONSTRATION OF TEXT TO SPEECH." > example.txt
# let's synthesize speech!
synth_wav.sh example.txt

# Also, you can use multiple sentences
echo "THIS IS A DEMONSTRATION OF TEXT TO SPEECH." > example_multi.txt
echo "TEXT TO SPEECH IS A TECHNIQUE TO CONVERT TEXT INTO SPEECH." >> example_multi.txt
synth_wav.sh example_multi.txt
```

You can change the pre-trained model as follows:

```sh
synth_wav.sh --models ljspeech.fastspeech.v1 example.txt
```

Waveform synthesis is performed with the Griffin-Lim algorithm and neural vocoders (WaveNet and ParallelWaveGAN).
You can change the pre-trained vocoder model as follows:

```sh
synth_wav.sh --vocoder_models ljspeech.wavenet.mol.v1 example.txt
```

WaveNet vocoder provides very high-quality speech, but it takes time to generate.

See more details or available models via `--help`.

```sh
synth_wav.sh --help
```

</div></details>

#### VC results

<details><summary>expand</summary><div>

- Transformer and Tacotron2-based VC

You can listen to some samples on the [demo webpage](https://unilight.github.io/Publication-Demos/publications/transformer-vc/).

- Cascade ASR+TTS as one of the baseline systems of VCC2020

The [Voice Conversion Challenge 2020](http://www.vc-challenge.org/) (VCC2020) adopts ESPnet to build an end-to-end based baseline system.
In VCC2020, the objective is intra/cross-lingual nonparallel VC.
You can download converted samples of the cascade ASR+TTS baseline system [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oeZo83GrOgtqxGwF7KagzIrfjr8X59Ue?usp=sharing).

</div></details>

#### SLU results

<details><summary>expand</summary><div>


We list the performance on various SLU tasks and datasets using the metric reported in the original dataset paper

| Task                                                              | Dataset                                                              |    Metric     |     Result     |                                                                              Pre-trained Model                                         |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- | :-------------: | :-------------: | :-------------: | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: |
| Intent Classification                                                 |     SLURP     |       Acc       |       86.3       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/slurp/asr1/README.md)                |
| Intent Classification                                                   |     FSC     |       Acc       |       99.6       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/fsc/asr1/README.md)                |
| Intent Classification                                                  |     FSC Unseen Speaker Set     |       Acc       |       98.6       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/fsc_unseen/asr1/README.md)                |
| Intent Classification                                                   |     FSC Unseen Utterance Set     |       Acc       |       86.4       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/fsc_unseen/asr1/README.md)                |
| Intent Classification                                                   |     FSC Challenge Speaker Set     |       Acc       |       97.5       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/fsc_challenge/asr1/README.md)                |
| Intent Classification                                                   |     FSC Challenge Utterance Set     |       Acc       |       78.5       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/fsc_challenge/asr1/README.md)                |
| Intent Classification                                                   |     SNIPS     |       F1       |       91.7       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/snips/asr1/README.md)                |
| Intent Classification                                                   |     Grabo (Nl)   |       Acc       |       97.2       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/grabo/asr1/README.md)                |
| Intent Classification                                                   |     CAT SLU MAP (Zn)     |       Acc       |       78.9       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/catslu/asr1/README.md)                |
| Intent Classification                                                  |     Google Speech Commands    |       Acc       |       98.4       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/speechcommands/asr1/README.md)                |
| Slot Filling                                                  |     SLURP     |       SLU-F1       |       71.9       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/slurp_entity/asr1/README.md)                |
| Dialogue  Act Classification                                                 |     Switchboard     |       Acc       |       67.5       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/swbd_da/asr1/README.md)                |
| Dialogue  Act Classification                                                 |     Jdcinal (Jp)    |       Acc       |       67.4       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/jdcinal/asr1/README.md)                |
| Emotion Recognition                                                  |     IEMOCAP     |       Acc       |       69.4       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/iemocap/asr1/README.md)                |
| Emotion Recognition                                                  |     swbd_sentiment     |       Macro F1       |       61.4       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/swbd_sentiment/asr1/README.md)                |
| Emotion Recognition                                                  |     slue_voxceleb     |       Macro F1       |       44.0       |                [link](https://github.com/espnet/espnet/tree/master/egs2/slue-voxceleb/asr1/README.md)                |


If you want to check the results of the other recipes, please check `egs2/<name_of_recipe>/asr1/RESULTS.md`.


</div></details>

#### CTC Segmentation demo

<details><summary>ESPnet1</summary><div>

[CTC segmentation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09127) determines utterance segments within audio files.
Aligned utterance segments constitute the labels of speech datasets.

As a demo, we align the start and end of utterances within the audio file `ctc_align_test.wav`, using the example script `utils/asr_align_wav.sh`.
For preparation, set up a data directory:

