The speech parameter generation algorithm considering global variance (GV) for HMM-based speech synthesis proved to be effective against the over-smoothing problem. However, the c...
One problem in concatenative speech synthesis is how to incorporate prosodic factors in the unit selection. Imposing a predicted prosodic target is error-prone and does not benefi...
— Given a set of query interfaces from providers in the same domain (e.g., car rental), the goal is to build automatically an integrated interface that makes the access to indivi...
Eduard Constantin Dragut, Fang Fang, Clement T. Yu...
— The concept of a mobile haptic interface for bimanual manipulations in 6 d.o.f. is presented. The design of this mobile haptic interface is based on a modular system consisting...
The Rich News system, that can automatically annotate radio and television news with the aid of resources retrieved from the World Wide Web, is described. Automatic speech recogni...
Mike Dowman, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham, B...