Acoustic event detection (AED) aims to identify both timestamps and types of multiple events and has been found to be very challenging. The cues for these events often times exist...
Po-Sen Huang, Xiaodan Zhuang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnso...
A major factor which causes a deterioration in speech quality in HMM-based speech synthesis is the use of a simple delta pulse signal to generate the excitation of voiced speech. ...
Speech enhancement is a common approach to address the effects of degradation due to noise and channel contamination. This approach is intended to suppress unwanted signal and rec...
One important issue in designing state-of-the-art LVCSR systems is the choice of acoustic units. Context dependent (CD) phones remain the dominant form of acoustic units. They can...
Xunying Liu, Mark John Francis Gales, Jim L. Hiero...
We describe the Arabic broadcast transcription system elded by IBM in the GALE Phase 4 machine translation evaluation. Key advances over our Phase 3.5 system include improvements ...
Brian Kingsbury, Hagen Soltau, George Saon, Stephe...