4 papers
The PARLO Dementia Corpus: A German Multi-Center Resource for Alzheimer's Disease
Franziska Braun, Christopher Witzl, Florian Hönig +3
Early and accessible detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a major challenge, as current diagnostic methods often rely on costly and invasive biomarkers. Speech and languag…
Bias and Fairness in Self-Supervised Acoustic Representations for Cognitive Impairment Detection
Kashaf Gulzar, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elmar Nöth +2
Speech-based detection of cognitive impairment (CI) offers a promising non-invasive approach for early diagnosis, yet performance disparities across demographic and clinical subgro…
Towards Inclusive ASR: Investigating Voice Conversion for Dysarthric Speech Recognition in Low-Resource Languages
Chin-Jou Li, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi +7
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for dysarthric speech remains challenging due to data scarcity, particularly in non-English languages. To address this, we fine-tune a voice conv…
Personalized Fine-Tuning with Controllable Synthetic Speech from LLM-Generated Transcripts for Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Dominik Wagner, Ilja Baumann, Natalie Engert +4
In this work, we present our submission to the Speech Accessibility Project challenge for dysarthric speech recognition. We integrate parameter-efficient fine-tuning with latent au…