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ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Extracting clues from human interpreter speech for spoken language translation
In previous work, we reported dramatic improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken language translation (SLT) gained by applying information extracted from spoke...
Matthias Paulik, Alex Waibel
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Theoretical statistical correlation for biometric identification performance
Measurement and evaluation of biometric device performance is critical to end users and consumers of these devices. In this paper we present explicit theoretical correlation model...
Michael E. Schuckers
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Text-independent voice conversion based on state mapped codebook
Voice conversion has become more and more important in speech technology, but most of current works have to use parallel utterances of both source and target speaker as the traini...
Meng Zhang, Jianhua Tao, Jilei Tian, Xia Wang
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Gaze-contingent asr for spontaneous, conversational speech: An evaluation
There has been little work that attempts to improve the recognition of spontaneous, conversational speech by adding information from a loosely-coupled modality. This study investi...
Neil Cooke, Martin J. Russell
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Directional dependency of cepstrum on vocal tract length
Daisuke Saito, Ryo Matsuura, Satoshi Asakawa, Nobu...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Frame-based acoustic feature integration for speech understanding
With the purpose of improving Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) performance, a combination of different acoustic speech recognition (ASR) systems is proposed. State a-posteriori...
Loic Barrault, Christophe Servan, Driss Matrouf, G...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Efficient computation of the binary vector that maximizes a rank-deficient quadratic form
The maximization of a full-rank quadratic form over a finite alphabet is NP-hard in both a worst-case sense and an average sense. Interestingly, if the rank of the form is not a ...
George N. Karystinos, Athanasios P. Liavas
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Single sideband encoder for music coding in cochlear implants
The restoration of melody perception is a key remaining challenge in cochlear implants. We propose a new sound coding strategy that converts an audio signal into time-varying elec...
Kaibao Nie, Les E. Atlas, Jay Rubinstein
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive score normalization for progressive model adaptation in text independent speaker verification
This paper deals with the interaction between progressive model adaptation and score normalization strategies which are used for reducing the variation in likelihood ratio scores ...
Shou-Chun Yin, Richard Rose, Patrick Kenny
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Avoiding divergence in the constant modulus algorithm
One of the most popular algorithms for blind equalization is the Constant Modulus Algorithm (CMA), due to its simplicity and low computational cost. However, if the step-size is n...
Maria D. Miranda, M. T. M. Silva, Vitor H. Nascime...