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Maris Basha

2 accepted papers

2026

VocSim A Training-free Benchmark for Zero-shot Content Identity in Single-source Audio

ICML 2026poster

General-purpose audio representations aim to map acoustically variable instances of the same event to nearby points, resolving content identity in a zero-shot setting. Unlike supervised classification benchmarks that measure adaptability via parameter updates, we introduce VocSim, a training-free be…

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2024

Positive Transfer of the Whisper Speech Transformer to Human and Animal Voice Activity Detection

ICASSP 2024accepted

This paper introduces WhisperSeg, utilizing the Whisper Transformer pre-trained for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for human and animal Voice Activity Detection (VAD). Contrary to traditional methods that detect human voice or animal vocalizations from a short audio frame and rely on careful thr…

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