Carol Espy-Wilson
Distinguished University Professor
Studies speech acoustics, speech recognition and speech-based detection of mental health conditions.
Carol Espy-Wilson's lab at UMD works on speech recognition & spoken language, music, audio & sound and recognition, detection & segmentation. 37 papers since 2023, 22 at top venues, mostly Interspeech and ICASSP. 6 PhD students. 76 alumni, most often to Amazon and Apple.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 10/ year
- at T1 venues
- 59%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 76
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 12 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 11 papers2025 · T1 9
- 7 papers2024 · T1 3
- 7 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Interspeech, ICASSP, HRI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech recognition & spoken language24 papers
- speech24 papers
- Music, audio & sound4 papers
- Recognition, detection & segmentation4 papers
- conditions0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202612 papers
- IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Palermo, Italy , accepted to be publishedA Temporally Sensitive Approach For Deriving Tongue Contours From Ultrasound Image Sequences Using Learned Signed Distance Fields
- IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Palermo, Italy , accepted to be publishedACDI: Quantifying Articulatory Coordination as a Biomarker for Schizophrenia
- ICASSP (T1)Acoustic and Facial Markers of Perceived Conversational Success in Spontaneous Speech
- Interspeech (T1)Articulatory Entrainment and Coordination Complexity in Spontaneous Autistic and Non-autistic Dialogue
- —Cross-language stop and nasal timings quantified using speech inversion, Accepted to be published at LabPhon20 2026.
- J Acoust Soc Am. May 1;159(5):3988-3998. PubMed PMID: 42112822Depression, speech intelligibility, and articulatory coordination
- —Differences in Facial Synchrony Across Autistic and Non-Autistic Dyads During Naturalistic Conversations, INSAR 2026 Annual Meeting, April 2026.
- —Global Articulatory Entrainment and Conversational Success in Spontaneous Dyadic Speech, ASA Spring 2026 Annual Meeting, May 2026.
- Ultrafest XII, Paris , France, accepted to be publishedLeveraging Co-Collected Ultrasound and EMA to Estimate Pharyngeal Constriction
- Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 69 (2): 541:561. DOI: 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00515Perceptual Ratings Predict Speech Inversion Articulatory Kinematics in Childhood Speech Sound Disorders
- Interspeech (T1)Towards Language-Agnostic Speech Inversion
- ICASSP (T1)Towards Noise-Robust Speech Inversion Through Multi-Task Learning with Speech Enhancement
202511 papers
- —Acoustic to Articulatory Speech Inversion for Children with Velopharyngeal Insufficiency, Proceedings of IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) Workshop, Dec
- Interspeech (T1)Analyzing the Impact of Accent on English Speech: Acoustic and Articulatory Perspectives
- ICASSP (T1)CPT-Boosted Wav2vec2.0: Towards Noise Robust Speech Recognition for Classroom Environments
- Interspeech (T1)Enhancing Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion by Incorporating Nasality
- Interspeech (T1)From Weak Labels to Strong Results: Utilizing 5,000 Hours of Noisy Classroom Transcripts with Minimal Accurate Data
- Interspeech (T1)FT-Boosted SV: Towards Noise Robust Speaker Verification for English Speaking Classroom Environments
- Interspeech (T1)Multimodal Biomarkers for Schizophrenia: Towards Individual Symptom Severity Estimation
- ICASSP (T1)Self-supervised Multimodal Speech Representations for the Assessment of Schizophrenia Symptoms
- HRI (T1)Speaking with Robots in Noisy Environments
- ICASSPWSpeech-Based Estimation of Schizophrenia Severity Using Feature Fusion
- Interspeech (T1)Subtyping Speech Errors in Childhood Speech Sound Disorders with Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion
20247 papers
- EMBCA multi-modal approach for identifying schizophrenia using cross-modal attention
- Interspeech (T1)A Multimodal Framework for the Assessment of the Schizophrenia Spectrum
- Interspeech (T1)Accent Conversion with Articulatory Representations
- Interspeech (T1)Examining Vocal Tract Coordination in Childhood Apraxia of Speech with Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion Feature Sets
- European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 306-310Improving speech inversion through self-supervised embeddings and enhanced tract variables
- adults. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 7, 74-80Kid-whisper: Towards bridging the performance gap in automatic speech recognition for children vs
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(2), 1380-1390Speaker-independent speech inversion for recovery of velopharyngeal port constriction degree
20237 papers
- Interspeech (T1)Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion Features for Mispronunciation Detection of /ɹ/ in Child Speech Sound Disorders
- EUSIPCOAudio Data Augmentation for Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion
- Interspeech (T1)Enhancing Speech Articulation Analysis Using A Geometric Transformation of the X-ray Microbeam Dataset
- Interspeech (T1)Learning to Compute the Articulatory Representations of Speech with the MIRRORNET
- ICASSP (T1)Masked Autoencoders are Articulatory Learners
- Interspeech (T1)Speaker-independent Speech Inversion for Estimation of Nasalance
- ICASSP (T1)The Secret Source: Incorporating Source Features to Improve Acoustic-To-Articulatory Speech Inversion
Where alumni went76 listed, 100% to industry
Industry 11Academia 0
Most often to
- Amazon
- Apple
- Envestnet Inc.
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