Applying phonetic knowledge to lexical access
Kenneth N. Stevens

Auditory mechanisms for speech perception
William A. Ainsworth

Towards increasing speech recognition error rates
Hervé Bourlard

Flexible speech recognition
Sadaoki Furui

Syllabic duration control for vocabulary-free speech recognition
Takatoshi Jitsuhiro, Tomokazu Yamada, Shigeki Sagayama

Effectiveness of pause information in the content word detection of spoken dialogues
Kazuyuki Takagi, Shuichi Itahashi

Connected Japanese digit recognition with pitch accent-dependent models
Kazuhiro Kondo

Temporal control and training selection for HMM-based system
C. Barras, M.-J. Caraty, C. Montacie

HMM-based tone recognition of Chinese trisyllables using double codebooks on fundamental frequency and waveform power
Keikichi Hirose, Xinhni Hu

Very low delay and high quality coding of 20 hz -15 khz speech at 64 kbit/S
C. Murgia, Gang Feng, C. Quinquis, A. Le Guyader

Wideband CELP coder at 16-kbit/s with 10-ms frame
Shigeaki Sasaki, Akitoshi Kataoka, Takehiro Moriya

High quality 14.1kb/s wideband speech coder
A. W. Black, I. A. Atkinson, A. M. Kondoz, B. G. Evans

A multipulse-deconvolution codec for wideband speech
V. Abreu-Sernandez, D. Docampo-Amoedo

Multi-channel linear predictive coding of audio signals
T. Chonavel, S. Saoudi

An advanced multi-DSP platform for speech technology integration in computer telephony applications
E. Rohwer

Voice processing architecture for computer-telephony integration
Rafael Ciria, Rafael Sarmiento de Sotomayor, Cristina Aguila, José Parera, Juan Santos

Fast convergent analog adaptive filter
L. Ortiz-Balbuena, H. Perez-Meana, A. Martinez-Gonzalez, L. Nino de Rivera, M. Nakano-Miyatake

Efficient isolated word recognition in Spanish based on static modeling
Manuel A. Leandro, Alvaro Villegas, José M. Pardo

Reliability in a multi-agent spoken language recognition system
Jean-Luc Cochard, Olivier Oppizzi

A study of speaker adaptation based on minimum classification error training
Tomoko Matsui, Sadaoki Furui

Maximum likelihood based discriminative training of acoustic models
Albino Nogueiras-Rodriguez, José B. Marino

Discriminant learning with minimum memory loss for improved non-vocabulary rejection
Hugues Leprieur, Patrick Haffner

Codebook weights adaptation for discriminative training of SCHMM-based speech recognition systems
Cesar Martin del Álamo, F. Javier Caminero-Gil, Celinda de la Torre-Munilla, Lúis Hernandez-Gomez

Discriminative training of hidden Markov models using overall risk criterion and reduced gradient method
Kyungmin Na, Bumki Jeon, Dong-Il Chang, Soo-Ik Chae, Souguil Ann

Discriminative training of HMM based speech recognizer with gradient projection method
Qiang Huo, Chorkin Chan

Optimization of speech parameter weighting for CDHMM word recognition
Javier Hernando, J. Ayarte, E. Monte

Discriminative utterance verification for connected digits recognition
Mazin G. Rahim, Chin-Hui Lee, Biing-Hwang Juang

MCE estimation of VQ parameters for MVQHMM speech recognition
Antonio M. Peinado, Antonio J. Rubio, José C. Segura, Victoria Sanchez, Jesus E. Diaz

Discriminative training for continuous speech recognition
Wolfgang Reichl, Günther Ruske

Minimum classification error training algorithm for feature extractor and pattern classifier in speech recognition
Kuldip K. Paliwal, M. Bacchiani, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Integrated optimization of feature transformation for speech recognition
Stephan Euler

Phoneme transition detection and broad classification using a simple model based on the function of onset detector cells found in the cochlear nucleus
Andrew C. Morris, José M. Pardo

Linear predictive coding of speech using an analogue cochlear model
Eric Fragniere, Andre van Schaik, Eric Vittoz

Pitch extraction of telephone bandwidth speech using a place-temporal approach
E. Jones, E. Ambikairajah

A binaural selectivity model for speech recognition
Markus Bodden, Timothy R. Anderson

Speech recognition experiments in a noisy environment using auditory system modelling
Cristina Dobrin, Petri Haavisto, Kari Laurila, Jaakko Astola

Source separation by a functional model of amplitude demodulation
Frédéric Berthommier, Georg F. Meyer

Real-time implementation of spectral subtraction algorithm for suppression of acoustic noise in speech
V. Davidek, P. Sovka, J. Sika

Speech synthesis for the new pan-european traffic message control system RDS-TMC
Bert Van Coile, Hans-Wilhelm Rühl, L. Vogten, M. Thoone, S. Goß, D. Delaey, E. Moons, Jacques M. B. Terken, Jan Roelof de Pijper, M. Kugler, P. Kaufholz, R. Krüger, S. Leys, S. Willems

Echo cancelling in speech recognition systems
R. Pacifici, G. Manca

Parallel implementation of an hybrid neural network used for speech recognition task
T. Calonge, L. Alonso, R. Ralha, A. L. Sanchez

Hardware design of LPC coding for speech feature extraction
M. Li, J. T. Proudfoot

Modularization in task-specific language modelling
Henning Bergmann, Hans-Hermann Hamer, Andreas Noll, Annedore Paeseler, Horst Tomaschewski

Beyond NYQUIST: towards the recovery of broad-bandwidth speech from narrow-bandwidth speech
Carlos Avendano, Hynek Hermansky, Eric A. Wan

Large vocabulary multilingual speech recognition using HTK
D. Pye, Phil C. Woodland, S. J. Young

Issues in large vocabulary, multilingual speech recognition
Lori Lamel, M. Adda-Decker, Jean-Luc Gauvain

Comparative performance in large-vocabulary isolated-word recognition in five european languages
James Barnett, Paul Bamberg, Martin Held, Juan Huerta, Linda Manganaro, Adam Weiss

French speech recognition in an automatic dictation system for translators: the transtalk project
Julie Brousseau, Caroline Drouin, George Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Roland Kuhn, Yves Normandin, Pierre Plamondon

The Philips large-vocabulary recognition system for american English, French, and German
Christian Dugast, Xavier Aubert, Reinhard Kneser

A syllable-based very-large-vocabulary voice retrieval system for Chinese databases with textual attributes
Sung-Chien Lin, Lee-Feng Chien, Keh-Jiann Chen, Lin-Shan Lee

The AT&t 60,000 word speech-to-text system
Michael Riley, Andrej Ljolje, Donald Hindle, Fernando Pereira

Fast and accurate continuous speech recognition for Chinese language with very large vocabulary
Tai-hsuan Ho, Hsin-min Wang, Lee-feng Chien, Keh-Jiann Chen, Lin-shan Lee

Methods towards the very large vocabulary Chinese speech recognition
Zuoying Wang, Jun Wu, Xi Xiao, Jin Quo

Utterance clustering for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
G. D. Cook, A. J. Robinson

Vector quantization of glottal pulses
Thomas Eriksson, Jan Linden, Jan Skoglund

A speech coding algorithm based on prototypes interpolation with critical bands and phase coding
Michele Festa, Daniele Sereno

Very low-bitrate speech coding using perceptually-derived spectral data
D. Tsoukalas, Jiannis Mouropoulos, George Kokkinakis

A new very low bit rate speech coder: the step decomposition vocoder
Lorenzo Piazzo

Time envelope LP vocoder: a new coding technique at very low bit rates
I. A. Atkinson, A. M. Kondoz, B. G. Evans

Speech coding based on the discrete-time wavelet transform and human auditory system properties
Dan Stefanoiu, Radwan Kastantin, Gang Feng

Wavelets for low bit rate speech coding applications
F. J. Ancin, M. L. Larreategui, B. L. Burrows, R. A. Carrasco

