Improved Tone Modeling for Mandarin Broadcast News Speech Recognition Xin Lei1, Manhung Siu2, Mei-Yuh Hwang1, Mari Ostendorf1, Tan Lee3 1SSLI Lab, Univ. of Washington
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Given labeled training segments from class and class , classify unlabeled test ... Intersession variability modeling in projected space [Collet et al., 2005] ...
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VOICE CONVERSION METHODS FOR VOCAL TRACT AND PITCH CONTOUR MODIFICATION ... oytun@sestek.com.tr arslanle@boun.edu.tr. SESTEK Inc. Bogazi i University ...
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J. Mariani (1991), A. Fourcin, M. Liberman, Lin Chan Lee, K. Choukri, D. Gibbon (2006) ... Chiavari 1991, Banff 1992, Berlin 1993, Yokohama 1994, Madrid 1995, ...
Phil Green Speech and Hearing Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield With thanks to Martin Cooke, Guy Brown, Jon Barker..
Classification of Discourse Functions of Affirmative Words. in Spoken Dialogue ... distinction is insufficient for affirmative cue words in spoken dialogue. ...
Live subtitling with speech recognition Pilot research project and training at the University of Antwerp and Artesis University College. I. Research: Tijs Delbeke ...
... in call centers. Confidence/uncertainty in online tutoring systems. Hot spots in meeting browsers. Generation. Computer games. IVR systems. Other applications ...
Spring 2006. Thomas K Harris & Alexander Rudnicky. Boeing Treasure Hunt ... Task and object types are the bare minimum for a working treasure hunt system. ...
segment the corpus automatically using word list. manually correct segmentation ... 'Word n-gram Probability Estimation from a Japanese Raw Corpus', Shinsuke MORI ...
constructing accurate beliefs in task-oriented spoken dialog systems Dan Bohus Computer Science Department www.cs.cmu.edu/~dbohus Carnegie Mellon University
JNAS (Japanese Newspaper Article Sentences) corpus that includes 306 people and ... FAR is the percentage of non-speech frames incorrectly classified as speech ...
6 papers on Tight Coupling of Speech-to-Speech Translation ... In tight-coupling, ... Tight coupling: Direct search of the best word sequence using segmental model. ...
Combining Phonetic Attributes Using Conditional Random Fields Jeremy Morris and Eric Fosler-Lussier Department of Computer Science and Engineering, OSU
Agust n Gravano, Stefan Benus, H ctor Ch vez, Shira ... Craig's list. http://www.craigslist.org. Category: Gigs Event gigs. Problem: People are unreliable ...
LDA finds a transformation matrix B that maximizes the above function. ... Covariance matrices are treated as diagonal ones here. Performance Comparison Method (cont. ...
On the role of context and prosody in the interpretation of okay' ... Stall / Filler. Back from a task. Literal modifier. Pivot beginning. Pivot ending. count ...
... Emotion recognition accuracy v/s audio sample length Other Sensor Monitors The Accelerometer Monitor infers the current activity( movement and non-movement) ...
... of Phonological Feature Systems Used in Detection-Based ASR,' in Proc. ... Oracle Trained CRF is able to retrieve more phonological information from speech ...
Sinitic: Mandarin. 1. 1. Altaic: Turkic. Altaic: Japonic. 1. 1. Sinitic: ... density languages are major dialects of Arabic, English, Mandarin, and Spanish ...
spoken language interfaces lack robustness when faced with understanding errors. ... U: Huntsville [SEOUL] S: traveling to Seoul. What day did you need to travel? ...
e.g. neural networks, ... discriminative classification model for sequences. ... feature functions are often built around words or spelling features in the text.
Text Normalization based on Statistical Machine Translation and Internet User Support Tim Schlippe, Chenfei Zhu, Jan Gebhardt, Tanja Schultz tim.schlippe@kit.edu
The prosody of finiteness and non-finiteness: the accent of Estonian finite and non-finite verbs Anne Tamm anne.tamm@unifi.it RIL HAS Budapest University of Florence
Characterize the 14 dialects in the Accents of the British Isles database in ... Objective isochrony rejected for good (Roach [1982], Dauer [1983]). 1990s ...
Multilingual HLT in Europe and the development of ASR. Louis C. ... Local Languages (D. Gibbon) regional programs (Europe; Asia; Oceania; Africa; Latin America) ...
Effect of Genre, Speaker, and Word Class on the Realization of Given and New Information Agust n Gravano & Julia Hirschberg {agus, julia}@cs.columbia.edu
Microsoft Research. reference ... We generalize this work and use CRFs with hidden state sequences for modeling speech ... Development set: 15334. Evaluation set: 7333 ...
SLaTe experiments with CRFs. 3. Background. Conditional Random ... SLaTe Experiments ... SLaTe Experiments. Implemented CRF models on data from phonetic ...
Speaker Discrimination: The Challenge of Conversational Data Dissertation Committee Advisor: Robert Yantorno, Ph.D Members: Dennis Silage, Ph.D. Brian Butz, Ph.D.
Did you say you wanted a room on Friday? Implicit Confirmation. a room on Friday ... error handling [this poster] multi-participant dialog (Thomas Harris) ...
Advisor: Robert Yantorno, Ph.D Committee Members: Brian Butz, Ph.D. Dennis Silage, Ph.D. Iyad Obeid, Ph.D. Model Formation and Classification Techniques For ...
Quantile equalization is a straight forward solution to this problem would be to ... Comparison of quantile equalization with histogram normalization on the Car ...
Lattices/Confusion Network/Confidence Estimation (12 s) Results from ... Usage of confusion network and confidence estimation seem to be under-explored. ...