4 accepted papers
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have traditionally been evaluated using English datasets, with the word error rate (WER) serving as the predominant metric. WER’s simplicity and ease of interpretation have contributed to its widespread adoption, particularly for English. However, as ASR sy…
Multi-modal emotion recognition (MER) is crucial for improving human-computer interaction. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the mainstream for MER tasks, but they require large databases, extensive memory, and significant energy, limiting their practical use. This paper proposes a novel MER…
In this paper we describe the development of a text-to-speech system for Māori ‘Avaiki Nui (Cook Islands Māori). We provide details about the process of community-collaboration that was followed throughout the project, a continued engagement where we are trying to develop speech and language technol…
Te reo Māori, New Zealand’s only indigenous language, is code-switched with English. Māori speakers are atleast bilingual, and the use of Māori is increasing in New Zealand English. Unfortunately, due to the minimal availability of resources, including digital data, Māori is under-represented in tec…