The detection of laughter in conversational interaction presents an important challenge in meeting understanding, important primarily because laughter is predictive of the emotion...
This paper examines tagging models for spontaneous English speech transcripts. We analyze the performance of state-of-the-art tagging models, either generative or discriminative, ...
Vladimir Eidelman, Zhongqiang Huang, Mary P. Harpe...
This paper describes the first TTS evaluation campaign designed for Spanish. Seven research institutions took part in the evaluation campaign and developed a voice from a common s...
A spatio-temporal autoregressive model is proposed in this paper to address the problem of frame rate up conversion. Every pixel in a skipped frame is generated as a linear combin...
Yongbing Zhang, Debin Zhao, Xiangyang Ji, Ronggang...
When players in online games engage in conversation with each other, often through a chat window, their graphical avatars typically do not exhibit interesting behavior. This paper ...