This paper considers the problem of obtaining an accurate spectral representation of speech formant structure when the voicing source exhibits a high fundamental frequency. Our wo...
Abstract. This paper describes the experience of QAST 2008, the second time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcri...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel...
This paper describes the corpus of university lectures that has been recorded in European Portuguese, and some of the recognition experiments we have done with it. The highly spec...
Isabel Trancoso, Rui Martins, Helena Moniz, Ana Is...
This paper presents an implemented computational model of word acquisition which learns directly from raw multimodal sensory input. Set in an information theoretic framework, the ...
Ideal binary masks are binary patterns that encode the masking characteristics of speech in noise. Recent evidence in speech perception suggests that such binary patterns provide ...