Speaker: William Fernando López Gavilánez Abstract: Advances in speech synthesis technology have facilitated numerous beneficial applications. However, they also pose significant threats, especially in the realm of identity spoofing. The study explores the potential of leveraging complex spectrograms for real-time… Read More
Past, present and ¿future? of Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Speaker: Beltrán Labrador Abstract: This presentation examines the scaling laws for neural networks that were foundational to the development of modern, large-scale language models. It revisits the 2020 OpenAI paper that established a key principle: model performance scales predictably with… Read More
Emotion Recognition Based On Speech Analysis For The EmoSPeech 2024 Challenge
Speaker: Manuel Otero Abstract: This master’s thesis addresses the analysis and recognition of emotions in speech, within the framework of the EmoSPeech 2024 challenge. Different approaches to the state of the art are presented, from traditional methods to current models… Read More
Deep Learning Insights Inspired by Reinforcement Learning Research
Speaker: Tamas Endrei. Abstract: Despite deep reinforcement learning being around for more than 10 years, traditional deep learning best practices have largely avoided the field until now. This talk elaborates on deep learning techniques uncovered through RL-motivated research, touching on… Read More
Joint Automatic Speech Recognition And Structure. Learning For Better Speech Understanding
Speaker: María Pilar Fernández Gallego. Abstract: Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a structure prediction task in the field of speech. Recently, many works on SLU that treat it as a sequence-to-sequence task have achieved great success. However, This method is… Read More
A Whisper-based Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection approach for search on speech
Speaker: Javier Tejedor Noguerales. Abstract: Nowadays, in the digital era, the amount of information stored in audio repositories is undoubtedly growing. This makes necessary the development of efficient and automatic methods to search on audio content. To address it, search… Read More
NIST 2024 Speaker Recognition Evaluation
Speaker: Sara Barahona Quirós. Abstract: In this talk we will present our paritcipation to the NIST 2024 SRE Evaluation in collaboration with Brno University of Technology, Polito, Phonexia, Omilia and CRIM. This evaluation focuses on speaker detection over conversational telephone… Read More
Foundational Models for Self-Supervised Speaker Diarization and Target Speaker ASR
Speaker: Alicia Lozano-Diez. Abstract: In this talk, I will review a few of the last trends in speaker diarization and target speaker ASR. I will present two papers that address these two tasks respectively, and leverage the power of foundational… Read More
What can LLMs bring to the field of acoustic event detection?
Speaker: Sergio Segovia González. Abstract: The answer to this question through these two articles, “WILDDESED: An LLM-POWERED dataset for wild domestic environment sound event detection system” and “Leveraging LLM and Text-Queried Separation for Noise-Robust Sound Event Detection” has been carried… Read More
Exploring Large Protein Language Models in Constrained Data Regimes
Speaker: Manuel Fernando Mollon Laorca. Abstract: In this study, we expand upon the FLIP benchmark—designed for evaluating protein language models (pLMs) in small, specialized prediction tasks—by assessing the performance of state-of-the-art models, including ESM-2, SaProt, and Tranception, on the FLIP… Read More