In this paper we report on our ongoing work in developing spoken language corpora in the context of information access in two travel domain tasks, L’ATIS and MASK. The collection of spoken language corpora remains an important research area and represents a significant portion of work in the development of spoken language systems. The use of additional acoustic and language model training data ...

Five- and six-year-old children (n = 160) participated in three studies designed to explore language discrimination. After an initial exposure period (during which children heard either an unfamiliar language, a familiar language, or music), children performed an ABX discrimination task involving two unfamiliar languages that were either similar (Spanish vs. Italian) or different (Spanish vs. M...

Objectives: Profound hearing loss encounters children with delay in speech and language. As it is known language acquisition in young deaf children is a lengthy process, but cochlear implanted children have better spoken language skills than if they had not received the device. According to the importance of cochlear implant in deaf childchr('39')s language development, this study evaluates the...

The growing availability of spoken language corpora presents new opportunities for enriching the methodologies of speech and language therapy. In this paper, we present a novel approach for constructing speech motor exercises, based on linguistic knowledge extracted from spoken language corpora. In our study with the Dutch Spoken Corpus, syllabic inventories were obtained by means of automatic ...

Performance of the echo canceller can be conventionally measured by putting white Gaussian noise into the echo canceller system. However, white Gaussian noise is not adequate as the test signal, since the performance may depend on the characteristics of input test signal, and the characteristics of the white Gaussian noise differ from those of real spoken language. This paper describes characte...

Optimism is growing that the near future will witness rapid growth in human-computer interaction using voice. System prototypes have recently been built that demonstrate speaker-independent real-time speech recognition, and understanding of naturally spoken utterances with vocabularies of 1000 to 2000 words, and larger. Already, computer manufacturers are building speech recognition subsystems ...

Insertion of proper segmentation and punctuation into an ASR transcript is crucial not only for the performance of subsequent applications but also for the readability of the text. In a simultaneous spoken language translation system, the segmentation model has to fulfill real-time constraints and minimize latency as well. In this paper, we show the successful integration of an attentional enco...