The regular occurrence of disfluencies is a distinguishing characteristic of spontaneous speech. Detecting and removing such disfluencies can substantially improve the usefulness ...
— In this paper we present a method of sequential speech enhancement, where we infer clean speech signal using a Rao-Blackwellized particle filter (RBPF), given a noisecontamina...
This paper concentrates on speech duration distributions that are usually invariant to noises and proposes a noise-robust and real-time voice activity detector (VAD) using the hid...
Xianglong Liu, Yuan Liang, Yihua Lou, He Li, Baoso...
This paper examines tagging models for spontaneous English speech transcripts. We analyze the performance of state-of-the-art tagging models, either generative or discriminative, ...
Vladimir Eidelman, Zhongqiang Huang, Mary P. Harpe...
Abstract. Prosody has been actively studied as an important knowledge source for speech recognition and understanding. In this paper, we are concerned with the question of exploiti...