3 accepted papers
The signatures of swallowing vary depending on the volume of bolus swallowed. Among existing instrumental methods, cervical auscultation (CA) captures the acoustic signatures of the swallow sound. Although many features present in the literature can characterize volumes of swallow using CA, they req…
With the availability of large data, ASRs perform well on native English but poorly for non-native English data. Training nonnative ASRs or adapting a native English ASR is often limited by the availability of data, particularly for low resource scenarios. A typical HMM-DNN based ASR decoding requir…
In this work, we propose a new feature based on formants for whispered speaker verification (SV) task, where neutral data is used for enrollment and whispered recordings are used for test. Such a mismatch between enrollment and test often degrades the performance of whispered SV systems due to the d…