ISCA Archive

Table of Contents and Access to Abstracts - Ordered by Sessions

Keynotes
Articulatory Measurements and Modelling     Assessment     Audio-Visual Speech
Corpora (Oral)     Corpora (Poster)     Dialogue (Oral)     Dialogue 1 (Poster)     Dialogue 2 (Poster)
Disorders in Speech Production and/or Speech Perception
Enhancements, Echo Cancellation, and Quality Measures
First and Second Language Learning     Joint Source-Channel Coding
Language Identification     Multimodal Interaction
Prosody - Prosodic Features in Dialogues     Prosody - Prosodic Phrasing and Interruptions
Prosody - Stress, Accent and Prominence Phrasing     Prosody - Study of Prosody for Speech Synthesis
Prosody - Temporal and/or Intonational Features
Speaker Recognition - Acoustic Features and Robustness
Speaker Recognition - Scoring and Decision     Speaker Recognition and Topic Detection
Speech Acoustics     Speech Analysis and Segmentation     Speech Analysis and Tools
Speech and Noise (Oral)     Speech and Noise 1 (Poster)     Speech and Noise 2 (Poster)     Speech and Noise 3 (Poster)
Speech and the Internet (Oral)     Speech and the Internet (Poster)
Speech Coding     Speech Communication Education     Speech Disorders & Speech for Disabled
Speech Generation and Synthesis - Acoustic Synthesis     Speech Generation and Synthesis - Acoustic Synthesis and Units
Speech Generation and Synthesis - Concatenation     Speech Generation and Synthesis - Prosody
Speech Generation and Synthesis - Systems and Evaluation
Speech Generation and Synthesis - Systems, Linguistic Processing
Speech Perception (Oral)     Speech Perception 1     Speech Perception 2
Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modelling 1 (Oral)     Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modelling 2 (Oral)
Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modelling 1 (Poster)     Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modelling 2 (Poster)
Speech Recognition - Acoustic Processing
Speech Recognition - Adaptation 1     Speech Recognition - Adaptation 2
Speech Recognition - Adaptation (Poster)
Speech Recognition - Broadcast News (Oral)     Speech Recognition - Broadcast News (Poster)
Speech Recognition - Confidence Measures 1     Speech Recognition - Confidence Measures 2
Speech Recognition - Language Modelling 1 (Oral)     Speech Recognition - Language Modelling 2 (Oral)
Speech Recognition - Language Modelling 1 (Poster)     Speech Recognition - Language Modelling 2 (Poster)
Speech Recognition - Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR)
Speech Recognition - Multilinguality     Speech Recognition - Multi-stream ASR
Speech Recognition - Search     Speech Recognition - Search and Pronunciation Modelling
Speech Recognition - Speaking Rate     Speech Recognition - Training
Speech Signal Processing     Speech Technology for Language Learning     Speech Translation
Speech Understanding - Miscellaneous Topics     Spoken Dialogue Systems
Systems, Architectures     Systems, Architectures, Interfaces
Text-Dependent Speaker Verification     Text-Independent Speaker Verification and Tracking
Topic Detection and Tracking     Wideband and Perceptually Based Coding

Keynotes

Jelinek, Frederick / Chelba, Ciprian: "Putting language into language modeling", keynote paper 1.

Gósy, Mária: "The controversial connection between speech production and perception: theories vs. facts", keynote paper.

Maybury, Mark T.: "Multimedia interaction for the new millennium", keynote paper 3.

Lindblom, Björn: "How speech works - questions and preliminary answers", keynote paper 4.

Speech Recognition, Adaptation 1

Chou, Wu: "Maximum a posterior linear regression with elliptically symmetric matrix variate priors", 1-4.

Goronzy, Silke / Kompe, Ralf: "A MAP-like weighting scheme for MLLR speaker adaptation", 5-8.

Hirsch, Hans-Günter: "HMM adaptation for telephone applications", 9-12.

Huang, Jing / Padmanabhan, Mukund: "A study of adaptation techniques on a voicemail transcription task", 13-16.

Logan, Beth: "Maximum likelihood sequential adaptation", 17-20.

Prosody - Prosodic Features in Dialogues

Brinckmann, aren / Benzmüller, Ralf: "The relationship between utterance type and F0 contour in German", 21-24.

Grigorova, Evelina / Filipov, Vladimir / Andreeva, Bistra: "A contrastive investigation of discourse intonational characteristic features of sofia bulgarian and hamburg German in MAP task dialogues", 25-28.

Horne, Merle / Hansson, Petra / Bruce, Gösta / Frid, Johan: "Prosodic correlates of information structure in Swedish human-human dialogues", 29-32.

Kitazawa, S. / Kobayashi, S.: "Paralinguistic features as suprasegmental acoustics observed in natural Japanese dialogue", 33-36.

Tamoto, Masafumi / Kawamori, Masahito / Kawabata, Takeshi: "Integrating prosodic features in dialogue understanding", 37-40.

Speech Recognition - Confidence Measures

Cox, Stephen / Dasmahapatra, Srinandan: "A high-level approach to confidence estimation in speech recognition", 41-44.

Jia, Bin / Zhu, Xiaoyan / Luo, Yupin / Hu, Dongcheng: "Utterance verification using modified segmental probability model", 45-48.

Klakow, Dietrich / Rose, Georg / Aubert, Xavier: "OOV-detection in large vocabulary system using automatically defined word-fragments as fillers", 49-52.

Lin, Qiguang / Lubensky, David / Roukos, Salim: "Use of recursive mumble models for confidence measuring", 53-56.

Rahim, Mazin: "Utterance verification for the numeric language in a natural spoken dialogue", 57-60.

Speech Recognition - Acoustic Processing

Chengalvarayan, Rathinavelu: "Robust energy normalization using speech/nonspeech discriminator for German connected digit recognition", 61-64.

Veth, Johan de / Cranen, Bert / Wet, Febe de / Boves, Louis: "Acoustic pre-processing for optimal effectivity of missing feature theory", 65-68.

Heracleous, Panikos / Yamada, Takeshi / Nakamura, Satoshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Simultaneous recognition of multiple sound sources based on 3-d n-best search using microphone array", 69-72.

Hermansky, Hynek / Jain, Pratibha: "Down-sampling speech representation in ASR", 73-76.

Macho, Dusan / Nadeu, Climent / Jancovic, Peter / Rozinaj, Gregor / Hernando, Javier: "Comparison of time & frequency filtering and cepstral-time matrix approaches in ASR", 77-80.

Meinedo, Hugo / Neto, Joao P. / Almeida, Luis B.: "Syllable onset detection applied to the portuguese language", 81-84.

Paliwal, Kuldip K.: "Decorrelated and liftered filter-bank energies for robust speech recognition", 85-88.

Paches-Leal, Pau / Rose, Richard C. / Nadeu, Climent: "Optimization algorithms for estimating modulation spectrum domain filters", 89-92.

San-Segundo, R. / Córdoba, R. / Ferreiros, J. / Gallardo, A. / Colás, J. / Pastor, J. / López, Y.: "Efficient vector quantization using an n-path binary tree search algorithm", 93-96.

Warakagoda, Narada D. / Johnsen, Magne H.: "Neural network based optimal feature extraction for ASR", 97-100.

Yato, Fumihiro / Inoue, Naomi / Hashimoto, Kazuo: "A study of speech recognition for the elderly", 101-104.

Zhu, Jie / Chen, Fei-li: "The analysis and application of a new endpoint detection method based on distance of autocorrelated similarity^#", 105-108.

Articulatory Measurements and Modelling

Beautemps, Denis / Borel, Pascal / Manolios, Sébastien: "Hyper-articulated speech: auditory and visual intelligibility", 109-112.

Engwall, Olov: "Modeling of the vocal tract in three dimensions", 113-116.

Kienast, Miriam / Paeschke, Astrid / Sendlmeier, Walter: "Articulatory reduction in emotional speech", 117-120.

Kaburagi, Tokihiko / Honda, Masaaki / Okadome, Takeshi: "A trajectory formation model of articulatory movements using a multidimensional phonemic task", 121-124.

Krstulovic, Sacha: "LPC-based inversion of the DRM articulatory model", 125-128.

Miki, Nobuhiro / Yokoyama, Thoru / Ohtani, Takeshi / Masaki, Shinobu / Shimada, Ikuhiro / Fujimoto, Ichiro / Nakamura, Yuji: "A vocal tract model using multi-line equivalent circuits", 129-132.

Matsuda, Masahiro / Kasuya, Hideki: "Acoustic nature of the whisper", 133-136.

Okadome, Takeshi / Kaburagi, Tokihiko / Honda, Masaaki: "Relations between utterance speed and articulatory movements", 137-140.

Laprie, Slim Ouni And Yves: "Design of hypercube codebooks for the acoustic-to-articulatory inversion respecting the non-linearities of the articulatory-to-acoustic mapping", 141-144.

Owens, Marie / Krüger, Anja / Donnelly, Paul / Smith, F J / Ming, Ji: "A missing-word test comparison of human and statistical language model performance", 145-148.

Richmond, Korin: "Estimating velum height from acoustics during continuous speech", 149-152.

Silva, C. / Chennoukh, S. / Trancoso, Isabel: "On improving the decision algorithm for articulatory codebook search", 153-156.

Thimm, G. / Luettin, J.: "Extraction of articulators in x-ray image sequences", 157-160.

Teixeira, António / Vaz, Francisco / Príncipe, José Carlos: "Effects of source-tract interaction in perception of nasality", 161-164.

Vaxelaire, Béatrice / Sock, Rudolph / Hecker, Véronique: "Perceiving anticipatory phonetic gestures in French", 165-168.

Vilain, Anne / Abry, Christian / Badin, Pierre: "Motor equivalence evidenced by articulatory modelling", 169-172.

First and Second Language Learning

Wet, Febe de / Cucchiarini, Catia / Strik, Helmer / Boves, Lou: "Using likelihood ratios to perform utterance verification in automatic pronunciation assessment", 173-176.

Kawai, Goh / Ishi, Carlos Toshinori: "A system for learning the pronunciation of Japanese pitch accent", 177-182.

Nouza, Jan: "Computer-aided spoken-language training with enhanced visual and auditory feedback", 183-186.

Song, Zhanjiang / Zheng, Fang / Xu, Mingxing / Wu, Wenhu: "An effective scoring method for speaking skill evaluation system", 187-190.

Santiago-Oriola, Conception: "Vocal synthesis in a computerized dictation exercise", 191-194.

Trancoso, Isabel / Viana, Céu / Mascarenhas, Isabel / Teixeira, Carlos: "On deriving rules for nativised pronunciation in navigation queries", 195-198.

Yvon, Francois: "Pronouncing unknown words using multi-dimensional analogies", 199-202.

