The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
Acquisition of prosody, in addition to vocabulary and grammar, is essential for language learners. However, it has received less attention in instruction. To enable automatic iden...
An approach for a program is presented that automatically detects the position of pitch accents and intonation phrase (IP) boundaries from waveforms. The technique maps acoustic c...
This paper investigates the problem of incorporating auxiliary information (e.g. pitch) for speech recognition using dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs). Previous works usually model...
As we articulate speech, we usually move the head and exhibit various facial expressions. This visual aspect of speech aids understanding and helps communicating additional inform...
Hans Peter Graf, Eric Cosatto, Volker Strom, Fu Ji...