Speech Overlap and Interplay with Disfluencies in Political Interviews (2009)
Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-decker, Claude Barras, Benoît Habert, Patrick Paroubek
The reported study focuses on overlapping speech, transcription, annotation and disfluency analysis in an 8-hour audio corpus of French political interviews. Overlaps are frequent (on average 3-4...
Identification of foreign-accented French (2009)
Bianca Vieru-dimulescu, Martine Adda-decker
using data mining techniques
Processing Broadcast Audio for Information Access (2007)
Jean-luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-decker, Claude Barras, Langzhou Chen, ...
This paper addresses recent progress in speaker-independent, large vocabulary, continuous speech recognition, which has opened up a wide range of near and mid-term applications. One rapidly expanding...
Processing Broadcast Audio for Information Access (2007)
Jean-luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-decker, Claude Barras, Langzhou Chen, ...
This paper addresses recent progress in speaker-independent, large vocabulary, continuous speech recognition, which has opened up a wide range of near and mid-term applications. One rapidly expanding...
An Overview of Speech Recognition Activities at LIMSI (2007)
Jean-luc Gauvain, Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-decker, Claude Barras, Langzhou Chen, Michele Jardino, ...
This paper provides an overview of recent activities at LIMSI in multilingual speech recognition and its applications. The main goal of speech recognition is to provide a transcription of the speech...
Liaisons in French: a corpus-based study using morpho-syntactic information (2007)
French liaison consists in producing a normally mute consonant before a word starting with a vowel. Whereas the general context for liaison is relatively straightforward to describe, actual...
Inter- and intra-language acoustic analysis of autonomous fillers (2005)
Candea, Maria, Vasilescu, Ioana, Adda-Decker, Martine
The present work deals with autonomous fillers in a multilingual context. The question addressed here is whether fillers are carrying universal or language-specific characteristics. Fillers occur...
Inter- and intra-language acoustic analysis of autonomous fillers (2005)
Candea, Maria, Vasilescu, Ioana, Adda-Decker, Martine
The present work deals with autonomous fillers in a multilingual context. The question addressed here is whether fillers are carrying universal or language-specific characteristics. Fillers occur...
Investigating Syllabic Structure And Its Variation In Speech (2002)
From French Radio, Martine Adda-decker, Gilles Adda, Lori Lamel
In this paper, we investigate syllabic structure and its variation in a corpus of French radio interview speech. The aim of this study is to relate sequential pronunciation variants, i.e. variants...
Martine Adda-decker, Gilles Adda, Lori Lamel
In this paper we describe our ongoing work concerning lexical modeling in the LIMSI broadcast transcription system for German. Lexical decomposition is investigated with a twofold goal: lexical...
Pronunciation Variants across Systems, Languages and Speaking Style (1998)
Martine Adda-decker, Lori Lamel
This contribution aims at evaluating the use of pronunciation variants across different system configurations, languages and speaking styles. This study is limited to the use of variants during...
Text normalization and speech recognition in French (1997)
Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-decker, Jean-luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel
In this paper we present a quantitative investigation into the impact of text normalization on lexica and language models for speech recognition in French. The text normalization process defines what...
Transcription Of Broadcast News (1997)
Jean-luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-decker
In this paper we report on our recent work in transcribing broadcast news shows. Radio and television broadcasts contain signal segments of various linguistic and acoustic natures. The shows contain...