Speech recognition technique is expected to make a great impact on many user interface areas such as toys, mobile phones, PDAs, and home appliances. Those applications basically re...
Recently, discriminative training (DT) methods have achieved tremendous progress in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this survey article, all mainstream DT methods in speech...
Classification of social groups within a given accent is a challenging refinement of language identification (LID) and accent/dialect recognition. The 2001 census of England and W...
Abualsoud Hanani, Martin J. Russell, Michael J. Ca...
This paper presents the second participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task at CLEF 2006. We present the results of the submi...
Accessing specific or salient parts of multimedia recordings remains a challenge as there is no obvious way of structuring and representing a mix of space-based and timebased med...