Maximum-Likelihod Linear Regression (MLLR) transform coefficients have shown to be useful features for text-independent speaker recognition systems. These use MLLR coefficients ...
This paper investigates the impact of automatic sentence segmentation on speech summarization using the ICSI meeting corpus. We use a hidden Markov model (HMM) for sentence segmen...
We aim at creating an expressive Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) and address the problem of synthesizing expressive agent gestures. In our previous work, we have described the ...
We present a program visualization tool called Jeliot 3 that is designed to aid novice students to learn procedural and object oriented programming. The key feature of Jeliot is t...
Children need to master reading letter-names and lettersounds before reading phrases and sentences. Pronunciation assessment of letter-names and letter-sounds read aloud is an imp...
Matthew Black, Joseph Tepperman, Abe Kazemzadeh, S...