The use of large speech corpora in example-based approaches for speech recognition is mainly focused on increasing the number of examples. This strategy presents some difficulties ...
We investigate the combination of several sources of information for the purpose of subjectivity recognition and polarity classification in meetings. We focus on features from two...
Stephan Raaijmakers, Khiet P. Truong, Theresa Wils...
Conversational speech exhibits considerable pronunciation variability, which has been shown to have a detrimental effect on the accuracy of automatic speech recognition. There hav...
Murat Saraclar, Harriet J. Nock, Sanjeev Khudanpur
Speech carries both linguistic content – phonemes, words, sentences – and talker information, sometimes called ‘indexical information’. While talker variability materially...
Building a comprehensive pronunciation lexicon is a crucial element in the success of any speech recognition engine. The first stage of lexicon design involves the compilation of ...