Natarajan Balaji Shankar

According to our database, Natarajan Balaji Shankar authored at least 13 papers between 2023 and 2027.

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2027

Compositional domain adaptation for automatic speech recognition with headwise selective attention merging.

Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Zilai Wang, Eray Eren, Abeer Alwan

Comput. Speech Lang., 2027

2026

STACodec: Semantic Token Assignment for Balancing Acoustic Fidelity and Semantic Information in Audio Codecs.

Kaiyuan Zhang, Mohan Shi, Eray Eren, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Zilai Wang, Abeer Alwan

CoRR, February, 2026

Mind the Shift: Using Delta SSL Embeddings to Enhance Child ASR.

Zilai Wang, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Kaiyuan Zhang, Zihan Wang, Abeer Alwan

CoRR, January, 2026

2025

Benchmarking Training Paradigms, Dataset Composition, and Model Scaling for Child ASR in ESPnet.

Anyu Ying, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Mohan Shi, Pu Wang, Hye-jin Shim, Siddhant Arora, Hugo Van hamme, Abeer Alwan, Shinji Watanabe

CoRR, August, 2025

CHSER: A Dataset and Case Study on Generative Speech Error Correction for Child ASR.

Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Zilai Wang, Kaiyuan Zhang, Mohan Shi, Abeer Alwan

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2025

Selective Attention Merging for low resource tasks: A case study of Child ASR.

Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Zilai Wang, Eray Eren, Abeer A. Alwan

Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2025

2024

UniEnc-CASSNAT: An Encoder-Only Non-Autoregressive ASR for Speech SSL Models.

Ruchao Fan, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Abeer Alwan

IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2024

Benchmarking Children's ASR with Supervised and Self-supervised Speech Foundation Models.

Ruchao Fan, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Abeer Alwan

Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2024

CORAAL QA: A Dataset and Framework for Open Domain Spontaneous Speech Question Answering from Long Audio Files.

Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Alexander Johnson, Christina Chance, Hariram Veeramani, Abeer Alwan

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2024

SOA: Reducing Domain Mismatch in SSL Pipeline by Speech Only Adaptation for Low Resource ASR.

Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Ruchao Fan, Abeer Alwan

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2024

Large Language Model-based Pipeline for Item Difficulty and Response Time Estimation for Educational Assessments.

Hariram Veeramani, Surendrabikram Thapa, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Abeer Alwan

Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2024

2023

Towards Automatically Assessing Children's Oral Picture Description Tasks.

Hariram Veeramani, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Alexander Johnson, Abeer Alwan

Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2023

An Equitable Framework for Automatically Assessing Children's Oral Narrative Language Abilities.

Alexander Johnson, Hariram Veeramani, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Abeer Alwan

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023