92 Forensic Linguistics (2009)
Linguistics and the law: how knowledge of, or ignorance of, elementary linguistics may affect the dispensing of justice
Automated lip-sync animation as a telecommunications aid for the hearing impaired (2008)
David Mcallister, Robert Rodman, Donald Bitzer, Andrew Freeman
Vocal communication is most effective when the listener is able to observe the mouth of the speaker. This is especially true for the hearing impaired, and dramatically true for the deaf, who rely on...
An Algorithm for V/UV/S Segmentation of Speech by (2008)
Meng Wang, Donald Bitzer, David Mcallister, Robert Rodman, Jamie Taylor
Let f(n) be a sampled voice signal. Our goal is to identify the voiced (V) portions of f (as opposed to the silence (S) and unvoiced (UV) portions). In the following discussion, the sampling rate is...
Speaker Independence in Lip Synchronization of Vowels (2008)
Jamie Taylor, Donald Bitzer, Robert Rodman, David Mcallister, Meng Wang
This paper presents a method for achieving speaker independence in the lip synchronization of vowels by performing an affine transformation on the moments of the spectrum of the speech. A speech...
ABSTRACT ProofChecker: An Accessible Environment for Automata Theory Correctness Proofs (2008)
Matthias Stallmann, Suzanne Balik, Robert Rodman, Sina Bahram, Michael Grace, Susan High
ProofChecker is a graphical program based on the notion of formal correctness proofs that allows students, both sighted and visually impaired, to draw a deterministic finite automaton(DFA) and...