4 papers
BEST-STD2.0: Balanced and Efficient Speech Tokenizer for Spoken Term Detection
Anup Singh, Vipul Arora, Kris Demuynck
Fast and accurate spoken content retrieval is vital for applications such as voice search. Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection (STD) involves retrieving matching segments from a…
Weakly Supervised Phonological Features for Pathological Speech Analysis
Jenthe Thienpondt, Geoffroy Vanderreydt, Abdessalem Hammami +1
Paralinguistic properties of speech are essential in analyzing and choosing optimal treatment options for patients with speech disorders. However, automatic modeling of these chara…
Harmonic Summation-Based Robust Pitch Estimation in Noisy and Reverberant Environments
Anup Singh, Kris Demuynck
Accurate pitch estimation is essential for numerous speech processing applications, yet it remains challenging in high-distortion environments. This paper proposes a robust pitch e…
BEST-STD: Bidirectional Mamba-Enhanced Speech Tokenization for Spoken Term Detection
Anup Singh, Kris Demuynck, Vipul Arora
Spoken term detection (STD) is often hindered by reliance on frame-level features and the computationally intensive DTW-based template matching, limiting its practicality. To addre…