Selected topics from 40 years of research on speech and speaker recognition
Sadaoki Furui

Connecting human and machine learning via probabilistic models of cognition
Thomas L. Griffiths

New horizons in the study of child language acquisition
Deb Roy

Transcribing human-directed speech for spoken language processing
Mari Ostendorf

Feature extraction for robust speech recognition using a power-law nonlinearity and power-bias subtraction
Chanwoo Kim, Richard M. Stern

Towards fusion of feature extraction and acoustic model training: a top down process for robust speech recognition
Yu-Hsiang Bosco Chiu, Bhiksha Raj, Richard M. Stern

Temporal modulation processing of speech signals for noise robust ASR
Hong You, Abeer Alwan

Progressive memory-based parametric non-linear feature equalization
Luz Garcia, Roberto Gemello, Franco Mana, Jose Carlos Segura

Dynamic features in the linear domain for robust automatic speech recognition in a reverberant environment
Osamu Ichikawa, Takashi Fukuda, Ryuki Tachibana, Masafumi Nishimura

Local projections and support vector based feature selection in speech recognition
Antonio Miguel, Alfonso Ortega, L. Buera, Eduardo Lleida

Feedforward control of a 3d physiological articulatory model for vowel production
Qiang Fang, Akikazu Nishikido, Jianwu Dang, Aijun Li

Articulatory modeling based on semi-polar coordinates and guided PCA technique
Jun Cai, Yves Laprie, Julie Busset, Fabrice Hirsch

Sequencing of articulatory gestures using cost optimization
Juraj Simko, Fred Cummins

From experiments to articulatory motion - a three dimensional talking head model
Xiao Bo Lu, William Thorpe, Kylie Foster, Peter Hunter

Towards robust glottal source modeling
Javier Pérez, Antonio Bonafonte

Sliding vocal-tract model and its application for vowel production
Takayuki Arai

Minimum hypothesis phone error as a decoding method for speech recognition
Haihua Xu, Daniel Povey, Jie Zhu, Guanyong Wu

Posterior-based out of vocabulary word detection in telephone speech
Stefan Kombrink, Lukáš Burget, Pavel Matějka, Martin Karafiát, Hynek Hermansky

Automatic transcription system for meetings of the Japanese national congress
Yuya Akita, Masato Mimura, Tatsuya Kawahara

Cross-language bootstrapping for unsupervised acoustic model training: rapid development of a Polish speech recognition system
Jonas Lööf, Christian Gollan, Hermann Ney

Porting an european portuguese broadcast news recognition system to brazilian portuguese
Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso, Nelson Neto, M. Céu Viana

Modeling northern and southern varieties of dutch for STT
Julien Despres, Petr Fousek, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Sandrine Gay, Yvan Josse, Lori Lamel, Abdel Messaoudi

Nearly perfect detection of continuous f_0 contour and frame classification for TTS synthesis
Thomas Ewender, Sarah Hoffmann, Beat Pfister

AM-FM estimation for speech based on a time-varying sinusoidal model
Yannis Pantazis, Olivier Rosec, Yannis Stylianou

Voice source waveform analysis and synthesis using principal component analysis and Gaussian mixture modelling
Jon Gudnason, Mark R. P. Thomas, Patrick A. Naylor, Dan P. W. Ellis

Model-based estimation of instantaneous pitch in noisy speech
Jung Ook Hong, Patrick J. Wolfe

Complex cepstrum-based decomposition of speech for glottal source estimation
Thomas Drugman, Baris Bozkurt, Thierry Dutoit

Approximate intrinsic fourier analysis of speech
Frank Tompkins, Patrick J. Wolfe

Spectral and temporal modulation features for phonetic recognition
Stephen A. Zahorian, Hongbing Hu, Zhengqing Chen, Jiang Wu

Use of harmonic phase information for polarity detection in speech signals
Ibon Saratxaga, Daniel Erro, Inmaculada Hernáez, Iñaki Sainz, Eva Navas

Finite mixture spectrogram modeling for multipitch tracking using a factorial hidden Markov model
Michael Wohlmayr, Franz Pernkopf

Group-delay-deviation based spectral analysis of speech
Anthony Stark, Kuldip Paliwal

Speaker dependent mapping for low bit rate coding of throat microphone speech
Joseph M. Anand, B. Yegnanarayana, Sanjeev Gupta, M. R. Kesheorey

Analysis of Lombard speech using excitation source information
G. Bapineedu, B. Avinash, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana

A comparison of linear and nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods applied to synthetic speech
Andrew Errity, John McKenna

ZZT-domain immiscibility of the opening and closing phases of the LF GFM under frame length variations
C. F. Pedersen, O. Andersen, P. Dalsgaard

Dimension reducing of LSF parameters based on radial basis function neural network
Hongjun Sun, Jianhua Tao, Huibin Jia

Characterizing speaker variability using spectral envelopes of vowel sounds
A. N. Harish, D. R. Sanand, S. Umesh

Analysis of band structures for speaker-specific information in FM feature extraction
Tharmarajah Thiruvaran, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Julien Epps

Artificial nasalization of speech sounds based on pole-zero models of spectral relations between mouth and nose signals
Karl Schnell, Arild Lacroix

Error metrics for impaired auditory nerve responses of different phoneme groups
Andrew Hines, Naomi Harte

Model-based automatic evaluation of L2 learner's English timing
Chatchawarn Hansakunbuntheung, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka

A Bayesian approach to non-intrusive quality assessment of speech
Petko N. Petkov, Iman S. Mossavat, W. Bastiaan Kleijn

Precision of phoneme boundaries derived using hidden Markov models
Ladan Baghai-Ravary, Greg Kochanski, John Coleman

A novel method for epoch extraction from speech signals
Lakshmish Kaushik, Douglas O'Shaughnessy

LS regularization of group delay features for speaker recognition
Jia Min Karen Kua, Julien Epps, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Eric Choi

Glottal closure and opening instant detection from speech signals
Thomas Drugman, Thierry Dutoit

Relative importance of formant and whole-spectral cues for vowel perception
Masashi Ito, Keiji Ohara, Akinori Ito, Masafumi Yano

Influences of vowel duration on speaker-size estimation and discrimination
Chihiro Takeshima, Minoru Tsuzaki, Toshio Irino

High front vowels in Czech: a contrast in quantity or quality?
Václav Jonáš Podlipský, Radek Skarnitzl, Jan Volín

Effect of contralateral noise on energetic and informational masking on speech-in-speech intelligibility
Marjorie Dole, Michel Hoen, Fanny Meunier

Using location cues to track speaker changes from mobile, binaural microphones
Heidi Christensen, Jon Barker

A perceptual investigation of speech transcription errors involving frequent near-homophones in French and american English
Ioana Vasilescu, Martine Adda-Decker, Lori Lamel, Pierre Hallé

The role of glottal pulse rate and vocal tract length in the perception of speaker identity
Etienne Gaudrain, Su Li, Vin Shen Ban, Roy D. Patterson

Development of voicing categorization in deaf children with cochlear implant
Victoria Medina, Willy Serniclaes

Processing liaison-initial words in native and non-native French: evidence from eye movements
Annie Tremblay

Estimating the potential of signal and interlocutor-track information for language modeling
Nigel G. Ward, Benjamin H. Walker

Effect of r-resonance information on intelligibility
Antje Heinrich, Sarah Hawkins

Perception of temporal cues at discourse boundaries
Hsin-Yi Lin, Janice Fon

Human audio-visual consonant recognition analyzed with three bimodal integration models
Zhanyu Ma, Arne Leijon

Effects of tempo in radio commercials on young and elderly listeners
Hanny den Ouden, Hugo Quené

Self-voice recognition in 4 to 5-year-old children
Sofia Strömbergsson

Are real tongue movements easier to speech read than synthesized?
Olov Engwall, Preben Wik

Eliciting a hierarchical structure of human consonant perception task errors using formal concept analysis
Carmen Peláez-Moreno, Ana I. García-Moral, Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete

Acoustic and perceptual effects of vocal training in amateur male singing
Takeshi Saitou, Masataka Goto

Factor analysis and SVM for language recognition
Florian Verdet, Driss Matrouf, Jean-François Bonastre, Jean Hennebert

Exploring universal attribute characterization of spoken languages for spoken language recognition
Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Jeremy Reed, Torbjørn Svendsen, Chin-Hui Lee

On the use of phonological features for automatic accent analysis
Abhijeet Sangwan, John H. L. Hansen

Language recognition using language factors
Fabio Castaldo, Sandro Cumani, Pietro Laface, Daniele Colibro

Automatic accent detection: effect of base units and boundary information
Je Hun Jeon, Yang Liu

Age verification using a hybrid speech processing approach
Ron M. Hecht, Omer Hezroni, Amit Manna, Ruth Aloni-Lavi, Gil Dobry, Amir Alfandary, Yaniv Zigel

Information bottleneck based age verification
Ron M. Hecht, Omer Hezroni, Amit Manna, Gil Dobry, Yaniv Zigel, Naftali Tishby

Discriminative n-gram selection for dialect recognition
F. S. Richardson, W. M. Campbell, P. A. Torres-Carrasquillo

Data-driven phonetic comparison and conversion between south african, british and american English pronunciations
Linsen Loots, Thomas Niesler

Target-aware language models for spoken language recognition
Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, Eng Siong Chng, Kong-Aik Lee

Language identification for speech-to-speech translation
Daniel Chung Yong Lim, Ian Lane

Using prosody and phonotactics in Arabic dialect identification
Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg

Refactoring acoustic models using variational expectation-maximization
Pierre L. Dognin, John R. Hershey, Vaibhava Goel, Peder A. Olsen

Investigations on convex optimization using log-linear HMMs for digit string recognition
Georg Heigold, David Rybach, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Investigations on discriminative training in large scale acoustic model estimation
Janne Pylkkönen

Margin-space integration of MPE loss via differencing of MMI functionals for generalized error-weighted discriminative training
Erik McDermott, Shinji Watanabe, Atsushi Nakamura

Compacting discriminative feature space transforms for embedded devices
Etienne Marcheret, Jia-Yu Chen, Petr Fousek, Peder A. Olsen, Vaibhava Goel

A back-off discriminative acoustic model for automatic speech recognition
Hung-An Chang, James R. Glass

Efficient generation and use of MLP features for Arabic speech recognition
J. Park, F. Diehl, M. J. F. Gales, M. Tomalin, P. C. Woodland

A study of bootstrapping with multiple acoustic features for improved automatic speech recognition
Xiaodong Cui, Jian Xue, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou

Analysis of low-resource acoustic model self-training
Scott Novotney, Richard Schwartz

Log-linear model combination with word-dependent scaling factors
Björn Hoffmeister, Ruoying Liang, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Enabling a user to specify an item at any time during system enumeration - item identification for barge-in-able conversational dialogue systems
Kyoko Matsuyama, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno

System request detection in human conversation based on multi-resolution Gabor wavelet features
Tomoyuki Yamagata, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki

Using graphical models for mixed-initiative dialog management systems with realtime Policies
Stefan Schwärzler, Stefan Maier, Joachim Schenk, Frank Wallhoff, Gerhard Rigoll

Conversation robot participating in and activating a group communication
Shinya Fujie, Yoichi Matsuyama, Hikaru Taniyama, Tetsunori Kobayashi

Recent advances in WFST-based dialog system
Chiori Hori, Kiyonori Ohtake, Teruhisa Misu, Hideki Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura

A statistical dialog manager for the LUNA project
David Griol, Giuseppe Riccardi, Emilio Sanchis

A Policy-switching learning approach for adaptive spoken dialogue agents
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Juventino Montiel-Hernández

Strategies for accelerating the design of dialogue applications using heuristic information from the backend database
L. F. D'Haro, R. Cordoba, R. San-Segundo, J. Macias-Guarasa, J. M. Pardo

Feature-based summary space for stochastic dialogue modeling with hierarchical semantic frames
Florian Pinault, Fabrice Lefèvre, Renato De Mori

Language modeling and dialog management for address recognition
Rajesh Balchandran, Leonid Rachevsky, Larry Sansone

A framework for rapid development of conversational natural language call routing systems for call centers
Ea-Ee Jan, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Osamuyimen Stewart, David Lubensky

The MonAMI reminder: a spoken dialogue system for face-to-face interaction
Jonas Beskow, Jens Edlund, Björn Granström, Joakim Gustafson, Gabriel Skantze, Helena Tobiasson

