- Aiming to realize a non-verbal communication between humans and robots, the use of acoustic parameters related with voice quality features, besides classical prosodic features, i...
Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro ...
Speech communication consists of three steps: production, transmission, and hearing. Every step inevitably involves acoustic distortions due to gender differences, age, microphone...
In previous work, we reported dramatic improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken language translation (SLT) gained by applying information extracted from spoke...
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
This paper presents a spoken document summarization scheme using acoustic, prosodic and semantic information. First, speech recognition confidence is estimated to choose reliable ...