SPEECH
2008
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2008
The acquisition of novel phonetic categories is hypothesized to be affected by the distributional properties of the input, the relation of the new categories to the native phonolo...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Looking at practical application scenarios of speech recognition systems several distortion effects exist that have a major influence on the speech signal and can considerably det...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
SPEECH
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
In this paper, we propose a new approach for extracting and representing prosodic features directly from the speech signal. We hypothesize that prosody is linked to linguistic uni...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
This paper describes a language/accent verification system for Portuguese, that explores different type of properties: acoustic, phonotactic and prosodic. The two-stage system is ...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Evaluation of spoken dialogue systems has been traditionally carried out in terms of instrumentally or expert-derived measures (usually called ``objective" evaluation) and qu...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Although dialogue systems have been an area of research for decades, finding accurate ways of evaluating different systems is still a very active subfield since many leading metho...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
This paper investigates the organization of the vowel space in French speakers. Speakers aged from 4 years to adulthood were recorded in order to generate significant between-spea...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
In this paper, we describe a statistical approach to both an articulatory-to-acoustic mapping and an acoustic-to-articulatory inversion mapping without using phonetic information....
SPEECH
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
In this paper, we study the impact of considering context information for the annotation of emotions. Concretely, we propose the inclusion of the history of user