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MERaLiON-GR: Speech Gender Recognition Model for English and SEA Languages
Qiongqiong Wang, Ai Ti Aw, Nancy F. Chen +18
We present MERaLiON-GR, a speech gender recognition system that performs binary classification (female / male) on English and Southeast Asian (SEA) languages. The model finetunes M…
Improving Code-Switching ASR with Code-Mixing Guided Synthetic Speech
Yue Heng Yeo, Haoyang Li, Yizhou Peng +6
Code-switch (CS) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) remains challenging due to limited availability of high quality CS text-speech pairs for training. Although synthetic data augme…
Goodness-of-pronunciation without phoneme time alignment
Jeremy H. M. Wong, Nancy F. Chen
In speech evaluation, an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model often computes time boundaries and phoneme posteriors for input features. However, limited data for ASR training h…
Unlocking Cognitive Capabilities and Analyzing the Perception-Logic Trade-off
Longyin Zhang, Shuo Sun, Yingxu He +15
Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) pursue omni-perception capabilities, yet integrating robust sensory grounding with complex reasoning remains a chall…