The ability to identify speech acts reliably is desirable in any spoken language system that interacts with humans. Minimally, such a system should be capable of distinguishing be...
This paper presents details of the RWTH large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system used in the VERBMOBIL spontaneous speech translation system. In particular, we report...
Stephan Kanthak, Sirko Molau, Achim Sixtus, Ralf S...
This paper describes the process and the resources used to automatically annotate a French corpus of spontaneous speech transcriptions in super-chunks. Super-chunks are enhanced c...
Olivier Blanc, Matthieu Constant, Anne Dister, Pat...
We have analyzed 607 sentences of spontaneous human-computer speech data containing repairs, drawn from a total corpus of 10,718 sentences. We present here criteria and techniques...
In this paper, we propose a robust compensation strategy to deal effectively with extraneous acoustic variations for spontaneous speech recognition. This strategy extends speaker a...