New DEA presented:Natural Language Processing techniques applied to speech technologies

A new DEA (Advanced Studies Diploma) was successfully presented last June 8th 2010 within the research group on Media Technologies, in the area of multimodal processing, by the PhD candidate Alexandre Trilla, here there is a summary of his research: The gist of this research is the automatic extraction of affective information from text in order to feed a speech enabled application with this particular human feature. For example, in a speech synthesis environment, the system would be directed by these affective tags in order to yield expressiveness in speech. Conversely, in a speech recognition environment, the system would enable dealing with the textual domain and refine its recognition capabilities. In all, this value-add should help improve the interface between humans and machines.