In this paper, we propose to replace the classical black box integration of automatic speech
recognition technology in HRI applications with the incorporation of the HRI environment …

This article presents a stand-alone automatic speech recognition system that accounts for
listener movement, time-varying reverberation effects, environmental noise, and user …

Multimodal interaction is an essential prerequisite for affective human-robot engagement.
Research on bidirectional, affective multimodal interaction systems investigates systems that …

In addition to production-oriented robots, service robots with social skills can also perform a
role in industrial environments, providing on-demand ancillary services that support …

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand into our daily lives, consumers are finding
a growing catalogue of smart devices to boost the intelligence of their homes. Currently, the …

In this thesis an uncertainty weighting scheme for deep neural network-hidden Markov
model (DNN-HMM) based automatic speech recognition (ASR) is proposed to increase …