A polyglot text-to-speech synthesis system which is able to read aloud mixed-lingual text has first of all to derive the correct pronunciation. This is achieved with an accurate m...
We have been developing a spoken language system to recognize and understand spontaneous speech. It is difficult for such systems to achieve good coverage of the lexicon and gramm...
An acoustic-phonetic feature- and knowledge-based system for the automatic segmentation, broad categorization and fine phoneme recognition of continuous speech is described. The s...
A. M. Abdelatty Ali, Jan Van der Spiegel, Paul Mue...
This paper introduces the use of speech translation technology for a new type of voice-interactive Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) application. We describe a computer game...
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...