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eess.AS2026

When Layer Selection Misleads Speech Depression Detection

Paula A. Perez-Toro, David Gimeno-Gómez, Daniel Rückert +1

Pretrained speech representations are increasingly used for depression detection, but selecting the best encoder layer on the same data used for evaluation biases reported performa…

cs.CL2026

Do Speech Representations Preserve Regional Accent Across Read and Spontaneous Speech?

Paula A. Perez-Toro, Tomas Arias-Vergara, Annette Schwarz +4

Regional accent cues can be captured under matched conditions, but it remains unclear whether they persist between read and spontaneous speech. We study RVG1, with 500 German speak…

cs.SD2026

Beyond Decodability: Do Acoustic Factors Drive Predictions in Speech-Based Alzheimer's Assessment?

Serli Kopar, Alkis Koudounas, Roshan P. Rane +3

Speech-based Alzheimer's disease (AD) assessments increasingly rely on pretrained self-supervised learning (SSL) models that learn acoustic representations directly from raw audio,…

cs.CL2026

Child-Adapted Structured Phonological Representations for Interpretable Speech Sound Analysis

Abner Hernandez, Tomás Arias Vergara, Andreas Maier +1

Structured phonological representations provide an interpretable alternative to generic speech embeddings, but existing models are largely trained on adult speech. We adapt PhonoQ-…

cs.ET2026

Towards clinical adoption of voice and speech as measures of health: the need for harmonization

Nicholas Cummins, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Daniel Low +9

Speech and voice are multidimensional signals that capture both communicative intent and underlying physiological processes, providing a unique, non-invasive window into health. An…

cs.CV2026

PANDA - Prototype-Anchored Alignment for Partially Unpaired Multimodal Learning, with Applications to Alzheimers MRI and TCGA Pathology

Sheethal Bhat, Mahfuzur Rahman Chowdhury, Paula Andrea Perez-Toro +4

Multimodal medical prediction often faces incomplete pairing: auxiliary modalities with complementary signal are available for only a subset of subjects (or none) and cannot be ass…

cs.LG2026

A Standardized Framework for Machine Learning in Power System Protection

Julian Oelhaf, Georg Kordowich, Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro +4

Studies of machine-learning-based power-system protection increasingly report near-perfect scores, yet the meaning of those scores depends strongly on the evaluation setting. Prote…

cs.CL2026

Understanding Multilingual Medical ASR Adaptation Through Layer-Wise Analysis

Souranil Kahali, Rituparna Bose, Abner Hernandez +4

Medical automatic speech recognition (MedASR) requires adaptation to specialised terminology, limited annotated clinical data, and multilingual use cases. Although large-scale pret…

cs.CL2026

Motor, Cognitive, or Corpus? What Survives Cross-Lingual Transfer in Speech-Based Parkinsons Disease Detection

Serli Kopar, Sam Gijsen, Abner Hernandez +2

Self-supervised learning (SSL) speech representations achieve strong performance for Parkinson's disease (PD) detection within individual corpora. However, it remains unclear wheth…

cs.CL2026

Structured Phonological Representations for Audio-Articulatory rtMRI Speech Classification

Abner Hernandez, Tomás Arias Vergara, Daiqi Liu +2

Real-time MRI makes it possible to observe vocal-tract articulation during speech, but mapping these articulatory patterns to phonetic and phonological categories remains challengi…

eess.IV2026

Robustness and Stability Analysis of Differentiable Shift-Variant FBP for Cone-Beam CT under Challenging Acquisition Settings

Chengze Ye, Linda-Sophie Schneider, Yipeng Sun +5

The differentiable shift-variant filtered backprojection (SV-FBP) framework enables data-driven estimation of redundancy weights for cone-beam CT reconstruction under general sourc…

eess.SP2026

Fault Inception Detection in Real-World Disturbance Data for Power System Protection

