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The Weekly Round-Up: 02.10.09
Round-Up Imagine that: figures of speech are often just figures of speech. The Round-Up has a one-word response for this: good. Sometimes fairly, though often not. The internet is corrupting the... [02 Oct 2009]
Pronunciation Lexicon Adaptation for TTS Voice Building
White Paper Creating speaker-dependent pronunciation lexicons for automatic speech labeling of their TTS voice databases helped to eliminate many pronunciation errors that resulted from mismatches between lexical pronunciations and... [29 May 2009]
Apple's iWork learns to share online
News At Tuesday's Macworld keynote speech, Apple announced a handful of upgrades to existing software. This is far from online word processing solutions offered by Google, Zoho, Thinkfree, and others, but... [07 Jan 2009]
Initial Experiments With Estonian Speech Recognition
White Paper This paper presents a short description of work recently done at University of Tartu to construct a word - based speech recognition system. The lowest word error rate of 37.5% reported... [13 Dec 2008]
Recovering Punctuation Marks for Automatic Speech Recognition
White Paper The approach is based on maximum entropy models and uses word, part-of-speech, time and speaker information. This paper shows results of recovering punctuation over speech transcriptions... [13 Dec 2008]
The Potential Impact of Speech Recognition Technology on Workplace Productivity
White Paper Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software embedded in popular word processing programs shows great promise, offering the potential for a faster and more effective human computer interface. A study was... [13 Dec 2008]
Automatic Speech Recognition for Webcasts: How Good Is Good Enough and What to Do When It Isn't
White Paper This paper describes a procedure for prototyping an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system that generates realistic transcripts of any desired Word Error Rate (WER), thus overcoming the drawbacks of... [13 Dec 2008]
Vocabulary Decomposition for Estonian Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition
White Paper Speech recognition in many morphologically rich languages suffers from a very high Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) ratio. This paper compares various vocabulary decomposition approaches to open vocabulary speech... [13 Dec 2008]
An Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Framework Based on Articulatory Features
White Paper This paper presents an audio-visual speech recognition framework based on articulatory features, which tries to combine the advantages of both areas, and shows a better recognition accuracy compared to a phone-based... [13 Dec 2008]
Use of Novel Feature Extraction Technique With Subspace Classifiers for Speech Recognition
White Paper Speech recognition is one of the fast moving research areas in pervasive services requiring human interaction. Like any type of pattern recognition system, selection of the feature extraction method and the classifier... [13 Dec 2008]
Multilingual Non-Native Speech Recognition Using Phonetic Confusion-Based Acoustic Model Modi?cation and Graphemic Constraints
White Paper This paper presents an automated approach for non-native speech recognition. Phonetic confusion rules are automatically extracted from a non-native speech database for a given NL and SL using both NL's... [13 Dec 2008]
Photos: Tomorrow's tech showcased by inventors
Photo Within a year Health Enterprise East hopes to pair the system with a speech recognition engine to translate doctor's speech on the fly. Here's some really cool technology in every sense of the... [18 Sep 2008]
Use Speech Recognition
White Paper Speech recognition is installed in all Office programs by initially using the feature in Microsoft Word, or by doing a custom installation. Speech Recognition is available in the... [16 Apr 2008]
About Speech Recognition
White Paper Speech recognition is installed in all Office programs by initially using the feature in Microsoft Word, or by doing a custom installation. The user can use speech recognition to dictate... [16 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up The truly ambitious might also want to try and fingerprint him while he's actually making a speech, which again might prove a tough challenge given that, first, he waves his arms about a lot and second, he'd probably... [11 Apr 2008]