Laczko, Maria: "Characteristics features of planning of speech and production of secondary schoolchildren's spontaneous speech", 202.

Speech Recognition - Adaptation 2

Byrne, William / Gunawardana, Asela: "Discounted likelihood linear regression for rapid adaptation", 203-206.

Chien, Jen-Tzung / Junqua, Jean-Claude / Gelin, Philippe: "Extraction of reliable transformation parameters for unsupervised speaker adaptation", 207-210.

Chesta, Cristina / Siohan, Olivier / Lee, Chin-Hui: "Maximum a posteriori linear regression for hidden Markov model adaptation", 211-214.

Hariharan, Ramalingam / Viikki, Olli: "On combining vocal tract length normalisation and speaker adaptation for noise robust speech recognition", 215-218.

Rottland, Jörg / Neukirchen, Christoph / Willett, Daniel / Rigoll, Gerhard: "Speaker adaptation using regularization and network adaptation for hybrid MMI-NN/HMM speech recognition", 219-222.

Prosody - Prosodic Phrasing and Interruptions

Alter, Kai / Schirmer, Annett / Kotz, Sonja A. / Friederici, Angela D.: "Prosodic phrasing and accentuation in speech production of patients with right hemisphere lesions", 223-226.

Goto, Masataka / Itou, Katunobu / Hayamizu, Satoru: "A real-time filled pause detection system for spontaneous speech recognition", 227-230.

Iwano, Koji: "Prosodic word boundary detection using mora transition modeling of fundamental frequency contours -speaker independent experiments-", 231-234.

Warnke, Volker / Gallwitz, Florian / Batliner, Anton / Buckow, Jan / Huber, R. / Nöth, Elmar / Höthker, A.: "Integrating multiple knowledge sources for word hypotheses graph interpretation", 235-238.

Yang, Li-chiung: "Prosodic correlates of interruptions in spoken dialogue", 239-242.

Assessment

Constantinides, Paul C. / Rudnicky, Alexander I.: "Dialog analysis in the carnegie mellon communicator", 243-246.

Fiscus, Jon / Doddington, George / Garofolo, John / Martin, Alvin: "NIST's 1998 topic detection and tracking evaluation (TDT2)", 247-250.

Sonntag, Gerit P. / Portele, Thomas / Haas, Felicitas / Köhler, Joachim: "Comparative evaluation of six German TTS systems", 251-254.

Steeneken, Herman J. M.: "Standardisation of ergonomic assessment of speech communication", 255-258.

Suzuki, Noriko / Takeuchi, Yugo / Ishii, Kazuo / Okada, Michio: "Evaluation of affiliation in interaction with autonomous creatures", 259-262.

Speech Recognition - Confidence Measures 2

Bauer, Josef G. / Junkawitsch, Jochen: "Accurate recognition of city names with spelling as a fall back strategy", 263-266.

Bartkova, Katarina / Jouvet, Denis: "Selective prosodic post-processing for improving recognition of French telephone numbers", 267-270.

Chang, Eric I.: "Improving rejection with semantic slot-based confidence scores", 271-274.

Davies, K. / Donovan, R. / Epstein, M. / Franz, Martin / Ittycheriah, Abraham / Jan, E. E. / LeRoux, J. M. / Lubensky, David / Neti, Chalapathy / Padmanabhan, Mukund / Papineni, K. / Roukos, Salim / Sakrajda, A. / Sorensen, Jeffrey S. / Tydlitat, B. / Ward, T.: "The IBM conversational telephony system for financial applications", 275-278.

El Méliani, Rachida / O’Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Error spotting using syllabic fillers in spontaneous conversational speech recognition", 279-282.

Jouvet, Denis / Monné, Jean: "Recognition of spelled names over the telephone and rejection of data out of the spelling lexicon", 283-286.

Koo, Myoung-Wan / Lee, Sun-Jeong: "An utterance verification system based on subword modeling for a vocabulary independent speech recognition system", 287-290.

Moreau, Nicolas / Jouvet, Denis: "Use of a confidence measure based on frame level likelihood ratios for the rejection of incorrect data", 291-294.

Macías-Guarasa, J. / Ferreiros, J. / Gallardo, A. / San-Segundo, R. / Pardo, Juan Manuel / Villarrubia, L.: "Variable preselection list length estimation using neural networks in a telephone speech hypothesis-verification system", 295-298.

Pfau, Thilo / Faltlhauser, Robert / Ruske, Günther: "Speaker normalization and pronunciation variant modeling: helpful methods for improving recognition of fast speech", 299-302.

Rose, Richard C. / Riccardi, Giuseppe: "Automatic speech recognition using acoustic confidence conditioned language models", 303-306.

Strom, Volker / Heine, Henrik: "Utilizing prosody for unconstrained morpheme recognition", 307-310.

Stolcke, Andreas / Shriberg, Elizabeth / Hakkani-Tür, Dilek / Tür, Gökhan: "Modeling the prosody of hidden events for improved word recognition", 311-314.

Wessel, Frank / Macherey, Klaus / Ney, Hermann: "A comparison of word graph and n-best list based confidence measures", 315-318.

Speech Analysis and Tools

Prätzas, Marcus M. / Balss, Ulrich / Reininger, Herbert / Wüst, Harald: "C++ software environment for speech signal processing", 319-322.

Ma, Kun / Demirel, Pelin / Espy-Wilson, Carol / MacAuslan, Joel: "Improvement of electrolaryngeal speech by introducing normal excitation information", 323-326.

Ittycheriah, Abraham / Mammone, Richard J.: "Detecting user speech in barge-in over prompts using speaker identification methods", 327-330.

Lobanov, Boris / Levkovskaya, T. / Kheidorov, Igor E.: "Speaker and channel-normalized set of formant parameters for telephone speech recognition", 331-334.

Liew, Alan W.C. / Sum, K. L. / Leung, S. H. / Lau, Wai H.: "Fuzzy segmentation of lip image using cluster analysis", 335-338.

McTear, Michael F.: "Software to support research and development of spoken dialogue systems", 339-342.

Kajarekar, Sachin / Malayath, Narendranath / Hermansky, Hynek: "Analysis of sources of variability in speech", 343-346.

Shimamura, Tetsuya / Hayakawa, Haruko: "Adaptive nonlinear prediction based on order statistics for speech signals", 347-350.

Souza, M. N. / Caprini, E. J. / Machado, C. G. / Ludolf, M. V. / Calôba, L. P. / Seixas, J. M. / Resende, F. G. / Netto, S. L. / Freitas, Diamantino R. / Teixeira, Joao Paulo / Espain, C. / Pera, V. / Moreira, F.: "Developing a voiced information retrieval system for the portuguese language capable to handle both brazilian and portuguese spoken versions", 351-354.

Soraghan, John J. / Hussain, Amir / Shim, Ivy: "Real-time speech modeling using computationally efficient locally recurrent neural networks (CERNs)", 355-358.

Tokuhira, M. / Ariki, Y.: "Effectiveness of KL-transformation in spectral delta expansion", 359-362.

Language Identification

Berkling, Kay / Reynolds, Douglas A. / Zissman, Marc: "Evaluation of confidence measures for language identification", 363-366.

Tsai, Wuei-He / Chang, Wen-Whei: "Chinese dialect identification using an acoustic-phonotactic model", 367-370.

Cummins, Fred / Gers, Felix / Schmidhuber, Jürgen: "Language identification from prosody without explicit features", 371-374.

Harbeck, Stefan / Ohler, Uwe: "Multigrams for language identification", 375-378.

Hombert, Jean-Marie / Maddieson, Ian: "The use of 'rare' segments for language identification", 379-382.

Itahashi, Shuichi / Kiuchi, Toshikazu / Yamamoto, Mikio: "Spoken language identification utilizing fundamental frequency and cepstra", 383-386.

Matrouf, D. / Adda-Decker, Martine / Gauvain, Jean-Luc / Lamel, Lori: "Comparing different model configurations for language identification using a phonotactic approach", 387-390.

Mori, K. / Toba, N. / Harada, T. / Arai, T. / Komatsu, M. / Aoyagi, M. / Murahara, Y.: "Human language identification with reduced spectral information", 391-394.

Barkat, Melissa / Ohala, John / Pellegrino, François: "Prosody as a distinctive feature for the discrimination of arabic dialects", 395-398.

Pellegrino, François / Farinas, Jérôme / André-Obrecht, Régine: "Comparison of two phonetic approaches to language identification", 399-402.

Speech Recognition - Speaking Rate

Anderson, Stephen / Liberman, Natalie / Gillick, Larry / Foster, Stephen / Hama, Sahoko: "The effects of speaker training on ASR accuracy", 403-406.

Faltlhauser, Robert / Pfau, Thilo / Ruske, Günther: "Creating hidden Markov models for fast speech by optimized clustering", 407-410.

Richardson, M. / Hwang, M. / Acero, Alex / Huang, Xuedong: "Improvements on speech recognition for fast talkers", 411-414.

Saul, Lawrence / Rahim, Mazin: "Modeling the rate of speech by Markov processes on curves", 415-418.

Tuerk, Andreas / Young, Steve: "Modelling speaking rate using a between frame distance metric", 419-422.

Speech Acoustics

Bloothooft, Gerrit / Pabon, Peter: "Vocal registers revisited", 423-426.

Bouteille, Franck / Scalart, Pascal / Corazza, Michel: "Pseudo affine projection algorithm new solution for adaptive identication", 427-430.

Jesus, Luis M. T. / Shadle, Christine H.: "Acoustic analysis of a speech corpus of european portuguese fricative consonants", 431-434.

Petlyuchenko, Natalia: "Acoustic characteristics of plosives in consonant-consonant sequences at word boundaries", 435-438.

Son, Rob J. J. H. van / Pols, Louis C. W.: "Effects of stress and lexical structure on speech efficiency", 439-442.

Speech Recognition - Search and Pronunciation Modelling

Abe, Yoshiharu / Itsui, Hiroyasu / Maruta, Yuzo / Nakajima, Kunio: "A two-stage speech recognition method with an error correction model", 443-446.

Chen, C. Julian: "Speech recognition with automatic punctuation", 447-450.

Eide, Ellen: "Automatic modeling of pronunciation variations", 451-454.

Franz, Martin / Novak, Miroslav: "Reducing search complexity in low perplexity tasks", 455-458.

Coletti, Paolo / Federico, Marcello: "A two-stage speech recognition method for information retrieval applications", 459-462.

Fosler-Lussier, Eric: "Multi-level decision trees for static and dynamic pronunciation models", 463-466.

Finke, Michael / Fritsch, Jürgen / Koll, Detlef / Waibel, Alex: "Modeling and efficient decoding of large vocabulary conversational speech", 467-470.

Husson, Jean-Luc: "Evaluation of a segmentation system based on multi-level lattices", 471-474.