Influence of training on direct and indirect measures for the evaluation of multimodal systems
Julia Seebode, Stefan Schaffer, Ina Wechsung, Florian Metze

Talking heads for interacting with spoken dialog smart-home systems
Christine Kühnel, Benjamin Weiss, Sebastian Möller

Speech generation from hand gestures based on space mapping
Aki Kunikoshi, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose

The INTERSPEECH 2009 emotion challenge
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner

GTM-URL contribution to the INTERSPEECH 2009 emotion challenge
Santiago Planet, Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Carlos Monzo, Jordi Adell

Emotion recognition using a hierarchical binary decision tree approach
Chi-Chun Lee, Emily Mower, Carlos Busso, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Improving automatic emotion recognition from speech signals
Elif Bozkurt, Engin Erzin, Çiǧdem Eroǧlu Erdem, A. Tanju Erdem

Exploring the benefits of discretization of acoustic features for speech emotion recognition
Thurid Vogt, Elisabeth André

Combining spectral and prosodic information for emotion recognition in the interspeech 2009 emotion challenge
Iker Luengo, Eva Navas, Inmaculada Hernáez

Acoustic emotion recognition using dynamic Bayesian networks and multi-space distributions
R. Barra-Chicote, Fernando Fernández, S. Lutfi, Juan Manuel Lucas-Cuesta, J. Macias-Guarasa, J. M. Montero, R. San-Segundo, J. M. Pardo

Emotion classification in children's speech using fusion of acoustic and linguistic features
Tim Polzehl, Shiva Sundaram, Hamed Ketabdar, Michael Wagner, Florian Metze

Cepstral and long-term features for emotion recognition
Pierre Dumouchel, Najim Dehak, Yazid Attabi, Réda Dehak, Narjès Boufaden

Brno University of Technology system for Interspeech 2009 emotion challenge
Marcel Kockmann, Lukáš Burget, Jan Černocký

Back-off language model compression
Boulos Harb, Ciprian Chelba, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat

Improving broadcast news transcription with a precision grammar and discriminative reranking
Tobias Kaufmann, Thomas Ewender, Beat Pfister

Use of contexts in language model interpolation and adaptation
X. Liu, M. J. F. Gales, P. C. Woodland

Exploiting Chinese character models to improve speech recognition performance
J. L. Hieronymus, X. Liu, M. J. F. Gales, P. C. Woodland

Constraint selection for topic-based MDI adaptation of language models
Gwénolé Lecorvé, Guillaume Gravier, Pascale Sébillot

Nonstationary latent Dirichlet allocation for speech recognition
Chuang-Hua Chueh, Jen-Tzung Chien

Multiple text segmentation for statistical language modeling
Sopheap Seng, Laurent Besacier, Brigitte Bigi, Eric Castelli

Measuring tagging performance of a joint language model
Denis Filimonov, Mary Harper

Improved language modelling using bag of word pairs
Langzhou Chen, K. K. Chin, Kate Knill

Morphological analysis and decomposition for Arabic speech-to-text systems
F. Diehl, M. J. F. Gales, M. Tomalin, P. C. Woodland

Investigating the use of morphological decomposition and diacritization for improving Arabic LVCSR
Amr El-Desoky, Christian Gollan, David Rybach, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Topic dependent language model based on topic voting on noun history
Welly Naptali, Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Seiichi Nakagawa

Investigation of morph-based speech recognition improvements across speech genres
Péter Mihajlik, Balázs Tarján, Zoltán Tüske, Tibor Fegyó

Effective use of pause information in language modelling for speech recognition
Kengo Ohta, Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Seiichi Nakagawa

A parallel training algorithm for hierarchical pitman-yor process language models
Songfang Huang, Steve Renals

Probabilistic and possibilistic language models based on the world wide web
Stanislas Oger, Vladimir Popescu, Georges Linarès

Categorical perception of speech without stimulus repetition
Jack C. Rogers, Matthew H. Davis

Non-automaticity of use of orthographic knowledge in phoneme evaluation
Anne Cutler, Chris Davis, Jeesun Kim

Learning and generalization of novel contrastive cues
Meghan Sumner

Vowel category perception affected by microdurational variations
Einar Meister, Stefan Werner

Perceptual grouping of alternating word pairs: effect of pitch difference and presentation rate
Nandini Iyer, Douglas S. Brungart, Brian D. Simpson

Comparing methods to find a best exemplar in a multidimensional space
Titia Benders, Paul Boersma

Autoregressive HMMs for speech synthesis
Matt Shannon, William Byrne

Asynchronous F0 and spectrum modeling for HMM-based speech synthesis
Cheng-Cheng Wang, Zhen-Hua Ling, Li-Rong Dai

A minimum v/u error approach to F0 generation in HMM-based TTS
Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Miaomiao Wang, Zhizheng Wu

Voiced/unvoiced decision algorithm for HMM-based speech synthesis
Shiyin Kang, Zhiwei Shuang, Quansheng Duan, Yong Qin, Lianhong Cai

Local minimum generation error criterion for hybrid HMM speech synthesis
Xavi Gonzalvo, Alexander Gutkin, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ignasi Iriondo, Paul Taylor

Thousands of voices for HMM-based speech synthesis
Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Rile Hu, Yong Guan, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo

A Bayesian approach to Hidden Semi-Markov Model based speech synthesis
Kei Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

Rich context modeling for high quality HMM-based TTS
Zhi-Jie Yan, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Tying covariance matrices to reduce the footprint of HMM-based speech synthesis systems
Keiichiro Oura, Heiga Zen, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee, Keiichi Tokuda

The HMM synthesis algorithm of an embedded unified speech recognizer and synthesizer
Guntram Strecha, Matthias Wolff, Frank Duckhorn, Sören Wittenberg, Constanze Tschöpe

Syllable HMM based Mandarin TTS and comparison with concatenative TTS
Zhiwei Shuang, Shiyin Kang, Qin Shi, Yong Qin, Lianhong Cai

Pulse density representation of spectrum for statistical speech processing
Yoshinori Shiga

Parameterization of vocal fry in HMM-based speech synthesis
Hanna Silén, Elina Helander, Jani Nurminen, Moncef Gabbouj

A deterministic plus stochastic model of the residual signal for improved parametric speech synthesis
Thomas Drugman, Geoffrey Wilfart, Thierry Dutoit

A decision tree-based clustering approach to state definition in an excitation modeling framework for HMM-based speech synthesis
Ranniery Maia, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Shinsuke Sakai, Satoshi Nakamura

An improved minimum generation error based model adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis
Yi-Jian Wu, Long Qin, Keiichi Tokuda

Two-pass decision tree construction for unsupervised adaptation of HMM-based synthesis models
Matthew Gibson

Speaker adaptation using a parallel phone set pronunciation dictionary for Thai-English bilingual TTS
Anocha Rugchatjaroen, Nattanun Thatphithakkul, Ananlada Chotimongkol, Ausdang Thangthai, Chai Wutiwiwatchai

HMM-based automatic eye-blink synthesis from speech
Michal Dziemianko, Gregor Hofer, Hiroshi Shimodaira

Efficient combination of confidence measures for machine translation
Sylvain Raybaud, David Langlois, Kamel Smaïli

Incremental dialog clustering for speech-to-speech translation
David Stallard, Stavros Tsakalidis, Shirin Saleem

Iterative sentence-pair extraction from quasi-parallel corpora for machine translation
R. Sarikaya, Sameer Maskey, R. Zhang, Ea-Ee Jan, D. Wang, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, S. Roukos

RTTS: towards enterprise-level real-time speech transcription and translation services
Juan M. Huerta, Cheng Wu, Andrej Sakrajda, Sasha Caskey, Ea-Ee Jan, Alexander Faisman, Shai Ben-David, Wen Liu, Antonio Lee, Osamuyimen Stewart, Michael Frissora, David Lubensky

Using syntax in large-scale audio document translation
Jing Zheng, Necip Fazil Ayan, Wen Wang, David Burkett

Context-driven automatic bilingual movie subtitle alignment
Andreas Tsiartas, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Probabilistic effects on French [t] duration
Francisco Torreira, Mirjam Ernestus

On the production of sandhi phenomena in French: psycholinguistic and acoustic data
Odile Bagou, Violaine Michel, Marina Laganaro

Extreme reductions: contraction of disyllables into monosyllables in taiwan Mandarin
Chierh Cheng, Yi Xu

Annotation and features of non-native Mandarin tone quality
Mitchell Peabody, Stephanie Seneff

On-line formant shifting as a function of F0
Kateřina Chládková, Paul Boersma, Václav Jonáš Podlipský

Production boundary between fricative and affricate in Japanese and Korean speakers
Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano, Shuichi Itahashi

Aerodynamics of fricative production in european portuguese
Cátia M. R. Pinho, Luis M. T. Jesus, Anna Barney

Contextual effects on protrusion and lip opening for /i,y/
Anne Bonneau, Julie Buquet, Brigitte Wrobel-Dautcourt

Speech rate effects on european portuguese nasal vowels
Catarina Oliveira, Paula Martins, António Teixeira

Relation of formants and subglottal resonances in Hungarian vowels
Tamás Gábor Csapó, Zsuzsanna Bárkányi, Tekla Etelka Gráczi, Tamás Bőhm, Steven M. Lulich

Simple physical models of the vocal tract for education in speech science
Takayuki Arai

Auto-meshing algorithm for acoustic analysis of vocal tract
Kyohei Hayashi, Nobuhiro Miki

Voice production model employing an interactive boundary-layer analysis of glottal flow
Tokihiko Kaburagi, Katsunori Daimo, Shogo Nakamura

Characteristics of two-dimensional finite difference techniques for vocal tract analysis and voice synthesis
Matt Speed, Damian Murphy, David M. Howard

Adaptation of a predictive model of tongue shapes
Chao Qin, Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán

Using sensor orientation information for computational head stabilisation in 3d electromagnetic articulography (EMA)
Christian Kroos

Collision threshold pressure before and after vocal loading
Laura Enflo, Johan Sundberg, Friedemann Pabst

Gender differences in the realization of vowel-initial glottalization
Elke Philburn

Stability and composition of functional synergies for speech movements in children and adults
Hayo Terband, Frits van Brenk, Pascal van Lieshout, Lian Nijland, Ben Maassen

An analysis of speech rate strategies in aging
Frits van Brenk, Hayo Terband, Pascal van Lieshout, Anja Lowit, Ben Maassen

Variability and stability in collaborative dialogues: turn-taking and filled pauses
Štefan Beňuš

Speaking in the presence of a competing talker
Youyi Lu, Martin Cooke

Polyglot speech prosody control
Harald Romsdorfer

Weighted neural network ensemble models for speech prosody control
Harald Romsdorfer

Cross-language F0 modeling for under-resourced tonal languages: a case study on Thai-Mandarin
Vataya Boonpiam, Anocha Rugchatjaroen, Chai Wutiwiwatchai

Prosodic issues in synthesising thadou, a tibeto-burman tone language
Dafydd Gibbon, Pramod Pandey, D. Mary Kim Haokip, Jolanta Bachan

Advanced unsupervised joint prosody labeling and modeling for Mandarin speech and its application to prosody generation for TTS
Chen-Yu Chiang, Sin-Horng Chen, Yih-Ru Wang

Optimization of t-tilt F0 modeling
Ausdang Thangthai, Anocha Rugchatjaroen, Nattanun Thatphithakkul, Ananlada Chotimongkol, Chai Wutiwiwatchai

A multi-level context-dependent prosodic model applied to durational modeling
Nicolas Obin, Xavier Rodet, Anne Lacheret-Dujour

Sentiment classification in English from sentence-level annotations of emotions regarding models of affect
Alexandre Trilla, Francesc Alías

Identification of contrast and its emphatic realization in HMM based speech synthesis
Leonardo Badino, J. Sebastian Andersson, Junichi Yamagishi, Robert A. J. Clark

How to improve TTS systems for emotional expressivity
Antonio Rui Ferreira Rebordao, Mostafa Al Masum Shaikh, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu

State mapping based method for cross-lingual speaker adaptation in HMM-based speech synthesis
Yi-Jian Wu, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

Real voice and TTS accent effects on intelligibility and comprehension for indian speakers of English as a second language
Frederick Weber, Kalika Bali

Improving consistence of phonetic transcription for text-to-speech
Pablo Daniel Agüero, Antonio Bonafonte, Juan Carlos Tulli

