SpeechBrain is an open-source and all-in-one speech toolkit. It is designed to facilitate the
research and development of neural speech processing technologies by being simple …

ABSTRACT Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an active field of research due to its
large number of applications and the proliferation of interfaces or computing devices that …

ABSTRACT We present SimSensei Kiosk, an implemented virtual human interviewer
designed to create an engaging face-to-face interaction where the user feels comfortable …

Consider sounds, say at 40kHz, that are completely outside the human's audible range
(20kHz), as well as a microphone's recordable range (24kHz). We show that these high …

In spoken dialog systems, dialog state tracking refers to the task of correctly inferring the
user's goal at a given turn, given all of the dialog history up to that turn. The Dialog State …

As user demand scales for intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) such as Apple's Siri,
Google's Google Now, and Microsoft's Cortana, we are approaching the computational limits …

There is great potential for boosting the performance of mobile devices by offloading
computation-intensive parts of mobile applications to the cloud. The full realization of this …

There are currently no benchmarks that can directly compare the performance of an
application across the cloud-only, edge-only and cloud-edge (Fog) deployment platforms to …

Interactive computing has evolved through the years from cryptic command-based interfaces
to a collection of task-based applications to ecologically valid immersive environments, each …

Modern warehouse-scale computers (WSCs) are being outfitted with accelerators to provide
the significant compute required by emerging intelligent personal assistant (IPA) workloads …