Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training System (CAPT) has become an important learning aid in second language (L2) learning. Our approach to CAPT is based on the use of phonologi...
This paper presents a new approach to speech synthesis in which a set of cross-word decision-tree state-clustered context-dependent hidden Markov models are used to define a set o...
Episodic knowledge is often stored in the form of textual narratives written in natural language. However, a large repository of such narratives will contain both repetitive and n...
Conversational speech exhibits considerable pronunciation variability, which has been shown to have a detrimental effect on the accuracy of automatic speech recognition. There hav...
Murat Saraclar, Harriet J. Nock, Sanjeev Khudanpur
When users access information from text, they engage in strategic fixation, visually scanning the text to focus on regions of interest. However, because speech is both serial and ...