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Non-native Children's Automatic Speech Assessment Challenge (NOCASA)
Yaroslav Getman, Tamás Grósz, Mikko Kurimo +1
This paper presents the "Non-native Children's Automatic Speech Assessment" (NOCASA) - a data competition part of the IEEE MLSP 2025 conference. NOCASA challenges participants to d…
One Whisper to Grade Them All
Nhan Phan, Anusha Porwal, Yaroslav Getman +3
We present an efficient end-to-end approach for holistic Automatic Speaking Assessment (ASA) of multi-part second-language tests, developed for the 2025 Speak & Improve Challenge.…
Multi-Teacher Language-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition
Mehedi Hasan Bijoy, Dejan Porjazovski, Tamás Grósz +1
Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is crucial for improving human-computer interaction. Despite strides in monolingual SER, extending them to build a multilingual system remains chal…
Mispronunciation Detection Without L2 Pronunciation Dataset in Low-Resource Setting: A Case Study in Finland Swedish
Nhan Phan, Mikko Kuronen, Maria Kautonen +6
Mispronunciation detection (MD) models are the cornerstones of many language learning applications. Unfortunately, most systems are built for English and other major languages, whi…