In the context of deployed spoken dialogue telecom services, we introduce a preprocessor called Fiction into the Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) component. It acts as an inter...
The Hidden Markov Model (HMM) has been widely used in many applications such as speech recognition. A common challenge for applying the classical HMM is to determine the structure...
We present LIPS (Lexical Isolation Point Software), a tool for accurate lexical isolation point (IP) prediction in recordings of speech. The IP is the point in time in which a wor...
Andrew Thwaites, Jeroen Geertzen, William D. Marsl...
Although gesture recognition has been studied extensively, communicative, affective, and biometrical “utility” of natural gesticulation remains relatively unexplored. One of t...
In this paper, we present a robust spectro-temporal feature extraction technique using autoregressive models (AR) of sub-band Hilbert envelopes. AR models of Hilbert envelopes are...