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A Study on Prosodic Entrainment in Relation to Therapist Empathy in Counseling Conversation
Dehua Tao, Tan Lee, Harold Chui +1
Counseling is carried out as spoken conversation between a therapist and a client. The empathy level expressed by the therapist is considered an important index of the quality of c…
Efficient Black-Box Speaker Verification Model Adaptation with Reprogramming and Backend Learning
Jingyu Li, Tan Lee
The development of deep neural networks (DNN) has significantly enhanced the performance of speaker verification (SV) systems in recent years. However, a critical issue that persis…
CoMFLP: Correlation Measure based Fast Search on ASR Layer Pruning
Wei Liu, Zhiyuan Peng, Tan Lee
Transformer-based speech recognition (ASR) model with deep layers exhibited significant performance improvement. However, the model is inefficient for deployment on resource-constr…
Leveraging phone-level linguistic-acoustic similarity for utterance-level pronunciation scoring
Wei Liu, Kaiqi Fu, Xiaohai Tian +4
Recent studies on pronunciation scoring have explored the effect of introducing phone embeddings as reference pronunciation, but mostly in an implicit manner, i.e., addition or con…
An ASR-free Fluency Scoring Approach with Self-Supervised Learning
Wei Liu, Kaiqi Fu, Xiaohai Tian +4
A typical fluency scoring system generally relies on an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to obtain time stamps in input speech for either the subsequent calculation of flu…
Transport-Oriented Feature Aggregation for Speaker Embedding Learning
Yusheng Tian, Jingyu Li, Tan Lee
Pooling is needed to aggregate frame-level features into utterance-level representations for speaker modeling. Given the success of statistics-based pooling methods, we hypothesize…