Recent advances in speech recognition
Sadaoki Furui

On the acquisition of speech by machines, ASM
Frank Fallside

Speaker independent recognition of spontaneously spoken connected digits
P. Ramesh, Jay G. Wilpon, M. A. McGee, David B. Roe, Chin-Hui Lee, Lawrence R. Rabiner

Immediate recognition of embedded command words
P. S. Gopalakrishnan, David Nahamoo

HMM-based wordspotting for voice editing and indexing
Lynn D. Wilcox, Marcia A. Bush

Large vocabulary speaker-adaptive continuous speech recognition research overview at dragon systems
Janet M. Baker

Continuous density HMM context dependent phones for speech recognition over the telephone
Victoria Sgardoni, Dimitrios A. Gaganelis, Eleftherios D. Frangoulis

Text-to-speech synthesizer using superposition of sinusoidal waves generated by synchronized oscillators
Katsuhiko Shirai, K. Hashimoto, T. Kobayashi

Synthesis-by-rule using compost: modelling resonance trajectories
M. Guerti, G. Bailly

Neural network based spectral interpolation method for speech synthesis by rule
Yasushi Ishikawa, Kunio Nakajima

A rule-based segmental synthesis module for French
Marine Garnier-Rizet

Effects of system voice quality on user utterances in speech dialogue systems
Norman M. Fraser, G. Nigel Gilbert

A human factors study of speech-to-text technology: consequences of discrete speech
P. Day, A. Grünupp, K.-P. Muthig

A comparison of document composition using a listening typewriter and conventional office systems
Iain R. Murray, John L. Arnott, Alan E. Newell

Evaluating speech input and output in a CAD-system using the hidden-operator method
Paulus H. Vossen

Mixed mode input for a standard wordprocessor. investigating links between input mode, speech and keyboard, and specific task areas
M. Zajicek, J. Hewitt

Experiments with a non-linear spectral subtractor (NSS), hidden Markov models and the projection, for robust speech recognition in cars
P. Lockwood, J. Boudy

Noise reduction for speech enhancement in cars: non-linear spectral subtraction / kalman filtering
P. Lockwood, C. Baillargeat, J. M. Gillot, J. Boudy, G. Faucon

Isolated word recognition with integrated noise reduction
Klaus Fellbaum, Dieter Becker

A comparative study of parameters and distances for noisy speech recognition
Javier Hernando, Climent Nadeu

A new reliability-based phoneme segmentation method for the "neural" phonetic typewriter
Jorma T. Laaksonen

Isolated word adaptive recognizer based on neural networks
Bruno Apolloni, Francesco Pazienti, Vincenzo Trotta

Evaluation of speaker-independent phoneme recognition on TIMIT database using TDNNs
Nobuo Hataoka, Alex H. Waibel

Phonetic context in hybrid HMM/MLP continuous speech recognition
Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, C. Wooters, Phil Kohn, M. Cohen

Neural network classification of complex-valued speech features
E. C. Andrews, J. S. Mason

Rewiring lexical networks on the fly
Dennis Norris

Phoneme recognition with an artificial neural network
K. Elenius, G. Takacs

A new self-organization algorithm of forming a phoneme map
Jiang Jianxin, Yi Kechu, Hu Zheng

Phoneme classification using neural networks based on acoustic-phonetic structure
Shuping Ran, J. Bruce Millar

Networks for speech recognition structurally optimised by genetic techniques implemented on parallel hardware
Nigel Dodd, Donald Macfarlane, Chris Marland

Influence of vietnamese tone and prosody on the acquisition of English stress patterns
J. Pittam, J. Ingram

The voiced/unvoiced distinction of initial stops by normal and hearing impaired listeners
Walter F. Sendlmeier

Comparison of formant transition based stop classifiers: time-varying and time-invariant signal models
Krishna S. Nathan

The effect of context on labiality in French
Christian Benoît, Christian Abry, L. J. Roe

Nasalisation in bengali speech sounds acoustic-phonetic study
A. K. Datta, N. R. Ganguli, B. Mukherjee

Vowel formant frequency distribution of a major indian language
N. R. Ganguli

Effects of language change on voice quality in bilingual speakers, corpus content effect
Bernard Harmegnies, M. Bruyninckx, Joaquim Llisterri, Dolors Poch

Effects of social and regional backgrounds on LTAS in british English
T. I. Shevchenko, T. S. Skopintseva

Speaker related variability in the durations of dutch speech segments
Henk van den Heuvel, Bert Cranen, Toni Rietveld

Numerical simulations of glottal flow
Johan Liljencrants

Modelling of source characteristics of speech sounds by means of the LF-model
Joop Jansen, Bert Cranen, Louis Boves

Evidence of chaos in phonatory samples
H. Herzel, J. Wendler

Source-tract coupling and the subglottal system in an articulatory synthesizer
L. Trinh Van, Bernard Guérin, E. Castelli

