The confluence of sensing, communication and computing technologies is allowing capture and access to data, in diverse forms and modalities, in ways that were unimaginable even a few years ago. These include data that afford the analysis and interpretation of multimodal cues of verbal and...

Human-like Singing and Talking Machines: Flexible Speech Synthesis in Karaoke, Anime, Smart Phones, Video Games, Digital Signage, TV and Radio Programs This talk will give an overview of statistical approach to flexible speech synthesis. For constructing human-like talking machines, speech...

Clarification in Spoken Dialogue Systems such as in mobile applications often consists of simple requests to “Please repeat” or “Please rephrase” when the system fails to understand a word or phrase. However, human-human dialogues rarely include such questions. When humans ask for clarification...