Adaptive speech vector coding with a multiresolution hierarchical codebook
E. Mandridake, R. Atay, M. Najim

Subband analysis-by-synthesis coding
Andrei Popescu, Nicolas Moreau

A robust 2.4kb/s LP-MBE with iterative LP modelling
Clifford I. Parris, Danny Wong, Francois Chambon

Improved transient representation and quantization for sinusoidal speech coders
M. S. Torres-Guijarro, F. J. Casajus-Quiros

Efficient multiband excitation linear predictive coding of speech at 1.6 kbps
W. M. E. Yu, Cheung-Fat Chan

Voice coding in the MSBN satellite communication system
Bruno Wery, Stephane Deketelaere

Spectral envelope estimation for low bit-rate sinusoidal speech coders
B. M. G. Cheetham, X. Q. Sun, W. T. K. Wong

Shift-invariant adaptive local trigonometric decomposition
Israel Cohen, Shalom Raz, David Malah

Spectral envelope of speech using wavelets
Paul Micallef, Edward Chilton

Multiresolution speech analysis using fast time-varying orthogonal wavelet packet transform algorithms
Andrzej Drygajlo, Nicolas Thevoz

Second- and third-order wigner distributions in hierarchical recognition of speech phonemes
Maria Rangoussi, Flemming Pedersen

The use of maximum a posteriori parameters in linear prediction of speech
G. M. K. Saleh, M. Niranjan, W. J. Fitzgerald

Observed long-term changes in customer calling patterns in a telephone application using automatic speech recognition
William C. G. Ortel

Combining speech algorithms into a "natural" application of speech technology for telephone network services
Ayman Asadi, David Lubensky, L. Madhavrao, Jayant Naik, Vijay Raman, George Vysotsky

Intelligent answering machine-secretary
Ye. Ludovik, V. Sibirtsev

Verbal-gestural behaviors in multimodal spoken language interpreting telecommunications
Kyung-ho Loken-Kim, Young-duk Park, Suguru Mizunashi, Laurel Fais, Tsyuoshi Morimoto

Large vocabulary, word-based Mandarin dictation system
Jung-Kuei Chen, Lin-Shan Lee, Frank K. Soong

Read my lips... and my jaw! how intelligible are the components of a speaker's face?
Bertrand Le Goff, Thierry Guiard-Marigny, Christian Benoît

Mcgurk effect in Spanish and German listeners: influences of visual cues in the perception of Spanish and German conflicting audio-visual stimuli
Angela Fuster Duran

Rule-based visual speech synthesis
Jonas Beskow

A new algorithm for visual synthesis of speech
Fabio Lavagetto, Paolo Lavagetto

Audiovisual speech recognition using the fuzzy shape filters model
H. Kabre

On the use of features from prediction residual signals in speaker identification
Jialong He, Li Liu, Günther Palm

Some nonparametric distance measures in speaker verification
Kai Tat Ng, Haizhou Li, Jean-Paul Haton

Adaptive transforms for speaker recognition
Michael J. Carey, Graham D. Tattersall, Eluned S. Parris

Speaker recognition with discriminative speaker VQ models
Kai Tat Ng, Jian Su, Bingzheng Xu

Parametric speaker recognition over large population of telephonic voices
A. Federico, Andrea Paoloni

Speaker recognition experiments in Estonian using multi-layer feed-forward neural nets
Toomas Altosaar, Einar Meister

Effect of utterance duration and phonetic content on speaker identification using second-order statistical methods
Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau, Jean-Frangois Bonastre, Frédéric Bimbot

Automatic speaker recognition using formants-based nearest-neighbour distance measure
Pavel V. Labulin, Sergey L. Koval, Andrej N. Raev

Discrimination of voices of twins and siblings for speaker verification
M. Mehdi Homayounpour, Gerard Chollet

Theoretical error prediction for a language identification system using optimal phoneme clustering
Kay M. Berkling, Etienne Barnard

Separation of speakers in audio data
Jesper O. Olsen

Text-dependent speaker verification using dynamic time warping and vector quantization of LSF
J.-L. Bonifas, I. Hernaez Rioja, B. Etxebarria Gonzalez, S. Saoudi

On MMI learning of Gaussian mixture for speaker models
Haizhou Li, Jean-Paul Haton, Yifan Gong

Evaluation of Bayes decision approach to automatic determination of thresholds for speaker verification
Yifan Gong

Comparison of different HMM based methods for speaker verification
Daniele Falavigna

Speaker classification by neural network for short utteranses using phoneme groups in Farsi
J. Sheikhzadegan, M. Tebiani, M. Lotfizad, M. R. Roohani

Speaker recognition experiments on the NTIMIT database
J.-L. Le Floch, C. Montacie, M.-J. Caraty

Speaker identification using vector quantisation with codeword-specific derivative coding
Michael Wagner, John S. Mason, J. Bruce Millar

Speaker recognition with temporal transition models
Haizhou Li, Jean-Paul Haton, Jian Su, Yifan Gong

Speaker recognition using HMM composition in noisy environments
Tomoko Matsui, Tomohito Kanno, Sadaoki Furui

Speaker recognition using HMM with experiments on the yoho database
ChiWei Che, Qiguang Lin

Speaker recognition models
Kin Yu, John S. Mason, John Oglesby

Multi-state predictive neural networks for text-independent speaker recognition
T. Artieres, Patrick Gallinari

A voiced/unvoiced speech discrimination technique based on fuzzy logic
Francesco Beritelli, Salvatore Casale, Marco Russo

Evaluation of a periodic/aperiodic speech decomposition algorithm
V. Darsinos, Christophe d'Alessandro, B. Yegnanarayana

A pitch determination and voiced/unvoiced decision algorithm for noisy speech
Jean Rouat, Yong Chun Liu, Daniel Morissette

Modulated Gaussian wavelet transform based speech analyser (MGWTSA) pitch detection algorithm (PDA)
Leonard Janer

A time-frequency approach to epoch detection
Juan L. Navarro-Mesa, Ignasi Esquerra-Llucia

An improved epoch detection algorithm based on sinusoidal modelling of speech
M. L. Larreategui, F. J. Ancin, R. A. Carrasco

A method for fully automatic analysis and modelling of voice source characteristics
V. Darsinos, D. Galanis, George Kokkinakis

Dynamic vowel quality: a new determination formalism based on perceptual experiments
Hartmut R. Pfitzinger

A method for quantitative analysis of the local speech rate
Sumio Ohno, Hiroya Fujisaki

Voice personality transformation using an orthogonal vector space conversion
Ki Seung Lee, Dae Hee Youn, Il Whan Cha

Spectral mapping for voice conversion using speaker selection and vector field smoothing
Makoto Hashimoto, Norio Higuchi

Analysis of acoustic features affecting speaker identification
Norio Higuchi, Makoto Hashimoto

Speaker individualities in fundamental frequency contours and its control
Masato Akagi, Taw Ienaga

Interpolating MBE v/UV mixture function for high quality synthesis of speech
King-fai Lam, Cheung-fat Chan

Statistical methods for voice quality transformation
Yannis Stylianou, Olivier Cappe, Eric Moulines

High-quality speech modification based on a harmonic + noise model
Yannis Stylianou, Jean Laroche, Eric Moulines

Source generator based stressed speech perturbation
Sahar E. Bou-Ghazah, John H. L. Hansen

Improved algorithms for speech recognition in noise using lateral inhibition and SNR weighting
Nestor Becerra Yoma, Fergus R. McInnes, Mervyn A. Jack

Noise adaptation using linear regression for continuous noisy speech recognition
Olivier Siohan, Yifan Gong, Jean-Paul Haton

Dynamic parameter compensation for speech recognition in noise
Ruikang Yang, Markku Majaniemi, Petri Haavisto

Robust speech recognition in noise using speech enhancement based on masking properties of the auditory system and adaptive HMM
Andrzej Drygajlo, Nathalie Virag, Gregoire Cosendai

