A 50-Year Retrospective on Speech and Language Processing
John Makhoul

Improving English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition
Ivan Medennikov, Alexey Prudnikov, Alexander Zatvornitskiy

The IBM 2016 English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition System
George Saon, Tom Sercu, Steven Rennie, Hong-Kwang J. Kuo

Small-Footprint Deep Neural Networks with Highway Connections for Speech Recognition
Liang Lu, Steve Renals

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Layer-Wise Context Expansion and Attention
Dong Yu, Wayne Xiong, Jasha Droppo, Andreas Stolcke, Guoli Ye, Jinyu Li, Geoffrey Zweig

Lower Frame Rate Neural Network Acoustic Models
Golan Pundak, Tara N. Sainath

Improved Neural Network Initialization by Grouping Context-Dependent Targets for Acoustic Modeling
Gakuto Kurata, Brian Kingsbury

Automatic Scoring of Monologue Video Interviews Using Multimodal Cues
Lei Chen, Gary Feng, Michelle Martin-Raugh, Chee Wee Leong, Christopher Kitchen, Su-Youn Yoon, Blair Lehman, Harrison Kell, Chong Min Lee

The Sound of Disgust: How Facial Expression May Influence Speech Production
Chee Seng Chong, Jeesun Kim, Chris Davis

Analyzing Temporal Dynamics of Dyadic Synchrony in Affective Interactions
Zhaojun Yang, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Audiovisual Speech Scene Analysis in the Context of Competing Sources
Attigodu C. Ganesh, Frédéric Berthommier, Jean-Luc Schwartz

Head Motion Generation with Synthetic Speech: A Data Driven Approach
Najmeh Sadoughi, Carlos Busso

The Consistency and Stability of Acoustic and Visual Cues for Different Prosodic Attitudes
Jeesun Kim, Chris Davis

Introduction to Poster Presentation of Part II
Jeesun Kim, Gérard Bailly

The Unit of Speech Encoding: The Case of Romanian
Irene Vogel, Laura Spinu

The Perceptual Effect of L1 Prosody Transplantation on L2 Speech: The Case of French Accented German
Jeanin Jügler, Frank Zimmerer, Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius

Organizing Syllables into Sandhi Domains — Evidence from F0 and Duration Patterns in Shanghai Chinese
Bijun Ling, Jie Liang

Automatic Analysis of Phonetic Speech Style Dimensions
Neville Ryant, Mark Liberman

The Acoustic Manifestation of Prominence in Stressless Languages
Angeliki Athanasopoulou, Irene Vogel

The Rhythmic Constraint on Prosodic Boundaries in Mandarin Chinese Based on Corpora of Silent Reading and Speech Perception
Wei Lai, Jiahong Yuan, Ya Li, Xiaoying Xu, Mark Liberman

Toward Development and Evaluation of Pain Level-Rating Scale for Emergency Triage based on Vocal Characteristics and Facial Expressions
Fu-Sheng Tsai, Ya-Ling Hsu, Wei-Chen Chen, Yi-Ming Weng, Chip-Jin Ng, Chi-Chun Lee

Predicting Severity of Voice Disorder from DNN-HMM Acoustic Posteriors
Tan Lee, Yuanyuan Liu, Yu Ting Yeung, Thomas K.T. Law, Kathy Y.S. Lee

Long-Term Stability of Tracheoesophageal Voices
Klaske E. van Sluis, Michiel W.M. van den Brekel, Frans J.M. Hilgers, Rob J.J.H. van Son

Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment from Spontaneous Speech by Correlation-Based Phonetic Feature Selection
Gábor Gosztolya, László Tóth, Tamás Grósz, Veronika Vincze, Ildikó Hoffmann, Gréta Szatlóczki, Magdolna Pákáski, János Kálmán

Towards an Automated Screening Tool for Developmental Speech and Language Impairments
Jen J. Gong, Maryann Gong, Dina Levy-Lambert, Jordan R. Green, Tiffany P. Hogan, John V. Guttag

Spectral Enhancement of Cleft Lip and Palate Speech
Vikram C.M., Nagaraj Adiga, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Assessing Level-Dependent Segmental Contribution to the Intelligibility of Speech Processed by Single-Channel Noise-Suppression Algorithms
Tian Guan, Guangxing Chu, Fei Chen, Feng Yang

Effectiveness of Near-End Speech Enhancement Under Equal-Loudness and Equal-Level Constraints
Tudor-Cătălin Zorilă, Sheila Flanagan, Brian C.J. Moore, Yannis Stylianou

Speech Synthesis in Noisy Environment by Enhancing Strength of Excitation and Formant Prominence
Bidisha Sharma, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Relative Contributions of Amplitude and Phase to the Intelligibility Advantage of Ideal Binary Masked Sentences
Lei Wang, Shufeng Zhu, Diliang Chen, Yong Feng, Fei Chen

Predicting Binaural Speech Intelligibility from Signals Estimated by a Blind Source Separation Algorithm
Qingju Liu, Yan Tang, Philip J.B. Jackson, Wenwu Wang

Automated Pause Insertion for Improved Intelligibility Under Reverberation
Petko N. Petkov, Norbert Braunschweiler, Yannis Stylianou

Automatic Classification of Phonation Modes in Singing Voice: Towards Singing Style Characterisation and Application to Ethnomusicological Recordings
Jean-Luc Rouas, Leonidas Ioannidis

Novel Nonlinear Prediction Based Features for Spoofed Speech Detection
Himanshu N. Bhavsar, Tanvina B. Patel, Hemant A. Patil

Robust Vowel Landmark Detection Using Epoch-Based Features
Sri Harsha Dumpala, Bhanu Teja Nellore, Raghu Ram Nevali, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana

Sensitivity of Quantitative RT-MRI Metrics of Vocal Tract Dynamics to Image Reconstruction Settings
Johannes Töger, Yongwan Lim, Sajan Goud Lingala, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Krishna S. Nayak

Sound Pattern Matching for Automatic Prosodic Event Detection
Milos Cernak, Afsaneh Asaei, Pierre-Edouard Honnet, Philip N. Garner, Hervé Bourlard

Automatic Classification of Lexical Stress in English and Arabic Languages Using Deep Learning
Mostafa Shahin, Julien Epps, Beena Ahmed

Development of Mandarin Onset-Rime Detection in Relation to Age and Pinyin Instruction
Fei Chen, Nan Yan, Xunan Huang, Hao Zhang, Lan Wang, Gang Peng

Joint Effect of Dialect and Mandarin on English Vowel Production: A Case Study in Changsha EFL Learners
Xinyi Wen, Yuan Jia

Effects of L1 Phonotactic Constraints on L2 Word Segmentation Strategies
Tamami Katayama

Putting German [ʃ] and [ç] in Two Different Boxes: Native German vs L2 German of French Learners
Jane Wottawa, Martine Adda-Decker, Frédéric Isel

Naturalness Judgement of L2 English Through Dubbing Practice
Dean Luo, Ruxin Luo, Lixin Wang

Audiovisual Training Effects for Japanese Children Learning English /r/-/l/
Yasuaki Shinohara

L2 Acquisition and Production of the English Rhotic Pharyngeal Gesture
Sarah Harper, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Auditory-Visual Perception of VCVs Produced by People with Down Syndrome: Preliminary Results
Alexandre Hennequin, Amélie Rochet-Capellan, Marion Dohen

Combining Non-Pathological Data of Different Language Varieties to Improve DNN-HMM Performance on Pathological Speech
Emre Yılmaz, Mario Ganzeboom, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Evaluation of a Phone-Based Anomaly Detection Approach for Dysarthric Speech
Imed Laaridh, Corinne Fredouille, Christine Meunier

Recognition of Dysarthric Speech Using Voice Parameters for Speaker Adaptation and Multi-Taper Spectral Estimation
Chitralekha Bhat, Bhavik Vachhani, Sunil Kopparapu

Impaired Categorical Perception of Mandarin Tones and its Relationship to Language Ability in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Fei Chen, Nan Yan, Xiaojie Pan, Feng Yang, Zhuanzhuan Ji, Lan Wang, Gang Peng

Perceived Naturalness of Electrolaryngeal Speech Produced Using sEMG-Controlled vs. Manual Pitch Modulation
K.F. Nagle, J.T. Heaton

Identifying Hearing Loss from Learned Speech Kernels
Shamima Najnin, Bonny Banerjee, Lisa Lucks Mendel, Masoumeh Heidari Kapourchali, Jayanta Kumar Dutta, Sungmin Lee, Chhayakanta Patro, Monique Pousson

Differential Effects of Velopharyngeal Dysfunction on Speech Intelligibility During Early and Late Stages of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Panying Rong, Yana Yunusova, Jordan R. Green

The Production of Intervocalic Glides in Non Dysarthric Parkinsonian Speech
V. Delvaux, V. Roland, K. Huet, M. Piccaluga, M.C. Haelewyck, B. Harmegnies

Auditory Processing Impairments Under Background Noise in Children with Non-Syndromic Cleft Lip and/or Palate
Yang Feng, Zhang Lu

Modulation Spectral Features for Predicting Vocal Emotion Recognition by Simulated Cochlear Implants
Zhi Zhu, Ryota Miyauchi, Yukiko Araki, Masashi Unoki

Automatic Discrimination of Soft Voice Onset Using Acoustic Features of Breathy Voicing
Keiko Ochi, Koichi Mori, Naomi Sakai, Nobutaka Ono

Effect of Noise on Lexical Tone Perception in Cantonese-Speaking Amusics
Jing Shao, Caicai Zhang, Gang Peng, Yike Yang, William S.-Y. Wang

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Using Bimodal-Trained Bottleneck Features for a Person with Severe Hearing Loss
Yuki Takashima, Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki, Nobuyuki Mitani, Kiyohiro Omori, Kaoru Nakazono

Perception of Tone in Whispered Mandarin Sentences: The Case for Singapore Mandarin
Yuling Gu, Boon Pang Lim, Nancy F. Chen

A KL Divergence and DNN-Based Approach to Voice Conversion without Parallel Training Sentences
Feng-Long Xie, Frank K. Soong, Haifeng Li

Parallel Dictionary Learning for Voice Conversion Using Discriminative Graph-Embedded Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki

Speech Bandwidth Extension Using Bottleneck Features and Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
Yu Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Li-Rong Dai

Voice Conversion Based on Matrix Variate Gaussian Mixture Model Using Multiple Frame Features
Yi Yang, Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Voice Conversion Based on Trajectory Model Training of Neural Networks Considering Global Variance
Naoki Hosaka, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

Comparing Articulatory and Acoustic Strategies for Reducing Non-Native Accents
Sandesh Aryal, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Cross-Lingual Speaker Adaptation for Statistical Speech Synthesis Using Limited Data
Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo, Cenk Demiroglu

Personalized, Cross-Lingual TTS Using Phonetic Posteriorgrams
Lifa Sun, Hao Wang, Shiyin Kang, Kun Li, Helen Meng

Acoustic Analysis of Syllables Across Indian Languages
Anusha Prakash, Jeena J. Prakash, Hema A. Murthy

Objective Evaluation Methods for Chinese Text-To-Speech Systems
Teng Zhang, Zhipeng Chen, Ji Wu, Sam Lai, Wenhui Lei, Carsten Isert

Objective Evaluation Using Association Between Dimensions Within Spectral Features for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
Yusuke Ijima, Taichi Asami, Hideyuki Mizuno

A Hierarchical Predictor of Synthetic Speech Naturalness Using Neural Networks
Takenori Yoshimura, Gustav Eje Henter, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi, Keiichi Tokuda

Text-to-Speech for Individuals with Vision Loss: A User Study
Monika Podsiadło, Shweta Chahar

Speech Enhancement for a Noise-Robust Text-to-Speech Synthesis System Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi

Data Selection and Adaptation for Naturalness in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis
Erica Cooper, Alison Chang, Yocheved Levitan, Julia Hirschberg

A Portable Automatic PA-TA-KA Syllable Detection System to Derive Biomarkers for Neurological Disorders
Fei Tao, Louis Daudet, Christian Poellabauer, Sandra L. Schneider, Carlos Busso

Deep Neural Networks for i-Vector Language Identification of Short Utterances in Cars
Omid Ghahabi, Antonio Bonafonte, Javier Hernando, Asunción Moreno

Improving i-Vector and PLDA Based Speaker Clustering with Long-Term Features
Abraham Woubie, Jordi Luque, Javier Hernando

Open Language Interface for Voice Exploitation (OLIVE)
Aaron Lawson, Mitchell McLaren, Harry Bratt, Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Christopher George, Allen Stauffer, Chris Bartels, Julien VanHout

A Multimodal Dialogue System for Air Traffic Control Trainees Based on Discrete-Event Simulation
Luboš Šmídl, Adam Chýlek, Jan Švec

Lig-Aikuma: A Mobile App to Collect Parallel Speech for Under-Resourced Language Studies
Elodie Gauthier, David Blachon, Laurent Besacier, Guy-Noël Kouarata, Martine Adda-Decker, Annie Rialland, Gilles Adda, Grégoire Bachman

ARET — Automatic Reading of Educational Texts for Visually Impaired Students
Martin Grůber, Jindřich Matoušek, Zdeněk Hanzlíček, Zdeněk Krňoul, Zbyněk Zajíc

Segmental Recurrent Neural Networks for End-to-End Speech Recognition
Liang Lu, Lingpeng Kong, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith, Steve Renals

Acoustic Modeling Using Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Convolutional Units
Markus Nussbaum-Thom, Jia Cui, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Vaibhava Goel

Exploiting Depth and Highway Connections in Convolutional Recurrent Deep Neural Networks for Speech Recognition
Wei-Ning Hsu, Yu Zhang, Ann Lee, James Glass

Stimulated Deep Neural Network for Speech Recognition
Chunyang Wu, Penny Karanasou, Mark J.F. Gales, Khe Chai Sim

Phonetic Context Embeddings for DNN-HMM Phone Recognition
Leonardo Badino

Towards End-to-End Speech Recognition with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Ying Zhang, Mohammad Pezeshki, Philémon Brakel, Saizheng Zhang, César Laurent, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

Joint Speaker and Lexical Modeling for Short-Term Characterization of Speaker
Guangsen Wang, Kong Aik Lee, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Hanwu Sun, Bin Ma

Tandem Features for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification on the RedDots Corpus
Md Jahangir Alam, Patrick Kenny, Vishwa Gupta

Text Dependent Speaker Verification Using Un-Supervised HMM-UBM and Temporal GMM-UBM
Achintya Kr. Sarkar, Zheng-Hua Tan

Utterance Verification for Text-Dependent Speaker Recognition: A Comparative Assessment Using the RedDots Corpus
Tomi Kinnunen, Md. Sahidullah, Ivan Kukanov, Héctor Delgado, Massimiliano Todisco, Achintya Kr. Sarkar, Nicolai Bæk Thomsen, Ville Hautamäki, Nicholas Evans, Zheng-Hua Tan

Parallel Speaker and Content Modelling for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification
Jianbo Ma, Saad Irtza, Kaavya Sriskandaraja, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

i-Vector/HMM Based Text-Dependent Speaker Verification System for RedDots Challenge
Hossein Zeinali, Hossein Sameti, Lukáš Burget, Jan Černocký, Nooshin Maghsoodi, Pavel Matějka