Julian Oelhaf, Mehran Pashaei, Paula Andrea Perez-Toro +5

Large collections of real-world disturbance recordings are increasingly available in transmission networks, but their value for power system protection and automated disturbance an…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Binary: Speech Representations Across the Cognitive Score Hierarchy

Serli Kopar, Roshan Prakash Rane, Christian Mychajliw +6

This study examines the relationship between speech representations and the hierarchical structure of cognitive assessment in mild cognitive impairment. Utilizing 5,754 German neur…

cs.CV2026

Speech-Guided Multimodal Learning for Vocal Tract Segmentation in Real-Time MRI

Daiqi Liu, Lukas Mulzer, Md Hasan +11

Segmenting vocal tract articulators in real-time MRI (rtMRI) is a challenging dynamic image segmentation problem characterized by low contrast, rapid motion, and limited spatial re…

cs.SD2026

SIREM: Speech-Informed MRI Reconstruction with Learned Sampling

Md Hasan, Nyvenn Castro, Daiqi Liu +6

Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) of speech production enables non-invasive visualization of dynamic vocal-tract motion and is valuable for speech science and clinical a…

cs.CV2026

Just Ask for a Table: A Thirty-Token User Prompt Defeats Sponsored Recommendations in Twelve LLMs

Andreas Maier, Jeta Sopa, Gozde Gul Sahin +2

Wu et al. (2026) showed that most frontier large language models (LLMs) recommend a sponsored, roughly twice-as-expensive flight when their system prompt contains a soft sponsorshi…

cs.LG2026

A Deep Risk Estimator for Known Operator Learning

Andreas Maier, Md Hasan, Paulina Conrad +1

We describe an approach for estimating the statistical risk of deep networks that contain a mix of learned and known operators. Building on the maximal training error bounds previo…

cs.CL2026

Multilingual Phonological Feature Recognition with Self-Supervised Speech Models

Abner Hernandez, Tomás Arias-Vergara, Daiqi Liu +2

Phonological features provide a language-general and linguistically grounded representation of speech. We present PhonoQ-2.0, a multilingual frame-level phonological feature recogn…

eess.AS2026

Bias and Fairness in Self-Supervised Acoustic Representations for Cognitive Impairment Detection

Kashaf Gulzar, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elmar Nöth +2

Speech-based detection of cognitive impairment (CI) offers a promising non-invasive approach for early diagnosis, yet performance disparities across demographic and clinical subgro…

cs.AI2025

Controlled Comparison of Machine Learning Models for Fault Classification and Localization in Power System Protection

Julian Oelhaf, Georg Kordowich, Changhun Kim +5

The increasing complexity of modern power systems, driven by the integration of inverter-based and distributed energy resources, challenges the reliability of conventional protecti…

cs.CL2025

Confidence-Guided Error Correction for Disordered Speech Recognition

Abner Hernandez, Tomás Arias Vergara, Andreas Maier +1

We investigate the use of large language models (LLMs) as post-processing modules for automatic speech recognition (ASR), focusing on their ability to perform error correction for…

cs.CV2025

VocSegMRI: Multimodal Learning for Precise Vocal Tract Segmentation in Real-time MRI

Daiqi Liu, Johannes Enk, Maureen Stone +7

Accurate segmentation of articulatory structures in real-time MRI (rtMRI) remains challenging, as existing methods rely primarily on visual cues and overlook complementary informat…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Towards Inclusive ASR: Investigating Voice Conversion for Dysarthric Speech Recognition in Low-Resource Languages

Chin-Jou Li, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi +7

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for dysarthric speech remains challenging due to data scarcity, particularly in non-English languages. To address this, we fine-tune a voice conv…

cs.SD2024

Speaker- and Text-Independent Estimation of Articulatory Movements and Phoneme Alignments from Speech

Tobias Weise, Philipp Klumpp, Kubilay Can Demir +6

This paper introduces a novel combination of two tasks, previously treated separately: acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion (AAI) and phoneme-to-articulatory (PTA) motion esti…