Papers and preprints

Research outputs across speech, adaptation, and evaluation.

Publications spanning ASR benchmarks, children's speech recognition, pathology detection, post training strategies,, privacy, and efficient transformer architectures.

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Preprint 2026

Exploring the Potential and Limitations of Model Merging for Multi-Domain Adaptation in ASR

Studies model merging for multi-domain ASR and proposes a more stable merging strategy for European Portuguese speech systems.

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Preprint 2025

Group-Aware Partial Model Merging for Children’s Automatic Speech Recognition

Introduces a parameter-efficient approach that combines clustering, partial fine-tuning, and model merging for children’s ASR.

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ASRU 2025

CAMOES: A Comprehensive Automatic Speech Recognition Benchmark for European Portuguese

Create a new benchmark for European Portuguese ASR.

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Interspeech 2025

Children's Voice Privacy: First Steps And Emerging Challenges

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

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Interspeech 2025

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.

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Interspeech 2025

Acoustic and Linguistic Biomarkers for Cognitive Impairment Detection from Speech

Explores combinations of acoustic and linguistic biomarkers for cognitive impairment detection.

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Preprint 2025

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

Using knowledge-based versus pre-trained embeddings for pathology detection.

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Iberspeech 2024

Towards Improved Automatic Speech Recognition for Children

Thesis summary on improving ASR for children.

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ICASSP 2024

Improved Children's Automatic Speech Recognition Combining Adapters and Synthetic Data Augmentation

Combines adapters and synthetic data augmentation to improve children's ASR performance.

Interspeech 2024

Introduction to Partial Fine-Tuning: A Comprehensive Evaluation of End-to-End Children's Automatic Speech Recognition Adaptation

Proposes and evaluates a new selective fine-tuning approach for children's ASR.

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LREC 2022

Multilingual Transfer Learning for Children Automatic Speech Recognition

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

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Interspeech 2021

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

Using pre-trained embeddings for COVID-19 detection.

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Interspeech 2020

The INESC-ID Multi-Modal System for the ADReSS 2020 Challenge

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

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Preprint 2020

Pathological Speech Detection Using X-Vector Embeddings

Using x-vector embeddings for pathological speech detection across different diseases.

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SPARS 2019

Label-Consistent Sparse Auto-Encoders

Explores auto-encoders with label consistency.

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