– The main task of a voice-enabled tour-guide robot in mass exhibition setting is to engage visitors in dialogue and provide as much exhibit information as possible in a limited ...
Conversational speech exhibits considerable pronunciation variability, which has been shown to have a detrimental effect on the accuracy of automatic speech recognition. There hav...
Murat Saraclar, Harriet J. Nock, Sanjeev Khudanpur
This paper addresses the problem of developing appropriate features for use in direct modeling approaches to speech recognition, such as those based on Maximum Entropy models or S...
Smart phones typically support a range of GPS-enabled navigation services. However, most navigation services on smart phones are of limited use to people with visual disabilities....
While much work has been dedicated to exploring how best to incorporate the Ideal Binary Mask (IBM) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) for noisy signals, we demonstrate that th...