KLAIR: A virtual infant for spoken language acquisition research

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 696-699

  Huckvale, Mark ^a   Howard, Ian S ^b   Fagel, Sascha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous agent; Machine learning; Situated learning; Speech acquisition; Toolkit

Indexed keywords

AUDIO AND VIDEO; BUILDING SIMULATION; CLIENT MACHINE; EMBODIED SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; MACHINE-LEARNING; SITUATED LEARNING; SOFTWARE TOOLKITS; SPEECH ACQUISITION; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; TECHNICAL COMPLEXITY; TIME COMPLEXITY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; EDUCATION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; LINGUISTICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOT LEARNING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 70450189011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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