Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a prevalent and widespread neurodegenerative disorder among
the older adult population worldwide. Among the numerous cognitive screening methods …

Speech-to-speech translation combines machine translation with speech synthesis,
introducing evaluation challenges not present in either task alone. How to automatically …

The amount of freely available systems for automatic speech recognition (ASR) based on
neural networks is growing steadily, with equally increasingly reliable predictions. However …

If accent differences can predict the type of speech recognition errors, a smaller dataset
systematically representing accent differences might be sufficient and less resource …

The amount of freely available systems for automatic speech recognition (ASR) based on
neural networks is growing steadily, with equally increasingly reliable predictions. However …

We describe a speech recognition system for Swiss German, a dialectal spoken language in
German-speaking Switzerland. Swiss German has no standard orthography, with a …

Speakers tailor their speech to different types of interlocutors. For example, speech directed
to voice technology has different acoustic-phonetic characteristics than speech directed to a …

There are around 7000 languages that are alive worldwide; among them, only 50-200
languages are well-resourced. In many regions of the world, there are languages and …

This thesis is a contribution to the project DigiSpon whose goal is to research automated
language sample analysis in Swiss German-speaking children. This thesis focuses on two …

The Bengali language, spoken in various regions of south-Asia and also among the Bengali
diaspora, exhibits rich diversity with regional dialects or variations that reflect the cultural …