Exploring Session Variability and Template Aging in Speaker Verification for Fixed Phrase Short Utterances
Rohan Kumar Das, Sarfaraz Jelil, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Prediction of the Articulatory Movements of Unseen Phonemes of a Speaker Using the Speech Structure of Another Speaker
Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Vocal Tract Length Normalization for Speaker Independent Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion
Ganesh Sivaraman, Vikramjit Mitra, Hosung Nam, Mark Tiede, Carol Espy-Wilson

Investigation of Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Speech Production Using Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Adam C. Lammert, Christine H. Shadle, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Thomas F. Quatieri

Characterizing Vocal Tract Dynamics Across Speakers Using Real-Time MRI
Tanner Sorensen, Asterios Toutios, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Tracking Contours of Orofacial Articulators from Real-Time MRI of Speech
Mathieu Labrunie, Pierre Badin, Dirk Voit, Arun A. Joseph, Laurent Lamalle, Coriandre Vilain, Louis-Jean Boë, Jens Frahm

State-of-the-Art MRI Protocol for Comprehensive Assessment of Vocal Tract Structure and Function
Sajan Goud Lingala, Asterios Toutios, Johannes Töger, Yongwan Lim, Yinghua Zhu, Yoon-Chul Kim, Colin Vaz, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Krishna S. Nayak

DBN-ivector Framework for Acoustic Emotion Recognition
Rui Xia, Yang Liu

An Investigation of Emotional Speech in Depression Classification
Brian Stasak, Julien Epps, Nicholas Cummins, Roland Goecke

Retrieving Categorical Emotions Using a Probabilistic Framework to Define Preference Learning Samples
Reza Lotfian, Carlos Busso

At the Border of Acoustics and Linguistics: Bag-of-Audio-Words for the Recognition of Emotions in Speech
Maximilian Schmitt, Fabien Ringeval, Björn Schuller

Speech Emotion Recognition Using Affective Saliency
Arodami Chorianopoulou, Polychronis Koutsakis, Alexandros Potamianos

Laughter Valence Prediction in Motivational Interviewing Based on Lexical and Acoustic Cues
Rahul Gupta, Nishant Nath, Taruna Agrawal, Panayiotis Georgiou, David C. Atkins, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Respiratory Belts and Whistles: A Preliminary Study of Breathing Acoustics for Turn-Taking
Marcin Włodarczak, Mattias Heldner

/r/ as Language Marker in Bilingual Speech Production and Perception
Constantijn Kaland, Vincenzo Galatà, Lorenzo Spreafico, Alessandro Vietti

Evaluation of Phonatory Behavior of German and French Speakers in Native and Non-Native Speech
Manfred Pützer, Frank Zimmerer, Wolfgang Wokurek, Jeanin Jügler

Today’s Most Frequently Used F₀ Estimation Methods, and Their Accuracy in Estimating Male and Female Pitch in Clean Speech
Sofia Strömbergsson

A Praat-Based Algorithm to Extract the Amplitude Envelope and Temporal Fine Structure Using the Hilbert Transform
Lei He, Volker Dellwo

Likelihood Ratio Calculation in Acoustic-Phonetic Forensic Voice Comparison: Comparison of Three Statistical Modelling Approaches
Ewald Enzinger

A Sparse Spherical Harmonic-Based Model in Subbands for Head-Related Transfer Functions
Xiaoke Qi, Jianhua Tao

Single-Channel Multi-Speaker Separation Using Deep Clustering
Yusuf Isik, Jonathan Le Roux, Zhuo Chen, Shinji Watanabe, John R. Hershey

Jointly Optimizing Activation Coefficients of Convolutive NMF Using DNN for Speech Separation
Hao Li, Shuai Nie, Xueliang Zhang, Hui Zhang

A Feature Study for Masking-Based Reverberant Speech Separation
Masood Delfarah, DeLiang Wang

Discriminative Layered Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Speech Separation
Chung-Chien Hsu, Tai-Shih Chi, Jen-Tzung Chien

On Discriminative Framework for Single Channel Audio Source Separation
Arpita Gang, Pravesh Biyani

Generating Natural Video Descriptions via Multimodal Processing
Qin Jin, Junwei Liang, Xiaozhu Lin

Feature-Level Decision Fusion for Audio-Visual Word Prominence Detection
Martin Heckmann

Acoustic and Visual Analysis of Expressive Speech: A Case Study of French Acted Speech
Slim Ouni, Vincent Colotte, Sara Dahmani, Soumaya Azzi

Characterization of Audiovisual Dramatic Attitudes
Adela Barbulescu, Rémi Ronfard, Gérard Bailly

Conversational Engagement Recognition Using Auditory and Visual Cues
Yuyun Huang, Emer Gilmartin, Nick Campbell

An Acoustic Analysis of Child-Child and Child-Robot Interactions for Understanding Engagement during Speech-Controlled Computer Games
Theodora Chaspari, Jill Fain Lehman

Auditory-Visual Lexical Tone Perception in Thai Elderly Listeners with and without Hearing Impairment
Benjawan Kasisopa, Chutamanee Onsuwan, Charturong Tantibundhit, Nittayapa Klangpornkun, Suparak Techacharoenrungrueang, Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin, Denis Burnham

Use of Agreement/Disagreement Classification in Dyadic Interactions for Continuous Emotion Recognition
Hossein Khaki, Engin Erzin

Microscopic Multilingual Matrix Test Predictions Using an ASR-Based Speech Recognition Model
Marc René Schädler, David Hülsmeier, Anna Warzybok, Sabine Hochmuth, Birger Kollmeier

DNN-Based Automatic Speech Recognition as a Model for Human Phoneme Perception
Mats Exter, Bernd T. Meyer

Undoing Misperceptions: A Microscopic Analysis of Consistent Confusions Through Signal Modifications
Attila Máté Tóth, Martin Cooke

Blind Non-Intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction Using Twin-HMMs
Mahdie Karbasi, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz, Hendrik Meutzner, Dorothea Kolossa

Misperceptions Arising from Speech-in-Babble Interactions
Attila Máté Tóth, Martin Cooke, Jon Barker

Introducing Temporal Rate Coding for Speech in Cochlear Implants: A Microscopic Evaluation in Humans and Models
Anja Eichenauer, Mathias Dietz, Bernd T. Meyer, Tim Jürgens

Language Effects in Noise-Induced Word Misperceptions
Maria Luisa Garcia Lecumberri, Jon Barker, Ricard Marxer, Martin Cooke

Speech Reductions Cause a De-Weighting of Secondary Acoustic Cues
Léo Varnet, Fanny Meunier, Michel Hoen

Using Phonologically Weighted Levenshtein Distances for the Prediction of Microscopic Intelligibility
Lionel Fontan, Isabelle Ferrané, Jérôme Farinas, Julien Pinquier, Xavier Aumont

The Impact of Manner of Articulation on the Intelligibility of Voicing Contrast in Noise: Cross-Linguistic Implications
Mayuki Matsui

Directly Comparing the Listening Strategies of Humans and Machines
Michael I. Mandel

LSTM-Based NeuroCRFs for Named Entity Recognition
Marc-Antoine Rondeau, Yi Su

Exploring Word Mover’s Distance and Semantic-Aware Embedding Techniques for Extractive Broadcast News Summarization
Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, Wen-Lian Hsu

Improved Neural Bag-of-Words Model to Retrieve Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Speech Recognition
Imran Sheikh, Irina Illina, Dominique Fohr, Georges Linarès

Beyond Utterance Extraction: Summary Recombination for Speech Summarization
Jérémy Trione, Benoit Favre, Frederic Bechet

Attention-Based Recurrent Neural Network Models for Joint Intent Detection and Slot Filling
Bing Liu, Ian Lane

Domain Adaptation of Recurrent Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding
Aaron Jaech, Larry Heck, Mari Ostendorf

LatticeRnn: Recurrent Neural Networks Over Lattices
Faisal Ladhak, Ankur Gandhe, Markus Dreyer, Lambert Mathias, Ariya Rastrow, Björn Hoffmeister

Learning Document Representations Using Subspace Multinomial Model
Santosh Kesiraju, Lukáš Burget, Igor Szőke, Jan Černocký

Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Classification
Zhiwei Zhao, Youzheng Wu

Spoken Language Understanding in a Latent Topic-Based Subspace
Mohamed Morchid, Mohamed Bouaziz, Waad Ben Kheder, Killian Janod, Pierre-Michel Bousquet, Richard Dufour, Georges Linarès

Multi-Domain Joint Semantic Frame Parsing Using Bi-Directional RNN-LSTM
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yun-Nung Chen, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng, Ye-Yi Wang

Deep Stacked Autoencoders for Spoken Language Understanding
Killian Janod, Mohamed Morchid, Richard Dufour, Georges Linarès, Renato De Mori

Labeled Data Generation with Encoder-Decoder LSTM for Semantic Slot Filling
Gakuto Kurata, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou

Exploring the Correlation of Pitch Accents and Semantic Slots for Spoken Language Understanding
Sabrina Stehwien, Ngoc Thang Vu

Analysis on Gated Recurrent Unit Based Question Detection Approach
Yaodong Tang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Mingxing Xu, Lianhong Cai

Combining State-Level Spotting and Posterior-Based Acoustic Match for Improved Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection
Shuji Oishi, Tatsuya Matsuba, Mitsuaki Makino, Atsuhiko Kai

A Novel Discriminative Score Calibration Method for Keyword Search
Zhiqiang Lv, Meng Cai, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Jia Liu

Segmented Dynamic Time Warping for Spoken Query-by-Example Search
Jorge Proença, Fernando Perdigão

Generating Complementary Acoustic Model Spaces in DNN-Based Sequence-to-Frame DTW Scheme for Out-of-Vocabulary Spoken Term Detection
Shi-wook Lee, Kazuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Itoh

Multi-Task Learning and Weighted Cross-Entropy for DNN-Based Keyword Spotting
Sankaran Panchapagesan, Ming Sun, Aparna Khare, Spyros Matsoukas, Arindam Mandal, Björn Hoffmeister, Shiv Vitaladevuni

Audio Word2Vec: Unsupervised Learning of Audio Segment Representations Using Sequence-to-Sequence Autoencoder
Yu-An Chung, Chao-Chung Wu, Chia-Hao Shen, Hung-Yi Lee, Lin-Shan Lee

Non-Uniform Boosted MCE Training of Deep Neural Networks for Keyword Spotting
Zhong Meng, Biing-Hwang Juang

Language Model Data Augmentation for Keyword Spotting in Low-Resourced Training Conditions
Arseniy Gorin, Rasa Lileikytė, Guangpu Huang, Lori Lamel, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Antoine Laurent

STON: Efficient Subtitling in Dutch Using State-of-the-Art Tools
Lyan Verwimp, Brecht Desplanques, Kris Demuynck, Joris Pelemans, Marieke Lycke, Patrick Wambacq

An Automatic Training Tool for Air Traffic Control Training
Petr Stanislav, Luboš Šmídl, Jan Švec

Digitala: An Augmented Test and Review Process Prototype for High-Stakes Spoken Foreign Language Examination
Reima Karhila, Aku Rouhe, Peter Smit, André Mansikkaniemi, Heini Kallio, Erik Lindroos, Raili Hildén, Martti Vainio, Mikko Kurimo

Exploring Collections of Multimedia Archives Through Innovative Interfaces in the Context of Digital Humanities
Géraldine Damnati, Delphine Charlet, Marc Denjean

Learning Neural Network Representations Using Cross-Lingual Bottleneck Features with Word-Pair Information
Yougen Yuan, Cheung-Chi Leung, Lei Xie, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Novel Front-End Features Based on Neural Graph Embeddings for DNN-HMM and LSTM-CTC Acoustic Modeling
Yuzong Liu, Katrin Kirchhoff

Articulatory Feature Extraction Using CTC to Build Articulatory Classifiers Without Forced Frame Alignments for Speech Recognition
Basil Abraham, S. Umesh, Neethu Mariam Joy

On the Role of Nonlinear Transformations in Deep Neural Network Acoustic Models
Tasha Nagamine, Michael L. Seltzer, Nima Mesgarani

Complex Linear Projection (CLP): A Discriminative Approach to Joint Feature Extraction and Acoustic Modeling
Ehsan Variani, Tara N. Sainath, Izhak Shafran, Michiel Bacchiani

Modeling Time-Frequency Patterns with LSTM vs. Convolutional Architectures for LVCSR Tasks
Tara N. Sainath, Bo Li

The Speakers in the Wild (SITW) Speaker Recognition Database
Mitchell McLaren, Luciana Ferrer, Diego Castan, Aaron Lawson

The 2016 Speakers in the Wild Speaker Recognition Evaluation
Mitchell McLaren, Luciana Ferrer, Diego Castan, Aaron Lawson

Analysis of Speaker Recognition Systems in Realistic Scenarios of the SITW 2016 Challenge
Ondřej Novotný, Pavel Matějka, Oldřich Plchot, Ondřej Glembek, Lukáš Burget, Jan Černocký

A Speaker Recognition System for the SITW Challenge
Oleg Kudashev, Sergey Novoselov, Konstantin Simonchik, Alexandr Kozlov

Speakers In The Wild (SITW): The QUT Speaker Recognition System
H. Ghaemmaghami, M.H. Rahman, Ivan Himawan, David Dean, Ahilan Kanagasundaram, Sridha Sridharan, Clinton Fookes

AUT System for SITW Speaker Recognition Challenge
Abbas Khosravani, Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour

LIA System for the SITW Speaker Recognition Challenge
Waad Ben Kheder, Moez Ajili, Pierre-Michel Bousquet, Driss Matrouf, Jean-François Bonastre

Investigating Various Diarization Algorithms for Speaker in the Wild (SITW) Speaker Recognition Challenge
Yi Liu, Yao Tian, Liang He, Jia Liu

Does the Importance of Word-Initial and Word-Final Information Differ in Native versus Non-Native Spoken-Word Recognition?
Odette Scharenborg, Juul Coumans, Sofoklis Kakouros, Roeland van Hout

The Effect of Sentence Accent on Non-Native Speech Perception in Noise
Odette Scharenborg, Elea Kolkman, Sofoklis Kakouros, Brechtje Post

The Effects of Modified Speech Styles on Intelligibility for Non-Native Listeners
Martin Cooke, Maria Luisa Garcia Lecumberri

The Influence of Language Experience on the Categorical Perception of Vowels: Evidence from Mandarin and Korean
Hao Zhang, Fei Chen, Nan Yan, Lan Wang, Feng Shi, Manwa L. Ng

Multiple Influences on Vocabulary Acquisition: Parental Input Dominates
Dominic W. Massaro

Can Intensive Exposure to Foreign Language Sounds Affect the Perception of Native Sounds?
Jian Gong, Maria Luisa Garcia Lecumberri, Martin Cooke

