What's Changed

• Initialize VISinger branch by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4683
• Update VISInger branch by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4705
• Update UASR branch with latest ESPnet functions by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4752
• Update uasr by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4770
• Shell scripts for UASR processing by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4769
• Uasr python scripts by @DongjiGao in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4791
• Update visinger by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4818
• Update test_custom_transducer.py by @sw005320 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4826
• Update asr.sh by @sw005320 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4827
• Fixed pad mode for librosa.stft by @Masao-Someki in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4832
• Add E-Branchformer models in some recipes by @pyf98 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4833
• Fix data prep in GigaSpeech by @pyf98 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4836
• time sync decoding for asr by @brianyan918 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4792
• Remove duplicated VOXFORGE in db.sh (line81 and line157) by @pyf98 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4840
• Fix argument parsing for non_linguistic_symbols in asr.sh by @pyf98 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4841
• Add a warning statement when the hypo length equals to the max out length. by @pengchengguo in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4843
• Add target speaker extraction (TSE) functions by @Emrys365 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4823
• Multilingual superb by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4824
• VISinger by @jerryuhoo in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4689
• Update VISInger to latest by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4849
• VISinger for singing voice synthesis by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4848
• Reduce word counts for ESPnet-SE++ Joss paper by @neillu23 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4844
• Add E-Branchformer configs and models in ASR recipes by @pyf98 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4837
• Address Muskits updates on README by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4850
• Minor fix for MSUPERB recipe by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4851
• Update for the latest changes in the draft (minor changes) by @neillu23 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4852
• Add E-Branchformer results on Librispeech by @kkim-asapp in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4856
• Update hubert implementation. by @simpleoier in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4747
• VISinger unit test by @jerryuhoo in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4855
• Minor fix to commonvoice espnet1 by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4862
• [WIP] Add S4 decoder in ESPnet2 by @m-koichi in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4845
• Update hubert feature and acknowledge information in related Readmes. by @simpleoier in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4863
• Generating MFA aligments by @Fhrozen in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4803
• [WIP] EURO uasr scripts by @DongjiGao in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4846
• Update README.md related to ASR architecture by @m-koichi in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4865
• Minor fix to librimix diar recipe by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4867
• Add Full Whisper Model for Finetuning by @slSeanWU in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4793
• Add torchaudio version check for HuBERT pretraining by @simpleoier in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4872
• add k2 decoder related scripts for EURO by @DongjiGao in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4868
• EURO: small fix (temporarily remove support for nbest_rescoring) by @DongjiGao in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4875
• Add description for Whisper ASR in homepage readme by @slSeanWU in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4877
• Update README.md by @eltociear in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4879
• add explanations to text tokenizing related scripts and remove unused script by @DongjiGao in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4880
• update information about source and our modification for k2 related scripts by @DongjiGao in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4881
• AphasiaBank ASR recipe by @tjysdsg in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4860
• Multilingual SUPERB update by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4878
• ESPnet Unsupervised ASR (EURO project) by @ftshijt in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4774
• Support ProDiff in TTS by @Fhrozen in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4808
• Add E-Branchformer for GigaSpeech by @pyf98 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4882
• FLEURS - Auxillary CTC conditioning tasks by @wanchichen in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4756
• Add python 3.8 requirement for Whisper & update tests by @slSeanWU in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4891
• Update some ASR results in the main readme file by @pyf98 in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4883
• Add Conv2dSubsampling1 module and test it in AphasiaBank ASR recipe by @tjysdsg in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4892
• Support x-vector extractor based on RawNet by @Takaaki-Saeki in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4884
• single language track setups by @DanBerrebbi in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4895
• fixing bug deu1 by @DanBerrebbi in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4900
• Fix dataprep issues based on updated data release via Google form by @roshansh-cmu in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4899
• Add a new EGS2 recipe 'reazonspeech' by @fujimotos in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4885
• Update version to 202301 by @kan-bayashi in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4901

New Contributors

• @DongjiGao made their first contribution in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4791
• @jerryuhoo made their first contribution in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4689
• @m-koichi made their first contribution in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4845
• @fujimotos made their first contribution in https://github.com/espnet/espnet/pull/4885

Full Changelog: https://github.com/espnet/espnet/compare/v.202211...v.202301