During the past years the “mystery” of emotions has increasingly attracted interest in
research on human–computer interaction. In this work we investigate the problem of how to …

Extraction and Representation of Prosodic Features for Speech Processing Applications
deals with prosody from speech processing point of view with topics including: The …

With the impressive advances of deep learning in recent years the interest in neural
networks has resurged in the fields of automatic speech recognition and emotion …

Detecting salient structures is a basic task in perceptual organization. Saliency algorithms
typically mark edge-points with some saliency measure, which grows with the length and …

Tonal cues play an important role in distinguishing ambiguous words in Mandarin speech
recognition. This paper explores an innovative tone modeling framework using prosodic and …

The importance of word sense disambiguation (WSD) has been well recognised in
computational linguistics since the inception of the discipline. Throughout these years …

The incorporation of prosodic information in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
has attracted much attention in recent years, especially for a tonal language such as …

Tone plays an important role in distinguishing ambiguous words in Chinese Mandarin
speech recognition. In this paper, we make full use of pitch information. On the one hand, we …

In order to be able to be responsive to the user, it is vital for human–computer interfaces to
correctly determine a user's current emotional state. To perform this emotion recognition, a …

We describe the SpeakGoodChinese system that supports beginning students of Mandarin
Chinese to produce tones correctly (http://speakgoodchinese. org/). Students pronounce a …