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...
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...
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...
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...
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...