Hanna, Philip / Stewart, Darryl / Ming, Ji: "The application of an improved DP match for automatic lexicon generation", 475-478.

Iyer, Rukmini / Kimball, Owen / Gish, Herbert: "Modeling trajectories in the HMM framework", 479-482.

Kwon, Oh-Wook / Hwang, Kyuwoong / Park, Jun: "Korean large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using pseudomorpheme units", 483-486.

Kabré, Harouna / Waibel, Alexander: "Navigating German cities by spontaneous French queries", 487-490.

Korkmazskiy, Filipp / Lee, Chin-Hui: "Generating alternative pronunciations from a dictionary", 491-494.

Mangu, Lidia / Brill, Eric / Stolcke, Andreas: "Finding consensus among words: lattice-based word error minimization", 495-498.

Ortmanns, Stefan / Reichl, Wolfgang / Chou, Wu: "An efficient decoding method for real time speech recognition", 499-502.

Padmanabhan, Mukund / Saon, G. / Basu, S. / Huang, Jing / Zweig, Geoffrey: "Recent improvements in voicemail transcription", 503-506.

Ramabhadran, Bhuvana / Deligne, Sabine / Ittycheriah, Abraham: "Acoustics-based baseform generation with pronunciation and/or phonotactic models", 507-510.

Shirosaki, Yasuo / Kikuchi, Hideaki / Shirai, Katsuhiko: "Improving recognition correct rate of important words in large vocabulary speech recognition", 511-514.

Saraclar, Murat / Nock, Harriet / Khudanpur, Sanjeev: "Pronunciation modeling by sharing gaussian densities across phonetic models", 515-518.

Aubert, Xavier L.: "One pass cross word decoding for large vocabularies based on a lexical tree search organization", 1559-1562.

Prosody - Stress, Accent and Prominence Phrasing

Batliner, Anton / Nutt, M. / Warnke, Volker / Nöth, Elmar / Buckow, Jan / Huber, R. / Niemann, Heinrich: "Automatic annotation and classification of phrase accents in spontaneous speech", 519-522.

Conkie, Alistair / Riccardi, Giuseppe / Rose, Richard C.: "Prosody recognition from speech utterances using acoustic and linguistic based models of prosodic events", 523-526.

Fach, Marcus L.: "A comparison between syntactic and prosodic phrasing", 527-530.

Fivela, Barbara Gili: "The prosody of left-dislocated topic constituents in italian read speech", 531-534.

Haas, Jürgen / Warnke, Volker / Niemann, Heinrich / Cettolo, M. / Corazza, A. / Falavigna, D. / Lazzari, G.: "Semantic boundaries in multiple languages", 535-538.

Kim, Yeon-Jun / Byeon, Heo-Jin / Oh, Yung-Hwan: "Prosodic phrasing in korean, determine governor, and then split or not", 539-542.

Mersdorf, Joachim J. / Schmidt, Kai U. / Köster, Stefanie: "Linear prediction coding of individual pitch accent shapes", 543-546.

Nakatani, Christine H.: "Prominence variation beyond given/new", 547-550.

Streefkerk, Barbertje M. / Pols, Louis C. W. / Bosch, Louis F. M. ten: "Acoustical features as predictors for prominence in read aloud dutch sentences used in ANN's", 551-554.

Theune, Mariet: "Parallelism, coherence, and contrastive accent", 555-558.

Speech Disorders & Speech for Disabled

Bonneau, Anne / Mokhtari, Parham: "A phonetically-guided diagnosis of auditory deficiency based on synthetic speech stimuli", 559-562.

Godino-Llorente, Juan I. / Aguilera-Navarro, Santiago / Hernández-Espinosa, Carlos / Fernández-Redondo, Mercedes / Gómez-Vilda, Pedro: "On the selection of meaningful speech parameters used by a pathologic/non pathologic voice register classifier", 563-566.

Harborg, Erik / Holter, Trym / Johnsen, Magne Hallstein / Svendsen, Torbjon: "On-line captioning of TV-programs for the hearing impaired", 567-570.

Jo, Cheol-Woo / Kim, Dae-Hyun: "Classification of pathological voice into normal/benign/malignant state", 571-574.

Maruyama, Ichiro / Abe, Yoshiharu / Sawamura, Eiji / Mitsuhashi, Tetsuo / Ehara, Terumasa / Shirai, Katsuhiko: "Cognitive experiments on timing lag for superimposing closed captions", 575-578.

Ogner, Marcel / Kacic, Zdravko: "Speaker normalization for audio-visual articulation training", 579-582.

Prizl-Jakovac, Tatjana: "Vowel production in aphasia", 583-586.

Speech Recognition - Multi-stream ASR

Cerisara, Christophe / Haton, Jean-Paul / Fohr, Dominique: "Towards a global optimization scheme for multi-band speech recognition", 587-590.

Janin, Adam / Ellis, Dan / Morgan, Nelson: "Multi-stream speech recognition: ready for prime time?", 591-594.

Mirghafori, Nikki / Morgan, Nelson: "Sooner or later: exploring asynchrony in multi-band speech recognition", 595-598.

Morris, Andrew / Hagen, Astrid / Bourlard, Hervé: "The full combination sub-bands approach to noise robust HMM/ANN based ASR", 599-602.

Okawa, Shigeki / Nakajima, Takehiro / Shirai, Katsuhiko: "A recombination strategy for multi-band speech recognition based on mutual information criterion", 603-606.

Speech Generation and Synthesis - Concatenation

Beutnagel, Mark / Mohri, Mehryar / Riley, Michael: "Rapid unit selection from a large speech corpus for concatenative speech synthesis", 607-610.

Chen, Jing-Dong / Campbell, Nick: "Objective distance measures for assessing concatenative speech synthesis", 611-614.

Lewis, Eric / Tatham, Mark: "Word and syllable concatenation in text-to-speech synthesis", 615-618.

Stöber, Karlheinz / Portele, Thomas / Wagner, Petra / Hess, Wolfgang: "Synthesis by word concatenation", 619-622.

Taylor, Paul / Black, Alan W.: "Speech synthesis by phonological structure matching", 623-626.

Speech Communication Education

Bloothooft, Gerrit: "The implementation of a european masters in language and speech", 627-630.

Cooke, Martin / Parker, Helen / Brown, Guy J. / Wrigley, Stuart N.: "The interactive auditory demonstrations project", 631-634.

McTear, Michael F.: "Curricula and courseware in spoken language engineering in europe: a critical appraisal", 635-638.

Hoffmann, Rüdiger / Ketzmerick, Bettina / Kordon, Ulrich / Kürbis, Steffen: "An interactive tutorial on text-to-speech synthesis from diphones in time domain", 639-642.

Qvarfordt, Pernilla / Jönsson, Arne: "Evaluating the dialogue component in the GULAN educational system", 643-646.

Speech Recognition - Broadcast News

Beyerlein, Peter / Aubert, Xavier / Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold / Harris, Matthew / Klakow, Dietrich / Wendemuth, A. / Molau, Sirko / Pitz, Michael / Sixtus, A.: "The philips/RWTH system for transcription of broadcast news", 647-650.

Davenport, Jason / Nguyen, Long / Matsoukas, Spyros / Schwartz, Richard / Makhoul, John: "Toward realtime transcription of broadcast news", 651-654.

Gauvain, Jean-Luc / Lamel, Lori / Adda, Gilles / Jardino, Michéle: "Recent advances in transcribing television and radio broadcasts", 655-658.

Jang, Photina Jaeyun / Hauptmann, Alexander G.: "Selection for acoustic coverage from unlimited speech extracted from closed-captioned TV", 659-662.

Kennedy, Paul E. / Hauptmann, Alexander G.: "Laughter extracted from television closed captions as speech recognizer training data", 663-666.

Nguyen, Long / Matsoukas, Spyros / Davenport, Jason / Liu, Daben / Billa, Jay / Kubala, Francis / Makhoul, John: "Further advances in transcription of broadcast news", 667-670.

Ohtsuki, Katsutoshi / Furui, Sadaoki / Sakurai, Naoyuki / Iwasaki, Atsushi / Zhang, Zhi-Peng: "Recent advances in Japanese broadcast news transcription", 671-674.

Pitz, Michael / Molau, Sirko: "Automatic verification of broadcast news transcriptions", 675-678.

Tritschler, Alain / Gopinath, Ramesh A.: "Improved speaker segmentation and segments clustering using the bayesian information criterion", 679-682.

Wu, Xintian / Yan, Yonghong: "Development of the 1998 OGI-FONIX broadcast news transcription system", 683-686.

Williams, Gethin / Ellis, Daniel P.W.: "Speech/music discrimination based on posterior probability features", 687-690.

Wegmann, Steven / Zhan, Puming / Carp, Ira / Newman, Michael / Yamron, Jon / Gillick, Larry: "Dragon systems' 1998 broadcast news transcription system", 691-694.

Yu, Hua / Finke, Michael / Waibel, Alex: "Progress in automatic meeting transcription", 695-698.

Prosody - Temporal and/or Intonational Features

Brindöpke, Christel / Fink, Gernot A. / Kummert, Franz: "A comparative study of HMM-based approaches for the automatic recognition of perceptually relevant aspects of spontaneous German speech melody", 699-710.

Demenko, Grazyna / Jassem, Wiktor: "Modelling intonational phrase structure with artificial neural networks", 711-714.

Duez, Danielle: "Effects of articulation rate on duration in read French speech", 715-718.

Gurlekian, Jorge A. / Riccillo, Marcela Leticia / Renato, Alejandro / Alvarez, Jose: "A semi automatic method for the characterization of Spanish intonation contours", 719-722.

Tolba, Hesham / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Towards recognizing "non-lexical" words in spontaneous conversational speech", 723-726.

Isogai, Mitsuaki / Mizuno, Hideyuki: "A new F0 contour control method based on vector representation of F0 contour", 727-730.

Kleckova, Jana: "Developing the database of the spontaneous speech prosody characteristics", 731-734.

Möhler, Gregor / Mayer, Jörg: "A method for the analysis of prosodic registers", 735-738.

Smirnova, Natalia: "Whole tunes, nuclear and pre-nuclear patterns and prosodic features in the perception of interrogativity and non-finality in dutch.", 739-742.

Wang, Wern-Jun / Liao, Yuan-Fu / Chen, Sin-Horng: "Prosodic modeling of Mandarin speech and its application to lexical decoding", 743-746.

Zhang, Jin-Song / Kawanami, Hiromichi: "Modeling carryover and anticipation effects for Chinese tone recognition", 747-750.

Speaker Recognition - Acoustic Features and Robustness

Besacier, Laurent / Luettin, J. / Maitre, G. / Meurville, E.: "Experimental evaluation of text-independent speaker verification on laboratory and field test databases in the M2VTS project", 751-754.

