6 papers
Disentangling Speaker and Language Effects in Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification for Iberian Languages
Pol Buitrago, Javier Hernando
Cross-lingual speaker verification (SV) systems typically exhibit performance degradation when enrollment and test utterances are spoken in different languages. However, standard e…
How Attention Shapes Emotion: A Comparative Study of Attention Mechanisms for Speech Emotion Recognition
Marc Casals-Salvador, Federico Costa, Rodolfo Zevallos +1
Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a key role in advancing human-computer interaction. Attention mechanisms have become the dominant approach for modeling emotional speech due…
Bootstrapping Audiovisual Speech Recognition in Zero-AV-Resource Scenarios with Synthetic Visual Data
Pol Buitrago, Pol GÃ lvez, Oriol Pareras +1
Audiovisual speech recognition (AVSR) combines acoustic and visual cues to improve transcription robustness under challenging conditions but remains out of reach for most under-res…
Quantifying Cross-Lingual Transfer in Paralinguistic Speech Tasks
Pol Buitrago, Oriol Pareras, Federico Costa +1
Paralinguistic speech tasks are often considered relatively language-agnostic, as they rely on extralinguistic acoustic cues rather than lexical content. However, prior studies rep…
Language Modelling for Speaker Diarization in Telephonic Interviews
Miquel India, Javier Hernando, José A. R. Fonollosa
The aim of this paper is to investigate the benefit of combining both language and acoustic modelling for speaker diarization. Although conventional systems only use acoustic featu…
On the Use of Audio to Improve Dialogue Policies
Daniel Roncel, Federico Costa, Javier Hernando
With the significant progress of speech technologies, spoken goal-oriented dialogue systems are becoming increasingly popular. One of the main modules of a dialogue system is typic…