Intonation is an important aspect of vocal production, used for a variety of communicative needs. Its modeling is therefore crucial in many speech understanding systems, particula...
Point&Connect (P&C) offers an intuitive and resilient device pairing solution on standard mobile phones. Its operation follows the simple sequence of point-and-connect: wh...
Children need to master reading letter-names and lettersounds before reading phrases and sentences. Pronunciation assessment of letter-names and letter-sounds read aloud is an imp...
Matthew Black, Joseph Tepperman, Abe Kazemzadeh, S...
This paper presents a novel audio-visual fusion method for speech detection, which is an important front-end for content-based video processing. This approach aims to extract homo...
Cong Li, Zhijian Ou, Wei Hu, Tao Wang, Yimin Zhang
Prosody is an important cue for identifying dialog acts. In this paper, we show that modeling the sequence of acousticprosodic values as n-gram features with a maximum entropy mod...