The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the efficiencies that can be achieved when automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications are provided to large user populations using client-server implementations of interactive voice services. It is shown that, through proper design of a client-server framework, excellent overall system performance can be obtained with minimal demands on the compu...

abstract: Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) is one of the most harmful distress mechanisms that affects durability concrete worldwide. Yet, it has been found ASR-induced expansion and may be prevented by appropriate use supplementary cementing materials (SCMs). Recent studies suggest rice husk ash (RHA), a by-product production, present promising performances as pozzolanic material to enhance blende...

Abstract The alkali–silica reaction (ASR) can cause expansion, cracking, and degradation of the mechanical properties affected concrete. Concerns about safety ASR-damaged reinforced concrete structures have driven demand for studying effects ASR on residual load capacity deteriorated structure. Conventionally, field testing methods are used to assess ASR-affected structures. In this study, a no...

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) model adaptation is important to many real-life ASR applications due to the variability of speech. The differences of speaker, bandwidth, context, channel and et al. between speech databases of initial ASR models and application data can be major obstacles to the effectiveness of ASR models. ASR models, therefore, need to be adapted to the application environm...

The University at Buffalo (UB) team participated in the SpokenQuery&Doc task at the NTCIR-12, working on the Spoken Content Retrieval (SCR) subtask. We investigated the use of multiple ASR hypotheses (words) and subword units (syllables) for improving retrieval effectiveness. We also compared the retrieval effectiveness based on texts generated by two automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines,...

We evaluated the performance characteristics of three real-time reverse transcription-PCR test systems for detection and quantification of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and performed a direct comparison of the systems on the same clinical specimens. Commercial HCV panels (genotype 1b) were used to evaluate linear range, sensitivity, and precision. The Roche COBAS TaqMan HCV test for research use only...

In this paper we describe some of our recent investigations into ASR and SMT coupling issues from an ASR perspective. Our study was motivated by several areas: Firstly, to understand how standard ASR tuning procedures effect the SMT performance and whether it is safe to perform this tuning in isolation. Secondly, to investigate how vocabulary and segmentation mismatches between the ASR and SMT ...