The ever-increasing volume of audio data available online through the world wide web means that automatic methods for indexing and search are becoming essential. Hidden Markov mod...
Javier Tejedor, Dong Wang, Joe Frankel, Simon King...
Current statistical speech translation approaches predominantly rely on just text transcripts and do not adequately utilize the rich contextual information such as conveyed throug...
Laughter is an intrinsic component of human-human interaction, and current automatic speech understanding paradigms stand to gain significantly from its detection and modeling. In...
Systems now exist which are able to con:pile unification gralmnars into language models that can be included in a speech recognizer, but it is so far unclear whether non-trivial l...
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Frankie James, Eliz...
In this paper we describe an empirical study of human-human multi-tasking dialogues (MTD), where people perform multiple verbal tasks overlapped in time. We examined how conversan...