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TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Quality Deterioration Factors in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
Abstract. The purpose of the present paper is to examine the relationships between target and concatenation costs and the quality (with focus on naturalness) of generated speech. S...
Daniel Tihelka, Jindrich Matousek, Jirí Kal...
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Maximum Likelihood and Maximum Mutual Information Training in Gender and Age Recognition System
Abstract. Gender and age estimation based on Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) is introduced. Telephone recordings from the Czech SpeechDatEast database are used as training and test d...
Valiantsina Hubeika, Igor Szöke, Lukas Burget...
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Adaptive Keyboard with Personalized Language-Based Features
Our research is about an adaptive keyboard, which autonomously adjusts its predictive features and key displays to current user input. We used personalized word prediction to impro...
Siska Fitrianie, Léon J. M. Rothkrantz
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
ECAF: Authoring Language for Embodied Conversational Agents
Abstract. Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) is the user interface metaphor that allows to naturally communicate information during human-computer interaction in synergic modality...
Ladislav Kunc, Jan Kleindienst
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Dynamic Adaptation of Language Models in Speech Driven Information Retrieval
César González Ferreras, Valent&iacu...
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Named Entities in Czech: Annotating Data and Developing NE Tagger
Magda Sevcíková, Zdenek Zabokrtsk&ya...
TSD
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic Diacritic Restoration for Resource-Scarce Languages
Abstract. The orthography of many resource-scarce languages includes diacritically marked characters. Falling outside the scope of the standard Latin encoding, these characters are...
Guy De Pauw, Peter W. Wagacha, Gilles-Maurice de S...