```sh
cd egs/tedlium2/align1/
# data directory
align_dir=data/demo
mkdir -p ${align_dir}
# wav file
base=ctc_align_test
wav=../../../test_utils/${base}.wav
# recipe files
echo "batchsize: 0" > ${align_dir}/align.yaml

cat << EOF > ${align_dir}/utt_text
${base} THE SALE OF THE HOTELS
${base} IS PART OF HOLIDAY'S STRATEGY
${base} TO SELL OFF ASSETS
${base} AND CONCENTRATE
${base} ON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
EOF
```

Here, `utt_text` is the file containing the list of utterances.
Choose a pre-trained ASR model that includes a CTC layer to find utterance segments:

```sh
# pre-trained ASR model
model=wsj.transformer_small.v1
mkdir ./conf && cp ../../wsj/asr1/conf/no_preprocess.yaml ./conf

../../../utils/asr_align_wav.sh \
    --models ${model} \
    --align_dir ${align_dir} \
    --align_config ${align_dir}/align.yaml \
    ${wav} ${align_dir}/utt_text
```

Segments are written to `aligned_segments` as a list of file/utterance names, utterance start and end times in seconds, and a confidence score.
The confidence score is a probability in log space that indicates how well the utterance was aligned. If needed, remove bad utterances:

```sh
min_confidence_score=-5
awk -v ms=${min_confidence_score} '{ if ($5 > ms) {print} }' ${align_dir}/aligned_segments
```

The demo script `utils/ctc_align_wav.sh` uses an already pre-trained ASR model (see the list above for more models).
It is recommended to use models with RNN-based encoders (such as BLSTMP) for aligning large audio files;
rather than using Transformer models with a high memory consumption on longer audio data.
The sample rate of the audio must be consistent with that of the data used in training; adjust with `sox` if needed.
A full example recipe is in `egs/tedlium2/align1/`.

</div></details>

<details><summary>ESPnet2</summary><div>

[CTC segmentation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09127) determines utterance segments within audio files.
Aligned utterance segments constitute the labels of speech datasets.

As a demo, we align the start and end of utterances within the audio file `ctc_align_test.wav`.
This can be done either directly from the Python command line or using the script `espnet2/bin/asr_align.py`.

From the Python command line interface:

```python
# load a model with character tokens
from espnet_model_zoo.downloader import ModelDownloader
d = ModelDownloader(cachedir="./modelcache")
wsjmodel = d.download_and_unpack("kamo-naoyuki/wsj")
# load the example file included in the ESPnet repository
import soundfile
speech, rate = soundfile.read("./test_utils/ctc_align_test.wav")
# CTC segmentation
from espnet2.bin.asr_align import CTCSegmentation
aligner = CTCSegmentation( **wsjmodel , fs=rate )
text = """
utt1 THE SALE OF THE HOTELS
utt2 IS PART OF HOLIDAY'S STRATEGY
utt3 TO SELL OFF ASSETS
utt4 AND CONCENTRATE ON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
"""
segments = aligner(speech, text)
print(segments)
# utt1 utt 0.26 1.73 -0.0154 THE SALE OF THE HOTELS
# utt2 utt 1.73 3.19 -0.7674 IS PART OF HOLIDAY'S STRATEGY
# utt3 utt 3.19 4.20 -0.7433 TO SELL OFF ASSETS
# utt4 utt 4.20 6.10 -0.4899 AND CONCENTRATE ON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
```

Aligning also works with fragments of the text.
For this, set the `gratis_blank` option that allows skipping unrelated audio sections without penalty.
It's also possible to omit the utterance names at the beginning of each line by setting `kaldi_style_text` to False.

