Speech Processing Lab

Our Lab's specific areas of current interest include:

• Deep learning

• Automatic speech recognition

• Speech and audio foundation model

• Respiratory sound analysis

• Speech analysis for neurodegenerative disorder and mental health detection

• Speech disorder

• Physiological signal processing

• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

2026. 05. "JODAL: Joint Domain Adversarial Learning for TTS-Augmented Automatic Speech Recognition" has been published at Mathematics 2026 (IF 2.2 ). [webpage]

2026. 05. Our lab has been selected for the 2026 R&D CareerLab Fellowship by the Korea Institute of Human Resources Development in Science and Technology (KIRD) (R&D 커리어랩 펠로우십 - 미래 의사과학자 챌린지 트랙).

2026. 04. "Meta Ensemble Learning with Diverse Data Splits for Improved Respiratory Sound Classification" has been accepted at IEEE EMBC 2026.

2026. 04. "Recording Conditions Dominate Acoustic Feature Variability in Respiratory Sound Analysis" has been accepted at IEEE EMBC 2026 (One-Page Paper).

2026. 01. "Deep neural network-based analysis of voice biomarkers for monitoring treatment response in adolescent major depressive disorder" has been published at Communications Medicine 2026 (IF 6.3). [webpage]

2026. 01. "Understanding Frechet Speech Distance for Synthetic Speech Quality Evaluation" has been accepted at ICASSP 2026. [pdf]

2026. 01. "Empowering Multimodal Respiratory Sound Classification with Counterfactual Adversarial Debiasing for Out-of-Distribution Robustness" has been accepted at ICASSP 2026. [pdf]

Notice

We are looking for motivated M.S. and Ph.D. students to join our team. Our research involves theoretical, experimental, practical, and clinical approaches so that you can experience them and choose what suits you best. If you are interested in speech processing with deep learning and medical AI, please send your CV and academic transcripts to kaen2891@wku.ac.kr. 

• ASR, Speech Understanding

• Psychiatric Anlaysis(Major Depressive Disorder, Anxitey, Sucidal Risk, Schizophrenia, etc)

• Speech Disorder and Neurodegenerative Analysis(Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease)

• Bioacoustics and Psychological Analysis

• Medical AI