In this paper we address the problem of estimating who is speaking from automatically extracted low resolution visual cues in group meetings. Traditionally, the task of speech/non...
This study investigates speech comprehension in competing multi-talker babble. We examined the effects of number of simultaneous talkers and of frequency of words in the babble on...
After two successful years at SIGIR in 2007 and 2008, the third workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2009) was held conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 20...
Martha Larson, Roeland Ordelman, Franciska de Jong...
Speech processing is typically based on a set of complex algorithms requiring many parameters to be specified. When parts of the speech processing chain do not behave as expected...
Thilo Stadelmann, Yinghui Wang, Matthew Smith, Ral...
In this paper, we investigate the acoustic properties of phonemes in three speaking styles: read speech, prepared speech and spontaneous speech. Our aim is to better understand wh...