3 papers
cs.LG2026
BranchShine-CR: Compact Multilingual IPA Transcription with Self-Conditioned CTC and Consistency Regularization
Nikhil Navas, Sergio Chevtchenko, Talisson Damiao +1
We introduce BranchShine-CR, a 25M-parameter model for multilingual transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It combines log-mel features, a rotary-position E-…
cs.LG2026
BranchShine: Compact Raw-Audio-to-IPA Transcription with a RoPE E-Branchformer Encoder
Nikhil Navas, Sergio Chevtchenko, Talisson Damiao +1
Speech-to-IPA transcription is useful when the desired output is pronunciation rather than orthographic text, but competitive multilingual systems are often large and evaluation is…
cs.LG2025
An End-to-End Approach for Child Reading Assessment in the Xhosa Language
Sergio Chevtchenko, Nikhil Navas, Rafaella Vale +6
Child literacy is a strong predictor of life outcomes at the subsequent stages of an individual's life. This points to a need for targeted interventions in vulnerable low and middl…