2 papers
cs.CL2026
ASR-Style Transcript Normalization Removes Useful Pragmatic Signal for Dialogue Act Classification
Lucky Onyekwelu-Udoka, Md Shafiqul Islam
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) pipelines often normalize transcripts by removing filled pauses and punctuation and expanding colloquial forms, potentially discarding cues usefu…
cs.SD2025
Emotion Detection in Speech Using Lightweight and Transformer-Based Models: A Comparative and Ablation Study
Lucky Onyekwelu-Udoka, Md Shafiqul Islam, Md Shahedul Hasan
Emotion recognition from speech plays a vital role in the development of empathetic human-computer interaction systems. This paper presents a comparative analysis of lightweight tr…