Understanding three simultaneous speeches is proposed as a challenge problem to foster artificial intelligence, speech and sound understanding or recognition, and computational auditory scene analysis research. Automatic speech recognition under noisy environments is attacked by speech enhancement techniques such as noise reduction and speaker adaptation. However, the signal-to-noise ratio of s...

Compared with high sample-rate speeches, low sample-rate speeches lose all high frequency components that outrange the Nyquist frequency, which might severely impair the speeches’ sound effects. To address this problem, this paper proposes a novel High-frequency (HF) restoration method of low sample-rate speech based on Bayesian inference, which turns the restoration problem into a maximizing a...

In this report we present a system that can generate political speeches for a desired political party. Furthermore, the system allows to specify whether a speech should hold a supportive or opposing opinion. The system relies on a combination of several state-of-the-art NLP methods which are discussed in this report. These include n-grams, Justeson & Katz POS tag filter, recurrent neural networ...

We seek to measure political candidates’ ideological positioning from their speeches. To accomplish this, we infer ideological cues from a corpus of political writings annotated with known ideologies. We then represent the speeches of U.S. Presidential candidates as sequences of cues and lags (filler distinguished only by its length in words). We apply a domain-informed Bayesian HMM to infer th...

TBD Plenary Speech 2: Mobile Device-to-Device Video Distribution: Theory and Application Speaker: Prof. Liang Zhou, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Time: Monday Morning, September 26, 2016 Location: Tongji Room(通济厅), 3rd Floor, Ramada Xi'an Bell Tower Abstract As the video traffic has dominated the data flow of smartphones, traditional cellular communication faces subs...

While I fi nd the paper interesting, the results provide somewhat of a puzzle. If central bank communication does not affect the predictability of interest rates, why do central banks talk so much? As an example, since 1999 the six members of the Executive Board of Sveriges Riksbank (the central bank of Sweden) gave in combination an average of about 35 speeches per year. On top of that, some s...

Understanding three simultaneous speeches is proposed as a challenge problem to foster arti cial intelligence, speech and sound understanding or recognition, and computational auditory scene analysis research. Automatic speech recognition under noisy environments is attacked by speech enhancement techniques such as noise reduction and speaker adaptation. However, the signal-to-noise ratio of sp...

A compelling element of the four plays in Arbury 414 is their framing speeches. By contrast the revised, neater version of The Humorous Magistrate found in the Osborne collection contains neither prologue nor epilogue. Of the four plays in the Arbury collection, The Emperor’s Favourite includes only a prologue, while the other three plays feature both prologues and epilogues. Ghismonda and Guis...

The Critical Discourse Analysis is often applied to analyze political discourse including the public speech, in which the speaker wins favorite response from the audience. This paper, based on Critical Discourse Analysis theory and Systematic Functional Linguistics, analyzes Barack Obama’s presidential speeches mainly from the point of transitivity and modality, in which we can learn the langua...

PIH’s goal of “accompaniment” to its patients as a means to ensure that medicine is taken and hardships are eased for those in need. The third section focuses on unnatural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010. More somber in tone, these speeches quickly got to Dr. Farmer’s point that we, as doctors, scientists, and policymakers, should be making “wea...