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Demand for mental health support through AI chatbots is surging, though current systems present several limitations, like sycophancy or overvalidation, and reinforcement of maladaptive beliefs. A core obstacle to the creation of better…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 José Pombal , Maya D'Eon , Nuno M. Guerreiro , Pedro Henrique Martins , António Farinhas , Ricardo Rei

Aphasia is a language disorder that affects the speaking ability of millions of patients. This paper presents a new benchmark for Aphasia speech recognition and detection tasks using state-of-the-art speech recognition techniques with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Jiyang Tang , William Chen , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Brian MacWhinney

While recent text-to-speech (TTS) systems increasingly integrate nonverbal vocalizations (NVs), their evaluations lack standardized metrics and reliable ground-truth references. To bridge this gap, we propose NV-Bench, the first benchmark…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qinke Ni , Huan Liao , Dekun Chen , Yuxiang Wang , Zhizheng Wu

Speech intelligibility evaluation for hearing-impaired (HI) listeners is essential for assessing hearing aid performance, traditionally relying on listening tests or intrusive methods like HASPI. However, these methods require clean…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Boxuan Cao , Linkai Li , Hanlin Yu , Changgeng Mo , Haoshuai Zhou , Shan Xiang Wang

HealthBench, a benchmark designed to measure the capabilities of AI systems for health better (Arora et al., 2025), has advanced medical language model evaluation through physician-crafted dialogues and transparent rubrics. However, its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Fred Mutisya , Shikoh Gitau , Nasubo Ongoma , Keith Mbae , Elizabeth Wamicha

Clinical reasoning in medicine is a hypothesis-driven process where physicians refine diagnoses from limited information through targeted history, physical examination, and diagnostic investigations. In contrast, current medical benchmarks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christopher Chiu , Silviu Pitis , Mihaela van der Schaar

The success of large language models (LLMs) has prompted efforts to integrate speech and audio data, aiming to create general foundation models capable of processing both textual and non-textual inputs. Recent advances, such as GPT-4o,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Fan Bu , Yuhao Zhang , Xidong Wang , Benyou Wang , Qun Liu , Haizhou Li

Accurate analysis of pathological images is essential for automated tumor diagnosis but remains challenging due to high structural similarity and subtle morphological variations in tissue images. Current vision-language (VL) models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yating Huang , Ziyan Huang , Lintao Xiang , Qijun Yang , Hujun Yin

While subjective assessments have been the gold standard for evaluating speech generation, there is a growing need for objective metrics that are highly correlated with human subjective judgments due to their cost efficiency. This paper…

Personalized speech intelligibility prediction is challenging. Previous approaches have mainly relied on audiograms, which are inherently limited in accuracy as they only capture a listener's hearing threshold for pure tones. Rather than…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Haoshuai Zhou , Changgeng Mo , Boxuan Cao , Linkai Li , Shan Xiang Wang

Dysarthria, a common issue among stroke patients, severely impacts speech intelligibility. Inappropriate pauses are crucial indicators in severity assessment and speech-language therapy. We propose to extend a large-scale speech recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jeehyun Lee , Yerin Choi , Tae-Jin Song , Myoung-Wan Koo

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in professional settings faces challenges that existing benchmarks underplay: dense domain terminology, formal register variation, and near-zero tolerance for critical entity errors. We present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Deepak Babu Piskala

With the growing prevalence of psychological interventions, it is vital to have measures which rate the effectiveness of psychological care to assist in training, supervision, and quality assurance of services. Traditionally, quality…

Conventional automatic assessment of pathological speech usually follows two main steps: (1) extraction of pathology-specific features; (2) classification or regression on extracted features. Given the great variety of speech and language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-02 Ying Qin , Yuzhong Wu , Tan Lee , Anthony Pak Hin Kong

Inaccuracies in existing or generated clinical text may lead to serious adverse consequences, especially if it is a misdiagnosis or incorrect treatment suggestion. With Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly being used across diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Congbo Ma , Yichun Zhang , Yousef Al-Jazzazi , Ahamed Foisal , Laasya Sharma , Yousra Sadqi , Khaled Saleh , Jihad Mallat , Farah E. Shamout

Understanding videos inherently requires reasoning over both visual and auditory information. To properly evaluate Omni-Large Language Models (Omni-LLMs), which are capable of processing multi-modal information including vision and audio,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jianghan Chao , Jianzhang Gao , Wenhui Tan , Yuchong Sun , Ruihua Song , Liyun Ru

The detection of pathologies from speech features is usually defined as a binary classification task with one class representing a specific pathology and the other class representing healthy speech. In this work, we train neural networks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Dominik Wagner , Ilja Baumann , Franziska Braun , Sebastian P. Bayerl , Elmar Nöth , Korbinian Riedhammer , Tobias Bocklet

Automatic objective non-invasive detection of pathological voice based on computerized analysis of acoustic signals can play an important role in early diagnosis, progression tracking and even effective treatment of pathological voices. In…

Recent advances in speech generation have enabled high-fidelity synthesis, yet systematic evaluation of models under long-context conditions remains largely underexplored. A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for long-form speech is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Changhao Pan , Rui Yang , Han Wang , Zhuan Zhou , Xuming He , Wenxiang Guo , Ziyue Jiang , Ruiqi Li , Yu Zhang , Chenyuhao Wen , Ke Lei , Xiang Yin , Jingyu Lu , Zhiyuan Zhu , Zhou Zhao

The common standard for quality evaluation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is reference-based metrics such as the Word Error Rate (WER), computed using manual ground-truth transcriptions that are time-consuming and expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Kamer Ali Yuksel , Thiago Ferreira , Ahmet Gunduz , Mohamed Al-Badrashiny , Golara Javadi