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This paper describes methods for evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in comparison with human perception results, using measures derived from linguistic distinctive features. Error patterns in terms of manner, place and…

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This paper delves into the challenging task of Active Speaker Detection (ASD), where the system needs to determine in real-time whether a person is speaking or not in a series of video frames. While previous works have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Arnav Kundu , Yanzi Jin , Mohammad Sekhavat , Max Horton , Danny Tormoen , Devang Naik

Speech signals, typically sampled at rates in the tens of thousands per second, contain redundancies, evoking inefficiencies in sequence modeling. High-dimensional speech features such as spectrograms are often used as the input for the…

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition associated with difficulties with social interactions, communication, and restricted or repetitive behaviors. To characterize ASD, investigators often use functional…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Jialu Ran , Sarah Shultz , Benjamin B. Risk , David Benkeser

While current state-of-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems achieve high accuracy on typical speech, they suffer from significant performance degradation on disordered speech and other atypical speech patterns. Personalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Katrin Tomanek , Françoise Beaufays , Julie Cattiau , Angad Chandorkar , Khe Chai Sim

Recent advances in the Active Speaker Detection (ASD) problem build upon a two-stage process: feature extraction and spatio-temporal context aggregation. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end ASD workflow where feature learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Juan Leon Alcazar , Moritz Cordes , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by an altered phenotype in social interaction and communication. Additionally, autism typically manifests differently in females as opposed to males: a phenomenon that has likely led to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-08 Michelle McCleod , Sean Borneman , Evie Malaia

Research related to automatically detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) is important, given the high prevalence of AD and the high cost of traditional methods. Since AD significantly affects the content and acoustics of spontaneous speech,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Aparna Balagopalan , Benjamin Eyre , Frank Rudzicz , Jekaterina Novikova

Autism is one of the most important neurological disorders which leads to problems in a person's social interactions. Improvement of brain imaging technologies and techniques help us to build brain structural and functional networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Mohammad Amin , Farshad Safaei

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by challenges with social interaction and communication and by restricted or repetitive patterns of thought and behavior, with significant variability in presentation. Approximately a quarter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yadhu Kartha , Conor Anderson , Jenny Foster , Theresa Hamlin , Johanna Lantz , Ryan Lay , Juergen Hahn , Gari D. Clifford , Hyeokhyen Kwon

The rapid population aging has stimulated the development of assistive devices that provide personalized medical support to the needies suffering from various etiologies. One prominent clinical application is a computer-assisted speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Emre Yılmaz , Vikramjit Mitra , Ganesh Sivaraman , Horacio Franco

Speech is a fundamental aspect of human life, crucial not only for communication but also for cognitive, social, and academic development. Children with speech disorders (SD) face significant challenges that, if unaddressed, can result in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Dancheng Liu , Jason Yang , Ishan Albrecht-Buehler , Helen Qin , Sophie Li , Yuting Hu , Amir Nassereldine , Jinjun Xiong

Alzheimer's Dementia (AD) is an incurable, debilitating, and progressive neurodegenerative condition that affects cognitive function. Early diagnosis is important as therapeutics can delay progression and give those diagnosed vital time.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Thomas Searle , Zina Ibrahim , Richard Dobson

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial in facilitating preventive care and delay progression. Speech based automatic AD screening systems provide a non-intrusive and more scalable alternative to other clinical screening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yi Wang , Tianzi Wang , Zi Ye , Lingwei Meng , Shoukang Hu , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Speech sound disorder (SSD) refers to the developmental disorder in which children encounter persistent difficulties in correctly pronouncing words. Assessment of SSD has been relying largely on trained speech and language pathologists…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Si-Ioi Ng , Tan Lee

(Part of the abstract) In this thesis, we investigate the use of unsupervised spoken term discovery in tackling this problem. Unsupervised spoken term discovery aims to discover topic-related terminologies in a speech without knowing the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Man-Ling Sung

Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disorder characterized by significant social, communication, and behavioral challenges. Individuals diagnosed with autism, intellectual, and developmental disabilities (AUIDD) typically require…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Shadi Ghafghazi , Amarie Carnett , Leslie Neely , Arun Das , Paul Rad

Despite the growing demand for digital therapeutics for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), there is currently no speech corpus available for Korean children with ASD. This paper introduces a speech corpus specifically designed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Seonwoo Lee , Jihyun Mun , Sunhee Kim , Minhwa Chung

We introduce machine unlearning for speech tasks, a novel and underexplored research problem that aims to efficiently and effectively remove the influence of specific data from trained speech models without full retraining. This has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri

Theories for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been formulated at different levels: ranging from physiological observations to perceptual and behavioral descriptions. Understanding the physiological underpinnings of perceptual traits in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-03 Rodrigo Echeveste , Enzo Ferrante , Diego H. Milone , Inés Samengo