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INTERSPEECH
2010
14 years 6 months ago
Combination of probabilistic and possibilistic language models
In a previous paper we proposed Web-based language models relying on the possibility theory. These models explicitly represent the possibility of word sequences. In this paper we ...
Stanislas Oger, Vladimir Popescu, Georges Linar&eg...
INTERSPEECH
2010
14 years 6 months ago
Can conversational word usage be used to predict speaker demographics?
This work surveys the potential for predicting demographic traits of individual speakers (gender, age, education level, ethnicity, and geographic region) using only word usage fea...
Dan Gillick
INTERSPEECH
2010
14 years 6 months ago
Distribution and trichotomic realization of voiced velars in Japanese - an experimental study
In this paper, we demonstrate the trichotomic realization of voiced velars in Japanese, challenging the traditional plosive/nasal dichotomy of velar allophones, and examine the di...
Shin-ichiro Sano, Tomohiko Ooigawa
TASLP
2010
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14 years 6 months ago
Developing Objective Measures of Foreign-Accent Conversion
Various methods have recently appeared to transform foreign-accented speech into its native-accented counterpart. Evaluation of these accent conversion methods requires extensive l...
Daniel Felps, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
SPEECH
2010
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14 years 10 months ago
On the acoustic correlates of high and low nuclear pitch accents in American English
Earlier findings in Shue et al. (2007, 2008) raised questions about the alignment of nuclear pitch accents in American English, which are addressed here by eliciting both high an...
Yen-Liang Shue, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Markus...