Balchandran, Rajesh / Ramanujam, Vidhya / Mammone, Richard J.: "Channel estimation and normalization by coherent spectral averaging for robust speaker verification", 755-758.

Magrin-Chagnolleau, Ivan / Durou, Geoffrey: "Time-frequency principal components of speech: application to speaker identification", 759-762.

Faúndez-Zanuy, Marcos: "Speaker recognition by means of a combination of linear and nonlinear predictive models", 763-766.

Jang, Gil-Jin / Yun, Seong-Jin / Oh, Yung-Hwan: "Feature vector transformation using independent component analysis and its application to speaker identification", 767-770.

Lavner, Yizhar / Rosenhouse, Judith / Gath, Isak: "The prototype model in speaker identification", 771-774.

Lo, T. F. / Mak, M. W. / Yiu, K. K.: "A new cepstrum-based channel compensation method for speaker verification", 775-778.

Miyajima, Chiyomi / Watanabe, Hideyuki / Kitamura, Tadashi / Katagiri, Shigeru: "Speaker recognition based on discriminative feature extraction - optimization of mel-cepstral features using second-order all-pass warping function", 779-782.

Ortega-Garcia, Javier / Cruz-Llanas, Santiago / Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Joaquin: "Facing severe channel variability in forensic speaker verification conditions", 783-786.

Quatieri, Thomas F. / Singer, E. / Dunn, R. B. / Reynolds, Douglas A. / Campbell, J. P.: "Speaker and language recognition using speech codec parameters", 787-790.

Ramanujam, Vidhya / Balchandran, Rajesh / Mammone, Richard J.: "Robust speaker verification in noisy conditions by modification of spectral time trajectories", 791-794.

Vergin, Rivarol / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas / Dumouchel, Pierre: "Toward parametric representation of speech for speaker recognition systems", 795-798.

Zilca, R. D. / Bistritz, Y.: "Text independent speaker identification using LSP codebook speaker models and linear discriminant functions", 799-802.

Speech Recognition - Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR)

Che, Chiwei / Wang, Nick / Huang, Max / Huang, Hank / Seide, Frank: "Development of the philips 1999 taiwan Mandarin benchmark system", 803-806.

Ljolje, Andrej / Riley, Michael D. / Hindle, Donald M.: "The AT&t large vocabulary conversational speech recognition system", 807-810.

Mohri, Mehryar / Riley, Michael: "Integrated context-dependent networks in very large vocabulary speech recognition", 811-814.

Reichert, J. / Schultz, Tanja / Waibel, Alex: "Mandarin large vocabulary speech recognition using the globalphone database", 815-818.

Zheng, Fang / Song, Zhanjiang / Xu, Mingxing / Wu, Jian / Huang, Yinfei / Wu, Wenhu / Bi, Cheng: "Easytalk: a large-vocabulary speaker-independent Chinese dictation machine", 819-822.

Speech Generation and Synthesis - Systems and Evaluation

Fitt, Susan / Isard, Stephen: "Synthesis of regional English using a keyword lexicon", 823-826.

Maeda, Noriyasu / Hideki, Banno / Kajita, Shoji / Takeda, Kazuya / Itakura, Fumitada: "Speaker conversion through non-linear frequency warping of straight spectrum", 827-830.

McInnes, F. R. / Attwater, D. J. / Edgington, Michael D. / Schmidt, Mark S. / Jack, Mervyn A.: "User attitudes to concatenated natural speech and text-to-speech synthesis in an automated information service", 831-834.

Traber, Christof / Huber, Karl / Nedir, Karim / Pfister, Beat / Keller, Eric / Zellner, Brigitte: "From multilingual to polyglot speech synthesis", 835-838.

Tanaka, Kimihito / Mizuno, Hideyuki / Abe, Masanobu / Nakajima, Shin'ya: "A Japanese text-to-speech system based on multi-form units with consideration of frequency distribution in Japanese", 839-842.

Speech Technology for Language Learning

Deville, G. / Deroo, O. / Gielen, Henri Leich (1) S. / Vanparys, J.: "Automatic detection and correction of pronunciation errors for foreign language learners: the demosthenes application", 843-846.

Eskenazi, Maxine / Hansma, Scott / Corwin, John / Albornoz, Jordi: "User adaptation in the fluency pronunciation trainer", 847-850.

Franco, Horacio / Neumeyer, Leonardo / Ramos, María / Bratt, Harry: "Automatic detection of phone-level mispronunciation for language learning", 851-854.

Herron, Daniel / Menzel, Wolfgang / Atwell, Eric / Bisiani, Roberto / Daneluzzi, Fabio / Morton, Rachel / Schmidt, Juergen A.: "Automatic localization and diagnosis of pronunciation errors for second-language learners of English", 855-858.

Vicsi, Klára / Roach, Peter / Öster, Annemarie / Kacic, Zdravko / Barczikay, P. / Sinka, I.: "SPECO - a multimedia multilingual teaching and training system for speech handicapped children", 859-862.

Speech Recognition - Multilinguality

Ahadi, S. M.: "Recognition of continuous persian speech using a medium-sized vocabulary speech corpus", 863-866.

Fegyó, Tibor / Tatai, Péter: "Multi-lingual speech recognition based on demi-syllable subword units", 867-870.

Fung, Pascale / Ma, Chi Yuen / Liu, Wai Kat: "MAP-based cross-language adaptation augmented by linguistic knowledge: from English to Chinese", 871-874.

Grocholewski, Stefan: "Analysis of HMM models in alphabet letters recognition", 875-878.

Hirose, Keikichi / Zhang, Jin-song: "Tone recognition of Chinese continuous speech using tone critical segments", 879-882.

Ho, Tai-Hsuan / Liu, Chin-Jung / Sun, Herman / Tsai, Ming-Yi / Lee, Lin-Shan: "Phonetic state tied-mixture tone modeling for large vocabulary continuous Mandarin speech recognition", 883-886.

Imperl, Bojan / Horvat, Bogomir: "The clustering algorithm for the definition of multilingual set of context dependent speech models", 887-890.

Liu, Jian / He, Xiaodong / Mo, Fuyuan / Yu, Tiecheng: "Study on tone classification of Chinese continuous speech in speech recognition system", 891-894.

Liu, Yi / Fung, Pascale: "Decision tree-based triphones are robust and practical for mandarian speech recognition", 895-898.

López de Ipiña, K. / Varona, A. / Torres, I. / Rodríguez, L. J.: "Decision trees for inter-word context dependencies in Spanish continuous speech recognition tasks", 899-902.

Nassar, Amin M. / Abdel Kader, Nemat S. / Refat, Amr M.: "End points detection for noisy speech using a wavelet based algorithm", 903-906.

Nieuwoudt, C. / Botha, E. C.: "Adaptation of acoustic models for multilingual recognition", 907-910.

Uebler, Ulla / Boros, Manuela: "Recognition of non-native German speech with multilingual recognizers", 911-914.

Systems, Architectures, Interfaces

Altosaar, Toomas / Millar, Bruce / Vainio, Martti: "Relational vs. object-oriented models for representing speech: a comparison using ANDOSL data", 915-918.

Draxler, Christoph / Grudszus, Robert / Euler, Stephan / Bengler, Klaus: "First experiences of the German speechdat-car database collection in mobile environments", 919-922.

Edgington, Mike / Attwater, David / Durston, Peter: "OASIS - a framework for spoken language call steering", 923-926.

Gegenmantel, Eike: "VOCAPI - small standard API for command & control", 927-930.

Müller, Christel / Schröder, Karsten: "Standardised speech interfaces - key for objective evaluation of recognition accuracy", 931-934.

Matsunaga, Shoichi / Noda, Yoshiaki / Ohtsuki, Katsutoshi / Doi, Eiji / Itoh, Tomio: "A medical rehabilitation diagnoses transcription method that integrates continuous and isolated word recognition", 935-938.

Németh, Géza / Zainkó, Csaba / Olaszy, Gábor / Prószéky, Gábor: "Problems of creating a flexible e-mail reader for hungarian", 939-942.

Olaszy, Gábor / Németh, Géza / Olaszi, Péter / Gordos, Géza: "Interactive, TTS supported speech message composer for large, limited vocabulary, but open information systems", 943-946.

Penn, Gerald / Carpenter, Bob: "ALE for speech: a translation prototype", 947-950.

Rodríguez, L.J. / Torres, M. I. / Alcaide, J. M. / Varona, A. / López de Ipina, K. / Penagarikano, M. / Bordel, G.: "An integrated system for Spanish CSR tasks", 951-954.

Sanderman, Angelien / Bosgoed, Ellen / Graaff, Hans de / Splunder, Peter van: "Use of speech synthesis in an application", 955-958.

Tamura, Masatsune / Kondo, Shigekazu / Masuko, Takashi / Kobayashi, Takao: "Text-to-audio-visual speech synthesis based on parameter generation from HMM", 959-962.

Wouters, Johan / Rundle, Brian / Macon, Michael W.: "Authoring tools for speech synthesis using the sable markup standard", 963-966.

Speaker Recognition - Scoring and Decision

Ariyaeeinia, A. M. / Sivakumaran, P. / Pawlewski, M. / Loomes, M. J.: "Dynamic weighting of the distortion sequence in text-dependent speaker verification", 967-970.

Altincay, Hakan / Demirekler, Mübeccel: "On the use of supra model information from multiple classifiers for robust speaker identification", 971-974.

El-Maliki, Mounir / Drygajlo, Andrzej: "Missing features detection and handling for robust speaker verification", 975-978.

Fakotakis, Nikos / Sirigos, John / Kokkinakis, George: "High performance text-independent speaker recognition system based on voiced/unvoiced segmentation and multiple neural nets", 979-982.

Fredouille, Corinne / Bonastre, Jean-François / Merlin, Teva: "Similarity normalization method based on world model and a posteriori probability for speaker verification", 983-986.

Isobe, Toshihiro / Takahashi, Jun-ichi: "Text-independent speaker verification using virtual speaker based cohort normalization", 987-990.

Luettin, J. / Ben-Yacoub, S.: "Robust person verification based on speech and facial images", 991-994.

Mathew, M. / Yegnanarayana, B. / Sundar, R.: "A neural network-based text-dependent speaker verification system using suprasegmental features", 995-998.

Pelecanos, Jason / Sridharan, Sridha: "Modelling output probability distributions for enhancing speaker recognition", 999-1002.

Rodríguez-Linares, L. / García-Mateo, C. / Alba-Castro, J. L.: "On the use of neural networks to combine utterance and speaker verification systems in a text-dependent speaker verification task", 1003-1006.

