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TSD
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Festival-si: A Sinhala Text-to-Speech System
Abstract. This paper brings together the development of the first Text-toSpeech (TTS) system for Sinhala using the Festival framework and practical applications of it. Construction...
Ruvan Weerasinghe, Asanka Wasala, Viraj Welgama, K...
CICLING
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Per-node Optimization of Finite-State Mechanisms for Natural Language Processing
Finite-state processing is typically based on structures that allow for efficient indexing and sequential search. However, this “rigid” framework has several disadvantages when...
Alexander Troussov, Brian O'Donovan, Seppo Koskenn...
CONNECTION
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Spoken language interaction with model uncertainty: an adaptive human-robot interaction system
Spoken language is one of the most intuitive forms of interaction between humans and agents. Unfortunately, agents that interact with people using natural language often experienc...
Finale Doshi, Nicholas Roy
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Parsing-based objective functions for speech recognition in translation applications
This paper looks at a parsing-based alternative to word error rate (WER) for optimizing recognition, SParseval, hypothesizing that it may be a better objective for applications su...
Dustin Hillard, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Mary P. Harper, Mar...
LREC
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation of several Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression Variants for Language Adaptation
Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are of great interest in multilingual environments. We studied the case of the Comunitat Valenciana where the two official ...
Míriam Luján-Mares, Carlos D. Mart&i...