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Paediatric-HGNN: A Hybrid Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Detecting Disfluency in Children's Speech via Multiscale Acoustic Fusion

arXiv CS Tuesday 09 June 2026, 04:00 UTC By Rashini Liyanarachchi, Rachael Mackay, Alison Short, Aditya Joshi, Erik Meijering 1 min read
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Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated stuttering detection (ASD) systems struggle with paediatric speech due to high acoustic variability in developing voices and the subtle distinction between pathological stuttering and typical developmental disfluencies. We introduce Paediatric-HGNN, a framework using a Context-aware Part-whole Interaction Network (CaPIN) tailored for paediatric data. Instead of conventional 1D signal modelling, our approach builds a heterogeneous graph capturing...

arXiv:2606.08210v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated stuttering detection (ASD) systems struggle with paediatric speech due to high acoustic variability in developing voices and the subtle distinction between pathological stuttering and typical developmental disfluencies. We introduce Paediatric-HGNN, a framework using a Context-aware Part-whole Interaction Network (CaPIN) tailored for paediatric data. Instead of conventional 1D signal modelling, our approach builds a heterogeneous graph capturing hierarchical relationships between lexical units (word nodes) and fine-grained acoustic segments (frame nodes). Trained on curated paediatric corpora (UCLASS and FluencyBank), Paediatric-HGNN achieves 82.4% weighted accuracy and a Typical Disfluency F1-score of 0.386. Modelling hierarchical lexical-acoustic interactions captures developmental "searching" behaviour, offering a more robust and interpretable tool for early clinical intervention.
Multiscale Acoustic Fusion arXiv:2606.08210v1 (ORG) Interaction Network (ORG) UCLASS (ORG) FluencyBank (ORG) Paediatric-HGNN (ORG)
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