Man-Machine Speech Communication: 20th National Conference, NCMMSC 2025, Zhenjiang, China, October 16–19, 2025, Proceedings(2662 Communications in Computer and Information Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2025, held in Zhenjiang, China, during October 16-19, 2025. The 40 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. the conference will feature special events such as a Young Scholars Forum, Student Forum, Industry Forum, and Product and Technology Exhibition. Beyond the main program, the conference will also include publicoutreach activities, grant-writing workshops, and several special sessions.

Table of Contents:
.- Zero- and One-Shot Data Augmentation for Sentence-Level Dysarthric Speech Recognition in Constrained Scenarios. .- Multilevel and Granular L2 Pronunciation Assessment Using Stress-Based Suprasegmental Features and Proficiency Adaptation. .- CDMGTU-Net: A Causal Dual-Branch Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement Network with Multi-Scale Gateted Feature Fusion. .- A Two-Stage Band-Split Mamba-2 Network For Music Source Separation. .- Ideal-LLM: Integrating Dual Encoders and Language-Adapted LLM for Multilingual Speech-to-Text. .- MambaVoc: State Space Models for High-Fidelity Audio Synthesis. .- StreamFlow: Streaming Flow Matching with Block-wise Guided Attention Mask for Speech Token Decoding. .- Automatic Speech Evaluation Method Leveraging Deep Feature Fusion. .- Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Robust Low-Resource Chinese Dialect Speech Recognition. .- An Acoustic Study on Intonation Production of English Learners from Guanzhong Region in Shaanxi Province. .- Improving Anomalous Sound Detection with Top-M Pseudo-Labeling. .- Dementia Detection via Speech Temporal Sequences with Shifted Windows. .- CL-EDiff: Cross-lingual emotional TTS system based on diffusion model. .- When AI Speaks, Do We Follow? Phonetic Entrainment in Human-AI Dialogues. .- Aishell1Mix: Towards Robust Mandarin Speech Separation with Scalable Audio Language Models. .- Study of the Low-Rank Minimum Variance Distortionless Response Beamformer for Speech Enhancement. .- Exploring Gender Bias in Alzheimer’s Disease Detection: Insights from Mandarin and Greek Speech Perception. .- UniDaugMamba: A Unimodal Data-augmented Mamba for Speech-Based Depression Detection. .- Serial-Parallel Dual-Path Architecture for Speaking Style Recognition. .- Knowledge Augmented Finetuning Matters in Both RAG and Agent Based Dialog Systems. .- NC-KWS: Few-Shot Class-Incremental Keyword Spotting Based on Neural Collapse. .- ZSEmo-MTVITS: A Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Emotional Speech Synthesis Model for Mandarin and Tibetan Based on VITS. .- CUHK-EE Systems for the vTAD Challenge at NCMMSC 2025. .- Accent Familiarity and Phonological Weighting in Spoken-Word Recognition. .- Audio Deepfake Detection via Dual Branch Classifier with Self-Supervised Pre-Trained Model. .- A Multi-Subspace Attention Approach for Robust Speech Spoofing Detection in Silence-Trimming Conditions. .- Temporally Consistent Teeth Restoration for Talking Heads. .- EEG as a Biometric Identifier: The Impact of Electrode Arrangement, Brain Areas, and Frequency Bands. .- The Phonetic Modification and Facial Movements Made During Mandarin Vowel and Tone Production in Noise. .- Exploring Audio-Visual Fusion for Sound Event Localization and Detection with BEATs. .- On Multi-Input Multi-Frame MVDR Filter for Speech Enhancement with Heterophasic Presentation. .- Adaptive Multi-source Fusion for Uyghur ASR Error Correction. .- The determinants of Chinese lexical stress. .- Introducing Discriminative Speaker Embeddings for Voice Timbre Attribute Detection. .- TSELM: Target Speaker Extraction using Discrete Tokens and Language Models. .- A Timbre Attribute Discrimination System Fusing Pre-trained Speaker Feature Extractors with Gender Prior Features. .- Improving the Robustness of Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction With AV-HuBERT Based Lip Features. .- A Hierarchical Fusion Modeling from Perception to Prediction with Personalized Features for Multimodal Depression Detection. .- Revisiting Target Signal Definitions in Distortionless Superdirective Beamforming for Reverberant Speech Enhancement. .- HiStyle: Hierarchical Style Embedding Prediction for Text-Prompt-Guided Controllable Speech Synthesis.