Question

The robustness of this task can be improved by applying transforms like SPLICE and CMVN. An architecture of composed weighted finite-state transducers is used for this task by the open-source package Kaldi, which does not support the frequently-used CTC loss function in alignment during this task. Classical algorithms for this task extract 39 MFCC features for each time frame of a sliding window, then feed them into (-5[1])an (*) GMM-HMM. Context-dependent models are used in this task to account for allophones. (-5[1])Probabilistic methods (10[1])for this task (10[1])compute the product of an acoustic model and a language model to select (-5[1])the most likely word sequence given a sound signal. For 10 points, speech synthesis is the reverse of what natural language processing task used by digital assistants (10[1])like Siri to process user input? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: speech recognition [or automatic speech recognition or ASR; accept transcription or speech-to-text or STT; accept speech alignment; prompt on speech processing or natural language processing until read; prompt on vocal recognition or voice recognition; prompt on answers like understanding speech; reject “text-to-speech” or "TTS" or "speech synthesis"; reject "speaker identification" or "speaker verification" or "vocal identification”]
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= Average correct buzz position

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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Benjamin ChapmanToronto AWaterloo Aspidistra66-5
Ishan JoshiToronto Metropolitan AToronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha79-5
Asha BasuMcGill AWaterloo Cloze8110
Athan JuritschToronto Disband the Club 2k24Toronto B8410
James WangOttawa AbsolomabsolomabsolomWaterloo Basic97-5
Michael DuWaterloo AspidistraToronto A12410
Yusuf BaigMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiCarleton A1310
Kevin LeCarleton AMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii13110
Franklin WuToronto Chestnut Rice and KamehamehaToronto Metropolitan A13110
Micah ColmanWaterloo BasicOttawa Absolomabsolomabsolom13110

Summary

2024 ARCADIA at Claremont2024-11-02Y3100%0%33%115.67
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois2024-11-09Y475%0%50%118.67
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo2024-11-09Y6100%0%50%113.67
2024 ARCADIA at Duke2024-12-06Y367%0%67%105.00
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick2024-12-06Y450%0%75%110.50
2024 ARCADIA at GT2024-12-06Y560%0%40%125.33
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech2024-12-06Y475%0%50%114.67
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley2024-12-06Y2100%0%50%104.50