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CBF-AFA: Chunk-Based Multi-SSL Fusion for Automatic Fluency Assessment
Papa S\'ega Wade, Mihai Andries, Ioannis Kanellos, Thierry Moudenc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20243

CBF-AFA: Chunk-Based Multi-SSL Fusion for Automatic Fluency Assessment
Automatic fluency assessment (AFA) remains challenging, particularly in capturing speech rhythm, pauses, and disfluencies in non-native speakers. We introduce a chunk-based approach integrating self-supervised learning (SSL) models (Wav2Vec2, HuBERT, and WavLM) selected for their complementary strengths in phonetic, prosodic, and noisy speech modeling, with a hierarchical CNN-BiLSTM framework. Speech is segmented into breath-group chunks using Silero voice activity detection (Silero-VAD), enabl…

A Robust Method for Pitch Tracking in the Frequency Following Response using Harmonic Amplitude Summation Filterbank
Sajad Sadeghkhani, Maryam Karimi Boroujeni, Hilmi R. Dajani, Saeid R. Seydnejad, Christian Gigu\`ere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19253

A Robust Method for Pitch Tracking in the Frequency Following Response using Harmonic Amplitude Summation Filterbank
The Frequency Following Response (FFR) reflects the brain's neural encoding of auditory stimuli including speech. Because the fundamental frequency (F0), a physical correlate of pitch, is one of the essential features of speech, there has been particular interest in characterizing the FFR at F0, especially when F0 varies over time. The standard method for extracting F0 in FFRs has been the Autocorrelation Function (ACF). This paper investigates harmonic-structure-based F0 estimation algorithms,…

Will do a proper #FieldDiary tomorrow but suffice to say, today went even better than hoped. Instruments behaved, weather cooperated our local hunter friend got us smoothly into the field. Looking forward to seeing what it all means now...
(Background: http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/20/falling-apart/)

Welcome to the Update Computer Club!
International Open #Hackerspace Day
March 29, 15:00 – open end
Svartbäcksgatan 65, 753 33 #Uppsala
The event is #free and open to eve…

Spike layered solutions for elliptic systems on Riemannian Manifolds
Anusree R Kannoth, Bhakti Bhusan Manna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20300 https://

Spike layered solutions for elliptic systems on Riemannian Manifolds
In this article, we study the following Hamiltonian system: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \begin{aligned} &-\varepsilon^{2}Δ_{g} u +u = |v|^{q-1}v, &-\varepsilon^{2}Δ_{g} v +v = |u|^{p-1}u && \text{ in } \mathcal{M}, & \quad u,v >0 && \text{ in } \mathcal{M}, \end{aligned} \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\mathcal{M}$ is a smooth, compact and connected Riemannian manifold of dimension $N\geq 3$ without boundary. The exponents $p,q>1$ are assumed to lie be…

On Gy\'arf\'as' Path-Colour Problem
Ben Cameron, Alexander Clow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19100 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

On Gyárfás' Path-Colour Problem
In their 1997 paper titled ``Fruit Salad", Gyárfás posed the following conjecture: there exists a constant $k$ such that if each path of a graph spans a $3$-colourable subgraph, then the graph is $k$-colourable. It is noted that $k=4$ might suffice. Let $r(G)$ be the maximum chromatic number of any subgraph $H$ of $G$ where $H$ is spanned by a path. The only progress on this conjecture comes from Randerath and Schiermeyer in 2002, who proved that if $G$ is an $n$ vertex graph, then $χ(G) \le…

🚀 Kubernetes Meetup in Nuremberg! 🇩🇪
Join us on June 2nd for an evening of tech talks, networking, and community fun at the next CNCF Meetup!
🎤 Speakers:
🔹 Sarah Julia Kriesch – Docker vs Podman and the Universe
🔹 Philip Laine – Spegel: A Stateless OCI Registry Mirror
📍 Location: Coworking-Space Nürnberg
🕕 18:00: Doors open for networking
🕡 18:30: Talks begin
🔗 Sign up here:

Elizabeth Warren Calls for DHS Secretary Noem’s Resignation Following Padilla Incident
“The Trump administration is trying to undermine free speech in this country,”
Warren said during an interview.
https://truthout.org/articles/warren-c

Elizabeth Warren Calls for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to Resign Following Padilla Incident
“The Trump administration is trying to undermine free speech in this country,” Warren said during an interview.

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Thermal phase slips in superconducting films
Mikhail A. Skvortsov, Artem V. Polkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18130 https://arxiv.org…

Thermal phase slips in superconducting films
A dissipationless supercurrent state in superconductors can be destroyed by thermal fluctuations. Thermally activated phase slips provide a finite resistance of the sample and are responsible for dark counts in superconducting single photon detectors. The activation barrier for a phase slip is determined by a space-dependent saddle-point (instanton) configuration of the order parameter. In the one-dimensional wire geometry, such a saddle point has been analytically obtained by Langer and Ambega…