Most HMM-based TTS systems use a hard voiced/unvoiced classification to produce a discontinuous F0 signal which is used for the generation of the source-excitation. When a mixed ...
Javier Latorre, Mark J. F. Gales, Sabine Buchholz,...
In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...
In this paper we consider the task of classifying materials into explosives and non-explosives according to features obtainable from Multi-Energy X-ray Computed Tomography (MECT) ...
Limor Eger, Synho Do, Prakash Ishwar, W. Clem Karl...
We propose a language-independent method for the automatic extraction of transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. In contrast to previous work, our method uses no form of supe...
Despite being an important channel for end-user assistance, few studies have directly investigated the interactions that occur in modern-day practice of software product support. ...
Parmit K. Chilana, Tovi Grossman, George W. Fitzma...