2 papers
eess.AS2020
Do face masks introduce bias in speech technologies? The case of automated scoring of speaking proficiency
Anastassia Loukina, Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland +2
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic increase in the use of face masks worldwide. Face coverings can affect both acoustic properties of the signal as well as speech patterns…
cs.HC2020
Exploring Recurrent, Memory and Attention Based Architectures for Scoring Interactional Aspects of Human-Machine Text Dialog
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Matthew Mulholland, Debanjan Ghosh
An important step towards enabling English language learners to improve their conversational speaking proficiency involves automated scoring of multiple aspects of interactional co…