This paper describes a preliminary investigation into automatic assessment of reading comprehension in young children. In particular we studied the feasibility of automatic scorin...
Speaker identification systems work quite well in controlled environments but their performance degrades severely in the presence of the reverberation that is frequently encounte...
This paper deals with the interaction between progressive model adaptation and score normalization strategies which are used for reducing the variation in likelihood ratio scores ...
The maximization of a full-rank quadratic form over a finite alphabet is NP-hard in both a worst-case sense and an average sense. Interestingly, if the rank of the form is not a ...
With the purpose of improving Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) performance, a combination of different acoustic speech recognition (ASR) systems is proposed. State a-posteriori...