2 papers
eess.AS2026
From Birdsong to Rumbles: Classifying Elephant Calls with Out-of-Species Embeddings
Christiaan M. Geldenhuys, Thomas R. Niesler
We show that pretrained acoustic embeddings classify elephant vocalisations at a level approaching that of end-to-end supervised neural networks, without any fine-tuning of the emb…
eess.AS2025
Low-resource keyword spotting using contrastively trained transformer acoustic word embeddings
Julian Herreilers, Christiaan Jacobs, Thomas Niesler
We introduce a new approach, the ContrastiveTransformer, that produces acoustic word embeddings (AWEs) for the purpose of very low-resource keyword spotting. The ContrastiveTransfo…