18 papers
Constrained CTC Decoding for Efficient Diacritic Restoration
Rufael Marew, Amr Keleg, Hanan Aldarmaki
In this work, we address diacritic restoration for Arabic speech transcripts. Most speech data are undiacritized, limiting the ability of modeling fine-grained phonological distinc…
What Counts as an Error? Dual-Reference Benchmarking for Atypical ASR
Hawau Olamide Toyin, Srinivasan Umesh, Hanan Aldarmaki
ASR systems have been often reported to underperform on atypical speech. An often conflated compounding factor is the existence of two valid transcription references: verbatim (act…
Linear Semantic Segmentation for Low-Resource Spoken Dialects
Kirill Chirkunov, Younes Samih, Abed Alhakim Freihat +1
Semantic segmentation is a core component of discourse analysis, yet existing models are primarily developed and evaluated on high-resource written text, limiting their effectivene…
Unrequited Emotions: Investigating the Gaps in Motivation and Practice in Speech Emotion Recognition Research
Taryn Wong, Zeerak Talat, Hanan Aldarmaki +1
Critical analyses of emotion recognition technology have raised ethical concerns around task validity and potential downstream impacts, urging researchers to ensure alignment betwe…
Aligning Stuttered-Speech Research with End-User Needs: Scoping Review, Survey, and Guidelines
Hawau Olamide Toyin, Mutiah Apampa, Toluwani Aremu +6
Atypical speech is receiving greater attention in speech technology research, but much of this work unfolds with limited interdisciplinary dialogue. For stuttered speech in particu…
Morphemes Without Borders: Evaluating Root-Pattern Morphology in Arabic Tokenizers and LLMs
Yara Alakeel, Chatrine Qwaider, Hanan Aldarmaki +1
This work investigates how effectively large language models (LLMs) and their tokenization schemes represent and generate Arabic root-pattern morphology, probing whether they captu…