It is well known to enhance the performance of noise robust speaker identification using visual speech information with audio utterances. This paper presents an approach to evaluate the performance of a noise robust audio-visual speaker identification system using likelihood ratio based score fusion in challenging environment. Though the traditional HMM based audio-visual speaker identification...

This paper describes the data collection, annotation and sharing activities carried out within the FP7 EU-funded SAVAS project. The project aims to collect, share and reuse audiovisual language resources from broadcasters and subtitling companies to develop large vocabulary continuous speech recognisers in specific domains and new languages, with the purpose of solving the automated subtitling ...

This study investigates the use of audiovisual cues in the perception of sound contrasts which have a different phonemic status in the listeners’ L1 and L2. Two contrasts differing in the distinctiveness of their visual gestures (/b/-/v/ and /p/-/b/) were presented to Spanish learners of English in audio, visual and audiovisual modalities. Overall identification rates were not significantly hig...

AIM To assess and compare the effectiveness of Manual toothbrushing reinforced with audiovisual instructions with powered toothbrushing, among the institutionalized mentally challenged individuals under supervision of trained caretakers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A randomized cross over clinical trial of 6 months duration which included 16 subjects consisting of two phases of three months, for ea...

T he advent of object-based multime-dia standards, in particular MPEG-4, has brought new challenges to the subject of media streaming over the Internet. To tackle these challenges, the Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) defined a generic multimedia delivery platform—the Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework—under the MPEG-4 umbrella. In this article we describe the DMIF framework and examin...

Audiovisual devices such as satellite and conventional televisions can offer easy access to authentic programs which are considered to be a rich source of language input for SLA (Second Language Acquisition). The immediacy of various audiovisual programs ensures that language learners’ exposure is up-to-date and embedded in the real world of native speakers. In the same line, in the present pap...

Grammar is now rehabilitated in language teaching and learning after years of debate and research on how best to teach grammar has produced a variety of options for the teachers to follow in their classrooms. The present study reports 30 Bangladeshi university EFL teachers’ attitudes towards grammar and its teaching and learning relating to those options. An analysis of their responses indicate...

AIM The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the eff-cacy of 'audio distraction' in anxious pediatric dental patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty children were randomly selected and equally divided into two groups of thirty each. The first group was control group (group A) and the second group was music group (group B). The dental procedure employed was extraction for both the groups...

OBJECTIVES We examined the quality of instruction in a continued medical education course and the correspondence between the residents and lecturers evaluations of the program. MATERIALS AND METHODS Resident psychiatrists and instructors completed structured evaluation forms immediately following each lecture in a psychiatry course for one academic year. RESULTS Residents' and lecturers' ev...

In 2003, Touch Graphics Company carried out research on a new invention that promises to improve accessibility to science museums for visitors who are visually impaired. The system, nicknamed Ping!, allows users to navigate an exhibit area, listen to audio descriptions, and interact with exhibits using a cell phone-based interface. The system relies on computer telephony, and it incorporates a ...