```python
aligner.set_config( gratis_blank=True, kaldi_style_text=False )
text = ["SALE OF THE HOTELS", "PROPERTY MANAGEMENT"]
segments = aligner(speech, text)
print(segments)
# utt_0000 utt 0.37 1.72 -2.0651 SALE OF THE HOTELS
# utt_0001 utt 4.70 6.10 -5.0566 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
```

The script `espnet2/bin/asr_align.py` uses a similar interface. To align utterances:

```sh
# ASR model and config files from pre-trained model (e.g., from cachedir):
asr_config=<path-to-model>/config.yaml
asr_model=<path-to-model>/valid.*best.pth
# prepare the text file
wav="test_utils/ctc_align_test.wav"
text="test_utils/ctc_align_text.txt"
cat << EOF > ${text}
utt1 THE SALE OF THE HOTELS
utt2 IS PART OF HOLIDAY'S STRATEGY
utt3 TO SELL OFF ASSETS
utt4 AND CONCENTRATE
utt5 ON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
EOF
# obtain alignments:
python espnet2/bin/asr_align.py --asr_train_config ${asr_config} --asr_model_file ${asr_model} --audio ${wav} --text ${text}
# utt1 ctc_align_test 0.26 1.73 -0.0154 THE SALE OF THE HOTELS
# utt2 ctc_align_test 1.73 3.19 -0.7674 IS PART OF HOLIDAY'S STRATEGY
# utt3 ctc_align_test 3.19 4.20 -0.7433 TO SELL OFF ASSETS
# utt4 ctc_align_test 4.20 4.97 -0.6017 AND CONCENTRATE
# utt5 ctc_align_test 4.97 6.10 -0.3477 ON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
```

The output of the script can be redirected to a `segments` file by adding the argument `--output segments`.
Each line contains the file/utterance name, utterance start and end times in seconds, and a confidence score; optionally also the utterance text.
The confidence score is a probability in log space that indicates how well the utterance was aligned. If needed, remove bad utterances:

```sh
min_confidence_score=-7
# here, we assume that the output was written to the file `segments`
awk -v ms=${min_confidence_score} '{ if ($5 > ms) {print} }' segments
```

See the module documentation for more information.
It is recommended to use models with RNN-based encoders (such as BLSTMP) for aligning large audio files;
rather than using Transformer models that have a high memory consumption on longer audio data.
The sample rate of the audio must be consistent with that of the data used in training; adjust with `sox` if needed.

Also, we can use this tool to provide token-level segmentation information if we prepare a list of tokens instead of that of utterances in the `text` file. See the discussion in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/issues/4278#issuecomment-1100756463.

</div></details>

</details>

## Citation

If you use ESPnet in your research, please cite the main paper:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{watanabe2018espnet,
  author={Shinji Watanabe and Takaaki Hori and Shigeki Karita and Tomoki Hayashi and Jiro Nishitoba and Yuya Unno and Nelson {Enrique Yalta Soplin} and Jahn Heymann and Matthew Wiesner and Nanxin Chen and Adithya Renduchintala and Tsubasa Ochiai},
  title={{ESPnet}: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit},
  year={2018},
  booktitle={Proceedings of Interspeech},
  pages={2207--2211},
  doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1456},
  url={http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1456}
}
```