Canonical correlation based compensation approach for robust speech recognition in noisy environment
Dong Yu, Taiyi Huang

A unified approach for robust speech recognition
Pedro J. Moreno, Bhiksha Raj, Richard M. Stern

Effect of rasta-type processing for speech recognition with speaking-rate mismatches
Harald Singer, Kuldip K. Paliwal, Tomohiko Beppu, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Fast speakers in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition: analysis & antidotes
Nikki Mirghafori, Eric Foster, Nelson Morgan

Signal conditioned minimum error rate training
Wu Chou, Mazin G. Rahim, Eric Buhrke

Non-uniform unit HMMS for speech recognition
Takeshi Matsumura, Shoichi Matsunaga

Training data clustering for improved speech recognition
Ananth Sankar, Frangoise Beaufays, Vassilios Digalakis

On the use of bi-directional contextual dependence in acoustic modeling for speech recognition
Qiang Huo, Chorkin Chan

Spontaneous speech recognition using dynamic CEPSTRA incorporating forward and backward masking effect
Tomohiko Beppu, Kiyoaki Aikawa

Stochastic trajectory models for speech recognition: an extension to modelling time correlation
Mohamed Afify, Yifan Gong, Jean-Paul Haton

An analysis of cepstral-time matrices for noise and channel robust speech recognition
Ben P. Milner, Saeed V. Vaseghi

A confidence measure for acoustic likelihood scores
Ze'ev Rivlin

A discriminative filter bank model for speech recognition
Alain Biem, Erik McDermott, Shigeru Katagiri

A stochastic grammar for isolated representation of syntactic and semantic knowledge
Holger Stahl, Johannes Müller

Concept-based spontaneous speech understanding system
Esther Levin, Roberto Pieraccini

Semantic decoding of speech in constrained domains
Antonio Bonafonte, José B. Marino, Eduardo Lleida

A speech understanding architecture for an information query system
Marcello Federico, Fabrizio Vernesoni

A one-pass search algorithm for understanding natural spoken time utterances by stochastic models
Josef G. Bauer, Holger Stahl, Johannes Müller

Improvements in an HMM-based speech synthesiser
R. E. Donovan, Phil C. Woodland

Sub-phonemic optimal path search for concatenative speech synthesis
Yoshiharu Itoh, Makoto Hashimoto, Norio Higuchi

Optimising selection of units from speech databases for concatenative synthesis
Alan W. Black, Nick Campbell

Automatic data-driven prosodic modeling for text-to-speech
E. Lopez-Gonzalo, Lúis Hernandez-Gomez

Text-to-speech oriented automatic learning of Italian prosody
F. Mana, Silvia Quazza

A simple method of predicting the duration of syllables
Andrew P. Breen

A neural-network-based model of segmental duration for speech synthesis
Marcel Riedi

Generating French intonation at different speaking rates
Frédéric Beaugendre

Segmental duration in French text-to-speech synthesis
Evelyne Tzoukermann, Olivier Soumoy

Developing the prosodic component for Swedish speech synthesis
M. Home, M. Filipsson

Results of a speaker verification service trial using HMM models
Anand Setlur, Thomas Jacobs

Application of phonetic weighting to the neural tree network based speaker recognition system
Han-Sheng Liou, Richard J. Mammone

Experiments with speaker verification over the telephone
Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, B. Prouts

Improved CELP algorithm suited for various speech coding applications
Sofia Moreno Perez, Ramon Garcia Gomez

Comparative study of two codecs for an enhanced GSM system
S. A. Atungsiri, A. M. Kondoz, B. G. Evans

Fast low-delay CELP coding of speech at 8kbps
Siu-pun Chui, Cheung-fat Chan

A low bit-rate speech coder using the perceptual properties of the human ear
Hong Goo Kang, Jeong Tae Seo, Il Whan Cha, Dae Hee Youn

Very fast CELP coding using stochastic innovations
Silvio Cucchi, Marco Fratti

Fast codebook search algorithm based on hamming ECC for algebraic CELP speech coding
M. Bouraoui, W. Glass, Gang Feng

Implementation aspects of the GSM half-rate speech codec
Tim Fingscheidt, Thomas Wiechers, Eckhard Delfs

Low and variable bit-rate speech coding for ATM networks
S. D. Watson, B. M. G. Cheetham, W. T. K. Wong, A. V. Lewis

A differential encoding method for the LTP delay in CELP coders
Andrei Popescu, Nicolas Moreau, Claude Lamblin

Robust, n-best formant tracking
Philipp Schmid, Etienne Barnard

Formant tracking using reassigned spectrum
F. Plante, William A. Ainsworth

Direct calculation of the vocal tract area function from measured formant frequencies
Jean Schoentgen, S. Ciocca

Robust estimation of spectral center-of-gravity trajectories using mixture spline models
Don X. Sun

Bound for minkowski metric based on LP distortion measure
J. S. Pan, Fergus R. McInnes, Mervyn A. Jack

An algorithm for speech parameter generation from continuous mixture HMMs with dynamic features
Keiichi Tokuda, Takashi Masuko, Tetsuya Yamada, Takao Kobayashi, Satoshi Imai

Deriving articulatory representations of speech
Hywel B. Richards, John S. Mason, Melvyn J. Hunt, John S. Bridle

Improved acoustic-phonetic modeling in philips' dictation system by handling liaisons and multiple pronunciations
Xavier Aubert, Christian Dugast

Digit recognition with stochastic perceptual speech models
Nelson Morgan, Su-Lin Wu, Hervé Bourlard

On incorporating phonemic constraints in hidden Markov models for speech recognition
R. N. V. Sitaram, Thippur Sreenivas

An improvement on syllable-based continuous Mandarin speech recognition via using inter-syllable boundary models
Saga Chang, Sin-Horng Chen

Optimizing baseforms for HMM-based speech recognition
Torbjorn Svendsen, Frank K. Soong, Heiko Purnhagen

Acoustic modeling of context dependent units, for large vocabulary speech recognition in Spanish
J. Alvarez-Cercadillo, Chin-Hui Lee, Luis Hernandez-Gomez

Estimation of statistical phoneme center and its application to accurate phoneme modelling
Shigeki Okawa, Katsuhiko Shirai

Hybrid hidden Markov models in speech recognition
Z. Li, P. Kenny, Douglas O'Shaughnessy

Acoustic-phonetic modeling for flexible vocabulary speech recognition
L. Fissore, F. Ravera, Pietro Laface

Segmental duration and HMM modeling
Pierre Dumouchel, Douglas O'Shaughnessy

A knowledge-based model for speaker-independent, acoustic-phonetic decoding
A. Ghio, Mario Rossi

A database for microphone array experimentation
Ea-Ee Jan, Piergiorgio Svaizer, James L. Flanagan

The OGI 22 language telephone speech corpus
T. Lander, Ronald A. Cole, B. T. Oshika, M. Noel

New telephone speech corpora at CSLU
Ronald A. Cole, M. Noel, T. Lander, T. Durham

The Dutch polyphone corpus
E. A. den Os, T. I. Boogaart, Lou Boves, Esther Klabbers

The waxholm application database
J. Bertenstam, Mats Blomberg, Rolf Carlson, Kjell Elenius, Björn Granström, Joakim Gustafson, Sheri Hunnicutt, J. Hogberg, R. Lindell, L. Neovius, Lennart Nord, Antonio de Serpa-Leitao, N. Strom

A pitch extraction reference database
F. Plante, Georg F. Meyer, William A. Ainsworth

Eagles spoken language working group: overview and results
Richard Winski, Roger K. Moore, Dafydd Gibbon

CEUDEX: a data base oriented to context-dependent units training in Spanish for continuous speech recognition
Celinda de la Torre-Munilla, Luis Hernandez-Gomez, Daniel Tapias

