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most citedCPT-Boosted Wav2vec2.0: Towards Noise Robust Speech Recognition for Classroom Environments

4 citations · 11 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

eess.AS2026

Speaker Verification Under Real Classroom Conditions for English Speech

Saba Tabatabaee, Jing Liu, Meghavarshini Krishnaswamy +1

Developing speaker verification (SV) models that are robust to classroom noise and effective across both children and adult speakers is critical for AI tools supporting educational…

cs.CL2025

A Computational Approach to Analyzing Disrupted Language in Schizophrenia: Integrating Surprisal and Coherence Measures

Gowtham Premananth, Carol Espy-Wilson

Language disruptions are one of the well-known effects of schizophrenia symptoms. They are often manifested as disorganized speech and impaired discourse coherence. These abnormali…

eess.AS2025

Speech-Based Prioritization for Schizophrenia Intervention

Gowtham Premananth, Philip Resnik, Sonia Bansal +2

Millions of people suffer from mental health conditions, yet many remain undiagnosed or receive delayed care due to limited clinical resources and labor-intensive assessment method…

eess.AS2025

Quantifying Articulatory Coordination as a Biomarker for Schizophrenia

Gowtham Premananth, Carol Espy-Wilson

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning have improved diagnostic capabilities in healthcare, yet limited interpretability continues to hinder clinical adoption.…

eess.AS2025

Multimodal Biomarkers for Schizophrenia: Towards Individual Symptom Severity Estimation

Gowtham Premananth, Philip Resnik, Sonia Bansal +2

Studies on schizophrenia assessments using deep learning typically treat it as a classification task to detect the presence or absence of the disorder, oversimplifying the conditio…

eess.AS2025

Analyzing the Impact of Accent on English Speech: Acoustic and Articulatory Perspectives

Gowtham Premananth, Vinith Kugathasan, Carol Espy-Wilson

Advancements in AI-driven speech-based applications have transformed diverse industries ranging from healthcare to customer service. However, the increasing prevalence of non-nativ…

eess.AS2025★ 2 cited

FT-Boosted SV: Towards Noise Robust Speaker Verification for English Speaking Classroom Environments

Saba Tabatabaee, Jing Liu, Carol Espy-Wilson

Creating Speaker Verification (SV) systems for classroom settings that are robust to classroom noises such as babble noise is crucial for the development of AI tools that assist ed…

eess.AS2025

From Weak Labels to Strong Results: Utilizing 5,000 Hours of Noisy Classroom Transcripts with Minimal Accurate Data

Ahmed Adel Attia, Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu +1

Recent progress in speech recognition has relied on models trained on vast amounts of labeled data. However, classroom Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) faces the real-world chall…

eess.AS2024

Speech-Based Estimation of Schizophrenia Severity Using Feature Fusion

Gowtham Premananth, Carol Espy-Wilson

Speech-based assessment of the schizophrenia spectrum has been widely researched over in the recent past. In this study, we develop a deep learning framework to estimate schizophre…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

CPT-Boosted Wav2vec2.0: Towards Noise Robust Speech Recognition for Classroom Environments

Ahmed Adel Attia, Dorottya Demszky, Tolulope Ogunremi +2

Creating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems that are robust and resilient to classroom conditions is paramount to the development of AI tools to aid teachers and students.…

eess.AS2024

Self-supervised Multimodal Speech Representations for the Assessment of Schizophrenia Symptoms

Gowtham Premananth, Carol Espy-Wilson

Multimodal schizophrenia assessment systems have gained traction over the last few years. This work introduces a schizophrenia assessment system to discern between prominent sympto…

eess.AS2024★ 3 cited

A Multimodal Framework for the Assessment of the Schizophrenia Spectrum

Gowtham Premananth, Yashish M. Siriwardena, Philip Resnik +3

This paper presents a novel multimodal framework to distinguish between different symptom classes of subjects in the schizophrenia spectrum and healthy controls using audio, video,…

eess.AS2024

Accent Conversion with Articulatory Representations

Yashish M. Siriwardena, Nathan Swedlow, Audrey Howard +4

Conversion of non-native accented speech to native (American) English has a wide range of applications such as improving intelligibility of non-native speech. Previous work on this…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Continued Pretraining for Domain Adaptation of Wav2vec2.0 in Automatic Speech Recognition for Elementary Math Classroom Settings

Ahmed Adel Attia, Dorottya Demszky, Tolulope Ogunremi +2

Creating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems that are robust and resilient to classroom conditions is paramount to the development of AI tools to aid teachers and students.…

eess.SP2023

A multi-modal approach for identifying schizophrenia using cross-modal attention

Gowtham Premananth, Yashish M. Siriwardena, Philip Resnik +1

This study focuses on how different modalities of human communication can be used to distinguish between healthy controls and subjects with schizophrenia who exhibit strong positiv…

eess.AS2023

Improving Speech Inversion Through Self-Supervised Embeddings and Enhanced Tract Variables

Ahmed Adel Attia, Yashish M. Siriwardena, Carol Espy-Wilson

The performance of deep learning models depends significantly on their capacity to encode input features efficiently and decode them into meaningful outputs. Better input and outpu…

eess.AS2023★ 1 cited

Kid-Whisper: Towards Bridging the Performance Gap in Automatic Speech Recognition for Children VS. Adults

Ahmed Adel Attia, Jing Liu, Wei Ai +2

Recent advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, exemplified by Whisper, have demonstrated the potential of these systems to approach human-level performance give…