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Challenges in Automated Processing of Speech from Child Wearables: The Case of Voice Type Classifier
Tarek Kunze, Marianne M\'etais, Hadrien Titeux, Lucas Elbert, Joseph Coffey, Emmanuel Dupoux, Alejandrina Cristia, Marvin Lavechin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11074

Challenges in Automated Processing of Speech from Child Wearables: The Case of Voice Type Classifier
Recordings gathered with child-worn devices promised to revolutionize both fundamental and applied speech sciences by allowing the effortless capture of children's naturalistic speech environment and language production. This promise hinges on speech technologies that can transform the sheer mounds of data thus collected into usable information. This paper demonstrates several obstacles blocking progress by summarizing three years' worth of experiments aimed at improving one fundamental task: V…