3 papers
cs.CL2026
Adapting Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Cross-lingual Dysarthria Detection in Parkinson's Disease
Abner Hernandez, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi +12
The limited availability of dysarthric speech data makes cross-lingual detection an important but challenging problem. A key difficulty is that speech representations often encode…
cs.SD2026
Do Compact SSL Backbones Matter for Audio Deepfake Detection? A Controlled Study with RAPTOR
Ajinkya Kulkarni, Sandipana Dowerah, Atharva Kulkarni +2
Self-supervised learning (SSL) underpins modern audio deepfake detection, yet most prior work centers on a single large wav2vec2-XLSR backbone, leaving compact under studied. We pr…
cs.CY2025
Children's Voice Privacy: First Steps And Emerging Challenges
Ajinkya Kulkarni, Francisco Teixeira, Enno Hermann +3
Children are one of the most under-represented groups in speech technologies, as well as one of the most vulnerable in terms of privacy. Despite this, anonymization techniques targ…