On the development of matched and mismatched Italian children's speech recognition systems
Piero Cosi

Combination of acoustic and lexical speaker adaptation for disordered speech recognition
Oscar Saz, Eduardo Lleida, Antonio Miguel

Bilinear transformation space-based maximum likelihood linear regression frameworks
Hwa Jeon Song, Yongwon Jeong, Hyung Soon Kim

Speaking style adaptation for spontaneous speech recognition using multiple-regression HMM
Yusuke Ijima, Takeshi Matsubara, Takashi Nose, Takao Kobayashi

Acoustic class specific VTLN-warping using regression class trees
S. P. Rath, S. Umesh

Speaker normalization for template based speech recognition
Sébastien Demange, Dirk Van Compernolle

Improving the robustness with multiple sets of HMMs
Hans-Günter Hirsch, Andreas Kitzig

On the use of pitch normalization for improving children's speech recognition
Rohit Sinha, Shweta Ghai

Using VTLN matrices for rapid and computationally-efficient speaker adaptation with robustness to first-pass transcription errors
S. P. Rath, S. Umesh, A. K. Sarkar

Speaker adaptation based on two-step active learning
Koichi Shinoda, Hiroko Murakami, Sadaoki Furui

Tree-based estimation of speaker characteristics for speech recognition
Mats Blomberg, Daniel Elenius

A study on the influence of covariance adaptation on jacobian compensation in vocal tract length normalization
D. R. Sanand, S. P. Rath, S. Umesh

On the estimation and the use of confusion-matrices for improving ASR accuracy
Omar Caballero Morales, Stephen J. Cox

A study on soft margin estimation of linear regression parameters for speaker adaptation
Shigeki Matsuda, Yu Tsao, Jinyu Li, Satoshi Nakamura, Chin-Hui Lee

Exploring the role of spectral smoothing in context of children's speech recognition
Shweta Ghai, Rohit Sinha

Unsupervised lattice-based acoustic model adaptation for speaker-dependent conversational telephone speech transcription
K. Thambiratnam, F. Seide

Rapid unsupervised adaptation using frame independent output probabilities of gender and context independent phoneme models
Satoshi Kobashikawa, Atsunori Ogawa, Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, Satoshi Takahashi

Bark-shift based nonlinear speaker normalization using the second subglottal resonance
Shizhen Wang, Yi-Hui Lee, Abeer Alwan

Designing spoken tutorial dialogue with children to elicit predictable but educationally valuable responses
Gregory Aist, Jack Mostow

Optimizing non-native speech recognition for CALL applications
Joost van Doremalen, Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini

Evaluation of English intonation based on combination of multiple evaluation scores
Akinori Ito, Tomoaki Konno, Masashi Ito, Shozo Makino

A language-independent feature set for the automatic evaluation of prosody
Andreas Maier, F. Hönig, V. Zeissler, Anton Batliner, E. Körner, N. Yamanaka, P. Ackermann, Elmar Nöth

Adapting the acoustic model of a speech recognizer for varied proficiency non-native spontaneous speech using read speech with language-specific pronunciation difficulty
Klaus Zechner, Derrick Higgins, René Lawless, Yoko Futagi, Sarah Ohls, George Ivanov

Analysis and utilization of MLLR speaker adaptation technique for learners' pronunciation evaluation
Dean Luo, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yutaka Yamauchi, Keikichi Hirose

Control of human generating force by use of acoustic information - study on onomatopoeic utterances for controlling small lifting-force
Miki Iimura, Taichi Sato, Kihachiro Tanaka

Mi-DJ: a multi-source intelligent DJ service
Ching-Hsien Lee, Hsu-Chih Wu

Human voice or prompt generation? can they co-exist in an application?
Géza Németh, Csaba Zainkó, Mátyás Bartalis, Gábor Olaszy, Géza Kiss

Automatic vs. human question answering over multimedia meeting recordings
Quoc Anh Le, Andrei Popescu-Belis

Characterizing silent and pseudo-silent speech using radar-like sensors
John F. Holzrichter

Technologies for processing body-conducted speech detected with non-audible murmur microphone
Tomoki Toda, Keigo Nakamura, Takayuki Nagai, Tomomi Kaino, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Kiyohiro Shikano

Artificial speech synthesizer control by brain-computer interface
Jonathan S. Brumberg, Philip R. Kennedy, Frank H. Guenther

Visuo-phonetic decoding using multi-stream and context-dependent models for an ultrasound-based silent speech interface
Thomas Hueber, Elie-Laurent Benaroya, Gérard Chollet, Bruce Denby, Gérard Dreyfus, Maureen Stone

Disordered speech recognition using acoustic and sEMG signals
Yunbin Deng, Rupal Patel, James T. Heaton, Glen Colby, L. Donald Gilmore, Joao Cabrera, Serge H. Roy, Carlo J. De Luca, Geoffrey S. Meltzner

Impact of different speaking modes on EMG-based speech recognition
Michael Wand, Szu-Chen Stan Jou, Arthur R. Toth, Tanja Schultz

Synthesizing speech from electromyography using voice transformation techniques
Arthur R. Toth, Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz

Multimodal HMM-based NAM-to-speech conversion
Viet-Anh Tran, Gérard Bailly, Hélène Lœvenbruck, Tomoki Toda

On the semi-supervised learning of multi-layered perceptrons
Jonathan Malkin, Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes

Generalized discriminative feature transformation for speech recognition
Roger Hsiao, Tanja Schultz

A fast online algorithm for large margin training of continuous density hidden Markov models
Chih-Chieh Cheng, Fei Sha, Lawrence K. Saul

Maximum mutual information estimation via second order cone programming for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
Dalei Wu, Baojie Li, Hui Jiang

Hidden conditional random field with distribution constraints for phone classification
Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex Acero

Deterministic annealing based training algorithm for Bayesian speech recognition
Sayaka Shiota, Kei Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

Connecting rhythm and prominence in automatic ESL pronunciation scoring
Emily Nava, Joseph Tepperman, Louis Goldstein, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Evaluating parameters for mapping adult vowels to imitative babbling
Ilana Heintz, Mary Beckman, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Lucie Ménard

Intonation of Japanese sentences spoken by English speakers
Chiharu Tsurutani

KLAIR: a virtual infant for spoken language acquisition research
Mark Huckvale, Ian S. Howard, Sascha Fagel

An articulatory analysis of phonological transfer using real-time MRI
Joseph Tepperman, Erik Bresch, Yoon-Chul Kim, Sungbok Lee, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Do multiple caregivers speed up language acquisition?
L. ten Bosch, Okko Johannes Räsänen, Joris Driesen, Guillaume Aimetti, Toomas Altosaar, Lou Boves, A. Corns

Grapheme to phoneme conversion using an SMT system
Antoine Laurent, Paul Deléglise, Sylvain Meignier

Lexical and phonetic modeling for Arabic automatic speech recognition
Long Nguyen, Tim Ng, Kham Nguyen, Rabih Zbib, John Makhoul

Assessing context and learning for isizulu tone recognition
Gina-Anne Levow

A sequential minimization algorithm for finite-state pronunciation lexicon models
Simon Dobrišek, Boštjan Vesnicer, France Mihelič

A general-purpose 32 ms prosodic vector for hidden Markov modeling
Kornel Laskowski, Mattias Heldner, Jens Edlund

Vocabulary expansion through automatic abbreviation generation for Chinese voice search
Dong Yang, Yi-cheng Pan, Sadaoki Furui

Perceptual cost function for cross-fading based concatenation
Qi Miao, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Exploring automatic similarity measures for unit selection tuning
Daniel Tihelka, Jan Romportl

Towards intonation control in unit selection speech synthesis
Cédric Boidin, Olivier Boeffard, Thierry Moudenc, Géraldine Damnati

A novel approach to cost weighting in unit selection TTS
Jerome R. Bellegarda

Maximum likelihood unit selection for corpus-based speech synthesis
Abubeker Gamboa Rosales, Hamurabi Gamboa Rosales, Ruediger Hoffmann

A close look into the probabilistic concatenation model for corpus-based speech synthesis
Shinsuke Sakai, Ranniery Maia, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura

Wavelet-based speaker change detection in single channel speech data
Michael Wiesenegger, Franz Pernkopf

An adaptive threshold computation for unsupervised speaker segmentation
Laura Docio-Fernandez, Paula Lopez-Otero, Carmen Garcia-Mateo

A data-driven approach for estimating the time-frequency binary mask
Gibak Kim, Philipos C. Loizou

A semi-supervised version of heteroscedastic linear discriminant analysis
Haolang Zhou, Damianos Karakos, Andreas G. Andreou

Self-learning vector quantization for pattern discovery from speech
Okko Johannes Räsänen, Unto Kalervo Laine, Toomas Altosaar

Monaural segregation of voiced speech using discriminative random fields
Rohit Prabhavalkar, Zhaozhang Jin, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Advancements in whisper-island detection within normally phonated audio streams
Chi Zhang, John H. L. Hansen

Joint segmentation and classification of dialog acts using conditional random fields
Matthias Zimmermann

Exploring complex vowels as phrase break correlates in a corpus of English speech with proPOSEL, a prosody and POS English lexicon
Claire Brierley, Eric Atwell

Automatic topic detection of recorded voice messages
Caroline Clemens, Stefan Feldes, Karlheinz Schuhmacher, Joachim Stegmann

Identification and automatic detection of parasitic speech sounds
Jindřich Matoušek, Radek Skarnitzl, Pavel Machač, Jan Trmal

Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages
D. R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Improving initial boundary estimation for HMM-based automatic phonetic segmentation
Kalu U. Ogbureke, Julie Carson-Berndsen

Importance of nasality measures for speaker recognition data selection and performance prediction
Howard Lei, Eduardo Lopez-Gonzalo

Exploration of vocal excitation modulation features for speaker recognition
Ning Wang, P. C. Ching, Tan Lee

Speaker identification for whispered speech using modified temporal patterns and MFCCs
Xing Fan, John H. L. Hansen

Speaker diarization for meeting room audio
Hanwu Sun, Tin Lay Nwe, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Improving speaker segmentation via speaker identification and text segmentation
Runxin Li, Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin

Overall performance metrics for multi-condition speaker recognition evaluations
David A. van Leeuwen

Speaker identification using warped MVDR cepstral features
Matthias Wölfel, Qian Yang, Qin Jin, Tanja Schultz

Entropy based overlapped speech detection as a pre-processing stage for speaker diarization
Oshry Ben-Harush, Itshak Lapidot, Hugo Guterman

Speech style and speaker recognition: a case study
Marco Grimaldi, Fred Cummins

The majority wins: a method for combining speaker diarization systems
Marijn Huijbregts, David A. van Leeuwen, Franciska M. G. de Jong

Two-wire nuisance attribute projection
Yosef A. Solewicz, Hagai Aronowitz

Acoustic and high-speed digital imaging based analysis of pathological voice contributes to better understanding and differential diagnosis of neurological dysphonias and of mimicking phonatory disorders
Krzysztof Izdebski, Yuling Yan, Melda Kunduk

Normalized modulation spectral features for cross-database voice pathology detection
Maria Markaki, Yannis Stylianou

Speech sample salience analysis for speech cycle detection
C. Mertens, Francis Grenez, Jean Schoentgen

The use of telephone speech recordings for assessment and monitoring of cognitive function in elderly people
Viliam Rapcan, Shona D'Arcy, Nils Penard, Ian H. Robertson, Richard B. Reilly

Optimized feature set to assess acoustic perturbations in dysarthric speech
Sunil Nagaraja, Eduardo Castillo-Guerra

A microphone-independent visualization technique for speech disorders
Andreas Maier, Stefan Wenhardt, Tino Haderlein, Maria Schuster, Elmar Nöth

Evaluation of the effect of the GSM full rate codec on the automatic detection of laryngeal pathologies based on cepstral analysis
Rubén Fraile, Carmelo Sánchez, Juan I. Godino-Llorente, Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón, Víctor Osma-Ruiz, Juana M. Gutiérrez

Cepstral analysis of vocal dysperiodicities in disordered connected speech
A. Alpan, Jean Schoentgen, Y. Maryn, Francis Grenez, P. Murphy

Standard information from patients: the usefulness of self-evaluation (measured with the French version of the VHI)
Lise Crevier-Buchman, Stephanie Borel, Stéphane Hans, Madeleine Menard, Jacqueline Vaissiere

