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6 papers

cs.LG2025

Developing a High-performance Framework for Speech Emotion Recognition in Naturalistic Conditions Challenge for Emotional Attribute Prediction

Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Tiantian Feng, Dani Byrd +1

Speech emotion recognition (SER) in naturalistic conditions presents a significant challenge for the speech processing community. Challenges include disagreement in labeling among…

eess.AS2025

Rhythm Features for Speaker Identification

Nick Mehlman, Thomas Thebaud, Dani Byrd +1

While deep learning models have demonstrated robust performance in speaker recognition tasks, they primarily rely on low-level audio features learned empirically from spectrograms…

cs.SD2025

Developing a Top-tier Framework in Naturalistic Conditions Challenge for Categorized Emotion Prediction: From Speech Foundation Models and Learning Objective to Data Augmentation and Engineering Choices

Tiantian Feng, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Dani Byrd +1

Speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly for naturally expressed emotions, remains a challenging computational task. Key challenges include the inherent subjectivity in emoti…

cs.LG2025

Towards disentangling the contributions of articulation and acoustics in multimodal phoneme recognition

Sean Foley, Hong Nguyen, Jihwan Lee +4

Although many previous studies have carried out multimodal learning with real-time MRI data that captures the audio-visual kinematics of the vocal tract during speech, these studie…

cs.SD2025

Vox-Profile: A Speech Foundation Model Benchmark for Characterizing Diverse Speaker and Speech Traits

Tiantian Feng, Jihwan Lee, Anfeng Xu +9

We introduce Vox-Profile, a comprehensive benchmark to characterize rich speaker and speech traits using speech foundation models. Unlike existing works that focus on a single dime…

cs.LG2025

Deep Learning Characterizes Depression and Suicidal Ideation from Eye Movements

Kleanthis Avramidis, Woojae Jeong, Aditya Kommineni +14

Identifying physiological and behavioral markers for mental health conditions is a longstanding challenge in psychiatry. Depression and suicidal ideation, in particular, lack objec…