This paper presents the results of the NEOLOGOS project: a children database and an optimized adult database for the French language. A new approach was adopted for the collection...
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...
The current study reports specific cases in which a positive transfer of perceptual ability from the music domain to the language domain occurs. We tested whether musical training...
Makiko Sadakata, Lotte van der Zanden, Kaoru Sekiy...
With the purpose of improving Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) performance, a combination of different acoustic speech recognition (ASR) systems is proposed. State a-posteriori...
This paper looks at a parsing-based alternative to word error rate (WER) for optimizing recognition, SParseval, hypothesizing that it may be a better objective for applications su...
Dustin Hillard, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Mary P. Harper, Mar...