4 papers
The Voice of Equity: A Systematic Evaluation of Bias Mitigation Techniques for Speech-Based Cognitive Impairment Detection Across Architectures and Demographics
Yasaman Haghbin, Sina Rashidi, Ali Zolnour +1
Speech-based detection of cognitive impairment offers a scalable, non-invasive screening, yet algorithmic bias across demographic and linguistic subgroups remains critically undere…
Improving Direct Persian-English Speech-to-Speech Translation with Discrete Units and Synthetic Parallel Data
Sina Rashidi, Hossein Sameti
Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), in which all components are trained jointly, is an attractive alternative to cascaded systems because it offers a simpler pipeline and l…
National Institute on Aging PREPARE Challenge: Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment Using Speech -- The SpeechCARE Solution
Maryam Zolnoori, Hossein Azadmaleki, Yasaman Haghbin +6
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) affect one in five adults over 60, yet more than half of individuals with cognitive decline remain undiagnosed. Speech-based assess…
LLMCARE: early detection of cognitive impairment via transformer models enhanced by LLM-generated synthetic data
Ali Zolnour, Hossein Azadmaleki, Yasaman Haghbin +13
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias(ADRD) affect nearly five million older adults in the United States, yet more than half remain undiagnosed. Speech-based natural language p…