The concept of speaker recognition using i-vectors was recently introduced offering state-of-the-art performance. An i-vector is a compact representation of a speaker’s utteranc...
SentimentWortschatz, or SentiWS for short, is a publicly available German-language resource for sentiment analysis, opinion mining etc. It lists positive and negative sentiment be...
An acoustic analysis was conducted to investigate parameters related to Voice Quality in European Portuguese (EP) speech conveying several emotions. Our main objectives were: to o...
We propose a unified global entropy reduction maximization (GERM) framework for active learning and semi-supervised learning for speech recognition. Active learning aims to select...
Dong Yu, Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Li Deng, Alex A...
This paper addresses the problem of developing appropriate features for use in direct modeling approaches to speech recognition, such as those based on Maximum Entropy models or S...