<details>
<summary>Task-specific papers (TTS, ST, SE, SLU, SVS, UASR, S2T, SUM, SPK)</summary>

```bibtex
@inproceedings{hayashi2020espnet,
  title={{Espnet-TTS}: Unified, reproducible, and integratable open source end-to-end text-to-speech toolkit},
  author={Hayashi, Tomoki and Yamamoto, Ryuichi and Inoue, Katsuki and Yoshimura, Takenori and Watanabe, Shinji and Toda, Tomoki and Takeda, Kazuya and Zhang, Yu and Tan, Xu},
  booktitle={Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  pages={7654--7658},
  year={2020},
  organization={IEEE}
}
@inproceedings{inaguma-etal-2020-espnet,
    title = "{ESP}net-{ST}: All-in-One Speech Translation Toolkit",
    author = "Inaguma, Hirofumi  and
      Kiyono, Shun  and
      Duh, Kevin  and
      Karita, Shigeki  and
      Yalta, Nelson  and
      Hayashi, Tomoki  and
      Watanabe, Shinji",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-demos.34",
    pages = "302--311",
}
@article{hayashi2021espnet2,
  title={{ESP}net2-{TTS}: Extending the edge of {TTS} research},
  author={Hayashi, Tomoki and Yamamoto, Ryuichi and Yoshimura, Takenori and Wu, Peter and Shi, Jiatong and Saeki, Takaaki and Ju, Yooncheol and Yasuda, Yusuke and Takamichi, Shinnosuke and Watanabe, Shinji},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.07840},
  year={2021}
}
@inproceedings{li2020espnet,
  title={{ESPnet-SE}: End-to-End Speech Enhancement and Separation Toolkit Designed for {ASR} Integration},
  author={Chenda Li and Jing Shi and Wangyou Zhang and Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian and Xuankai Chang and Naoyuki Kamo and Moto Hira and Tomoki Hayashi and Christoph Boeddeker and Zhuo Chen and Shinji Watanabe},
  booktitle={Proceedings of IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
  pages={785--792},
  year={2021},
  organization={IEEE},
}
@inproceedings{arora2021espnet,
  title={{ESPnet-SLU}: Advancing Spoken Language Understanding through ESPnet},
  author={Arora, Siddhant and Dalmia, Siddharth and Denisov, Pavel and Chang, Xuankai and Ueda, Yushi and Peng, Yifan and Zhang, Yuekai and Kumar, Sujay and Ganesan, Karthik and Yan, Brian and others},
  booktitle={ICASSP 2022-2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  pages={7167--7171},
  year={2022},
  organization={IEEE}
}
@inproceedings{shi2022muskits,
  author={Shi, Jiatong and Guo, Shuai and Qian, Tao and Huo, Nan and Hayashi, Tomoki and Wu, Yuning and Xu, Frank and Chang, Xuankai and Li, Huazhe and Wu, Peter and Watanabe, Shinji and Jin, Qin},
  title={{Muskits}: an End-to-End Music Processing Toolkit for Singing Voice Synthesis},
  year={2022},
  booktitle={Proceedings of Interspeech},
  pages={4277-4281},
  url={https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/pdfs/interspeech_2022/shi22d_interspeech.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{lu22c_interspeech,
  author={Yen-Ju Lu and Xuankai Chang and Chenda Li and Wangyou Zhang and Samuele Cornell and Zhaoheng Ni and Yoshiki Masuyama and Brian Yan and Robin Scheibler and Zhong-Qiu Wang and Yu Tsao and Yanmin Qian and Shinji Watanabe},
  title={{ESPnet-SE++: Speech Enhancement for Robust Speech Recognition, Translation, and Understanding}},
  year=2022,
  booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2022},
  pages={5458--5462},
}
@inproceedings{gao2023euro,
  title={{EURO: ESP}net unsupervised {ASR} open-source toolkit},
  author={Gao, Dongji and Shi, Jiatong and Chuang, Shun-Po and Garcia, Leibny Paola and Lee, Hung-yi and Watanabe, Shinji and Khudanpur, Sanjeev},
  booktitle={ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  pages={1--5},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}
@inproceedings{peng2023reproducing,
  title={Reproducing {W}hisper-style training using an open-source toolkit and publicly available data},
  author={Peng, Yifan and Tian, Jinchuan and Yan, Brian and Berrebbi, Dan and Chang, Xuankai and Li, Xinjian and Shi, Jiatong and Arora, Siddhant and Chen, William and Sharma, Roshan and others},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)},
  pages={1--8},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}
@inproceedings{sharma2023espnet,
  title={ESPnet-{SUMM}: Introducing a novel large dataset, toolkit, and a cross-corpora evaluation of speech summarization systems},
  author={Sharma, Roshan and Chen, William and Kano, Takatomo and Sharma, Ruchira and Arora, Siddhant and Watanabe, Shinji and Ogawa, Atsunori and Delcroix, Marc and Singh, Rita and Raj, Bhiksha},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)},
  pages={1--8},
  year={2023},
  organization={IEEE}
}
@article{jung2024espnet,
  title={{ESPnet-SPK}: full pipeline speaker embedding toolkit with reproducible recipes, self-supervised front-ends, and off-the-shelf models},
  author={Jung, Jee-weon and Zhang, Wangyou and Shi, Jiatong and Aldeneh, Zakaria and Higuchi, Takuya and Theobald, Barry-John and Abdelaziz, Ahmed Hussen and Watanabe, Shinji},
  journal={Proc. Interspeech 2024},
  year={2024}
}
@inproceedings{yan-etal-2023-espnet,
    title = "{ESP}net-{ST}-v2: Multipurpose Spoken Language Translation Toolkit",
    author = "Yan, Brian  and
      Shi, Jiatong  and
      Tang, Yun  and
      Inaguma, Hirofumi  and
      Peng, Yifan  and
      Dalmia, Siddharth  and
      Pol{\'a}k, Peter  and
      Fernandes, Patrick  and
      Berrebbi, Dan  and
      Hayashi, Tomoki  and
      Zhang, Xiaohui  and
      Ni, Zhaoheng  and
      Hira, Moto  and
      Maiti, Soumi  and
      Pino, Juan  and
      Watanabe, Shinji",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)",
    year = "2023",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    pages = "400--411",
}
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