PROJECT GOALS 1. To coordinate the design, development and distribution of speech and natural language corpora for the ARPA Spoken Language research community, and the use of these corpora for technology development and evaluation. 2. To design, coordinate the implementation of, and analyze the results of performance assessment benchmark tests for ARPA's speech recognition and spoken language u...

Here we introduce our new text-to-AV (speech and face animation) system created for our Thinking Head project that provides a modular research platform to the AV community. This includes a novel phone-to-face motion module capable of synthesizing face animation from triphone data. Using phoneme timing information from human speech and combining this with information derived from our speech face...

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Abstract Research on speech technologies necessitates spoken data, which is usually obtained through read recorded speech, and specifically adapted to the research needs. When aim deal with prosody involved in available data must reflect natural conversational costly difficult get. This paper presents a machine learning-oriented toolkit for collecting, handling, visualization of using prosodic ...

This article discusses the results of research on Sardundun's spoken literature in Tanjung Bulan village, Pulau Beringin district (OKU Selatan). The background is need for local cultural inheritance that has a life value, but begun to be abandoned by community. approach used this qualitative with descriptive methods. study are present poetry contains elements language and art culture have richn...

It is a common belief in the speech community that the short-time phase spectrum plays very little (or, no) role in human perception tasks as well as in automatic speech recognition systems. In this paper, the usefulness of phase information is explored in human speech perception as well as in automatic speech recognition. Through human perception experiments, it is shown that the short-time ph...

Gestures and speech interact. They are linked in language production and perception, with their interaction contributing to felicitous communication. The multifaceted nature of these interactions has attracted considerable attention from the speech and gesture community. This article provides an overview of our current understanding of manual and head gesture form and function, of the principle...

It is well known that the introduction of acoustic background distortion and the variability resulting from environmentally induced stress causes speech recognition algorithms to fail. In this paper, we discuss SUSAS: a speech database collected for analysis and algorithm formulation of speech recognition in noise and stress. The SUSAS database refers to Speech Under Simulated and Actual Stress...

Mandarin speech data Across Taiwan (MAT) is a project initiated by members of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) to collect speech data through public telephone networks in Taiwan. Totally over 7000 Taiwanese individuals have provided speech data. The results were released as a series of MAT speech databases to the research community in Taiwan...

The output of a speech recognition system is not always ideal for subsequent downstream processing, in part because speakers themselves often make mistakes. A system would accomplish speech reconstruction of its spontaneous speech input if its output were to represent, in flawless, fluent, and content-preserving English, the message that the speaker intended to convey. These cleaner speech tran...