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...
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...
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...
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...
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...