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Transformer Model and Mandarin Speech Dataset Target Audio-Based Kinship Verification
Researchers introduce CONVTRAP-TN, a transformer-based architecture designed to determine whether two speakers share a first-order family relationship using only audio. The work also releases a new uncontrolled Mandarin kinship speech dataset and reports an ablation study on the model's components. Kinship verification from voice is a relatively underexplored area, and the Mandarin dataset addresses a gap in multilingual resources.