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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Towards robust word discovery by self-similarity matrix comparison
Word discovery is the task of discovering and collecting occurrences of repeating words in the absence of prior acoustic and linguistic knowledge, or training material. The capabi...
Armando Muscariello, Guillaume Gravier, Fré...
ACII
2011
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Expressive Gesture Model for Humanoid Robot
Abstract. This paper presents an expressive gesture model that generates communicative gestures accompanying speech for the humanoid robot Nao. The research work focuses mainly on ...
Le Quoc Anh, Catherine Pelachaud
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Vocal attractiveness of statistical speech synthesisers
Our previous analysis of speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis methods suggested that there are two possible reasons why average voices can obtain higher subjective scores t...
Sandra Andraszewicz, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Accurate parameter generation using fixed-point arithmetic for embedded HMM-based speech synthesizers
Parameter trajectory generation for HMM-based speech synthesis is practically achieved using only fixed-point arithmetic with 32-bit integers. Since processors for embedded devic...
Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Tsuneo Kato
BIOSTEC
2011
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13 years 11 months ago
On the Benefits of Speech and Touch Interaction with Communication Services for Mobility Impaired Users
Although technology for communication has evolved tremendously over the past decades, mobility impaired individuals still face many difficulties interacting with communication serv...
Carlos Galinho Pires, Fernando Miguel Pinto, Eduar...