Intelligibility assessment in children with cleft lip and palate in Italian and German
Marcello Scipioni, Matteo Gerosa, Diego Giuliani, Elmar Nöth, Andreas Maier

Universidade de aveiro's voice evaluation protocol
Luis M. T. Jesus, Anna Barney, Ricardo Santos, Janine Caetano, Juliana Jorge, Pedro Sá Couto

Fast speech recognition for voice destination entry in a car navigation system
Hoon Chung, JeonGue Park, HyeonBae Jeon, YunKeun Lee

Improving perceived accuracy for in-car media search
Yun-Cheng Ju, Michael Seltzer, Ivan Tashev

Laying the foundation for in-car alcohol detection by speech
Florian Schiel, Christian Heinrich

A voice search approach to replying to SMS messages in automobiles
Yun-Cheng Ju, Tim Paek

Language modeling for what-with-where on GOOG-411
Charl van Heerden, Johan Schalkwyk, Brian Strope

Very large vocabulary voice dictation for mobile devices
Jan Nouza, Petr Cerva, Jindrich Zdansky

Did you say a BLUE banana? the prosody of contrast and abnormality in bulgarian and dutch
Diana V. Dimitrova, Gisela Redeker, John C. J. Hoeks

A quantitative study of F0 peak alignment and sentence modality
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Hartmut R. Pfitzinger

Closely related languages, different ways of realizing focus
Szu-wei Chen, Bei Wang, Yi Xu

Cross-variety rhythm typology in portuguese
Plínio A. Barbosa, M. Céu Viana, Isabel Trancoso

Pitch adaptation in different age groups: boundary tones versus global pitch
Marie Nilsenová, Marc Swerts, Véronique Houtepen, Heleen Dittrich

Backchannel-inviting cues in task-oriented dialogue
Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschberg

Perception and production of boundary tones in whispered dutch
W. Heeren, V. J. Van Heuven

Pitch accents and information status in a German radio news corpus
Katrin Schweitzer, Arndt Riester, Michael Walsh, Grzegorz Dogil

Analysis of voice fundamental frequency contours of continuing and terminating prosodic phrases in four swiss German dialects
Adrian Leemann, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Fujisaki

Intonational features for identifying regional accents of Italian
Michelina Savino

Analysis and recognition of accentual patterns
Agnieszka Wagner

Using responsive prosodic variation to acknowledge the user's current state
Nigel G. Ward, Rafael Escalante-Ruiz

Intonation segments and segmental intonation
Oliver Niebuhr

The phrase-final accent in kammu: effects of tone, focus and engagement
David House, Anastasia Karlsson, Jan-Olof Svantesson, Damrong Tayanin

Tonal alignment in three varieties of hiberno-English
Raya Kalaldeh, Amelie Dorn, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

Determining intonational boundaries from the acoustic signal
Lourdes Aguilar, Antonio Bonafonte, Francisco Campillo, David Escudero

Compression and truncation revisited
Claudia K. Ohl, Hartmut R. Pfitzinger

Comparison of Fujisaki-model extractors and F0 stylizers
Hartmut R. Pfitzinger, Hansjörg Mixdorff, Jan Schwarz

Is tonal alignment interpretation independent of methodology?
Caterina Petrone, Mariapaola D'Imperio

Modeling the intonation of topic structure: two approaches
Margaret Zellers, Brechtje Post, Mariapaola D'Imperio

What's in an ontology for spoken language understanding
Silvia Quarteroni, Giuseppe Riccardi, Marco Dinarelli

A fundamental study of shouted speech for acoustic-based security system
Hiroaki Nanjo, Hiroki Mikami, Hiroshi Kawano, Takanobu Nishiura

Evaluating the potential utility of ASR n-best lists for incremental spoken dialogue systems
Timo Baumann, Okko Buß, Michaela Atterer, David Schlangen

Improving the recognition of names by document-level clustering
Bin Zhang, Wei Wu, Jeremy G. Kahn, Mari Ostendorf

Robust dependency parsing for spoken language understanding of spontaneous speech
Frederic Bechet, Alexis Nasr

Semantic role labeling with discriminative feature selection for spoken language understanding
Chao-Hong Liu, Chung-Hsien Wu

A study of new approaches to speaker diarization
Douglas Reynolds, Patrick Kenny, Fabio Castaldo

Redefining the Bayesian information criterion for speaker diarisation
Themos Stafylakis, Vassilis Katsouros, George Carayannis

Speaker diarization using divide-and-conquer
Shih-Sian Cheng, Chun-Han Tseng, Chia-Ping Chen, Hsin-Min Wang

KL realignment for speaker diarization with multiple feature streams
Deepu Vijayasenan, Fabio Valente, Hervé Bourlard

Speech overlap detection in a two-pass speaker diarization system
Marijn Huijbregts, David A. van Leeuwen, Franciska M. G. de Jong

Improved speaker diarization of meeting speech with recurrent selection of representative speech segments and participant interaction pattern modeling
Kyu J. Han, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Application of differential microphone array for IS-127 EVRC rate determination algorithm
Henry Widjaja, Suryoadhi Wibowo

Estimating the position and orientation of an acoustic source with a microphone array network
Alberto Yoshihiro Nakano, Seiichi Nakagawa, Kazumasa Yamamoto

Singing voice detection in polyphonic music using predominant pitch
Vishweshwara Rao, S. Ramakrishnan, Preeti Rao

Word stress assessment for computer aided language learning
Juan Pablo Arias, Nestor Becerra Yoma, Hiram Vivanco

A non-intrusive signal-based model for speech quality evaluation using automatic classification of background noises
Adrien Leman, Julien Faure, Etienne Parizet

Acoustic event detection for spotting “hot spots” in podcasts
Kouhei Sumi, Tatsuya Kawahara, Jun Ogata, Masataka Goto

Improving detection of acoustic events using audiovisual data and feature level fusion
T. Butko, C. Canton-Ferrer, C. Segura, X. Giró, C. Nadeu, J. Hernando, J. R. Casas

Detecting audio events for semantic video search
M. Bugalho, J. Portêlo, Isabel Trancoso, T. Pellegrini, Alberto Abad

Factor analysis for audio-based video genre classification
Mickael Rouvier, Driss Matrouf, Georges Linarès

Robust audio-based classification of video genre
Mickael Rouvier, Georges Linarès, Driss Matrouf

Fusing audio and video information for online speaker diarization
Joerg Schmalenstroeer, Martin Kelling, Volker Leutnant, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Multimodal speaker verification using ancillary known speaker characteristics such as gender or age
Girija Chetty, Michael Wagner

Discovering keywords from cross-modal input: ecological vs. engineering methods for enhancing acoustic repetitions
Guillaume Aimetti, Roger K. Moore, L. ten Bosch, Okko Johannes Räsänen, Unto Kalervo Laine

Incremental composition of static decoding graphs
Miroslav Novák

Evaluation of phone lattice based speech decoding
Jacques Duchateau, Kris Demuynck, Hugo Van hamme

A fully data parallel WFST-based large vocabulary continuous speech recognition on a graphics processing unit
Jike Chong, Ekaterina Gonina, Youngmin Yi, Kurt Keutzer

Combined low level and high level features for out-of-vocabulary word detection
Benjamin Lecouteux, Georges Linarès, Benoit Favre

Bayes risk approximations using time overlap with an application to system combination
Björn Hoffmeister, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Unsupervised estimation of the language model scaling factor
Christopher M. White, Ariya Rastrow, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Frederick Jelinek

Simultaneous estimation of confidence and error cause in speech recognition using discriminative model
Atsunori Ogawa, Atsushi Nakamura

A generalized composition algorithm for weighted finite-state transducers
Cyril Allauzen, Michael Riley, Johan Schalkwyk

Word confidence using duration models
Stefano Scanzio, Pietro Laface, Daniele Colibro, Roberto Gemello

A comparison of audio-free speech recognition error prediction methods
Preethi Jyothi, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Automatic out-of-language detection based on confidence measures derived from LVCSR word and phone lattices
Petr Motlicek

Automatic estimation of decoding parameters using large-margin iterative linear programming
Brian Mak, Tom Ko

Optimization of dereverberation parameters based on likelihood of speech recognizer
Randy Gomez, Tatsuya Kawahara

Application of noise robust MDT speech recognition on the SPEECON and speechdat-car databases
J. F. Gemmeke, Y. Wang, Maarten Van Segbroeck, B. Cranen, Hugo Van hamme

Model based feature enhancement for automatic speech recognition in reverberant environments
Alexander Krueger, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

A study of mutual front-end processing method based on statistical model for noise robust speech recognition
Masakiyo Fujimoto, Kentaro Ishizuka, Tomohiro Nakatani

Integrating codebook and utterance information in cepstral statistics normalization techniques for robust speech recognition
Guan-min He, Jeih-weih Hung

Reduced complexity equalization of lombard effect for speech recognition in noisy adverse environments
Hynek Bořil, John H. L. Hansen

Unsupervised training scheme with non-stereo data for empirical feature vector compensation
L. Buera, Antonio Miguel, Alfonso Ortega, Eduardo Lleida, Richard M. Stern

Incremental adaptation with VTS and joint adaptively trained systems
F. Flego, M. J. F. Gales

Target speech GMM-based spectral compensation for noise robust speech recognition
Takahiro Shinozaki, Sadaoki Furui

Noise-robust feature extraction based on forward masking
Sheng-Chiuan Chiou, Chia-Ping Chen

Noisy speech recognition by using output combination of discrete-mixture HMMs and continuous-mixture HMMs
Tetsuo Kosaka, You Saito, Masaharu Kato

Adaptive training with noisy constrained maximum likelihood linear regression for noise robust speech recognition
D. K. Kim, M. J. F. Gales

Performance comparisons of the integrated parallel model combination approaches with front-end noise reduction
Guanghu Shen, Soo-Young Suk, Hyun-Yeol Chung

Tuning support vector machines for robust phoneme classification with acoustic waveforms
Jibran Yousafzai, Zoran Cvetković, Peter Sollich

An analytic derivation of a phase-sensitive observation model for noise robust speech recognition
Volker Leutnant, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Variational model composition for robust speech recognition with time-varying background noise
Wooil Kim, John H. L. Hansen

Comparison of estimation techniques in joint uncertainty decoding for noise robust speech recognition
Haitian Xu, K. K. Chin

Replacing uncertainty decoding with subband re-estimation for large vocabulary speech recognition in noise
Jianhua Lu, Ji Ming, Roger Woods

Accounting for the uncertainty of speech estimates in the complex domain for minimum mean square error speech enhancement
Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Dorothea Kolossa, Reinhold Orglmeister

Signal separation for robust speech recognition based on phase difference information obtained in the frequency domain
Chanwoo Kim, Kshitiz Kumar, Bhiksha Raj, Richard M. Stern

Transforming features to compensate speech recogniser models for noise
R. C. van Dalen, F. Flego, M. J. F. Gales

Subband temporal modulation spectrum normalization for automatic speech recognition in reverberant environments
Xugang Lu, Masashi Unoki, Satoshi Nakamura

Robust in-car spelling recognition - a tandem BLSTM-HMM approach
Martin Wöllmer, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller, Yang Sun, Tobias Moosmayr, Nhu Nguyen-Thien

Applying non-negative matrix factorization on time-frequency reassignment spectra for missing data mask estimation
Maarten Van Segbroeck, Hugo Van hamme

Investigation into variants of joint factor analysis for speaker recognition
Lukáš Burget, Pavel Matějka, Valiantsina Hubeika, Jan Černocký

Improved GMM-based speaker verification using SVM-driven impostor dataset selection
Mitchell McLaren, Robbie Vogt, Brendan Baker, Sridha Sridharan

Adaptive individual background model for speaker verification
Yossi Bar-Yosef, Yuval Bistritz

Optimization of discriminative kernels in SVM speaker verification
Shi-Xiong Zhang, Man-Wai Mak

UBM-based sequence kernel for speaker recognition
Zhenchun Lei

GMM kernel by Taylor series for speaker verification
Minqiang Xu, Xi Zhou, Beiqian Dai, Thomas S. Huang

Does session variability compensation in speaker recognition model intrinsic variation under mismatched conditions?
Elizabeth Shriberg, Sachin Kajarekar, Nicolas Scheffer