Phoneme-based training for large-vocabulary recognition in six european languages
Paul Bamberg, Anne Demedts, John Elder, Caroline Huang, Charles Ingold, Mark Mandel, Linda Manganaro, Stijn van Even

1. 0 TANGORA - a large vocabulary speech recognition system for five languages
Helene Cerf-Danon, Steven DeGennaro, Marco Ferretti, Jorge Gonzalez, Eric Keppel

Prototype systems for large-vocabulary speech recognition: polyglot and spicos
Hermann Ney, Roberto Billi

Adaptation of grammar-based language models for continuous speech recognition
J. H. Wright

A robustness and discrimination oriented score function for integrating speech and language processing
Keh-Yih Su, Tung-Hui Chiang, Yi-Chung Lin

Improving speech understanding performance through feedback verification
Paolo Baggia, Lorenzo Fissore, E. Gerbino, Egidio P. Giachin, C. Rullent

Computation of upper-bounds for island-driven stochastic parsers
A. Corazza, Renato De Mori, R. Gretter, G. Satta

A parser for speech lattices using a UCG grammar
Francois Andry, Simon Thornton

Using pragmatic and semantic knowledge to correct parsing of spoken language utterances
Sheryl Young, Michael Matessa

Hybrid sinusoidal modeling of speech without voicing decision
A. J. Abrantes, J. S. Marques, Isabel M. Trancoso

Harmonic coding of speech: an experimental study
J. S. Marques, Isabel M. Trancoso, A. J. Abrantes

A multiband excitation linear predictive speech coder
David Rowe, William Cowley, Andrew Perkis

A new coded excitation model using multifrequency decomposition
S. H. Leung, K. L. Lai, O. Y. Wong, A. Luk

Frame substitution and adaptive post-filtering in speech coding
Daniele Sereno

Effective lost speech frame reconstruction for CELP coders
S. A. Atungsiri, R. Soheili, A. M. Kondoz, B. G. Evans

Evaluation and improvement of coded speech quality degraded by cell loss in ATM networks
Hiromi Nagabuchi, Nobuhiko Kitawaki

Combined source-channel coding for a very noisy channed
Alain J. Vigier

Testing and quality enhancement of the GSM full rate voice channel
G. Rosina, M. Sant' Agostino, E. Turco, L. Vetrano

Low bit rate speech coding using CELP with adaptive excitation codebook
U. Kipper, Herbert Reininger, Dietrich Wolf

A real-time implementable 7 khz speech coder at 16 kbit/s
A. Fuldseth, E. Harborg, F. T. Johansen, J. E. Knudsen

Adaptive spectral weighting for vector predictive coding of the LPC-spectra
D. J. Zarkadis

Medium band speech coding using optimal scalar quantization of LSP
Samir Saoudi, J. Marc Boucher, Alain Le Guyader

Joint source and channel coding of line spectrum pairs
Philip Seeker, Andrew Perkis

An algorithm for computing LSP frequencies directly from the reflection coefficients
C. F. Chan, K. W. Law

Variable rate speech coding using perceptive thresholds and adaptive VUS detection
Peter Meyer, W. Peters, J. Paulus

A secure and robust CELP coder for land and satellite mobile systems
M. R. Suddle, S. A. Atungsiri, A. M. Kondoz, B. G. Evans

A 4. 8 kbps celp coder with post-processing
C. M. Ribeiro, Isabel M. Trancoso

A real-time high quality joint-excitation linear predictive coder at 8 kbps
K. W. Law, O. Y. Wong, C. F. Chan

Some experiments in perceptual masking of quantizing noise in analysis-by-synthesis speech coders
Rosario Drogo Deiacovo, Roberto Montagna

A very high-quality CELP coder at the rate of 2400 bps
Gao Yang, Kenri Leich, René Boite

An effective pulse adaptive code-excited linear predictive coder at 4kb/S
Z. Yong Liu

A vocoder using high-order LPC filter with very few non-zero coefficients
C. F. Chan, S. H. Leung

The effects of in internal reference system and cross-modality matching on the subjective rating of speech synthesisers
Mario Rossi, Robert Espesser, Chaslav Pavlovic

Evaluation of speech synthesis techniques in a comprehension task
H. A. Sydeserff, R. J. Caley, Stephen D. Isard, Mervyn A. Jack, Alex I. C. Monaghan, J. Verhoeven

'SOAP' - a speech output assessment package for controlled multilingual evaluation of synthetic speech
P. A. Howard-Jones

A physical approach to speech quality assessment: correlation patterns in the speech spectrogram
Tammo Houtgast, Jan A. Verhave

Weighted MTF for predicting speech intelligibility in reverberant sound fields
H. Miyata, Tammo Houtgast

Speech intelligibility studies for the european hermes spaceplane
Ute Jekosch

An application of speech processing and encoding scheme for Chinese lexical tone and consonant perception by hearing impaired listeners
Jianing Wei, Andrew Faulkner, Adrian Fourcin

