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Yasser Shekofteh

@shekofteh.bsky.social
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Assistant professor at Shahid University, Intelligent Sound Processing Lab (ISP-Lab)

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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Delighted to share our paper in Springer’s MTAP: “APEDM: a new voice casting system using acoustic–phonetic encoder-decoder mapping” 🎙️🧠 Introducing a novel non-linear mapping framework for cross-lingual dubbing (EN ➡️ FA) using E2PCast. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SpeechProcessing
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APEDM: a new voice casting system using acoustic–phonetic encoder-decoder mapping - Multimedia Tools and Applications
Voice casting is one of the most crucial aspects of dubbing and localization, which consists of adapting audio-visual content from one language and culture to another. Dubbing is widely used in variou...
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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Excited to share our paper in Springer’s SIVP: “E2PCast: an English to Persian voice casting dataset” 🎙️🎬 Introducing the first dataset for cross-lingual dubbing & voice casting (EN ➡️ FA) with benchmark evaluations. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SpeechProcessing #VoiceCasting #AudioAI
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E2PCast: an English to Persian voice casting dataset - Signal, Image and Video Processing
Voice casting has always been challenging in the multimedia industry. Recent research shows that voice casting can be done with the help of speaker recognition methods. In this paper, the first datase...
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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🎙️ Can phase space dynamics boost ASR? Most speech systems ignore signal phase. In our paper in SIVP, we use Recurrence Plots + 2D Adaptive Wavelets to capture non-linear dynamics. 📄 Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SpeechAI #ASR #SignalProcessing #MachineLearning
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Improvement of automatic speech recognition systems utilizing 2D adaptive wavelet transformation applied to recurrence plot of speech trajectories - Signal, Image and Video Processing
Spectral-based features, typically used in ASR systems, do not capture the phase information of speech signals. Thus, exploiting new features that do not ignore the phase of the signal can be a comple...
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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Low-level acoustic features (MFCCs) only tell half the story in voice pathology detection. What happens when we introduce phonetic-based features (PPPs) into deep learning models? 🧵 Our paper in IJST (Springer) explores this: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SpeechAI #Acoustics #Phonetics
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Evaluation of phone posterior probabilities for pathology detection in speech data using deep learning models - International Journal of Speech Technology
Voice pathology detection (VPD) aims to accurately identify voice impairments by analyzing speech signals. This study proposes models based on deep learning (DL) for binary classification to distingui...
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Springer @springer.springernature.com · 30/09/2026
#InternationalTranslationDay: From cognition and theory to the impact of new technologies, explore the changing field of translation studies. 'New Thoughts on Translation' brings together the latest ideas from leading translator Jun Xu: bit.ly/4hkwYsS #Linguistics 💙📚🧠💬
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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Low-level acoustic features (MFCCs) only tell half the story in voice pathology detection. What happens when we introduce phonetic-based features (PPPs) into deep learning models? 🧵 Our paper in IJST (Springer) explores this: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SpeechAI #Acoustics #Phonetics
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Evaluation of phone posterior probabilities for pathology detection in speech data using deep learning models - International Journal of Speech Technology
Voice pathology detection (VPD) aims to accurately identify voice impairments by analyzing speech signals. This study proposes models based on deep learning (DL) for binary classification to distingui...
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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎙️ Can spontaneous speech improve voice pathology detection? Moving beyond sustained vowels & read speech, our study uses CNNs on MFCC features from natural, spontaneous speech—capturing real-world acoustic nuances & reaching ~92% eval ACC. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SpeechTech #HealthAI
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Voice pathology detection on spontaneous speech data using deep learning models - International Journal of Speech Technology
Speech problems are a common issue that affects people everywhere and can affect the quality of their lives. The human speech production system involves various components. Dysfunction of any of these...
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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Delighted to share our paper in Springer’s MTAP: “APEDM: a new voice casting system using acoustic–phonetic encoder-decoder mapping” 🎙️🧠 Introducing a novel non-linear mapping framework for cross-lingual dubbing (EN ➡️ FA) using E2PCast. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SpeechProcessing
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APEDM: a new voice casting system using acoustic–phonetic encoder-decoder mapping - Multimedia Tools and Applications
Voice casting is one of the most crucial aspects of dubbing and localization, which consists of adapting audio-visual content from one language and culture to another. Dubbing is widely used in variou...
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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Excited to share our paper in Springer’s SIVP: “E2PCast: an English to Persian voice casting dataset” 🎙️🎬 Introducing the first dataset for cross-lingual dubbing & voice casting (EN ➡️ FA) with benchmark evaluations. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SpeechProcessing #VoiceCasting #AudioAI
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E2PCast: an English to Persian voice casting dataset - Signal, Image and Video Processing
Voice casting has always been challenging in the multimedia industry. Recent research shows that voice casting can be done with the help of speaker recognition methods. In this paper, the first datase...
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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In our new paper in IEEE Access, we use Log-Area Ratios (LARs) + a novel Conditional Speaker Normalization (CSN) conditioned on speaker proxies (e.g. height) to detect synthetic speech reliably on ASVspoof & FoR. ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc... #DeepfakeDetection #SpeechAI #AudioDeepfake
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Conditional Speaker Normalization of Vocal Tract Shape Features for Robust Synthetic Speech Detection
The rapid advancement of text-to-speech and voice conversion technologies has significantly improved the quality of synthetic speech, posing increasing challenges for developing reliable detection cou...
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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🎙️ Does knowing a speaker’s gender actually boost speaker recognition? In our latest paper in Soft Computing (Springer), we explore gender effects via bio-inspired filterbanks (Gammatone, Cascade, etc.) 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SpeechProcessing #AudioAI #AudioDeepFake #ISPlab
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Exploring gender effects in speaker recognition systems through frequency domain analysis by convolutional neural networks - Soft Computing
Advances in deep learning have led to significant progress in the field of speech processing, particularly in applications such as speaker recognition systems (SRSs). Additional information such as ge...
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Yasser Shekofteh @shekofteh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
) 🎙️ Are synthetic speech artifacts evenly distributed across phonemes? Not quite! In our latest paper in MTAP, we propose a phonetic-driven framework using PPGs & phoneme pruning, boosting anti-spoofing performance on ASVspoof 2019 LA. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SpeechAI #AudioDeepfake
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