Hulan-2013-12-20

ASR

ASR Kernel development

[ASR group weekly report]

TTS

• This week

• Huilan female voice initial version delivered. The performance is not good. The buzzy is clear.
• Checking female labeling
• Start male labeling
• Found an error in config file. Generated a better voice.

• Next week

• Deliver a better female voice

Dialog system

Statistical approach

• Initial test on the new Custom database shows that more syntactic queries are involved, which leads to confusion in the statistical approach.

n-best	original	merge
1	0.380		0.446
2	0.468		0.554
3	0.516		0.600
4	0.542		0.625
5	0.559		0.637
6	0.571		0.645
7	0.580		0.653
8	0.588		0.660

• Book QA system design

1. Extract 400 books, obtained its properties including author, publisher, ISBN, rating...
2. Working on data population into to mySql and Jena.

Template matching

• New words finding
• Working on person name extraction

System design

• Interface design, web design, db designed all completed
• Generating web code with automatic web coder generation.