Discrimination between at least two classes of events in an input signal is carried out in the
following way. A set of frames containing an input signal is received, and at least two …

This application is a continuation of US Pat. No. 8.311, 813, entitled VOICE ACTIVITY
DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD, filed May 15, 2009, which was a S371 of …

In this paper we report on the combination of multilingual Hidden Markov Models for the
recognition of non-native speech. Using a digit recognition task as an example, we first …

We report on the use of multilingual hidden Markov models for the recognition of non-native
speech. Based on the design of a common phoneme set that provides a phone compression …

In this paper, we review the design of a common phone alphabet for up to fifteen languages
and describe its application in two important components of a seamless multilingual …

In this paper we report on recent progress in the use of multilingual Hidden Markov Models
for the recognition of non-native speech. While we have previously discussed the use of …

Speech input implemented in voice user interface (voice UI) plays an important role in
enhancing the usability of small portable devices, such as mobile phones. In these devices …

Multilingual access to information and services is a key requirement in any pervasive or
ubiquitous computing environment. In this paper we review the design of a common …

New automatic speech recognition applications, mainly for small and medium vocabulary
sizes, demand the capability of recognizing speech in several languages simultaneously …

The most common target of multilingual ASR aims at covering various speakers from various
languages. The problem we address in this article is more specifically an asymmetrical …