On the development of a phone communication aid for the hearing impaired
D. Kanevsky, P. Gopalakrishan, C. Danis, G. Daggett, E. Epstein, David Nahamoo

A spoken language interface for a telephone switchboard operator center
Yolande Anglade, Jean-Marie Pierrel, Jean-Claude Junqua

A communication system for the disabled with emotional synthetic speech produced by rule
Iain R. Murray, John L. Arnott, Norman Alm, Alan F. Newell

German speech synthesis by concatenation of non-parametric units
Thomas Portele, Birgit Steffan, Rainer Preuß, Wolfgang Hess

Automatic document reader with speech output capabilities
Giuseppe Abbattista, Antonello Riccio, Enzo Mumolo

Tools and processes for developing low-cost and high-quality text-to-speech synthesis for communication aids
R. W. King

Perceptual linear predictive (PLP) analysis-resynthesis technique
Hynek Hermansky, Louis Anthony Cox Jr.

A display technique for measurements of natural and synthetic articulatory dynamics
Reinhold Greisbach, Bernd J. Kröger, O. Esser, G. Plaßmann

Statistical models for the Chinese text-to-speech system
Yueh-Chin Chang, Yi-Fan Lee, Bang-Er Shia, Hsiao-Chuan Wang

A realtime speech synthesis system
P. A. Taylor, I. A. Nairn, A. M. Sutherland, Mervyn A. Jack

Voice tranformation using PSOLA technique
H. Valbret, E. Moulines, Jean-Pierre Tubach

Phonetic ergodic HMM for speech synthesis
M. Giustiniani, Piero Pierucci

Quality evaluation of text-to-speech synthesizers using magnitude estimation, categorical estimation, pair comparison and reaction time methods
C. Delogu, P. Paoloni, P. Pocci, C. Sementina

Helping young children to associate sounds and letters through speech synthesis
H. Zingte, Cl. Hennebois

Neural nets and hidden Markov models: review and generalizations
Herve Bourlard

Coding of wideband speech
N. S. Jayant, J. D. Johnston, Y. Shoham

Stochastic representation of semantic structure for speech understanding
Roberto Pieraccini, Esther Levin

Incorporating probabilities into the dualgram language model
Colin Matheson, Fergus R. McInnes

A dynamic programming based framework for stochastic spoken language understanding
Egidio P. Giachin

Learning language models through the ECGI method
Natividad Prieto, Enrique Vidal

Using a generative grammar to train a probabilistic language model for speaker-independent speech recognition
R. Cremonini, M. Ferretti, M. C. Galimberti, Giulio Maltese, Federico Mancini

Optimal construction of context sensitive quantizer for phoneme recognition in continuous speech
Katsuhiko Shirai, E. Kitagawa, T. Endo

Generalising from single-speaker recognition in a feature-based recogniser
M. O'Kane, P. Kenne, D. Landy, S. Atkins

Improved speech recognition using high-pass filtering of subband envelopes
H. G. Hirsch, Peter Meyer, Hans-Wilhelm Ruehl

Comparing two phoneme identification methods using a continuous speech recognizer
Yifan Gong, Jean-Paul Haton

Knowledge-based phoneme recognition
D. Ederveen, Louis Boves

Speaker characterization in dutch using prosodic parameters
J. Kraayeveld, A. C. M. Rietveld, V. J. van Heuven

New commercial applications of telephone-network-based speech recognition and speaker verification
Alan K. Hunt

Analytical strategy for speaker identification
Jean-Francois Bonastre, Henri Meloni, Philippe Langlais

Optimization of perceptually-based spectral transforms in speaker identification
L. Xu, J. S. Mason

A mixed speech F0 estimation algorithm
Alain de Cheveigne

A perceptually-based pitch extractor for band-limited speech
Edward Jones, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

A robust pseudo perceptual pitch estimator
Yu Hua Gu

Pitch estimation based on a "narrowed" autocorrelation function
N. Dal Degan, M. Fratti

The syntax-oriented spoken Japanese understanding system SPOJOS-SYNO II
Seiichi Nakagawa, Yoshimitsu Hirata, Isao Murase

An adaptable man-machine interface using connected-word recognition
H. Bergmann, H.-H. Hamer, A. Noll, A. Paeseler, H. Tomaschewski

An approach to automatic recognition of keywords in unconstrained speech using parametric models
M. J. Poza, C. de la Torre, D. Tapias, L. Villarrubia

Toward vocabulary-independent recognition of telephone speech
I. Lee Hetherington, Hong C. Leung, Victor W. Zue

English alphabet recognition with telephone speech
Ronald Cole, Krist Roginski, Mark Fanty

Evolutionary language models in air traffic control training
J.-Y. Fiset, J.-M. Robert, Raymond Descout

Isolated-word sentence recognition using probabilistic context-free grammar
G. J. F. Jones, J. H. Wright, E. N. Wrigley, M. J. Carey, Eluned S. Parris

Lexical access in a speech understanding and dialogue system
Mitchell Hood

A look-ahead search technique for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Hermann Ney

