3 papers
cs.SD2025
LibriVAD: A Scalable Open Dataset with Deep Learning Benchmarks for Voice Activity Detection
Ioannis Stylianou, Achintya kr. Sarkar, Nauman Dawalatabad +2
Robust Voice Activity Detection (VAD) remains a challenging task, especially under noisy, diverse, and unseen acoustic conditions. Beyond algorithmic development, a key limitation…
cs.CL2025
A Text-To-Text Alignment Algorithm for Better Evaluation of Modern Speech Recognition Systems
Lasse Borgholt, Jakob Havtorn, Christian Igel +2
Modern neural networks have greatly improved performance across speech recognition benchmarks. However, gains are often driven by frequent words with limited semantic weight, which…
cs.SD2025
Vocal Tract Length Warped Features for Spoken Keyword Spotting
Achintya kr. Sarkar, Priyanka Dwivedi, Zheng-Hua Tan
In this paper, we propose several methods that incorporate vocal tract length (VTL) warped features for spoken keyword spotting (KWS). The first method, VTL-independent KWS, involv…