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6 papers

eess.AS2026

Cross-linguistic Prosodic Analysis of Autistic and Non-autistic Child Speech in Finnish, French and Slovak

Ida-Lotta Myllylä, Sofoklis Kakouros

Prosodic differences in autism are well-documented, but cross-linguistic evidence remains limited. This study investigates prosody in autism across a multilingual corpus of Finnish…

eess.AS2026

Classification of Autistic and Non-Autistic Children's Speech: A Cross-Linguistic Study in Finnish, French, and Slovak

Sofoklis Kakouros, Ida-Lotta Myllylä

We present a cross-linguistic study of speech in autistic and non-autistic children speaking Finnish, French, and Slovak. We combine supervised classification with within-language…

eess.AS2026

iMiGUE-Speech: A Spontaneous Speech Dataset for Affective Analysis

Sofoklis Kakouros, Fang Kang, Haoyu Chen

This work presents iMiGUE-Speech, an extension of the iMiGUE dataset that provides a spontaneous affective corpus for studying emotional and affective states. The new release focus…

cs.CV2025

Towards an Automated Multimodal Approach for Video Summarization: Building a Bridge Between Text, Audio and Facial Cue-Based Summarization

Md Moinul Islam, Sofoklis Kakouros, Janne Heikkilä +1

The increasing volume of video content in educational, professional, and social domains necessitates effective summarization techniques that go beyond traditional unimodal approach…

cs.CL2025

Sounding Like a Winner? Prosodic Differences in Post-Match Interviews

Sofoklis Kakouros, Haoyu Chen

This study examines the prosodic characteristics associated with winning and losing in post-match tennis interviews. Additionally, this research explores the potential to classify…

cs.CL2025

Investigating the Impact of Word Informativeness on Speech Emotion Recognition

Sofoklis Kakouros

In emotion recognition from speech, a key challenge lies in identifying speech signal segments that carry the most relevant acoustic variations for discerning specific emotions. Tr…