INTERSPEECH
2010
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2010
Time reversal is often used in experimental studies on language perception and understanding, but little is known on its precise impact on speech sounds. Strikingly, some studies ...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
In this paper, we introduce a new approach to dialect recognition which relies on the hypothesis that certain phones are realized differently across dialects. Given a speaker'...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
Aspects of speech and non-verbal behavior allow conversational partners to establish and maintain rapport by signaling engagement or endorsement. In the verbal channel, these fact...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
In this paper we present a novel algorithm called Suppression of Slowly-varying components and the Falling edge of the power envelope (SSF) to enhance spectral features for robust...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
This paper describes Brno University of Technology (BUT) system for the Interspeech 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge. Our submitted systems for the Age- and Gender-Sub-Challenges emp...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
This study investigates voicing properties of Polish, French, American English and German sonorant consonants, particularly rhotics. The analysis was conducted on four speech data...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
In this paper, we investigate using meeting-specific characteristics to improve extractive meeting summarization, in particular, speaker-related attributes (such as verboseness, g...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
The performance of an HMM-based speech recognizer using MFCCs as input is known to degrade dramatically in noisy conditions. Recently, an exemplar-based noise robust ASR approach,...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
We manually designed rules for a backchannel (BC) prediction model based on pitch and pause information. In short, the model predicts a BC when there is a pause of a certain lengt...