Eliana Pastor

Explaining Speech Classification Models via Word-Level Audio Segments and Paralinguistic Features

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent advances in eXplainable AI (XAI) have provided new insights into how models for vision, language, and tabular data operate. However, few approaches exist for understanding speech models. Existing work focuses on a few spoken …

Prioritizing Data Acquisition for end-to-end Speech Model Improvement

2024

As speech processing moves toward more data-hungry models, data selection and acquisition become crucial to building better systems. Recent efforts have championed quantity over quality, following the mantra "The more data, the better." However, not …