Speech recognition confidence classifier (CC) score quantitatively represents the correctness of decoded utterances in a [0,1] range. We associate an operating threshold with the classifier and accept recognitions with scores greater than the threshold. Speech developers may set their own threshold but often an acoustic model (AM) or CC update alters the correct-accept (CA) vs. false-accept (FA...

“Trust” or likewise “confidence” (the term preferred in this paper) are notions which have received considerable attention by economists in the last 8-10 years. In this contribution, much emphasis is put on the understanding what we really mean by “confidence”, what the differences between optimism and confidence are and how the onset of confidence can possibly be explained. Also, we analyze th...

objective: to compare self-confidence in woman with and without pcos according to their ages. materials and methods: this comparative study was conducted on 400 women (100 with and 300 without pcos) in clinics of shahid akbar-abadi and firouzgar hospitals, from july 2012 to february 2013. spss-16 used for statistical analysis (spss; spss inc., chicago, il, usa). results: this study showed 98% o...