Speech processing

I found this interesting. I expect other CreST people might too.https://soundcloud.... read more

Alistair Edwards
Posted 19th June 2014 at 10:47 AM

5th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)

We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the fifth annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), to be co-located with ACL 2014 in Baltimore in June 2014. The deadline for submission of papers and demo proposals is 21 March. Full details on the workshop, topics of interest, timeline, and formatting of regular papers can be found here here: http://www.slpat.org/slpat2014This 2-day workshop ... read more

Alistair Edwards
Posted 20th November 2013 at 4:47 PM

Essential Tones Of Music Rooted In Human Speech (May 2007)

ESSENTIAL TONES OF MUSIC ROOTED IN HUMAN SPEECHA study of the tonal relationship of music to speech by researchers at the Duke University, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070524145005.htm Retrieved: ... read more

Daniel Doughty
Posted 15th September 2012 at 5:19 PM

Speech = Words + ?

As a newcomer to this area, I'm struck by the considerable difference between words, sentences, as they are spoken; and those same words and sentences read from a page. Speech manages to convey essential semantic content that is not present in the words themselves. In Italian, for example, a spoken question is simply a statement that ends with a rising tone. With a rising tone, the sentence ... read more

Leonardo Bottaci
Posted 14th September 2011 at 12:31 PM