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| Speaker | Description of the talk |
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Nick Campbell Trinity College Dublin / School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences Dublin (Ireland) |
Multimodal Speech Processing; introducing a corpus of nonverbal events, with focus on 'actions' in social talk Wednesday, 11th of June 2014 This talk describes the motivation for the TCD FastNet Project; a five-year study of nonverbal aspects of social spoken interaction and shows how low-level signals can provide interesting insights into personal relationships and speaker states in a conversation... Read more |
Anton Nijholt University of Twente / Research Group Human Media Interaction Enschede (The Netherlands) |
It Knows What's on Your Mind: Brain-Computer Interfaces Friday, 13th of June 2014 Brain-computer interfacing has become a topic of interest for computer scientists and in particular human-computer interaction researchers. They are looking for applications that add the brain-activity modality to other multi-modal ways of interacting with 'computers'... Read more |
 Juan Manuel Montero Technical University of Madrid / Department of Electronic Engineering Madrid (Spain) |
Need-driven Affect Modeling for Spoken Conversational Agents: Design and Evaluation Friday, 20th of June 2014 One barrier to the creation of Spoken Conversational Agents (SCAs) has been the lack of methods for detecting and modelling emotions in a task-independent way. This seminar focuses on the design and evaluation of affective SCAs... Read more |
 Rubén San-Segundo Technical University of Madrid / Department of Electronic Engineering Madrid (Spain) |
Developing Advanced Communications System for the Deaf Tuesday, 24th of June 2014 There are over 70 million people with hearing impairments in the world. Many of them have either been deaf from birth or have become deaf before learning a spoken language. This fact has serious implications for the education and social inclusion of Deaf people... Read more |
Mark Gales University of Cambridge / Department of Engineering Cambridge (England) |
Controllable and Adaptable Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Systems Wednesday, 25th of June 2014[CANCELED] One of the advantages of statistical parametric speech synthesis approaches over concatenative schemes is that it is straightforward to modify the synthesis system to change, for example, the speaker characteristics or emotional state of the generated speech. This talk will review some of the approaches that have been used... Read more |
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