Privacy-Preserving Speech Analytics for Automatic Assessment of Student Collaboration
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Speech Likability and Personality-Based Social Relations: A Round-Robin Analysis over Communication Channels
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Behavioral Coding of Therapist Language in Addiction Counseling Using Recurrent Neural Networks
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Factor Analysis Based Speaker Normalisation for Continuous Emotion Prediction
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Subspace Detection of DNN Posterior Probabilities via Sparse Representation for Query by Example Spoken Term Detection
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Unsupervised Bottleneck Features for Low-Resource Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection
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A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach for Spoken Term Detection by Example Query
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Rescoring Hypothesized Detections of Out-of-Vocabulary Keywords Using Subword Samples
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Unrestricted Vocabulary Keyword Spotting Using LSTM-CTC
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Interactive Spoken Content Retrieval by Deep Reinforcement Learning
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Relating Estimated Cyclic Spectral Peak Frequency to Measured Epilarynx Length Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion Mapping Based on Latent Trajectory Gaussian Mixture Model
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Formant Estimation and Tracking Using Deep Learning
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Convex Hull Convolutive Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Uncovering Temporal Patterns in Multivariate Time-Series Data
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Majorisation-Minimisation Based Optimisation of the Composite Autoregressive System with Application to Glottal Inverse Filtering
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F₀ Contour Analysis Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition for DNN Acoustic Modeling in Mandarin Speech Recognition
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Vowels and Diphthongs in Cangnan Southern Min Chinese Dialect
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Diphthongization of Nuclear Vowels and the Emergence of a Tetraphthong in Hetang Cantonese
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PhonVoc: A Phonetic and Phonological Vocoding Toolkit
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Vowels and Diphthongs in the Taiyuan Jin Chinese Dialect
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The Effects of Prosody on French V-to-V Coarticulation: A Corpus-Based Study
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An Acoustic Analysis of /r/ in Tyrolean
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Hyperarticulated Production of Korean Glides by Age Group
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Coda Stop and Taiwan Min Checked Tone Sound Changes
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Prosodic Convergence with Spoken Stimuli in Laboratory Data
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Effects of Stress on Fricatives: Evidence from Standard Modern Greek
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Analysis of Chinese Syllable Durations in Running Speech of Japanese L2 Learners
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Automatic Paragraph Segmentation with Lexical and Prosodic Features
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Automatic Glottal Inverse Filtering with Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
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Speaker Identity and Voice Quality: Modeling Human Responses and Automatic Speaker Recognition
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Analysis of Glottal Stop in Assam Sora Language
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Acoustic Differences Between English /t/ Glottalization and Phrasal Creak
Marc Garellek, Scott Seyfarth

The Acoustics of Lexical Stress in Italian as a Function of Stress Level and Speaking Style
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Cross-Gender and Cross-Dialect Tone Recognition for Vietnamese
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Prosody Modification Using Allpass Residual of Speech Signals
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A Longitudinal Study of Children’s Intonation in Narrative Speech
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Velum Control for Oral Sounds
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F0 Development in Acquiring Korean Stop Distinction
Gayeon Son

Phonetic Reduction Can Lead to Lengthening, and Enhancement Can Lead to Shortening
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Mechanical Production of [b], [m] and [w] Using Controlled Labial and Velopharyngeal Gestures
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An Improved 3D Geometric Tongue Model
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Congruency Effect Between Articulation and Grasping in Native English Speakers
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Emergence of Vocal Developmental Sequences in a Predictive Coding Model of Speech Acquisition
Shamima Najnin, Bonny Banerjee

Categorization of Natural Spanish Whistled Vowels by Naïve Spanish Listeners
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Between- and Within-Speaker Effects of Bilingualism on F0 Variation
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Vowel Characteristics in the Assessment of L2 English Pronunciation
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Kulning (Swedish Cattle Calls): Acoustic, EGG, Stroboscopic and High-Speed Video Analyses of an Unusual Singing Style
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Glottal Squeaks in VC Sequences
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Automatic Pronunciation Generation by Utilizing a Semi-Supervised Deep Neural Networks
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Personalized Natural Language Understanding
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A Sequence-to-Sequence Model for User Simulation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
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Root Cause Analysis of Miscommunication Hotspots in Spoken Dialogue Systems
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Making Personal Digital Assistants Aware of What They Do Not Know
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Perceived Usability and Cognitive Demand of Secondary Tasks in Spoken Versus Visual-Manual Automotive Interaction
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Zara: An Empathetic Interactive Virtual Agent
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Measuring Pronunciation Improvement in Users of CAPT Tool TipTopTalk!
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SparkNG: Interactive MATLAB Tools for Introduction to Speech Production, Perception and Processing Fundamentals and Application of the Aliasing-Free L-F Model Component
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Real-Time Tracking of Speakers’ Emotions, States, and Traits on Mobile Platforms
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Speaker Comparison for Forensic and Investigative Applications II
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Acoustic-Prosodic and Turn-Taking Features in Interactions with Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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Automatic Detection of Parkinson’s Disease Based on Modulated Vowels
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Towards Automatic Detection of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis from Speech Acoustic and Articulatory Samples
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Neurophysiological Vocal Source Modeling for Biomarkers of Disease
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Relation of Automatically Extracted Formant Trajectories with Intelligibility Loss and Speaking Rate Decline in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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Automatic Analysis of Typical and Atypical Encoding of Spontaneous Emotion in the Voice of Children
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Recognition of Depression in Bipolar Disorder: Leveraging Cohort and Person-Specific Knowledge
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Diagnosing People with Dementia Using Automatic Conversation Analysis
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SERAPHIM: A Wavetable Synthesis System with 3D Lip Animation for Real-Time Speech and Singing Applications on Mobile Platforms
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Expressive Singing Synthesis Based on Unit Selection for the Singing Synthesis Challenge 2016
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Vocal Effort Modification for Singing Synthesis
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Bertsokantari: a TTS Based Singing Synthesis System
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Evaluation of Singing Synthesis: Methodology and Case Study with Concatenative and Performative Systems
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Expressive Control of Singing Voice Synthesis Using Musical Contexts and a Parametric F0 Model
Luc Ardaillon, Celine Chabot-Canet, Axel Roebel

Optimal Unit Stitching in a Unit Selection Singing Synthesis System
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The Perception of Overlapping Speech: Effects of Speaker Prosody and Listener Attitudes
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Who Do You Think Will Speak Next? Perception of Turn-Taking Cues in Slovak and Argentine Spanish
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Disentrainment may be a Positive Thing: A Novel Measure of Unsigned Acoustic-Prosodic Synchrony, and its Relation to Speaker Engagement
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Respiratory Turn-Taking Cues
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The Discourse Marker “so” in Turn-Taking and Turn-Releasing Behavior
Emma Rennie, Rebecca Lunsford, Peter A. Heeman

Acoustic Properties of Formality in Conversational Japanese
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Inferring Phonemic Classes from CNN Activation Maps Using Clustering Techniques
Thomas Pellegrini, Sandrine Mouysset

Joint Learning of Speaker and Phonetic Similarities with Siamese Networks
Neil Zeghidour, Gabriel Synnaeve, Nicolas Usunier, Emmanuel Dupoux

Unsupervised Learning of Acoustic Units Using Autoencoders and Kohonen Nets
Vikramjit Mitra, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco

Learning Multiscale Features Directly from Waveforms
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Supervised Learning of Acoustic Models in a Zero Resource Setting to Improve DPGMM Clustering
Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Semi-Supervised and Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer Learnings for DNN Hybrid Acoustic Models Under Low-Resource Conditions
Haihua Xu, Hang Su, Chongjia Ni, Xiong Xiao, Hao Huang, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Recurrent Out-of-Vocabulary Word Detection Using Distribution of Features
Taichi Asami, Ryo Masumura, Yushi Aono, Koichi Shinoda

Investigation of Semi-Supervised Acoustic Model Training Based on the Committee of Heterogeneous Neural Networks
Naoyuki Kanda, Shoji Harada, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai

Acoustic Word Embeddings for ASR Error Detection
Sahar Ghannay, Yannick Estève, Nathalie Camelin, Paul Deléglise

Combining Semantic Word Classes and Sub-Word Unit Speech Recognition for Robust OOV Detection
Axel Horndasch, Anton Batliner, Caroline Kaufhold, Elmar Nöth

Web Data Selection Based on Word Embedding for Low-Resource Speech Recognition
Chuandong Xie, Wu Guo, Guoping Hu, Junhua Liu

Colloquialising Modern Standard Arabic Text for Improved Speech Recognition
Sarah Al-Shareef, Thomas Hain

Pitch-Range Perception: The Dynamic Interaction Between Voice Quality and Fundamental Frequency
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Comparing the Contributions of Amplitude and Phase to Speech Intelligibility in a Vocoder-Based Speech Synthesis Model
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Modeling Noise Influence to Speech Intelligibility Non-Intrusively by Reduced Speech Dynamic Range
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Do GMM Phoneme Classifiers Perceive Synthetic Sibilants as Humans Do?
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Neural Responses to Speech-Specific Modulations Derived from a Spectro-Temporal Filter Bank
Marina Frye, Cristiano Micheli, Inga M. Schepers, Gerwin Schalk, Jochem W. Rieger, Bernd T. Meyer

Comparing Different Methods for Analyzing ERP Signals
Kimberley Mulder, Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves

Supplementary Motor Area Activation in Disfluency Perception: An fMRI Study of Listener Neural Responses to Spontaneously Produced Unfilled and Filled Pauses
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Vowel Fundamental and Formant Frequency Contributions to English and Mandarin Sentence Intelligibility
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Attention Assisted Discovery of Sub-Utterance Structure in Speech Emotion Recognition
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Combining CNN and BLSTM to Extract Textual and Acoustic Features for Recognizing Stances in Mandarin Ideological Debate Competition
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Inter-Speech Clicks in an Interspeech Keynote
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Speaker Age Classification and Regression Using i-Vectors
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Sparsely Connected and Disjointly Trained Deep Neural Networks for Low Resource Behavioral Annotation: Acoustic Classification in Couples’ Therapy
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Automatically Classifying Self-Rated Personality Scores from Speech
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Estimation of Children’s Physical Characteristics from Their Voices
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Talking to a System and Talking to a Human: A Study from a Speech-to-Speech, Machine Translation Mediated Map Task
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Predicting Affective Dimensions Based on Self Assessed Depression Severity
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Enhancement of Automatic Oral Presentation Assessment System Using Latent N-Grams Word Representation and Part-of-Speech Information
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Use of Vowels in Discriminating Speech-Laugh from Laughter and Neutral Speech
Sri Harsha Dumpala, P. Gangamohan, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana

A Convex Model for Linguistic Influence in Group Conversations
Kan Kawabata, Visar Berisha, Anna Scaglione, Amy LaCross

A Deep Learning Approach to Modeling Empathy in Addiction Counseling
James Gibson, Doğan Can, Bo Xiao, Zac E. Imel, David C. Atkins, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Unipolar Depression vs. Bipolar Disorder: An Elicitation-Based Approach to Short-Term Detection of Mood Disorder
Kun-Yi Huang, Chung-Hsien Wu, Yu-Ting Kuo, Fong-Lin Jang

Conditional Random Fields for the Tunisian Dialect Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
Abir Masmoudi, Mariem Ellouze, Fethi Bougares, Yannick Esètve, Lamia Belguith

Efficient Thai Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Using CRF-Based Joint Sequence Modeling
Sittipong Saychum, Sarawoot Kongyoung, Anocha Rugchatjaroen, Patcharika Chootrakool, Sawit Kasuriya, Chai Wutiwiwatchai

An Articulatory-Based Singing Voice Synthesis Using Tongue and Lips Imaging
Aurore Jaumard-Hakoun, Kele Xu, Clémence Leboullenger, Pierre Roussel-Ragot, Bruce Denby

Phoneme Embedding and its Application to Speech Driven Talking Avatar Synthesis
Xu Li, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Xiaoyan Lou, Lianhong Cai

Expressive Speech Driven Talking Avatar Synthesis with DBLSTM Using Limited Amount of Emotional Bimodal Data
Xu Li, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Xiaoyan Lou, Lianhong Cai

Audio-to-Visual Speech Conversion Using Deep Neural Networks
Sarah Taylor, Akihiro Kato, Iain Matthews, Ben Milner

Generative Acoustic-Phonemic-Speaker Model Based on Three-Way Restricted Boltzmann Machine
Toru Nakashika, Yasuhiro Minami

Articulatory Synthesis Based on Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data
Asterios Toutios, Tanner Sorensen, Krishna Somandepalli, Rachel Alexander, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Deep Neural Network Based Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion Using Phone Sequence Information
Xurong Xie, Xunying Liu, Lan Wang

Articulatory-to-Acoustic Conversion with Cascaded Prediction of Spectral and Excitation Features Using Neural Networks
Zheng-Chen Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Li-Rong Dai

Generating Gestural Scores from Acoustics Through a Sparse Anchor-Based Representation of Speech
Christopher Liberatore, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

On the Suitability of Vocalic Sandwiches in a Corpus-Based TTS Engine
David Guennec, Damien Lolive

Unsupervised Stress Information Labeling Using Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model for Statistical Speech Synthesis
Decha Moungsri, Tomoki Koriyama, Takao Kobayashi

Using Zero-Frequency Resonator to Extract Multilingual Intonation Structure
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

A DNN-HMM Approach to Story Segmentation
Jia Yu, Xiong Xiao, Lei Xie, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

The SIWIS Database: A Multilingual Speech Database with Acted Emphasis
Jean-Philippe Goldman, Pierre-Edouard Honnet, Rob Clark, Philip N. Garner, Maria Ivanova, Alexandros Lazaridis, Hui Liang, Tiago Macedo, Beat Pfister, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Eric Wehrli, Junichi Yamagishi

Open Source Speech and Language Resources for Frisian
Emre Yılmaz, Henk van den Heuvel, Jelske Dijkstra, Hans Van de Velde, Frederik Kampstra, Jouke Algra, David Van Leeuwen

The SRI CLEO Speaker-State Corpus
Andreas Kathol, Elizabeth Shriberg, Massimilano de Zambotti

SingaKids-Mandarin: Speech Corpus of Singaporean Children Speaking Mandarin Chinese
Nancy F. Chen, Rong Tong, Darren Wee, Peixuan Lee, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

The SRI Speech-Based Collaborative Learning Corpus
Colleen Richey, Cynthia D’Angelo, Nonye Alozie, Harry Bratt, Elizabeth Shriberg

An Expectation Maximization Approach to Joint Modeling of Multidimensional Ratings Derived from Multiple Annotators
Anil Ramakrishna, Rahul Gupta, Ruth B. Grossman, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Voting Detector: A Combination of Anomaly Detectors to Reveal Annotation Errors in TTS Corpora
Jindřich Matoušek, Daniel Tihelka

The Magic Stone: A Video Game to Improve Communication Skills of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Mario Corrales-Astorgano, David Escudero-Mancebo, César González-Ferreras, Yurena Gutiérrez-González, Valle Flores-Lucas, Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo, Lourdes Aguilar-Cuevas

Identifying Perceptually Similar Voices with a Speaker Recognition System Using Auto-Phonetic Features
Finnian Kelly, Anil Alexander, Oscar Forth, Samuel Kent, Jonas Lindh, Joel Åkesson

A Real-Time Framework for Visual Feedback of Articulatory Data Using Statistical Shape Models
Kristy James, Alexander Hewer, Ingmar Steiner, Stefanie Wuhrer

