Herman Kamper

31 papers · 2017–2025 · 6 venues · across top CS/AI venues

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🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (42) 🌍 Conference Polyglot · Silver 🏃 Academic Marathon · Sprint 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge · Silver 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird

🏠 Conference Loyalist (25) 🏆 Keyword Champion (3) 👥 Mega-Team · Squad ⚡ Prolific Year · Productive 🔥 Unstoppable · Bronze 💎 Century Club · Bronze 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (5) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (128)

Venues

Interspeech (25) EACL (2) EMNLP (1) ICML (1) NAACL (1) NeurIPS (1)

Top co-authors

Benjamin Van Niekerk (8) Leanne Nortje (7) Karen Livescu (5) Sharon Goldwater (4) Matthew Baas (3) Arnu Pretorius (3) Adam Lopez (3) Elan van Biljon (3) Sameer Bansal (3) Yevgen Matusevych (2)

Research topics

Machine Learning (21) Learning Types · Machine Learning (16) Artificial Intelligence (12) Speech & Audio (12) Core Methods (9) Deep Learning (8) Core AI (8) Learning Paradigms (7) Natural Language Processing (6) Applications (5) Architectures (5) Recognition (5) Analysis (4) Application Areas (4) Learning Types · Deep Learning (4)

Keywords

unsupervised learning (6) low-resource language (6) visually grounded speech (4) transfer learning (4) few-shot learning (4) keyword spotting (4) self-supervised learning (4) acoustic unit discovery (4) speech translation (3) dynamic time warping (3) speech recognition (3) visual grounding (3) vector quantization (3) acoustic word embedding (3) voice conversion (3) representation learning (3) variational autoencoder (2) discrete representation (2) cross-lingual transfer (2) multimodal learning (2)

Papers

LinearVC: Linear Transformations of Self-Supervised Features Through the Lens of Voice Conversion Interspeech 2025 Spoken Language Modeling with Duration-Penalized Self-Supervised Units Interspeech 2025 The mutual exclusivity bias of bilingual visually grounded speech models Interspeech 2025 Spoken-Term Discovery using Discrete Speech Units Interspeech 2024 Translating speech with just images Interspeech 2024 Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting for Few-Shot Spoken Word Classification Through Meta-Learning Interspeech 2023 Towards hate speech detection in low-resource languages: Comparing ASR to acoustic word embeddings on Wolof and Swahili Interspeech 2023 Visually grounded few-shot word acquisition with fewer shots Interspeech 2023 Voice Conversion With Just Nearest Neighbors Interspeech 2023 A Temporal Extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery Interspeech 2022 Voice Conversion Can Improve ASR in Very Low-Resource Settings Interspeech 2022 Analyzing Speaker Information in Self-Supervised Models to Improve Zero-Resource Speech Processing Interspeech 2021 A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processing EACL 2021 Attention-Based Keyword Localisation in Speech Using Visual Grounding Interspeech 2021 Direct Multimodal Few-Shot Learning of Speech and Images Interspeech 2021 Multilingual Transfer of Acoustic Word Embeddings Improves When Training on Languages Related to the Target Zero-Resource Language Interspeech 2021 Towards Unsupervised Phone and Word Segmentation Using Self-Supervised Vector-Quantized Neural Networks Interspeech 2021 Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages EMNLP 2020 Unsupervised vs. Transfer Learning for Multimodal One-Shot Matching of Speech and Images Interspeech 2020 Vector-Quantized Neural Networks for Acoustic Unit Discovery in the ZeroSpeech 2020 Challenge Interspeech 2020 Feature Exploration for Almost Zero-Resource ASR-Free Keyword Spotting Using a Multilingual Bottleneck Extractor and Correspondence Autoencoders Interspeech 2019 On the Contributions of Visual and Textual Supervision in Low-Resource Semantic Speech Retrieval Interspeech 2019 Pre-training on high-resource speech recognition improves low-resource speech-to-text translation NAACL 2019 Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery for Speech Synthesis Using Discrete Latent-Variable Neural Networks Interspeech 2019 Critical initialisation for deep signal propagation in noisy rectifier neural networks NeurIPS 2018 Fast ASR-free and Almost Zero-resource Keyword Spotting Using DTW and CNNs for Humanitarian Monitoring Interspeech 2018 Learning Dynamics of Linear Denoising Autoencoders ICML 2018 Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation Interspeech 2018 Query-by-Example Search with Discriminative Neural Acoustic Word Embeddings Interspeech 2017 Towards speech-to-text translation without speech recognition EACL 2017 Visually Grounded Learning of Keyword Prediction from Untranscribed Speech Interspeech 2017