Hulan-2014-01-03

ASR

ASR Kernel development

[ASR group weekly report]

TTS

• This week

• Online server mode finished. Ready for delivery.
• Dictionary check on going, Will be finished today.
• Quality of male voice is low. Checking problems.

Dialog system

Statistical approach (QA)

• The second entity class prepared. 4 properties.
• Refined some patterns.
• Work on GUI, will be ready in 2 days.
• Looking for more efficient pattern match/learning approach.

Template matching

• New words extraction

• Extracting person names
• Rule-based extraction, consider surname, name convention
• N-gram non-names filtering out
• Filter out candidates with active word embedded
• Check possible names by search engine

System design

• Sentence syntax management finished.
• Word/Word class management.
• Knowledge base management next week.