3 papers
cs.CL2026
A Text-To-Text Alignment Algorithm for Better Evaluation of Modern Speech Recognition Systems
Lasse Borgholt, Jakob Havtorn, Christian Igel +2
Modern neural networks have greatly improved performance across speech recognition benchmarks. However, gains are often driven by frequent words with limited semantic weight, which…
cs.SD2025
LibriVAD: A Scalable Open Dataset with Deep Learning Benchmarks for Voice Activity Detection
Ioannis Stylianou, Achintya kr. Sarkar, Nauman Dawalatabad +2
Robust Voice Activity Detection (VAD) remains a challenging task, especially under noisy, diverse, and unseen acoustic conditions. Beyond algorithmic development, a key limitation…
cs.SD2025
Vocal Tract Length Warped Features for Spoken Keyword Spotting
Achintya kr. Sarkar, Priyanka Dwivedi, Zheng-Hua Tan
In this paper, we propose several methods that incorporate vocal tract length (VTL) warped features for spoken keyword spotting (KWS). The first method, VTL-independent KWS, involv…