Flexible, Rapid Authoring of Goal-Orientated, Multi-Turn Dialogues Using the Task Completion Platform
Alex Marin, Paul Crook, Omar Zia Khan, Vasiliy Radostev, Khushboo Aggarwal, Ruhi Sarikaya

Context Adaptive Neural Network for Rapid Adaptation of Deep CNN Based Acoustic Models
Marc Delcroix, Keisuke Kinoshita, Atsunori Ogawa, Takuya Yoshioka, Dung T. Tran, Tomohiro Nakatani

Transfer Learning with Bottleneck Feature Networks for Whispered Speech Recognition
Boon Pang Lim, Faith Wong, Yuyao Li, Jia Wei Bay

Adaptation of Neural Networks Constrained by Prior Statistics of Node Co-Activations
Tasha Nagamine, Zhuo Chen, Nima Mesgarani

Domain Adaptation of CNN Based Acoustic Models Under Limited Resource Settings
Masayuki Suzuki, Ryuki Tachibana, Samuel Thomas, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, George Saon

Subspace LHUC for Fast Adaptation of Deep Neural Network Acoustic Models
Lahiru Samarakoon, Khe Chai Sim

Improving Children’s Speech Recognition Through Out-of-Domain Data Augmentation
Joachim Fainberg, Peter Bell, Mike Lincoln, Steve Renals

Virtual Machines and Containers as a Platform for Experimentation
Florian Metze, Eric Riebling, Anne S. Warlaumont, Elika Bergelson

CloudCAST — Remote Speech Technology for Speech Professionals
Phil Green, Ricard Marxer, Stuart Cunningham, Heidi Christensen, Frank Rudzicz, Maria Yancheva, André Coy, Massimiliano Malavasi, Lorenzo Desideri, Fabio Tamburini

webASR 2 — Improved Cloud Based Speech Technology
Thomas Hain, Jeremy Christian, Oscar Saz, Salil Deena, Madina Hasan, Raymond W.M. Ng, Rosanna Milner, Mortaza Doulaty, Yulan Liu

Sharing Speech Synthesis Software for Research and Education Within Low-Tech and Low-Resource Communities
Andrew R. Plummer, Mary E. Beckman

The Berkeley Phonetics Machine
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Experiences with Shared Resources for Research and Education in Speech and Language Processing
Rebecca Bates, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Florian Metze, Martha Larson, Gina-Anne Levow, Emily Mower Provost

The Voice Conversion Challenge 2016
Tomoki Toda, Ling-Hui Chen, Daisuke Saito, Fernando Villavicencio, Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi

Analysis of the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016 Evaluation Results
Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi

The USTC System for Voice Conversion Challenge 2016: Neural Network Based Approaches for Spectrum, Aperiodicity and F₀ Conversion
Ling-Hui Chen, Li-Juan Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yuan Jiang, Li-Rong Dai

A Voice Conversion Mapping Function Based on a Stacked Joint-Autoencoder
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

Locally Linear Embedding for Exemplar-Based Spectral Conversion
Yi-Chiao Wu, Hsin-Te Hwang, Chin-Cheng Hsu, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang

Applying Spectral Normalisation and Efficient Envelope Estimation and Statistical Transformation for the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016
Fernando Villavicencio, Junichi Yamagishi, Jordi Bonada, Felipe Espic

ML Parameter Generation with a Reformulated MGE Training Criterion — Participation in the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016
D. Erro, A. Alonso, L. Serrano, D. Tavarez, I. Odriozola, Xabier Sarasola, Eder del Blanco, J. Sanchez, I. Saratxaga, Eva Navas, Inma Hernaez

The NU-NAIST Voice Conversion System for the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016
Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Satoshi Nakamura, Tomoki Toda

Release from Energetic Masking Caused by Repeated Patterns of Glimpsing Windows
Maury Lander-Portnoy

Glimpsing Predictions for Natural and Vocoded Sentence Intelligibility During Modulation Masking: Effect of the Glimpse Cutoff Criterion
Bobby Gibbs, Daniel Fogerty

Temporal Envelopes in Sine-Wave Speech Recognition
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Understanding Periodically Interrupted Mandarin Speech
Jing Liu, Rosanna H.N. Tong, Fei Chen

Factors Affecting the Intelligibility of Sine-Wave Speech
Fei Chen, Daniel Fogerty

Effects of Urgent Speech and Preceding Sounds on Speech Intelligibility in Noisy and Reverberant Environments
Nao Hodoshima

Integrated Spoofing Countermeasures and Automatic Speaker Verification: An Evaluation on ASVspoof 2015
Md. Sahidullah, Héctor Delgado, Massimiliano Todisco, Hong Yu, Tomi Kinnunen, Nicholas Evans, Zheng-Hua Tan

Cross-Database Evaluation of Audio-Based Spoofing Detection Systems
Pavel Korshunov, Sébastien Marcel

Investigation of Sub-Band Discriminative Information Between Spoofed and Genuine Speech
Kaavya Sriskandaraja, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Phu Ngoc Le, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

An Investigation of Spoofing Speech Detection Under Additive Noise and Reverberant Conditions
Xiaohai Tian, Zhizheng Wu, Xiong Xiao, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Robust Speaker Recognition with Combined Use of Acoustic and Throat Microphone Speech
Md. Sahidullah, Rosa Gonzalez Hautamäki, Dennis Alexander Lehmann Thomsen, Tomi Kinnunen, Zheng-Hua Tan, Ville Hautamäki, Robert Parts, Martti Pitkänen

Statistical Modeling of Speaker’s Voice with Temporal Co-Location for Active Voice Authentication
Zhong Meng, Biing-Hwang Juang

Joint Enhancement and Coding of Speech by Incorporating Wiener Filtering in a CELP Codec
Johannes Fischer, Tom Bäckström

Multi-Channel Linear Prediction Based on Binaural Coherence for Speech Dereverberation
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Single-Channel Speech Enhancement Using Double Spectrum
Martin Blass, Pejman Mowlaee, W. Bastiaan Kleijn

On the Appropriateness of Complex-Valued Neural Networks for Speech Enhancement
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Introducing the Turbo-Twin-HMM for Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement
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Assessing Speech Quality in Speech-Aware Hearing Aids Based on Phoneme Posteriorgrams
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Time-Varying Quasi-Closed-Phase Weighted Linear Prediction Analysis of Speech for Accurate Formant Detection and Tracking
Dhananjaya Gowda, Paavo Alku

Improved Depiction of Tissue Boundaries in Vocal Tract Real-Time MRI Using Automatic Off-Resonance Correction
Yongwan Lim, Sajan Goud Lingala, Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Krishna S. Nayak

Modeling and Transforming Speech Using Variational Autoencoders
Merlijn Blaauw, Jordi Bonada

Phase-Encoded Speech Spectrograms
Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Towards Minimally Invasive Velar State Detection in Normal and Silent Speech
Peter Birkholz, Petko Bakardjiev, Steffen Kürbis, Rico Petrick

RNN-BLSTM Based Multi-Pitch Estimation
Jianshu Zhang, Jian Tang, Li-Rong Dai

TUSK: A Framework for Overviewing the Performance of F0 Estimators
Masanori Morise, Hideki Kawahara

A Robust Non-Parametric and Filtering Based Approach for Glottal Closure Instant Detection
Pradeep Rengaswamy, Gurunath Reddy M., K. Sreenivasa Rao, Pallab Dasgupta

Analysis of Face Mask Effect on Speaker Recognition
Rahim Saeidi, Ilkka Huhtakallio, Paavo Alku

Data Selection for Within-Class Covariance Estimation
Elliot Singer, Tyler Campbell, Douglas Reynolds

Inter-Task System Fusion for Speaker Recognition
M. Ferras, Srikanth Madikeri, S. Dey, Petr Motlicek, Hervé Bourlard

Mahalanobis Metric Scoring Learned from Weighted Pairwise Constraints in I-Vector Speaker Recognition System
Zhenchun Lei, Yanhong Wan, Jian Luo, Yingen Yang

Novel Subband Autoencoder Features for Detection of Spoofed Speech
Meet H. Soni, Tanvina B. Patel, Hemant A. Patil

On the Issue of Calibration in DNN-Based Speaker Recognition Systems
Mitchell McLaren, Diego Castan, Luciana Ferrer, Aaron Lawson

Probabilistic Approach Using Joint Long and Short Session i-Vectors Modeling to Deal with Short Utterances for Speaker Recognition
Waad Ben Kheder, Driss Matrouf, Moez Ajili, Jean-François Bonastre

Short Utterance Variance Modelling and Utterance Partitioning for PLDA Speaker Verification
Ahilan Kanagasundaram, David Dean, Sridha Sridharan, Clinton Fookes, Ivan Himawan

Speaker-Dependent Dictionary-Based Speech Enhancement for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification
Nicolai Bæk Thomsen, Dennis Alexander Lehmann Thomsen, Zheng-Hua Tan, Børge Lindberg, Søren Holdt Jensen

Text-Available Speaker Recognition System for Forensic Applications
Chengzhu Yu, Chunlei Zhang, Finnian Kelly, Abhijeet Sangwan, John H.L. Hansen

Transfer Learning for Speaker Verification on Short Utterances
Qingyang Hong, Lin Li, Lihong Wan, Jun Zhang, Feng Tong

Twin Model G-PLDA for Duration Mismatch Compensation in Text-Independent Speaker Verification
Jianbo Ma, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Kong Aik Lee

Universal Background Sparse Coding and Multilayer Bootstrap Network for Speaker Clustering
Xiao-Lei Zhang

Improving Deep Neural Networks Based Speaker Verification Using Unlabeled Data
Yao Tian, Meng Cai, Liang He, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Jia Liu

Maximum a posteriori Based Decoding for CTC Acoustic Models
Naoyuki Kanda, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai

Phonetic and Phonological Posterior Search Space Hashing Exploiting Class-Specific Sparsity Structures
Afsaneh Asaei, Gil Luyet, Milos Cernak, Hervé Bourlard

Model Compression Applied to Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting
George Tucker, Minhua Wu, Ming Sun, Sankaran Panchapagesan, Gengshen Fu, Shiv Vitaladevuni

Why do ASR Systems Despite Neural Nets Still Depend on Robust Features
Angel Mario Castro Martinez, Marc René Schädler

An Adaptive Multi-Band System for Low Power Voice Command Recognition
Qing He, Gregory W. Wornell, Wei Ma

Memory-Efficient Modeling and Search Techniques for Hardware ASR Decoders
Michael Price, Anantha Chandrakasan, James Glass

Log-Linear System Combination Using Structured Support Vector Machines
J. Yang, Anton Ragni, Mark J.F. Gales, Kate M. Knill

Efficient Segmental Cascades for Speech Recognition
Hao Tang, Weiran Wang, Kevin Gimpel, Karen Livescu

A WFST Framework for Single-Pass Multi-Stream Decoding
Sirui Xu, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Comparison of Multiple System Combination Techniques for Keyword Spotting
William Hartmann, Le Zhang, Kerri Barnes, Roger Hsiao, Stavros Tsakalidis, Richard Schwartz

Rescoring by Combination of Posteriorgram Score and Subword-Matching Score for Use in Query-by-Example
Masato Obara, Kazunori Kojima, Kazuyo Tanaka, Shi-wook Lee, Yoshiaki Itoh

Phone Synchronous Decoding with CTC Lattice
Zhehuai Chen, Wei Deng, Tao Xu, Kai Yu

Speech Features for Depression Detection
Saurabh Sahu, Carol Espy-Wilson

Parkinson’s Disease Progression Assessment from Speech Using GMM-UBM
T. Arias-Vergara, J.C. Vasquez-Correa, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, J.F. Vargas-Bonilla, Elmar Nöth

Speech-Based Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease in Conversational German
Jochen Weiner, Christian Herff, Tanja Schultz

Cross-Cultural Depression Recognition from Vocal Biomarkers
Sharifa Alghowinem, Roland Goecke, Julien Epps, Michael Wagner, Jeffrey Cohn

Speech Recognition in Alzheimer’s Disease and in its Assessment
Luke Zhou, Kathleen C. Fraser, Frank Rudzicz

Does She Speak RTT? Towards an Earlier Identification of Rett Syndrome Through Intelligent Pre-Linguistic Vocalisation Analysis
Florian B. Pokorny, Peter B. Marschik, Christa Einspieler, Björn Schuller

Speech Rhythm in Parkinson’s Disease: A Study on Italian
Massimo Pettorino, Maria Grazia Busà, Elisa Pellegrino

English Language Speech Assistant
Xavier Anguera, Vu Van

Remeeting — Deep Insights to Conversations
Allen Guo, Arlo Faria, Korbinian Riedhammer

SERAPHIM Live! — Singing Synthesis for the Performer, the Composer, and the 3D Game Developer
Paul Yaozhu Chan, Minghui Dong, Grace Xue Hui Ho, Haizhou Li

My-Own-Voice: A Web Service That Allows You to Create a Text-to-Speech Voice From Your Own Voice
Fabrice Malfrere, Olivier Deroo, Emmanuelle Franques, Jonathan Hourez, Nicolas Mazars, Vincent Pagel, Geoffrey Wilfart

Talking with Kids Really Matters: Early Language Experience Shapes Later Life Chances
Anne Fernald

Reducing the Computational Complexity of Multimicrophone Acoustic Models with Integrated Feature Extraction
Tara N. Sainath, Arun Narayanan, Ron J. Weiss, Ehsan Variani, Kevin W. Wilson, Michiel Bacchiani, Izhak Shafran

Neural Network Adaptive Beamforming for Robust Multichannel Speech Recognition
Bo Li, Tara N. Sainath, Ron J. Weiss, Kevin W. Wilson, Michiel Bacchiani

Improved MVDR Beamforming Using Single-Channel Mask Prediction Networks
Hakan Erdogan, John R. Hershey, Shinji Watanabe, Michael I. Mandel, Jonathan Le Roux

Channel Selection for Distant Speech Recognition Exploiting Cepstral Distance
Cristina Guerrero, Georgina Tryfou, Maurizio Omologo

Multichannel Spatial Clustering for Robust Far-Field Automatic Speech Recognition in Mismatched Conditions
Michael I. Mandel, Jon Barker

Far-Field ASR Without Parallel Data
Vijayaditya Peddinti, Vimal Manohar, Yiming Wang, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

The INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Deception, Sincerity & Native Language
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Julia Hirschberg, Judee K. Burgoon, Alice Baird, Aaron Elkins, Yue Zhang, Eduardo Coutinho, Keelan Evanini

The Deception Sub-Challenge: The Data
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Julia Hirschberg, Judee K. Burgoon, Alice Baird, Aaron Elkins, Yue Zhang, Eduardo Coutinho, Keelan Evanini

Combining Acoustic-Prosodic, Lexical, and Phonotactic Features for Automatic Deception Detection
Sarah Ita Levitan, Guozhen An, Min Ma, Rivka Levitan, Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg

Is Deception Emotional? An Emotion-Driven Predictive Approach
Shahin Amiriparian, Jouni Pohjalainen, Erik Marchi, Sergey Pugachevskiy, Björn Schuller

Prosodic Cues and Answer Type Detection for the Deception Sub-Challenge
Claude Montacié, Marie-José Caraty