Ruiz-Mezcua, B. / Rodríguez-Galán, R. / Hernández-Gómez, Luis A. / Domingo-García, Paloma / Bailly-Baillicre Gutiérrez, Enrique: "Genesys: a neural network model for speaker identification", 1007-1010.

Sabac, Bogdan / Gavat, Inge: "Speaker verification with growing cell structures", 1011-1014.

Tadj, Chakib / Dumouchel, Pierre / Mihoubi, Mohamed / Ouellet, Pierre: "Environment adaptation and long term parameters in speaker identification", 1015-1018.

Yoshida, K. / Takagi, K. / Ozeki, K.: "Speaker identification using subband HMMS", 1019-1022.

Zhang, W. D. / Yiu, K. K. / Mak, M. W. / Li, C. K. / He, M. X.: "A priori threshold determination for phrase-prompted speaker verification", 1023-1026.

Speech Recognition - Broadcast News

Harris, Matthew / Aubert, Xavier / Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold / Beyerlein, Peter: "A study of broadcast news audio stream segmentation and segment clustering", 1027-1030.

Liu, Daben / Kubala, Francis: "Fast speaker change detection for broadcast news transcription and indexing", 1031-1034.

Palmery, David D. / Ostendorf, Mari / Burgerz, John D.: "Robust information extraction from spoken language data", 1035-1038.

Renals, Steve / Gotoh, Yoshihiko: "Integrated transcription and identification of named entities in broadcast speech", 1039-1042.

Woodland, P. C. / Odell, J. J. / Hain, T. / Moore, G. L. / Niesler, T. R. / Tuerk, Andreas / Whittaker, E. W. D.: "Improvements in accuracy and speed in the HTK broadcast news transcription system", 1043-1046.

Speech Generation and Synthesis - Acoustic Synthesis

Acero, Alex: "Formant analysis and synthesis using hidden Markov models", 1047-1050.

Bailly, Gérard: "Accurate estimation of sinusoidal parameters in an harmonic+noise model for speech synthesis", 1051-1054.

Laine, Unto K.: "Modal synthesis and modeling of vowels", 1055-1058.

O'Brien, Darragh / Monaghan, Alex I. C.: "Shape invariant pitch modification of speech using a harmonic model", 1059-1062.

Beutnagel, Mark / Conkie, Alistair: "Interaction of units in a unit selection database", 1063-1066.

Disorders in Speech Production and/or Speech Perception

García Gómez, Ramón / López Barquilla, Ricardo / Puertas Tera, José Ignacio / Parera Bermudez, José / Haton, Marie-Christine / Haton, Jean-Paul / Alinat, Pierre / Moreno, Sofia / Hess, Wolfgang / Sanchez Raya, Ma Araceli / Martínez Gual, Eduardo Alberto / Navas-Chaveli Daza, Juan Luis / Antoine, Christophe / Durel, Marie-Madeleine / Maugin, Genevieve / Hohmann, Silke: "Speech training for deaf and hearing-impaired people", 1067-1070.

Hoshino, Shinichi / Kaneko, Itaru / Kikuchi, Hideaki / Shirai, Katsuhiko: "A post-processing of speech for hearing impaired integrate into standard digital audio decoders", 1071-1074.

Imatomi, Setsuko / Arai, Takayuki / Mimura, Yuko / Kato, Masako: "Effects of hoarseness on hypernasality ratings", 1075-1078.

Rezaei-Aghbash, N. / Whiteside, S. P. / Cudd, P. A.: "Cross-language analysis of voice onset time in stuttered speech", 1079-1082.

Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modelling 1

Boulianne, Gilles / Brousseau, Julie / Talbot, Nathalie / Dumouchel, Pierre: "Experiments in constrained maximum likelihood extraction of temporal features for speech recognition", 1083-1086.

Chen, S. S. / Gopinath, Ramesh A.: "Model selection in acoustic modeling", 1087-1090.

Wong, Y. W. / Chow, K. F. / Lau, Wai H. / Lo, W. K. / Lee, Tan / Ching, P. C.: "Acoustic modeling and language modeling for cantonese LVCSR", 1091-1094.

Deroo, O. / Ris, C. / Dupont, S.: "Context dependent hybrid HMM/ANN systems for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system", 1095-1098.

Fischer, V. / Ross, T.: "Reduced gaussian mixture models in a large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer", 1099-1102.

Fritsch, J.: "Mixture trees - hierarchically tied mixture densities for modeling HMM emission probabilities", 1103-1106.

Ichikawa, Akira / Shimizu, Tomoyuki / Horiuchi, Yasuo: "Reinforcement learning for phoneme recognition", 1107-1110.

McCourt, Paul / Harte, Naomi / Vaseghi, Saeed: "Combined temporal and spectral multi-resolution phonetic modelling", 1111-1114.

Novak, Miroslav / Picheny, Michael: "Speed improvement of the time-asynchronous acoustic fast match", 1115-1118.

Sirigos, John / Fakotakis, Nikos / Kokkinakis, George: "A hybrid ANN/HMM syllable recognition module based on vowel spotting", 1119-1122.

Shire, Michael L.: "Data-driven modulation filter design under adverse acoustic conditions and using phonetic and syllabic units", 1123-1126.

Xu, Wei / Duchateau, Jacques / Demuynck, Kris / Dologlou, Ioannis / Wambacq, Patrick / Compernolle, Dirk van / Hamme, Hugo van: "Accuracy versus complexity in context dependent phone modeling", 1127-1130.

Zhou, Jianlai / He, Xiaodong / Yu, Tiecheng / Mo, Fuyuan: "A new hybrid structure of speech recognizer based on HMM and neural network", 1131-1134.

Zweig, Geoffrey / Padmanabhan, Mukund: "Dependency modeling with bayesian networks in a voicemail transcription system", 1135-1138.

Dialogue 1

Asoh, Hideki / Matsui, Toshihiro / Fry, John / Asano, Futoshi / Hayamizu, Satoru: "A spoken dialog system for a mobile office robot", 1139-1142.

Bell, Linda / Gustafson, Joakim: "Interaction with an animated agent in a spoken dialogue system", 1143-1146.

Bernsen, Niels Ole / Dybkjaer, Laila / Heid, Ulrich: "Current practice in the development and evaluation of spoken language dialogue systems.", 1147-1150.

Gustafson, Joakim / Lindberg, Nikolaj / Lundeberg, Magnus: "The august spoken dialogue system", 1151-1154.

Grisvard, Olivier / Gaiffe, Bertrand: "An event-based dialogue model and its implementation in multidial2", 1155-1158.

Huang, Chao / Xu, Peng / Zhang, Xin / Zhao, Shubin / Huang, Taiyi / Xu, Bo: "LODESTAR: a Mandarin spoken dialogue system for travel information retrieval", 1159-1162.

Sasajima, Munehiko / Yano, Takehide / Kono, Yasuyuki: "EUROPA: a generic framework for developing spoken dialogue systems", 1163-1166.

Nakano, Mikio / Dohsaka, Kohji / Miyazaki, Noboru / Hirasawa, Jun-ichi / Tamoto, Masafumi / Kawamori, Masahito / Sugiyama, Akira / Kawabata, Takeshi: "Handling rich turn-taking in spoken dialogue systems", 1167-1170.

Pirker, Hannes / Loderer, Georg / Trost, Harald: "Thus spoke the user to the wizard", 1171-1174.

Pargellis, Andrew / Kuo, Hon-Kwang Jeff / Lee, Chin-Hui: "Automatic dialogue generator creates user defined applications", 1175-1178.

Relaño Gil, José / Tapias, Daniel / Villar-Navarro, Juan Manuel / Gancedo, Maria C. / Hernández-Gómez, Luis A.: "Flexible mixed-initiative dialogue for telephone services", 1179-1182.

Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Gert: "User modelling in adaptive dialogue management", 1183-1186.

Speaker Recognition and Topic Detection

Ashour, Gal / Gath, Isak: "Characterization of speech during imitation", 1187-1190.

Bovbel, Evgeny I. / Tkachova, Polina P. / Kheidorov, Igor E.: "The analysis of speaker individual features based on autoregressive hidden Markov models", 1191-1194.

Delacourt, Perrine / Kryze, David / Wellekens, Christian J.: "Detection of speaker changes in an audio document", 1195-1198.

Glaeser, Axel: "Dynamic test durations for text-independent speaker verification systems", 1199-1202.

Kolano, Guido / Regel-Brietzmann, Peter: "Combination of vector quantization and gaussian mixture models for speaker verification with sparse training data", 1203-1206.

Li, Qi / Tsai, Augustine / Kim, Weon-Goo: "A language-independent personal voice controller with embedded speaker verification", 1207-1210.

Lindberg, Johan / Blomberg, Mats: "Vulnerability in speaker verification - a study of technical impostor techniques", 1211-1214.

McLaughlin, Jack / Reynolds, Douglas A. / Gleason, Terry: "A study of computation speed-UPS of the GMM-UBM speaker recognition system", 1215-1218.

Maes, Stéphane H.: "Conversational biometrics", 1219-1222.

Masuko, Takashi / Hitotsumatsu, Takafumi / Tokuda, Keiichi / Kobayashi, Takao: "On the security of HMM-based speaker verification systems against imposture using synthetic speech", 1223-1226.

Majewski, Wojciech / Mazur-Majewska, Grazyna: "Speech signal parametrization for speaker recognition under voice disguise conditions", 1227-1230.

Satué-Villar, Antonio / Faúndez-Zanuy, Marcos: "On the relevance of language in speaker recognition", 1231-1234.

Yamashita, Yoichi: "Prediction of keyword spotting accuracy based on simulation", 1235-1238.

Speech Recognition - Search

Castro, M. J. / Llorens, D. / Sánchez, Joan-Andreu / Casacuberta, F. / Aibar, P. / Segarra, E.: "A fast version of the atros system", 1239-1242.

Goel, Vaibhava / Byrne, William: "Task dependent loss functions in speech recognition: a* search over recognition lattices", 1243-1246.

Hanzl, Václav: "Theory of structured cogitation in speech recognition", 1247-1250.

Ljolje, Andrej / Pereira, Fernando / Riley, Michael: "Efficient general lattice generation and rescoring", 1251-1254.

Xu, Mingxing / Zheng, Fang / Wu, Wenhu: "A fast and effective state decoding algorithm", 1255-1258.

Systems, Architectures

Jeanrenaud, Philippe / Cockroft, Greg / VanderHeidjen, Allard: "A multimodal, multilingual telephone application: the wildfire electronic assistant", 1259-1262.

Os, Els den / Jongebloed, Hans / Stijsiger, Alice / Boves, Lou: "Speaker verification as a user-friendly access for the visually impaired", 1263-1266.

Robinson, Tony / Abberley, Dave / Kirby, David / Renals, Steve: "Recognition, indexing and retrieval of british broadcast news with the THISL system", 1267-1270.

