4 accepted papers
The rapid expansion of online content has intensified the issue of information redundancy, underscoring the need for solutions that can identify genuinely new information. Despite this challenge, the research community has seen a decline in focus on novelty detection, particularly with the rise of l…
This paper presents a novel dataset (CORAAL QA) and framework for audio question-answering from long audio recordings containing spontaneous speech. The dataset introduced here provides sets of questions that can be factually answered from short spans of a long audio files (typically 30min to 1hr) f…
This paper <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup> presents a novel system which utilizes acoustic, phonological, morphosyntactic, and prosodic information for binary automatic dialect detection of African American English. We train this…
This paper proposes a novel linear prediction coding-based data augmentation method for children’s low and zero resource dialect ASR. The data augmentation procedure consists of perturbing the formant peaks of the LPC spectrum during LPC analysis and reconstruction. The method is evaluated on two no…