Spectral subtraction for front-end noise reduction in a speech recognizer
Carlos J. Teixeira, Isabel M. Trancoso

BREF, a large vocabulary spoken corpus for French
Lori F. Larnel, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Maxine Eskenazi

Speech field databases: development and analysis
Luc Mathan, Dominique Morin

Large scale Japanese dialect speech corpora
Shuichi Itahashi

Outline of a design-oriented evaluation framework for speech-driven applications
Paulus H. Vossen

Assessment of continuous speech recognisers using recogniser sensitivity analysis
Richard Winski, Kamran Kordi

A tool for assessment of acoustic phonetic lattices
C. Bourjot, A. Boyer, D. Fohr

Ramos - recognizer assessment by means of manipulation of speech applied to connected speech recognition
Herman J. M. Steeneken, Jeroen G. van Velden

Comparing various feature vectors in automatic speech recognition
Paul van Alphen, Louis C. W. Pols

The MIT ATIS system; preliminary development, spontaneous speech data collection, and performance evaluation
Victor W. Zue, James Glass, David Goodine, Lynette Hirschman, Hong C. Leung, Michael Phillips, Joseph Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff

Construction of an Arabic speech data base - duration model of Arabic vowels
S. Benaouicha, A. Rajouani, M. Zyoute

Pitch extraction and separation of overlapping speech
P. N. Denbigh, J. Zhao

Phonetically motivated acoustic parameters for continuous speech recognition using artificial neural networks
Yoshua Bengio, Renato De Mori, Giovanni Flammia, Half Kompe

Adapting input transformations using alpha-nets for whole word speech recognition
Michael J. Carey, Eluned S. Parris

TIMIT phoneme recognition using an HMM-derived recurrent neural network
Les T. Niles

ANN-based speech recognition using a preprocessor for non-linear time compression
P. O. Husoy, T. Svendsen

A self-structuring neural noise reduction model
Helge B. D. Sorensen, Uwe Hartmann

Integrated phoneme-function word architecture of hidden control neural networks for continuous speech recognition
Bojan Petek, Alex H. Waibel, Joseph M. Tebelskis

Multiple dynamic features to enhance neural net based speaker verification
X. Zhang, J. S. Mason, E. C. Andrews

Time-delay neural networks embedding time alignment: a performance analysis
Patrick Haffner, Alex H. Waibel

Phoneme recognition using recurrent neural networks
Yohji Fukuda, Haruya Matsumoto

An integration of knowledge and neural networks toward a phoneme typewriter without a language model
Yasuhiro Komori, Kaichiro Hatazaki

Utilizing empirical data for postposition classification toward spoken Japanese speech recognition
Junko Hosaka, Toshiyuki Takezawa, Terumasa Ehara

Automatic learning of lexical representations for sub-word unit based speech recognition systems
Michael Phillips, James Glass, Victor W. Zue

Lexical tree compression
Roxane Lacouture, Renato De Mori

Lexical access with a statistically-derived phonetic network
Michael D. Riley, Andrej Ljolje

Admissible strategies for acoustic matching with a large vocabulary
G. Antoniol, F. Brugnara, D. Giuliani

Generation of duration rules for a Spanish text-to-speech synthesizer
Alejandro Macarron, Gregorio Escalada, Miguel Angel Rodriguez

Implementing duration expert rules into a text-to-speech synthesis system
L. Mortamet

Statistical modeling of segmental duration and power control for Japanese
Nobuyoshi Kaiki, Katsuhiko Mimura, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Phrase-level factors affecting timing in speech
W. Nick Campbell

Phoneme duration rules for speech synthesis by neural networks
Matti Karjalainen, Toomas Altosaar

Context-sensitive phoneme lattice generation using interpolated demi-diphone and triphone models
Fergus R. McInnes

Experiments of 991-word speaker independent continuous speech recognition on DARPA RM task
J. M. Song, T. Thomas, M. Patel

Bottom-up acoustic-phonetic decoding for the selection of word cohorts from a large vocabulary
Henri Meloni, F. Bechet, P. Gilles

Entropic training for HMM speech recognition
Antonio M. Peinado, Ramon Roman, Jose C. Segura, Antonio J. Rubio, Pedro Garcia, Jesus E. Diaz

Energy, duration and Markov models
P. Kenny, S. Parthasarathy, V. N. Gupta, Matthew Lennig, Paul Mermelstein, Douglas O'Shaughnessy

A new recursive Markov model with a new state pruning approach for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
J. J. Nijtmans

Context-sensitive phoneme lattice generation using interpolated demi-diphone and triphone models
Fergus R. McInnes

An efficient implementation of the n-best algorithm for lexical access
Peter Nowell, Henry S. Thompson

Automatic derivation of HMM alternative pronunciation network topologies
Alessandro Falaschi, Massimo Pucci

On the structure of subword units for a speaker independent continuous speech task
Isabel Galiano, Francisco Casacuberta, Emilio Sanchis

