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KONVENS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Labeling of Prosodic Events
An approach for a program is presented that automatically detects the position of pitch accents and intonation phrase (IP) boundaries from waveforms. The technique maps acoustic c...
Norbert Braunschweiler
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
A comparison of approaches for modeling prosodic features in speaker recognition
Prosodic information has been successfully used for speaker recognition for more than a decade. The best-performing prosodic system to date has been one based on features extracte...
Luciana Ferrer, Nicolas Scheffer, Elizabeth Shribe...
CSL
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Detecting emotional state of a child in a conversational computer game
The automatic recognition of user’s communicative style within a spoken dialog system framework, including the affective aspects, has received increased attention in the past f...
Serdar Yildirim, Shrikanth Narayanan, Alexandros P...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Punctuating speech for information extraction
This paper studies the effect of automatic sentence boundary detection and comma prediction on entity and relation extraction in speech. We show that punctuating the machine gener...
Benoît Favre, Ralph Grishman, Dustin Hillard...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Appropriately Handled Prosodic Breaks Help PCFG Parsing
This paper investigates using prosodic information in the form of ToBI break indexes for parsing spontaneous speech. We revisit two previously studied approaches, one that hurt pa...
Zhongqiang Huang, Mary P. Harper