Minimum phone error (MPE) acoustic parameter estimation involves calculation of edit distances (errors) between correct and incorrect hypotheses. In the context of large vocabulary...
Classification of social groups within a given accent is a challenging refinement of language identification (LID) and accent/dialect recognition. The 2001 census of England and W...
Abualsoud Hanani, Martin J. Russell, Michael J. Ca...
In this work, we compare several known approaches for multilingual acoustic modeling for three languages, Dari, Farsi and Pashto, which are of recent geo-political interest. We de...
Arindam Mandal, Dimitra Vergyri, Murat Akbacak, Co...
Coarticulation is one of the important factors that makes automatic sign language recognition a hard problem. Unlike in speech recognition, coarticulation effects in sign language...
Person identification using audio (speech) and visual (facial appearance, static or dynamic) modalities, either independently or jointly, is a thoroughly investigated problem in pa...