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Novel Methods for Incorporating Prior Knowledge for Automatic Speech Assessment

Speech signal conveys several kinds of information such as a message, speaker identity, emotional state of the speaker and social state of the speaker. Automatic speech assessment is a broad area that refers to using automatic methods to predict human judg ...

EPFL2021

Explainable Phonology-based Approach for Sign Language Recognition and Assessment

Sandrine Tornay

Sign language technology, unlike spoken language technology, is an emerging area of research. Sign language technologies can help in bridging the gap between the Deaf community and the hearing community. One such computer-aided technology is sign language ...

EPFL2021

Broccoli: Sprinkling Lightweight Vocabulary Learning into Everyday Information Diets

Robert West

The learning of a new language remains to this date a cognitive task that requires considerable diligence and willpower, recent advances and tools notwithstanding. In this paper, we propose Broccoli, a new paradigm aimed at reducing the required effort by ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Weakly-Supervised Concept-based Adversarial Learning for Cross-lingual Word Embeddings

James Henderson

Distributed representations of words which map each word to a continuous vector have proven useful in capturing important linguistic information not only in a single language but also across different languages. Current unsupervised adversarial approaches ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2019

Social babbling: The emergence of symbolic gestures and words

Aude Billard, Laura Bénédicte Marine Cohen

Language acquisition theories classically distinguish passive language understanding from active language production. However, recent findings show that brain areas such as Broca's region are shared in language understanding and production. Furthermore, th ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2018

Comparative Study on Sentence Boundary Prediction for German and English Broadcast News

Philip Neil Garner, David Imseng, Yang Wang

We present a comparative study on sentence boundary prediction for German and English broadcast news that explores generalization across different languages. In the feature extraction stage, word pause duration is firstly extracted from word aligned speech ...

Idiap2017

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The construct of the self is conceived as being fundamental in promoting survival. As such, extensive studies have documented preferential processing of self-relevant stimuli. For example, attributes that relate to the self are better encoded and retrieved ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2017

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This paper presents a series of tests that were performed on a state-of-the-art real-time automatic speech recognition system for English, in a single-computer implementation. As the intention is to use the system for speech-based query-free document retri ...

Idiap2017

Dipole words are sequences of magnetic dipoles, in which alike elements repel and opposite elements attract. Magnetic dipoles contrast with more general sets of bonding types, called glues, in which pairwise bonding strength is specified by a glue function ...

2016

Sound Pattern Matching for Automatic Prosodic Event Detection

Hervé Bourlard, Philip Neil Garner, Milos Cernak, Afsaneh Asaei, Pierre-Edouard Jean Charles Honnet

Prosody in speech is manifested by variations of loudness, exaggeration of pitch, and specific phonetic variations of prosodic segments. For example, in the stressed and unstressed syllables, there are differences in place or manner of articulation, vowels ...

Idiap2016

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