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Herman Kamper

28 papers · 2017–2024 · 6 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

πŸƒ Academic Marathon (7) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (5) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (6) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (16) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🏠 Conference Loyalist (22) πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (47) πŸ† Keyword Champion (2) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (118) πŸ’Ž Century Club (28) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (8) ⚑ Prolific Year (6)

Conferences

INTERSPEECH (22) EACL (2) EMNLP (1) ICML (1) NAACL (1) NIPS (1)

Top co-authors

Benjamin Van Niekerk (7) Leanne Nortje (6) Karen Livescu (5) Sharon Goldwater (4) Arnu Pretorius (3) Elan van Biljon (3) Matthew Baas (3) Sameer Bansal (3) Adam Lopez (3) Thomas Niesler (2)

Research topics

Synthesis (1)

Keywords

unsupervised learning (6) low-resource language (6) acoustic unit discovery (4) keyword spotting (4) transfer learning (4) few-shot learning (4) speech recognition (3) visually grounded speech (3) visual grounding (3) vector quantization (3) acoustic word embedding (3) self-supervised learning (3) dynamic time warping (3) speech translation (3) representation learning (3) discrete representation (2) variational autoencoder (2) speech representation (2) cross-lingual transfer (2) multimodal learning (2)

Papers

Translating speech with just images INTERSPEECH 2024
Spoken-Term Discovery using Discrete Speech Units INTERSPEECH 2024
Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting for Few-Shot Spoken Word Classification Through Meta-Learning INTERSPEECH 2023
Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors INTERSPEECH 2023
Towards hate speech detection in low-resource languages: Comparing ASR to acoustic word embeddings on Wolof and Swahili INTERSPEECH 2023
Visually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots INTERSPEECH 2023
Voice Conversion Can Improve ASR in Very Low-Resource Settings INTERSPEECH 2022
A Temporal Extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery INTERSPEECH 2022
Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing INTERSPEECH 2021
Attention-Based Keyword Localisation in Speech Using Visual Grounding INTERSPEECH 2021
A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processing EACL 2021
Towards Unsupervised Phone and Word Segmentation Using Self-Supervised Vector-Quantized Neural Networks INTERSPEECH 2021
Multilingual Transfer of Acoustic Word Embeddings Improves When Training on Languages Related to the Target Zero-Resource Language INTERSPEECH 2021
Direct Multimodal Few-Shot Learning of Speech and Images INTERSPEECH 2021
Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages EMNLP 2020
Unsupervised vs. Transfer Learning for Multimodal One-Shot Matching of Speech and Images INTERSPEECH 2020
Vector-Quantized Neural Networks for Acoustic Unit Discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 Challenge INTERSPEECH 2020
Pre-training on high-resource speech recognition improves low-resource speech-to-text translation NAACL 2019
Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery for Speech Synthesis Using Discrete Latent-Variable Neural Networks INTERSPEECH 2019
Feature Exploration for Almost Zero-Resource ASR-Free Keyword Spotting Using a Multilingual Bottleneck Extractor and Correspondence Autoencoders INTERSPEECH 2019
On the Contributions of Visual and Textual Supervision in Low-Resource Semantic Speech Retrieval INTERSPEECH 2019
Learning Dynamics of Linear Denoising Autoencoders ICML 2018
Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation INTERSPEECH 2018
Critical initialisation for deep signal propagation in noisy rectifier neural networks NIPS 2018
Fast ASR-free and Almost Zero-resource Keyword Spotting Using DTW and CNNs for Humanitarian Monitoring INTERSPEECH 2018
Query-by-Example Search with Discriminative Neural Acoustic Word Embeddings INTERSPEECH 2017
Visually Grounded Learning of Keyword Prediction from Untranscribed Speech INTERSPEECH 2017
Towards speech-to-text translation without speech recognition EACL 2017