Variability compensated support vector machines applied to speaker verification
Zahi N. Karam, W. M. Campbell

Support vector machines versus fast scoring in the low-dimensional total variability space for speaker verification
Najim Dehak, Réda Dehak, Patrick Kenny, Niko Brümmer, Pierre Ouellet, Pierre Dumouchel

Within-session variability modelling for factor analysis speaker verification
Robbie Vogt, Jason Pelecanos, Nicolas Scheffer, Sachin Kajarekar, Sridha Sridharan

Speaker recognition by Gaussian information bottleneck
Ron M. Hecht, Elad Noor, Naftali Tishby

Variational dynamic kernels for speaker verification
C. Longworth, R. C. van Dalen, M. J. F. Gales

Mel, linear, and antimel frequency cepstral coefficients in broad phonetic regions for telephone speaker recognition
Howard Lei, Eduardo Lopez

Fast GMM computation for speaker verification using scalar quantization and discrete densities
Guoli Ye, Brian Mak, Man-Wai Mak

Text-independent speaker identification using vocal tract length normalization for building universal background model
A. K. Sarkar, S. Umesh, S. P. Rath

BUT system for NIST 2008 speaker recognition evaluation
Lukáš Burget, Michal Fapšo, Valiantsina Hubeika, Ondřej Glembek, Martin Karafiát, Marcel Kockmann, Pavel Matějka, Petr Schwarz, Jan Černocký

Selection of the best set of shifted delta cepstral features in speaker verification using mutual information
José R. Calvo, Rafael Fernández, Gabriel Hernández

Forensic speaker recognition using traditional features comparing automatic and human-in-the-loop formant tracking
Alberto de Castro, Daniel Ramos, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez

Open-set speaker identification under mismatch conditions
S. G. Pillay, A. Ariyaeeinia, P. Sivakumaran, M. Pawlewski

Minivectors: an improved GMM-SVM approach for speaker verification
Xavier Anguera

Robustness of phase based features for speaker recognition
R. Padmanabhan, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Hema A. Murthy

The MIT lincoln laboratory 2008 speaker recognition system
D. E. Sturim, W. M. Campbell, Zahi N. Karam, Douglas Reynolds, F. S. Richardson

Speaker recognition on lossy compressed speech using the speex codec
A. R. Stauffer, A. D. Lawson

Text-independent speaker verification using rank threshold in large number of speaker models
Haruka Okamoto, Satoru Tsuge, Amira Abdelwahab, Masafumi Nishida, Yasuo Horiuchi, Shingo Kuroiwa

The role of age in factor analysis for speaker identification
Yun Lei, John H. L. Hansen

Do humans and speaker verification system use the same information to differentiate voices?
Juliette Kahn, Solange Rossato

Automatic syllabification for danish text-to-speech systems
Jeppe Beck, Daniela Braga, João Nogueira, Miguel Sales Dias, Luis Coelho

Hybrid approach to grapheme to phoneme conversion for Korean
Jinsik Lee, Byeongchang Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee

Robust LTS rules with the Combilex speech technology lexicon
Korin Richmond, Robert A. J. Clark, Sue Fitt

Letter-to-phoneme conversion by inference of rewriting rules
Vincent Claveau

Online discriminative training for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Grzegorz Kondrak

Using same-language machine translation to create alternative target sequences for text-to-speech synthesis
Peter Cahill, Jinhua Du, Andy Way, Julie Carson-Berndsen

Watermark recovery from speech using inverse filtering and sign correlation
Robert Morris, Ralph Johnson, Vladimir Goncharoff, Joseph DiVita

Weighted linear prediction for speech analysis in noisy conditions
Jouni Pohjalainen, Heikki Kallasjoki, Kalle J. Palomäki, Mikko Kurimo, Paavo Alku

Log-spectral magnitude MMSE estimators under super-Gaussian densities
Richard C. Hendriks, Richard Heusdens, Jesper Jensen

Speech enhancement in a 2-dimensional area based on power spectrum estimation of multiple areas with investigation of existence of active sources
Yusuke Hioka, Ken'ichi Furuya, Yoichi Haneda, Akitoshi Kataoka

Modulation domain spectral subtraction for speech enhancement
Kuldip Paliwal, Belinda Schwerin, Kamil Wójcicki

Variational loopy belief propagation for multi-talker speech recognition
Steven J. Rennie, John R. Hershey, Peder A. Olsen

Enhancement of binaural speech using codebook constrained iterative binaural wiener filter
Nadir Cazi, T. V. Sreenivas

A semi-blind source separation method with a less amount of computation suitable for tiny DSP modules
Kazunobu Kondo, Makoto Yamada, Hideki Kenmochi

Model-based speech separation: identifying transcription using orthogonality
S. W. Lee, Frank K. Soong, Tan Lee

Enhanced minimum statistics technique incorporating soft decision for noise suppression
Yun-Sik Park, Ji-Hyun Song, Jae-Hun Choi, Joon-Hyuk Chang

Effect of noise reduction on reaction time to speech in noise
Mark Huckvale, Jayne Leak

Joint noise reduction and dereverberation of speech using hybrid TF-GSC and adaptive MMSE estimator
Behdad Dashtbozorg, Hamid Reza Abutalebi

A study on multiple sound source localization with a distributed microphone system
Kook Cho, Takanobu Nishiura, Yoichi Yamashita

Robust minimal variance distortionless speech power spectra enhancement using order statistic filter for microphone array
Tao Yu, John H. L. Hansen

Speech enhancement minimizing generalized euclidean distortion using supergaussian priors
Amit Das, John H. L. Hansen

STFT-based speech enhancement by reconstructing the harmonics
Iman Haji Abolhassani, Sid-Ahmed Selouani, Douglas O'Shaughnessy

Joint speech enhancement and speaker identification using monte carlo methods
Ciira wa Maina, John MacLaren Walsh

Combined discriminative training for multi-stream HMM-based audio-visual speech recognition
Jing Huang, Karthik Visweswariah

Cued speech recognition for augmentative communication in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects
Panikos Heracleous, Denis Beautemps, Noureddine Abboutabit

On acquiring speech production knowledge from articulatory measurements for phoneme recognition
D. Neiberg, G. Ananthakrishnan, Mats Blomberg

Measuring the gap between HMM-based ASR and TTS
John Dines, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King

Speech recognition with speech synthesis models by marginalising over decision tree leaves
John Dines, Lakshmi Saheer, Hui Liang

Detailed description of triphone model using SSS-free algorithm
Motoyuki Suzuki, Daisuke Honma, Akinori Ito, Shozo Makino

Decision tree acoustic models for ASR
Jitendra Ajmera, Masami Akamine

Compression techniques applied to multiple speech recognition systems
Catherine Breslin, Matt Stuttle, Kate Knill

Graphical models for discrete hidden Markov models in speech recognition
Antonio Miguel, Alfonso Ortega, L. Buera, Eduardo Lleida

Factor analyzed HMM topology for speech recognition
Chuan-Wei Ting, Jen-Tzung Chien

Tied-state multi-path HMnet model using three-domain successive state splitting
Soo-Young Suk, Hiroaki Kojima

Acoustic modeling using exponential families
Vaibhava Goel, Peder A. Olsen

Personalizing synthetic voices for people with progressive speech disorders: judging voice similarity
S. M. Creer, S. P. Cunningham, P. D. Green, K. Fatema

Electrolaryngeal speech enhancement based on statistical voice conversion
Keigo Nakamura, Tomoki Toda, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano

Age recognition for spoken dialogue systems: do we need it?
Maria Wolters, Ravichander Vipperla, Steve Renals

Speech-based and multimodal media center for different user groups
Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Aleksi Melto, Juho Hella, Juha-Pekka Rajaniemi, Erno Mäkinen, Jussi Rantala, Tomi Heimonen, Tuuli Laivo, Hannu Soronen, Mervi Hansen, Pellervo Valkama, Toni Miettinen, Roope Raisamo

Virtual speech reading support for hard of hearing in a domestic multi-media setting
Samer Al Moubayed, Jonas Beskow, Ann-Marie Öster, Giampiero Salvi, Björn Granström, Nic van Son, Ellen Ormel

Real-time correction of closed-captions
Patrick Cardinal, Gilles Boulianne

Universal access: speech recognition for talkers with spastic dysarthria
Harsh Vardhan Sharma, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum
Mohammed E. Hoque, Joseph K. Lane, Rana el Kaliouby, Matthew Goodwin, Rosalind W. Picard

Analyzing GMMs to characterize resonance anomalies in speakers suffering from apnoea
José Luis Blanco, Rubén Fernández, David Pardo, Álvaro Sigüenza, Luis A. Hernández, José Alcázar

On the mutual information between source and filter contributions for voice pathology detection
Thomas Drugman, Thomas Dubuisson, Thierry Dutoit

A system for detecting miscues in dyslexic read speech
Morten Højfeldt Rasmussen, Zheng-Hua Tan, Børge Lindberg, Søren Holdt Jensen

Techniques for rapid and robust topic identification of conversational telephone speech
Jonathan Wintrode, Scott Kulp

Localization of speech recognition in spoken dialog systems: how machine translation can make our lives easier
David Suendermann, Jackson Liscombe, Krishna Dayanidhi, Roberto Pieraccini

Algorithms for speech indexing in microsoft recite
Kunal Mukerjee, Shankar Regunathan, Jeffrey Cole

Parallelized viterbi processor for 5,000-word large-vocabulary real-time continuous speech recognition FPGA system
Tsuyoshi Fujinaga, Kazuo Miura, Hiroki Noguchi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Masahiko Yoshimoto

SplaSH (spoken language search hawk): integrating time-aligned with text-aligned annotations
Sara Romano, Elvio Cecere, Francesco Cutugno

Podcastle: collaborative training of acoustic models on the basis of wisdom of crowds for podcast transcription
Jun Ogata, Masataka Goto

A WFST-based log-linear framework for speaking-style transformation
Graham Neubig, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara

Clusterrank: a graph based method for meeting summarization
Nikhil Garg, Benoit Favre, Korbinian Reidhammer, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Leveraging sentence weights in a concept-based optimization framework for extractive meeting summarization
Shasha Xie, Benoit Favre, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Yang Liu

Hybrids of supervised and unsupervised models for extractive speech summarization
Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yueng-Tien Lo, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen

Automatic detection of audio advertisements
I. Dan Melamed, Yeon-Jun Kim

Named entity network based on wikipedia
Sameer Maskey, Wisam Dakka

The rhythm of text and the rhythm of utterances: from metrics to models
Daniel Hirst

Paper 8003 was not available at the time of publication oral presentation of poster papers no time to lose? time shrinking effects enhance the impression of rhythmic “isochrony” and fast speech rate
Petra Wagner, Andreas Windmann

Measuring speech rhythm variation in a model-based framework
Plínio A. Barbosa

Rhythm measures with language-independent segmentation
Anastassia Loukina, Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih, Elinor Keane, Ian Watson

Investigating changes in the rhythm of maori over time
Margaret Maclagan, Catherine I. Watson, Jeanette King, Ray Harlow, Laura Thompson, Peter Keegan

Effects of mora-timing in English rhythm control by Japanese learners
Shizuka Nakamura, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka

The dynamic dimension of the global speech-rhythm attributes
Jan Volín, Petr Pollák

Vowel duration in pre-geminate contexts in Polish
Zofia Malisz

Emotion dimensions and formant position
Martijn Goudbeek, Jean Philippe Goldman, Klaus R. Scherer

Identifying uncertain words within an utterance via prosodic features
Heather Pon-Barry, Stuart Shieber

Evaluating evaluators: a case study in understanding the benefits and pitfalls of multi-evaluator modeling
Emily Mower, Maja J. Matarić, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Responding to user emotional state by adding emotional coloring to utterances
Jaime C. Acosta, Nigel G. Ward

Analysis of laugh signals for detecting in continuous speech
K. Sudheer Kumar, M. Sri Harish Reddy, K. Sri Rama Murty, B. Yegnanarayana

Data-driven clustering in emotional space for affect recognition using discriminatively trained LSTM networks
Martin Wöllmer, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller, Ellen Douglas-Cowie, Roddy Cowie

Perceiving surprise on cue words: prosody and semantics interact on right and really
Catherine Lai

Emotion recognition using linear transformations in combination with video
Rok Gajšek, Vitomir Štruc, Simon Dobrišek, France Mihelič

