Reviews of Human-Computer Interaction of Automatic Speech Recognition Papers

This semester, one of my subjects that is under "Special Topics" (meaning, they are seasonal, and there will be high chances the topic won't ever be available in coming semesters) is about Human-Computer Interaction.

My childhood friend, who happens to also be our professor for this subject, Sir Teej still getting used to calling him with an honourific ROFLMAO, required us to make reports of five topics from ACM Digital Library that was published from years 2012-2015 about HCI.

Since I've decided to take the research route of studying, improving, and innovating acoustics / sound signal analyses for practical uses, hence this blog, started with the topic I'm highly considering for my SP, automatic speech recognition (but I'm hopeful I will delve and concentrate more on bioacoustics in the future, focusing usage for agriculture - because FOOOOOD~).

The abstracts of the papers, along with the reviews after the cut.

Note: This post is "live" and will edit most of it when I'm done with my reports and reviews. I just thought I should write them down, make a template, and publish them ASAP instead I end up never posting it.

Setting up Roland A-88 with QJackCtl + QSampler in Linux Mint 13

Since I started to try improving on developing my relative pitch using the CDs of David Lucas Burge's The Relative Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse, I needed Asahi, my Roland A-88 to be fully functioning again. I took a break trying to learn and memorize playing Moanin' in piano (Sakamichi no Apollon version) and thought it's best I get back to basics by trying to improve and develop my relative pitch and absolute pitch. 

Anyway, I tried setting up Asahi to my Linux Mint 13 64bit Xfce partition of Ahim, my laptop and it took awhile for me to tweak so that the MIDI output of Asahi will be heard from the speakers of Ahim. This post is a walkthrough how I did it.