Past research on automatic laughter detection has focused mainly on audio-based detection. Here we present an audiovisual approach to distinguishing laughter from speech and we sh...
Tandem connections of voice codecs can occur today in mobileto-mobile calls and for certain VoIP connections. While postfiltering in tandem encodings is well-understood, the effe...
Identification of prosodic phenomena is of first importance in prosodic analysis and modeling. In this paper, we introduce a new method for automatic prosodic phenomena labellin...
We describe an experiment where listeners were asked to detect two specific forms of stress in talkers’ recorded voices heard via six different simulated communication systems. ...
One commonly used approach for language recognition is to convert the input speech into a sequence of tokens such as words or phones and then to use these token sequences to deter...