Seneff, Stephanie / Lau, Raymond / Polifroni, Joseph: "Organization, communication, and control in the GALAXY-II conversational system", 1271-1274.

Pateras, Claudia / Chapados, Nicolas / Kwan, Remi / Lavoie, Dominic / Tremblay, Réal: "A mixed-initiative natural dialogue system for conference room reservation", 1275-1278.

Audio-Visual Speech

Kuratate, Takaaki / Munhall, Kevin G. / Rubin, Philip E. / Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eric / Yehia, Hani: "Audio-visual synthesis of talking faces from speech production correlates", 1279-1282.

MacDonald, John / Andersen, Soren / Bachmann, Talis: "Hearing by eye: visual spatial degradation and the mcgurk effect", 1283-1286.

Nankaku, Yoshihiko / Tokuda, Keiichi / Kitamura, Tadashi: "Intensity- and location-normalized training for HMM-based visual speech recognition", 1287-1290.

Potamianos, Gerasimos / Potamianos, Alexandros: "Speaker adaptation for audio-visual speech recognition", 1291-1294.

Radeau, M. / Colin, C.: "The role of spatial separation on ventriloquism and mcgurk illusions", 1295-1298.

Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modelling 2

Castro, M. J. / Casacuberta, F.: "Hybrid connectionist-structural acoustical modeling in the ATROS system", 1299-1302.

Delphin-Poulat, Lionel / Idier, Jérôme: "Path-dependent kalman estimation of a cepstral bias", 1303-1306.

Dobrisek, S. / Mihelic, F. / Pavesic, N.: "Acoustical modelling of phone transitions: biphones and diphones - what are the differences?", 1307-1310.

Demuynck, Kris / Duchateau, Jacques / Compernolle, Dirk Van: "Optimal feature sub-space selection based on discriminant analysis", 1311-1314.

Debyeche, Mohamed / Afify, Mohamed / Haton, Jean-Paul: "Phoneme recognition system based on HMM with distributed VQ codebook", 1315-1318.

He, Xiaodong / Liu, Jian / Zhou, Jianlai / Yu, Tiecheng: "Research on speech units modeling in continuous speech recognition", 1319-1322.

Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold / Loog, Marco: "An investigation of cepstral parameterisations for large vocabulary speech recognition", 1323-1326.

Hain, T. / Woodland, P. C.: "Dynamic HMM selection for continuous speech recognition", 1327-1330.

Jiang, Li / Huang, Xuedong: "Unified decoding and feature representation for improved speech recognition", 1331-1334.

Kim, DongHwa / Liu, Chaojun / Wu, Xintian / Yan, Yonghong: "High accuracy acoustic modeling based on multi-stage decision tree", 1335-1338.

Ma, Jeff / Deng, Li: "Optimization of dynamic regimes in a statistical hidden dynamic model for conversational speech recognition", 1339-1342.

Marino, José B. / Nogueiras-Rodríguez, Albino: "Top-down bottom-up hybrid clustering algorithm for acoustic-phonetic modeling of speech", 1343-1346.

Nakamura, Atsushi / Matsui, Tomoko: "Acoustic modeling based on a generalized laplacian distribution", 1347-1350.

Reinhard, Klaus / Niranjan, Mahesan: "Diphone subspace models for phone-based HMM complementation", 1351-1354.

Singer, Harald / Nakamura, Atsushi: "Unified framework for acoustic topology modelling: ML-SSS and question-based decision trees", 1355-1358.

Doherty, B. / Vaseghi, Saeed / McCourt, Paul: "Linear transformations in sub-band groups for speech recognition", 1359-1366.

Lu, Peng-Ren / Hong, Wei-Tyng / Chiang, Sheng-Lun / Wang, Yih-Ru / Chen, Sin-Horng: "A prototype of Mandarin speech telephone number inquiry system", Abstract.

Witt, Silke / Young, Steve: "Off-line acoustic modelling of non-native accents", 1367-1370.

Wightman, Colin W. / Harder, Ted A.: "Semi-supervised adaptation of acoustic models for large-volume dictation", 1371-1374.

Dialogue 2

Ammicht, Egbert / Gorin, Allen / Alonso, Tirso: "Knowledge collection for natural language spoken dialog systems", 1375-1378.

Byron, Donna K.: "Improving discourse management in TRIPS-98", 1379-1382.

Wu, Chung-Hsien / Yan, Gwo-Lang / Lin, Chien-Liang: "Speech act modeling in a spoken dialogue system using fuzzy hidden Markov model and bayes' decision criterion", 1383-1386.

Ehrlich, Ute: "Task hierarchies representing sub-dialogs in speech dialog systems", 1387-1390.

Hirasawa, Jun-Ichi / Nakano, Mikio / Kawabata, Takeshi / Aikawa, Kiyoaki: "Effects of system barge-in responses on user impressions", 1391-1394.

López-Cózar, R. / Rubio, Antonio J. / García, P. / Segura, J. C.: "A new word-confidence threshold technique to enhance the performance of spoken dialogue systems", 1395-1398.

Lavelle, C. Alexia / Calmés, Martine de / Pérennou, Guy: "Confirmation strategies to improve correction rates in a telephonic inquiry dialogue system", 1399-1402.

Niimi, Yasuhisa / Nishimoto, Takuya: "Mathematical analysis of dialogue control strategies", 1403-1406.

Ocelikova, Jana / Matousek, Vaclav: "Processing of anaphoric and elliptic sentences in a spoken dialog system", 1407-1410.

Papineni, K. A. / Roukos, Salim / Ward, T.: "Free-flow dialog management using forms", 1411-1414.

Ries, Klaus: "Towards the detection and description of textual meaning indicators in spontaneous conversations", 1415-1418.

Sturm, Janienke / Os, Els den / Boves, Lou: "Dialogue management in the dutch ARISE train timetable information system", 1419-1422.

Krahmer, Emiel / Swerts, Marc / Theune, Mariet / Weegels, Mieke: "Problem spotting in human-machine interaction", 1423-1426.

Lin, Bor-shen / Wang, Hsin-min / Lee, Lin-shan: "Consistent dialogue across concurrent topics based on an expert system model", 1427-1430.

Speech Coding

Chapman, Thomas M. / Xydeas, C. S.: "Secondary codebook storage quantisation", 1431-1434.

Edmondson, W. H. / Iskra, D. J. / Kienzle, P.: "Pseudo-articulatory representations: promise, progress and problems", 1435-1438.

Gao, Ge / Ching, P. C.: "A 1.7KBPS waveform interpolation speech coder using decomposition of pitch cycle waveform", 1439-1442.

Gottesman, Oded / Gersho, Allen: "Enhanced analysis-by-synthesis waveform interpolative coding at 4 KBPS", 1443-1446.

Görtz, Norbert: "Joint source-channel decoding by channel-coded optimal estimation (CCOE) for a CELP speech codec", 1447-1450.

Li, Chunyan / Gersho, Allen / Cuperman, Vladimir: "Analysis-by-synthesis low-rate multimode harmonic speech coding", 1451-1454.

Lois, László: "Variable length coding of transformed LSF coefficients", 1455-1458.

Mayrench, R. / Malah, D.: "Low bit-rate speech coding using quantization of variable length segments", 1459-1462.

Martin, Rainer / Kang, Hong-Goo / Cox, Richard V.: "Low delay analysis/synthesis schemes for joint speech enhancement and low bit rate speech coding", 1463-1466.

Oliva, Oscar / Faúndez-Zanuy, Marcos: "A comparative study of several ADPCM schemes with linear and nonlinear prediction", 1467-1470.

Ohmura, H. / Tanaka, K.: "Segmental feature extraction and coding for speech synthesis", 1471-1474.

Peláez-Moreno, C. / Díaz-de-María, F.: "Backward adaptive RBF-based hybrid predictors for CELP-type coders at medium bit-rates", 1475-1478.

Sercov, Valentin V. / Petrovsky, Alexander A.: "An improved speech model with allowance for time-varying pitch harmonic amplitudes and frequencies in low bit-rate MBE coders", 1479-1482.

Petrinovic, Davor / Petrinovic, Davorka: "Sparse vector linear prediction matrices with multidiagonal structure", 1483-1486.

Stefanovic, M. / Kondoz, A.: "Source-dependent variable rate speech coding below 3 KBPS", 1487-1490.

Chen, Xiaoping / Song, Yantao / Yu, Tiecheng: "A novel speech coding approach based on half-wave vector quantization *", 1491-1494.

Zolfaghari, Parham / Robinson, Tony: "Speech coding using mixture of gaussians polynomial model", 1495-1498.

Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modelling 1

Deng, Li / Ma, Jeff: "A statistical coarticulatory model for the hidden vocal-tract-resonance dynamics", 1499-1502.

Albesano, D. / Mori, R. De / Gemello, R. / Mana, F.: "A study on the effect of adding new dimensions to trajectories in the acoustic space", 1503-1506.

Gales, M. J. F. / Olsen, P. A.: "Tail distribution modelling using the richter and power exponential distributions", 1507-1510.

Zhao, Qingwei / Wang, Zuoying / Lu, Dajin: "A study of duration in continuous speech recognition based on DDBHMM", 1511-1514.

Vaich, T. / Cohen, A.: "Comparison of continuous-density and semi-continuous HMM in isolated words recognition systems", 1515-1518.

Dialogue

Chu-Carroll, Jennifer: "Form-based reasoning for mixed-initiative dialogue management in information-query systems", 1519-1522.

Dahlbäck, Nils / Jönsson, Arne: "Knowledge sources in spoken dialogue systems", 1523-1526.

Os, Els den / Boves, Lou / Lamel, Lori / Baggia, Paolo: "Overview of the ARISE project", 1527-1530.

Rudnicky, Alexander I. / Thayer, E. / Constantinides, Paul / Tchou, C. / Shern, R. / Lenzo, Kevin / Xu, W. / Oh, A.: "Creating natural dialogs in the carnegie mellon communicator system", 1531-1534.

Rosset, Sophie / Bennacef, Samir / Lamel, Lori: "Design strategies for spoken language dialog systems", 1535-1538.

Wideband and Perceptually Based Coding

Amodio, A. / Feng, Gang: "A wideband speech coder based on harmonic coding at 16KBS", 1539-1542.

Bernard, Alexis / Alwan, Abeer: "Perceptually based and embedded wideband CELP coding of speech", 1543-1546.

Földvári, Rudolf / Gyimesi, László: "Very low bit rate voice coder based on a nonlinear hearing model", 1547-1550.

Perreau-Guimaraes, Marcos / Bonnet, Madeleine / Moreau, Nicolas: "Low complexity bit allocation algorithm with psychoacoustical optimisation", 1551-1554.

