Nonparametric methods are widely applicable to statistical learning problems, since they rely on a few modeling assumptions. In this context, the fresh look advocated here permeat...
F0 is an acoustic feature that varies largely from one speaker to another. F0 is characterized by a discontinuity in the transition between voiced and unvoiced sounds that present...
Aki Kunikoshi, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Nobuaki M...
Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) have proven to perform well on natural language processing tasks like name transliteration, concept tagging or grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) conversio...
This work analyzes the performance of speaker recognition when carried out by human lay listeners. In forensics, judges and jurors usually manifest intuition that people is profi...
Daniel Ramos, Javier Franco-Pedroso, Joaquin Gonza...
In the past decade there has been a great interest in a synthesis-based model for signals, based on sparse and redundant representations. Such a model assumes that the signal of i...
Sangnam Nam, Michael E. Davies, Michael Elad, R&ea...