CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) systems using ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) for second language learning have received increasing interest recently. However, it st...
In this paper, we present a microphone array beamforming approach to blind speech separation. Unlike previous beamforming approaches, our system does not require a-priori knowledge...
Model M, a novel class-based exponential language model, has been shown to significantly outperform word n-gram models in state-of-the-art machine translation and speech recognit...
Abstract. Global integration and migration force people to learn additional languages. With respect to major languages, the acquisition is already initiated at primary school but a...
Oliver Jokisch, Uwe Koloska, Diane Hirschfeld, R&u...
This paper describes efforts by the University of Pennsylvania's Linguistic Data Consortium to create and distribute shared linguistic resources – including data, annotation...