María Lara Gauder

CONICET PhD Scholarship @ Depto. De Computación, FCEN UBA / ICC, CONICET

Mail: mgauder at dc uba ar 

Bio

Degree in Computer Science, FCEN, UBA. She has currently a PhD scholarship at CONICET under the supervision of Dr. Luciana Ferrer. The thesis is entitled “Automatic detection of meta-information in speech signals”. She is also working on the project “Detecting Distrust Towards a Virtual Assistant from the User’s Speech”. 

Interests

  • Speech Processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Emotion Detection

Articles

Link Google Scholar

Selection:

  • Lara Gauder, Leonardo Pepino, Luciana Ferrer and Pablo Riera, “Alzheimer Disease Recognition Using Speech-Based Embeddings From Pre-Trained Models”, Interspeech, Czechia (September 2021)
  • Ramiro H. Gálvez, Lara Gauder, Jordi Luque, Agustín Gravano., “A unifying framework for modeling acoustic/prosodic entrainment: definition and evaluation on two large corpora”, SIGdial (July 2020)
  • Lara Gauder, Agustín Gravano, Luciana Ferrer, Pablo Riera and Silvina Brussino, “A protocol for collecting speech data with varying degrees of trust”, Speech, Music and Mind: Detecting and Influencing Mental States with Audio, Austria (September 2019)
  • Pablo Riera, Luciana Ferrer, Agustín Gravano and Lara Gauder, “No Sample Left Behind: Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation of Speech Emotion Recognition Systems”, Speech, Music and Mind: Detecting and Influencing Mental States with Audio, Austria (September 2019)
  • Lara Gauder, Marisol Reartes, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Stefan Benus and Agustín Gravano, “Testing the Effects of Acoustic/Prosodic Entrainment on User Behavior at the Dialog-Act Level”, Speech Prosody 9, Poland (January 2018)

Resources and presentations

Database: Trust-UBA, https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05977

Presentation: Lara Gauder, Leonardo Pepino, “A Study on the Manifestation of Trust in Speech”, ISCA SIG-SPSC, Security and Privacy in Speech Communication, Webinar and café sessions (February 2021)

Presentation: Lara Gauder, Leonardo Pepino, “Automatic Detection of Degree of Trust from Speech”, ASAI 2020 – Simposio Argentino de Inteligencia Artificial, Argentina (October 2020)

Poster: Lara Gauder, Pablo Riera, Agustín Gravano, Luciana Ferrer, “Emotion Classification from Speech using Prosodic and Spectral Attributes”, Machine Learning Summer School, Buenos Aires, Argentina (July 2018)