Generate word transcription dictionary from sentence utterances and evaluate its effect on speaker-independent continuous speech recognition
Yunxin Zhao, Hisashi Wakita, Xinhua Zhuang

Simultaneous recognition of concurrent speech signals using hidden Markov model decomposition
A. P. Varga, Roger K. Moore

A large vocabulary parallel processing continuous speech recognition system
I. A. Ballantyne, A. M. Sutherland, J. M. Hannah, Mervyn A. Jack

Techniques for robust word spotting in continuous speech messages
Richard C. Rose, Edward M. Hofstetter

Word spotting by CSR through vector quantized background models
Alessandro Falaschi, Alfredo Micozzi

Towards an artificial laboratory for the design and simulation of cooperative speech processing algorithms
Jean-Claude Junqua, Hisashi Wakita

Accent specific modifications for continuous speech recognition based on a sub-word lattice approach
K. Edwards, Fergus R. McInnes, Mervyn A. Jack

Two level continuous speech recognition using demisyllable-based HMM word spotting
Eduardo Lleida, Jose B. Marino, Climent Nadeu, Albert Oliveras

Tradeoffs in the design of regression features for word recognition
Ted H. Applebaum, Brian A. Hanson

A fast algorithm for deleted interpolation
Lalit R. Bahl, Peter F. Brown, Peter V. de Souza, Robert L. Mercer, David Nahamoo

Recent work in continuous speech recognition using the connectionist viterbi training procedure
Michael A. Franzini, Alex H. Waibel, Kai-Fu Lee

A search organization for large-vocabulary recognition based on n-best decoding
Volker Steinbiss

VINICS: a continuous speech recognizer based on a new robust formulation
Yifan Gong, Jean-Paul Haton

A matrix representation of HMM-based speech recognition algorithms
Shigeki Sagayama

Multi-lingual acoustic-phonetic features for a number of european languages
Paul Dalsgaard, Ove Andersen, William Barry

A non-linear filtering method applied to automatic segmentation of multilingual speech corpora
H. Kabre, Guy Pérénnou, Nadine Vigouroux

A preliminary statistical evaluation of manual and automatic segmentation discrepancies
Piero Cosi, Daniele Falavigna, Maurizio Omologo

A computational tool for examining lexical segmentation in continuous speech
J. M. McQueen, E. J. Briscoe

The evaluation and optimization of automatic speech segmentation
M. S. Schmidt, G. S. Watson

On-line speech segmentation using adaptive models: application to variable rate speech coding
G. Feng, N. Achab, R. Combescure

Automatic diphone segmentation
P. A. Taylor, Stephen D. Isard

An automatic diphone segmentation system
Georg E. Ottesen

An evaluation oof spectral transitivity functions for speech segmentation in variable frame-rate speech vocoding
R. A. Brierton, B. M. G. Cheetham

Speaker clustering for dialectic robustness in speaker independent recognition
Dirk Van Compernolle, J. Smolders, P. Jaspers, T. Hellemans

Experience with speech recognition in automating telephone operator functions
Dina Yashchin, William C. G. Ortel

HMM modeling in the public telephone network environment: experiments and results
F. Canavesio, Lorenzo Fissore, M. Oreglia, P. Ruscitti

Influence of field data in HMM training for a vocal server
Dominique Morin

An isolated word speech recognizer prototype for mobile-radio applications
A. Ciaramella, Lorenzo Fissore, A. Pacchiotti, R. Pacifici

Linguistic modelling for a speech interface in the office context
James Monaghan, Christine Cheepen

Ill-formedness problem in the spoken language processing
Andrea Di Carlo, Rino Falcone

A technique to automatically assign parts-of-speech to words taking into account word-ending information through a probabilistic model
Giulio Maltese, Federico Mancini

Syntactic category disambiguation through relaxation processes
Marcello Pelillo, Mario Refice

Computational requirements of probabilistic LR parsing for speech recognition using a natural language grammar
E. N. Wrigley, J. H. Wright

Phonotypical transcription through the GEPH expert system
J. Tiboni, G. Perennon

A spelling corrector for use in text-to-speech synthesis for English
Briony Williams, Franziska Maier

Robust and efficient parsing for applications such as text-to-speech conversion
Thomas Russi

Stochastic transduction for English text-to-phoneme conversion
Robert W. P. Luk, Robert I. Damper

Acoustic distribution clustering in phonetic hidden Markov models
M. Y. Hwang, X. D. Huang

Modelling articulatory inter-timing variation in a speech recognition system based on synthetic references
M. Blomberg

Improving short-time speech frame recognition results by using context
Kari Torkkola, Mikko Kokkonen, Mikko Kurimo, Pekka Utela

Phoneme to grapheme conversion using HMM
P. A. Rentzepopoulos, George K. Kokkinakis

A bi-directional model of English pronunciation
S. H. Parfitt, R. A. Sharman

Full integration of speech and language understanding in the MIT spoken language system
David Goodine, Stephanie Seneff, Lynette Hirschman, Michael Phillips