Design of a phonetic corpus for a speech database in basque language
K. Lopez de Ipina, I. Torres, L. Onederra

you'd better say nothing than say something wrong: analogy, accuracy and text-to-speech applications
V. Pirrelli, S. Federici

Bulgarian speech database: a pilot study
A. Misheva, S. Dimitrova, V. Filipov, E. Grigoreva, M. Nikov, Peter Roach, S. Arnfield

The Phondat-verbmobil speech corpus
Wolfgang J. Hess, Klaus J. Kohler, Hans-Günther Tillmann

EUROM - a spoken language resource for the EU - the SAM projects
Dominic Chan, Adrian Fourcin, Dafydd Gibbon, Björn Granström, Mark Huckvale, George Kokkinakis, Knut Kvale, Lori Lamel, Borge Lindberg, Asunción Moreno, Jiannis Mouropoulos, Franco Senia, Isabel Trancoso, Corin 't Veld, Jerome Zeiliger

A flexible formal language for the orthographic transcription of spontaneous spoken dialogues
Gernot A. Fink, Michaela Johanntokrax, Brigitte Schaffranietz

Design and implementation of Mandarin speech database in taiwan
Hsiao-Chuan Wang

Word hypothesizer based on reliably detected phoneme similarity regions
Philippe Morin, Ted H. Applebaum

Experimental analysis of the search space for 20 000-word speech recognition
S. Ortmanns, Hermann Ney

Speech parsing by downward request search based on the divide and conquer method
Ming-Sheng Wang, Satoshi Imai

Fast match based on decision tree
Claire Waast, Lalit Bahl, Marc El-Beze

Fast and accurate beam search using forward heuristic functions in HMM-LR speech recognition
Yoshiaki Noda, Shigeki Sagayama

Utterance verification improves closed-set recognition and out-of-vocabulary rejection
Don Colton, Mark Fanty, Ronald A. Cole

A comparison of two exact algorithms for finding the n-best sentence hypotheses in continuous speech recognition
V. M. Jimenez, A. Marzal, J. Monné

Top-down speech detection and n-best meaning search in a voice activated telephone extension system
Kazuya Takeda, Shingo Kuroiwa, Masaki Naito, Seiichi Yamamoto

Fast likelihood computation for continuous-mixture densities using a tree-based nearest neighbor search
Frank Seide

Hamming distance approximation for a fast log-likelihood computation for mixture densities
Peter Beyerlein, Meinhard Ullrich

An efficient output probability computation for continuous HMM using rough and detail models
Yasuhiro Komori, Masayuki Yamada, Hiroki Yamamoto, Yasunori Ohora

Speeding up the score computation of HMM speech regognizers with the bucket voronoi intersection algorithm
J. Fritsch, I. Rogina, Tilo Sloboda, Alex Waibel

On the speech feature selection problem: are dynamic features more important than the static ones?
Jan Nouza

Filtering the time sequence of spectral parameters for speaker-independent CDHMM word recognition
Climent Nadeu, Pau Paches-Leal, Biing-Hwang Juang

Robust phoneme prototype extraction for speech recognition
Dimitris Tambakas, Nikos Fakotakis, George Kokkinakis

The even transform: a variance-equalizing orthogonal transformation and its application to speech recognition
Melvyn J. Hunt

Using segmental coefficients in HMM speech recognition
Kai Hübener

On the use of the derivative of the pole trajectories of the LPC analysis parameter sequence as an alternative to delta parameters
F. Freitag, E. Monte, Javier Hernando

On the dual role of sequence directionality and coherence in a spectral predictive discrimination model
P. V. S. Rao, R. Raveendran

On the decorrelation of filter-bank energies in speech recognition
Climent Nadeu, Javier Hernando, Monica Gorricho

Time derivatives, cepstrai normaiization, and spectral parameter filtering for continuously spelled names over the telephone
Jean-Claude Junqua, Dominique Fohr, J.-F. Mari, Ted H. Applebaum, Brian A. Hanson

Some new considerations about the spectral form of French stop bursts
Linda Djezzar

Characterization of spectral transition region by various prediction approaches for discriminating stop consonants
P. V. S. Rao, R. Raveendran

Fast automatic segmentation and labeling: results on TIMIT and EUROMO
A. Vorstermanst, Jean-Pierre Martens, Bert Van Coile

Maximum-likelihood estimation for articulatory speech recognition using a stochastic target model
Gordon Ramsay, Li Deng

A comparison of several speech parameters for speaker independent speech recognition and speaker recognition
J. Sirigos, Nikos Fakotakis, George Kokkinakis

Speech parameterization based on phonetic features: application to speech recognition
Nabil N. Bitar, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson

Experiments with linear feature extraction in speech recognition
K. Beulen, L. Welling, Hermann Ney

Nonlinear Feature Transformation Based On Statistical Phoneme Modeling
Christian-M. Westendorf

Skewness and nonstationarity measures applied to reliable speech endpoint detection
Juan L. Navarro-Mesa, Asunción Moreno

The distance set representation of speech segments
Ramesh R. Sarukkai, Dana H. Bollard

Multi-variate mixture probability density modelling of VQ codebook using gradient descent algorithm
S. Dobrisek, R. Mihelic, N. Pavesic

Intensity and vocal effort as cues in the perception of stress
Agaath M. C. Sluijter, Vincent J. van Heuven

The effect of voice pitch on perception of synthetic Polish vowels
Mariusz Owsianny

Perception of prepausal tonal contours: implications for automatic stylization of intonation
David House

Experimental study on perception of the glottal explosive of the Japanese ryukyu dialect
Tomio Takara

Measurement of pitch perception for F0 glides
Christophe d'Alessandro, S. Rosset, O. Piot

Interferences between phonemes: evidence for "perceptual domains" in continuous speech perception
S. Wauquier-Gravelines

The influence of local context on the identification of vowels and consonants
Rob J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Effect of preceding noise duration on the perception of voiced plosives and vowels
William A. Ainsworth

Influence of a prior knowledge of the vocalic context on stop burst perception
Anne Bonneau, Linda Djezzar, Yves Laprie

Listeners' use of the 'information-accentuation' interdependence in processing implicit and explicit references
Wilma van Donselaar

Analysis and modeling of fundamental frequency contours of English utterances
Hiroya Fujisaki, Sumio Ohno

Symbolic coding of higher-level characteristics of fundamental frequency curves
P. Nicolas, Daniel J. Hirst

A dynamical system model for recognizing intonation patterns
Ken Ross, Mari Ostendorf

Syntactic influence on prosodic phrasing in the framework of the link grammar
Andrew J. Hunt

Effects of time pressure on the choice of accent-lending and boundary-marking pitch configurations in dutch
Johanneke Caspers, Vincent J. van Heuven

Analysis and synthesis of prosodic features in spoken dialogue of Japanese
Mayumi Sakata, Keikichi Hirose

Prosodic influence on segmental quality
Nick Campbell

Towards voice-interactive telephone services in slovenia: on prosody of digits using the sociolinguistic framework
Bojan Petek

Test environment for the two level model of Germanic prominence
Gregor Möhler, Grzegorz Dogil

Linguistic and acoustic characteristics of pause intervals in spontaneous speech
Nancy A. Daly-Kelly

Modeling the contextual effects on prosody in dialog
Y. Yamashita, R. Mizoguchi

Prosodic scoring of word hypotheses graphs
Ralf Kompe, Andreas Kießling, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth, Ernst Günter Schukat-Talamazzini, A. Zottmann, Anton Batliner

Robust pitch period detection using dynamic programming with an ANN cost function
S. Harbeck, Andreas Kießling, Ralf Kompe, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth

Automatic detection of major phrase boundaries using statistical properties of superpositional F0 control model parameters
Toshio Hirai, Norio Higuchi, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Using neural networks to locate pitch accents
Paul Taylor

The relation between physiological signals and F0: a quantitative analysis method
Helmer Strik

Analysis of prosodic characteristics in speech advisories and their application to speech output
Masanobu Abe

