Summary of Zero-shot Multi-lingual Speaker Verification in Clinical Trials, by Ali Akram et al.
Zero-Shot Multi-Lingual Speaker Verification in Clinical Trials
by Ali Akram, Marija Stanojevic, Malikeh Ehghaghi, Jekaterina Novikova
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed method uses speech recordings from clinical trials to verify patient identities and detect potential duplicates, thereby improving data quality. By leveraging pre-trained speaker verification models like TitaNet, ECAPA-TDNN, and SpeakerNet, the approach can effectively generalize to patients speaking diverse languages such as English, German, Danish, Spanish, and Arabic. The results show that these models achieve low error rates (less than 2.7% for European languages and 8.26% for Arabic), making them suitable for cognitive and mental health clinical trials. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that the type of speech tasks and number of speakers involved in the trial impact model performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper solves a big problem in medical research. When people participate in clinical trials, it’s hard to make sure they’re who they say they are. The authors have a clever idea to use audio recordings from these trials to check identities and catch people who try to join multiple times. They tested some special computer models that can recognize voices, even if the person is speaking a different language like Arabic or Spanish. These models worked really well, which means researchers can now focus on helping people without worrying about fake participants. The study also shows that the kind of tasks people do during the trial and how many people are involved can affect how well the models work. |
