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Crowdsourced dialogue corpora are usually limited in scale and topic coverage due to the expensive cost of data curation. This would hinder the generalization of downstream dialogue models to open-domain topics. In this work, we leverage…

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Sentiment analysis for low-resource languages remains challenging in an era where interpretability, human alignment, and fairness are increasingly non-negotiable aspects of modern machine learning systems. These challenges stem both from…

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One of the major challenges for developing automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages is the limited access to labeled data with domain-specific variations. In this study, we propose a pseudo-labeling approach to develop…

We present a unified pipeline for synthesizing high-quality Quechua and Spanish speech for the Peruvian Constitution using three state-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) architectures: XTTS v2, F5-TTS, and DiFlow-TTS. Our models are trained on…

Traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems rely on studio-quality speech recorded in controlled settings.a Recently, an effort known as noisy-TTS training has emerged, aiming to utilize in-the-wild data. However, the lack of dedicated…

High-quality training datasets are essential for the performance of neural networks. However, the audio domain still lacks a large-scale, strongly-labeled, and single-source sound event dataset. The FSD50K dataset, despite being relatively…

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