5 papers
Objective Measurements of Voice Quality
Hira Dhamyal, Rita Singh
The quality of human voice plays an important role across various fields like music, speech therapy, and communication, yet it lacks a universally accepted, objective definition. I…
PDAF: A Phonetic Debiasing Attention Framework For Speaker Verification
Massa Baali, Abdulhamid Aldoobi, Hira Dhamyal +2
Speaker verification systems are crucial for authenticating identity through voice. Traditionally, these systems focus on comparing feature vectors, overlooking the speech's conten…
Speech vs. Transcript: Does It Matter for Human Annotators in Speech Summarization?
Roshan Sharma, Suwon Shon, Mark Lindsey +3
Reference summaries for abstractive speech summarization require human annotation, which can be performed by listening to an audio recording or by reading textual transcripts of th…
SELM: Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition for Out-of-Domain Scenarios
Hazim Bukhari, Soham Deshmukh, Hira Dhamyal +2
Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has been traditionally formulated as a classification task. However, emotions are generally a spectrum whose distribution varies from situation to…
On the Evaluation of Speech Foundation Models for Spoken Language Understanding
Siddhant Arora, Ankita Pasad, Chung-Ming Chien +9
The Spoken Language Understanding Evaluation (SLUE) suite of benchmark tasks was recently introduced to address the need for open resources and benchmarking of complex spoken langu…