Human language technologies
Researching software and systems that bridge the linguistic divide between people and machines to make communicating with computers as natural as speaking with family and friends.
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Constrained Temporal Variation in Speech
The characteristic durations of speech sounds vary considerably across languages, dialects, and even speakers of the same dialect. Analyses of increasingly large speech corpora reveal, however, that temporal variation in speech is highly constrained. Within…
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Resource Efficient Driving Policy
When attacking the problem of Autonomous Driving, one must take into account strict computational constraints, posed by the desired low cost of sensors and processors, and by the required real-time performance. Specifically, when considering Driving…
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On-Device Machine Intelligence with Neural Projections
Deep neural networks and other machine learning models have been transformative for building intelligent systems capable of visual recognition, speech and language understanding. While recent advances have led to progress for machine intelligence applications running…
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Speech Emotion Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks
Speech emotion recognition promises to play an important role in various fields such as healthcare, security, HCI. This talk examines various convolutional neural network architectures for recognizing emotion in utterances in the Chinese language. Experiments…
