5 accepted papers
Whisper is a powerful automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. Nevertheless, its zero-shot performance on low-resource speech requires further improvement. Child speech, as a representative type of low-resource speech, is leveraged for adaptation. Recently, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) in…
In the development of neural text-to-speech systems, model pre-training with a large amount of non-target speakers’ data is a common approach. However, in terms of ultimately achieved system performance for target speaker(s), the actual benefits of model pre-training are uncertain and unstable, depe…
In this paper we aim to relieve the issue of lexical translation inconsistency for document-level neural machine translation (NMT) by modeling consistency preference for lexical chains, which consist of repeated words in a source-side document and provide a representation of the lexical consistency…
This paper presents an investigation on applying automatic speech recognition (ASR) to speech assessment of people with aphasia (PWA). A distinctive characteristic of PWA speech is paraphasia, which refers to frequent occurrence of phonemic errors, unintended words and non-verbal sounds. In view of…
Aphasia is a type of acquired language impairment resulting from brain injury. Speech assessment is an important part of the comprehensive assessment process for aphasic patients. It is based on the acoustical and linguistic analysis of patients' speech elicited through pre-defined story-telling tas…