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Novel Methods For Detection And Analysis Of Atypical Aspects In Speech

Julian David Fritsch

Atypical aspects in speech concern speech that deviates from what is commonly considered normal or healthy. In this thesis, we propose novel methods for detection and analysis of these aspects, e.g. to monitor the temporary state of a speaker, diseases tha ...

EPFL2023

Unsupervised Voice Activity Detection by Modeling Source and System Information using Zero Frequency Filtering

Mathew Magimai Doss, Eklavya Sarkar

Voice activity detection (VAD) is an important pre-processing step for speech technology applications. The task consists of deriving segment boundaries of audio signals which contain voicing information. In recent years, it has been shown that voice source ...

ISCA2022

Utterance Verification-Based Dysarthric Speech Intelligibility Assessment Using Phonetic Posterior Features

Mathew Magimai Doss, Julian David Fritsch

In the literature, the task of dysarthric speech intelligibility assessment has been approached through development of different low-level feature representations, subspace modeling, phone confidence estimation or measurement of automatic speech recognitio ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Automatic Dysarthric Speech Detection Exploiting Pairwise Distance-Based Convolutional Neural Networks

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

Automatic dysarthric speech detection can provide reliable and cost-effective computer-aided tools to assist the clinical diagnosis and management of dysarthria. In this paper we propose a novel automatic dysarthric speech detection approach based on analy ...

IEEE2021

A guideline for linking brain wave findings to the various aspects of discrete perception

Michael Herzog, Lukas Vogelsang, Maëlan Quentin Menétrey

Brain waves, determined by electrical and magnetic brain recordings (e.g., EEG and MEG), and fluctuating behavioral responses, determined by response time or accuracy measures, are frequently taken to support discrete perception. For example, it has been p ...

2021

Explainable Phonology-based Approach for Sign Language Recognition and Assessment

Sandrine Tornay

Sign language technology, unlike spoken language technology, is an emerging area of research. Sign language technologies can help in bridging the gap between the Deaf community and the hearing community. One such computer-aided technology is sign language ...

EPFL2021

Automatic Pathological Speech Intelligibility Assessment Exploiting Subspace-Based Analyses

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

Competitive state-of-the-art automatic pathological speech intelligibility measures typically rely on regression training on a large number of features, require a large amount of healthy speech training data, or are applicable only to phonetically balanced ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Language Independent Query by Example Spoken Term Detection

Dhananjay Ram

Language independent query-by-example spoken term detection (QbE-STD) is the problem of retrieving audio documents from an archive, which contain a spoken query provided by a user. This is usually casted as a hypothesis testing and pattern matching problem ...

EPFL2019

Phonetic aware techniques for Speaker Verification

Subhadeep Dey

The goal of this thesis is to improve current state-of-the-art techniques in speaker verification (SV), typically based on â identity-vectorsâ (i-vectors) and deep neural network (DNN), by exploiting diverse (phonetic) information extracted using variou ...

EPFL2018

Phonetic Subspace Features for Improved Query by Example Spoken Term Detection

Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei, Dhananjay Ram

This paper addresses the problem of detecting speech utterances from a large audio archive using a simple spoken query, hence referring to this problem as "Query by Example Spoken Term Detection" (QbE-STD). This still open pattern matching problem has been ...

2018

Template-matching for text-dependent speaker verification

Petr Motlicek, Subhadeep Dey

In the last decade, i-vector and Joint Factor Analysis (JFA) approaches to speaker modeling have become ubiquitous in the area of automatic speaker recognition. Both of these techniques involve the computation of posterior probabilities, using either Gauss ...

2017

On Structured Sparsity of Phonological Posteriors for Linguistic Parsing

Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei

The speech signal conveys information on different time scales from short (20--40 ms) time scale or segmental, associated to phonological and phonetic information to long (150--250 ms) time scale or supra segmental, associated to syllabic and prosodic info ...

2016

The use of intracranial recordings to decode human language: Challenges and opportunities

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Stéphanie Martin

Decoding speech from intracranial recordings serves two main purposes: understanding the neural correlates of speech processing and decoding speech features for targeting speech neuroprosthetic devices. Intracranial recordings have high spatial and tempora ...

Elsevier2019

Sparse Modeling of Neural Network Posterior Probabilities for Exemplar-based Speech Recognition

Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei, Pranay Dighe

In this paper, a compressive sensing (CS) perspective to exemplar-based speech processing is proposed. Relying on an analytical relationship between CS formulation and statistical speech recognition (Hidden Markov Models HMM), the automatic speech recognit ...

2016

On Compressibility of Neural Network phonological Features for Low Bit Rate Speech Coding

Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei

Phonological features extracted by neural network have shown interesting potential for low bit rate speech vocoding. The span of phonological features is wider than the span of phonetic features, and thus fewer frames need to be transmitted. Moreover, the ...

2015

Acoustic and Lexical Resource Constrained ASR using Language-Independent Acoustic Model and Language-Dependent Probabilistic Lexical Model

Mathew Magimai Doss, Ramya Rasipuram

One of the key challenges involved in building statistical automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is modeling the relationship between subword units or “lexical units” and acoustic feature observations. To model this relationship two types of resources ...

2015

Joint Source-Filter Optimization for Accurate Vocal Tract Estimation Using Differential Evolution

Jean-Marc Vesin, Olaf Schleusing

In this work, we present a joint source-filter optimization approach for separating voiced speech into vocal tract (VT) and voice source components. The presented method is pitch-synchronous and thereby exhibits a high robustness against vocal jitter, shim ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013