In this paper we investigate the role of user emotions in human-machine goal-oriented conversations. There has been a growing interest in predicting emotions from acted and non-act...
Abstract Meeting transcription is one of the main tasks for large vocabulary automatic speech recognition (ASR) and is supported by several large international projects in the area...
Thomas Hain, Lukas Burget, John Dines, Giulia Gara...
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...
In a paper published by Greenberg in 1998, it was said that in conversational speech, phone deletion rate may go as high as 12% whereas syllable deletion rate is about 1%. The fi...
In this paper two aspects of generating and using phonetic Arabic dictionaries are described. First, the use of single pronunciation acoustic models in the context of Arabic large...
Frank Diehl, Mark J. F. Gales, Marcus Tomalin, Phi...