Usually the mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) are derived via Hamming windowed DFT spectrum. In this paper, we advocate to use a so-called multitaper method instead. Mul...
Tomi Kinnunen, Rahim Saeidi, Johan Sandberg, Maria...
The context in which a speech-driven application is used (or conversely not used) can be an important signal for recognition engines, and for spoken interface design. Using large-...
This paper investigates how rising intonation affects the interpretation of cue words in dialogue. Both cue words and rising intonation express a range of speaker attitudes like u...
Context management has been a key technique in Ambient Intelligence applications development, although its use has not attain such success in other environments, such as those evol...