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Speech segmentation is the process of identifying and separating different units of speech, such as words, phrases, or sentences, within an audio signal. In the context of dialog systems, speech segmentation is used to extract meaning and structure from spoken language, and to identify the relevant units of speech that need to be processed and analyzed.
There are several approaches to speech segmentation, including rule-based methods, machine learning-based methods, and hybrid methods that combine both approaches. Rule-based methods rely on a set of predefined rules or heuristics to identify different units of speech, while machine learning-based methods use algorithms and data to learn patterns in speech and identify units of speech based on these patterns.
In dialog systems, speech segmentation is used to identify the relevant units of speech that need to be processed and analyzed in order to understand and respond to user input. For example, a dialog system might use speech segmentation to identify the words and phrases spoken by a user, and then use natural language processing (NLP) techniques to analyze the meaning and context of these units of speech.
Speech segmentation is an important component of dialog systems, as it allows the system to understand and interpret spoken language in a more accurate and natural way. By identifying and separating different units of speech, a dialog system can more easily extract meaning and context from spoken language, and provide more relevant and appropriate responses to user input.
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Efficient Setup of Acoustic Models for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
DIC Gollan, IH Ney, PDDL Lamel – publications.rwth-aachen.de
Page 1. Efficient Setup of Acoustic Models for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Von der Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften der RWTH Aachen University zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines …
Speech Recognition Enhanced by Lightly-supervised and Semi-supervised Acoustic Model Training
S Li – 2016 – repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Page 1. Title Speech Recognition Enhanced by Lightly-supervised and Semi-supervised Acoustic Model Training( Dissertation_?? ) Author(s) Li, Sheng Citation Kyoto University (????) Issue Date 2016-03-23 URL https://dx.doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19849 …
Romanian phonetic transcription dictionary
J Domokos, O Buza, G Toderean – researchgate.net
… In this way it is possible to skip the grapheme-to-phoneme con- version task. There is some recent research reported in the literature about using grapheme models instead of phoneme models for speech segmentation [20], [21] …
Confidence Measures for Automatic and Interactive Speech Recognition
IS Cortina – 2016 – riunet.upv.es
Page 1. i i i i Confidence Measures for Automatic and Interactive Speech Recognition ? January, 2016 ? Ph.D. Dissertation by Isaías Sánchez Cortina Advisors: Dr. Alfons Juan i Ciscar Dr. J. Alberto Sanchis Navarro Page 2. Page 3. Resum …
MULTI-LINGUAL MARKET INFORMATION INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEM
H ENDALE – 2014 – etd.aau.edu.et
Page 1. ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE MULTI-LINGUAL MARKET INFORMATION INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEM HONELET ENDALE …
Ultra low bit-rate speech coding
V Ramasubramanian, H Doddala – 2015 – Springer
… Some of the topics covered in this series include the presentation of real life commercial deployment of spoken dialog systems, contemporary methods of speech parameterization, developments in informa- tion security for automated speech, forensic speaker recognition, use …
Automatic Lecture Transcription Based on Discriminative Data Selection for Lightly Supervised Acoustic Model Training
S Li, Y Akita, T Kawahara – IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information …, 2015 – search.ieice.org
… We first conduct speech segmentation to the utterance unit based on the BIC (Bayesian Information Criterion) method [23] and speaker … He has published more than 250 technical papers on speech recognition, spoken language processing, and spoken dialogue systems …
Discriminative Acoustic Features for Deployable Speech Recognition
A Faria – 2016 – eecs.berkeley.edu
Page 1. Discriminative Acoustic Features for Deployable Speech Recognition Arlo Faria Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2016-199 http://www2 …
