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Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technologies have the potential to improve the lives of millions of people around the world, whether through assistive technologies or clinical diagnostic tools. Despite advancements in the field, however, at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Chad Mello , Troy Weingart , Ethan M. Rudd

Brain decoding is a field of computational neuroscience that uses measurable brain activity to infer mental states or internal representations of perceptual inputs. Therefore, we propose a novel approach to brain decoding that also relies…

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Almost half a billion people world-wide suffer from disabling hearing loss. While hearing aids can partially compensate for this, a large proportion of users struggle to understand speech in situations with background noise. Here, we…

This paper proposes a novel automatic speech recognition (ASR) framework called Integrated Source-Channel and Attention (ISCA) that combines the advantages of traditional systems based on the noisy source-channel model (SC) and end-to-end…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Qiujia Li , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Benign laryngeal voice disorders affect nearly one in five individuals and often manifest as dysphonia, while also serving as non-invasive indicators of broader physiological dysfunction. We introduce a clinically inspired hierarchical…

Decoding imagined speech engages complex neural processes that are difficult to interpret due to uncertainty in timing and the limited availability of imagined-response datasets. In this study, we present a Magnetoencephalography (MEG)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Maryam Maghsoudi , Mohsen Rezaeizadeh , Shihab Shamma

Deciphering natural language from brain activity through non-invasive devices remains a formidable challenge. Previous non-invasive decoders either require multiple experiments with identical stimuli to pinpoint cortical regions and enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Cenyuan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zheng , Ruicheng Yin , Shujie Geng , Jianhan Xu , Xuan Gao , Changze Lv , Zixuan Ling , Xuanjing Huang , Miao Cao , Jianfeng Feng

Decoding continuous speech from intracortical recordings is a central challenge for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), with transformative potential for individuals with conditions that impair their ability to speak. While recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Tommaso Boccato , Michal Olak , Matteo Ferrante

Pretrained self-supervised speech models excel in speech tasks but do not reflect the hierarchy of human speech processing, as they encode rich semantics in middle layers and poor semantics in late layers. Recent work showed that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Omer Moussa , Mariya Toneva

Deep learning dominates speech processing but relies on massive datasets, global backpropagation-guided weight updates, and produces entangled representations. Assembly Calculus (AC), which models sparse neuronal assemblies via Hebbian…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Trevor Adelson , Vidhyasaharan Sethu , Ting Dang

Successful motor-imagery brain-computer interface (MI-BCI) algorithms either extract a large number of handcrafted features and train a classifier, or combine feature extraction and classification within deep convolutional neural networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Michael Hersche , Luca Benini , Abbas Rahimi

Voice disorders affect a significant portion of the population, and the ability to diagnose them using automated, non-invasive techniques would represent a substantial advancement in healthcare, improving the quality of life of patients.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Davide Ghia , Gabriele Ciravegna , Alkis Koudounas , Marco Fantini , Erika Crosetti , Giovanni Succo , Tania Cerquitelli

Deep learning has recently made remarkable progress in natural language processing. Yet, the resulting algorithms remain far from competing with the language abilities of the human brain. Predictive coding theory offers a potential…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-30 Charlotte Caucheteux , Alexandre Gramfort , Jean-Remi King

Recent breakthroughs in deep learning often rely on representation learning and knowledge transfer. In recent years, unsupervised and self-supervised techniques for learning speech representation were developed to foster automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pierre Beckmann , Mikolaj Kegler , Milos Cernak

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has emerged as a critical tool for interpreting the predictions of complex deep learning models. While XAI has been increasingly applied in various domains within acoustics, its use in bioacoustics,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zubair Faruqui , Mackenzie S. McIntire , Rahul Dubey , Jay McEntee

Decoding imagined speech from non-invasive brain recordings is challenging because imagined datasets are scarce and difficult to align temporally across subjects and sessions In this work, we propose a new approach to the decoding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Maryam Maghsoudi , Shihab Shamma

Brain decoding techniques are essential for understanding the neurocognitive system. Although numerous methods have been introduced in this field, accurately aligning complex external stimuli with brain activities remains a formidable…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-16 Heng Huang , Lin Zhao , Zihao Wu , Xiaowei Yu , Jing Zhang , Xintao Hu , Dajiang Zhu , Tianming Liu

This work presents a novel approach for speaker diarization to leverage lexical information provided by automatic speech recognition. We propose a speaker diarization system that can incorporate word-level speaker turn probabilities with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Tae Jin Park , Kyu J. Han , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

Transformer has obtained promising results on cognitive speech signal processing field, which is of interest in various applications ranging from emotion to neurocognitive disorder analysis. However, most works treat speech signal as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Weidong Chen , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Jianxin Pang , Lan Du

The mission of visual brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) is to enhance information transfer rate (ITR) to reach high speed towards real-life communication. Despite notable progress, noninvasive visual BCIs have encountered a plateau in ITRs,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Nanlin Shi , Yining Miao , Changxing Huang , Xiang Li , Yonghao Song , Xiaogang Chen , Yijun Wang , Xiaorong Gao