Wan, Wanggen / Au, Oscar C. / Keung, Cyan L. / Yim, Chi H.: "A novel approach of low bit-rate speech coding based on sinusoidal representation and auditory model", 1555-1558.

Speech Recognition - Language Modelling

Beaujard, Christel / Jardino, Michéle: "Language modeling based on automatic word concatenations", 1563-1566.

Chelba, Ciprian / Jelinek, Frederick: "Recognition performance of a structured language model", 1567-1570.

Chow, Vincent / Wu, Dekai: "On the use of right context in sense-disambiguating language models", 1571-1574.

Donnelly, Paul G. / Smith, F. J. / Sicilia, E. / Ming, Ji: "Language modelling with hierarchical domains", 1575-1578.

Damnati, Géraldine: "Integration of several information sources for robust class-based statistical language modelling", 1579-1582.

Federico, Marcello: "Efficient language model adaptation through MDI estimation", 1583-1586.

Gaudinat, Arnaud / Goldman, Jean-Philippe / Wehrli, Eric: "Syntax-based speech recognition: how a syntactic parser can help a recognition system", 1587-1590.

Ito, Akinori / Kohda, Masaki / Ostendorf, Mari: "A new metric for stochastic language model evaluation", 1591-1594.

Kuo, Hong-Kwang Jeff / Reichl, Wolfgang: "Phrase-based language models for speech recognition", 1595-1598.

Kobayashi, Norihiko / Kobayashi, Tetsunori: "Class-combined word n-gram for robust language modeling", 1599-1602.

Martins, Ciro / Neto, Joao P. / Almeida, Luís B.: "Using partial morphological analysis in language modeling estimation for large vocabulary portuguese speech recognition", 1603-1606.

Ohler, Uwe / Harbeck, Stefan / Niemann, Heinrich: "Discriminative training of language model classifiers", 1607-1610.

Zhang, Shuwu / Singer, Harald / Wu, Dekai / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "Improving n-gram modeling using distance-related unit association maximum entropy language modeling", 1611-1614.

Prosody - Study of Prosody for Speech Synthesis

Chen, Aimin / Wong, Shu Lian / Vaseghi, Saeed / Ho, Charles: "Decision tree micro-prosody structures for text to speech synthesis", 1615-1618.

Córdoba, R. / Vallejo, J. A. / Montero, J. M. / Gutierrez-Arriola, J. / López, M. A. / Pardo, Juan Manuel: "Automatic modeling of duration in a Spanish text-to-speech system using neural networks", 1619-1622.

Clark, Robert A.J. / Dusterhoff, Kurt E.: "Objective methods for evaluating synthetic intonation", 1623-1626.

Dusterhoff, Kurt E. / Black, Alan W. / Taylor, Paul: "Using decision trees within the tilt intonation model to predict F0 contours", 1627-1630.

Esposito, Richard / Yang, Li-chiung: "Levels of prosodic representation in spoken discourse: an empirical approach", 1631-1634.

Fernández-Salgado, Xavier / Banga, Eduardo R.: "Segmental duration modelling in a text-to-speech system for the galician language", 1635-1638.

Hirst, Daniel: "The symbolic coding of segmental duration and tonal alignment: an extension to the INTSINT system.", 1639-1642.

Morlec, Yann / Bailly, Gérard / Aubergé, Véronique: "Training an application-dependent prosodic model corpus, model and evaluation", 1643-1646.

Sheikhzadeh, H. / Eshkevari, A. / Khayatian, M. / Sadigh, R. / Ahadi, S. M.: "Farsi language prosodic structure, research and implementation using a speech synthesizer", 1647-1650.

Teixeira, Joao Paulo / Paulo, Elisabete Rosa / Freitas, Diamantino / Pinto, Maria da Graca: "Acoustical characterisation of the accented syllable in portuguese, a contribution to the naturalness of speech synthesis", 1651-1654.

Wang, Changfu / Fujisaki, Hiroya / Ohno, Sumio / Kodama, Tomohiro: "Analysis and synthesis of the four tones in connected speech of the standard Chinese based on a command-response model", 1655-1658.

Williams, Sandra / Watson, Catherine I.: "A profile of the discourse and intonational structures of route descriptions", 1659-1662.

Speech Perception 1

Amano, Shigeaki / Kondo, Tadahisa: "Neighborhood effects on spoken word recognition in Japanese", 1663-1666.

Chéreau, C. / Hallé, P. A. / Segui, J.: "Interference between surface form and abstract representation in spoken word perception", 1667-1670.

Colin, C. / Radeau, M.: "Are the mcgurk illusions affected by left or right presentation of the speaker face?", 1671-1674.

Dupoux, Emmanuel / Fushimi, Takao / Kakehi, Kazuhiko / Mehler, Jacques: "Prelexical locus of an illusory vowel effect in Japanese", 1675-1678.

Feijóo, Sergio / Fernández, Santiago / Barros, Nieves / Balsa, Ramón: "Acoustic and perceptual characteristics of the Spanish fricatives", 1679-1686.

Gelin, Philippe / Junqua, Jean-Claude: "Techniques for robust speech recognition in the car environment", Abstract.

Karlsson, Fredrik / Eriksson, Anders: "Difference limen for formant frequency discrimination at high fundamental frequencies", 1687-1690.

Sá Marta, Eduardo / Vieira de Sá, Luis: "Auditory features for human communication of stop consonants under full-band and low-pass conditions", 1691-1694.

Widera, Christina / Portele, Thomas: "Levels of reduction for German tense vowels", 1695-1698.

Speech Recognition - Acoustic Modelling 2

Souza, Peter de / Ramabhadran, Bhuvana / Gao, Yuqing / Picheny, Michael: "Enhanced likelihood computation using regression", 1699-1702.

Liu, Chaojun / Wu, Xintian / Yan, Yonghong: "High accuracy acoustic modeling using two-level decision-tree based state-tying", 1703-1706.

Singh, R. / Raj, B. / Stern, Richard M.: "Domain adduced state tying for cross-domain acoustic modelling", 1707-1710.

Sankar, Ananth / Rao Gadde, Venkata Ramana: "Parameter tying and gaussian clustering for faster, better, and smaller speech recognition", 1711-1714.

Schlüter, Ralf / Macherey, Wolfgang / Müller, Boris / Ney, Hermann: "A combined maximum mutual information and maximum likelihood approach for mixture density splitting", 1715-1718.

Multimodal Interaction

Julia, Luc / Cheyer, Adam: "Is talking to virtual more realistic?", 1719-1722.

Matsusaka, Yosuke / Tojo, Tsuyoshi / Kubota, Sentaro / Furukawa, Kenji / Tamiya, Daisuke / Hayata, Keisuke / Nakano, Yuichiro / Kobayashi, Tetsunori: "Multi-person conversation via multi-modal interface - a robot who communicate with multi-user -", 1723-1726.

Narayanan, Shrikanth / Potamianos, Alexandros / Wang, Haohong: "Multimodal systems for children: building a prototype", 1727-1730.

Okada, Michio / Suzuki, Noriko / Date, Masaaki: "Social bonding in talking with social autonomous creatures", 1731-1734.

Purson, A. / Santi, S. / Bertrand, R. / Guaitella, Isabelle / Boyer, J. / Cavé, C.: "The relationships between voice and gesture: eyebrow movements and questioning.", 1735-1738.

Joint Source-Channel Coding

Chang, Wen-Whei / Hsu, Heng-Iang / Wang, De-Yu: "Robust vector quantization for channels with memory", 1739-1742.

Kövesi, Balázs / Lamblin, Claude / Quinquis, Catherine / Thiérion, Philippe / Navarro, William: "A multi-rate codec family based on GSM EFR and ITU-t g.729", 1743-1746.

Pan, J. S. / Shieh, C. S. / Chiang, T. F.: "A novel channel distortion measure for vector quantization and a fuzzy model for codebook index assignment", 1747-1750.

Sriratanaban, C. / Kondoz, A.: "A full-rate GSM-AMR candidate", 1751-1754.

Villette, S. / Stefanovic, M. / Kondoz, A.: "A multi-rate speech and channel codec: a GSM AMR half-rate candidate", 1755-1758.

Speech Recognition - Language Modelling

Adda, Gilles / Jardino, Michéle / Gauvain, Jean-Luc: "Language modeling for broadcast news transcription", 1759-1762.

Béchet, Frédéric / Nasr, Alexis / Spriet, Thierry / Mori, Renato de: "Large Span statistical language models: application to homophone disambiguation for large vocabulary speech recognition in French", 1763-1766.

Baggia, P. / Kellner, A. / Pérennou, Guy / Popovici, C. / Sturm, Janienke / Wessel, Frank: "Language modelling and spoken dialogue systems - the ARISE experience", 1767-1770.

Brieussel-Pousse, Laure / Perennou, Guy: "Language model level vs. lexical level for modeling pronunciation variation in a French CSR", 1771-1774.

Leung, Roger H.Y. / Choy, Chi-Yan / Leung, Hong C.: "Characteristics of Chinese language models for large vocabulary telephone speech", 1775-1778.

Langlois, D. / Smadli, K.: "A new based distance language model for a dictation machine: application to MAUD", 1779-1782.

Müller, Ludek / Psutka, Josef: "Using various language model smoothing techniques for the transcription of a weather forecast broadcasted by the czech radio", 1783-1786.

McAllaster, Don / Gillick, Larry: "Studies in acoustic training and language modeling using simulated speech data", 1787-1790.

Reichl, Wolfgang: "Language model adaptation using minimum discrimination information", 1791-1794.

Smadli, K. / Brun, A. / Zitouni, I. / Haton, Jean-Paul: "Automatic and manual clustering for large vocabulary speech recognition: a comparative study", 1795-1798.

Sánchez, Joan-Andreu / Benedí, José-Miguel: "Learning of stochastic context-free grammars by means of estimation algorithms", 1799-1802.

Yamamoto, Hirofumi / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "Part-of-speech n-gram and word n-gram fused language model", 1803-1806.

Zhu, Xiaojin / Chen, Stanley F. / Rosenfeld, Ronald: "Linguistic features for whole sentence maximum entropy language models", 1807-1810.

Zitouni, I. / Mari, J. F. / Smadli, K. / Haton, Jean-Paul: "Variable-length sequence language model for large vocabulary continuous dictation machine", 1811-1814.

Zhang, Ruiqiang / Black, Ezra / Finch, Andrew: "Using detailed linguistic structure in language modelling", 1815-1818.

Speech Generation and Synthesis - Prosody

Bulyko, Ivan / Ostendorf, Mari: "Predicting gradient F0 variation: pitch range and accent prominence", 1819-1822.

Deans, Paul / Breen, Andrew / Jackson, Peter: "CART-based duration modeling using a novel method of extracting prosodic features", 1823-1826.

