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Xinwei Cao

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Xinwei Cao

PhD student
Department of Electronic Systems

xinwei.cao@ntnu.no
+49 152 26795174 Elektro C, Gløshaugen
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Publications

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2026

  • Cao, Xinwei; Lu, Mengxuan; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2026) Local Diagnostics of Continuous Normalizing Flow for Out-of-Distribution Detection. arXiv.org
    Academic article
  • Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2026) Segmentation-Free Goodness of Pronunciation. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
    Academic article

2025

  • Fan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2025) Improving Phone Recognition through Informed Initialization and Path-Aligned CTC Loss.
    Academic chapter
  • Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2025) Child speech assessment through large language model speech synthesis: Preliminary results.
    Academic chapter

2024

  • Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2024) A Framework for Phoneme-Level Pronunciation Assessment Using CTC. Interspeech
    Academic article
  • Fan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2024) Towards Better Recognition of Spontaneous Children's Speech: Speaker-Clustering Fine-Tuning of Whisper. Machine Learning for Signal Processing
    Academic article
  • Olstad, Anne Marte Haug; Smolander, Anna; Strömbergsson, Sofia; Ylinen, Sari; Lehtonen, Minna; Kurimo, Mikko; Getman, Yaroslav; Grósz, Tamás; Cao, Xinwei; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2024) Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children’s Pronunciation of Nordic Languages. Proceedings of LREC
    Academic article

2023

  • Fan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2023) Using Modified Adult Speech as Data Augmentation for Child Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
    Academic article
  • Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2023) An Analysis of Goodness of Pronunciation for Child Speech. Interspeech
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Cao, Xinwei; Lu, Mengxuan; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2026) Local Diagnostics of Continuous Normalizing Flow for Out-of-Distribution Detection. arXiv.org
    Academic article
  • Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2026) Segmentation-Free Goodness of Pronunciation. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
    Academic article
  • Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2024) A Framework for Phoneme-Level Pronunciation Assessment Using CTC. Interspeech
    Academic article
  • Fan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2024) Towards Better Recognition of Spontaneous Children's Speech: Speaker-Clustering Fine-Tuning of Whisper. Machine Learning for Signal Processing
    Academic article
  • Fan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2023) Using Modified Adult Speech as Data Augmentation for Child Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
    Academic article
  • Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2023) An Analysis of Goodness of Pronunciation for Child Speech. Interspeech
    Academic article
  • Olstad, Anne Marte Haug; Smolander, Anna; Strömbergsson, Sofia; Ylinen, Sari; Lehtonen, Minna; Kurimo, Mikko; Getman, Yaroslav; Grósz, Tamás; Cao, Xinwei; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2024) Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children’s Pronunciation of Nordic Languages. Proceedings of LREC
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Fan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2025) Improving Phone Recognition through Informed Initialization and Path-Aligned CTC Loss.
    Academic chapter
  • Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2025) Child speech assessment through large language model speech synthesis: Preliminary results.
    Academic chapter

Outreach

2025

  • Conference lecture
    Fan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2025) Improving Phone Recognition through Informed Initialization and Path-Aligned CTC Loss. 2025 IEEE 35th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)
  • Conference lecture
    Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2025) Child speech assessment through large language model speech synthesis: Preliminary results. 2025 IEEE 35th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)

2024

  • Blog post
    Cao, Xinwei. (2024) Kos-Interspeech2024.
  • Conference lecture
    Olstad, Anne Marte Haug; Smolander, Anna; Strömbergsson, Sofia; Ylinen, Sari; Lehtonen, Minna; Kurimo, Mikko; Getman, Yaroslav; Grósz, Tamás; Cao, Xinwei; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2024) Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children’s Pronunciation of Nordic Languages. LREC-COLING
  • Conference lecture
    Fan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2024) Towards Better Recognition of Spontaneous Children's Speech: Speaker-Clustering Fine-Tuning of Whisper. chine Learning for Signal Processing
  • Conference lecture
    Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2024) Framework for Phoneme-Level Pronunciation Assessment Using CTC. Interspeech

2023

  • Blog post
    Cao, Xinwei. (2023) Interspeech 2023.
  • Conference lecture
    Fan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2023) Using Modified Adult Speech as Data Augmentation for Child Speech Recognition. ICASSP
  • Conference lecture
    Cao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2023) An Analysis of Goodness of Pronunciation for Child Speech. Interspeech

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