2 papers
cs.CL2026
From Monolingual to Multilingual: Evaluating Mamba for ASR in South African Languages
Jesujoba O. Alabi, Julian Herreilers, Badr M. Abdullah +1
Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have explored different sequence models, including Conformer-based models and newer state space models such as Mamba. Although…
eess.AS2025
Low-resource keyword spotting using contrastively trained transformer acoustic word embeddings
Julian Herreilers, Christiaan Jacobs, Thomas Niesler
We introduce a new approach, the ContrastiveTransformer, that produces acoustic word embeddings (AWEs) for the purpose of very low-resource keyword spotting. The ContrastiveTransfo…