An introduction to audio-visual speech recognition
Posted on April 30, 2007 - Filed Under audio-visual, research, speech | Leave a Comment
This is from an introduction to my latest paper, and I thought it might be useful to put up here. Feel free to leave any comments on this below.
Audio-visual Speech Recognition
Automatic speech recognition is a very mature area of research, and one that is increasingly becoming involved in our day-to-day lives. While many systems that [...]
links for 2007-04-24
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Subterranean Press » Fiction: Missile Gap by Charles Stross
It’s 1976 again. Abba are on the charts, the Cold War is in full swing — and the Earth is flat. It’s been flat ever since the eve of the Cuban war of 1962; and the constellations overhead are all wrong. Beyond the Boreal ocean, strange new [...]
Audio-visual speech and the McGurk effect
Posted on April 23, 2007 - Filed Under audio-visual, research, speech | Leave a Comment
It may not be immediately obvious to most, but speech is fundamentally a multimodal interaction. (Multimodal is the fancy-pants way of saying that the interaction occurs through more than one mode or channel of communication - audio, visual, gestural, etc.).
While we can communicate very well with audio alone, such as during a telephone call, our [...]
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Strange Horizons Fiction: How the Mermaid Lost Her Song, by Mark Teppo
When the medical examiner opened the corpse’s chest, he found the body cavity filled with sea water. Two small sea turtles, their shells still soft like the fingernails of a baby, were floating in the briny solution. The lungs were stuffed with starfish,
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Strange Horizons Fiction: Painted, by Becca De La Rosa
Loretta waged war against the museum curators. They never saw her coming. She was the speck of dust tightrope-walking through the air, the rain left standing in pools by the entrance on rainy days. Loretta began to pull the museum apart like a Jenga tower
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Strange Horizons Fiction: What the Thunder Said, by Lavie Tidhar, illustration by Robert E. Hobbs, Jr.
Mr. Nine sat in the shade of the baobab tree, his blanket of warez spread before him on the sand. He watched the mzungu girl walk up from the small cluster of bamboo huts on the beach towards him; she [...]