This dissertation details the implementation of a real-time, speaker-independent telephone auto attendant from first principles on limited quality speech data. An auto attendant is a computerized agent that answers the ...

The brain is a complex organ that is computationally strong. Recent research in the field of neurobiology help scientists to better understand the working of the brain, especially how the brain represents or codes external ...

In this dissertation the problem of recognising vehicle licence plates of which the sym¬bols can not be segmented by standard image processing techniques is addressed. Most licence plate recognition systems proposed in the ...

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Neural networks are used in various fields to make predictions about the future value of a time series, or about the class membership of a given object. For the network to be effective, it needs to be trained on a set of ...

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Speaker accent influences the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Knowledge of accent based acoustic variations can therefore be used in the develop¬ment of more robust systems. This project investigates ...

The traditional method of implementing SRAM in CMOS is via a six-transistor cell and five routing lines. If the number of transistors and the number of wires could be reduced, the packing density of the memory cells could ...

Cochlear implants are electronic devices intended for restoring hearing to the profoundly deaf. Unfortunately the degree of restored hearing varies greatly between subjects. To investigate some of the mechanisms that ...