Pitch and elocution rate of diverts speech
M. GuittonF. Javier Caminero-Gil, Joel Crestel, Laure Charonnat

Detection of accents, phrase boundaries and sentence modality in German with prosodic features
Volker Strom

Synthesis and evaluation of intonation with a superposition model
Yann Morlec, Gérard Bailly, Véronique Aubergé

Pitch accent classification of fundamental frequency contours by hidden Markov models
Marcus Fach, Wolfgang Wokurek

Measuring the perceptual similarity of pitch contours
Dik J. Hermes

Microprosodic study of isolated French word corpora
Philippe Langlais

Interpolation properties of linear prediction parametric representations
Kuldip K. Paliwal

Interpolation of spectral information for low bit rate speech coding
H. B. Choi, W. T. K. Wong, B. M. G. Cheetham, C. C. Goodyear

Adaptive flux interpolation, flow-based prediction, delta or delta-delta coefficients: which is best?
Ladan Baghai-Ravary, Steve Beet, Osman Tokhit

LSP Markov model for reducing the complexity of vector quantization
B. Kovesi, S. Saoudi, J. M. Boucher, Z. Reguly

Predictive delta adaptive scalar quantization: an efficient method for coding the short-term speech spectrum
H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, W. H. Holmes

Conditional split vector quantization of LSP parameterswith multiple search
Dong-Il Chang, Kyungmin Na, Souguil Ann

Matrix Product Quantization For Very-low-rate Mobile Speech Communications
Stefan Bruhn

Robust vector quantization for low bit rate speech coding
U. Balss, Herbert Reininger, H. Schalk, Dietrich Wolf

Scalar quantization of LSF parameters at 28 bits/frame
H. C. Ng, S. H. Leung

Improvement of the quality of speech synthesis by analysis using segmentation and modeling of the excitation signal
J. M. Gutierrez Arriola, F. M. Gimenez de los Galanes, M. H. Savoji

A text-to-speech synthesizer for the Polish language
Przemyslaw Dymarski, Slawomir Kuklinski, Siawomir Kula

A comparison of different speech units for the German TTS-system tubsy
C. Jürgens, M. Wunderlich

Confusions among Italian consonants in good and in telephone conditions: differences between text-to-speech systems and natural speech with noise
Cristina Delogu, Andrea Paoloni, Paola Ridolfi

Text-to-speech synthesis for welsh and welsh English
Briony Williams

Multi-lingual testing of a self-learning approach to phonemic transcription of orthography
Ove Andersen, Paul Dalsgaard

An integrated multi-dialect speech recognition system with optional speaker adaptation
V. Beattie, S. Edmondson, D. Miller, Y. Patel, G. Talvola

A comparative study of speaker adaptation techniques
Leonardo Neumeyer, Ananth Sankar, Vassilios Digalakis

Adaptation algorithms for large scale HMM recognizers
G. Zavaliagkos, R. Schwartz, John McDonough, John Makhoul

Speaking-style and speaker adaptation for the recognition of spontaneous dialogue speech
Shoichi Matsunaga, Tetsuo Kosaka, Tohru Shimizu

Speaker adaptation for telephone based speech dialogue systems
S. Dobler, Hans-Wilhelm Rühl

Speaker adaptation with autonomous control using tree structure
Koichi Shinoda, Takao Watanabe

Speaker adaptation fitting training data size and contents
Masahiro Tonomura, Tetsuo Kosaka, Shoichi Matsunaga, Akito Monden

Direct and joint-space approaches to the use of spectral transformation for speaker adaptation in continuous speech recognition
H. C. Choi, R. W. King

Flexible speaker adaptation for large vocabulary speech recognition
C. J. Leggetter, Phil C. Woodland

Faust - a directory assistance demonstrator
B. Kaspar, G. Fries, K. Schuhmacher, Antje Wirth

Some signals of emotional arousal: analysis of conversations using a multimodal interaction database
Keiko Watanuki, Fumio Togawa

Speech synthesis in spoken dialogue research
Gösta Bruce, Björn Granström, M. Filipsson, Kjell Gustafson, Merle Horne, David House, B. Lastow, Paul Touati

Dynamically created dialogues for automated telephone answering using uncertain reasoning and linguistic theory
Mary Zajicek, Ken Brownsey, Simon Lippmann, Patrice Palau, Phyl Greenhead

Modeling dialogue control strategies to relieve speech recognition errors
Y. Niimi, Y. Kobayashi

Constraining of input media in a spoken dialogue system
Anders Baekgaard

AN Automatic Creation Of The Language Model For The Spontaneous Czech Speech Recognizer
Jana Kleckova, Vaclav Matousek, Jana Netrvalova

A grammar of conversational English
M. O'Kane, P. E. Kenne, H. G. Pearcy

Robust comprehension in a spoken dialog system
Eric Brison, Nadine Vigouroux

Korean-Japanese speech translation system for hotel reservation - Korean front desk side
Youngjik Lee, Young-Sum Kim, Jung-Chul Lee, Joon-Hyung Ryoo, Jae-Woo Yang

Unconstrained speech retrieval for Chinese document databases with very large vocabulary and unlimited domains
Sung-Chien Lin, Lee-Feng Chien, Keh-Jiann Chen, Lin-Shan Lee

Integrating partial syntactical analysis and plan recognition for understanding DB natural language queries
Cristina Delogu, Andrea Di Carlo, Rino Falcone

Communicative language model: structure and functioning
Yuri A. Kosarev

Integrating heuristic preferences into a neural understanding system
Adelaide Stevenur, Patrick Gallinari

A language interface to a polyphone-based speech synthesizer
Björn Gamback, Martin Eineborg, Mikael Eriksson, Barbro Ekholm, Bertil Lyberg, Tomas Svensson

Using two-level morphology as a generator-synthesizer interface for concept-to-speech
Georg Niklfeld, Hannes Pirker, Harald Trost

KT-STS: a speech translation system for hotel reservation and a continuous speech recognition system for speech translation
Myoung-Wan Koo, Il-Hyun Sohn, Woo-Sung Kim, Du-Seong Chang

Learning language translation in limited domains using finite-state models: some extensions and improvements
J. M. Vilar, A. Marzal, Enrique Vidal

The effect of context on the intelligibility of dialogue
David G. Novick, Karen Ward, Benjamin Corliss

Representation of a finite state grammar as bigram language model for continuous speech recognition
Ute Kilian, Fritz Class, Alfred Kaltenmeier, Peter Regel-Brietzmann

Extensions of absolute discounting for language modeling
M. Generet, Hermann Ney, F. Wessel

Automatic clustering of words for probabilistic language models
Loreia Moisa, Egidio Giachin

Algorithms for bigram and trigram word clustering
Sven Martin, Jörg Liermann, Hermann Ney

More efficient clustering of n-grams for statistical language modeling
Joerg P. Ueberla

Generation of language models using the results of image analysis
Uta Naeve, Gudrun Socher, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer

Modelling pronunciation variability for special domains
Gudrun Flach

On the use of pronunciation rules for improved word recognition
Nick Cremelie, Jean-Pierre Martens

Reducing memory requirements and computational costs for the baum-welch algorithm and application to automatic stochastic network grammar acquisition
Jin'ichi Murakami

Language model speaker adaptation
Stefan Besling, Hans-Günter Meier

Sentence hypothesisation using NG-gram models
Jerneja Gros, R. Mihelic, N. Pavesic

Optimizing lexical and N-gram coverage via judicious use of linguistic data
Ronald Rosenfeld

A language model for compound words in speech recognition
Marcus Spies

Collecting and analyzing spoken utterances for a speech controlled application
Johannes Müller, Holger Stahl

Speech intelligibility and loudness assessment in a wireless personal communication
Hiromi Nagabuchi, Akira Takahashi, Mineyoshi Ogawa

An experimental investigation of the input and error correction strategies used by subjects entering digits with the AURIX speech recogniser
K. S. Hone, R. W. Series, C. Baber

