CLSP Student Seminar
Abstract This talk will outline the major challenging in porting mainstream speech technology to the domain of clinical applications; in particular, the need for personalised systems, the challenge of working in an inherently sparse data[…]
Abstract Narration is a universal human practice that serves as a key site of education, collective memory, fostering social belief systems, and furthering human creativity. Recent studies in economics (Shiller, 2020), climate science (Bushell et[…]
Abstract Most people take for granted that when they speak, they will be heard and understood. But for the millions who live with speech impairments caused by physical or neurological conditions, trying to communicate with[…]
Abstract Speech data is notoriously difficult to work with due to a variety of codecs, lengths of recordings, and meta-data formats. We present Lhotse, a speech data representation library that draws upon lessons learned from[…]