INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
This study investigates the mechanism of tonal contraction when a disyllabic unit is merged into a monosyllable at fast speech rate in Taiwan Mandarin. Various degrees of contract...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
This work surveys the potential for predicting demographic traits of individual speakers (gender, age, education level, ethnicity, and geographic region) using only word usage fea...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
As a child acquires language, he or she: perceives acoustic information in his or her surrounding environment; identifies portions of the ambient acoustic information as languager...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Usually the mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) are derived via Hamming windowed DFT spectrum. In this paper, we advocate to use a so-called multitaper method instead. Mul...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
We recently proposed a method for HMM adaptation to noisy environments called Linear Spline Interpolation (LSI). LSI uses linear spline regression to model the relationship betwee...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
While automatic methods for phonetic segmentation of speech can help with rapid annotation of corpora, most methods rely either on manually segmented data to initially train the p...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
We recently proposed a family of robust linear and nonlinear estimation techniques for recognizing the three emotion primitives
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
This paper presents preliminary work on building a system able to synthesize concurrently the speech signal and a 3D animation of the speaker's face. This is done by concaten...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
We extend our earlier work on deep-structured conditional random field (DCRF) and develop deep-structured hidden conditional random field (DHCRF). We investigate the use of this n...