Goal-directed generation of intelligibility test vocabularies in the framework of names synthesis
Karim Belhoula

Human factors of a voice-controlled car stereo
Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Stephan Gamm

Exploring the limits of system-directed dialogue, dialogue evaluation of the danish dialogue system
Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkjaer, Laila Dybkjaer

Human benchmarks for speaker independent large vocabulary recognition performance
David A. van Leeuwen, Leo-Geert van den Berg, Herman J. M. Steeneken

Predictive assesment for speaker independent isolated word recognisers
Alison Simons

Consistency of inter-transcribers' transcription
Kobayashi Satoshi, Kitazawa Shigeyoshi

Comparison of reference system approaches for the quality assessment of synthesized speech
H. Klaus, A. Niebank

Multi-lingual assessment of speaker independent large vocabulary speech-recognition systems: THE SQALE-PROJECT
Herman J. M. Steeneken, David A. van Leeuwen

Error analysis on field data and improved garbage HMM modelling
K. Bartkova, D. Dubois, D. Jouvet, J. Monné

Interference of speech recognition feedback during diagnostic tasks
E. J. A. Verheijen, F. L. van Nes, L. M. de Bruyn, A. Hasman, J. W. Arends

Geometric and temporal constraints in the production of French consonant sequences x-ray and acoustic data for French
Beatrice Vaxelaire

On the biomechanical control variables of the tongue during speech movements
Rafael Laboissiere, Vitpoxio Sanguineti, Yohan Payan

Multipulse LPC modeling of articulatory movements: analysis and interpretation
Soumya Bouabana, Shinji Maeda

Numerical simulations of fluid flow in the vocal tract
G. Richard, M. Liu, D. Snider, H. Duncan, Qiguang Lin, James L. Flanagan, Stephen Levinson, D. Davis, S. Slimon

3-d fem analysis of sound propagation in the nasal tract
Hisayoshi Suzuki, Takayoshi Nakai, Hiroshi Sakakibara

Effects of tonal clash on downstepped h* accents in Spanish
Pilar Prieto, Chilin Shih

The effect of two factors related to speaking tempo on vowel devoicing in Japanese
Mariko Kondo

Duration perception in subsyllabic constituents
Rob Goedemans, Vincent J. van Heuven

Experimental evidence for a comprehensive theory of vowel reduction
Dick R. van Bergem

Clear speech does not exaggerate phonemic contrast
John J. Ohala

The pronunciation of unfamiliar native and non-native town names
Susan Fitt

Using two-level morphology to transcribe Swedish names
Joakim Gustafson

An MRI study of French vowels
Didier Demolin, Jean-Marie Hombert, Véronique Lecuit, Christoph Segebarth, Alain Soquet

Connected speech processes: a cross-linguistic study
Marie-Josep Solé, E. Estebas

Variable-length sequence matching for phonetic transcription using joint multigrams
Sabine Deligne, Francois Yvon, Frédéric Bimbot

Building multiple pronunciation models for novel words using exploratory computational phonology
Gary Tajchman, Eric Foster, Daniel Jurafsky

Pragmatic factors affecting the phonetic properties of diphthongs
Lourdes Aguilar, Maria Machuca

The spatial and the temporal dimensions of consonant reduction in conversational Italian
Edda Farnetani

Neutralization of consonant length: the case of dutch intervocalic stops
S. Gillis, G. De Schutter, J. Verhoeven

Sound perception between two languages based on analyses of onomatopoeic expression
Manabu Kotani, Haruya Matsumoto

An approach to language identification with enhanced language model
Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard

The application of dynamic programming techniques to non-word based topic spotting
P. Nowell, Roger K. Moore

Language identification based on speech fundamental frequency
Itahashi Shuichi, Du Liang

Two novel language model estimation techniques for statistical language identification
Michael A. Lund, Herbert Gish

Recognized phoneme-based N-gram modeling in automatic language identification
HingKeung Kwan, Keikichi Hirose

Discriminative-transitional/steady units for Spanish continuous speech recognition
A. Varona, I. Torres, F. Casacuberta

An HMM with optimized segment-dependent observations for speech recognition
Ji Mingy, Peter O'Boyle, Jack Smith

Improving recognition performances on field data with an a-priori segmentation of the speech signal
T. Moudenc, D. Jouvet, J. Monné

Connected digit recognition using statistical template matching
L. Welling, Hermann Ney, A. Eiden, C. Forbrig

Calculation of distance measures between hidden Markov models
Markus Falkhausen, Herbert Reininger, Dietrich Wolf

A chernoff distance based segmental probability model (CD-SPM) approach for Mandarin syllable recognition
Jia-lin Shen, Lin-shan Lee

Geometric pattern recognition techniques for acoustic-phonetic decoding of Spanish continuous speech
M. J. Castro, F. Prat, P. Aibar, F. Casacuberta

State tying of triphone HMM's for the 1994 AT&t ARPA ATIS recognizer
Enrico Bocchieri, Giuseppe Riccardi

A shared-distribution approach in a hidden Markov model-based continuous speech recognition system
Azarshid Farhat, Douglas O'Shaughnessy

Preliminary experimentation of different methods for continuous speech recognition in Spanish
Javier Ferreiros, José M. Pardo

Computationally efficient speech enhancement by spectral minima tracking in subbands
Gerhard Doblinger

Robust hos-based techniques applied to speech recognition and enhancement
Josep M. Salavedra, Javier Hernando, Enrique Masgrau, Asunción Moreno

A maximum likelihood equalization technique for robust speech recognition in adverse environments
Kuldip K. Paliwal

Joint system for acoustic echo cancellation and noise reduction
G. Faucon, R. Le Bouquin Jeannes

A study of speech recognition system robustness to microphone variations
Jane Chang, Victor Zue

A feature-space transformation for telephone based speech recognition
Altxandros Potamianos, Li Lee, Richard C. Rose

Development and improvement of a real-time ASR system for isolated digits in Spanish over the telephone line
Ricardo de Cordoba, Xavier Menendez-Pidal, Javier Macias-Guarasa, Ascension Gallardo, José M. Pardo

Channel estimation for reference model adaptation in telephone speech recognition
Jen-Tzung Chien, Lee-Min Lee, Hsiao-Chuan Wang

Enhancement of telephone speech quality by simple spectrum extrapolation method
Hiroshi Yasukawa

Low-distortion spectral subtraction for speech enhancement
Peter Handel

Transition-based feature extraction within frame-based recognition
Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole

Noisy speech enhancement with filters estimated from the speaker's lips
L. Girin, Gang Feng, Jean-Luc Schwartz

Audio-visual speech recognition compared across two architectures
A. Adjoudani, Christian Benoît

Noise effects on landmark detection in a speech recognition system
Sharlene A. Liu

AR identification of the vocal filter from noisy hyperbaric speech signals
Laure Charonnat, Joel Crestel, Michel Glutton, Herve Chuberre

The study of speech/pause detectors for speech enhancement methods
Pavel Sovka, Petr Pollak

Neural-fuzzy network for phonetic features recognition
Robert Sokol, Guy Mercier

A system for speech separation
A. Shamsoddini, P. N. Denbigh

Hierarchical mixture models and phonological rules in open-vocabulary speech recognition
Yunxin Zhao

Study of subword units for Spanish speech recognition
Antonio Bonafonte, Rafael Estany, Eugenio Vives

Speech recognition using a linear dynamic segmental HMM
Wendy J. Holmes, Martin J. Russell

Comparative evaluation of segmental unit input HMM and conditional density HMM
Kazumasa Yamamoto, Seiichi Nakagawa

Continuous speech recognition using non-uniform unit based acoustic and language models
Shoichi Matsunaga, Takeshi Matsumura, Harald Singer

Towards improved speech recognition using a speech production model
C. S. Blackburn, S. J. Young

A vocabulary independent discriminatively trained method for rejection of non-keywords in sub word based speech recognition
Rafid A. Sukkar, Chin-Hui Lee, Bling-Hwang Juang