The Sincerity Sub-Challenge: The Data
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Julia Hirschberg, Judee K. Burgoon, Alice Baird, Aaron Elkins, Yue Zhang, Eduardo Coutinho, Keelan Evanini

Automatic Estimation of Perceived Sincerity from Spoken Language
Brandon M. Booth, Rahul Gupta, Pavlos Papadopoulos, Ruchir Travadi, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Estimating the Sincerity of Apologies in Speech by DNN Rank Learning and Prosodic Analysis
Gábor Gosztolya, Tamás Grósz, György Szaszák, László Tóth

Minimization of Regression and Ranking Losses with Shallow Neural Networks on Automatic Sincerity Evaluation
Hung-Shin Lee, Yu Tsao, Chi-Chun Lee, Hsin-Min Wang, Wei-Cheng Lin, Wei-Chen Chen, Shan-Wen Hsiao, Shyh-Kang Jeng

Prediction of Deception and Sincerity from Speech Using Automatic Phone Recognition-Based Features
Robert Herms

Sincerity and Deception in Speech: Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Transfer- and Multi-Task Learning Perspective
Yue Zhang, Felix Weninger, Zhao Ren, Björn Schuller

Fusing Acoustic Feature Representations for Computational Paralinguistics Tasks
Heysem Kaya, Alexey A. Karpov

Introduction
Naomi Harte, Peter Jančovič, Karl-L. Schuchmann

Poster Overview Presentations
Naomi Harte, Peter Jančovič, Karl-L. Schuchmann

Discussion
Naomi Harte, Peter Jančovič, Karl-L. Schuchmann

Closing Remarks
Naomi Harte, Peter Jančovič, Karl-L. Schuchmann

A Stochastic Model for Computer-Aided Human-Human Dialogue
Merwan Barlier, Romain Laroche, Olivier Pietquin

Highlighting Psychological Features for Predicting Child Interjections During Story Telling
Gaël Lejeune, François Rioult, Bruno Crémilleux

Hybrid Dialogue State Tracking for Real World Human-to-Human Dialogues
Kai Sun, Su Zhu, Lu Chen, Siqiu Yao, Xueyang Wu, Kai Yu

Automatic Recognition of Social Roles Using Long Term Role Transitions in Small Group Interactions
Gaurav Fotedar, Aditya Gaonkar P., Saikat Chatterjee, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

On the Influence of Gender on Interruptions in Multiparty Dialogue
Paul Van Eecke, Raquel Fernández

Detection of User Escalation in Human-Computer Interactions
Ian Beaver, Cynthia Freeman

Assessing Idiosyncrasies in a Bayesian Model of Speech Communication
Marie-Lou Barnaud, Julien Diard, Pierre Bessière, Jean-Luc Schwartz

Prosodic and Linguistic Analysis of Semantic Fluency Data: A Window into Speech Production and Cognition
Maria K. Wolters, Najoung Kim, Jung-Ho Kim, Sarah E. MacPherson, Jong C. Park

Sensorimotor Response to Visual Imagery of Tongue Displacement
William F. Katz, Divya Prabhakaran

Does Auditory-Motor Learning of Speech Transfer from the CV Syllable to the CVCV Word?
Tiphaine Caudrelier, Pascal Perrier, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Amélie Rochet-Capellan

Exemplar Dynamics in Phonetic Convergence of Speech Rate
Antje Schweitzer, Michael Walsh

Articulation Rate in Adverse Listening Conditions in Younger and Older Adults
Outi Tuomainen, Valerie Hazan

Error Correction in Lightly Supervised Alignment of Broadcast Subtitles
Julia Olcoz, Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain

Automatic Genre and Show Identification of Broadcast Media
Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Raymond W.M. Ng, Thomas Hain

Speaker-Targeted Audio-Visual Models for Speech Recognition in Cocktail-Party Environments
Guan-Lin Chao, William Chan, Ian Lane

Text-Dependent Audiovisual Synchrony Detection for Spoofing Detection in Mobile Person Recognition
Amit Aides, Hagai Aronowitz

Improving Boundary Estimation in Audiovisual Speech Activity Detection Using Bayesian Information Criterion
Fei Tao, John H.L. Hansen, Carlos Busso

Dynamic Stream Weighting for Turbo-Decoding-Based Audiovisual ASR
Sebastian Gergen, Steffen Zeiler, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz, Robert Nickel, Dorothea Kolossa

Retrieval of Textual Song Lyrics from Sung Inputs
Anna M. Kruspe

Phoneme, Phone Boundary, and Tone in Automatic Scoring of Mandarin Proficiency
Jiahong Yuan, Mark Liberman

Tone Classification in Mandarin Chinese Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Charles Chen, Razvan Bunescu, Li Xu, Chang Liu

Robust Estimation of Fundamental Frequency Using Single Frequency Filtering Approach
Vishala Pannala, G. Aneeja, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, B. Yegnanarayana

A Fast and Accurate Fundamental Frequency Estimator Using Recursive Moving Average Filters
Ryunosuke Daido, Yuji Hisaminato

Frequency Estimation from Waveforms Using Multi-Layered Neural Networks
Prateek Verma, Ronald W. Schafer

Speaker Linking and Applications Using Non-Parametric Hashing Methods
Douglas E. Sturim, William M. Campbell

Iterative PLDA Adaptation for Speaker Diarization
Gaël Le Lan, Delphine Charlet, Anthony Larcher, Sylvain Meignier

A Speaker Diarization System for Studying Peer-Led Team Learning Groups
Harishchandra Dubey, Lakshmish Kaushik, Abhijeet Sangwan, John H.L. Hansen

DNN-Based Speaker Clustering for Speaker Diarisation
Rosanna Milner, Thomas Hain

On the Importance of Efficient Transition Modeling for Speaker Diarization
Itshak Lapidot, Jean-François Bonastre

Priors for Speaker Counting and Diarization with AHC
Gregory Sell, Alan McCree, Daniel Garcia-Romero

Two-Pass IB Based Speaker Diarization System Using Meeting-Specific ANN Based Features
Nauman Dawalatabad, Srikanth Madikeri, C Chandra Sekhar, Hema A. Murthy

DNN-Based Amplitude and Phase Feature Enhancement for Noise Robust Speaker Identification
Zeyan Oo, Yuta Kawakami, Longbiao Wang, Seiichi Nakagawa, Xiong Xiao, Masahiro Iwahashi

Unit-Selection Attack Detection Based on Unfiltered Frequency-Domain Features
Ulrich Scherhag, Andreas Nautsch, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

Investigating the Impact of Dialect Prestige on Lexical Decision
Mairym Lloréns Monteserín, Jason Zevin

Speaker Verification Using Short Utterances with DNN-Based Estimation of Subglottal Acoustic Features
Jinxi Guo, Gary Yeung, Deepak Muralidharan, Harish Arsikere, Amber Afshan, Abeer Alwan

Factor Analysis Based Speaker Verification Using ASR
Hang Su, Steven Wegmann

Joint Sound Source Separation and Speaker Recognition
Jeroen Zegers, Hugo Van hamme

Robust Multichannel Gender Classification from Speech in Movie Audio
Naveen Kumar, Md. Nasir, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Recent Advances in Google Real-Time HMM-Driven Unit Selection Synthesizer
Xavi Gonzalvo, Siamak Tazari, Chun-an Chan, Markus Becker, Alexander Gutkin, Hanna Silen

First Step Towards End-to-End Parametric TTS Synthesis: Generating Spectral Parameters with Neural Attention
Wenfu Wang, Shuang Xu, Bo Xu

The Parameterized Phoneme Identity Feature as a Continuous Real-Valued Vector for Neural Network Based Speech Synthesis
Zhengqi Wen, Ya Li, Jianhua Tao

Improved Time-Frequency Trajectory Excitation Vocoder for DNN-Based Speech Synthesis
Eunwoo Song, Frank K. Soong, Hong-Goo Kang

Voice Quality Control Using Perceptual Expressions for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Based on Cluster Adaptive Training
Yamato Ohtani, Koichiro Mori, Masahiro Morita

Waveform Generation Based on Signal Reshaping for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
Felipe Espic, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King

Speaker Representations for Speaker Adaptation in Multiple Speakers’ BLSTM-RNN-Based Speech Synthesis
Yi Zhao, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Fast, Compact, and High Quality LSTM-RNN Based Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesizers for Mobile Devices
Heiga Zen, Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Niels Egberts, Fergus Henderson, Przemysław Szczepaniak

An Investigation of DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Using Speaker Codes
Nobukatsu Hojo, Yusuke Ijima, Hideyuki Mizuno

Using Text and Acoustic Features in Predicting Glottal Excitation Waveforms for Parametric Speech Synthesis with Recurrent Neural Networks
Lauri Juvela, Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Manu Airaksinen, Junichi Yamagishi, Paavo Alku

Model Integration for HMM- and DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Using Product-of-Experts Framework
Kentaro Tachibana, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

Idlak Tangle: An Open Source Kaldi Based Parametric Speech Synthesiser Based on DNN
Blaise Potard, Matthew P. Aylett, David A. Baude, Petr Motlicek

Probabilistic Amplitude Demodulation Features in Speech Synthesis for Improving Prosody
Alexandros Lazaridis, Milos Cernak, Philip N. Garner

On Smoothing and Enhancing Dynamics of Pitch Contours Represented by Discrete Orthogonal Polynomials for Prosody Generation
Chen-Yu Chiang

An Investigation of Recurrent Neural Network Architectures Using Word Embeddings for Phrase Break Prediction
Anandaswarup Vadapalli, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty

Model-Based Parametric Prosody Synthesis with Deep Neural Network
Hao Liu, Heng Lu, Xu Shao, Yi Xu

Active and Semi-Supervised Learning in ASR: Benefits on the Acoustic and Language Models
Thomas Drugman, Janne Pylkkönen, Reinhard Kneser

Learning N-Gram Language Models from Uncertain Data
Vitaly Kuznetsov, Hank Liao, Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley, Brian Roark

Entropy Based Pruning for Non-Negative Matrix Based Language Models with Contextual Features
Barlas Oğuz, Issac Alphonso, Shuangyu Chang

Unsupervised Adaptation of Recurrent Neural Network Language Models
Siva Reddy Gangireddy, Pawel Swietojanski, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Contextual Prediction Models for Speech Recognition
Yoni Halpern, Keith Hall, Vlad Schogol, Michael Riley, Brian Roark, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Martin Bäuml

Combining Feature and Model-Based Adaptation of RNNLMs for Multi-Genre Broadcast Speech Recognition
Salil Deena, Madina Hasan, Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain

A Low Cost Desktop Robot and Tele-Presence Device for Interactive Speech Research
Michael C. Brady

Silent-Speech Command Word Recognition Using Electro-Optical Stomatography
Simon Stone, Peter Birkholz

An Engine for Online Video Search in Large Archives of the Holocaust Testimonies
Petr Stanislav, Jan Švec, Pavel Ircing

Data Selection by Sequence Summarizing Neural Network in Mismatch Condition Training
Kateřina Žmolíková, Martin Karafiát, Karel Veselý, Marc Delcroix, Shinji Watanabe, Lukáš Burget, Jan Černocký

Incorporating a Generative Front-End Layer to Deep Neural Network for Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
Souvik Kundu, Khe Chai Sim, Mark J.F. Gales

Robust Speech Recognition Using Generalized Distillation Framework
Konstantin Markov, Tomoko Matsui

Adversarial Multi-Task Learning of Deep Neural Networks for Robust Speech Recognition
Yusuke Shinohara

The Use of Locally Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (LNCC) to Improve Speaker Recognition Accuracy in Highly Reverberant Rooms
Víctor Poblete, Juan Pablo Escudero, Josué Fredes, José Novoa, Richard M. Stern, Simon King, Néstor Becerra Yoma

Two-Stage Data Augmentation for Low-Resourced Speech Recognition
William Hartmann, Tim Ng, Roger Hsiao, Stavros Tsakalidis, Richard Schwartz

The Native Language Sub-Challenge: The Data
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Julia Hirschberg, Judee K. Burgoon, Alice Baird, Aaron Elkins, Yue Zhang, Eduardo Coutinho, Keelan Evanini

Native Language Identification Using Spectral and Source-Based Features
Avni Rajpal, Tanvina B. Patel, Hardik B. Sailor, Maulik C. Madhavi, Hemant A. Patil, Hiroya Fujisaki

Accent Identification by Combining Deep Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks Trained on Long and Short Term Features
Yishan Jiao, Ming Tu, Visar Berisha, Julie Liss

Convolutional Neural Networks with Data Augmentation for Classifying Speakers’ Native Language
Gil Keren, Jun Deng, Jouni Pohjalainen, Björn Schuller

Native Language Detection Using the I-Vector Framework
Mohammed Senoussaoui, Patrick Cardinal, Najim Dehak, Alessandro L. Koerich

Within-Speaker Features for Native Language Recognition in the Interspeech 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge
Mark Huckvale

Multimodal Fusion of Multirate Acoustic, Prosodic, and Lexical Speaker Characteristics for Native Language Identification
Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar, Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula, Panayiotis Georgiou

Exploiting Phone Log-Likelihood Ratio Features for the Detection of the Native Language of Non-Native English Speakers
Alberto Abad, Eugénio Ribeiro, Fábio Kepler, Ramon Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso

Determining Native Language and Deception Using Phonetic Features and Classifier Combination
Gábor Gosztolya, Tamás Grósz, Róbert Busa-Fekete, László Tóth

The INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: A Summary of Results
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Julia Hirschberg, Judee K. Burgoon, Alice Baird, Aaron Elkins, Yue Zhang, Eduardo Coutinho, Keelan Evanini

Discussion
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Julia Hirschberg, Judee K. Burgoon, Alice Baird, Aaron Elkins, Yue Zhang, Eduardo Coutinho, Keelan Evanini

A Preliminary Ultrasound Study of Nasal and Lateral Coronals in Arrernte
Marija Tabain, Richard Beare

Illustrating the Production of the International Phonetic Alphabet Sounds Using Fast Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Asterios Toutios, Sajan Goud Lingala, Colin Vaz, Jangwon Kim, John Esling, Patricia Keating, Matthew Gordon, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Krishna S. Nayak, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Marginal Contrast Among Romanian Vowels: Evidence from ASR and Functional Load
Margaret E.L. Renwick, Ioana Vasilescu, Camille Dutrey, Lori Lamel, Bianca Vieru

Effects of Subglottal-Coupling and Interdental-Space on Formant Trajectories During Front-to-Back Vowel Transitions in Chinese
Shuanglin Fan, Kiyoshi Honda, Jianwu Dang, Hui Feng

Perceptual Lateralization of Coda Rhotic Production in Puerto Rican Spanish
Mairym Lloréns Monteserín, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Louis Goldstein

Interaction Between Lexical Tone and Intonation: An EMA Study
Hao Yi, Sam Tilsen

Deep Bidirectional LSTM Modeling of Timbre and Prosody for Emotional Voice Conversion
Huaiping Ming, Dongyan Huang, Lei Xie, Jie Wu, Minghui Dong, Haizhou Li

Visual Speech Synthesis Using Dynamic Visemes, Contextual Features and DNNs
Ausdang Thangthai, Ben Milner, Sarah Taylor

