Recent years have witnessed notable advancements in the areas of speech, speaker and
language/dialect recognition. However, many of the emerging scientific principles appear to …

The presence of physical task stress induces changes in the speech production system
which in turn produces changes in speaking behavior. This results in measurable acoustic …

Speech production variability introduces significant challenges for existing speech
technologies such as speaker identification (SID), speaker diarization, speech recognition …

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating illness that imposes significant
emotional and financial burdens on military families. The understanding of PTSD etiology …

It is common for subjects to produce speech while performing a physical task where speech
technology may be used. Variabilities are introduced to speech since physical task can …

The focus of this study is on gender classification from speech signals produced by adults.
Automatic estimation of gender has a broad variety of applications ranging from forensics …

This paper presents the GlitchOS, an open-source virtual assistant project with a focus on
privacy. It has the same feature set as other typical virtual assistants but runs completely on …

ABSTRACT A comparative analysis between Nigerian English (NE) and American English
(AE) is presented in this article. The study is aimed at highlighting differences in the speech …

The scientific field that focuses on the emotion recognition from speech is called speech
emotion recognition (SER). Methods and techniques from SER have been incorporated in …

In the field of speech, speaker and language recognition, significant gains have and are
being made with new machine learning strategies along with the availability of new and …