Natarajan Balaji Shankar

16 papers A 3Misc 2Journal 8Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Mind the Shift: Using Delta SSL Embeddings to Enhance Child ASR.
CoRR
Zilai Wang, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Kaiyuan Zhang, Zihan Wang, Abeer Alwan
2026 J jnl
STACodec: Semantic Token Assignment for Balancing Acoustic Fidelity and Semantic Information in Audio Codecs.
CoRR
Kaiyuan Zhang, Mohan Shi, Eray Eren, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Zilai Wang, Abeer Alwan
2025 J jnl
Benchmarking Training Paradigms, Dataset Composition, and Model Scaling for Child ASR in ESPnet.
CoRR
Anyu Ying, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Mohan Shi, Pu Wang, Hye-jin Shim, Siddhant Arora, Hugo Van hamme, Abeer Alwan, Shinji Watanabe
2025 A conf
CHSER: A Dataset and Case Study on Generative Speech Error Correction for Child ASR.
INTERSPEECH
Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Zilai Wang, Kaiyuan Zhang, Mohan Shi, Abeer Alwan
2025 Misc conf
Selective Attention Merging for low resource tasks: A case study of Child ASR.
ICASSP
Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Zilai Wang, Eray Eren, Abeer A. Alwan
2025 J jnl
Selective Attention Merging for low resource tasks: A case study of Child ASR.
CoRR
Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Zilai Wang, Eray Eren, Abeer Alwan
2024 A conf
Benchmarking Children's ASR with Supervised and Self-supervised Speech Foundation Models.
INTERSPEECH
Ruchao Fan, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Abeer Alwan
2024 J jnl
Benchmarking Children's ASR with Supervised and Self-supervised Speech Foundation Models.
CoRR
Ruchao Fan, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Abeer Alwan
2024 Misc conf
CORAAL QA: A Dataset and Framework for Open Domain Spontaneous Speech Question Answering from Long Audio Files.
ICASSP
Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Alexander Johnson, Christina Chance, Hariram Veeramani, Abeer Alwan
2024 — conf
Large Language Model-based Pipeline for Item Difficulty and Response Time Estimation for Educational Assessments.
BEA
Hariram Veeramani, Surendrabikram Thapa, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Abeer Alwan
2024 — conf
SOA: Reducing Domain Mismatch in SSL Pipeline by Speech Only Adaptation for Low Resource ASR.
ICASSP Workshops
Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Ruchao Fan, Abeer Alwan
2024 J jnl
SOA: Reducing Domain Mismatch in SSL Pipeline by Speech Only Adaptation for Low Resource ASR.
CoRR
Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Ruchao Fan, Abeer Alwan
2024 J jnl
UniEnc-CASSNAT: An Encoder-Only Non-Autoregressive ASR for Speech SSL Models.
IEEE Signal Process. Lett.
Ruchao Fan, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Abeer Alwan
2024 J jnl
UniEnc-CASSNAT: An Encoder-only Non-autoregressive ASR for Speech SSL Models.
CoRR
Ruchao Fan, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Abeer Alwan
2023 A conf
An Equitable Framework for Automatically Assessing Children's Oral Narrative Language Abilities.
INTERSPEECH
Alexander Johnson, Hariram Veeramani, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Abeer Alwan
2023 — conf
Towards Automatically Assessing Children's Oral Picture Description Tasks.
SLaTE
Hariram Veeramani, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Alexander Johnson, Abeer Alwan