While automatic methods for phonetic segmentation of speech can help with rapid annotation of corpora, most methods rely either on manually segmented data to initially train the p...
This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spo...
Workers in organizations frequently request help from assistants by sending request messages that express information intent: an intention to update data in an information system....
The secure and robust functioning of a network relies on the defect-free implementation of network applications. As network protocols have become increasingly complex, however, ha...
Software written in one language often needs to construct sentences in another language, such as SQL queries, XML output, or shell command invocations. This is almost always done ...