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ICASSP 20192019Conventional far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems typically employ microphone array techniques for speech enhancement in order to improve robustness against noise or reverberation. However, such speech enhancement techniques do not always yield ASR accuracy improvement because the optimization criterion for speech enhancement is not directly relevant to the ASR objective. In this work, we
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ICASSP 20192019The use of spatial information with multiple microphones can improve far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy. However, conventional microphone array techniques degrade speech enhancement performance when there is an array geometry mismatch between design and test conditions. Moreover, such speech enhancement techniques do not always yield ASR accuracy improvement due to the difference between
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NAACL 2019 Workshop on NeuralGen2019Semi-supervised learning is an efficient way to improve performance for natural language processing systems. In this work, we propose Para-SSL, a scheme to generate candidate utterances using paraphrasing and methods from semi-supervised learning. In order to perform paraphrase generation in the context of a dialog system, we automatically extract paraphrase pairs to create a paraphrase corpus. Using this
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Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 3 Proceedings2019Building open domain conversational systems that allow users to have engaging conversations on topics of their choice is a challenging task. The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge was launched in 2016 to tackle the problem of achieving natural, sustained, coherent and engaging open-domain dialogs. In the third iteration of the competition, university teams have moved the needle on the state of the art
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DCASE 20192019In this paper we address the problem of detecting previously unseen novel audio events in the presence of real-life acoustic backgrounds. Specifically, during training, we learn subspaces corresponding to each acoustic background, and during testing the audio frame in question is decomposed into a component that lies on the mixture of subspaces and a super gaussian outlier component.Based on the energy
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