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CSIE
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A Location-Based Mechanism for Mobile Device Security
While mobile handheld devices, such as cell phones and PDAs, provide productivity benefits, they also pose new risks. A vital safeguard against unauthorized access to a device’s...
Wayne A. Jansen, Vlad Korolev
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised pronunciation validation
This paper addresses selecting between candidate pronunciations for out-of-vocabulary words in speech processing tasks. We introduce a simple, unsupervised method that outperforms...
Christopher M. White, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramab...
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ICASSP
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Control of prosodic focus in corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese based on the generation proce
A total corpus-based process of generating prosodic features from text is developed. The process first predicts pauses and phone durations, and then generates F0 contours. Since F...
Keiko Ochi, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu
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ICASSP
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A study of pronunciation verification in a speech therapy application
Techniques are presented for detecting phoneme level mispronunciations in utterances obtained from a population of impaired children speakers. The intended application of these ap...
Shou-Chun Yin, Richard Rose, Oscar Saz, Eduardo Ll...
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ICASSP
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Spoken term detection using fast phonetic decoding
While spoken term detection (STD) systems based on word indices provide good accuracy, there are several practical applications where it is infeasible or too costly to employ an L...
Roy Wallace, Robbie Vogt, Sridha Sridharan