Being visually impaired or a computer illiterate have always being a barrier for people to use computer to perform their tasks in an easy, efficient and quick way. However, mobile is not only a necessity of everyone today but is convenient to be operated by anyone and everyone. This paper discusses a system wherein the user will be able to type text on computer by providing a voice input throug...

This paper describes, within the context of the DARPA EARS program, the design and implementation of the Fisher protocol for collecting conversational telephone speech which has yielded more than 16,000 English conversations. It also discusses the Quick Transcription specification that allowed 2000 hours of Fisher audio to be transcribed in less than one year. Fisher data is already in use with...

The Internet offers a tremendous opportunity for experiments with real-time machine translation (MT) dialogues. Interchanges may be typed, or speech recognition (SR) techniques might be used to accept spoken input. In either case, given the number of ambiguities still escaping automatic resolution, interactive disambiguation for both components seems likely to remain important in many Internet ...

There is a very high percentage of speech-defects among defective children , which is, of course, not surprising, since the production of speech is a very highly complicated process, taking the normal child many months or even years to learn, and requiring a good deal of mental concentration, accurate observation, good memory, a quick ear, and well-developed muscular control, qualities which mo...

Telefónica Móviles España (TME) is Spain's largest mobile telecommunications operator in number of customers. TME is continuously providing new services to its customers and a main objective is to ensure their usability. One of the key services deployed during 2002 has been the Portal de Voz (Voice Portal). This service provides hierarchical navigation on prerecorded or synthetic speech content...

PURPOSE To compare the ability of the auditory brainstem response to complex sounds (cABR) to predict subjective ratings of speech understanding in noise on the Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ; Gatehouse & Noble, 2004) relative to the predictive ability of the Quick Speech-in-Noise test (QuickSIN; Killion, Niquette, Gudmundsen, Revit, & Banerjee, 2004) and pure-tone hearing...

A change in talker is a change in the context for the phonetic interpretation of acoustic patterns of speech. Different talkers have different mappings between acoustic patterns and phonetic categories and listeners need to adapt to these differences. Despite this complexity, listeners are adept at comprehending speech in multiple-talker contexts, albeit at a slight but measurable performance c...