3 papers
eess.AS2025
Probing Whisper for Dysarthric Speech in Detection and Assessment
Zhengjun Yue, Devendra Kayande, Zoran Cvetkovic +1
Large-scale end-to-end models such as Whisper have shown strong performance on diverse speech tasks, but their internal behavior on pathological speech remains poorly understood. U…
eess.AS2025
Objective and Subjective Evaluation of Diffusion-Based Speech Enhancement for Dysarthric Speech
Dimme de Groot, Tanvina Patel, Devendra Kayande +2
Dysarthric speech poses significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems due to its high variability and reduced intelligibility. In this work we explore the u…
cs.CL2025
Afrispeech-Dialog: A Benchmark Dataset for Spontaneous English Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond
Mardhiyah Sanni, Tassallah Abdullahi, Devendra D. Kayande +9
Speech technologies are transforming interactions across various sectors, from healthcare to call centers and robots, yet their performance on African-accented conversations remain…