The amplitude modulations of musical instrument sounds and speech are important perceptual cues. Accurate estimation of the amplitude, or equivalently energy, envelope of a time-d...
One important issue in designing state-of-the-art LVCSR systems is the choice of acoustic units. Context dependent (CD) phones remain the dominant form of acoustic units. They can...
Xunying Liu, Mark John Francis Gales, Jim L. Hiero...
The similarities between unvoiced speech sounds and turbulent breath sounds were used to detect change in sound characteristics caused by narrowing of the upper airway (UA), simil...
Hisham Alshaer, Martha Garcia, M. Hossein Radfar, ...
Previous work in speech-based cognitive load classification has shown that the glottal source contains important information for cognitive load discrimination. However, the relia...
Long-span language models that capture syntax and semantics are seldom used in the first pass of large vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems due to the prohibitive sea...
Anoop Deoras, Tomas Mikolov, Stefan Kombrink, Mart...