Hulan-2013-12-27

ASR

ASR Kernel development

[ASR group weekly report]

TTS

• This week

• Delivered a female voice
• Delivered a tunable pitch/speaking rate
• Male voice labeling finished

• Next week

• Pronunciation dictionary check

Dialog system

Statistical approach

• A preliminary book-search demo is ready, with 400 books, 6 properties, 10 patterns.
• Looks fine, while the pattern set is still limited
• Need to expand the patterns and properties and enrich the functionality.
• 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

• Interface implementation on going (dimension management).
• Deadline is 14/1/17