3 papers
cs.AI2026
Dynamic Multi-Byte Prediction With Hierarchical Language Models
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Grant +2
Byte-level hierarchical language models (LMs) have recently emerged as a robust alternative to their popular counterparts that use subword tokenization. However, generating one byt…
eess.AS2025
Can large audio language models understand child stuttering speech? speech summarization, and source separation
Chibuzor Okocha, Maya Bakri, Christan Grant
Child speech differs from adult speech in acoustics, prosody, and language development, and disfluencies (repetitions, prolongations, blocks) further challenge Automatic Speech Rec…
cs.CL2025
Domain-Aware Speaker Diarization On African-Accented English
Chibuzor Okocha, Kelechi Ezema, Christan Grant
This study examines domain effects in speaker diarization for African-accented English. We evaluate multiple production and open systems on general and clinical dialogues under a s…