This paper describes experiments in automatic recognition of context-independent phoneme strings from meeting data using audiovisual features. Visual features are known to improve ...
Abstract. This paper presents a brand-new Slovak text-to-speech system. It was developed within the framework of ARTIC system (primarily designed to synthesize Czech speech) with r...
Tracheoesophageal (TE) speech is a possibility to restore the ability to speak after laryngectomy, i.e. the removal of the larynx. TE speech often shows low audibility and intellig...
We present a mathematical model of word sense frequency distributions, and use word distributions to set parameters. The model implies that the expected dominance of the commonest ...
On the basis of two-speaker spontaneous conversations, it is shown that the distributions of both pauses and speech-overlaps of telephone and faceto-face dialogues have different s...
Louis ten Bosch, Nelleke Oostdijk, Jan Peter de Ru...
Abstract. Translation of Multi-word expressions (MWEs) is one of the most challenging tasks of a Machine translation (MT) system. In this paper, we present an innovative technique ...