Program Schedule

 Organizers welcome and overview (10:00 – 10:05)

A quick introduction of the special session by the session chairs

 Poster session (10:05-11:10)

[All Papers will be presented as posters]

Kindly follow Interspeech poster presentation guidelines [Link].

#1882 – Prospective Validation of Motor-Based Intervention with Automated Mispronunciation Detection of Rhotics in Residual Speech Sound Disorders, Nina [Benway] (Syracuse University), Jonathan [Preston] (Syracuse University) 

#312 – Classifying Rhoticity of /ô/ in Speech Sound Disorder using Age-and-Sex Normalized Formants, Nina [Benway] (Syracuse University), Jonathan [Preston] (Syracuse University), Asif [Salekin] (Syracuse University), Yi [Xiao] (syracuse university), Harshit [Sharma] (UIS Lab, Syracuse University), Tara [McAllister] (New York University) 

#1924 – Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion Features for Mispronunciation Detection of /ô/ in Child Speech Sound Disorders, Nina [Benway] (Syracuse University), Yashish M. [Siriwardena] (University of Maryland College Park), Jonathan [Preston] (Syracuse University), Elaine [Hitchcock], Tara [McAllister] (New York University), Carol Y. [Espy-Wilson] (University of Maryland) 

#928 – Using Commercial ASR Solutions to Assess Reading Skills in Children: A Case Report, Timothy [Piton] (Université de Genève), Enno [Hermann] (Idiap Research Institute), Angela [Pasqualotto], Marjolaine [Cohen], Mathew [Magimai.-Doss] (Idiap Research Institute), Daphné [Bavelier] 

#926 – Exploiting Diversity of Automatic Transcripts from Distinct Speech Recognition Techniques for Children’s Speech, Christopher [Gebauer] (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Lars [Rumberg] (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Hanna [Ehlert], Ulrike [Lüdtke], Joern [Ostermann] (Leibniz Universität Hannover) 

#907 – Uncertainty Estimation for Connectionist Temporal Classification Based Automatic Speech Recognition, Lars [Rumberg] (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Christopher [Gebauer] (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Hanna [Ehlert], Maren [Wallbaum], Ulrike [Lüdtke], Joern [Ostermann] (Leibniz Universität Hannover) 

#978 – BabySLM: language-acquisition-friendly benchmark of self-supervised spoken language models, Marvin [Lavechin] (ENS, Meta AI), Yaya [Sy] (ENS), Hadrien [Titeux], María Andrea Cruz [Blandón], Okko [Räsänen] (Tampere University), Hervé [Bredin] (CNRS), Emmanuel [Dupoux] (EHESS, ENS, PSL University, CNRS, INRIA, META), Alejandrina [Cristia] (Exelang, CNRS, LSCP) 

#702 – Data augmentation for children ASR and childadult speaker classification using voice conversion methods, Shuyang [Zhao] (Huawei Finland Research Center), Mittul [Singh] (Huawei Technologies Oy), Abraham [Zewoudie] (Huawei), Reima [Karhila] (Huawei Finland Research Center) 

#2236 – Developmental articulatory and acoustic features for six to ten year old children, Vishwas M. [Shetty] (UCLA), Steven M. [Lulich] (Indiana University), Abeer [Alwan] (UCLA) 

#2251 – Automatically Predicting Perceived Conversation Quality in a Pediatric Sample Enriched for Autism, Yahan [Yang] (University of Pennsylvania), Sunghye [Cho], Maxine [Covello], Azia [Knox], Osbert [Bastani] (University of Pennsylvania), James [Weimer] (University of Pennsylvania), Edgar [Dobriban] (University of Pennsylvania), Robert [Schultz], Insup [Lee] (University of Pennsylvania), Julia [Parish-Morris] (University of Pennsylvania) 

#1257 – An Equitable Framework for Automatically Assessing Children’s Oral Narrative Language Abilities, Alexander [Johnson] (UCLA), Hariram [Veeramani] (UCLA), Natarajan [Balaji Shankar] (University of California Los Angeles), Abeer [Alwan] (UCLA) 

#743 – An Analysis of Goodness of Pronunciation for Child Speech, Xinwei [Cao] (NTNU), Zijian [Fan] (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Torbjørn [Svendsen] (NTNU), Giampiero [Salvi] (NTNU) 

#1569 – Measuring language development from childcentered recordings, Yaya [Sy] (ENS), William [Havard] (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et de Psycholinguistique, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, PSL University), Marvin [Lavechin] (ENS, Meta AI), Emmanuel [Dupoux] (EHESS, ENS, PSL University, CNRS, INRIA, META), Alejandrina [Cristia] (Exelang, CNRS, LSCP) 

#2057 – Speaking Clearly, Understanding Better: Predicting the L2 Narrative Comprehension of Chinese Bilingual Kindergarten Children Based on Speech Intelligibility Using a Machine Learning Approach, Hiuching [Hung] (Friedrich-Alexander Universität), Paula A. [Pérez-Toro] (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Tomás [Arias-Vergara] (Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet ErlangenNuernberg), Andreas [Maier] (Pattern Recognition Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Elmar [Nöth] (friedrich Alexander Universitat, Erlangen-Nuremberg) 

#2185 – Speech breathing behavior during pauses in children, Delphine [Charuau] (GIPSA Lab), Béatrice [Vaxelaire] (Université de Strasbourg), Rudolph [Sock] (Université de Strasbourg / Université Pavol Jozef Šafárik) 

#1273 – Understanding Spoken Language Development of Children with ASD Using Pre-trained Speech Embeddings, Anfeng [Xu] (University of Southern California), Rajat [Hebbar] (University of Southern California), Rimita [Lahiri] (University of Southern California), Tiantian [Feng] (University of Southern California), Lindsay [Butler], Lue [Shen], Helen [Tager-Flusberg], Shrikanth [Narayanan] (USC) 

#2099 – Measuring Phonological Precision in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate, Tomás [Arias-Vergara] (Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg), Elizabeth [Londoño-Mora], Paula A. [Pérez-Toro] (FriedrichAlexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Maria [Schuster], Elmar [Nöth] (friedrich Alexander Universitat, ErlangenNuremberg), Juan Rafael [Orozco-Arroyave] (University of Antioquia), Andreas [Maier] (Pattern Recognition Lab, FAU 

#937 – A Study on Using Duration and Formant Features in Automatic Detection of Speech Sound Disorder in Children, Si Ioi [Ng] (THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG), Wing Yee [Ng] (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Tan [Lee] (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 

#1873 – Influence of Utterance and Speaker Characteristics on the Classification of Children with Cleft Lip and Palate, Ilja [Baumann] (Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm), Dominik [Wagner] (Technische Hochschule Nuernberg Georg Simon Ohm), Franziska [Braun] (Technische Hochschule Nürnberg), Sebastian P. [Bayerl] (Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm), Elmar [Nöth] (friedrich Alexander Universitat, Erlangen-Nuremberg), Korbinian [Riedhammer] (Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm), Tobias [Bocklet] (TH Nürnberg)

 Panel Discussion (11:15 – 12:00 )

Panel members:

Amelia Kelly, SoapBox Labs, Vice President of Speech Technology

Nina R Benway, University of Maryland A. James Clark, Post-doc

Marisha Speights, Northwestern University, Assistant Professor

Okko Räsänen, Tampere University, Associate Professor 

Torbjørn Svendsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Professor

Session Moderator

Odette Scharenborg, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, Associate Professor