A Speech Recognizer for Frisian/Dutch Council Meetings

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Martijn Bentum, Louis ten Bosch, Henk van den Heuvel, Simone Wills, Domenique van der Niet, Jelske Dijkstra, Hans Van de Velde

Adapting a speech recognizer for the council meeting domain is challenging because of acoustic background noise, speaker overlap and the jargon typically used in council meetings.

Automatic Speech Recognition of Non-Native Child Speech for Language Learning Applications

no code implementations • 29 Jun 2023 • Simone Wills, Yu Bai, Cristian Tejedor-Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Voicebots have provided a new avenue for supporting the development of language skills, particularly within the context of second language learning.

Automatic Speech Recognition speech-recognition +1

Alzheimer Disease Classification through ASR-based Transcriptions: Exploring the Impact of Punctuation and Pauses

no code implementations • 6 Jun 2023 • Lucía Gómez-Zaragozá, Simone Wills, Cristian Tejedor-Garcia, Javier Marín-Morales, Mariano Alcañiz, Helmer Strik

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the world's leading neurodegenerative disease, which often results in communication difficulties.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

Connecting Humanities and Social Sciences: Applying Language and Speech Technology to Online Panel Surveys

no code implementations • 21 Feb 2023 • Henk van den Heuvel, Martijn Bentum, Simone Wills, Judith C. Koops

In an experimental wave respondents could choose to answer open questions via speech or keyboard.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2