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...
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&...
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...
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...
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...