Speech Processing Lab

Speech Processing Laboratory(SPL) was founded in 2026 by Professor June-Woo Kim in the Department of Electronics Engineering, Wonkwang University.

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

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 B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. students to join our team. Our research involves theoretical, experimental, and practical 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. 

SPL에서는 음성 및 오디오, 생체신호 기반의 AI와 메디컬 응용에 관심을 두고 있으며, 특히 다음 분야의 연구와 협력을 적극적으로 확장하고자 합니다. 관련 연구기관 및 산업체와의 공동연구, 데이터·모델 공동 연구, 과제 기획 및 컨소시엄 참여 등 다양한 형태의 협력을 환영합니다.

• 음성인식 및 강건한 음성 이해(ASR, Speech Understanding)

• 정신의학 분석(우울, 불안, 자살 위험 등)

• 퇴행성 뇌질환 분석(예: 파킨슨병, 치매 등)

• Bioacoustics 및 음향 기반 AI

• Medical AI

이러한 분야에 관심 있는 의욕 넘치는 학부생 및 대학원생(석사/박사)을 모집하고 있습니다. 관심 있는 분께서는들은 kaen2891@wku.ac.kr 로 연락 부탁드립니다.