A review of ASR technologies for children's speech

M Gerosa, D Giuliani, S Narayanan… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we review:(1) the acoustic and linguistic properties of children's speech for
both read and spontaneous speech, and (2) the developments in automatic speech …

Emotion recognition using a hierarchical binary decision tree approach

CC Lee, E Mower, C Busso, S Lee, S Narayanan - Speech communication, 2011 - Elsevier
Automated emotion state tracking is a crucial element in the computational study of human
communication behaviors. It is important to design robust and reliable emotion recognition …

Paralinguistics in speech and language—state-of-the-art and the challenge

B Schuller, S Steidl, A Batliner, F Burkhardt… - Computer Speech & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Paralinguistic analysis is increasingly turning into a mainstream topic in speech and
language processing. This article aims to provide a broad overview of the constantly …

Behavioral signal processing: Deriving human behavioral informatics from speech and language

S Narayanan, PG Georgiou - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The expression and experience of human behavior are complex and multimodal and
characterized by individual and contextual heterogeneity and variability. Speech and …

Speech-based recognition of self-reported and observed emotion in a dimensional space

KP Truong, DA Van Leeuwen, FMG De Jong - Speech communication, 2012 - Elsevier
The differences between self-reported and observed emotion have only marginally been
investigated in the context of speech-based automatic emotion recognition. We address this …

[PDF][PDF] On the impact of children's emotional speech on acoustic and language models

S Steidl, A Batliner, D Seppi, B Schuller - EURASIP Journal on Audio …, 2010 - Springer
The automatic recognition of children's speech is well known to be a challenge, and so is the
influence of affect that is believed to downgrade performance of a speech recogniser. In this …

A case study of user communication styles with customer service agents versus intelligent virtual agents

T Hewitt, I Beaver - Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
We investigate differences in user communication with live chat agents versus a commercial
Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). This case study compares the two types of interactions in the …

[PDF][PDF] Real-time automatic emotion recognition from speech

T Vogt - 2010 - Citeseer
Recently, the importance of reacting to the emotional state of a user has been generally
accepted in the field of human-computer interaction and especially speech has received …

Generative model for nlp applications based on component extraction

A Bhardwaj, P Khanna, S Kumar - Procedia Computer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
People all around the world speak so many different languages, but a Computer System or
any other Computerized Machine only understands a single language ie binary language …

Towards adapting fantasy, curiosity and challenge in multimodal dialogue systems for preschoolers

T Kannetis, A Potamianos - … of the 2009 international conference on …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
We investigate how fantasy, curiosity and challenge contribute to the user experience in
multimodal dialogue computer games for preschool children. For this purpose, an on-line …