A Template-Based Approach for Speech Synthesis Intonation Generation Using LSTMs
Srikanth Ronanki, Gustav Eje Henter, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King

Multi-Language Multi-Speaker Acoustic Modeling for LSTM-RNN Based Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
Bo Li, Heiga Zen

GlottDNN — A Full-Band Glottal Vocoder for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
Manu Airaksinen, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Lauri Juvela, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King, Paavo Alku

Singing Voice Synthesis Based on Deep Neural Networks
Masanari Nishimura, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

Blind Recovery of Perceptual Models in Distributed Speech and Audio Coding
Tom Bäckström, Florin Ghido, Johannes Fischer

Glimpse-Based Metrics for Predicting Speech Intelligibility in Additive Noise Conditions
Yan Tang, Martin Cooke

Analyzing the Relation Between Overall Quality and the Quality of Individual Phases in a Telephone Conversation
Friedemann Köster, Sebastian Möller

Intelligibility Enhancement at the Receiving End of the Speech Transmission System — Effects of Far-End Noise Reduction
Emma Jokinen, Paavo Alku

Intelligibility of Disordered Speech: Global and Detailed Scores
Mario Ganzeboom, Marjoke Bakker, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Modulation Enhancement of Temporal Envelopes for Increasing Speech Intelligibility in Noise
Maria Koutsogiannaki, Yannis Stylianou

Dynamic Transcription for Low-Latency Speech Translation
Jan Niehues, Thai Son Nguyen, Eunah Cho, Thanh-Le Ha, Kevin Kilgour, Markus Müller, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel

Learning a Translation Model from Word Lattices
Oliver Adams, Graham Neubig, Trevor Cohn, Steven Bird

Disfluency Detection Using a Bidirectional LSTM
Vicky Zayats, Mari Ostendorf, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Sentence Boundary Detection Based on Parallel Lexical and Acoustic Models
Xiaoyin Che, Sheng Luo, Haojin Yang, Christoph Meinel

Transferring Emphasis in Speech Translation Using Hard-Attentional Neural Network Models
Quoc Truong Do, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura

Better Evaluation of ASR in Speech Translation Context Using Word Embeddings
Ngoc-Tien Le, Christophe Servan, Benjamin Lecouteux, Laurent Besacier

Entropy Coding of Spectral Envelopes for Speech and Audio Coding Using Distribution Quantization
Srikanth Korse, Tobias Jähnel, Tom Bäckström

An Objective Evaluation Methodology for Blind Bandwidth Extension
Stéphane Villette, Sen Li, Pravin Ramadas, Daniel J. Sinder

EVS Channel Aware Mode Robustness to Frame Erasures
Anssi Rämö, Antti Kurittu, Henri Toukomaa

An Interaural Magnification Algorithm for Enhancement of Naturally-Occurring Level Differences
Shadi Pirhosseinloo, Kostas Kokkinakis

Probabilistic Spatial Filter Estimation for Signal Enhancement in Multi-Channel Automatic Speech Recognition
Hendrik Kayser, Niko Moritz, Jörn Anemüller

Improved a priori SAP Estimator in Complex Noisy Environment for Dual Channel Microphone System
Youna Ji, Young-cheol Park

A Spectral Modulation Sensitivity Weighted Pre-Emphasis Filter for Active Noise Control System
Kah-Meng Cheong, Yuh-Yuan Wang, Tai-Shih Chi

Semi-Coupled Dictionary Based Automatic Bandwidth Extension Approach for Enhancing Children’s ASR
Ganji Sreeram, Rohit Sinha

Bird Song Synthesis Based on Hidden Markov Models
Jordi Bonada, Robert Lachlan, Merlijn Blaauw

Noise-Robust Hidden Markov Models for Limited Training Data for Within-Species Bird Phrase Classification
Kantapon Kaewtip, Charles Taylor, Abeer Alwan

A Framework for Automated Marmoset Vocalization Detection and Classification
Alan Wisler, Laura J. Brattain, Rogier Landman, Thomas F. Quatieri

Call Alternation Between Specific Pairs of Male Frogs Revealed by a Sound-Imaging Method in Their Natural Habitat
Ikkyu Aihara, Takeshi Mizumoto, Hiromitsu Awano, Hiroshi G. Okuno

Sinusoidal Modelling for Ecoacoustics
Patrice Guyot, Alice Eldridge, Ying Chen Eyre-Walker, Alison Johnston, Thomas Pellegrini, Mika Peck

Individual Identity in Songbirds: Signal Representations and Metric Learning for Locating the Information in Complex Corvid Calls
Dan Stowell, Veronica Morfi, Lisa F. Gill

Recognition of Multiple Bird Species Based on Penalised Maximum Likelihood and HMM-Based Modelling of Individual Vocalisation Elements
Peter Jančovič, Münevver Köküer

Cost Effective Acoustic Monitoring of Bird Species
Ciira wa Maina

Feature Learning and Automatic Segmentation for Dolphin Communication Analysis
Daniel Kohlsdorf, Denise Herzing, Thad Starner

Localizing Bird Songs Using an Open Source Robot Audition System with a Microphone Array
Reiji Suzuki, Shiho Matsubayashi, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi G. Okuno

Robust Detection of Multiple Bioacoustic Events with Repetitive Structures
Frank Kurth

A Real-Time Parametric General-Purpose Mammalian Vocal Synthesiser
Roger K. Moore

YIN-Bird: Improved Pitch Tracking for Bird Vocalisations
Colm O’Reilly, Nicola M. Marples, David J. Kelly, Naomi Harte

Mispronunciation Detection Leveraging Maximum Performance Criterion Training of Acoustic Models and Decision Functions
Yao-Chi Hsu, Ming-Han Yang, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Berlin Chen

Using Clinician Annotations to Improve Automatic Speech Recognition of Stuttered Speech
Peter A. Heeman, Rebecca Lunsford, Andy McMillin, J. Scott Yaruss

Deep Neural Networks for Voice Quality Assessment Based on the GRBAS Scale
Simin Xie, Nan Yan, Ping Yu, Manwa L. Ng, Lan Wang, Zhuanzhuan Ji

Automated Screening of Speech Development Issues in Children by Identifying Phonological Error Patterns
Lauren Ward, Alessandro Stefani, Daniel Smith, Andreas Duenser, Jill Freyne, Barbara Dodd, Angela Morgan

Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation of Non-Native Mandarin Tone by Using Multi-Level Confidence Measures
Ju Lin, Yanlu Xie, Jinsong Zhang

Dysarthric Speech Recognition Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence-Based Hidden Markov Model
Myungjong Kim, Jun Wang, Hoirin Kim

Detection of Total Syllables and Canonical Syllables in Infant Vocalizations
Anne S. Warlaumont, Heather L. Ramsdell-Hudock

Improving Automatic Recognition of Aphasic Speech with AphasiaBank
Duc Le, Emily Mower Provost

Pronunciation Assessment of Japanese Learners of French with GOP Scores and Phonetic Information
Vincent Laborde, Thomas Pellegrini, Lionel Fontan, Julie Mauclair, Halima Sahraoui, Jérôme Farinas

Pronunciation Error Detection for New Language Learners
Sean Robertson, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn

L2 English Rhythm in Read Speech by Chinese Students
Hongwei Ding, Xinping Xu

Improving the Probabilistic Framework for Representing Dialogue Systems with User Response Model
Miao Li, Zhipeng Chen, Ji Wu

Dialogue Session Segmentation by Embedding-Enhanced TextTiling
Yiping Song, Lili Mou, Rui Yan, Li Yi, Zinan Zhu, Xiaohua Hu, Ming Zhang

Target-Based State and Tracking Algorithm for Spoken Dialogue System
Miao Li, Zhiyang He, Ji Wu

Neural Attention Models for Sequence Classification: Analysis and Application to Key Term Extraction and Dialogue Act Detection
Sheng-syun Shen, Hung-Yi Lee

Objective Language Feature Analysis in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders During Autism Assessment
Manoj Kumar, Rahul Gupta, Daniel Bone, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Somer Bishop, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Improving Generalisation to New Speakers in Spoken Dialogue State Tracking
Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Phil Green

Towards Machine Comprehension of Spoken Content: Initial TOEFL Listening Comprehension Test by Machine
Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Sheng-syun Shen, Hung-Yi Lee, Lin-Shan Lee

How Neural Network Depth Compensates for HMM Conditional Independence Assumptions in DNN-HMM Acoustic Models
Suman Ravuri, Steven Wegmann

Jointly Learning to Locate and Classify Words Using Convolutional Networks
Dimitri Palaz, Gabriel Synnaeve, Ronan Collobert

On the Efficient Representation and Execution of Deep Acoustic Models
Raziel Alvarez, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Anton Bakhtin

Purely Sequence-Trained Neural Networks for ASR Based on Lattice-Free MMI
Daniel Povey, Vijayaditya Peddinti, Daniel Galvez, Pegah Ghahremani, Vimal Manohar, Xingyu Na, Yiming Wang, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Virtual Adversarial Training Applied to Neural Higher-Order Factors for Phone Classification
Martin Ratajczak, Sebastian Tschiatschek, Franz Pernkopf

Sequence Student-Teacher Training of Deep Neural Networks
Jeremy H.M. Wong, Mark J.F. Gales

Robustness in Speech, Speaker, and Language Recognition: “You’ve Got to Know Your Limitations”
John H.L. Hansen, Hynek Bořil

The Use of Read versus Conversational Lombard Speech in Spectral Tilt Modeling for Intelligibility Enhancement in Near-End Noise Conditions
Emma Jokinen, Ulpu Remes, Paavo Alku

Corpora for the Evaluation of Robust Speaker Recognition Systems
Douglas E. Sturim, Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo, Joseph P. Campbell

A French Corpus for Distant-Microphone Speech Processing in Real Homes
Nancy Bertin, Ewen Camberlein, Emmanuel Vincent, Romain Lebarbenchon, Stéphane Peillon, Éric Lamande, Sunit Sivasankaran, Frédéric Bimbot, Irina Illina, Ariane Tom, Sylvain Fleury, Éric Jamet

Realistic Multi-Microphone Data Simulation for Distant Speech Recognition
Mirco Ravanelli, Piergiorgio Svaizer, Maurizio Omologo

Synthesis of Device-Independent Noise Corpora for Realistic ASR Evaluation
Hannes Gamper, Mark R.P. Thomas, Lyle Corbin, Ivan Tashev

Speaker Recognition Using Real vs Synthetic Parallel Data for DNN Channel Compensation
Fred Richardson, Michael Brandstein, Jennifer Melot, Douglas Reynolds

Discussion
Dayana Ribas, Emmanuel Vincent, John H.L. Hansen, Emma Jokinen, Mirco Ravanelli, Hannes Gamper, Fred Richardson

Combining Data-Oriented and Process-Oriented Approaches to Modeling Reaction Time Data
Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves, M. Ernestus

Do Listeners Learn Better from Natural Speech?
Michael McAuliffe, Molly Babel, Charlotte Vaughn

Processing and Adaptation to Ambiguous Sounds during the Course of Perceptual Learning
Polina Drozdova, Roeland van Hout, Odette Scharenborg

The Effect of Background Noise on the Activation of Phonological and Semantic Information During Spoken-Word Recognition
Florian Hintz, Odette Scharenborg

Relationships Between Functional Load and Auditory Confusability Under Different Speech Environments
Shinae Kang, Clara Cohen

The Role of Pitch in Punjabi Word Identification
Jasmeen Kanwal, Amanda Ritchart

Improving TTS with Corpus-Specific Pronunciation Adaptation
Marie Tahon, Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive

Deep Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Utilizing Complex Many-to-Many Alignments
Amr El-Desoky Mousa, Björn Schuller

Predicting Pronunciations with Syllabification and Stress with Recurrent Neural Networks
Daan van Esch, Mason Chua, Kanishka Rao

Adaptive Latency for Part-of-Speech Tagging in Incremental Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Maël Pouget, Olha Nahorna, Thomas Hueber, Gérard Bailly

Redefining the Linguistic Context Feature Set for HMM and DNN TTS Through Position and Parsing
Rasmus Dall, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

Enhance the Word Vector with Prosodic Information for the Recurrent Neural Network Based TTS System
Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi

Local Sparsity Based Online Dictionary Learning for Environment-Adaptive Speech Enhancement with Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Kwang Myung Jeon, Hong Kook Kim

Noise Aware and Combined Noise Models for Speech Denoising in Unknown Noise Conditions
Pavlos Papadopoulos, Colin Vaz, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Causal Speech Enhancement Combining Data-Driven Learning and Suppression Rule Estimation
Seyedmahdad Mirsamadi, Ivan Tashev

A Phase-Based Time-Frequency Masking for Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement in Domestic Environments
Alessio Brutti, Antigoni Tsiami, Athanasios Katsamanis, Petros Maragos

Generalizing Steady State Suppression for Enhanced Intelligibility Under Reverberation
Petko N. Petkov, Yannis Stylianou

Speech Intelligibility Prediction Based on the Envelope Power Spectrum Model with the Dynamic Compressive Gammachirp Auditory Filterbank
Katsuhiko Yamamoto, Toshio Irino, Toshie Matsui, Shoko Araki, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tomohiro Nakatani

Prediction and Generation of Backchannel Form for Attentive Listening Systems
Tatsuya Kawahara, Takashi Yamaguchi, Koji Inoue, Katsuya Takanashi, Nigel Ward

Measuring Turn-Taking Offsets in Human-Human Dialogues
Rebecca Lunsford, Peter A. Heeman, Emma Rennie

Using Past Speaker Behavior to Better Predict Turn Transitions
Tomer Meshorer, Peter A. Heeman

Quantitative Analysis of Backchannels Uttered by an Interviewer During Neuropsychological Tests
Gérard Bailly, Frédéric Elisei, Alexandra Juphard, Olivier Moreaud

Predicting User Satisfaction from Turn-Taking in Spoken Conversations
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi

Towards Building an Attentive Artificial Listener: On the Perception of Attentiveness in Feedback Utterances
Catharine Oertel, Joakim Gustafson, Alan W. Black

Language Recognition via Sparse Coding
Youngjune L. Gwon, William M. Campbell, Douglas E. Sturim, H.T. Kung

A Feature Normalisation Technique for PLLR Based Language Identification Systems
Sarith Fernando, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

An Investigation of Deep Neural Network Architectures for Language Recognition in Indian Languages
Mounika K.V., Sivanand Achanta, Lakshmi H. R., Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, Anil Kumar Vuppala

Automatic Dialect Detection in Arabic Broadcast Speech
Ahmed Ali, Najim Dehak, Patrick Cardinal, Sameer Khurana, Sree Harsha Yella, James Glass, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Combining Weak Tokenisers for Phonotactic Language Recognition in a Resource-Constrained Setting
Raymond W.M. Ng, Bhusan Chettri, Thomas Hain

End-to-End Language Identification Using Attention-Based Recurrent Neural Networks
Wang Geng, Wenfu Wang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Xinyuan Cai, Bo Xu

Enhancing Multilingual Recognition of Emotion in Speech by Language Identification
Hesam Sagha, Pavel Matějka, Maryna Gavryukova, Filip Povolny, Erik Marchi, Björn Schuller

Deep Neural Network Bottleneck Features for Acoustic Event Recognition
Seongkyu Mun, Suwon Shon, Wooil Kim, Hanseok Ko

