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Towards Automated Clinical Behavioral Coding with Large Language Models: A Case study Using BOSCC recordings of Children

Jordan Prescott, Aditya Kommineni, Tiantian Feng +8

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in social communication and by restricted interests and repetitive behaviors. Treatmen…

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Speaker Role and Language Diarization for Analyzing Multilingual Interviews for Language Proficiency of Older Adults

Anfeng Xu, Tiantian Feng, Kevin Huang +8

Automatic language proficiency assessment in the context of multilingual interview-based settings remains underexplored. In this work, we develop Whisper-based speaker-role and lan…

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Speech Entrainment in Multi-Party Conversations with a Digital Agent

Nicholas Mehlman, Kaitlin Zareno, Kleanthis Avramidis +2

It has been widely observed that individuals engaged in conversation tend to adapt their speaking style to more closely match the other interlocutors. However, most prior work has…

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ChildVox: A Speech, Audio, and Large Audio-Language Model Benchmark in Understanding and Characterizing Sound across Childhood

Tiantian Feng, Anfeng Xu, Xuan Shi +10

We present ChildVox, a novel benchmark for characterizing the diverse acoustic signals through which children communicate. Specifically, ChildVox follows the full developmental tra…

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Exploring Speech Foundation Models for Speaker Diarization Across Lifespan

Anfeng Xu, Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan

Speech foundation models have shown strong transferability across a wide range of speech applications. However, their robustness to age-related domain shift in speaker diarization…

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VoxCare: Studying Natural Communication Behaviors of Hospital Caregivers through Wearable Sensing of Egocentric Audio

Tiantian Feng, Kleanthis Avramidis, Anfeng Xu +3

Healthcare professionals work in complex, high-stakes environments where effective communication is critical for care delivery, team coordination, and individual well-being. Howeve…

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Conversational Speech Naturalness Predictor

Anfeng Xu, Yashesh Gaur, Naoyuki Kanda +6

Evaluation of conversational naturalness is essential for developing human-like speech agents. However, existing speech naturalness predictors are often designed to assess utteranc…

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GSRM: Generative Speech Reward Model for Speech RLHF

Maohao Shen, Tejas Jayashankar, Osama Hanna +10

Recent advances in speech language models, such as GPT-4o Voice Mode and Gemini Live, have demonstrated promising speech generation capabilities. Nevertheless, the aesthetic natura…

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VoxCog: Towards End-to-End Multilingual Cognitive Impairment Classification through Dialectal Knowledge

Tiantian Feng, Anfeng Xu, Jinkook Lee +1

In this work, we present a novel perspective on cognitive impairment classification from speech by integrating speech foundation models that explicitly recognize speech dialects. O…

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End-to-End Joint ASR and Speaker Role Diarization with Child-Adult Interactions

Anfeng Xu, Tiantian Feng, Somer Bishop +2

Accurate transcription and speaker role diarization of child-adult spoken interactions are crucial for developmental and clinical research. However, manual annotation is time-consu…