... of/d/before/y /in didyou (5b) Reduction of unstressed/u/to schwa in) ,~u (5c) Flapping of intervocalic /t/ in hit. it (5d) Reduction of schwa and devoicing of/u /in to (5e) Reduc:ion of geminate/t /in ... of finite-state parsing techniques at the phonetic level in order to exploit certain classes or" contextual constraints. -In the second section, the parsing framework is extended in order ... linguistic constraints mentioned above: voicing and place assimilation, aspiration, flapping. etc. In short, these mamces are sparse because allophonic and phono- tactic constraints are useful...
... correcting processes. The first process uses pairs of strings: the first string is an erroneous substring of the utterance predicted by speech recognition, the second string is the corresponding ... the string including errors from the String- Database (the former string is referred to as the Similar-String, and the latter as the Error-String). Finally, the correction is made using the ... error-block in the Error-String, am found in the Similar- String, take out the string (denoted C) between A and B in 1 For detecting errors in Japanese sentences, the method using the probability...
... ambiguity in finding the best matching string. The performance can further be improved if the acoustic matching information used in the recognition process is incorporated into the language decoding ... obtained by expanding all the non-terminals into the corresponding vocabulary words and each word in terms of phonetic units. Finally a matching between the string of phones describing the ... constraints is imposed to correct possible errors introduced by the speechrecognition module. 2. Syntax Driven Continuous Speech Recognition The general trend in large vocabulary continuous speech...
... splitthe data into 90% training and 10% testing sets for5-cross validation. MOCHA and TORGO data arenever combined in a single training set due to dif-fering EMA recording rates. In all cases, ... that it is also useful within speech recognition. We have overcome a conceptual impediment in integrating task dynamics and ASR, which is theformer’s deterministic nature. This integration isaccomplished ... component takes into account var-ious physiological aspects of human speech production, including intergestural and in- terarticulator co-ordination and timing (Namand Saltzman, 2003; Goldstein and...
... Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speechin Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate inSpeechRecognition Klaus Zechner and Alex Waibel Language Technologies Institute ... scores used in the task of reranking Nbest lists. The organization of this paper is as follows: In section 2 we introduce the concept of chunk.pars- ing and how we interpret and use it in our ... putting efforts into further training. • alternative language models: An idea for im- provement here is to integrate skipped words into the LM (similar to the modeling of noise in speech) ....
... layout III. PROPOSED METHOD FOR SPEECHRECOGNITIONIN T-ENGINEFig.2. Speechrecognitionin T-EngineThe UDA1342 audio codec in T-Engine provides a minimal sampling frequency (SF) of 44100Hz. ... of speech engines. Finally, we demonstrate a human-computer interaction software in T-Engine embedded system.I. INTRODUCTION In this paper, we are concerned with the combination of speech recognition ... especially in human-computer interaction (HCI). Fig.6. Screen shot of HCM Museum introductionTo demonstrate the use of speechin HCI we have combined speech recognition together with speech synthesis...
... Detecting Certainness in Spoken Tutorial Dia-logues. In Proc. of Interspeech. D. Litman and K. Forbes-Riley. 2004. Annotating Student Emotional States in Spoken Tutoring Dia-logues. In Proc. ... Correctness/certainty–SRP interactions We also find an interesting interaction between correctness/certainty and system’s ability to rec-ognize that turn. In general correct/certain turns have ... similar in spirit to the initiative-SRP tradeoff that is well known when designing information-seeking systems (e.g. system initiative is often used instead of a more natural mixed initiative...
... Laprun.2005. The rich transcription 2005 spring meeting recognition evaluation. In Rich Transcription 2005Spring Meeting Recognition Evaluation Workshop,Edinburgh, UK.Jay J. Jiang and David W. ... al., 2004). In the above WER experiments a 4-gram baselinemodel was used, which was trained on nearly 1 bil-lion words. In (Demetriou et al., 2000) a simplerbaseline has been used. 650 sentences ... simpler models are not used in today’s recognition systems.We think that these prediction models can still beuseful for other tasks where only small amounts oftraining data are available....
... known on the introduction of marine pestsLittle practical information on measures to prevent introductionsLack of knowledge in what individual countries are doingNeed to have information ... the effectiveness of existing instruments within APEC Institutional arrangements for managing the marine environment is fragmented in most economies Baseline surveys to identify IMP ... FrameworkConclusions, including the results of the November 2001 Workshop Management Framework - Introduced Marine PestsManagement capabilities and approaches APEC and the MRCWG have a role in liaising...
... "minimize speech window") to shrink it into your Dock. If you choose Speech Preferences from its bottom-edge triangle, you open the Speech Preferences window. Right: Choosing Open Speech ... icons are, in fact, AppleScript icons. The point is that you can make PlainTalk do almost anything you want, especially in the Finder, simply by creating AppleScripts and putting them into the ... speaking their names. Few people use PlainTalk speech recognition. But if your Mac has a microphone, PlainTalk is worth at least a 15-minute test drive. It may become a part of your work routine...
... not much, not any) point in doing something — there is no (little, not much) sense (use) in doing something1. it could be only a matter of minutes before Mr. Blearney finished his story and ... seemed so little point in beating about the bush. (J. Wain)2. There's no point in having servants if you abandon the conventions. (/. Murdoch)3. "No point in going after the same ... just acquiring the knack of reading time. (D. Parker)to get the hang of — to understand the general idea or meaning;the way of doing something or the way in which something is used1. She...