What will information terminals look like in the 21st century? We believe they will require three important features: mobility, intelligence, and diversity. With the Internet, a large number of our daily activities will take place on information terminals. Mobility increases their convenience; for instance, wherever we are, we bring global currency with electronic commerce, and whenever we want...

What will information terminals look like in the 21st century? We believe they will require three important features: mobility, intelligence, and diversity. With the Internet, a large number of our daily activities will take place on information terminals. Mobility increases their convenience; for instance, wherever we are, we bring global currency with electronic commerce, and whenever we want...

Speech is the fundamental mode of human communication, and its synthesis has long been a core priority in human-computer interaction research. In recent years, machines have managed to master art generating speech that understandable by humans. But linguistic content an utterance encompasses only part meaning. Affect, or expressivity, capacity turn into medium capable conveying intimate thought...

We present an unsupervised learning algorithm that acquires a natural-language lexicon from raw speech. The algorithm is based on the optimal encoding of symbol sequences in an MDL framework, and uses a hierarchical representation of language that overcomes many of the problems that have stymied previous grammar-induction procedures. The forward mapping from symbol sequences to the speech strea...

The purpose of part-of-speech tagging is to automatically tag the words of a text, written in a certain language, with labels that usually take the form of acronyms that designate the appropriate parts-of-speech. In this paper we propose a new approach to the problem that divides it in two different tasks: a learning task and an optimization task. We tackled each of those tasks with evolutionar...

Asperger syndrome (AS) is a pervasive developmental disorder recently introduced as a new diagnostic category in the ICD-10 and the DSM-IV. Along with motor clumsiness, pedantic speech has been proposed as a clinical feature of AS. However, few attempts have been made to define and measure this symptom. We studied 17 patients with AS (ICD-10; 14 male, 3 female; mean age 16.4 years, mean full-sc...

The ever-increasing amount of online content and the opportunity for everyone to express their opinions leads frequent encounters with social problems: bullying, insults, hate speech. Some portals are taking steps stop this, such as no longer allowing user-generated comments be made anonymously, removing possibility comment under articles, some employ moderators who identify eliminate However, ...

Abstract If understanding sentiments is already a difficult task in human‐human communication, this becomes extremely challenging when human‐computer interaction happens, as for instance chatbot conversations. In work, machine learning neural network‐based Speech Emotion Recognition system presented to perform emotion detection virtual assistant whose was contact tracing during the COVID‐19 pan...

BACKGROUND Older adults manifest difficulties in speech perception, especially when speech is accompanied by noise or when speech is rapid. Several explanations have been suggested to account for age-related changes in speech perception, such as changes in hearing sensitivity or a more general decline in cognitive functioning. The purpose of the present study was to directly examine the relativ...

Spontaneous speech in the form of conversations, meetings, voice-mail, interviews, oral history, etc. is one of the most ubiquitous forms of human communication. Search engines providing access to such speech collections have the potential to better inform intelligence and make relevant data over vast audio/video archives available to users. This project presents a search user interface design ...