Speaker dependent emotion recognition using prosodic supervectors
Ignacio Lopez-Moreno, Carlos Ortego-Resa, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Daniel Ramos

Physiologically-inspired feature extraction for emotion recognition
Yu Zhou, Yanqing Sun, Junfeng Li, Jianping Zhang, Yonghong Yan

Perceived loudness and voice quality in affect cueing
Irena Yanushevskaya, Christer Gobl, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

Modeling mutual influence of interlocutor emotion states in dyadic spoken interactions
Chi-Chun Lee, Carlos Busso, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

A detailed study of word-position effects on emotion expression in speech
Jangwon Kim, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

CMAC for speech emotion profiling
Norhaslinda Kamaruddin, Abdul Wahab

On the relevance of high-level features for speaker independent emotion recognition of spontaneous speech
Marko Lugger, Bin Yang

Recognising interest in conversational speech - comparing bag of frames and supra-segmental features
Björn Schuller, Gerhard Rigoll

Many-to-many eigenvoice conversion with reference voice
Yamato Ohtani, Tomoki Toda, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano

Alleviating the one-to-many mapping problem in voice conversion with context-dependent modeling
Elizabeth Godoy, Olivier Rosec, Thierry Chonavel

Efficient modeling of temporal structure of speech for applications in voice transformation
Binh Phu Nguyen, Masato Akagi

Cross-language voice conversion based on eigenvoices
Malorie Charlier, Yamato Ohtani, Tomoki Toda, Alexis Moinet, Thierry Dutoit

Voice conversion using k-histograms and frame selection
Alejandro José Uriz, Pablo Daniel Agüero, Antonio Bonafonte, Juan Carlos Tulli

Online model adaptation for voice conversion using model-based speech synthesis techniques
Dalei Wu, Baojie Li, Hui Jiang, Qian-Jie Fu

HMM adaptation and voice conversion for the synthesis of child speech: a comparison
Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Kay Berkling

HMM-based speaker characteristics emphasis using average voice model
Takashi Nose, Junichi Adada, Takao Kobayashi

An evaluation methodology for prosody transformation systems based on chirp signals
Damien Lolive, Nelly Barbot, Olivier Boeffard

Voice morphing based on interpolation of vocal tract area functions using AR-HMM analysis of speech
Yoshiki Nambu, Masahiko Mikawa, Kazuyo Tanaka

A novel model-based pitch conversion method for Mandarin speech
Hsin-Te Hwang, Chen-Yu Chiang, Po-Yi Sung, Sin-Horng Chen

Observation of empirical cumulative distribution of vowel spectral distances and its application to vowel based voice conversion
Hideki Kawahara, Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Hideki Banno, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino

Japanese pitch conversion for voice morphing based on differential modeling
Ryuki Tachibana, Zhiwei Shuang, Masafumi Nishimura

A novel technique for voice conversion based on style and content decomposition with bilinear models
Victor Popa, Jani Nurminen, Moncef Gabbouj

Rule-based voice quality variation with formant synthesis
Felix Burkhardt

Fast transcription of unstructured audio recordings
Brandon C. Roy, Deb Roy

Finding allophones: an evaluation on consonants in the TIMIT corpus
Timothy Kempton, Roger K. Moore

Automatic formant extraction for sociolinguistic analysis of large corpora
Keelan Evanini, Stephen Isard, Mark Liberman

Investigating phonetic information reduction and lexical confusability
William Hartmann, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Improving phone recognition performance via phonetically-motivated units
Hyejin Hong, Minhwa Chung

An evaluation of formant tracking methods on an Arabic database
Imen Jemaa, Oussama Rekhis, Kaïs Ouni, Yves Laprie

Comparison of manual and automated estimates of subglottal resonances
Wolfgang Wokurek, Andreas Madsack

Using durational cues in a computational model of spoken-word recognition
Odette Scharenborg

Second language discrimination vowel contrasts by adults speakers with a five vowel system
Bianca Sisinni, Mirko Grimaldi

Three-way laryngeal categorization of Japanese, French, English and Chinese plosives by Korean speakers
Tomohiko Ooigawa, Shigeko Shinohara

The effect of F0 peak-delay on the L1 / L2 perception of English lexical stress
Shinichi Tokuma, Yi Xu

Lexical tone production by Cantonese speakers with parkinson's disease
Joan Ka-Yin Ma

Acoustic cues of palatalisation in plosive + lateral onset clusters
Daniela Müller, Sidney Martin Mota

Perception of English compound vs. phrasal stress: natural vs. synthetic speech
Irene Vogel, Arild Hestvik, H. Timothy Bunnell, Laura Spinu

New method for delexicalization and its application to prosodic tagging for text-to-speech synthesis
Martti Vainio, Antti Suni, Tuomo Raitio, Jani Nurminen, Juhani Järvikivi, Paavo Alku

Speech rate and pauses in non-native Finnish
Minnaleena Toivola, Mietta Lennes, Eija Aho

Modelling similarity perception of intonation
Uwe D. Reichel, Felicitas Kleber, Raphael Winkelmann

Studying L2 suprasegmental features in asian Englishes: a position paper
Helen Meng, Chiu-yu Tseng, Mariko Kondo, Alissa Harrison, Tanya Viscelgia

Classification of disfluent phenomena as fluent communicative devices in specific prosodic contexts
Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata

Cross-cultural perception of discourse phenomena
Rolf Carlson, Julia Hirschberg

Modelling vocabulary growth from birth to young adulthood
Roger K. Moore, L. ten Bosch

Adaptive non-negative matrix factorization in a computational model of language acquisition
Joris Driesen, L. ten Bosch, Hugo Van hamme

Classifying clear and conversational speech based on acoustic features
Akiko Amano-Kusumoto, John-Paul Hosom, Izhak Shafran

The acoustic characteristics of Russian vowels in children of 6 and 7 years of age
Elena E. Lyakso, Olga V. Frolova, Aleks S. Grigoriev

Japanese children's acquisition of prosodic Politeness expressions
Takaaki Shochi, Donna Erickson, Kaoru Sekiyama, Albert Rilliard, Véronique Aubergé

Perceptual training of singleton and geminate stops in Japanese language by Korean learners
Mee Sonu, Keiichi Tajima, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Resources for speech research: present and future infrastructure needs
Lou Boves, Rolf Carlson, Erhard Hinrichs, David House, Steven Krauwer, Lothar Lemnitzer, Martti Vainio, Peter Wittenburg

Speech recordings via the internet: an overview of the VOYS project in scotland
Catherine Dickie, Felix Schaeffler, Christoph Draxler, Klaus Jänsch

The multi-session audio research project (MARP) corpus: goals, design and initial findings
A. D. Lawson, A. R. Stauffer, E. J. Cupples, S. J. Wenndt, W. P. Bray, J. J. Grieco

Structure and annotation of Polish LVCSR speech database
Katarzyna Klessa, Grażyna Demenko

Balanced corpus of informal spoken Czech: compilation, design and findings
Martina Waclawičová, Michal Křen, Lucie Válková

JTrans: an open-source software for semi-automatic text-to-speech alignment
C. Cerisara, O. Mella, D. Fohr

Predicting the quality of multimodal systems based on judgments of single modalities
Ina Wechsung, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Anja B. Naumann, Stefan Schaffer, Julia Seebode, Florian Metze, Sebastian Möller

Auto-checking speech transcriptions by multiple template constrained posterior
Lijuan Wang, Shenghao Qin, Frank K. Soong

Subjective experiments on influence of response timing in spoken dialogues
Toshihiko Itoh, Norihide Kitaoka, Ryota Nishimura

Usability study of VUI consistent with GUI focusing on age-groups
Jun Okamoto, Tomoyuki Kato, Makoto Shozakai

Annotating communicative function and semantic content in dialogue act for construction of consulting dialogue systems
Teruhisa Misu, Kiyonori Ohtake, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura

Improved speech summarization with multiple-hypothesis representations and kullback-leibler divergence measures
Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen

An improved speech segmentation quality measure: the r-value
Okko Johannes Räsänen, Unto Kalervo Laine, Toomas Altosaar

No sooner said than done? testing incrementality of semantic interpretations of spontaneous speech
Michaela Atterer, Timo Baumann, David Schlangen

Role of natural language understanding in voice local search
Junlan Feng, Srinivas Banglore, Mazin Gilbert

Recognition and correction of voice web search queries
Keith Vertanen, Per Ola Kristensson

Semantic context effects in the recognition of acoustically unreduced and reduced words
Chao Wang, Johan Schalkwyk, Roberto Sicconi, Geoffrey Zweig, Marco van de Ven, Benjamin V. Tucker, Mirjam Ernestus

Context effects and the processing of ambiguous words: further evidence from semantic incongruence
Michael C. W. Yip

The roles of reconstruction and lexical storage in the comprehension of regular pronunciation variants
Mirjam Ernestus

Lexical embedding in spoken dutch
Odette Scharenborg, Stefanie Okolowski

Real-time lexical competitions during speech-in-speech comprehension
Véronique Boulenger, Michel Hoen, François Pellegrino, Fanny Meunier

Discovering consistent word confusions in noise
Martin Cooke

A large greek-English dictionary with incorporated speech and language processing tools
Dimitrios P. Lyras, George Kokkinakis, Alexandros Lazaridis, Kyriakos Sgarbas, Nikos Fakotakis

Predicting children's reading ability using evaluator-informed features
Matthew Black, Joseph Tepperman, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Automatic intonation classification for speech training systems
György Szaszák, Dávid Sztahó, Klára Vicsi

Automated pronunciation scoring using confidence scoring and landmark-based SVM
Su-Youn Yoon, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Richard Sproat

ASR based pronunciation evaluation with automatically generated competing vocabulary
Carlos Molina, Nestor Becerra Yoma, Jorge Wuth, Hiram Vivanco

High performance automatic mispronunciation detection method based on neural network and TRAP features
Hongyan Li, Shijin Wang, Jiaen Liang, Shen Huang, Bo Xu

The semi-supervised switchboard transcription project
Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes

Maximum mutual information multi-phone units in direct modeling
Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen

Profiling large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition on embedded devices: a hardware resource sensitivity analysis
Kai Yu, Rob A. Rutenbar

Continuous speech recognition using attention shift decoding with soft decision
Ozlem Kalinli, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Towards using hybrid word and fragment units for vocabulary independent LVCSR systems
Ariya Rastrow, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Frederick Jelinek

Unsupervised training of an HMM-based speech recognizer for topic classification
Herbert Gish, Man-hung Siu, Arthur Chan, Bill Belfield

The case for case-based automatic speech recognition
Viktoria Maier, Roger K. Moore

A self-labeling speech corpus: collecting spoken words with an online educational game
Ian McGraw, Alexander Gruenstein, Andrew Sutherland

A noise robust method for pattern discovery in quantized time series: the concept matrix approach
Okko Johannes Räsänen, Unto Kalervo Laine, Toomas Altosaar

Using parallel architectures in speech recognition
Patrick Cardinal, Pierre Dumouchel, Gilles Boulianne

Example-based speech recognition using formulaic phrases
Christopher J. Watkins, Stephen J. Cox

Parallel fast likelihood computation for LVCSR using mixture decomposition
Naveen Parihar, Ralf Schlüter, David Rybach, Eric A. Hansen

An indexing weight for voice-to-text search
Chen Liu

On invariant structural representation for speech recognition: theoretical validation and experimental improvement
Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose

Articulatory feature asynchrony analysis and compensation in detection-based ASR
I-Fan Chen, Hsin-Min Wang

CRANDEM: conditional random fields for word recognition
Jeremy Morris, Eric Fosler-Lussier

HEAR: an hybrid episodic-abstract speech recognizer
Sébastien Demange, Dirk Van Compernolle

Constrained probabilistic subspace maps applied to speech enhancement
Kaustubh Kalgaonkar, Mark A. Clements

Reconstructing clean speech from noisy MFCC vectors
Ben Milner, Jonathan Darch, Ibrahim Almajai

An evaluation of objective quality measures for speech intelligibility prediction
Cees H. Taal, Richard C. Hendriks, Richard Heusdens, Jesper Jensen, Ulrik Kjems

Performance comparison of HMM and VQ based single channel speech separation
M. H. Radfar, W. -Y. Chan, R. M. Dansereau, W. Wong

Stereo-input speech recognition using sparseness-based time-frequency masking in a reverberant environment
Yosuke Izumi, Kenta Nishiki, Shinji Watanabe, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama

