This paper presents results on the selection of application scenarios and persona design for sociolect and dialect speech synthesis. These results are derived from a listening expe...
Live closed-captions for deaf and hard of hearing audiences are currently produced by stenographers, or by voice writers using speech recognition. Both techniques can produce capt...
Patrick Cardinal, Gilles Boulianne, Michel Comeau,...
This paper investigates novel ways to direct computers by eye gaze. Instead of using fixations and dwell times, this work focuses on eye motion, in particular gaze gestures. Gaze g...
Word importance discrimination is a task deserving attention when one treats a topic from TREC where a topic is quite long. The goal of the process is to estimate importance of wo...
We report a novel method for logging and annotating video footage specifically for professional post-production and archivist end users. SALSA – Semi-Automated Logging with Sema...