Natural language and human–machine interaction is a very much traversed as well as
challenging research domain. However, the main objective is of getting the system that can …

Conversational interfaces that allow for intuitive and comprehensive access to digitally
stored information remain an ambitious goal. In this thesis, we lay foundations for designing …

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become an indispensable part of the AI domain,
with various speech technologies reliant on it. The quality of speech recognition depends on …

This paper presents a qualitative study of errors produced by an end-to-end spoken
language understanding (SLU) system (speech signal to concepts) that reaches state of the …

Developing language resources is an important task when creating a speech recognition
system for a less-resourced language. In this paper we describe available language …

We present the results of the Latvian IT Competence Centre (IT CC) in developing several
essential language technologies and applications. 11 language technology projects have …

In recent years, the success of speech technologies like speech recognition and speech
synthesis for languages like English has prompted a new excitement about spoken …