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Recent developments in speech emotion recognition (SER) often leverage deep neural networks (DNNs). Comparing and benchmarking different DNN models can often be tedious due to the use of different datasets and evaluation protocols. To facilitate the proces ...

IEEE2022

Word-level Embeddings for Cross-Task Transfer Learning in Speech Processing

Milos Cernak, Pierre Anton Beckmann

Recent breakthroughs in deep learning often rely on representation learning and knowledge transfer. In recent years, unsupervised and self-supervised techniques for learning speech representation were developed to foster automatic speech recognition. Up to ...

EUROPEAN ASSOC SIGNAL SPEECH & IMAGE PROCESSING-EURASIP2021

Non-Intrusive Speech Quality Assessment with Transfer Learning and Subject-specific Scaling

Milos Cernak, Paolo Prandoni, Natalia Nessler

In communication systems, it is crucial to estimate the perceived quality of audio and speech. The industrial standards for many years have been PESQ, 3QUEST, and POLQA, which are intrusive methods. This restricts the possibilities of using these metrics i ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2021

A Bin Encoding Training Of A Spiking Neural Network Based Voice Activity Detection

Milos Cernak, Giorgia Dellaferrera

Advances of deep learning for Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have led to significant improvements in the performance of digital signal processing systems implemented on digital chips. Although recent progress in low-power chips is remarkable, neuromorph ...

IEEE2020

Recent advances in Voice Activity Detection (VAD) are driven by artificial and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), however, using a VAD system in battery-operated devices requires further power efficiency. This can be achieved by neuromorphic hardware, which ...

IEEE2020

Open-Vocabulary Keyword Spotting with Audio and Text Embeddings

Martin Jaggi, Milos Cernak, Niccolò Sacchi

Keyword Spotting (KWS) systems allow detecting a set of spoken (pre-defined) keywords. Open-vocabulary KWS systems search for the keywords in the set of word hypotheses generated by an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system which is computationally expe ...

2019

A new software for modeling pathological speech signals is presented in this paper. The software is called NeuroSpeech. This software enables the analysis of pathological speech signals considering different speech dimensions: phonation, articulation, pros ...

2018

Characterisation of voice quality of Parkinson's disease using differential phonological posterior features

Milos Cernak

Change in voice quality (VQ) is one of the first precursors of Parkinson's disease (PD). Specifically, impacted phonation and articulation causes the patient to have a breathy, husky-semiwhisper and hoarse voice. A goal of this paper is to characterize a V ...

Idiap2017

Perceptual Information Loss due to Impaired Speech Production

Hervé Bourlard, Milos Cernak, Afsaneh Asaei

Phonological classes define articulatory-free and articulatory-bound phone attributes. Deep neural network is used to estimate the probability of phonological classes from the speech signal. In theory, a unique combination of phone attributes form a phonem ...

2017

Sparse Pronunciation Codes for Perceptual Phonetic Information Assessment

Hervé Bourlard, Milos Cernak, Afsaneh Asaei, Dhananjay Ram

Speech is a complex signal produced by a highly constrained articulation machinery. Neuro and psycholinguistic theories assert that speech can be decomposed into molecules of structured atoms. Although characterization of the atoms is controversial, the ex ...

2017