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- Bertenstam, J, et al.
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THE WAXHOLM APPLICATION DATABASE
- 1995
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes an application database collected in Wizard-of-Oz experiments in a spoken dialogue system, WAXHOLM. The system provides information on boat traffic in the Stockholm archipelago. The database consists of utterance-length speech files, their corressonding transcriptions, and log files of the dialogue sessions. In addition to the spontaneous dialogue speech, the material also comprise recordings of phonetically balanced reference sentences uttered by all 66 subjects. In the paper the recording procedure is described as well as some characteristics of the speech data and the dialogue.
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- Bimbot, F, et al.
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An overview of the PICASSO project research activities in speaker verification for telephone applications
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a general overview of the current research activities in the European PICASSO project on speaker verification for telephone applications. First, the general formalism used by the project is described. Then the scientific issues under focus are discussed in detail. Finally, the paper briefly describes the Picassoft research platform. Along the article, entry points to more specific work also published in the Eurospeech’99 proceedings are given.
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- Blomberg, Jerry, et al.
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Institutional Arrangements and Firm Behavior: The Case of Common Forests in Sweden
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Ingår i: Journal of Economic Issues. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0021-3624 .- 1946-326X. ; 31:2, s. 401-408
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Examines the effect of property rights systems within common forests on output decisions in Sweden. History of common forests in Sweden; Structure and governance of Swedish common property forests; Behavioral assumption behind the actions of managers and co-owners of the common forests in Sweden.
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- Blomberg, Mats
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A common phone model representation for speech recognition and synthesis
- 1994
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A combined representation of context-dependent phones at the production parametric and the spectral level is described. The phones are trained in the production domain using analysis-by-synthesis and piece-wise linear approximation of parameter trajectories. For recognition, this representation is transformed to spectral subphones, using a cascade formant synthesis procedure. In a connected-digit recognition task, 99.1% average correct digit rate was achieved in a group of seven male speakers when, for each test speaker, training was done on the other six speakers. Simple rules for male-to-female transformation of the male phone library increased the performance for six female speakers from 88.9% without transformation to 96.3%. In informal listening tests of resynthesised digit strings, the speech has been judged as intelligible, however far from natural.
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- Blomberg, Mats, et al.
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An experimental dialog system: WAXHOLM
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recently we have begun to build the basic tools for a generic speech-dialogue system, WAXHOLM. The main modules, their function and internal communication have been specified. The different components are connected through a computer network. A preliminary version of the system has been tested, using simplified versions of the modules. We will give a general overview of the system and describe some of the components in more detail. Application specific data are collected with the help of Wizard-of-Oz techniques. The dialogue system is used during the data collection and the wizard only replaces the speechrecognition module.
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- Blomberg, Mats
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Creating unseen triphones by phone concatenation in the spectral, cepstral and formant domains
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A technique for predicting triphones by concatenation of diphone or monophone models is studied. The models are connected using linear interpolation between endpoints of piece-wise linear parameter trajectories. Three types of spectral representation are compared: formants, filter amplitudes and cepstmm coefficients. The proposed technique lowers the spectral distortion of the phones for all three representations when different speakers are used for training and evaluation. The average error of the created triphones is lower in the filter and cepstmm domains than for formants. This is explained to be caused by limitations in the Analysis-bySynthesis formant tracking algorithm. A small improvement with the proposed technique is achieved for all representations in the task of reordering N-best sentence recognition candidate lists.
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- Blomberg, Mats, et al.
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Creation of unseen triphones from diphones and monophones using a speech production approach
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- With limited training data, infrequent triphone models for speech recognition will not be observed in sufficient number. In this report, a speech production approach is used to predict the characteristics of unseen triphones by concatenating diphones and/or monophones in the parametric representation of a formant speech synthesiser. The parameter trajectories are estimated by interpolation between the endpoints of the original units. The spectral states of the created triphone are generated by the speech synthesiser. Evaluation of the proposed technique has been performed using spectral error measurements and recognition candidate rescoring of N-best lists. In both cases, the created triphones are shown to perform better than the shorter units from which they were constructed. 1. INTRODUCTION The triphone unit is the basic phone model in many current phonetic speech recognition systems. The reason for this is that triphones capture the coarticulation effect caused by the immediate pr...
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