A major research activity at LIMSI is multilingual, speaker-independent, large vocabulary speech dictation. In this paper we report on efforts in large vocabulary, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition of French using the BREF corpus. Recognition experiments were carried out with vocabularies containing up to 20k words. The recognizer makes use of continuous density HMM with Gaussia...

This paper describes the practical evaluation of two commercial dictation systems in order to assess the potential usefulness of such technology in the specific context of a translation service translating legal text into Italian. The service suffers at times from heavy workload, lengthy documents and short deadlines. Use of dictation systems accepting continuous speech might improve productivi...

This paper highlights the educational strength of new technologies: merging interactive control techniques in co-operative environments can create ideal learning conditions. As an example, we will describe the didactic unit named “spelling dictation test”, supported by our network service based on the TCP/IP standard. Microsoft’s Peedy agent is the teacher’s assistant, which interacting with pu...

This study approaches melodic dictation in relation to aural analysis, by investigating the effect on an accomplished before taking, its results. 98 music undergraduates participated performing a task. The participants were divided into control group and experimental group. Subjects situation asked answer few questions about melody regarding structure, motifs harmonic tension prior notating it....

In this paper we report progress made at LIMSI in speaker-independent large vocabulary speech dictation using newspaper speech corpora. The recognizer makes use of continuous density HMM with Gaussian mixture for acoustic modeling and n-gram statistics estimated on the newspaper texts for language modeling. Acoustic modeling uses cepstrum-based features, contextdependent phone models (intra and...

conclusions the persian handwriting assessment tool as a comprehensive and quickly scored tool that can help therapists identify primary school students with handwriting problems so that appropriate interventions for these students can be implemented. methods this methodological study was conducted in tehran, iran during 2015 - 2016. measurement items were selected by reviewing the past literat...

This paper deals with the dictation of reaction undamped, systematically driven electrical and mechanical vibrators by Gupta transform (GT) tenders an alternate style for vibrators. It reveals that GT is effectual method proves materiality

PURPOSE To characterize, according to the school grade and the type of school (private or public), the performance on orthographic and narrative text production in the writing of Elementary School students with good academic performance, and to investigate the relationships between these variables. METHODS Participants were 160 children with ages between 8 and 12 years, enrolled in 4th to 7th...