Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) applications for improving the oral skills of low-proficient learners have to cope with nonnative speech that is particularly challengin...
Joost van Doremalen, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Str...
This paper introduces a new form of observation distributions for hidden Markov models (HMMs), combining subvector quantization and mixtures of discrete distrib utions. Despite w...
Vassilios Digalakis, S. Tsakalidis, Costas Harizak...
In this paper, we present a novel technique for modeling the posterior probability estimates obtained from a neural network directly in the HMM framework using the Dirichlet Mixtu...
Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Garimella S. V. S. Sivar...
This paper describes a fully incremental dialogue system that can engage in dialogues in a simple domain, number dictation. Because it uses incremental speech recognition and pros...
Vocal activity detection is an important technology for both automatic speech recognition and automatic speech understanding. In meetings, standard vocal activity detection algori...