Referential grounding towards mediating shared perceptual basis in situated dialogue
C Liu – 2015 – search.proquest.com
… The collaborative model and the concept of grounding have motivated previous work on spoken dialogue systems [45], embodied … They proposed an information theoretic framework which could learn models for speech segmentation, word discovery and visual categorization …
Non-Linguistic Analysis of Call Center Conversations
SK Kopparapu – 2015 – Springer
… 11 2.2 Music Voice Separation . . . . . 13 2.3 Agent Customer Speech Segmentation . . . . . 17 2.4 Speech to Text Conversion. . . . . 21 References …
Computational modeling of turn-taking dynamics in spoken conversations
SA Chowdhury – 2017 – eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it
Page 1. PhD Dissertation International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies DISI – University of Trento COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF TURN-TAKING DYNAMICS IN SPOKEN CONVERSATIONS Shammur Absar Chowdhury Advisor: Prof …
Towards an Interactive Human-Robot Relationship: Developing a Customized Robot Behavior to Human Profile
A Aly – 2014 – pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr
… 97 4.5 Multimodaldatasegmentation . . . . . 98 12 Page 14. 4.5.1 GestureSegmentation . . . . . 99 4.5.2 Speech Segmentation . . . . . 101 4.6 Multimodal data characteristics validation . . . . . 101 …
Domain-and Language-adaptable Natural Language Controlling Framework
P Barabás, I Juhász – 2013 – hjphd.iit.uni-miskolc.hu
… vi QLF Quasi-Logical Form RDF Resource Description Framework SDK Software Development Kit SDS Speech Dialog System SNLP Stanford NLP SNLPG Stanford Natutal Language Processing Group SPO Subject-Predicate-Object SRM Semantic Representation Model TAG …
DOMAIN-AND LANGUAGE-ADAPTIVE NATURAL LANGUAGE CONTROLLING FRAMEWORK
P Barabás – 2013 – 193.6.1.94
… vi OWL Web Ontology Langauge POI Point Of Interests POS Part-Of-Speech QLF Quasi-Logical Form RDF Resource Description Framework SDK Software Development Kit SDS Speech Dialog System SNLP Stanford NLP SNLPG Stanford Natutal Language Processing Group …
Machine learning for gesture recognition from videos
BG Gebre – 2015 – repository.ubn.ru.nl
… Gesture stroke detection is one of the main preprocessing tasks in gesture stud- ies. The task can be likened to speech segmentation or word tokenization. This study contributes to the literature by proposing an adaptive user-controlled solution to gesture stroke detection …
Automatic text and speech processing for the detection of dementia
K Fraser – 2016 – search.proquest.com
Automatic text and speech processing for the detection of dementia. Abstract. Dementia is a gradual cognitive decline that typically occurs as a consequence of neurodegenerative disease, and can result in language deficits (ie, aphasia) …
NLTK essentials
N Hardeniya – 2015 – books.google.com
… translation 63 Statistical machine translation 65 Information retrieval 65 Boolean retrieval 66 Vector space model 66 The probabilistic model 67 Speech recognition 68 Text classification 68 Information extraction 70 Question answering systems 70 Dialog systems 71 Word …
Thesis Material-Rasmus Dall
R Dall – 2017 – datashare.is.ed.ac.uk
Page 1. Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Using Conversational Data and Phenomena Rasmus Dall T H E U NIVER S I T Y O F E DI NBU R G H Doctor of Philosophy Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation School of Informatics University of Edinburgh 2017 …
4 Driver mirror-checking action detection
N Li, C Busso – Vehicle Systems and Driver Modelling: DSP …, 2017 – books.google.com
Page 93. Nanxiang Li and Carlos Busso 4 Driver mirror-checking action detection Using multi-modal signals Nanxiang Li, Carlos Busso: The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA. e-mail:{nxl056000, busso}@ utdallas …
Sequential decisions and predictions in natural language processing
H He – 2016 – search.proquest.com
… Similarly, machine translation has largely focused on batch translation at the sentence level. Although there exists work on translation at the sub-sentence level based on speech segmentation, little work exploits linguistic knowledge and strategies of human interpreters …
Linguistic Linked Open Data
D Trandab??, D Gîfu – 2016 – Springer
Page 1. 123 Diana Trandab?? Daniela Gîfu (Eds.) 12th EUROLAN 2015 Summer School and RUMOUR 2015 Workshop Sibiu, Romania, July 13–25, 2015 Revised Selected Papers Linguistic Linked Open Data Communications in Computer and Information Science 588 Page 2 …