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Beyond Word Error Rate: A Switch Aware Evaluation of ASR and Audio Language Models on English Yoruba Code-Switched Speech
Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Earl Grant
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems and audio language models (audio LMs) now report low error rates on monolingual benchmarks, but their behavior on code switched speech in…
Reasoning Beyond Transcription: Audio Language Models on Child Stuttering Speech
Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Grant, Zoey Liu
Child speech differs from adult speech in acoustics, prosody, and linguistic structures. Speech disfluencies (such as repetitions) further challenge automatic understanding. While…
Afrispeech Semantics: Evaluating Audio Semantic Reasoning in Spoken Language Models Across Domains and Accents
Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Grant
Audio language models (ALMs) are increasingly used for speech-based understanding, yet their ability to perform semantic reasoning beyond transcription, Text-to-Audio Retrieval, Ca…
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…