no code implementations • EACL 2017 • Amr Mousa, Bj{\"o}rn Schuller
We introduce a novel type of LM using a modified version of bidirectional LSTM (BLSTM) called contextual BLSTM (cBLSTM), where the probability of a word is estimated based on its full left and right contexts.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Simone Hantke, Erik Marchi, Bj{\"o}rn Schuller
Crowdsourcing is an arising collaborative approach applicable among many other applications to the area of language and speech processing.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Eduardo Coutinho, Florian H{\"o}nig, Yue Zhang, Simone Hantke, Anton Batliner, Elmar N{\"o}th, Bj{\"o}rn Schuller
We also discuss the impact of various fusion strategies on performance. Overall, our results demonstrate that the prosody of non-native speakers of English as L2 can be reliably assessed using supra-segmental audio features; prosodic features seem to be the most important ones.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Bj{\"o}rn Schuller, Felix Friedmann, Florian Eyben
The baseline results clearly show the feasibility of automatic estimation of heart rate from the human voice, in particular from sustained vowels.