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most citedData augmentation using prosody and false starts to recognize non-native children's speech

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eess.AS2026

Autoencoder based optimized SSL representations: Complexity Minimization and improved Dysarthric ASR

Paban Sapkota, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Mikko Kurimo +2

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models extract rich speech representations but often come with high-dimensional features, increasing computational complexity. This work explores an…

eess.AS2026

Cross-Dataset, Age, and Gender Generalization: A Comprehensive Analysis of Fine-Tuning Strategies for Low-Resource Children's ASR

Abhijit Sinha, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri +1

The challenge associated with recognizing dysarthric speech primarily arises from pronounced acoustic variability attributed to impaired articulatory precision. Past research has d…

eess.AS2026

DSSCNet: A Transfer Learning Framework for Cross-Corpus Dysarthric Speech Severity Classification

Arnab Kumar Roy, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Paban Sapkota +2

Dysarthric speech severity classification is challenging due to speaker variability, class imbalance, and limited datasets. This study introduces DSSCNet, a deep learning model tha…

eess.AS2026

How Well Do Self-Supervised Speech Models Encode Age and Gender in Children's Speech? A Layer-Wise Analysis Across Multiple Architectures

Abhijit Sinha, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Mohit Joshi +3

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models have become a central component of modern speech processing systems, as they enable the learning of rich acoustic representations without reli…

eess.AS2026

Improving End-to-End Speech Recognition for Dysarthric Speech through In-Domain Data Augmentation

Paban Sapkota, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri +1

Dysarthric speech recognition is crucial for facilitating effective communication among individuals with dysarthria. However, accurately recognizing dysarthric speech poses signifi…

eess.AS2026

Systematic Study of Dysarthric Speech Recognition: Spectral Features and Acoustic Models

Paban Sapkota, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Mikko Kurimo +2

The challenge associated with recognizing dysarthric speech primarily arises from pronounced acoustic variability attributed to impaired articulatory precision. Past research has d…

eess.AS2025

Enhancing Speaker-Independent Dysarthric Speech Severity Classification with DSSCNet and Cross-Corpus Adaptation

Arnab Kumar Roy, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Paban Sapkota

Dysarthric speech severity classification is crucial for objective clinical assessment and progress monitoring in individuals with motor speech disorders. Although prior methods ha…

eess.AS2025★ 3 cited

Zero-Shot KWS for Children's Speech using Layer-Wise Features from SSL Models

Subham Kutum, Abhijit Sinha, Hemant Kumar Kathania +2

Numerous methods have been proposed to enhance Keyword Spotting (KWS) in adult speech, but children's speech presents unique challenges for KWS systems due to its distinct acoustic…

eess.AS2025★ 4 cited

Can Layer-wise SSL Features Improve Zero-Shot ASR Performance for Children's Speech?

Abhijit Sinha, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri +1

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems often struggle to accurately process children's speech due to its distinct and highly variable acoustic and linguistic characteristics. W…

eess.AS2025

Layer-Wise Analysis of Self-Supervised Representations for Age and Gender Classification in Children's Speech

Abhijit Sinha, Harishankar Kumar, Mohit Joshi +3

Children's speech presents challenges for age and gender classification due to high variability in pitch, articulation, and developmental traits. While self-supervised learning (SS…

cs.CV2024

Improvement in Facial Emotion Recognition using Synthetic Data Generated by Diffusion Model

Arnab Kumar Roy, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Adhitiya Sharma

Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) plays a crucial role in computer vision, with significant applications in human-computer interaction, affective computing, and areas such as mental…

cs.CV2024

ResEmoteNet: Bridging Accuracy and Loss Reduction in Facial Emotion Recognition

Arnab Kumar Roy, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Adhitiya Sharma +2

The human face is a silent communicator, expressing emotions and thoughts through its facial expressions. With the advancements in computer vision in recent years, facial emotion r…

eess.AS2022★ 1 cited

End-to-end Ensemble-based Feature Selection for Paralinguistics Tasks

Tamás Grósz, Mittul Singh, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri +2

The events of recent years have highlighted the importance of telemedicine solutions which could potentially allow remote treatment and diagnosis. Relatedly, Computational Paraling…

eess.AS2020★ 15 cited

Data augmentation using prosody and false starts to recognize non-native children's speech

Hemant Kathania, Mittul Singh, Tamás Grósz +1

This paper describes AaltoASR's speech recognition system for the INTERSPEECH 2020 shared task on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for non-native children's speech. The task is t…

eess.AS2020

Aalto's End-to-End DNN systems for the INTERSPEECH 2020 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge

Tamás Grósz, Mittul Singh, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri +2

End-to-end neural network models (E2E) have shown significant performance benefits on different INTERSPEECH ComParE tasks. Prior work has applied either a single instance of an E2E…