How can an automated tutor assess children's spoken responses despite imperfect speech recognition? We address this challenge in the context of tutoring children in explicit s...
Xiaonang Zhang, Jack Mostow, Nell Duke, Christina ...
Tracking human lips in video is an important but notoriously dicult task. To accurately recover their motions in 3D from any head pose is an even more challenging task, though s...
In this paper we present a hypothesis-verification approach for a Spanish Recognizer of continuously spelled names over the telephone. We give a detailed description of the spelli...
One key aspect of face-to-face communication concerns the differences that may exist between speakers’ native regional accents. This paper focuses on the characterization of re...
The goal of the LILA project was the collection of speech databases over cellular telephone networks of five languages in three Asian countries. Three languages were recorded in I...