OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Speech Communication is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A comprehensive study on supervised single-channel noisy speech separation with multi-task learning	106
Progress of machine learning based automatic phoneme recognition and its prospect	85
Editorial Board	80
Psychoacoustic features explain creakiness classifications made by naive and non-naive listeners	57
Facemask occlusion's impact on L2 listening comprehension	54
Phase unwrapping based packet loss concealment using deep neural networks	51
Subband fusion of complex spectrogram for fake speech detection	49
Editorial Board	40
Data augmentation for speech separation	39
Editorial Board	39
An introduction to pluricentric languages in speech science and technology	36
A corpus of audio-visual recordings of linguistically balanced, Danish sentences for speech-in-noise experiments	34
Automatic classification of vocal intensity categories from amplitude-normalized speech signals by comparing acoustic features and classifier models	34
Editorial Board	33
A novel distortion-tolerant speech encryption scheme for secure voice communication	31
Perceptual asymmetry between pitch peaks and valleys	28
Fixed frequency range empirical wavelet transform based acoustic and entropy features for speech emotion recognition	28
Assessing child communication engagement and statistical speech patterns for American English via speech recognition in naturalistic active learning spaces	22
A robust temporal map of speech monitoring from planning to articulation	22
Vocal emotion perception in Mandarin-speaking older adults with hearing loss	21
Editorial Board	20
Blood pressure monitoring from naturally recorded speech sounds: advancements and future prospects	20
Investigating a neural all pass warp in modern TTS applications	20
Editorial Board	20
Editorial Board	19

The prosody of theme, rheme and focus in Egyptian Arabic: A quantitative investigation of tunes, configurations and speaker variability	18
HC-APNet: Harmonic Compensation Auditory Perception Network for low-complexity speech enhancement	17
Editorial Board	17
"I said simPle, not symBol!"Is clear speech tailored to the listener's feedback	17
Two-stage UNet with channel and temporal-frequency attention for multi-channel speech enhancement	17
Speech intelligibility deterioration for normal hearing and hearing impaired patients with different types of tinnitus	17
Automatic Speech Recognition and Pronunciation Error Detection of Dutch Non-native Speech: cumulating speech resources in a pluricentric language	16
The influence of task engagement on phonetic convergence	16
Deletion and insertion tampering detection for speech authentication based on fluctuating super vector of electrical network frequency	15
Efficient acoustic feature transformation in mismatched environments using a Guided-GAN	15
Neural speech-rate conversion with multispeaker WaveNet vocoder	15
Frequent-words analysis for forensic speaker comparison	15
Investigating prosodic entrainment from global conversations to local turns and tones in Mandarin conversations	15
Expectation of speech style improves audio-visual perception of English vowels	14
Unsupervised Automatic Speech Recognition: A review	14
Evaluating the effects of continuous pitch and speech tempo modifications on perceptual speaker verification performance by familiar and unfamiliar listeners	14
Real-time intelligibility affects the realization of French word-final schwa	13
Learning and controlling the source-filter representation of speech with a variational autoencoder	12
Editorial Board	12
Paradigm fusion learning from overt and silent chinese speech based on pseudo-siamese multiscale capsule neural network	12
A study of correlation between physiological process of articulation and emotions on Mandarin Chinese	12
Vocal characteristics of accuracy in eyewitness testimony	11
Blind Speech Separation and Dereverberation using neural beamforming	11
Effects of urgent speech and congruent/incongruent text on speech intelligibility for older adults in the presence of noise and reverberation	11
A formant modification method for improved ASR of children’s speech	11
The Lombard intelligibility benefit of native and non-native speech for native and non-native listeners	10
Multi-modal co-learning for silent speech recognition based on ultrasound tongue images	10
Dynamic graph learning with gated convolutions for single-channel speech separation	10
The effect of fluency strategy training on interpreter trainees’ speech fluency: Does content familiarity matter?	10
Effects of voice onset time and place of articulation on perception of dichotic Turkish syllables	10
Multilingual speech recognition for GlobalPhone languages	10