Combining Energy and Cross-Entropy Analysis for Nuclear Segments Detection
Antonio Origlia, Francesco Cutugno

Anchored Speech Detection
Roland Maas, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Brian King, Ruitong Huang, Björn Hoffmeister

Towards Smart-Cars That Can Listen: Abnormal Acoustic Event Detection on the Road
Mahesh Kumar Nandwana, Taufiq Hasan

Hierarchical Classification of Speaker and Background Noise and Estimation of SNR Using Sparse Representation
K.V. Vijay Girish, A.G. Ramakrishnan, T.V. Ananthapadmanabha

Robust Sound Event Detection in Continuous Audio Environments
Haomin Zhang, Ian McLoughlin, Yan Song

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for Acoustic Event Recognition
Naoya Takahashi, Michael Gygli, Beat Pfister, Luc Van Gool

Artificial Neural Network-Based Feature Combination for Spatial Voice Activity Detection
Stefan Meier, Walter Kellermann

HAPPY Team Entry to NIST OpenSAD Challenge: A Fusion of Short-Term Unsupervised and Segment i-Vector Based Speech Activity Detectors
Tomi Kinnunen, Alexey Sholokhov, Elie Khoury, Dennis Alexander Lehmann Thomsen, Md. Sahidullah, Zheng-Hua Tan

Manual versus Automated: The Challenging Routine of Infant Vocalisation Segmentation in Home Videos to Study Neuro(mal)development
Florian B. Pokorny, Robert Peharz, Wolfgang Roth, Matthias Zöhrer, Franz Pernkopf, Peter B. Marschik, Björn Schuller

Minimizing Annotation Effort for Adaptation of Speech-Activity Detection Systems
Luciana Ferrer, Martin Graciarena

Progress and Prospects for Spoken Language Technology: What Ordinary People Think
Roger K. Moore, Hui Li, Shih-Hao Liao

Progress and Prospects for Spoken Language Technology: Results from Four Sexennial Surveys
Roger K. Moore, Ricard Marxer

On Employing a Highly Mismatched Crowd for Speech Transcription
Purushotam Radadia, Rahul Kumar, Kanika Kalra, Shirish Karande, Sachin Lodha

Sage: The New BBN Speech Processing Platform
Roger Hsiao, Ralf Meermeier, Tim Ng, Zhongqiang Huang, Maxwell Jordan, Enoch Kan, Tanel Alumäe, Jan Silovsky, William Hartmann, Francis Keith, Omer Lang, Manhung Siu, Owen Kimball

DNN-Based Feature Enhancement Using Joint Training Framework for Robust Multichannel Speech Recognition
Kang Hyun Lee, Tae Gyoon Kang, Woo Hyun Kang, Nam Soo Kim

Deep Neural Network Frontend for Continuous EMG-Based Speech Recognition
Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Overcoming Data Sparsity in Acoustic Modeling of Low-Resource Language by Borrowing Data and Model Parameters from High-Resource Languages
Basil Abraham, S. Umesh, Neethu Mariam Joy

Multi-Language Neural Network Language Models
Anton Ragni, Edgar Dakin, Xie Chen, Mark J.F. Gales, Kate M. Knill

Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network with Attention Mechanism for Punctuation Restoration
Ottokar Tilk, Tanel Alumäe

TheanoLM — An Extensible Toolkit for Neural Network Language Modeling
Seppo Enarvi, Mikko Kurimo

Selection of Multi-Genre Broadcast Data for the Training of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems
P. Lanchantin, Mark J.F. Gales, Penny Karanasou, X. Liu, Y. Qian, L. Wang, P.C. Woodland, C. Zhang

Manipulating Word Lattices to Incorporate Human Corrections
Yashesh Gaur, Florian Metze, Jeffrey P. Bigham

Context-Aware Restaurant Recommendation for Natural Language Queries: A Formative User Study in the Automotive Domain
Philipp Fischer, Cornelius Styp von Rekowski, Andreas Nürnberger

Teaming Up: Making the Most of Diverse Representations for a Novel Personalized Speech Retrieval Application
Stephanie Pancoast, Murat Akbacak

Automatic Speech Transcription for Low-Resource Languages — The Case of Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (Mexico)
Vikramjit Mitra, Andreas Kathol, Jonathan D. Amith, Rey Castillo García

Real-Time Presentation Tracking Using Semantic Keyword Spotting
Reza Asadi, Harriet J. Fell, Timothy Bickmore, Ha Trinh

Deriving Phonetic Transcriptions and Discovering Word Segmentations for Speech-to-Speech Translation in Low-Resource Settings
Andrew Wilkinson, Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W. Black

Unsupervised Joint Estimation of Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Systems and Acoustic Model Adaptation for Non-Native Speech Recognition
Satoshi Tsujioka, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura

Learning Personalized Pronunciations for Contact Name Recognition
Antoine Bruguier, Fuchun Peng, Françoise Beaufays

Generation and Pruning of Pronunciation Variants to Improve ASR Accuracy
Zhenhao Ge, Aravind Ganapathiraju, Ananth N. Iyer, Scott A. Randal, Felix I. Wyss

Optimizing Speech Recognition Evaluation Using Stratified Sampling
Janne Pylkkönen, Thomas Drugman, Max Bisani

Ketchup, Interdisciplinarity, and the Spread of Innovation in Speech and Language Processing
Dan Jurafsky

Speech Ventures
Nicolas Scheffer, Korbinian Riedhammer, Alexandre Lebrun, David Suendermann-Oeft

Context Aware Mispronunciation Detection for Mandarin Pronunciation Training
Rong Tong, Nancy F. Chen, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

DNN Online with iVectors Acoustic Modeling and Doc2Vec Distributed Representations for Improving Automated Speech Scoring
Jidong Tao, Lei Chen, Chong Min Lee

Self-Adaptive DNN for Improving Spoken Language Proficiency Assessment
Yao Qian, Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft

Detecting Mispronunciations of L2 Learners and Providing Corrective Feedback Using Knowledge-Guided and Data-Driven Decision Trees
Wei Li, Kehuang Li, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Nancy F. Chen, Chin-Hui Lee

Phoneme Set Design Considering Integrated Acoustic and Linguistic Features of Second Language Speech
Xiaoyun Wang, Tsuneo Kato, Seiichi Yamamoto

HMM-Based Non-Native Accent Assessment Using Posterior Features
Ramya Rasipuram, Milos Cernak, Mathew Magimai-Doss

Automatic Assessment and Error Detection of Shadowing Speech: Case of English Spoken by Japanese Learners
Shuju Shi, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Shohei Toyama, Junwei Yue, Yutaka Yamauchi, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Multiplicity of the Acoustic Correlates of the Fortis-Lenis Contrast: Plosives in Aberystwyth English
Míša Hejná

Automatic Measurement of Voice Onset Time and Prevoicing Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Yossi Adi, Joseph Keshet, Olga Dmitrieva, Matt Goldrick

L1-L2 Interference: The Case of Final Devoicing of French Voiced Fricatives in Final Position by German Learners
Sucheta Ghosh, Camille Fauth, Aghilas Sini, Yves Laprie

Perceptual Salience of Voice Source Parameters in Signaling Focal Prominence
Irena Yanushevskaya, Andy Murphy, Christer Gobl, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

Classification of Voice Modality Using Electroglottogram Waveforms
Michal Borsky, Daryush D. Mehta, Julius P. Gudjohnsen, Jon Gudnason

Voice-Quality Difference Between the Vowels in Filled Pauses and Ordinary Lexical Items
Kikuo Maekawa, Hiroki Mori

Generation of Emotion Control Vector Using MDS-Based Space Transformation for Expressive Speech Synthesis
Yan-You Chen, Chung-Hsien Wu, Yu-Fong Huang

Direct Expressive Voice Training Based on Semantic Selection
Igor Jauk, Antonio Bonafonte

Syllable-Level Representations of Suprasegmental Features for DNN-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi

Pause Prediction from Text for Speech Synthesis with User-Definable Pause Insertion Likelihood Threshold
Norbert Braunschweiler, Ranniery Maia

A Hybrid System for Continuous Word-Level Emphasis Modeling Based on HMM State Clustering and Adaptive Training
Quoc Truong Do, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Improving Prosodic Boundaries Prediction for Mandarin Speech Synthesis by Using Enhanced Embedding Feature and Model Fusion Approach
Yibin Zheng, Ya Li, Zhengqi Wen, Xingguang Ding, Jianhua Tao

Results of The 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation
Hui Zhao, Désiré Bansé, George Doddington, Craig Greenberg, Jaime Hernández-Cordero, John Howard, Lisa Mason, Alvin Martin, Douglas Reynolds, Elliot Singer, Audrey Tong

The 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation: The Shared View of I2R, Fantastic4 and SingaMS
Kong Aik Lee, Haizhou Li, Li Deng, Ville Hautamäki, Wei Rao, Xiong Xiao, Anthony Larcher, Hanwu Sun, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Guangsen Wang, Aleksandr Sizov, Jianshu Chen, Ivan Kukanov, Amir Hossein Poorjam, Trung Ngo Trong, Cheng-Lin Xu, Haihua Xu, Bin Ma, Eng Siong Chng, Sylvain Meignier

Pair-Wise Distance Metric Learning of Neural Network Model for Spoken Language Identification
Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai

Non-Iterative Parameter Estimation for Total Variability Model Using Randomized Singular Value Decomposition
Ruchir Travadi, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Stacked Long-Term TDNN for Spoken Language Recognition
Daniel Garcia-Romero, Alan McCree

A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Language Identification Based on Recurrent Neural Networks
G. Gelly, Jean-Luc Gauvain, V.B. Le, A. Messaoudi

Context-Sensitive and Role-Dependent Spoken Language Understanding Using Bidirectional and Attention LSTMs
Chiori Hori, Takaaki Hori, Shinji Watanabe, John R. Hershey

A Step Beyond Local Observations with a Dialog Aware Bidirectional GRU Network for Spoken Language Understanding
Vedran Vukotić, Christian Raymond, Guillaume Gravier

End-to-End Memory Networks with Knowledge Carryover for Multi-Turn Spoken Language Understanding
Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng

Sequential Convolutional Neural Networks for Slot Filling in Spoken Language Understanding
Ngoc Thang Vu

A New Pre-Training Method for Training Deep Learning Models with Application to Spoken Language Understanding
Asli Celikyilmaz, Ruhi Sarikaya, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaohu Liu, Nikhil Ramesh, Gokhan Tur

Joint Syntactic and Semantic Analysis with a Multitask Deep Learning Framework for Spoken Language Understanding
Jeremie Tafforeau, Frederic Bechet, Thierry Artiere, Benoit Favre

Exploiting Hidden-Layer Responses of Deep Neural Networks for Language Recognition
Ruizhi Li, Sri Harish Mallidi, Lukáš Burget, Oldřich Plchot, Najim Dehak

Out of Set Language Modelling in Hierarchical Language Identification
Saad Irtza, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Sarith Fernando, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Haizhou Li

Language Identification Based on Generative Modeling of Posteriorgram Sequences Extracted from Frame-by-Frame DNNs and LSTM-RNNs
Ryo Masumura, Taichi Asami, Hirokazu Masataki, Yushi Aono, Sumitaka Sakauchi

Gating Recurrent Enhanced Memory Neural Networks on Language Identification
Wang Geng, Yuanyuan Zhao, Wenfu Wang, Xinyuan Cai, Bo Xu

Sequence Summarizing Neural Networks for Spoken Language Recognition
Jan Pešán, Lukáš Burget, Jan Černocký

The Role of Spectral Resolution in Foreign-Accented Speech Perception
Michelle R. Kapolowicz, Vahid Montazeri, Peter F. Assmann

THU-EE System Description for NIST LRE 2015
Liang He, Yao Tian, Yi Liu, Jiaming Xu, Weiwei Liu, Cai Meng, Jia Liu

Variation in Spoken North Sami Language
Kristiina Jokinen, Trung Ngo Trong, Ville Hautamäki

Improved Music Genre Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks
Weibin Zhang, Wenkang Lei, Xiangmin Xu, Xiaofeng Xing

Enhanced Harmonic Content and Vocal Note Based Predominant Melody Extraction from Vocal Polyphonic Music Signals
Gurunath Reddy M., K. Sreenivasa Rao

Long Short-Term Memory for Speaker Generalization in Supervised Speech Separation
Jitong Chen, DeLiang Wang

Phonotactic Language Identification for Singing
Anna M. Kruspe

Comparing the Influence of Spectro-Temporal Integration in Computational Speech Segregation
Thomas Bentsen, Tobias May, Abigail A. Kressner, Torsten Dau

Blind Speech Separation with GCC-NMF
Sean U.N. Wood, Jean Rouat

Effects of Cochlear Hearing Loss on the Benefits of Ideal Binary Masking
Vahid Montazeri, Shaikat Hossain, Peter F. Assmann

Combining Mask Estimates for Single Channel Audio Source Separation Using Deep Neural Networks
Emad M. Grais, Gerard Roma, Andrew J.R. Simpson, Mark D. Plumbley

Monaural Source Separation Using a Random Forest Classifier
Cosimo Riday, Saurabh Bhargava, Richard H.R. Hahnloser, Shih-Chii Liu

Adaptive Group Sparsity for Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Application to Unsupervised Source Separation
Xu Li, Ziteng Wang, Xiaofei Wang, Qiang Fu, Yonghong Yan

A Robust Dual-Microphone Speech Source Localization Algorithm for Reverberant Environments
Yanmeng Guo, Xiaofei Wang, Chao Wu, Qiang Fu, Ning Ma, Guy J. Brown

Speech Localisation in a Multitalker Mixture by Humans and Machines
Ning Ma, Guy J. Brown

Reverberation-Robust One-Bit TDOA Based Moving Source Localization for Automatic Camera Steering
Harshavardhan Sundar, Gokul Deepak Manavalan, T.V. Sreenivas, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Multi-Talker Speech Recognition Based on Blind Source Separation with ad hoc Microphone Array Using Smartphones and Cloud Storage
Keiko Ochi, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Miyabe, Shoji Makino

Phase-Aware Signal Processing for Automatic Speech Recognition
Johannes Fahringer, Tobias Schrank, Johannes Stahl, Pejman Mowlaee, Franz Pernkopf

Unsupervised Deep Auditory Model Using Stack of Convolutional RBMs for Speech Recognition
Hardik B. Sailor, Hemant A. Patil

Interpretation of Low Dimensional Neural Network Bottleneck Features in Terms of Human Perception and Production
Philip Weber, Linxue Bai, Martin Russell, Peter Jančovič, Stephen Houghton

Compact Feedforward Sequential Memory Networks for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
Shiliang Zhang, Hui Jiang, Shifu Xiong, Si Wei, Li-Rong Dai

Future Context Attention for Unidirectional LSTM Based Acoustic Model
Jian Tang, Shiliang Zhang, Si Wei, Li-Rong Dai

Hybrid Accelerated Optimization for Speech Recognition
Jen-Tzung Chien, Pei-Wen Huang, Tan Lee

On Online Attention-Based Speech Recognition and Joint Mandarin Character-Pinyin Training
William Chan, Ian Lane

