A sketch is offered of a framework that would abandon the familiar notion of a language and the accompanying question of whether it has changed under contact. The framework would focus instead on speakers and on the linguistic consequences of people...
Target speech extraction (TSE) aims to recover a target speaker’s speech from mixed speech using auxiliary speaker information. Recent diffusion-based TSE models have shown promising performance, but conventional training mainly optimizes predi...
Speech-driven face generation aims to synthesize a face image that matches a speaker’s identity from speech alone. However, existing methods typically trade identity fidelity for visual quality and rely on large end-to-end generators that are d...
Fake-speech detection is commonly studied through acoustic artifacts, speaker-level spoofing cues, or visual inconsistencies, while less attention has been given to meaning-level manipulation, where the spoken content is altered while the speech rema...
In this article, I underscore the value of nuanced, speaker-focused approaches to dialect contact, which both complement and extend community-based perspectives. I pursue this goal through two main strategies. First, I use a mixed-methods approach th...
This research addresses the critical need for language preservation among the Higaonon indigenous community in Mindanao, Philippines, through the development of a culturally responsive mobile dictionary application. The Higaonon language faces signif...
Scams targeting older adults increasingly combine social engineering with generative technology such as voice cloning, video deepfakes and text produced by large language models (LLMs). Adults aged 60 and over reported losses of USD 7.7 billion to th...
Many education systems globally adopt an English proficiency test (EPT) as an effective mechanism to evaluate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) speakers’ comprehension levels. Similarly, Taiwan’s military academy also developed the Mili...
Designing modern disassembly systems requires the integration of industrial automation equipment. Due to the support of various communication protocols, PLCs not only perform control tasks but also act as intelligent data centers in distributed produ...