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This study presents a valuable advance in reconstructing naturalistic speech from intracranial ECoG data using a dual-pathway model. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, ...

Abstract: Preprocessing in biometrics is the process of fine-tuning input data or features extracted from data by applying varying techniques to improve recognition performance. In most speaker ...

Abstract: Speech emotion recognition (SER) has become a major area of investigation in human-computer interaction. Conventionally, SER is formulated as a classification problem that follows a common ...

Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), particularly in primary care. However, existing evidence on its diagnostic ...

That's an excellent work. However I have some difficullties. As I am going the finetune only some parts of the model, I need to calculate some intermediate data. Specifically, given an audio sequence, ...

Kim Parker contributed to this chapter. The COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the U.S. labor market. Businesses shuttered, millions of Americans lost their jobs, and for many others their home ...