Enhancing audio speech using visual speech features
Ibrahim Almajai, Ben Milner

Classifying turn-level uncertainty using word-level prosody
Diane Litman, Mihai Rotaru, Greg Nicholas

Detecting subjectivity in multiparty speech
Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini

Pitch contour parameterisation based on linear stylisation for emotion recognition
Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Julien Epps

Feature-based and channel-based analyses of intrinsic variability in speaker verification
Martin Graciarena, Tobias Bocklet, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Sachin Kajarekar

Robust angry speech detection employing a TEO-based discriminative classifier combination
Wooil Kim, John H. L. Hansen

Improving emotion recognition using class-level spectral features
Dmitri Bitouk, Ani Nenkova, Ragini Verma

Arousal and valence prediction in spontaneous emotional speech: felt versus perceived emotion
Khiet P. Truong, David A. van Leeuwen, Mark A. Neerincx, Franciska M. G. de Jong

Dimension reduction approaches for SVM based speaker age estimation
Gil Dobry, Ron M. Hecht, Mireille Avigal, Yaniv Zigel

ANN based decision fusion for speech emotion recognition
Lu Xu, Mingxing Xu, Dali Yang

Processing affected speech within human machine interaction
Bogdan Vlasenko, Andreas Wendemuth

Emotion recognition from speech using extended feature selection and a simple classifier
Ali Hassan, Robert I. Damper

Optimal event search using a structural cost function - improvement of structure to speech conversion
Daisuke Saito, Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose

Deriving vocal tract shapes from electromagnetic articulograph data via geometric adaptation and matching
Ziad Al Bawab, Lorenzo Turicchia, Richard M. Stern, Bhiksha Raj

Towards unsupervised articulatory resynthesis of German utterances using EMA data
Ingmar Steiner, Korin Richmond

The klattgrid speech synthesizer
David Weenink

Development of a kenyan English text to speech system: a method of developing a TTS for a previously undefined English dialect
Mucemi Gakuru

Feedback loop for prosody prediction in concatenative speech synthesis
Javier Latorre, Sergio Gracia, Masami Akamine

Assessing a speaker for fast speech in unit selection speech synthesis
Donata Moers, Petra Wagner

Unit selection based speech synthesis for poor channel condition
Ling Cen, Minghui Dong, Paul Chan, Haizhou Li

Vocalic sandwich, a unit designed for unit selection TTS
Didier Cadic, Cédric Boidin, Christophe d'Alessandro

Speech synthesis based on the plural unit selection and fusion method using FWF model
Ryo Morinaka, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima

Speech synthesis without a phone inventory
Matthew P. Aylett, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi

Context-dependent additive log f_0 model for HMM-based speech synthesis
Heiga Zen, Norbert Braunschweiler

Real-time live broadcast news subtitling system for Spanish
Alfonso Ortega, Jose Enrique Garcia, Antonio Miguel, Eduardo Lleida

Development of the 2008 SRI Mandarin speech-to-text system for broadcast news and conversation
Xin Lei, Wei Wu, Wen Wang, Arindam Mandal, Andreas Stolcke

Multifactor adaptation for Mandarin broadcast news and conversation speech recognition
Wen Wang, Arindam Mandal, Xin Lei, Andreas Stolcke, Jing Zheng

Development of the GALE 2008 Mandarin LVCSR system
C. Plahl, Björn Hoffmeister, Georg Heigold, Jonas Lööf, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

The RWTH aachen university open source speech recognition system
David Rybach, Christian Gollan, Georg Heigold, Björn Hoffmeister, Jonas Lööf, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Online detecting end times of spoken utterances for synchronization of live speech and its transcripts
Jie Gao, Qingwei Zhao, Yonghong Yan

Real-time ASR from meetings
Philip N. Garner, John Dines, Thomas Hain, Asmaa El Hannani, Martin Karafiát, Danil Korchagin, Mike Lincoln, Vincent Wan, Le Zhang

Improvements to the LIUM French ASR system based on CMU sphinx: what helps to significantly reduce the word error rate?
Paul Deléglise, Yannick Estève, Sylvain Meignier, Teva Merlin

Merging search spaces for subword spoken term detection
Timo Mertens, Daniel Schneider, Joachim Köhler

A posterior probability-based system hybridisation and combination for spoken term detection
Javier Tejedor, Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel, José Colás

Stochastic pronunciation modelling for spoken term detection
Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel

Term-dependent confidence for out-of-vocabulary term detection
Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel, Peter Bell

A comparison of query-by-example methods for spoken term detection
Wade Shen, Christopher M. White, Timothy J. Hazen

Fast keyword detection using suffix array
Kouichi Katsurada, Shigeki Teshima, Tsuneo Nitta

Understanding speaker-listener interactions
Dirk Heylen

Detecting changes in speech expressiveness in participants of a radio program
Plínio A. Barbosa

An audio-visual approach to measuring discourse synchrony in multimodal conversation data
Nick Campbell

Towards flexible representations for analysis of accommodation of temporal features in spontaneous dialogue speech
Spyros Kousidis, David Dorran, Ciaran McDonnell, Eugene Coyle

Are we `in sync': turn-taking in collaborative dialogues
Štefan Beňuš

An audio-visual attention system for online association learning
Martin Heckmann, Holger Brandl, Xavier Domont, Bram Bolder, Frank Joublin, Christian Goerick

A human benchmark for language recognition
Rosemary Orr, David A. van Leeuwen

Large margin estimation of Gaussian mixture model parameters with extended baum-welch for spoken language recognition
Donglai Zhu, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Linguistically-motivated automatic classification of regional French varieties
Cécile Woehrling, Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Martine Adda-Decker

Discriminative acoustic language recognition via channel-compensated GMM statistics
Niko Brümmer, Albert Strasheim, Valiantsina Hubeika, Pavel Matějka, Lukáš Burget, Ondřej Glembek

Language score calibration using adapted Gaussian back-end
Mohamed Faouzi BenZeghiba, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel

A framework for discriminative SVM/GMM systems for language recognition
W. M. Campbell, Zahi N. Karam

Functional data analysis as a tool for analyzing speech dynamics - a case study on the French word c'était
Michele Gubian, Francisco Torreira, Helmer Strik, Lou Boves

Large-scale analysis of formant frequency estimation variability in conversational telephone speech
Nancy F. Chen, Wade Shen, Joseph Campbell, Reva Schwartz

Developing an automatic functional annotation system for british English intonation
Saandia Ali, Daniel Hirst

Intrinsic vowel duration and the post-vocalic voicing effect: some evidence from dialects of north american English
Joshua Tauberer, Keelan Evanini

Investigating /l/ variation in English through forced alignment
Jiahong Yuan, Mark Liberman

Structural analysis of dialects, sub-dialects and sub-sub-dialects of Chinese
Xuebin Ma, Akira Nemoto, Nobuaki Minematsu, Yu Qiao, Keikichi Hirose

Voice activity detection using singular value decomposition-based filter
Hwa Jeon Song, Sung Min Ban, Hyung Soon Kim

Voice activity detection using partially observable Markov decision process
Chiyoun Park, Namhoon Kim, Jeongmi Cho

High-accuracy, low-complexity voice activity detection based on a posteriori SNR weighted energy
Zheng-Hua Tan, Børge Lindberg

Fusing fast algorithms to achieve efficient speech detection in FM broadcasts
Stéphane Pigeon, Patrick Verlinde

Robust speech recognition using VAD-measure-embedded decoder
Tasuku Oonishi, Paul R. Dixon, Koji Iwano, Sadaoki Furui

Investigating privacy-sensitive features for speech detection in multiparty conversations
Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Mathew Magimai-Doss, Hervé Bourlard, Daniel Gatica-Perez

Evaluation of external and internal articulator dynamics for pronunciation learning
Lan Wang, Hui Chen, JianJun Ouyang

Robust audio-visual speech synchrony detection by generalized bimodal linear prediction
Kshitiz Kumar, Jiri Navratil, Etienne Marcheret, Vit Libal, Gerasimos Potamianos

Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion using speech recognition and trajectory formation based on phoneme hidden Markov models
Atef Ben Youssef, Pierre Badin, Gérard Bailly, Panikos Heracleous

Speaker discriminability for visual speech modes
Jeesun Kim, Chris Davis, Christian Kroos, Harold Hill

Audio-visual prosody of social attitudes in vietnamese: building and evaluating a tones balanced corpus
Dang-Khoa Mac, Véronique Aubergé, Albert Rilliard, Eric Castelli

Direct, modular and hybrid audio to visual speech conversion methods - a comparative study
Gyorgy Takacs

How similar are clusters resulting from schwa deletion in French to identical underlying clusters?
Audrey Bürki, Cécile Fougeron, Christophe Veaux, Ulrich H. Frauenfelder

Word-final [t]-deletion: an analysis on the segmental and sub-segmental level
Barbara Schuppler, Wim van Dommelen, Jacques Koreman, Mirjam Ernestus

Rarefaction gestures and coarticulation in mangetti dune !xung clicks
Amanda Miller, Abigail Scott, Bonny Sands, Sheena Shah

The acoustics of mangetti dune !xung clicks
Amanda Miller, Sheena Shah

Acoustic characteristics of ejectives in amharic
Hussien Seid, S. Rajendran, B. Yegnanarayana

Sentence-final particles in hong kong Cantonese: are they tonal or intonational?
Wing Li Wu

Same tone, different category: linguistic-tonetic variation in the areal tone acoustics of chuqu wu
William Steed, Phil Rose

Why would aspiration lower the pitch of the following vowel? observations from leng-shui-jiang Chinese
Caicai Zhang

Dialectal characteristics of osaka and tokyo Japanese: analyses of phonologically identical words
Kanae Amino, Takayuki Arai

Categories and gradience in intonation: evidence from linguistics and neurobiology
Brechtje Post, Francis Nolan, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Toby Hudson

Exploring vocalization of /l/ in English: an EPG and EMA study
Mitsuhiro Nakamura

The monophthongs and diphthongs of north-eastern welsh: an acoustic study
Robert Mayr, Hannah Davies

Voicing profile of Polish sonorants: [r] in obstruent clusters
J. Sieczkowska, Bernd Möbius, Antje Schweitzer, Michael Walsh, Grzegorz Dogil

A user modeling-based performance analysis of a wizarded uncertainty-adaptive dialogue system corpus
Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman

Using dialogue-based dynamic language models for improving speech recognition
Juan Manuel Lucas-Cuesta, Fernando Fernández, Javier Ferreiros

Reinforcement learning for dialog management using least-squares Policy iteration and fast feature selection
Lihong Li, Jason D. Williams, Suhrid Balakrishnan

Hybridisation of expertise and reinforcement learning in dialogue systems
Romain Laroche, Ghislain Putois, Philippe Bretier, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier

Bayesian learning of confidence measure function for generation of utterances and motions in object manipulation dialogue task
Komei Sugiura, Naoto Iwahashi, Hideki Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura

Predicting how it sounds: re-ranking dialogue prompts based on TTS quality for adaptive spoken dialogue systems
Cédric Boidin, Verena Rieser, Lonneke van der Plas, Oliver Lemon, Jonathan Chevelu

Experiments on automatic prosodic labeling
Antje Schweitzer, Bernd Möbius

German boundary tones show categorical perception and a perceptual magnet effect when presented in different contexts
Katrin Schneider, Grzegorz Dogil, Bernd Möbius

Eye tracking for the online evaluation of prosody in speech synthesis: not so fast!
Michael White, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Kiwako Ito, Shari R. Speer

Prosodic analysis of foreign-accented English
Hansjörg Mixdorff, John Ingram

Perception of the evolution of prosody in the French broadcast news style
Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Albert Rilliard, Alexandre Allauzen

Prosodic effects on vowel production: evidence from formant structure
Yoonsook Mo, Jennifer Cole, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

An adaptive BIC approach for robust audio stream segmentation
Janez Žibert, Andrej Brodnik, France Mihelič

Improving the robustness of phonetic segmentation to accent and style variation with a two-staged approach
Vaishali Patil, Shrikant Joshi, Preeti Rao

Signature cluster model selection for incremental Gaussian mixture cluster modeling in agglomerative hierarchical speaker clustering
Kyu J. Han, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Speaker segmentation and clustering for simultaneously presented speech
Lingyun Gu, Richard M. Stern

