ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
2011
IEEE
One of the fundamental building blocks of text processing for textto-speech (TTS) synthesis is the assignment of a part-of-speech (POS) tag to each input word. POS tags are heavil...
ACL
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
We investigate the use of textual Internet conversations for detecting questions in spoken conversations. We compare the text-trained model with models trained on manuallylabeled,...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
In this paper, we propose a new approach for extracting and representing prosodic features directly from the speech signal. We hypothesize that prosody is linked to linguistic uni...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
Automatic segmentation and classification of dialog acts (DAs; e.g., statements versus questions) is important for spoken language understanding (SLU). While most systems have re...
ANLP
2000
13 years 5 months ago
2000
In spoken dialogue systems, it is important for a system to know how likely a speech recognition hypothesis is to be correct, so it can reprompt for fresh input, or, in cases wher...
ACSW
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
This paper describes an approach to the detection of stress in spoken New Zealand English. After identifying the vowel segments of the speech signal, the approach extracts two dif...
TSD
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. For dento-oral rehabilitation of edentulous (toothless) patients, speech intelligibility is an important criterion. 28 persons read a standardized text once with and once...