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SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Combining LVCSR and vocabulary-independent ranked utterance retrieval for robust speech search
Well tuned Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) has been shown to generally be more effective than vocabulary-independent techniques for ranked retrieval of spo...
J. Scott Olsson, Douglas W. Oard
ICMCS
2005
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Speech Acquisition in Meetings with an Audio-Visual Sensor Array
Close-talk headset microphones have been traditionally used for speech acquisition in a number of applications, as they naturally provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio -needed fo...
Iain McCowan, Maganto Hari Krishna, Daniel Gatica-...
CHINZ
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Interactive visualisation techniques for dynamic speech transcription, correction and training
As performance gains in automatic speech recognition systems plateau, improvements to existing applications of speech recognition technology seem more likely to come from better u...
Saturnino Luz, Masood Masoodian, Bill Rogers
ICMCS
2009
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Is this joke really funny? judging the mirth by audiovisual laughter analysis
This paper presents the results of an empirical study suggesting that, while laughter is a very good indicator of amusement, the kind of laughter (unvoiced laughter vs.voiced laug...
Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Overview of QAST 2009
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...