We investigate several measures of voice quality (VQ) to improve tone recognition in Mandarin Chinese. We find that band energy measures such as Spectral Balance (Sluijter and va...
We present a study on purely data-based recognition of animal sounds, performing evaluation on a real-world database obtained from the Humboldt-University Animal Sound Archive. As...
Tracking speakers is an important application in smart environments. Acoustic tracking using microphone arrays is a challenging task due to two major reasons: On the one hand, mul...
Axel Plinge, Daniel Hauschildt, Marius H. Hennecke...
CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) systems using ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) for second language learning have received increasing interest recently. However, it st...
Class posterior distributions have recently been used quite successfully in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), either for frame or phone level classification or as acoustic featu...