We present our experiments in context-free recognition of non-lexical responses. Non-lexical verbal responses such as mmm-hmm or uh-huh are used by listeners to signal confirmati...
A novel speaker-adaptive learning algorithm is developed and evaluated for a hidden trajectory model of speech coarticulation and reduction. Central to this model is the process o...
It is well known that utterances convey a great deal of information about the speaker in addition to their semantic content. One such type of information consists of cues to the s...
—The paper describes the process of designing a task-oriented continuous speech recognition system for Polish, based on CMU Sphinx4, to be used in the voice interface of a comput...
We analyze humorous spoken conversations from a classic comedy television show, FRIENDS, by examining acousticprosodic and linguistic features and their utility in automatic humor...