@article {60,
	title = {Speech Technology At Home: Enhanced Interfaces For People With Disabilities},
	journal = {Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing},
	volume = {15},
	year = {2009},
	month = {04/2009},
	pages = {645-664},
	publisher = {TSI Press },
	address = {USA},
	abstract = {<p>This paper presents new advances in speech technology carried out by the Speech Technology Group (GTH) at the Universidad Polit\&eacute;cnica de Madrid (UPM) to develop enhanced interfaces at home. These interfaces provide a better interaction for people with disabilities. The speech recognizer includes a speaker identification feature (that makes an acoustic adaptation possible for improving recognition performance) and an emotion classifier (to detect the user emotion). The understanding module, with a bottom-up strategy, increases its flexibility against recognition errors. The dialog manager has been improved by a new dialog control based on Bayesian Networks and a new platform for developing multimodal, multilingual, and user dependent dialog services from scratch. Finally, the speech synthesis module includes new advances for increasing the voice naturalness and incorporating emotions. These advances have been integrated into a new interface for controlling a Hi-Fi audio system, thus significantly increasing its ergonomics.</p>},
	keywords = {assistive technology, enhanced interfaces, people with disabilities, speech technology},
	issn = {1079-8587},
	attachments = {https://geintra-uah.org/system/files/speechTechAtHome-autosoft2009.pdf},
	author = {San Segundo, Ruben and Ricardo Cordoba and Javier Ferreiros and Javier Macias-Guarasa and Juan Manuel Montero and Fernando Fernandez and Luis Fernando D{\textquoteright}Haro and Roberto Barra-Chicote and Jose Manuel Pardo}
}
