Conversational speech exhibits considerable pronunciation variability, which has been shown to have a detrimental effect on the accuracy of automatic speech recognition. There hav...
Murat Saraclar, Harriet J. Nock, Sanjeev Khudanpur
This paper introduces a new form of observation distributions for hidden Markov models (HMMs), combining subvector quantization and mixtures of discrete distrib utions. Despite w...
Vassilios Digalakis, S. Tsakalidis, Costas Harizak...
The last decade has witnessed substantial progress in speech recognition technology, with todays state-of-the-art systems being able to transcribe unrestricted broadcast news audi...
In this paper we present an approach to recognition confidence scoring and a set of techniques for integrating confidence scores into the understanding and dialogue components of ...
Timothy J. Hazen, Stephanie Seneff, Joseph Polifro...
We describe a corpus-based approach to natural language generation (NLG). The approach has been implemented as a component of a spoken dialog system and a series of evaluations we...