SPSC @ TU Graz

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In 2000, the Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory (SPSC Lab) of Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) was founded as a research and education center in nonlinear signal processing and computational intelligence, algorithm engineering, as well as circuits & systems modeling and design. It covers applications in wireless communications, speech/audio communication, and telecommunications.

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The Research of SPSC Lab addresses fundamental and applied research problems in five scientific areas:

Result of the Month

Uncertainty prediction for prominence classification with chroma features ^[link]

This paper presents methods for prominence classification in conversational speech. Most existing tools rely on prosodic features extracted at syllable- or phone-level, performing well on read speech. This is not the case for conversational speech, where the quality of automatic segmentation is significantly worse. We introduce entropy-based chroma features, requiring only word-level segmentations. They perform equally well as a random forest classifier with prosodic features (requiring phone-level segmentation), with accuracies in the range of the human inter-rater agreement. We further use Bayesian deep learning to quantify the epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty of the prediction for prosodic and chroma features. Whereas the aleatoric uncertainty is, as expected, consistent with inter-rater agreement and similarly high for both feature sets, the epistemic uncertainty is lower for the classifier based on chroma features, indicating higher classification consistency across the corpus.

Contact: Julian Linke