Trimmed KL divergence between Gaussian mixtures for robust unsupervised acoustic anomaly detection
Nash Borges, Gerard G. L. Meyer

How to loose confidence: probabilistic linear machines for multiclass classification
Hui Lin, Jeff Bilmes, Koby Crammer

Quantifying wideband speech codec degradations via impairment factors: the new ITU-t p.834.1 methodology and its application to the g.711.1 codec
Sebastian Möller, Nicolas Côté, Atsuko Kurashima, Noritsugu Egi, Akira Takahashi

SUXES - user experience evaluation method for spoken and multimodal interaction
Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Aleksi Melto, Tomi Heimonen, Tuuli Laivo, Juho Hella

Results of the n-best 2008 dutch speech recognition evaluation
David A. van Leeuwen, Judith Kessens, Eric Sanders, Henk van den Heuvel

SHoUT, the university of twente submission to the n-best 2008 speech recognition evaluation for dutch
Marijn Huijbregts, Roeland Ordelman, Laurens van der Werff, Franciska M. G. de Jong

NIST 2008 speaker recognition evaluation: performance across telephone and room microphone channels
Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg

The ester 2 evaluation campaign for the rich transcription of French radio broadcasts
Sylvain Galliano, Guillaume Gravier, Laura Chaubard

Differential vector quantization of feature vectors for distributed speech recognition
Jose Enrique Garcia, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel, Eduardo Lleida

Arithmetic coding of sub-band residuals in FDLP speech/audio codec
Petr Motlicek, Sriram Ganapathy, Hynek Hermansky

Pitch variation estimation
Tom Bäckström, Stefan Bayer, Sascha Disch

Soft decision-based acoustic echo suppression in a frequency domain
Yun-Sik Park, Ji-Hyun Song, Jae-Hun Choi, Joon-Hyuk Chang

Fine-granular scalable MELP coder based on embedded vector quantization
Mouloud Djamah, Douglas O'Shaughnessy

Joint quantization strategies for low bit-rate sinusoidal coding
Emre Unver, Stephane Villette, Ahmet Kondoz

Steganographic band width extension for the AMR codec of low-bit-rate modes
Akira Nishimura

Ultra low bit-rate speech coding based on unit-selection with joint spectral-residual quantization: no transmission of any residual information
V. Ramasubramanian, D. Harish

On the cost of backward compatibility for communication codecs
Konstantin Schmidt, Markus Schnell, Nikolaus Rettelbach, Manfred Lutzky, Jochen Issing

A media-specific FEC based on huffman coding for distributed speech recognition
Young Han Lee, Hong Kook Kim

Classification-based strategies for combining multiple 5-w question answering systems
Sibel Yaman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Ralph Grishman, Mary Harper, Kathleen R. McKeown, Adam Meyers, Kartavya Sharma

Combining semantic and syntactic information sources for 5-w question answering
Sibel Yaman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur

Phrase and word level strategies for detecting appositions in speech
Benoit Favre, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Error correction of proportions in spoken opinion surveys
Nathalie Camelin, Renato De Mori, Frederic Bechet, Géraldine Damnati

Transformation-based learning for semantic parsing
F. Jurčíček, M. Gašić, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu, S. Young

Large-scale Polish SLU
Patrick Lehnen, Stefan Hahn, Hermann Ney, Agnieszka Mykowiecka

Optimizing CRFs for SLU tasks in various languages using modified training criteria
Stefan Hahn, Patrick Lehnen, Georg Heigold, Hermann Ney

Learning lexicons from spoken utterances based on statistical model selection
Ryo Taguchi, Naoto Iwahashi, Takashi Nose, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano

Improving speech understanding accuracy with limited training data using multiple language models and multiple understanding models
Masaki Katsumaru, Mikio Nakano, Kazunori Komatani, Kotaro Funakoshi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno

Low-cost call type classification for contact center calls using partial transcripts
Youngja Park, Wilfried Teiken, Stephen C. Gates

A new quality measure for topic segmentation of text and speech
Mehryar Mohri, Pedro Moreno, Eugene Weinstein

Concept segmentation and labeling for conversational speech
Marco Dinarelli, Alessandro Moschitti, Giuseppe Riccardi

A noise-type and level-dependent MPO-based speech enhancement architecture with variable frame analysis for noise-robust speech recognition
Vikramjit Mitra, Bengt J. Borgstrom, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Abeer Alwan

Complementarity of MFCC, PLP and Gabor features in the presence of speech-intrinsic variabilities
Bernd T. Meyer, Birger Kollmeier

Noise robustness of tract variables and their application to speech recognition
Vikramjit Mitra, Hosung Nam, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Elliot Saltzman, Louis Goldstein

Articulatory phonological code for word classification
Xiaodan Zhuang, Hosung Nam, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Louis Goldstein, Elliot Saltzman

Robust keyword spotting with rapidly adapting point process models
Aren Jansen, Partha Niyogi

Automatically rating pronunciation through articulatory phonology
Joseph Tepperman, Louis Goldstein, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Learning the structure of human-computer and human-human dialogs
David Griol, Giuseppe Riccardi, Emilio Sanchis

Pause and gap length in face-to-face interaction
Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner, Julia Hirschberg

Modeling other talkers for improved dialog act recognition in meetings
Kornel Laskowski, Elizabeth Shriberg

A closer look at quality judgments of spoken dialog systems
Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Felix Hartard, Florian Gödde, Sebastian Möller

New methods for the analysis of repeated utterances
Geoffrey Zweig

The effects of different voices for speech-based in-vehicle interfaces: impact of young and old voices on driving performance and attitude
Ing-Marie Jonsson, Nils Dahlbäck

In search of non-uniqueness in the acoustic-to-articulatory mapping
G. Ananthakrishnan, D. Neiberg, Olov Engwall

Estimation of articulatory gesture patterns from speech acoustics
Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Pierre Divenyi, Louis Goldstein, Elliot Saltzman

Formant trajectories for acoustic-to-articulatory inversion
I. Yücel Özbek, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Mübeccel Demirekler

A robust variational method for the acoustic-to-articulatory problem
Blaise Potard, Yves Laprie

Comparison of vowel structures of Japanese and English in articulatory and auditory spaces
Jianwu Dang, Mark Tiede, Jiahong Yuan

The articulatory and acoustic impact of scottish English /r/ on the preceding vowel-onset
Janine Lilienthal

Static and dynamic modulation spectrum for speech recognition
Sriram Ganapathy, Samuel Thomas, Hynek Hermansky

2-d processing of speech for multi-pitch analysis
Tianyu T. Wang, Thomas F. Quatieri

A correlation-maximization denoising filter used as an enhancement frontend for noise robust bird call classification
Wei Chu, Abeer Alwan

Preliminary inversion mapping results with a new EMA corpus
Korin Richmond

Time-varying autoregressive tests for multiscale speech analysis
Daniel Rudoy, Thomas F. Quatieri, Patrick J. Wolfe

Audio keyword extraction by unsupervised word discovery
Armando Muscariello, Guillaume Gravier, Frédéric Bimbot

ASR corpus design for resource-scarce languages
Etienne Barnard, Marelie Davel, Charl van Heerden

Pronunciation dictionary development in resource-scarce environments
Marelie Davel, Olga Martirosian

XTrans: a speech annotation and transcription tool
Meghan Lammie Glenn, Stephanie M. Strassel, Haejoong Lee

How to select a good training-data subset for transcription: submodular active selection for sequences
Hui Lin, Jeff Bilmes

Improving acceptability assessment for the labelling of affective speech corpora
Zoraida Callejas, Ramón López-Cózar

The broadcast narrow band speech corpus: a new resource type for large scale language recognition
Christopher Cieri, Linda Brandschain, Abby Neely, David Graff, Kevin Walker, Chris Caruso, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg

A novel codebook search technique for estimating the open quotient
Yen-Liang Shue, Jody Kreiman, Abeer Alwan

Long term examination of intra-session and inter-session speaker variability
A. D. Lawson, A. R. Stauffer, B. Y. Smolenski, B. B. Pokines, M. Leonard, E. J. Cupples

Distorted visual information influences audiovisual perception of voicing
Ragnhild Eg, Dawn Behne

Perceived naturalness of a synthesizer of disordered voices
Samia Fraj, Francis Grenez, Jean Schoentgen

Audio-visual speech asynchrony modeling in a talking head
Alexey Karpov, Liliya Tsirulnik, Zdeněk Krňoul, Andrey Ronzhin, Boris Lobanov, Miloš Železný

The effects of fundamental frequency and formant space on speaker discrimination through bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing
Takayuki Kagomiya, Seiji Nakagawa

Automatic detection and prediction of topic changes through automatic detection of register variations and pause duration
Céline De Looze, Stéphane Rauzy

Analyzing features for automatic age estimation on cross-sectional data
Werner Spiegl, Georg Stemmer, Eva Lasarcyk, Varada Kolhatkar, Andrew Cassidy, Blaise Potard, Stephen Shum, Young Chol Song, Puyang Xu, Peter Beyerlein, James Harnsberger, Elmar Nöth

Intercultural differences in evaluation of pathological voice quality: perceptual and acoustical comparisons between RASATI and GRBASI scales
Emi Juliana Yamauchi, Satoshi Imaizumi, Hagino Maruyama, Tomoyuki Haji

F0 cues for the discourse functions of “hã” in hindi
Kalika Bali

Audio spatialisation strategies for multitasking during teleconferences
Stuart N. Wrigley, Simon Tucker, Guy J. Brown, Steve Whittaker

Speech rate effects on linguistic change
Alexsandro R. Meireles, Plínio A. Barbosa

Mandarin spontaneous narrative planning - prosodic evidence from national taiwan university lecture corpus
Chiu-yu Tseng, Zhao-yu Su, Lin-shan Lee

Investigation into bottle-neck features for meeting speech recognition
František Grézl, Martin Karafiát, Lukáš Burget

Multi-stream to many-stream: using spectro-temporal features for ASR
Sherry Y. Zhao, Suman Ravuri, Nelson Morgan

Tandem representations of spectral envelope and modulation frequency features for ASR
Samuel Thomas, Sriram Ganapathy, Hynek Hermansky

Entropy-based feature analysis for speech recognition
Panji Setiawan, Harald Höge, Tim Fingscheidt

Hierarchical processing of the modulation spectrum for GALE Mandarin LVCSR system
Fabio Valente, Mathew Magimai-Doss, C. Plahl, Suman Ravuri

Hill-climbing feature selection for multi-stream ASR
David Gelbart, Nelson Morgan, Alexey Tsymbal

Robust F0 estimation based on log-time scale autocorrelation and its application to Mandarin tone recognition
Yusuke Kida, Masaru Sakai, Takashi Masuko, Akinori Kawamura

Invariant-integration method for robust feature extraction in speaker-independent speech recognition
Florian Müller, Alfred Mertins

Discriminative feature transformation using output coding for speech recognition
Omid Dehzangi, Bin Ma, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Discriminant spectrotemporal features for phoneme recognition
Nima Mesgarani, G. S. V. S. Sivaram, Sridhar Krishna Nemala, Mounya Elhilali, Hynek Hermansky

Auditory model based optimization of MFCCs improves automatic speech recognition performance
Saikat Chatterjee, Christos Koniaris, W. Bastiaan Kleijn

Pronunciation-based ASR for names
Henk van den Heuvel, Bert Réveil, Jean-Pierre Martens

How speaker tongue and name source language affect the automatic recognition of spoken names
Bert Réveil, Jean-Pierre Martens, Bart D'hoore

Online generation of acoustic models for multilingual speech recognition
Martin Raab, Guillermo Aradilla, Rainer Gruhn, Elmar Nöth

Basic speech recognition for spoken dialogues
Charl van Heerden, Etienne Barnard, Marelie Davel

Tonal articulatory feature for Mandarin and its application to conversational LVCSR
Qingqing Zhang, Jielin Pan, Yonghong Yan

Effects of language mixing for automatic recognition of Cantonese-English code-mixing utterances
Houwei Cao, P. C. Ching, Tan Lee

A one-step tone recognition approach using MSD-HMM for continuous speech
Changliang Liu, Fengpei Ge, Fuping Pan, Bin Dong, Yonghong Yan

Stream-based context-sensitive phone mapping for cross-lingual speech recognition
Khe Chai Sim, Haizhou Li

Human translations guided language discovery for ASR systems
Sebastian Stüker, Laurent Besacier, Alex Waibel