Hands-free, voice-driven user input is gaining popularity, in part due to the increasing functionalities provided by intelligent digital assistances such as Siri, Cortana, and Google Now, and in part due to the proliferation of small devices that do not support more traditional, keyboardbased input. In this paper, we examine the gap in the mechanisms of speech recognition between human and mach...

An anterior pathway, concerned with extracting meaning from sound, has been identified in nonhuman primates. An analogous pathway has been suggested in humans, but controversy exists concerning the degree of lateralization and the precise location where responses to intelligible speech emerge. We have demonstrated that the left anterior superior temporal sulcus (STS) responds preferentially to ...

In order to compare the effects of different acoustic transmission conditions on Mandarin consonants perception, two subjective speech intelligibility tests were separately carried out in reverberant and noisy condition. The results showed that the affricates and fricatives were the most intelligible in reverberation. Friction might be the most important cue for consonant perception in reverber...

Decision making in a complex, dynamic environment is a very difficult task that requires new techniques of computational intelligence for building adaptive, hybrid intelligent decision support systems (HIDSS). Here, a new approach is proposed based on evolving agents in a dynamic environment. Neural network and rule-based agents are evolved using methods included in a repository for intelligent...

Computer synthesized speech is and will continue to be an important feature of many artificially intelligent systems. Although current computer synthesized speech is intelligible, it cannot yet pass a Turing test. One avenue for improving the intelligibility of computer synthesized speech and for making it more human-like is to incorporate stress patterns on words. But to achieve this improveme...

As modern Automated Deduction systems rely heavily on the use of a machine-oriented representation of a given problem, together with sophisticated redundancy-avoiding techniques, a major task in convincing human users of the correctness of automatically generated proofs is the intelligible representation of these proofs. In this paper, we propose the use of the cut-rule in the human-oriented pr...