In speech recognition vast hypothesis spaces are generated, so the search methods used and their speedup techniques are both of great importance. One way of getting a speedup gain...
Abstract. The paper presents an implemented model for priming speech recognition, using contextual information about salient entities. The underlying hypothesis is that, in human-r...
Abstract. Systems for keyword and non-linguistic vocalization detection in conversational agent applications need to be robust with respect to background noise and different speak...
—One of the biggest obstacles for constructing effective sociable virtual humans lies in the failure of machines to recognize the desires, feelings and intentions of the human us...
We describe automatic visual speech segmentation using facial data captured by a stereo-vision technique. The segmentation is performed using an HMM-based forced alignment mechani...