Three recent trends in Paralinguistics on the way to omniscient machine intelligence

A 2 year-old has approximately heard a 1000 h of speech—at the age of ten, around ten thousand. Similarly, automatic speech recognisers are often trained on data in these dimensions. In stark contrast, however, only few databases to train a speaker analysis system contain more than 10 h of speech and hardly ever more than 100 h. Yet, thes...More