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Gerhard Widmer

Publications 2

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Personalized Automatic Speech Recognition for a Dysarthric and Tracheostomic Speaker using Artificial Conversations

David Nadrchal, Monorama Swain, Florian Schmid et al. · 2026

This work presents an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system personalized for a Czech speaker with a permanent tracheal stoma and severe dysarthria rendering their speech unintelligible to untrained listeners. We release a public dataset containing 33 annotated hours of the speaker's speech, collected using a novel …

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On Temporal Binding in Large Audio Language Models

Paul Primus, Gerhard Widmer · 2026

Reasoning about temporal structure of audio recordings requires Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) to associate sound events with their temporal position. Understanding the underlying mechanisms is a first step toward diagnosing failures and identifying model components that may need improvement. Using mechanistic int …

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