– This paper describes the design, development and user study of a text-to-speech system for reviewing email messages. The system retrieves messages, converts them to audio files...
We describe an automated method to assess the expressiveness of children’s oral reading by measuring how well its prosodic contours correlate in pitch, intensity, pauses, and wor...
Abstract. How do we construct credible personalities? The current SAL (Sensitive Artificial Listeners) characters were constructed intuitively and can be unconvincing. In addressin...
Margaret McRorie, Ian Sneddon, Etienne de Sevin, E...
Conventional stereo audio material is often produced using amplitude panning techniques to achieve flexible positioning of sound sources with a limited number of loudspeakers. Co...
Crosstalk cancellation is a well-known technique to generate virtual 3D sound via loudspeakers. Usually, headphones are used to playback audio material, which has been ltered with...