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To Be Multimodal or Not to Be: Query-Adaptive Audio-Visual Person Retrieval via Active Modality Detection
Erfan Loweimi, Mengjie Qian, Kate Knill +7
When retrieving a person from a video archive by voice and face, should the system be multimodal or not? In real-world broadcast archives, unlike curated benchmarks, a target may b…
SeniorTalk: A Chinese Conversation Dataset with Rich Annotations for Super-Aged Seniors
Yang Chen, Hui Wang, Shiyao Wang +7
While voice technologies increasingly serve aging populations, current systems exhibit significant performance gaps due to inadequate training data capturing elderly-specific vocal…
CS-Dialogue: A 104-Hour Dataset of Spontaneous Mandarin-English Code-Switching Dialogues for Speech Recognition
Jiaming Zhou, Yujie Guo, Shiwan Zhao +9
Code-switching (CS), the alternation between two or more languages within a single conversation, presents significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Exi…
Improving Zero-Shot Chinese-English Code-Switching ASR with kNN-CTC and Gated Monolingual Datastores
Jiaming Zhou, Shiwan Zhao, Hui Wang +4
The kNN-CTC model has proven to be effective for monolingual automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, its direct application to multilingual scenarios like code-switching, pres…