SpeechActs is an experimental conversational speech system. Experience with redesigning the system based on user feedback indicates the importance of adhering to conversational co...
Recently, multimodal and affective technologies have been adopted to support expressive and engaging interaction, bringing up a plethora of new research questions. Among the chall...
Lassi A. Liikkanen, Giulio Jacucci, Eero Huvio, To...
Tracheoesophageal (TE) speech is a possibility to restore the ability to speak after laryngectomy, i.e. the removal of the larynx. TE speech often shows low audibility and intellig...
Speech reading, also known as lip reading, is aimed at extracting visual cues of lip and facial movements to aid in recognition of speech. The main hurdle for speech reading is th...
The Gaussian mixture model (GMM) can approximate arbitrary probability distributions, which makes it a powerful tool for feature representation and classification. However, it su...