Dialogue interpretation model and its application to next utterance prediction for spoken language processing
Takayuki Yamaoka, Hitoshi Iida

Dialogue construction by compilation
W. Boogers

Dialogue management in an extension number guidance system
Izuru Nogaito, Masahiko Takahashi, Shingo Kuroiwa, Fumihiro Yato

Automatic learning of acoustic and syntactic-semantic levels in continuous speech understanding
Encarna Segarra, Pedro Garcia

A man-machine dialogue system for speech access to e-mail information using the telephone: implementation and first results
Paolo Baggia, A. Ciaramella, D. Clementino, Lorenzo Fissore, E. Gerbino, Egidio P. Giachin, G. Micca, L. Nebbia, R. Pacifici, G. Pirani, C. Rullent

Performance of text-to-speech conversion for dutch: a comparative evaluation of allophone and diphone based synthesis at the level of the segment, the word, and the paragraph
Renee van Bezooijen, Louis C. W. Pols

Quality comparisons of prosodic and of acoustic components of various synthesisers
Christian Benoît, Francoise Emerard, Betina Schnabel, A. Tseva

Assessment of intonation in text-to-speech synthesis systems - a pilot test in English and Italian
Martine Griee, Kiki Vagges, Daniel Hirst

Evaluation of the naturalness of prosody generated by the CSTR TTS system
Alex I. C. Monaghan

Speech-model processes for objective quality measurements of speech-coding systems
Ulrich Halka

Adaptation techniques in tied density hidden Markov models
S. Euler

On the modelization of allophones in an HMM based speech recognition system
D. Jouvet, K. Bartkova, Jean Monné

Automatic adjustments of the structure of Markov models for speech recognition applications
D. Jouvet, L. Mauuary, Jean Monné

Speech recognition using stochastic explicit-segment modeling
Hong C. Leung, I. Lee Hetherington, Victor W. Zue

Comparison of time-dependent acoustic features for a speaker-independent speech recognition system
D. Dubois

Bayesian learning for hidden Markov model with Gaussian mixture state observation densities
Jean-Luc Gauvain, Chin-Hui Lee

Voice controlled mail ordering via telephone using SPREIN
Hans-Wilhelm Ruehl

A voice dialling device for mobile radio
Stefan Dobler, Werner Armbruester, Peter Meyer, Hans-Wilhelm Ruehl

A continuous speech recognition approach for the design of a dictation machine
K. Smaili, F. Charpillet, Jean-Marie Pierrel, Jean-Paul Haton

Automatic speech recognition in the Spanish telephone network
David L. Thomson, Jay G. Wilpon, Rafid A. Sukkar, Dimitrios P. Prezas

Computer-aided, voice-based, medical report preparation: an application to radiology
Roberto Billi, P. Buttafava, P. De Stefani, M. Gamba, D. Voltolini

A recognition / synthesis system applied to database access through the telephone network
Filipe N. Carlos, Jose P. Carmona, Pedro M. Chagas, Luis C. Oliveira, Antonio J. Serralheiro, Isabel M. Trancoso

An experiment in using a hypertext system in phonetics and speech processing education
Seppo Helle

A. RE. s. : an interface for automatic reporting by speech
G. Antoniol, F. Brugnara, F. Dalla Palma, G. Lazzari, E. Moser

COGNITO - an experimental voice-controlled telecommunication system
U. Schultheiß, B. Lochschmidt

A voice interactive language instruction system
Jared Bernstein, Dimitry Rtischev

Macro and micro features for automated pronunciation improvement in the spell system
Edmund Rooney, Steven Hiller, John Laver, Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto

Comparison of continuous mixture densities and TDNN in a viterbi-framework: experiments on speaker dependent DARPA RM1+
Laurence Devillers, Christian Dugast

A comparison of two compression functions used for noisy vowel detection with back-propagation networks
Peter Thurston, Dennis Norris

Comparison between two different approaches in speaker - independent isolated digit recognition
J. Ferreiros, A. Castro, J. M. Pardo

DVQ: dynamic vector quantization application to speech processing
Franck Poirier

A comparative study on hybrid acoustic phonetic decoders based on artificial neural networks
Yoshua Bengio, Renato De Mori, Giovanni Flammia, Ralf Kompe

Time-delay neural network architectures for high-performance speaker-independent recognition
Hidefumi Sawai, Satoru Nakamura

Recurrent neural nets as building blocks for human word recognition
P. Wittenburg, R. Couwenberg

A neural net model for vector quantization
Fisseha Mekuria, Tore FjÖllbrant

Lexical access using a recurrent error propagation network
N. H. Russell, Frank Fallside, A. J. Robinson, R. W. Prager

Model or non-model based classifiers
Peter Brauer, Per Hedelin, Dieter Huber, Petter Knagenhjelm, Johan Molno

Event-based recognition and analysis of speech by neural networks
Toomas Aliosaar, Matti Karjalainen

