Focusing on one speaker in a crowded or noisy environment is often especially difficult for a person with a hearing loss.
One form of inconvenience is the intense stare that deaf lip readers focus on speakers, particularly if what the speaker has to say is interesting or important.
Student thinktanks come in all shapes and sizes – from Warwick's, which focuses on speaker events, to the Buchanan Institute in Edinburgh or the London Forum for Science Policy at Imperial College London, which produce policy papers, and the York Student Think Tank, which conducts its own research.
Other researchers have focused on speaker identification and verification applications with background noise to improve and create robust speaker recognition [22].
Over the years, most research effort was focused on speaker diarization in broadcast news domain, but recently there has been also a strong interest in lecture and conference meeting domain.
Apple has a lot of ground to make up with Siri, which is clearly why it is focusing on speaker quality and the streamlined value proposition of it being a conduit for Apple Music.
For speaker recognition, on the other hand, the focus is on speaker variation instead of phoneme variation.
For speech recognition, it is necessary to maximize the inter-phoneme variation while minimizing the intra-phoneme variation in the feature space, whereas for speaker recognition, the focus is on speaker variation instead of phoneme variation.
He said that stories focusing on speakers at pro-MEK events rather than on "the substance of what the controversy is" amounted to "journalistic McCarthyism".
"I think we too much focus on the speaker," Ms. Quinn said, explaining that bringing good people into the Council would make for a better legislature, reducing the speaker's importance.
