Data mining continuous speech: Modeling infant speech acquisition by extracting building blocks and patterns in spoken language University of Antwerp
Complex use of language, and in particular speech, is one of the defining characteristics of humans, setting us apart from animals. In the last few decades, speech recognition has found many applications and is now, for example, a standard feature on modern smartphones. However, the flexible and powerful learning capacities of human infants have still not been equalled by any machine. Young children find a way to make sense of all the speech ...