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OZCHI
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Supporting awareness in instant messaging: an empirical study and mechanism design
Supporting awareness plays a prominent role in facilitating natural and effective communication in Instant Messaging (IM). This paper reports our empirical study of awareness in I...
Minh Hong Tran, Yun Yang, Gitesh K. Raikundalia
IVA
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
The Impact of Linguistic and Cultural Congruity on Persuasion by Conversational Agents
We present an empirical study on the impact of linguistic and cultural tailoring of a conversational agent on its ability to change user attitudes. We designed two bilingual (Engli...
Langxuan Yin, Timothy W. Bickmore, Dharma E. Cort&...
INTERSPEECH
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Hidden Markov models with context-sensitive observations for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
Hidden Markov models (HMMs) have proven useful in various aspects of speech technology from automatic speech recognition through speech synthesis, speech segmentation and grapheme...
Udochukwu Kalu Ogbureke, Peter Cahill, Julie Carso...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
EM-style optimization of hidden conditional random fields for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
We have recently proposed an EM-style algorithm to optimize log-linear models with hidden variables. In this paper, we use this algorithm to optimize a hidden conditional random ï...
Georg Heigold, Stefan Hahn, Patrick Lehnen, Herman...
GECCO
2004
Springer
137views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
15 years 2 months ago
Achieving Shorter Search Times in Voice Conversion Using Interactive Evolution
We have already proposed using evolutionary computation to adjust the voice quality conversion parameters, and we have reported that this approach produces results that are not onl...
Yuji Sato