We present an initial investigation into the acoustic realisation of tone in continuous utterances in Sepedi (a language in the Southern Bantu family). An analytic model for the g...
The parallel phone recognition followed by language model (PPRLM) architecture represents one of the state-of-the-art spoken language identification systems. A PPRLM system compris...
When exposed to environmental noise, speakers adjust their speech production to maintain intelligible communication. This phenomenon, called Lombard effect (LE), is known to consi...
In modern automatic speech recognition systems, it is standard practice to cluster several logical hidden Markov model states into one physical, clustered state. Typically, the cl...
This paper introduces a discriminative extension to whole-word point process modeling techniques. Meant to circumvent the strong independence assumptions of their generative prede...