This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
Many real-world sequence learning tasks require the prediction of sequences of labels from noisy, unsegmented input data. In speech recognition, for example, an acoustic signal is...
In this work we show how conditional mean imputation can be bounded through the use of box-truncated Gaussian distributions. That is of interest when signals or features are partl...
Friedrich Faubel, John W. McDonough, Dietrich Klak...
For effective training of acoustic and language models for spontaneous speech such as meetings, it is significant to exploit the texts available in a large scale, which may not b...
This paper describes an accent identification system for Portuguese, that explores different type of properties: acoustic, phonotactic and prosodic. The system is designed to be ...