Rejection techniques based on context independent subword units
Juan Carlos Torrecilla, Daniel Tapias, F. Javier Caminero-Gil, Luis Villarrubia

Detection of unknown words in spontaneous speech
Pablo Fetter, Fritz Class, Udo Haiber, Alfred Kaltenmeier, Ute Kilian, Peter Regel-Brietzmann

A minimum error training of garbage model for keyword spotter with artificially generated training data
Atsushi Nakamura

New words: effect on recognition performance and incorporation issues
I. Lee Hetherington

Improving speech recognition using speaker classification
David O. Baldwin, Georg F. Meyer

Modular neural networks with task-specific input parameters for speakerindependent speech recognition
Axel Glaeser

Large vocabulary speaker-independent continuous speech recognition with a new hybrid system based on MMI-neural networks
Gerhard Rigoll, Ch. Neukirchen, J. Rottland

REMAP: recursive estimation and maximization of a posteriori probabilities in connectionist speech recognition
Hervé Bourlard, Yochai Konig, Nelson Morgan

An RNN based speech recognition system with discriminative training
Tan Lee, P. C. Ching, L. W. Chan

Preliminary experiments for automatic speech understanding through simple recurrent networks
M. A. Castano, Enrique Vidal, F. Casacuberta

A neural network using non-uniform units for continuous speech recognition
Ha-Jin Yu, Yung-Hwan Oh

Temporal correlation modeling in a hybrid neural network/hidden Markov model speech recognizer
Horatio Franco, Vassilios Digalakis

Continuous speech segmentation with the gamma memory model
Laurent Buniet, Dominique Fohr

Incorporating fuzzy modelling in a hybrid HMM-ANNs system for CSR tasks
Xavier Menendez-Pidal, Ricardo de Cordoba, Javier Ferreiros, José M. Pardo

Neural networks for nonlinear discriminant analysis in continuous speech recognition
Wolfgang Reichl, S. Harengel, F. Wolfertstetter, Günther Ruske

Speech recognition experiments with a new multilayer LVQ network (MLVQ)
Gerhard Rigoll

Speaker-adaptation for hybrid HMM-ANN continuous speech recognition system
Joao Neto, Luis Almeida, Mike Hochberg, Ciro Martins, Luis Nunes, Steve Renals, Tony Robinson

Distributed binary representations for word recognition by TDNN-DTW hybrid systems
Premysl Puzrla, Frédéric Bimbot, Christoph Windheuser

A robust discrimination method based on selectively trained neural networks for confusable words in noisy conditions
Yolande Anglade

Connectionist speaker normalization and adaptation
Victor Abrash, Horacio Franco, Ananth Sankar, Michael Cohen

A competitive algorithm for training HMM for speech recognition
Pedro L. Galindo

Predictive connectionist speech recognition with a new discriminant learning algorithm
Martin Paping, Hans Marti, Mark Renfer

Preliminary results on speech signal segmentation with recurrent neural networks
Antonio J. Rubio, Ronan G. Reilly

Text independent neural network/rule based hybrid, continuous speech recognition
Klara Vicsi, Attila Vig

Automatic recognition of Cantonese lexical tones in connected speech by multi-layer perceptron
Ying Pang Ng, P. C. Ching, L. W. Chan

Combining HMM processing and formant measurements in automatic speech recognition
Dave Abberley, Phil Green

Recurrent neural prediction models for speech recognition
Kyungmin Na, Jekwan Ryu, Dong-Il Chang, Soo-Ik Chae, Souguil Ann

Exploiting acoustic-phonetic knowledge and neural networks for stop recognition
Linda Djezzar, Jean-Paul Haton

Estimation of speech formant-dynamics using neural networks
P. Gomez, V. Rodellar, A. Alvarez, J. Bobadilla, J. Bernal, V. Nieto, M. Perez

The role of linguistic stress in the time course of word recognition in stress-accent languages
Willy Jongenburger, Vincent J. van Heuven

Inter-language differences in the mcgurk effect for dutch and Cantonese listeners
Beatrice de Gelder, Paul Bertelson, Jean Vroomen, Hsuan Chin Chen

Listeners representations of within-word structure: a cross-linguistic and cross-dialectal investigation
Takashi Otake, Sally M. Davis, Anne Cutler

The use of phonotactic constraints in the segmentation of dutch
James M. McQueen, Ethan Cox

Lexical inhibition in spoken word recognition
Jean Vroomen, Beatrice de Gelder

Methodological aspects in a multimedia database of vocal fold pathologies
Maurilio Nunes Vieira, Fergus R. McInnes, Mervyn A. Jack, Arnold Maran, Colin Watson, Moira Little

The application of volterra LMS adaptive filtering to speech enhancement for the hearing impaired
V. Udayashankara, A. P. Shivaprasad

CAPDA: managing intelligibility in children and young adults with down's syndrome or speech disorders
P. Rosso, J. H. Wright, M. Smith

Evaluation of a system for segmental speech quality assessment: voiceless fricatives
Alan A. Wrench, Mary S. Jackson, David S. Soutar, A. Gerry Robertson, Janet MacKenzie Beck

A diagnostic and rehabilitation aid workstation for speech and voice pathologies
B. Teston, B. Galindo

Improvement, evaluation and testing of a low cost multilingual portable speaking aid for the speech impaired
Geza Nemeth, Gabor Olaszy, Laszlo Pataki, Luis Hernandez Gomez, Diamantino Freitas

Empirical study to test the independence of different acoustic voice parameters on a large voice database
Dirk Michaelis, Hans Werner Strube

The spectral analysis of infant cry: an initial approximation
Sergio D. Cano Ortiz, Daniel Escobedo Beceiro, Manuel Socarras Reyes

Portable speech rate conversion system
N. Seiyama, A. Nakamura, A. Imai, T. Takagi, E. Miyasaka

A field test of sivo aid in China
Jialu Zhang

Analysis for palatalized articulation of [s] sounds using synthetic speech
Takayuki Arai, Keiko Okazaki, Setsuko Imatomi, Yuichi Yoshida

An attempt to classify LX signals
Krzysztof Marasek

Time series analysis of glottal cycle lengths of healthy and dysphonic speakers
Jean Schoentgen, Raoul de Guchteneere

Permugram language models
Ernst-Günter Schukat-Talamazzini, R. Hendrych, Ralf Kompe, Heinrich Niemann

GLR-parsing of word lattices using a beam search method
Steffen Staab

Integrating natural language into the word graph search for simultaneous speech recognition and understanding
Stephanie Seneff, Michael McCandless, Victor Zue

A statistical approach to language modelling for the ATIS task
Joshua Koppelman, Stephen Delia Pietra, Mark Epstein, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward

Lattice parsing and application of integrated language models for speech recognition
G. J. F. Jones, H. Lloyd-Thomas, J. H. Wright

Robust parsing of n-best speech hypothesis lists using a general grammar-based language model
Manny Rayner, Peter Wyard

Improvements in tree-based language model representation
Fabio Brugnara, Mauro Cettolo

Language modeling of spontaneous speech in a court context
P. E. Kenne, M. O'Kane, H. G. Pearcy

Study of vowel variations for a Mandarin speech synthesizer
Chilin Shih

Using statistical models to predict phrase boundaries for speech synthesis
Eric Sanders, Paul Taylor

Naturalness in a high-level synthetic speech system
Mark Tatham, Eric Lewis

Pragmatic effects in speech synthesis
Katherine Morton, Mark Tatham

A scheme for a model-based synthesis by rule of F0 contours of German utterances
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Hiroya Fujisaki

Speech synthesis by rule based on synthesis units considering prosodic features
Yasushi Ishikawa, Kunio Nakajima

The generation of prosody in the nijmegen rule oriented speech synthesis system
J. Kerkhoff, T. Rietveld

Phonological rules modelling style variations of 'e' caduc in French parisian spontaneous speech for text-to-speech synthesis
Pean Vincent, Lacheret-Dujour Anne

