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most citedImproving Children's Speech Recognition by Fine-tuning Self-supervised Adult Speech Representations

2 citations · 3 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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eess.AS2026

Mandarin Humorous Homophone Recognition and Disambiguation in Automatic Speech Recognition

Sicheng Jin, Jinghao Chen, Liuheng Zhou +3

Mandarin homophones remain a key challenge to improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy due to the amount of potential homophones. Mandarin speakers use this feature ca…

eess.AS2026

Using Phonological-Level Wav2Vec2 for Mandarin Automatic Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis

Jinghao Chen, Mostafa Shahin, Beena Ahmed

Automatic mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD) plays a crucial role in L2 Mandarin pronunciation learning. While end-to-end (E2E) based MDD methods have substantially imp…

cs.HC2025

System X: A Mobile Voice-Based AI System for EMR Generation and Clinical Decision Support in Low-Resource Maternal Healthcare

Maryam Mustafa, Umme Ammara, Amna Shahnawaz +5

We present the design, implementation, and in-situ deployment of a smartphone-based voice-enabled AI system for generating electronic medical records (EMRs) and clinical risk alert…

cs.SD2025

Zero-Shot Cognitive Impairment Detection from Speech Using AudioLLM

Mostafa Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Julien Epps

Cognitive impairment (CI) is of growing public health concern, and early detection is vital for effective intervention. Speech has gained attention as a non-invasive and easily col…

eess.AS2024

Rethinking Mamba in Speech Processing by Self-Supervised Models

Xiangyu Zhang, Jianbo Ma, Mostafa Shahin +2

The Mamba-based model has demonstrated outstanding performance across tasks in computer vision, natural language processing, and speech processing. However, in the realm of speech…

eess.AS2024

Auto-Landmark: Acoustic Landmark Dataset and Open-Source Toolkit for Landmark Extraction

Xiangyu Zhang, Daijiao Liu, Tianyi Xiao +5

In the speech signal, acoustic landmarks identify times when the acoustic manifestations of the linguistically motivated distinctive features are most salient. Acoustic landmarks h…

eess.AS2023

Phonological Level wav2vec2-based Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis Method

Mostafa Shahin, Julien Epps, Beena Ahmed

The automatic identification and analysis of pronunciation errors, known as Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis (MDD) plays a crucial role in Computer Aided Pronunciation Lear…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Improving Children's Speech Recognition by Fine-tuning Self-supervised Adult Speech Representations

Renee Lu, Mostafa Shahin, Beena Ahmed

Children's speech recognition is a vital, yet largely overlooked domain when building inclusive speech technologies. The major challenge impeding progress in this domain is the lac…

cs.SD2022★ 1 cited

Speaker- and Age-Invariant Training for Child Acoustic Modeling Using Adversarial Multi-Task Learning

Mostafa Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Julien Epps

One of the major challenges in acoustic modelling of child speech is the rapid changes that occur in the children's articulators as they grow up, their differing growth rates and t…