Dr. Wei Xue

About Me

From June 2023 to May 2025, I will work as a postdoc at Department of Language Science and Technology in Saarland University under the supervision of Prof. Bernd Möbius and in association with the SFB 1102 group. The postdoc research is funded by NWO Rubicon grant. In March 2023, I received my PhD from Radboud University, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Dr. Helmer Strik, Prof. Roeland van Hout , and Dr. Catia Cucchiarini . My PhD research was funded by the EU H2020-ITN-ETN-MSCA Training Network on Automatic Processing of PAthological Speech (TAPAS) project, and my PhD research specifically focused on assessing the speech intelligibility of pathological speech. My recent work has focused on experimental methods to study aspects of speech production and perception. Another focus of my recent work is improving auotmatic speech recognition in the assessment of speech quality for impaired speech. In 2021, I conducted my secondment at the University Hospital of Antwerp (UZA) under the co-supervision of Prof. Gwen van Nuffelen. I obtained my Master’s degree from Tianjin University in 2017, and my Bachelor’s degree from Hainan University in 2014.

Research Interests

• linguistics: acoustic-phonetic, speech production & perception, psycholinguistics
• speech technology: automatic speech recognition, machine learning

Publications

• Listener-Oriented Consequences of Predictability-Based Acoustic Adjustment
  Omnia Ibrahim, Ivan Yuen, Wei Xue, Bistra Andreeva, Bernd Möbius
  Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2024, Tagungsband der 35. Konferenz 2024
  [PDF]

• Automatic assessments of dysarthric speech: the usability of acoustic-phonetic features
  Loes van Bemmel, Chiara Pesenti, Wei Xue, Helmer Strik
  Interspeech 2023
  [PDF]

• Measuring the intelligibility of pathological speech through subjective and objective procedures
  Doctoral thesis
  [PDF]

• Measuring speech intelligibility of dysarthric speech through Automatic Speech Recognition in a pluricentric language
  Wei Xue, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik
  Speech Communication, 2023
  [PDF]

• Assessing speech intelligibility of pathological speech in sentences and word lists: the contribution of phoneme-level measures
  Wei Xue, Roeland van Hout, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik
  Journal of Communication Disorders, 2022
  [PDF]

• Assessing speech intelligibility of pathological speech: test types, ratings and transcription measures
  Wei Xue, Roeland van Hout, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik
  Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2021
  [PDF]

• Speech intelligibility of dysarthric speech: human scores and acoustic-phonetic features
  Wei Xue, Roeland van Hout, Fleur Boogmans, Mario Ganzeboom, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik
  Interspeech 2021
  [PDF]

• Towards a comprehensive assessment of speech intelligibility for pathological speech
  Wei Xue, Viviana Mendoza Ramos, Wieke Harmsen, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik
  Interspeech 2020
  [PDF]

• Acoustic correlates of speech intelligibility: the usability of the eGeMAPS feature set for atypical speech
  Wei Xue, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik
  8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education SLaTE 2019 [PDF]

Academic service

• Conference Program Committee at INTERSPEECH 2023

Teaching

2022/2 - 2022/5: Guest lecturer of Spoken Language Processing at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Germany

Personal interests

Cooking, learning languages, traveling, petting cats

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