With the rise of Deep Learning, speech Recognition has shown great results in recent years. As people who use video conferencing software on daily basis, we aim to demonstrate the viability of generating meeting transcripts using speech recognition combined with a preprocessing step of identifying unique speakers in the meeting. If successful, participants in the meeting can focus on engaging f...

We discuss waves created in relatively thick plates by edge excitation at frequency-thickness (fd) products that correspond, in principle, to multiple Lamb wave modes. For relatively low values of the fd product it is clear that Lamb wave modes will be generated, while at large values of the fd product we observe a bulk (longitudinal wave) in the solid, but influenced by reflections from the pl...

Recent work has shown that the same neural circuitry that typically underlies risky behaviors also contributes to prosocial behaviors. Despite the striking overlap between two seemingly distinct behavioral patterns, little is known about how risk taking and prosociality interact and inform adolescent decision making. We review literature on adolescent brain development as it pertains to risk ta...

We offer a model in which sequences of individuals often converge upon poor decisions and are prone to fads, despite communication of the payoff outcomes from past choices. This reflects both direct and indirect action-based information externalities. In contrast with previous cascades literature, cascades here are spontaneously dislodged and in general have a probability less than one of lasti...

Accounts of turn-taking in much of the CA literature have largely focused on talk which progresses with minimal gaps between turns at talk, longer gaps being found to be symptomatic of, for example, engagement in non-talk activities, or as indicators of some kind of trouble in the interaction. In this paper we present an account of turn-taking in conversations between Indigenous Australians whe...

The IEEE 802.15.4 is a Personal Area Network well-known designed for programs like wireless monitoring and control of lights, protection alarms, movement sensors, thermostats and smoke detectors. IEEE 802.15.4 specifies bodily and media access manages layers that have been optimized to make certain low strength consumption. For the conversation among two nodes, best throughput for IEEE 802.15.4...

Question design during history-taking has clear implications for patients' ability to share their concerns in general and their seizure experiences in particular. Studies have shown that unusually open questions at the start of the consultation enable patients to display interactional and linguistic markers which may help with the otherwise challenging differentiation of epileptic from nonepile...

Based on German production data from the ‘Kiel Corpus of Spontaneous Speech’, we conducted two perception experiments, using an innovative interactive task in which participants gave real oral responses to resynthesized question stimuli. Differences in the time interval between stimulus question and response show that segmental reduction, intensity level, and the shape of the phrase-final rise ...

While there has been a long tradition of research seeking to use prosodic features, especially pitch, in speaker recognition systems, results have generally been disappointing when such features are used in isolation and only modest improvements have been seen when used in conjunction with traditional cepstral GMM systems. In contrast, we report here on work from the JHU 2002 Summer Workshop ex...

This paper looks at the discursive and interactional structures to be found in male toilet graffiti at a British university. Traditionally, toilet graffiti has been discussed in terms of thematic content and the possible psychological and socioanthropological impacts on it. By contrast, this study draws on work in conversation analysis and discourse studies to investigate patterns of interactio...