In this paper, we investigate the acoustic properties of phonemes in three speaking styles: read speech, prepared speech and spontaneous speech. Our aim is to better understand wh...
We present MikeTalk, a text-to-audiovisual speech synthesizer which converts input text into an audiovisual speech stream. MikeTalk is built using visemes, which are a set of imag...
In this paper, we describe a method to enhance the readability of out-of-vocabulary items (OOVs) in the textual output in a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system. ...
Bart Decadt, Jacques Duchateau, Walter Daelemans, ...
This paper presents a new method for the verification of the correct pronunciation of spoken words. This process is based on speech recognition technology. It can be particularly ...
This paper sketches the author's research in nine areas related to speech translation: interactive disambiguation (two demonstrations of highly-interactive, broad-coverage sp...