As one of the techniques for robust speech recognition under noisy environment, audio-visual speech recognition using lip dynamic visual information together with audio information is attracting attention and the research is advanced in recent years. Since visual information plays a great role in audio-visual speech recognition, what to select as the visual feature becomes a significant point. ...

BACKGROUND Oral health literacy is important to oral health outcomes. Very little has been established on comparing word recognition to comprehension in oral health literacy especially in older adults. Our goal was to compare methods to measure oral health literacy in older adults by using the Rapid Estimate of Literacy in Dentistry (REALD-30) tool including word recognition and comprehension a...

This paper reports recent advances in automatic speech summarization method. In our proposed method, a set of words maximizing a summarization score is extracted from automatically transcribed speech. This extraction is performed according to a target compression ratio using a dynamic programming technique. The extracted set of words is then connected to build a summarized sentence. The summari...

This paper describes a tabular method of nding the word string, together with its dependency structure, that has the maximum preference score in a given series of word sets. The technique, which originated in the problem of constraining the process of Japanese speech recognition by linguistic knowledge, is potentially applicable to parsing and disambiguation of various natural languages. The pr...