Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA
Jun 19, 2017
The growing number of older adults places insurmountable load on family members and professional caregivers. Assistive technology with the aid of robots can present a possible solution. The goal of this article was to test a companion robot supportin...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Mar 21, 2017
Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) can be regarded as a static or dynamic classification problem, which makes SER an excellent test bed for investigating and comparing various deep learning architectures. We describe a frame-based formulation to SER th...
IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems
Mar 1, 2017
Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) is an online machine learning algorithm that emulates the neo-cortex. The development of a scalable on-chip HTM architecture is an open research area. The two core substructures of HTM are spatial pooler and tempora...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Dec 30, 2015
Automatic Speaker Recognition (ASR) and related issues are continuously evolving as inseparable elements of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). With assimilation of emerging concepts like big data and Internet of Things (IoT) as extended elements of HC...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Sep 16, 2014
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are an alternative type of neural network that can be used to reduce spectral variations and model spectral correlations which exist in signals. Since speech signals exhibit both of these properties, we hypothesiz...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Sep 3, 2014
This work addresses the use of deep neural networks (DNNs) in automatic language identification (LID) focused on short test utterances. Motivated by their recent success in acoustic modelling for speech recognition, we adapt DNNs to the problem of id...
In Human-Robot Interaction, speech is one of the most intuitive and effective communication channel. In Industry 4.0, speech-based communication can significantly enhance productivity and efficiency on production lines. However, deploying a Speech Co...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Artificially intelligent systems optimized for speech conversation are appearing at a fast pace. Such models are interesting from a healthcare perspective, as these voice-controlled assistants may support the elderly and enable remote health monitori...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 2, 2025
Triage is used in emergency departments to ensure timely patient care according to urgency of treatment. However, triage accuracy and efficiency remain challenging due to time-constraints and high demand. This proof-of-concept study evaluates an AI-p...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Apr 8, 2025
Humanoid robots, designed to resemble the human form, are increasingly becoming an integral technology used in healthcare and education. This paper focuses on the NAO robot, which is engineered with advanced capabilities such as speech recognition, f...
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