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WildElder: A Chinese Elderly Speech Dataset from the Wild with Fine-Grained Manual Annotations
Hui Wang, Jiaming Zhou, Jiabei He +2
Elderly speech poses unique challenges for automatic processing due to age-related changes such as slower articulation and vocal tremors. Existing Chinese datasets are mostly recor…
RA-CLAP: Relation-Augmented Emotional Speaking Style Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining For Speech Retrieval
Haoqin Sun, Jingguang Tian, Jiaming Zhou +8
The Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) model has demonstrated excellent performance in general audio description-related tasks, such as audio retrieval. However, in the…
ChildMandarin: A Comprehensive Mandarin Speech Dataset for Young Children Aged 3-5
Jiaming Zhou, Shiyao Wang, Shiwan Zhao +10
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have advanced significantly with models like Whisper, Conformer, and self-supervised frameworks such as Wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT. However,…
M2R-Whisper: Multi-stage and Multi-scale Retrieval Augmentation for Enhancing Whisper
Jiaming Zhou, Shiwan Zhao, Jiabei He +6
State-of-the-art models like OpenAI's Whisper exhibit strong performance in multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR), but they still face challenges in accurately recognizin…