In an ordinary interaction, communicants have various, mostly unconscious goals which reflect their interactional, social and personal needs. these interactions, people’s minds try to find a balance between reaching consuming cognitive energy. If speaker puts too little effort into speech production, she risks not achieving her communicative goals. This is especially typical when the atmosphere...

Objective: Evaluate the performance of a continuous-speech interface to a decisionsupport system. Design: We performed a prospective evaluation of a speech interface that matches unconstrained utterances of physicians with controlled-vocabulary terms from Quick Medical Reference (QMR). We assessed the performance of the speech interface in two stages: in the real-time experiment, physician-subj...

Although speech articulation relies heavily on the sensorimotor processing, little is known about its brain control mechanisms. Here, we investigate, using transcranial magnetic stimulation, whether the motor cortex contributes to the generation of quick sensorimotor responses involved in speech motor coordination. By applying a jaw-lowering perturbation, we induced a reflexive compensatory upp...

The study presents the surgical protocol of unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) treatment based on the one-stage method. It is exemplified by the treatment course of a patient suffering from UCLP. The method was worked out and implemented at the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw. Its main advantage is the early establishment of the anatomical structures of the naso-oral cave and the fa...

Listening to the sound of a patient’s heart has long been a quick, noninvasive, and revealing way of gathering information on the state of the heart. As a complement to other instruments for measuring heart function (such as the EKG), it could be useful to have an automatic device that essentially duplicates the listening performed by a physician with a stethoscope. Many of the challenges in de...

This paper describes a morphosyntactic analyser in Galician which, apart from its obvious linguistic interest, can be easily applied to speech recognition and speech synthesis systems. While rule-driven models produce the better performance, stochastic models have shown a comparable accuracy when properly designed. Moreover, rule-driven models are based on a complex set of linguistic rules, qui...

In this paper, we describe experiments in text chunking for prosodic phrasing and generation in French. We present a quick, robust and deterministic parser which uses part-of-speech information and a set of rules, to consistently assign prosodic boundaries in Text-To-Speech synthesis. The syntactic phrasing, consisting of segmenting sentences in non-recursive sequences, is de ned in terms of se...

Thirty-six blast-exposed patients and twenty-nine non-blast-exposed control subjects were tested on a battery of behavioral and electrophysiological tests that have been shown to be sensitive to central auditory processing deficits. Abnormal performance among the blast-exposed patients was assessed with reference to normative values established as the mean performance on each test by the contro...

This paper describes the work done in developing a real automatic meteorological information system by means of building a VoiceXML framework, or browser, over an open source VoiceXML interpreter. The system provides real-time telephone access to meteorological data and a warning service which keeps users informed on the weather conditions. The interpreter has been integrated with the telephony...

This paper proposes a new dialogue management architecture for human-machine speech communication systems. In our daily speech communication, incremental, non-deterministic and quick-response behaviors are required for effortless information interchange. Emergent computational architectures, proposed in the robot control domain, are promising to enable such features. The dialogue manager (ECL-D...