Speechformer-CTC: Sequential modeling of depression detection with speech temporal classification	10
Sequential perception of tone and focus in parallel–A computational simulation	10
Prosodic alignment toward emotionally expressive speech: Comparing human and Alexa model talkers	9
Yanbian Korean speakers tend to merge /e/ and /ɛ/ when exposed to Seoul Korean	9
GM-TCNet: Gated Multi-scale Temporal Convolutional Network using Emotion Causality for Speech Emotion Recognition	9
Prosody in narratives: An exploratory study with children with sex chromosomes trisomies	9
Differences between listeners with early and late immersion age in spatial release from masking in various acoustic environments	9
Coarse-to-fine speech separation method in the time-frequency domain	9
Recognition of vocoded speech in English by Mandarin-speaking English-learners	9
A new universal camouflage attack algorithm for intelligent speech system	9
Progressive channel fusion for more efficient TDNN on speaker verification	9
Disordered speech recognition considering low resources and abnormal articulation	9
Exploiting Locality Sensitive Hashing - Clustering and gloss feature for sign language production	9
Deep ad-hoc beamforming based on speaker extraction for target-dependent speech separation	8
Tone-syllable synchrony in Mandarin: New evidence and implications	8
Editorial Board	8
Automatic speech recognition technology to evaluate an audiometric word recognition test: A preliminary investigation	8
Speakers’ vocal expression of sexual orientation depends on experimenter gender	8
Using iterative adaptation and dynamic mask for child speech extraction under real-world multilingual conditions	8

Perceptual effects of interpolated Austrian and German standard varieties	8
Modulation spectral features for speech emotion recognition using deep neural networks	8
Nasal coarticulation in Lombard speech	8
A cross-modal attention model with contextual enhancements for speech emotion recognition	8
One-shot emotional voice conversion based on feature separation	8
Prosody and fluency of Finland Swedish as a second language: Investigating global parameters for automated speaking assessment	8
Speech pause distribution as an early marker for Alzheimer’s disease	8
Bangladeshi Bangla speech corpus for automatic speech recognition research	8
Enhancing bone-conducted speech with spectrum similarity metric in adversarial learning	8
The Second-Language Productivity of Two Mandarin Tone Sandhi Patterns	8
Role of language familiarity in understanding speech in noise under various acoustic environments	8
Pathological voice classification using MEEL features and SVM-TabNet model	7
Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition: Challenges and Progress	7
Addressing the semi-open set dialect recognition problem under resource-efficient considerations	7
Editorial Board	7
MC-Mamba: Cross-modal target speaker extraction model based on multiple consistency	7
Differential constant-beamwidth beamforming with cube arrays	7
Cross-modal information fusion for voice spoofing detection	7
Learning transfer from singing to speech: Insights from vowel analyses in aging amateur singers and non-singers	7
Comparing the nativeness vs. intelligibility approach in prosody instruction for developing speaking skills by interpreter trainees: An experimental study	7
CSLNSpeech: Solving the extended speech separation problem with the help of Chinese sign language	7
Combined approach to dysarthric speaker verification using data augmentation and feature fusion	7
Efficient time-domain speech separation using short encoded sequence network	7
Fundamental frequency feature warping for frequency normalization and data augmentation in child automatic speech recognition	7
Controllable speech synthesis by learning discrete phoneme-level prosodic representations	7
Space-and-speaker-aware acoustic modeling with effective data augmentation for recognition of multi-array conversational speech	7
Robustness of emotion recognition in dialogue systems: A study on third-party API integrations and black-box attacks	6
Accurate synthesis of dysarthric Speech for ASR data augmentation	6
Assessing Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairment for breast cancer survivors with speech analysis	6
Increasing speech intelligibility and naturalness in noise based on concepts of modulation spectrum and modulation transfer function	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Prosodic characteristics of deceptive picture descriptions in Finnish: Acoustics, beliefs, self-evaluations, and deception theories	6
Consonant gemination in Italian: The affricate and fricative case	6
The perception of intonational peaks and valleys: The effects of plateaux, declination and experimental task	6
Robust prosody modeling for synthetic speech detection	6