In this paper, we propose a method for robust kernel density estimation. We interpret a KDE with Gaussian kernel as the inner product between a mapped test point and the centroid ...
In this paper, we investigate the significance of contextual information in a phoneme recognition system using the hidden Markov model - artificial neural network paradigm. Cont...
Joel Pinto, B. Yegnanarayana, Hynek Hermansky, Mat...
One of the biggest challenges in emotional speech resynthesis is the selection of modification parameters that will make humans perceive a targeted emotion. The best selection me...
Networked embedded acoustic sensors and imagers allow scientists to observe biological and environmental phenomena at high sampling rates and multiple scales. Such sampling can cr...
Michael Allen, Eric Graham, Shaun Ahmadian, Tetsun...
Robust Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a key component of spoken dialogue systems. Recent statistical approaches to this problem require additional resources (e.g. gazettee...