This paper presents a novel application of speech emotion recognition: estimation of the level of conversational engagement between users of a voice communication system. We begin...
The sensor scheduling problem can be formulated as a controlled hidden Markov model and this paper solves the problem when the state, observation and action spaces are continuous....
Sumeetpal S. Singh, Nikolaos Kantas, Ba-Ngu Vo, Ar...
This paper takes phonetic information into account for data alignment in text-independent voice conversion. Hidden Markov Models are used for representing the phonetic structure o...
Meng Zhang, Jiaohua Tao, Jani Nurminen, Jilei Tian...
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are an useful and widely utilized approach to the modeling of data sequences. One of the problems related to this technique is finding the optimal stru...
— A solution for the slow convergence of most learning rules for Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) has been proposed under the terms Liquid State Machines (LSM) and Echo State Netw...
David Verstraeten, Benjamin Schrauwen, Dirk Stroob...