Up from trigrams! - the struggle for improved language models
Frederick Jelinek

Synthesis: modelling variability and constraints
Rolf Carlson

The role of dialogue in speech recognition the case of the yellow
M. Guyomard, J. Siroux, A. Cozannet

Interpretation of context-dependent utterances in man-machine dialogue
E. Gerbino, Paolo Baggia

The description of minor clauses in information-seeking telephone dialogues
S. Eggins, Julie P. Vonwiller, C. M. I. Matthiessen, P. Sefton

Toward a spoken language translator for restricted-domain context-free languages
David B. Roe, Fernando Pereira, Richard W. Sproat, Michael D. Riley, Pedro J. Moreno, Alejandro Macarron

Bidirectional machine translation in indian languages
N. Venkata Subramaniam, N. Alwar, G. Mallikarjuna, P. Prabhakar Rao, S. Raman

Exact monitoring of the numerical error in various speech algorithms
C. Papaodysseus, E. Koukoutsis, C. Triantafyllou, C. Vasilatos

Automatic computation and comparison of dynamically varying voice source parameters
Jacques Koreman, Bert Cranen, Louis Boves

Glottal wave analysis with pitch synchronous iterative adaptive inverse filtering
Paavo Alku

Generalized functional approximation for source-filter system modeling
Thieny Galas, Xavier Rodet

An evaluation of temporal decomposition
Frederic Bimbot, Bishnu S. Atal

A discriminative recognizer for isolated and continuous speech using statistical separability measures
Klaus Zünkler

Speaker adaptation based on articulatory features
O. Schmidbauer, H. Höge

A parallel HMM approach to speech recognition
F. Brugnara, Renato De Mori, D. Giuliani, M. Omologo

Speaker independent word recognition using HMMs with an orthogonalized phonetic segment codebook
Tsuneo Nitta, Jun'ichi Iwasaki, Hiroshi Matsu'ura

Unsupervised speaker normalization by speaker Markov model converter for speaker-independent speech recognition
Pascale Fung, Tatsuya Kawahara, Shuji Doshita

The influence of formant track shape on the perception of synthetic vowels
Rob J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Fluctuation of noise background: measurement and significance in relation to speech masking
P. A. Howard-Jones

The audibility of narrow band noise in fiat spectral complex sounds
C. Ma, L. F. Willems

The importance of spectral quality of vowels for the intelligibility of sentences
Gitta P. M. Laan, Dick R. van Bergem, Fiorien J. Koopmans-van Beinum

On the mutual dependency of octave-band-specific contributions to speech intelligibility
Herman J. M. Steeneken, Tammo Houtgast

Detection times for vowels versus consonants
Brit van Ooyen, Anne Cutler, Dennis Norris

The influence of sentence accent, word stress, and word class on the quality of vowels
Dick R. van Bergem

A peak-and-level model for focus words in read and spontaneous natural speech and in synthetic speech
Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum

Connected speech processes in second language learning
J. Ingram, J. Pittam

Modification of acoustic features in Russian connected speech
Rodmonga K. Potapova

On the relation between voice source characteristics and prosody
Helmer Strik, Louis Boves

Prosody in a rule-based norwegian text-to-speech system
Sverre Stensby

Synthesizing intonation for speech in hindi
A. S. Madhukumar, S. Rajendran, C. Chandra Sekhar, B. Yegnanarayana

An investigation of the relation between perceived pitch accent and automatically-located accent in british English
James L. Hieronymus, Briony J. Williams

Modelling Italian intonation in a text-to-speech system
S. Quazza

An analysis of strategies for finding prosodic clues in text
Michael H. O'Malley, Howard Resnick, Michelle Caisse

A coded dictionary for stress assignment rules in Italian
Marcello Balestri

Speech maker: text-to-speech conversion based on a multi-level, synchronized data structure
Enrico te Lindert, Hugo C. van Leeuwen

A new text-to-speech synthesis system
E. Lewis, Mark A. A. Tatham

DIXI - portuguese text-to-speech system
Luis C. Oliveira, M. Ceu Viana, Isabel M. Trancoso

Higher-level linguistic information in a text-to-speech system for danish
P. Molbaek Hansen, N. Reinholt Petersen, J. Rischel, C. Henriksen

Adaptation of the multivox text-to-speech system to Italian
Gabor Olaszy

Correlation analysis of vowels and their application to speech recognition
Partha Niyogi, Victor W. Zue

Use of phonetic knowledge when designing and training stochastic models for speech recognition
John N. Holmes

Modelling phones by microsegments in a phonetically oriented recognition system
B. Kaspar, K. Schuhmacher

An extended LVQ2 algorithm and its application to phoneme classification
Il K. Kim, H. S. Lee

A hierarchical broad phonetic classification scheme
P. J. Dix, G. J. Vernooij, G. Bloothooft

Using text analysis to predict intonational boundaries
Julia Hirschberg

Why do speakers accent 'given' information ?
Merle Horne

Automatic prosody assignment for interactive synthesized dialogue systems
Julie P. Vonwiller, R. W. King, R. W. T. Lloyd

