In this paper we present our study on expressive gibberish speech synthesis as a means for affective communication between computing devices, such as a robot or an avatar, and thei...
Speech is a tantalizing mode of human communication. On one hand, humans understand speech with ease and use speech to express complex ideas, information, and knowledge. On the ot...
Eric W. Brown, Savitha Srinivasan, Anni Coden, Dul...
In spontaneous speech, speakers segment their speech into intonational phrases, and make repairs to what they are saying. However, techniques for understanding spontaneous speech ...
—Natural human-robot interaction requires different and more robust models of language understanding (NLU) than non-embodied NLU systems. In particular, architectures are require...
Rehj Cantrell, Matthias Scheutz, Paul W. Schermerh...
Speech interfaces should have a capability of dealing with inexplicit utterances including such as ellipsis and deixis since they are common phenomena in our daily conversation. T...
Zaliyana Mohd Hanafiah, Chizu Yamazaki, Akio Nakam...