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    Zarządzanie rozwojem systemów rozpoznawania mowy: problemy wydajności

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    Speech recognition enables the transformation of spoken words and sentences into text in digital form. This technology is a subject of numerous studies and commercial development for many years. The aim of this paper is to examine performance issues of speech recognition and to manage the development in this field. Thorough analysis of performance limitations of speech recognition systems we identified main 11 issues to overcome. They indicate the direction of managing development of speech recognition systems.Rozpoznawanie mowy umożliwia przekształcanie wypowiadanych słów i zdań w tekst w formie cyfrowej. Technologia ta jest od wielu lat przedmiotem licznych badań naukowych oraz komercyjnych. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zbadanie zagadnień dotyczących wydajności systemów rozpoznawania mowy i zarządzanie rozwojem tych systemów. Dogłębna analiza w zakresie ograniczeń wydajnościowych systemów rozpoznawania mowy pozwoliła na zidentyfikowanie problemów, które trzeba przezwyciężyć. Wskazują one kierunek zmian w zarządzaniu rozwojem systemów rozpoznawania mowy

    Processing of nonverbal vocalisations in dementia

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    Nonverbal emotional vocalisations are fundamental communicative signals used to convey a diverse repertoire of social and emotional information. They transcend the boundaries of language and cultural specificity that hamper many neuropsychological tests, making them ideal candidates for understanding impaired socio-emotional signal processing in dementia. Symptoms related to changes in social behaviour and emotional responsiveness are poorly understood yet have significant impact on patients with dementia and those who care for them. In this thesis, I investigated processing of nonverbal emotional vocalisations in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a disease spectrum encompassing three canonical syndromes characterised by marked socio-emotional and communication difficulties - behavioural variant FTD (bvFTD), semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) and nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA). I demonstrated distinct profiles of impairment in identifying three salient vocalisations (laughter, crying and screaming) and the emotions they convey. All three FTD syndromes showed impairments, with the most marked deficits of emotion categorisation seen in the bvFTD group. Voxel-based morphometry was used to define critical brain substrates for processing vocalisations, identifying correlates of vocal sound processing with auditory perceptual regions (superior temporal sulcus and posterior insula) and emotion identification with limbic and medial frontal regions. The second half of this thesis focused on the more fine-grained distinction of laughter subtypes. I studied cognitive (labelling), affective (valence) and autonomic (pupillometric) processing of laughter subtypes representing dimensions of valence (mirthful versus hostile) and arousal (spontaneous versus posed). Again, FTD groups showed greatest impairment with profiles suggestive of primary perceptual deficits in nfvPPA, cognitive overgeneralisation in svPPA and disordered reward and hedonic valuation in bvFTD. Neuroanatomical correlates of explicit laughter identification included inferior frontal and cingulo-insular cortices whilst implicit processing (indexed as autonomic arousal) was particularly impaired in those conditions associated with insular compromise (nfvPPA and bvFTD). These findings demonstrate the potential of nonverbal emotional vocalisations as a probe of neural mechanisms underpinning socio-emotional dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases

    Models and analysis of vocal emissions for biomedical applications

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    This book of Proceedings collects the papers presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications, MAVEBA 2003, held 10-12 December 2003, Firenze, Italy. The workshop is organised every two years, and aims to stimulate contacts between specialists active in research and industrial developments, in the area of voice analysis for biomedical applications. The scope of the Workshop includes all aspects of voice modelling and analysis, ranging from fundamental research to all kinds of biomedical applications and related established and advanced technologies
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