Eom, Ki-Wan / Kim, Jin-Young / Kim, Sun-Mi: "A primary study on the randomness control of the prosodic boundary index for natural synthetic speech", 1827-1830.

Ferencz, Attila / Nagy, István / Kovács, Tünde-Csilla / Ratiu, Teodora / Ferencz, Maria: "On a hybrid time domain-LPC technique for prosody superimposing used for speech synthesis", 1831-1834.

Fackrell, J. W. A. / Vereecken, H. / Martens, J.-P. / Coile, Bert Van: "Multilingual prosody modelling using cascades of regression trees and neural networks", 1835-1838.

Gu, Wentao / Shih, Chilin / Santen, Jan P.H. van: "An efficient speaker adaptation method for TTS duration model", 1839-1842.

House, David / Bell, Linda / Gustafson, Kjell / Johansson, Linn: "Child-directed speech synthesis: evaluation of prosodic variation for an educational computer program", 1843-1846.

Huckvale, Mark: "Representation and processing of linguistic structures for an all-prosodic synthesis system using XML", 1847-1850.

Park, Won / Park, Hyung-Bin / Bae, Myung-Jin: "A study on a pitch alteration by using the formant and phase compensation technique", 1851-1854.

Lee, Tan / Meng, Helen M. / Lau, Wai H. / Lo, W. K. / Ching, P. C.: "Micro-prosodic control in cantonese text-to-speech synthesis", 1855-1858.

Mixdorff, Hansjörg / Mehnert, Dieter: "Exploring the naturalness of several German high-quality-text-to-speech systems", 1859-1862.

Sakurai, A. / Kawanami, Hiromichi / Hirose, Keikichi: "Detecting accent sandhi in Japanese using a superpositional F0 model", 1863-1866.

Kitagawa, Satoshi / Campbell, Nick: "Focus detection by comparison of speech waveforms", 1867-1870.

Tatham, Mark / Lewis, Eric / Morton, Katherine: "An advanced intonation model for synthesis", 1871-1874.

Takano, Satoshi / Abe, Masanobu: "A new F0 modification algorithm by manipulating harmonics of magnitude spectrum", 1875-1878.

Villar Navarro, Juan Manuel / López Gonzalo, Eduardo / Relaño Gil, José: "A mixed strategy approach to Spanish prosody", 1879-1882.

Speech Perception 2

Ainsworth, William A.: "Perception of overlapping syllables", 1883-1886.

Cerrato, Loredana / Paoloni, Andrea: "Are transcriptions of speech material recorded by means of bugs reliable?", 1887-1890.

Erdeljac, Vlasta / Horga, Damir: "Influence of morphology on phoneme identification in spoken croatian", 1891-1894.

Hant, James J. / Alwan, Abeer: "Modeling the masking of formant transitions in noise", 1895-1898.

Irino, Toshio / Patterson, Roy D.: "Stabilised wavelet mellin transform: an auditory strategy for normalising sound-source size", 1899-1902.

Janíková, Zdena Palková and Jitka: "Unintended preferences in the perceptive evaluation of rhythmical units in czech", 1903-1906.

Pallier, Christophe / Sebastián Gallés, Nuria / Colomé, Angels: "Phonological representations and repetition priming", 1907-1910.

Vicsi, Klára / Csatari, F. / Bakcsi, Zs. / Tantos, A.: "Distance score evaluation of the visualised speech spectra at audio-visual articulation training", 1911-1914.

Leeuwen, David A. van / Louwere, Michael de: "Objective and subjective evaluation of the acoustic models of a continuous speech recognition system", 1915-1918.

Whiteside, S. P. / Varley, R. A.: "Verbo-motor priming in the phonetic encoding of real and non-words", 1919-1922.

Speech Recognition - Language Modelling 1

Chen, Langzhou / Huang, Taiyi: "An improved MAP method for language model adaptation", 1923-1926.

Clarkson, Philip / Robinson, Tony: "Towards improved language model evaluation measures", 1927-1930.

Huang, Taiyi / Chen, Langzhou: "A novel language model based on self-organized learning", 1931-1934.

Kilian, Ute / Class, Fritz: "Combining syntactical and statistical language constraints in context-dependent language models for interactive speech applications", 1935-1938.

Martin, Sven / Hamacher, Christoph / Liermann, Jorg / Wessel, Frank / Ney, Hermann: "Assessment of smoothing methods and complex stochastic language modeling", 1939-1942.

Speech and Noise

Bippus, Rolf / Fischer, Alexander / Stahl, Volker: "Domain adaptation for robust automatic speech recognition in car environments", 1943-1946.

Huang, Jun / Zhao, Yunxin / Levinson, Stephen: "A DCT-based fast enhancement technique for robust speech recognition in automobile usage", 1947-1950.

Hermus, Kris / Dologlou, Ioannis / Wambacq, Patrick / Compernolle, Dirk Van: "Fully adaptive SVD-based noise removal for robust speech recognition", 1951-1954.

Westphal, Martin / Waibel, Alex: "Towards spontaneous speech recognition for on-board car navigation and information systems", 1955-1958.

Das, Subrata / Lubensky, David / Wu, Cheng: "Towards robust speech recognition in the telephony network environment - cellular and landline conditions", 1959-1962.

Text-Dependent Speaker Verification

Bimbot, Frédéric / Blomberg, Mats / Boves, Louis / Chollet, Gérard / Jaboulet, Cédric / Jacob, Bruno / Kharroubi, Jamal / Koolwaaij, Johan / Lindberg, Johan / Mariethoz, Johnny / Mokbel, Chafic / Mokbel, Houda: "An overview of the PICASSO project research activities in speaker verification for telephone applications", 1963-1966.

Charlet, D.: "Integrating time-alignment information into the decision making for text-dependent HMM-based speaker verification", 1967-1970.

Genoud, Dominique / Chollet, Gérard: "Deliberate imposture: a challenge for automatic speaker verification systems.", 1971-1974.

Melin, H. / Lindberg, Johan: "Variance flooring, scaling and tying for text-dependent speaker verification", 1975-1978.

Mariethoz, Johnny / Genoud, Dominique / Bimbot, Frédéric / Mokbel, Chafic: "Client / world model synchronous alignement for speaker verification", 1979-1982.

Speech Understanding - Miscellaneous Topics

Boros, Manuela / Heisterkamp, Paul: "Linguistic phrase spotting in a simple application spoken dialogue system", 1983-1986.

Deinzer, F. / Fischer, J. / Ahlrichs, U. / Nöth, Elmar: "Learning of domain dependent knowledge in semantic networks", 1987-1990.

Hakkani-Tür, Dilek / Tür, Gökhan / Stolcke, Andreas / Shriberg, Elizabeth: "Combining words and prosody for information extraction from speech", 1991-1994.

Ishikawa, Kai / Sumita, Eiichiro: "Error correction translation using text corpora", 1995-1998.

Kronenberg, S. / Skuplik, K.: "Efficient sentence disambiguation by preferred constituent order", 1999-2002.

Lee, Yue-Shi / Chen, Hsin-Hsi: "Identifying linguistic segmentations in Chinese spoken dialogue", 2003-2006.

Chiang, Tung-Hui / Lin, Yi-Chung: "Error recovery for robust language understanding in spoken dialogue systems", 2007-2010.

Liu, Xiaohu / Fung, Pascale / Cheung, Chi Shun: "A monolingual semantic decoder based on word sense disambiguation for mixed language understanding", 2011-2014.

Meng, Helen M. / Lam, Wai / Wai, Carmen: "To believe is to understand", 2015-2018.

Nöth, Elmar / Haas, Jürgen / Warnke, Volker / Gallwitz, Florian / Boros, Manuela: "A hybrid approach to spoken dialogue understanding: prosody, statistics and partial parsing", 2019-2022.

Obuchi, Yasunari / Koizumi, Atsuko / Kitahara, Yoshinori / Matsuda, Jun'ichi / Tsukada, Toshihisa: "Portable speech interpreter which has voice input and sophisticated correction functions", 2023-2026.

Potamianos, Alexandros / Riccardi, Giuseppe / Narayanan, Shrikanth: "Categorical understanding using statistical ngram models", 2027-2030.

Spilker, Jörg / Weber, Hans / Görz, Günther: "Detection and correction of speech repairs in word lattices", 2031-2034.

Schadle, Igor / Antoine, Jean-Yves / Memmi, Daniel: "Connectionist language models for speech understanding: the problem of word order variation", 2035-2038.

Siu, Kai-Chung / Meng, Helen M.: "Semi-automatic acquisition of domain-specific semantic structures", 2039-2042.

Takezawa, Toshiyuki: "Transformation into language processing units by dividing and connecting utterance units", 2043-2046.

Wong, Aboy / Wu, Dekai: "Learning a lightweight robust deterministic parser", 2047-2050.

Wu, Dekai / Sui, Zhifang / Zhao, Jun: "An information-based method for selecting feature types for word prediction", 2051-2054.

Wang, Ye-Yi: "A robust parser for spoken language understanding", 2055-2058.

Speech Generation and Synthesis - Systems, Linguistic Processing

Barbosa, Plínio A. / Violaro, Fábio / Albano, Eleonora C. / Simoes, Flávio / Aquino, Patrícia / Madureira, Sandra / Francozo, Edson: "Aiuruete: a high-quality concatenative text-to-speech system for brazilian portuguese with demisyllabic analysis-based units and a hierarchical model of rhythm production", 2059-2062.

Burileanu, Dragos / Dan, Claudius / Sima, Mihai / Burileanu, Corneliu: "A parser-based text preprocessor for romanian language TTS synthesis", 2063-2066.

Carlberger, Alice: "Nparse - a shallow n-gram-based grammatical-phrase parser", 2067-2070.

Dermatas, Evangelos / Kokkinakis, George: "A language-independent probabilistic model for automatic conversion between graphemic and phonemic transcription of words", 2071-2074.

Gros, Jerneja / Mihelic, F.: "Acquisition of an extensive rule set for slovene grapheme-to-allophone transcription", 2075-2078.

Ho, Ching-Hsiang / Vaseghi, Saeed / Chen, Aimin: "Voice conversion between UK and US accented English", 2079-2082.

Mizuno, Hideyuki / ABE, Masanobu / Nakajima, Shin'ya: "Development of speech design tool "SESIGN99" to enhance synthesized speech", 2083-2086.

Hain, Horst-Udo: "Automation of the training procedures for neural networks performing multi-lingual grapheme to phoneme conversion", 2087-2090.

Koutny, Ilona: "Parsing hungarian sentences in order to determine their prosodic structures in a multilingual TTS system", 2091-2094.

Mihkla, Meelis / Eek, Arvo / Meister, Einar: "Text-to-speech synthesis of estonian", 2095-2098.

Montero, J. M. / