Title :
Speech and Auditory Interfaces for Ubiquitous, Immersive and Personalized Applications
Author :
Xie, Lei ; Zhao, Wenhuai ; Zhou, Xiangzeng ; Tian, Xiaohai ; Li, Bingfeng ; Sun, Naicai ; Zhao, Yali ; Zhang, Yanning
Author_Institution :
Shaanxi Provincial Key Lab. of Speech & Image Inf. Process., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´´an, China
Abstract :
In this demonstration, we introduce our recent progress on speech and auditory technologies for potential ubiquitous, immersive and personalized applications. The first demo shows an intelligent spoken question answering system, which enables users to interact with a talking avatar via natural speech dialogues. The prototype system demonstrates our latest development on automatic speech recognition, keyword spotting, personalized text-to-speech synthesis and visual speech synthesis. The second demo exhibits a virtual concert with immersive audio effects. Through our virtual auditory technology, wearing simple earphones, listeners are able to experience immersive concert audio effects from an ordinary music file. We believe the technologies shown in the two demos can be easily deployed in many significant applications.
Keywords :
human computer interaction; natural language processing; speech recognition; text analysis; ubiquitous computing; auditory interfaces; automatic speech recognition; intelligent spoken question answering system; keyword spotting; natural speech dialogues; personalized text-to-speech synthesis; speech interfaces; virtual auditory technology; visual speech synthesis; Avatars; Ear; Hidden Markov models; Magnetic heads; Speech; Three dimensional displays; head related transfer functions; human-computer interaction; keyword spotting; question answering; speech recognition; speech synthesis; spoken dialogue system; talking face; virtual auditory; visua speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing and 7th International Conference on Autonomic & Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC), 2010 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xian, Shaanxi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9043-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4272-0
DOI :
10.1109/UIC-ATC.2010.59
