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CSL
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Voice activity detection based on statistical models and machine learning approaches
The voice activity detectors (VADs) based on statistical models have shown impressive performances especially when fairly precise statistical models are employed. Moreover, the ac...
Jong Won Shin, Joon-Hyuk Chang, Nam Soo Kim
CSL
2010
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Speech separation using speaker-adapted eigenvoice speech models
We present a system for model-based source separation for use on single channel speech mixtures where the precise source characteristics are not known a priori. The sources are mo...
Ron J. Weiss, Daniel P. W. Ellis
CSL
2010
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Evaluation of a hierarchical reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system
We describe an evaluation of spoken dialogue strategies designed using hierarchical reinforcement learning agents. The dialogue strategies were learnt in a simulated environment a...
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver ...
CSL
2010
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Improving supervised learning for meeting summarization using sampling and regression
Meeting summarization provides a concise and informative summary for the lengthy meetings and is an effective tool for efficient information access. In this paper, we focus on ext...
Shasha Xie, Yang Liu
CSL
2010
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Monaural speech separation and recognition challenge
Robust speech recognition in everyday conditions requires the solution to a number of challenging problems, not least the ability to handle multiple sound sources. The specific ca...
Martin Cooke, John R. Hershey, Steven J. Rennie
CSL
2010
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Active learning and semi-supervised learning for speech recognition: A unified framework using the global entropy reduction maxi
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...
CSL
2010
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Speech segmentation using regression fusion of boundary predictions
In the present work we study the appropriateness of a number of linear and non-linear regression methods, employed on the task of speech segmentation, for combining multiple phone...
Iosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Fakotakis