In this paper the nature and relevance of the information provided by intonation is discussed in the framework of second language learning. As a consequence, an automatic intonati...
This paper proposes a technique for speaker and language adaptive training for HMM-based polyglot speech synthesis. Language-specific context-dependencies in the system are captur...
This paper presents the outline and performance of an automatic syllable boundary detection system. The syllabification of phonemes is performed with a rule-based system, implemen...
We show that unsupervised part of speech tagging performance can be significantly improved using likely substitutes for target words given by a statistical language model. We choo...
We perform a large-scale evaluation of multiple off-the-shelf speech recognizers across diverse domains for virtual human dialogue systems. Our evaluation is aimed at speech recog...