Voiced diphone synthesis using a parametric model and formant based mapping
Dongbing Wei, J. W. Devaney, C. C. Goodyear

Robust automatic extraction of diphones with variable boundaries
Debra Yarrington, H. Timothy Bunnell, Gene Ball

Generation of articulatory synthesiser parameters from formant frequencies using a cubic mapping function
A. R. Greenwood

Two-mass models for speech synthesis
R. N. J. Veldhuis, I. J. M. Bogaert, N. J. C. Lous

Introducing a parametric consonantal model to the articulatory speech synthesiser
Mats Bavegard

High-quality Japanese text-to-speech system: NARSYS
Nobuyuki Katae, Tatsuro Matsumoto, Shinta Kimura, Mitsuko Kaseda, Takayuki Ohyama

An investigation of locus equations as a source of information for consonantal place
Mohamed Yeou

Automatic labelling of multi-sensor speech database: issues and perspectives
Nathalie Parlangeau, Regine Andre-Obrecht, Alain Marchal

What does consonant reduction look like, if it exists?
Rob J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Articulatori-acoustic vowel prototypes for speech production
Gérard Bailly, Louls-Jean Boe, N. Vallee, Pierre Badin

Experimental study of the target theory of vowel production
M. Pitermann, Jean Schoentgen

Comparing tongue kinematic and acoustic phasing patterns for vowel quantity contrasts in WOLOF
R. Sock, Pascal Perrier, Anders Löfqvist

Evaluation of a vowel normalisation procedure based on speech production knowledge
Pascal Perrier, Lian Apostol, Yohan Payan

Dialect specific features of australian English diphthongs in spontaneous speech
Santha Sampath

Adaptation of a two-mass model of the vocal cords to a particular speaker
Christophe Vescovi, Eric Castelli, Xavier Pelorson

The money talks interactive speech technology assessment: a report from the field
Stephen Springer, Sara Basson, Ashok Kalyanswamy, Edward Man, Dina Yashchin

Speech and tactile-based georal system
J. Siroux, M. Guyomard, Y. Jolly, F. Multon, C. Remondeau

Vocalist: a robust, portable spoken language dialogue system for telephone applications
Norman M. Fraser, J. H. Simon Thornton

A prototype of a Japanese-Korean realtime speech translation system
Masami Suzuki, Naomi Inoue, Fumihiro Yato, Kazuya Takeda, Seiichi Yamamoto

Query-response relationships in the oasis speech-recognition system
B. L. Zeigler, B. Mazor

Development of spoken language corpora for travel information
Lori Lamel, S. Rosset, S. Bennacef, H. Bonneau-Maynard, L. Devillers, Jean-Luc Gauvain

Empirical evaluation of human performance and agreement in parsing discourse constituents in spoken dialogue
Giovanni Flammia, Victor Zue

Multimodal spoken dialogue systems and rapid-prototyping
Tsuneo Nitta, Mika Amamiya, Hiroyuki Kamio, Hiroshi Matsu'ura, Arisa Uchiyama, Masafumi Tamura

Development and evaluation of a spoken dialogue for a telephone based transaction system
Lars Bo Larsen

Integrating spelling into spoken dialogue recognition
Hermann Hild, Alex Waibel

The application of parallel model combination to a large vocabulary dictation task
M. J. F. Gales, S. J. Young

Blind equalization using adaptive filtering for improving speech recognition over telephone
C. Mokbel, D. Jouvet, J. Monné

Speech-seeking microphone array with multi-stage processing
Yuchang Cao, Sridha Sridharan, Miles Moody

Recognition of noisy speech using an auditory model
Halewijn Vereecken, Jean-Pierre Martens

Stress independent robust HMM speech recognition using neural network stress classification
Brian D. Womack, John H. L. Hansen

Speech enhancement using two versions of the noisy speech signal
Klaus Linhard

Design and optimization of a two microphone speech enhancement system
Rainer Martin

Time delay estimation for microphone array speech enhancement systems
Martin Drews

Speech enhancement by eigen decomposition with two-channel observations
Yuchang Cao, Sridha Sridharan, Miles Moody

Robust continuous speech recognition using a microphone array
D. Giuliani, M. Matassoni, M. Omologo, P. Svaizer

Factors affecting F0 peak displacement in Spanish
Joaquim Llisterri, Rafael Mann, Carme de la Mota, Antonio Rios

Generation of intonation: a global approach
Véronique Aubergé, Gérard Bailly

Prevocalic consonant duration in Swedish: effects of vowel quality and postvocalic place of articulation
Peter E. Czigler, Dawn M. Behne

Intonation gesture of slovene: first indications
P. Vitez, Véronique Aubergé

Intrinsic prosodic values and segmental context
Barbara Heuft, Thomas Portele

Describing speech styles using prosody: a pilot study
Andy Tams, Mark Tatham, Julian H. Page

Stress and intonation in Spanish for affirmative and interrogative sentences
C. Franchon Cabrera

Statistical methods for the automatic labelling of German prosody
Michael Lehning

Investigation on unknown word processing and strategies for spontaneous speech understanding
Atsuhiko Kai, Seiichi Nakagawa

New n-best based rejection techniques for improving a real-time telephonic connected word recognition system
F. Javier Caminero-Gil, Celinda de la Torre-Munilla, Lúis Hernandez-Gomez, Cesar Martin del Álamo

Detection of unknown words using garbage cluster models for continuous speech recognition
Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Shoichi Matsunaga

Detection of unknown words and its evaluation
A. Jusek, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, H. Rautenstrauch, Gerhard Sagerer

Minimum duration constrained non-keyword modeling and rejection for word spotting
Seung-Bae Lee, Lag-Yong Kim, Min-Seong Kim, Jong-Seok Lee, Shin-Wook Kang

Rejection capabilities for HMM-based speech recognizers
Sari Accaino, Bart D'hoore, Johan Vantieghem, Dirk Van Compernolle

Multi-lingual connected digits recognition
Joan Salavedra, Claus Jacobsen, Mazin G. Rahim, Ilija Zeljkovic, Jay G. Wilpon

Recognition of spontaneously spoken connected numbers in Spanish over the telephone line
Celinda de la Torre-Munilla, Lúis Hernandez-Gomez, F. Javier Caminero-Gil, Cesar Martin del Álamo

Lexical fillers for task-independent-training based keyword spotting and detection of new words
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Topic spotting with task independent models
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Phrase spotting using pitch pattern information
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Speech understanding and speech retrieval for TV news by using connected word spotting
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Talker-independent keyword spotting for information retrieval
J. T. Foote, G. J. F. Jones, K. Sparck Jones, S. J. Young

Large vocabulary word scoring as a basis for transcription generation
P. Jeanrenaud, M. Siu, Herbert Gish

New word spotting algorithm based on forward decoding
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Word- and phrase spotting with syllable-based garbage modelling
H. Klemm, Fritz Class, Ute Kilian

Influence of short-time phase on the perception of stop consonants
Li Liu, Jialong He, Günther Palm

Enhancing the perceptual salience of information-rich regions of natural intervocalic consonants
Andrew Simpson, Valerie Hazan

A method to quantify the error distribution in confusion matrices
Rob J. J. H. van Son

Speech and nonspeech signal densities for the perception of temporal order
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Researching the processing structures of human phoneme recognition by analysis of natural stop-consonant-vowel utterances that elicit correct recognition through unusual acoustic patterns
Eduardo Sa Marta, Fernando Perdigao, Luis Vieira de Sa

The perception of voicing in Spanish sibilants
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Development of the perception of initial prevocalic [r] and [l] by English children
Elzbieta B. Slawinski

On phonetic boundaries across categories for synthetic and natural vocalic speech sounds
Francesco Cutugno, Renata Savy

Effects of syllabic position in the perception of spoken English
Athanassios Protopapas, Steven Finney, Peter D. Eimas