Many end user programming tools such as spreadsheets and databases offer poor support for representing a level of abstraction that is intuitive to users. For example, users must w...
We present a decision model of a firm’s optimal outsourcing rate as an extension of Cha et. al [1]’s previous work on the economic risk of knowledge loss and deskilling in the...
In limited data domains, many effective language modeling techniques construct models with parameters to be estimated on an in-domain development set. However, in some domains, no...
Speech has a property that the speech unit preceding a speech pause tends to lengthen. This work presents the use of a dynamic Bayesian network to model the prepausal lengthening ...
Ning Ma, Chris Bartels, Jeff A. Bilmes, Phil Green
In this work, accurate spectral envelope estimation is applied to Voice Conversion in order to achieve High-Quality timbre conversion. True-Envelope based estimators allow model o...