5 papers
Evaluation of Audio Language Models for Fairness, Safety, and Security
Ranya Aloufi, Srishti Gupta, Soumya Shaw +2
Audio large language models (ALLMs) have recently advanced spoken interaction by integrating speech processing with large language models. However, existing evaluations of fairness…
ClaritySpeech: Dementia Obfuscation in Speech
Dominika Woszczyk, Ranya Aloufi, Soteris Demetriou
Dementia, a neurodegenerative disease, alters speech patterns, creating communication barriers and raising privacy concerns. Current speech technologies, such as automatic speech t…
Low-Energy On-Device Personalization for MCUs
Yushan Huang, Ranya Aloufi, Xavier Cadet +3
Microcontroller Units (MCUs) are ideal platforms for edge applications due to their low cost and energy consumption, and are widely used in various applications, including personal…
Prosody-Driven Privacy-Preserving Dementia Detection
Dominika Woszczyk, Ranya Aloufi, Soteris Demetriou
Speaker embeddings extracted from voice recordings have been proven valuable for dementia detection. However, by their nature, these embeddings contain identifiable information whi…
A study on the impact of Self-Supervised Learning on automatic dysarthric speech assessment
Xavier F. Cadet, Ranya Aloufi, Sara Ahmadi-Abhari +1
Automating dysarthria assessments offers the opportunity to develop practical, low-cost tools that address the current limitations of manual and subjective assessments. Nonetheless…