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2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Partially observable Markov decision processes for spoken dialog systems
In a spoken dialog system, determining which action a machine should take in a given situation is a difficult problem because automatic speech recognition is unreliable and hence ...
Jason D. Williams, Steve Young
CSL
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Synthesized speech intelligibility and persuasion: Speech rate and non-native listeners
This experiment assessed the effect of variation in speech rate on comprehension and persuasiveness of a message presented in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis to native and non-nat...
Caroline Jones, Lynn Berry, Catherine Stevens
CSL
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling durations of syllables using neural networks
In this paper, we propose a neural network model for predicting the durations of syllables. A four layer feedforward neural network trained with backpropagation algorithm is used ...
K. Sreenivasa Rao, B. Yegnanarayana
CSL
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
On noise masking for automatic missing data speech recognition: A survey and discussion
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has reached very high levels of performance in controlled situations. However, the performance degrades significantly when environmental noise ...
Christophe Cerisara, Sébastien Demange, Jea...
CSL
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Speaker-adaptive learning of resonance targets in a hidden trajectory model of speech coarticulation
A novel speaker-adaptive learning algorithm is developed and evaluated for a hidden trajectory model of speech coarticulation and reduction. Central to this model is the process o...
Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex Acero