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INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic derivation of phonological rules for mispronunciation detection in a computer-assisted pronunciation training system
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...
Wai Kit Lo, Shuang Zhang, Helen M. Meng
CSL
1999
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A hidden Markov-model-based trainable speech synthesizer
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...
R. E. Donovan, Philip C. Woodland
FLAIRS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Probabilistic Task Content Modeling for Episodic Textual Narratives
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...
Eni Mustafaraj, Martin Hoof, Bernd Freisleben
CSL
2000
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Pronunciation modeling by sharing Gaussian densities across phonetic models
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
CSL
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Accessing speech data using strategic fixation
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 ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg