2 papers
cs.CL2026
Overcoming Decoder Inconsistencies in Whisper for Dravidian and Low-Resource Languages
Chowdam Venkata Kumar, Kumud Tripathi, Pankaj Wasnik
Multilingual ASR models such as Whisper perform well on high-resource languages but exhibit substantially higher Word Error Rates (WER) for Dravidian languages compared to Indo-Ary…
cs.SD2025
Attention Is Not Always the Answer: Optimizing Voice Activity Detection with Simple Feature Fusion
Kumud Tripathi, Chowdam Venkata Kumar, Pankaj Wasnik
Voice Activity Detection (VAD) plays a key role in speech processing, often utilizing hand-crafted or neural features. This study examines the effectiveness of Mel-Frequency Cepstr…