Shrikanth Narayanan
Niki and Max Nikias Chair in Engineering and University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Pediatrics, and Otolaryngology
Leads SAIL on speech and multimodal signal processing, behavioral signal analysis and human-centered machine intelligence.
Shrikanth Narayanan's lab at USC works on speech recognition & spoken language, speech enhancement & signal processing and multimodal & grounded language. 162 papers since 2023, 71 at top venues, mostly ICASSP and Interspeech. 24 PhD students. 88 alumni, most often to Amazon and Apple. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 42/ year
- at T1 venues
- 44%
- PhD students
- 24
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 88
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 50 papers2026 · T1 22 · collecting
- 38 papers2025 · T1 20
- 29 papers2024 · T1 12
- 45 papers2023 · T1 17
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICASSP, Interspeech, EMNLP, ACL, ACM MM
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech recognition & spoken language71 papers
- Speech enhancement & signal processing56 papers
- Multimodal & grounded language26 papers
- signal2 papers
- machine intelligence0 papers
Paper list
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202650 papers
- ICASSP (T1)A Long-Form Single-Speaker Real-Time MRI Speech Dataset and Benchmark (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and LearningA Multi-dimensional Framework for Evaluating Generalization in EEG Foundation Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)A Point Process Model of Skin Conductance Responses in a Stroop Task for Predicting Depression and Suicidal Ideation (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)AdaLTM: Adaptive Layer-wise Task Vector Merging for Categorical Speech Emotion Recognition with ASR Knowledge Integration (opens in a new tab)
- Circuits, Systems, and Signal ProcessingAddressing Dysarthric Speech Variability with Severity-Aware Fine-Tuning of Transformer-Based Wav2vec2 ASR Models: P. Sapkota, HK Kathania, S. Narayanan, SR Kadiri
- Interspeech (T1)An Approach to Simultaneous Acquisition of Real-Time MRI Video, EEG, and Surface EMG for Articulatory, Brain, and Muscle Activity During Speech Production (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Arti-6: Towards six-dimensional Articulatory Speech Encoding (opens in a new tab)
- Speech ProsodyArticulatory kinematics of penultimate and final lengthening in Setswana: Evidence from real-time MRI (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) WorkshopsAssessing Visual Privacy Risks in Multimodal AI: A Novel Taxonomy-Grounded Evaluation of Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease MonitoringAssociation of majority versus minority first language multilingualism and socioeconomic status with cognition among older adults residing in India (opens in a new tab)
- TASLP (T1)CapSpeech: Enabling Downstream Applications in Style-Captioned Text-to-Speech (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)ChildVox: A Speech, Audio, and Large Audio-Language Model Benchmark in Understanding and Characterizing Sound across Childhood (opens in a new tab)
202538 papers
- Interspeech (T1)75-Speaker Annot-16: A benchmark dataset for speech articulatory rt-MRI annotation with articulator contours and phonetic alignment (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Open Journal of Signal ProcessingAdversarial Robustness of Self-Supervised Learning Features (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language TechnologiesAggregation Artifacts in Subjective Tasks Collapse Large Language Models' Posteriors (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Articulatory Feature Prediction from Surface EMG during Speech Production (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Consulting and Clinical PsychologyAssociation of Machine Learning Rated Supportive Counseling Skills with Psychotherapy Outcome
- Speech Communication (T1)Automatic classification of vocal intensity categories from amplitude-normalized speech signals by comparing acoustic features and classifier models (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Signal Processing LettersCan Layer-wise SSL Features Improve Zero-Shot ASR Performance for Children's Speech? (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Can Multimodal Foundation Models Help Analyze Child-Inclusive Autism Diagnostic Videos? (opens in a new tab)
- JASA Express LettersCan speech foundation models effectively identify languages in low-resource multilingual aging populations? (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Narrative Understanding Worlkshop at the Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language TechnologiesCHATTER: A Character Attribution Dataset for Narrative Understanding
- Interspeech (T1)Co-registration of real-time MRI and respiration for speech research (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing ResearchConversational Latency in Autistic Children With Heterogeneous Spoken Language Abilities (opens in a new tab)
202429 papers
- Interspeech (T1)Analysis of articulatory setting for L1 and L2 English speakers using MRI data (opens in a new tab)
- Ophthalmology ScienceArtificial Intelligence to Differentiate Pediatric Pseudopapilledema and True Papilledema on Fundus Photographs (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Audio-Visual Child-Adult Speaker Classification in Dyadic Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- Artificial Intelligence in HealthBenchmarking machine learning missing data imputation methods in large-scale mental health survey databases
- Journal of VoiceCan a Machine Distinguish High and Low Amount of Social Creak in Speech?
- Interspeech (T1)Can Synthetic Audio From Generative Foundation Models Assist Audio Recognition and Speech Modeling? (opens in a new tab)
- ICMICan Text-to-image Model Assist Multi-modal Learning for Visual Recognition with Visual Modality Missing? (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Character Attribute Extraction from Movie Scripts Using LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)ConPro: Learning Severity Representation for Medical Images using Contrastive Learning and Preference Optimization
- Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual MeetingDifferences in Self-Rated Worker Outcomes Across Stress States: An Interim Analysis of Hybrid Worker Data
- JASA Express LettersDirect articulatory observation reveals phoneme recognition performance characteristics of a self-supervised speech model (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)Does Video Summarization Require Videos? Quantifying the Effectiveness of Language in Video Summarization (opens in a new tab)
202345 papers
- ICASSP (T1)A Context-Aware Computational Approach for Measuring Vocal Entrainment in Dyadic Conversations (opens in a new tab)
- ICASSP (T1)A dataset for Audio-Visual Sound Event Detection in Movies (opens in a new tab)
- Implementation Research and PracticeA machine learning approach to improve implementation monitoring of family-based preventive interventions in primary care (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of VoiceA Machine-Learning Algorithm for the Automated Perceptual Evaluation of Dysphonia Severity (opens in a new tab)
- APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information ProcessingA Review of Speech-centric Trustworthy Machine Learning: Privacy, Safety, and Fairness (opens in a new tab)
- Computer Speech & LanguageA study of bias mitigation strategies for speaker recognition (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEEAn Engineering View on Emotions and Speech: From Analysis and Predictive Models to Responsible Human-Centered Applications (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Open Journal of Signal ProcessingAudio-Visual Activity Guided Cross-Modal Identity Association for Active Speaker Detection (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Beatboxing Kick Drum Kinematics (opens in a new tab)
- Mobile Sensing in PsychologyBehavioral Audio Signal Processing in Mobile Sensing Research
- ICASSP (T1)Can Knowledge of End-to-End Text-to-Speech Models Improve Neural MIDI-to-Audio Synthesis Systems? (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLCharacter Coreference Resolution in Movie Screenplays (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went88 listed, 75% to industry
Industry 46Academia 15
Most often to
- Amazon
- Apple
Also to
- Assoc. Prof. at Duke Kunshan University
- Assoc. Prof. at Indian Institute of Science
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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