Akash Raj
CTO at Whispp
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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After completing his master's in AI from the University of Amsterdam, Akash joined Whispp as the Co-Founder and now CTO. He works on AI research and technology that helps give a voice to those with speech disorders.
In addition to Whispp, he is also working with the municipality of Amsterdam to bridge communication barrier for refugees in Amsterdam with their municipality managers.
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Developing inclusive streaming speech processing systems for voice disorders / non-common speech
Most of the publicly available / open source AI speech models are trained with healthy speech. While we often focus on the clarity and naturalness of voices, it is equally important to recognize and accommodate individuals with disordered voices.
As voice interfaces become more prevalent, it is vital to consider all kinds of speech including disordered/affected or atypical speech. However such data is often not always available.
How do we deal with the imbalance of healthy and affected speech corpora? Actively including diverse voices is important; what are the other techniques (such as synthetic data generation, data augmentation, etc.) we can use create inclusive speech AI systems?
The second part of this session touches upon audio streaming for AI models. Specifically, how do we reduce the context-size in CNNs for real-time applications.
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