Keywor ds : speech segmentation, speech recognition, recurrent neural networks, extended recurrent neural networks, bi-directional recurrent neural networks, hidden Markov models Speech recognition is fast becoming an attractive form of communicat ion between humans and machines, due to the recent advances made in the field. The technology is, however, far from being acceptable when used in an ...

Recent improvements in technology have facilitated the use of robots and virtual humans not only in entertainment and engineering but also in the military (Hill et al., 2003), healthcare (Pollack et al., 2002), and education domains (Johnson, Rickel, & Lester, 2000). As active partners of humans, such machine assistants can take the form of a robot or a graphical representation and serve the ro...

Performance of automatic speech recognition systems trained on close talking data su ers when used in a distant talking environment due to the mismatch in training and testing conditions Microphone array sound capture can reduce some mismatch by removing ambi ent noise and reverberation but o ers insu cient im provement in performance However using array sig nal capture in conjunction with Hidd...

A faunistic, biocoenotic and ecological survey of soft-bottom macrozoobenthic communities was carried out for the southern part of the Gulf of Trieste on the basis of samplings in 2005 and 2006. At 28 sampled stations a total of 14595 specimens belonging to 306 animal taxa were identified. The most abundant species were capitella capitata, lumbrineris gracilis, Heteromastus filiformis, corbula ...