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most citedFusion approaches for emotion recognition from speech using acoustic and text-based features

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cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Benchmarking Time-localized Explanations for Audio Classification Models

Cecilia Bolaños, Leonardo Pepino, Martin Meza +1

Most modern approaches for audio processing are opaque, in the sense that they do not provide an explanation for their decisions. For this reason, various methods have been propose…

cs.SD2025

A Dataset for Automatic Assessment of TTS Quality in Spanish

Alejandro Sosa Welford, Leonardo Pepino

This work addresses the development of a database for the automatic assessment of text-to-speech (TTS) systems in Spanish, aiming to improve the accuracy of naturalness prediction…

cs.SD2024

Leveraging Pre-Trained Autoencoders for Interpretable Prototype Learning of Music Audio

Pablo Alonso-Jiménez, Leonardo Pepino, Roser Batlle-Roca +4

We present PECMAE, an interpretable model for music audio classification based on prototype learning. Our model is based on a previous method, APNet, which jointly learns an autoen…

cs.SD2023

BUT CHiME-7 system description

Martin Karafiát, Karel Veselý, Igor Szöke +5

This paper describes the joint effort of Brno University of Technology (BUT), AGH University of Krakow and University of Buenos Aires on the development of Automatic Speech Recogni…

cs.SD2023★ 2 cited

EnCodecMAE: Leveraging neural codecs for universal audio representation learning

Leonardo Pepino, Pablo Riera, Luciana Ferrer

The goal of universal audio representation learning is to obtain foundational models that can be used for a variety of downstream tasks involving speech, music and environmental so…

cs.SD2023★ 2 cited

Phone and speaker spatial organization in self-supervised speech representations

Pablo Riera, Manuela Cerdeiro, Leonardo Pepino +1

Self-supervised representations of speech are currently being widely used for a large number of applications. Recently, some efforts have been made in trying to analyze the type of…

cs.SD2021★ 7 cited

Study of positional encoding approaches for Audio Spectrogram Transformers

Leonardo Pepino, Pablo Riera, Luciana Ferrer

Transformers have revolutionized the world of deep learning, specially in the field of natural language processing. Recently, the Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST) was proposed f…

cs.SD2021

Emotion Recognition from Speech Using Wav2vec 2.0 Embeddings

Leonardo Pepino, Pablo Riera, Luciana Ferrer

Emotion recognition datasets are relatively small, making the use of the more sophisticated deep learning approaches challenging. In this work, we propose a transfer learning metho…