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    Speech Technology At Home: Enhanced Interfaces For People With Disabilities

    TitleSpeech Technology At Home: Enhanced Interfaces For People With Disabilities
    Publication TypeJournal Article
    Año de publicación2009
    AutoresSan-Segundo, R, Cordoba, R, Ferreiros, J, Macias-Guarasa, J, Montero, JM, Fernandez, F, D'Haro, LF, Barra-Chicote, R, Pardo, JM
    Idioma de publicaciónEnglish
    JournalIntelligent Automation and Soft Computing
    Volumen15
    Número4
    Páginas645-664
    Fecha de publicación04/2009
    Lugar de publicaciónUSA
    EditorialTSI Press
    Rank in category43/52
    JCR CategoryAUTOMATION & CONTROL SYS
    Palabras claveassistive technology, enhanced interfaces, people with disabilities, speech technology
    JCR Impact Factor0.268
    ISSN1079-8587
    Abstract

    This paper presents new advances in speech technology carried out by the Speech Technology Group (GTH) at the Universidad Politécnica 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.

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