Speech Technology for Atypical Speech

Presenter

Venkatesh Ravichandran

Date

30-Oct

Abstract

This talk will summarize work in the following 3 papers, in the area of atypical speech:

• Olabanji Shonibare, Xiaosu Tong, Venkatesh Ravichandran: Enhancing ASR for Stuttered Speech with Limited Data Using Detect and Pass. CoRR abs/2202.05396 (2022)

• Xin Zhang, Iván Vallés-Pérez, Andreas Stolcke, Chengzhu Yu, Jasha Droppo, Olabanji Shonibare, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Venkatesh Ravichandran: Stutter-TTS: Controlled Synthesis and Improved Recognition of Stuttered Speech, Proc. Synthetic Data 4ML Workshop – NEURIPS 2022

• Wang, H., Ravichandran, V., Rao, M., Lammers, B., Sydnor, M., Butala, A., Clawson, L., Zhang, J., Maragakis, N. , Moro-Velazquez, L. (2023) Improving fairness for spoken language understanding in atypical speech with Text-to-Speech. Proc. Synthetic Data 4ML Workshop – in review