Context The teaching of foreign languages often requires the use of audiovisual contents to make learners more familiar with native speech production and to improve their oral communication skills. However, the tasks of selecting and preparing these contents for a didactic purpose can be weighty task and thus limit the number of documents exploited by foreign language teachers. In order
Context Intelligibility can be defined as an analytical, acoustic-phonetic decoding notion – i.e. addressing “low-level” linguistic units, referring to the quality of pronunciation at the segmental (phoneme and syllable) levels. Speech intelligibility is usually assessed by speech therapists using perceptual tasks. While these are informative, they rely on subjective ratings, biased, among other factors, by the familiarity of the rater
Context Television still has a strong impact on society and consumers.Social TV or social television is a blend of social media and television activity.A growing number are watching television programs on multiple devices, across computers, mobile phones, and tablets.Nowadays, applications can use this second screen to improve TV’s experience.For example, customers can participate in a chat, ask questions during a
Context Intelligibility can be defined as an analytical, acoustic-phonetic decoding notion – i.e. addressing “low-level” linguistic units –, referring to the quality of pronunciation at the segmental (phoneme and syllable) levels. Speech intelligibility is usually assessed using perceptual tasks. While these are informative, they entail several drawbacks, as they rely on subjective ratings, biased, among other factors, by the familiarity
1. Context The reduction of mortality and the extension of life expectancy following cancer make it a priority to manage the after-effects of the pathology and its treatments. Oral or oropharyngeal cancer affect the structures involved in speech production. Thus, the quality of life of these patients may be affected by changes in their communication skills. In clinical practice, the
Context An alarming observation has been made in several countries: 1 student out of 5 in France and 1 out of 4 in the USA enter middle school with difficulties for reading, compromising their whole schooling. Two major causes of this problem are the heterogeneity of student’s abilities and the growing number of students per classroom, which keeps the teachers
The analysis of instrumental activities of daily life is an important tool in the early diagnosis of dementia such as Alzheimer. The IMMED project investigates tele-monitoring technologies to support doctors in the diagnostic and follow-up of the illnesses. The project aims to automatically produce indexes to facilitate the doctor’s navigation throughout the individual video recordings. Water sound recognition is very
Context The development of socially interactive robots is a motivating challenge, so that a considerable number of mature robotic systems have been developed during the last decade. Moving such robots out of laboratories, i.e. in private homes, to become robot companions is a deeper challenge because communication between a human and a robotic home assitant must be as natural as
Context This research takes place in a context of audio indexing. After some work on the detection of speech and music, the problem of the position of singing appears. Actually, it is music produced by human voice. In our Speech/Music system, it is classifed mainly in the music category, but it was sometimes taken for speech. The purpose of this work
Context Most of the existing video-search engines rely on context and textual metadata such as the title of the video, tags and comments written by users, etc. In other words, no attempt at understanding the actual content of the video is performed. Content-based audiovisual analysis aims at bridging this so-called semantic gap. Overview Our approach to this problem aims at being as generic,