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We present a neuromuscular speech interface that translates electromyographic (EMG) signals recorded from orofacial muscles during speech articulation directly into audio. We find that self-supervised speech (S3) representations are…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Harshavardhana T. Gowda , Daniel C. Comstock , Lee M. Miller

Reading comprehension, a fundamental cognitive ability essential for knowledge acquisition, is a complex skill, with a notable number of learners lacking proficiency in this domain. This study introduces innovative tasks for Brain-Computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yuhong Zhang , Shilai Yang , Gert Cauwenberghs , Tzyy-Ping Jung

Decoding the speech signal that a person is listening to from the human brain via electroencephalography (EEG) can help us understand how our auditory system works. Linear models have been used to reconstruct the EEG from speech or vice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Mohammad Jalilpour Monesi , Bernd Accou , Tom Francart , Hugo Van Hamme

Large language models have proven themselves highly flexible, able to solve a wide range of generative tasks, such as abstractive summarization and open-ended question answering. In this paper we extend the capabilities of LLMs by directly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Yassir Fathullah , Chunyang Wu , Egor Lakomkin , Junteng Jia , Yuan Shangguan , Ke Li , Jinxi Guo , Wenhan Xiong , Jay Mahadeokar , Ozlem Kalinli , Christian Fuegen , Mike Seltzer

Speech therapy is essential for rehabilitating speech disorders caused by neurological impairments such as stroke. However, traditional manual and computer-assisted systems are limited in real-time accessibility and articulatory motion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yudong Yang , Xiaokang Liu , Shaofeng zhao , Rongfeng Su , Nan Yan , Lan Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. Despite the recent success, current LLMs are not capable of processing…

Current speech LLMs bridge speech foundation models to LLMs using projection layers, training all of these components on speech instruction data. This strategy is computationally intensive and susceptible to task and prompt overfitting. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Biswesh Mohapatra , Marcely Zanon Boito , Ioan Calapodescu

Multimodal language modeling has enabled breakthroughs for representation learning, yet remains unexplored in the realm of functional brain data for clinical phenotyping. This paper pioneers EEG-language models (ELMs) trained on clinical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Sam Gijsen , Kerstin Ritter

Emotion recognition in speech presents a complex multimodal challenge, requiring comprehension of both linguistic content and vocal expressivity, particularly prosodic features such as fundamental frequency, intensity, and temporal…

This study focuses on emotion-sensitive spoken dialogue in human-machine speech interaction. With the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), dialogue systems can handle multimodal data, including audio. Recent models have enhanced the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Hongfei Xue , Yuhao Liang , Bingshen Mu , Shiliang Zhang , Mengzhe Chen , Qian Chen , Lei Xie

Speech-aware large language models (LLMs) can accept speech inputs, yet their training objectives largely emphasize linguistic content or specific fields such as emotions or the speaker's gender, leaving it unclear whether they encode…

Electromyography-to-Speech (ETS) conversion has demonstrated its potential for silent speech interfaces by generating audible speech from Electromyography (EMG) signals during silent articulations. ETS models usually consist of an EMG…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhao Ren , Kevin Scheck , Qinhan Hou , Stefano van Gogh , Michael Wand , Tanja Schultz

Recent advances in speech-enabled language models have shown promising results in building intelligent voice assistants. However, most existing approaches rely on large-scale paired speech-text data and extensive computational resources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Taesoo Kim , Jong Hwan Ko

Electromyography (EMG) has been explored as an HCI input modality following a long history of success for prosthesis control. While EMG has the potential to address a range of hands-free interaction needs, it has yet to be widely accepted…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ethan Eddy , Erik Scheme , Scott Bateman

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models have rapidly expanded to electrocardiograms, focusing on classification, report generation, and single-turn QA tasks. However, these models fall short in real-world scenarios, lacking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hyunseung Chung , Jungwoo Oh , Daeun Kyung , Jiho Kim , Yeonsu Kwon , Min-Gyu Kim , Edward Choi

Vocal training is difficult because the muscles that control pitch, resonance, and phonation are internal and invisible to learners. This paper investigates how Electromyography (EMG) and ultrasonic imaging (UI) can make these muscles…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Kanyu Chen , Rebecca Panskus , Erwin Wu , Yichen Peng , Daichi Saito , Emiko Kamiyama , Ruiteng Li , Chen-Chieh Liao , Karola Marky , Kato Akira , Hideki Koike , Kai Kunze

In conventional machine learning (ML) approaches applied to electroencephalography (EEG), this is often a limited focus, isolating specific brain activities occurring across disparate temporal scales (from transient spikes in milliseconds…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-06 Jonathan W. Kim , Ahmed Alaa , Danilo Bernardo

Audio-Visual Large Language Models (AVLLMs) are emerging as unified interfaces to multimodal perception. We present the first mechanistic interpretability study of AVLLMs, analyzing how audio and visual features evolve and fuse through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ramaneswaran Selvakumar , Kaousheik Jayakumar , S Sakshi , Sreyan Ghosh , Ruohan Gao , Dinesh Manocha

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in customer service introduces new risks, as malicious actors can exploit them to conduct large-scale user impersonation through machine-generated text (MGT). Current MGT detection methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Angela Yifei Yuan , Haoyi Li , Soyeon Caren Han , Christopher Leckie

Despite recent advancements in speech processing, zero-resource speech translation (ST) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) remain challenging problems. In this work, we propose to leverage a multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) to…