Publications

Papers, preprints, and resources

Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)2025

CAMOES: A Comprehensive Automatic Speech Recognition Benchmark for European Portuguese

Create a new Benchmark for European Portuguese ASR.

Interspeech2025

Children's Voice Privacy: First Steps And Emerging Challenges

First paper on children's voice privacy, exploring technical challenges.

Interspeech2025

Exploring Shared-Weight Mechanisms in Transformer and Conformer Architectures for Automatic Speech Recognition

Explores different configurations of weight-sharing strategies in Transformer and Conformer architectures for ASR.

Interspeech2025

Acoustic and Linguistic Biomarkers for Cognitive Impairment Detection from Speech

Explores different combinations of acoustics and linguistics biomarkers for cognitive impairment detection.

Preprint2025

Tackling Cognitive Impairment Detection from Speech: A submission to the PROCESS Challenge

Using knowledge based vs pre-trained embedding for pathology detection.

Iberspeech2024

Towards improved automatic speech recognition for children

Thesis summary on improving ASR for children.

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2024

Improved children's automatic speech recognition combining adapters and synthetic data augmentation

Combines adapters with TTS data augmentation to improve WER.

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2024

Exploring adapters with conformers for children's automatic speech recognition

comprehensive evaluation of a adapters approach for children's ASR.

Interspeech 2024

Shared-Adapters: A Novel Transformer-based Parameter Efficient Transfer Learning Approach For Children's Automatic Speech Recognition

Propose a new PEFT approach which is 12 times more parameter-efficient than regular adapters.

Interspeech 2024

Introduction to partial fine-tuning: A comprehensive evaluation of end-to-end children's automatic speech recognition adaptation

Propose a new SFT approach for children's ASR.

Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)2022

Multilingual transfer learning for children automatic speech recognition

Multi-task training for multilingual low-resource children's ASR.

Interspeech 2021

Transfer Learning-Based Cough Representations for Automatic Detection of COVID-19

Using pre-trained embeddings for COVID-19 detection.

Interspeech 2020

The INESC-ID multi-modal system for the ADReSS 2020 challenge

Using speech and text pre-trained embeddings for pathological speech detection.

Preprint 2020

Pathological speech detection using x-vector embeddings

Using x-vector embeddings for pathological speech detection of different deseases.

Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptative Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS) 2019

Label-consistent sparse auto-encoders

Explore Auto-Encoder with label consistency.