GMM-Free Flat Start Sequence-Discriminative DNN Training
Gábor Gosztolya, Tamás Grósz, László Tóth

Open-Domain Audio-Visual Speech Recognition: A Deep Learning Approach
Yajie Miao, Florian Metze

Multidimensional Residual Learning Based on Recurrent Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling
Yuanyuan Zhao, Shuang Xu, Bo Xu

Towards Online-Recognition with Deep Bidirectional LSTM Acoustic Models
Albert Zeyer, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Advances in Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for LVCSR
Tom Sercu, Vaibhava Goel

Acoustic Modelling from the Signal Domain Using CNNs
Pegah Ghahremani, Vimal Manohar, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Distilling Knowledge from Ensembles of Neural Networks for Speech Recognition
Yevgen Chebotar, Austin Waters

Triphone State-Tying via Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis
Weiran Wang, Hao Tang, Karen Livescu

Low-Rank Representation of Nearest Neighbor Posterior Probabilities to Enhance DNN Based Acoustic Modeling
Gil Luyet, Pranay Dighe, Afsaneh Asaei, Hervé Bourlard

Improving Large Vocabulary Accented Mandarin Speech Recognition with Attribute-Based I-Vectors
Hao Zheng, Shanshan Zhang, Liwei Qiao, Jianping Li, Wenju Liu

Pitch-Adaptive Front-End Features for Robust Children’s ASR
S. Shahnawazuddin, Abhishek Dey, Rohit Sinha

ASR Confidence Estimation with Speaker-Adapted Recurrent Neural Networks
Miguel Ángel del-Agua, Santiago Piqueras, Adrià Giménez, Alberto Sanchis, Jorge Civera, Alfons Juan

Automatic Correction of ASR Outputs by Using Machine Translation
Luis Fernando D’Haro, Rafael E. Banchs

A Framework for Practical Multistream ASR
Sri Harish Mallidi, Hynek Hermansky

DNNs for Unsupervised Extraction of Pseudo FMLLR Features Without Explicit Adaptation Data
Neethu Mariam Joy, Murali Karthick Baskar, S. Umesh, Basil Abraham

Multi-Attribute Factorized Hidden Layer Adaptation for DNN Acoustic Models
Lahiru Samarakoon, Khe Chai Sim

Speaker Normalization Through Feature Shifting of Linearly Transformed i-Vector
Jahyun Goo, Younggwan Kim, Hyungjun Lim, Hoirin Kim

Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching
Mona Diab, Pascale Fung, Julia Hirschberg, Thamar Solorio

Compositional Neural Network Language Models for Agglutinative Languages
Ebru Arisoy, Murat Saraclar

NN-Grams: Unifying Neural Network and n-Gram Language Models for Speech Recognition
Babak Damavandi, Shankar Kumar, Noam Shazeer, Antoine Bruguier

Recurrent Neural Network Language Model with Incremental Updated Context Information Generated Using Bag-of-Words Representation
Md. Akmal Haidar, Mikko Kurimo

Sequential Recurrent Neural Networks for Language Modeling
Youssef Oualil, Clayton Greenberg, Mittul Singh, Dietrich Klakow

Word-Phrase-Entity Recurrent Neural Networks for Language Modeling
Michael Levit, Sarangarajan Parthasarathy, Shuangyu Chang

LSTM, GRU, Highway and a Bit of Attention: An Empirical Overview for Language Modeling in Speech Recognition
Kazuki Irie, Zoltán Tüske, Tamer Alkhouli, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Automatic Speech Recognition Using Probabilistic Transcriptions in Swahili, Amharic, and Dinka
Amit Das, Preethi Jyothi, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Speed Perturbation and Vowel Duration Modeling for ASR in Hausa and Wolof Languages
Elodie Gauthier, Laurent Besacier, Sylvie Voisin

Improving the Lwazi ASR Baseline
Charl van Heerden, Neil Kleynhans, Marelie Davel

Preliminary Experiments on Unsupervised Word Discovery in Mboshi
Pierre Godard, Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-Decker, Alexandre Allauzen, Laurent Besacier, Hélène Bonneau-Maynard, Guy-Noël Kouarata, Kevin Löser, Annie Rialland, François Yvon

Unsupervised Phoneme Segmentation of Previously Unseen Languages
Marco Vetter, Markus Müller, Fatima Hamlaoui, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel

CNN-Based Phone Segmentation Experiments in a Less-Represented Language
Céline Manenti, Thomas Pellegrini, Julien Pinquier

Part-of-Speech Tagging and Chunking in Text-to-Speech Synthesis for South African Languages
Georg I. Schlünz, Nkosikhona Dlamini, Rynhardt P. Kruger

The Effect of Postlexical Deletion on Automatic Speech Recognition in Fast Spontaneously Spoken Zulu
Ewald van der Westhuizen, Thomas Niesler

A New Model of Speech Motor Control Based on Task Dynamics and State Feedback
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Benjamin Parrell, Louis Goldstein, Srikantan Nagarajan, John Houde

Using a Biomechanical Model and Articulatory Data for the Numerical Production of Vowels
Saeed Dabbaghchian, Marc Arnela, Olov Engwall, Oriol Guasch, Ian Stavness, Pierre Badin

A New Model for Acoustic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Vocal Tract
Jianguo Wei, Wendan Guan, Darcy Q. Hou, Dingyi Pan, Wenhuan Lu, Jianwu Dang

Uncontrolled Manifolds in Vowel Production: Assessment with a Biomechanical Model of the Tongue
Andrew Szabados, Pascal Perrier

Experimental Validation of Sound Generated from Flow in Simplified Vocal Tract Model of Sibilant /s/
Tsukasa Yoshinaga, Kazunori Nozaki, Shigeo Wada

Bayesian Modeling in Speech Motor Control: A Principled Structure for the Integration of Various Constraints
Jean-François Patri, Pascal Perrier, Julien Diard

Facing Realism in Spontaneous Emotion Recognition from Speech: Feature Enhancement by Autoencoder with LSTM Neural Networks
Zixing Zhang, Fabien Ringeval, Jing Han, Jun Deng, Erik Marchi, Björn Schuller

Defining Emotionally Salient Regions Using Qualitative Agreement Method
Srinivas Parthasarathy, Carlos Busso

Representation Learning for Speech Emotion Recognition
Sayan Ghosh, Eugene Laksana, Louis-Philippe Morency, Stefan Scherer

Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition System Based on a Three-Layer Model
Xingfeng Li, Masato Akagi

Analysis of Multi-Lingual Emotion Recognition Using Auditory Attention Features
Ozlem Kalinli

On the Correlation and Transferability of Features Between Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech Emotion Recognition
Haytham M. Fayek, Margaret Lech, Lawrence Cavedon

On the Influence of Text Content on Pass-Phrase Strength for Short-Duration Text-Dependent Automatic Speaker Authentication
Giacomo Valenti, Adrien Daniel, Nicholas Evans

Articulation Rate Filtering of CQCC Features for Automatic Speaker Verification
Massimiliano Todisco, Héctor Delgado, Nicholas Evans

The IBM Speaker Recognition System: Recent Advances and Error Analysis
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Jason W. Pelecanos, Sriram Ganapathy

Probabilistic Approach Using Joint Clean and Noisy i-Vectors Modeling for Speaker Recognition
Waad Ben Kheder, Driss Matrouf, Moez Ajili, Jean-François Bonastre

Generalized Discriminant Analysis (GDA) for Improved i-Vector Based Speaker Recognition
Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad, John H.L. Hansen

Noise and Metadata Sensitive Bottleneck Features for Improving Speaker Recognition with Non-Native Speech Input
Yao Qian, Jidong Tao, David Suendermann-Oeft, Keelan Evanini, Alexei V. Ivanov, Vikram Ramanarayanan

Robust Audio Event Recognition with 1-Max Pooling Convolutional Neural Networks
Huy Phan, Lars Hertel, Marco Maass, Alfred Mertins

Audio-Based Distributional Representations of Meaning Using a Fusion of Feature Encodings
Giannis Karamanolakis, Elias Iosif, Athanasia Zlatintsi, Aggelos Pikrakis, Alexandros Potamianos

Robust DNN-Based VAD Augmented with Phone Entropy Based Rejection of Background Speech
Yuya Fujita, Ken-ichi Iso

Feature Learning with Raw-Waveform CLDNNs for Voice Activity Detection
Ruben Zazo, Tara N. Sainath, Gabor Simko, Carolina Parada

The SRI System for the NIST OpenSAD 2015 Speech Activity Detection Evaluation
Martin Graciarena, Luciana Ferrer, Vikramjit Mitra

Model Adaptation and Active Learning in the BBN Speech Activity Detection System for the DARPA RATS Program
Damianos Karakos, Scott Novotney, Le Zhang, Richard Schwartz

Fusion Strategies for Robust Speech Recognition and Keyword Spotting for Channel- and Noise-Degraded Speech
Vikramjit Mitra, Julien VanHout, Wen Wang, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco, Dimitra Vergyri, Abeer Alwan, Adam Janin, John H.L. Hansen, Richard M. Stern, Abhijeet Sangwan, Nelson Morgan

Recurrent Neural Network-Based Phoneme Sequence Estimation Using Multiple ASR Systems’ Outputs for Spoken Term Detection
Naoki Sawada, Hiromitsu Nishizaki

Enhancing Data-Driven Phone Confusions Using Restricted Recognition
Mark Kane, Julie Carson-Berndsen

Rapid Update of Multilingual Deep Neural Network for Low-Resource Keyword Search
Chongjia Ni, Lei Wang, Cheung-Chi Leung, Feng Rao, Li Lu, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Toward High-Performance Language-Independent Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection for MediaEval 2015: Post-Evaluation Analysis
Cheung-Chi Leung, Lei Wang, Haihua Xu, Jingyong Hou, Van Tung Pham, Hang Lv, Lei Xie, Xiong Xiao, Chongjia Ni, Bin Ma, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Novel Subband Autoencoder Features for Non-Intrusive Quality Assessment of Noise Suppressed Speech
Meet H. Soni, Hemant A. Patil

SNR-Based Progressive Learning of Deep Neural Network for Speech Enhancement
Tian Gao, Jun Du, Li-Rong Dai, Chin-Hui Lee

A Novel Risk-Estimation-Theoretic Framework for Speech Enhancement in Nonstationary and Non-Gaussian Noise Conditions
Jishnu Sadasivan, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Two-Stage Temporal Processing for Single-Channel Speech Enhancement
Suman Samui, Indrajit Chakrabarti, Soumya Kanti Ghosh

A Class-Specific Speech Enhancement for Phoneme Recognition: A Dictionary Learning Approach
Nazreen P.M., A.G. Ramakrishnan, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Robust Example Search Using Bottleneck Features for Example-Based Speech Enhancement
Atsunori Ogawa, Shogo Seki, Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix, Takuya Yoshioka, Tomohiro Nakatani, Kazuya Takeda

Speech Enhancement in Multiple-Noise Conditions Using Deep Neural Networks
Anurag Kumar, Dinei Florencio

Perception Optimized Deep Denoising AutoEncoders for Speech Enhancement
Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar, Panayiotis Georgiou

HMM-Based Speech Enhancement Using Sub-Word Models and Noise Adaptation
Akihiro Kato, Ben Milner

Semi-Supervised Joint Enhancement of Spectral and Cepstral Sequences of Noisy Speech
Li Li, Hirokazu Kameoka, Takuya Higuchi, Hiroshi Saruwatari

A priori SNR Estimation Using a Generalized Decision Directed Approach
Aleksej Chinaev, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

A DNN-HMM Approach to Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Based Speech Enhancement
Ziteng Wang, Xu Li, Xiaofei Wang, Qiang Fu, Yonghong Yan

SNR-Aware Convolutional Neural Network Modeling for Speech Enhancement
Szu-Wei Fu, Yu Tsao, Xugang Lu

An Iterative Phase Recovery Framework with Phase Mask for Spectral Mapping with an Application to Speech Enhancement
Kehuang Li, Bo Wu, Chin-Hui Lee

A Novel Research to Artificial Bandwidth Extension Based on Deep BLSTM Recurrent Neural Networks and Exemplar-Based Sparse Representation
Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao

Coping with Unseen Data Conditions: Investigating Neural Net Architectures, Robust Features, and Information Fusion for Robust Speech Recognition
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco

On the Use of Gaussian Mixture Model Framework to Improve Speaker Adaptation of Deep Neural Network Acoustic Models
Natalia Tomashenko, Yuri Khokhlov, Yannick Estève

Analytical Assessment of Dual-Stream Merging for Noise-Robust ASR
Louis ten Bosch, Bert Cranen, Yang Sun

Use of Generalised Nonlinearity in Vector Taylor Series Noise Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition
Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Thomas Hain

Joint Optimization of Denoising Autoencoder and DNN Acoustic Model Based on Multi-Target Learning for Noisy Speech Recognition
Masato Mimura, Shinsuke Sakai, Tatsuya Kawahara

Optimization of Speech Enhancement Front-End with Speech Recognition-Level Criterion
Takuya Higuchi, Takuya Yoshioka, Tomohiro Nakatani

Factorized Linear Input Network for Acoustic Model Adaptation in Noisy Conditions
Dung T. Tran, Marc Delroix, Atsunori Ogawa, Tomohiro Nakatani

Data Augmentation Using Multi-Input Multi-Output Source Separation for Deep Neural Network Based Acoustic Modeling
Yusuke Fujita, Ryoich Takashima, Takeshi Homma, Masahito Togami

Microphone Distance Adaptation Using Cluster Adaptive Training for Robust Far Field Speech Recognition
Animesh Prasad, Khe Chai Sim

An Investigation on the Use of i-Vectors for Robust ASR
Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Samuel Thomas, Sriram Ganapathy

The Sheffield Wargame Corpus — Day Two and Day Three
Yulan Liu, Charles Fox, Madina Hasan, Thomas Hain

Recurrent Models for Auditory Attention in Multi-Microphone Distant Speech Recognition
Suyoun Kim, Ian Lane

Semi-Supervised Speaker Adaptation for In-Vehicle Speech Recognition with Deep Neural Networks
Wonkyum Lee, Kyu J. Han, Ian Lane

Semi-Supervised Training in Deep Learning Acoustic Model
Yan Huang, Yongqiang Wang, Yifan Gong

Multilingual Data Selection for Low Resource Speech Recognition
Samuel Thomas, Kartik Audhkhasi, Jia Cui, Brian Kingsbury, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

An Investigation on Training Deep Neural Networks Using Probabilistic Transcriptions
Amit Das, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Analysis of Mismatched Transcriptions Generated by Humans and Machines for Under-Resourced Languages
Van Hai Do, Nancy F. Chen, Boon Pang Lim, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

ASR for South Slavic Languages Developed in Almost Automated Way
Jan Nouza, Radek Safarik, Petr Cerva

Improving Under-Resourced Language ASR Through Latent Subword Unit Space Discovery
Marzieh Razavi, Mathew Magimai-Doss

Language Adaptive DNNs for Improved Low Resource Speech Recognition
Markus Müller, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel

Improved Multilingual Training of Stacked Neural Network Acoustic Models for Low Resource Languages
Tanel Alumäe, Stavros Tsakalidis, Richard Schwartz