There is a resurgence of interest in robot manipulation as researchers seek to push autonomous manipulation out of controlled laboratory settings and into real-world applications such as health care, generalized factory automation, domestic assistance, and space exploration. This workshop facilitated progress towards these goals by focusing on autonomous robot manipulation and the requisite sen...

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As speech recognition moves from labs into the real world, the sloppy speech problem emerges as a major challenge. Sloppy speech, or conversational speech, refers to the speaking style people typically use in daily conversations. The recognition error rate for sloppy speech has been found to double that of read speech in many circumstances. Previous work on sloppy speech has focused on modeling...

broadcast digitalization with its enormous benefits to the broadcasting industry will improve the quality of content of programs delivered by television stations. africa has a switchover date of june, 2017. for nigerians to have access to television broadcast once the switch over is completed, they must purchase high definition television sets or the set-up box. the awareness among urban dwelle...