[PRE REVIEW]: Nkululeko 1.0: A Python package to predict speaker characteristics with a high-level interface

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@felixbur<!--end-author-handle-- (Felix Burkhardt) Repository: https://github.com/felixbur/nkululeko Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): Version: v1.0.0 Editor: !--editor-->@faroit<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: Pending Managing EiC: Chris Vernon

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.25080/majora-7b98e3ed-003 is OK
- 10.4018/978-1-7998-3095-5.ch003 is OK
- 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1775 is OK
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0144610 is OK
- 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1456 is OK
- 10.1145/1873951.1874246 is OK

🟡 SKIP DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Nkululeko: A Tool For Rapid Speaker Characteristic...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Spotlight
- No DOI given, and none found for title: wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learn...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: SyntAct : A Synthesized Database of Basic Emotions
- No DOI given, and none found for title: UNCERTAINTY-BASED ENSEMBLE LEARNING FOR SPEECH CLA...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: CHECK YOUR AUDIO DATA : NKULULEKO FOR BIAS DETECTI...

❌ MISSING DOIs

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   642  FBurkhardt
   288  Felix Burkhardt
   208  Bagus Tris Atmaja
    57  bagus@pc-omen
    34  bagustris
    30  felixbur
    18  b-atmaja
    16  B Atmaja

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1867

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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[isdanni]

Happy to review this, I'm working on speech technology and predictive modelling full-time.

[crvernon]

Thanks @isdanni, once I get a topic editor assigned they may reach out.

[crvernon]

@editorialbot invite @faroit as editor

:wave: @faroit - I thought you may be interested in this one. Are you available to take it on as editor?

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Invitation to edit this submission sent!

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@editorialbot assign @faroit as editor

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Assigned! @faroit is now the editor

[faroit]

@crvernon with pleasure

[faroit]

@felixbur 👋 thanks for your submission. I am now going to check for reviewers. Do you have some ideas yourself? If not, I would like to ask some of the people in the speech community like

• https://github.com/fakufaku
• https://github.com/popcornell
• https://github.com/hbredin
• https://github.com/boeddeker
• https://github.com/iver56
• ...

Let me know if any of them would flag a COI wrt to our https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reviewer_guidelines.html#joss-conflict-of-interest-policy