Apple sponsored Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), which was held in a hybrid format. The virtual event took place on May 7 to 13, and the hybrid main conference on May 22 to 27. ICASSP is the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s flagship conference on signal processing and its applications.

Accepted Papers

Bilingual End-to-End ASR with Byte-Level Subwords

Liuhui Deng, Roger Hsiao, and Arnab Ghoshal

Data Incubation - Synthesizing Missing Data for Handwriting Recognition

Rick Chang, Martin Bresler, Youssouf Chherawala, Adrien Delaye, Thomas Deselaers, Ryan Dixon, Oncel Tuzel

Fusion-Id: A Photoplethysmography and Motion Sensor Fusion Biometric Authenticator With Few-Shot on-Boarding

Harshat Kumar, Hojjat Seyed Mousavi, Behrooz Shahsavari

Hierarchical Prosody Modeling and Control in Non-Autoregressive Parallel Neural TTS

Tuomo Raitio, Jiangchuan Li, Shreyas Seshadri

Non-verbal Sound Detection for Disordered Speech

Colin Lea, Zifang Huang, Dhruv Jain, Lauren Tooley, Zeinab Liaghat, Shrinath Thelapurath, Leah Findlater, Jeffrey P. Bigham

Streaming On-Device Detection of Device-Directed Speech from Voice and Touch-Based Invocations

Oggi Rudovic, Akanksha Bindal, Vineet Garg, Pramod Simha, Pranay Dighe, Sachin Kajarekar

Utilizing Imperfect Synthetic Data to Improve Speech Recognition

Ting-Yao Hu, Mohammadreza Armandpour, Ashish Shrivastava, Jen-Hao Rick Chang, Hema Koppula, Oncel Tuzel

Talks and Workshops

“Meet Apple” is an opportunity to hear from the authors of our accepted papers, as well as a few hiring managers and recruiters from our AIML teams. This talk will be held virtually on May 24 at 11:00 am PDT.

All registered ICASSP attendees are invited to attend. Visit our virtual booth for more information on how to join.

Affinity Events

Apple is a sponsor of Women in Signal Processing, who will be holding a panel discussion at ICASSP on May 11 at 3:30 am PDT.

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