Papers by Alberto Abad
A new European Portuguese corpus for the study of Psychosis through speech analysis (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Psychosis is a clinical syndrome characterized by symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders and disorganized speech. |
| Approach: | They describe the creation of the first European Portuguese corpus for the identification of the presence of speech characteristics of psychosis. |
| Outcome: | The results show that spontaneous speech presents more identifiable characteristics than read speech to differentiate healthy and patients diagnosed with psychosis. |
Multilingual Transfer Learning for Children Automatic Speech Recognition (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been criticized for high acoustic variability and limited amount of available training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a two-step training strategy that uses multilingual learning followed by language-specific transfer learning to generalize children's speech. |
| Outcome: | The proposed training strategy outperforms single language training and multilingual and transfer learning alone in English. |