Publications
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Supporting young children with disabilities
The authors review effective ways to support development and learning among young children with disabilities, including language and social skills interventions, preschool curricula, instructional and other practices, and multi-tiered systems…
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The Speakers in the Wild (SITW) Speaker Recognition Database
The Speakers in the Wild (SITW) speaker recognition database contains hand-annotated speech samples from open-source media for the purpose of benchmarking text-independent speaker recognition technology.
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Automatic Speech Transcription for Low-Resource Languages — The Case of Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (Mexico)
In the present study, we focus exclusively on progress in developing speech recognition for the language of interest, Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (YM), an Oto-Manguean language spoken by fewer than 5000 speakers…
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Issue Brief: Early Warning Systems
The brief describes early warning systems as a dropout prevention strategy based on a nationally representative sample of more than 2,000 U.S. public high schools.
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Privacy- preserving speech analytics for automatic assessment of student collaboration
This work investigates whether nonlexical information from speech can automatically predict the quality of small-group collaborations. Audio was collected from students as they collaborated in groups of three to solve…
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Coping with Unseen Data Conditions: Investigating Neural Net Architectures, Robust Features, and Information Fusion for Robust Speech Recognition
This work investigates the performance of traditional deep neural networks under varying acoustic conditions and evaluates their performance with speech recorded under realistic background conditions that are mismatched with respect…
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On the Issue of Calibration in DNN-Based Speaker Recognition Systems
This article is concerned with the issue of calibration in the context of Deep Neural Network (DNN) based approaches to speaker recognition. We propose a hybrid alignment framework, which stems…
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The 2016 Speakers in the Wild Speaker Recognition Evaluation
This article provides details of the SITW speaker recognition challenge and analysis of evaluation results. We provide an analysis of some of the top performing systems submitted during the evaluation and…
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The SRI CLEO Speaker-State Corpus
We introduce the SRI CLEO (Conversational Language about Everyday Objects) Speaker-State Corpus of speech, video, and biosignals.
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Unsupervised Learning of Acoustic Units Using Autoencoders and Kohonen Nets
This work investigates learning acoustic units in an unsupervised manner from real-world speech data by using a cascade of an autoencoder and a Kohonen net.
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Course-Taking Effect on Postsecondary Enrollment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 were used to examine the effect of academic and career or technical education course-taking in high school on deaf or hard of hearing…
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Integrated Digital Printing of Flexible Circuits for Wireless Sensing
At PARC, we combine high functionality c-Si CMOS and digitally printed components and interconnects to create an integrated platform that can read and process multiple discrete sensors.