Generating intonation in a voice dialogue system
NickYoud NickYoud, Jill House

Computing linguistic knowledge for text-to-speech systems with PROSO
Rodolfo Delmonte, Roberto Dolci

Acoustic echo cancellation using prediction residual signals
C. Acker, Peter Vary, H. Ostendarp

An evaluation of adaptive noise cancelling for speech recognition
H. S. Dabis, Alan A. Wrench

An efficient algorithm for real-time voiced/unvoiced decision
Enzo Mumolo, Antonello Riccio, Giuseppe Abbattista

Models of pitch perception
Tim Aarset, Ben Gold

A new perspective on LPC excitation using singular value decomposition
P. Corney, J. S. Mason

Intra-speaker transplantation of speech characteristics an application of waveform vocoding techniques and DTW
Werner Verhelst, Marcel Borger

Decomposition of the LPC excitation using wavelet functions
S. H. Leung, O. Y. Wong, K. L. Lai

An adaptive cochlear model for speech recognition
Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Liam Kilmartin

Speech segmentation and classification using higher order moments
Gianni Jacovitti, Piero Pierucci, Alessandro Falaschi

A PC-housed speaker independent large vocabulary continuous telephonic speech recognizer
A. Ciaramella, D. Clementino, R. Pacifici

Speaker independent continuous HMM-based recognition of isolated words on a real-time multi-DSP system
Abdulmesih Aktas, Klaus Zünkler

A real time speech decoder using instantaneous frequency and energy
A. Tsopanoglou, E. D. Kyriakis-Bitzaros, J. Mourjopoulos, George K. Kokkinakis

Fast hardware for efficient parallel processing of speech signals
M. Schultheiß, A. Lacroix

The one chip speech recognition system
Jan Sedivy, Jiff Filcev, Jan Uhlir, Tomas Vanek, Vaclav Hanzl, Zdenek Oliva, Petr Kotek

Influence of the telephone line on automatic speech recognition
L. Villarrubia, M. J. Poza, C. Crespo

Compensation for the effect of the communication channel in auditory-like analysis of speech (RASTA-PLP)
Hynek Hermansky, Nelson Morgan, Aruna Bayya, Phil Kohn

A study of endpoint detection algorithms in adverse conditions: incidence on a DTW and HMM recognizer
Jean-Claude Junqua, Ben Reaves, Brian Mak

High-performance speech recognition in noise by continuously updated reference templates
Susanne Dvorak, Thomas Hormann

Speech enhancement in the case of speech recognizers
Klara Vicsi

A robust feature extraction method for automatic speech recognition in noisy environments
Juan Gomez-Mena, J. Santos-Suarez, Ramón Garcia-Gomez

Selection of speech units for a speaker-independent CSR task
Lorenzo Fissore, Egidio P. Giachin, P. Laface, G. Micca

Word juncture modeling using inter-word context-dependent phone-like units
Egidio P. Giachin, Chin-Hui Lee, Lawrence R. Rabiner, Aaron E. Rosenberg, Roberto Pieraccini

Phoneme-context-dependent LR parsing algorithms for HMM-based continuous speech recognition
Akito Nagai, Shigeki Sagayama, Kenji Kita

Optimizing lexical fast search in a large vocabulary isolated word speech recognition system
H. Drexler, R. Roddeman, Louis Boves, Helmer Strik

Signal processing using an auditory filter bank with side-lobes and phase-jumps
Tore Fjällbrant, Fisseha Mekuria

Notes on auditive coding of sophisticated signals
J. S. C. van Dijk

An auditorily based spectral transformation of speech signals
Manfred Beham

On and off units detect information bottle-necks for speech recognition
Andrew C. Morris, Pierre Escudier, Jean-Luc Schwartz

A new logic operator-based auditory system model
Jose A. Pozas-Alvarez

Speech understanding and dialogue over the telephone: an overview of progress in the sundial project
Jeremy Peckham

A system for natural spoken language queries design, implementation and assessment
Jean-Pierre Tubach, P. Doignon

Operational validation of syntactic-semantic models in a spoken man-machine dialogue system
G. Deville, P. Mousel

References in a multimodal dialogue: towards a unified processing
B. Gaiffe, L. Romary, Jean-Marie Pierrel

The user-unix dialogue: a novel integrated approach to enhancing the operating system interface
P. Lefebvre, G. Duncan, F. Poirier

Adoption op verbal and visual dialogue behaviour in document handling systems
Bodo Arndt

The contribution of vision to speech perception
P. M. T. Smeele, A. C. Sittig

Processing disfluent speech: how and when are disfluencies found?
R. J. Lickley, R. C. Shillcock, E. G. Bard

Building a user interface for a speech recognition-based telephone application system
A. Chointere, J.-M. Robert, Raymond Descout

System design and human factors in auditory interfaces
A. C. Murray, C. R. Frankish, D. M. Jones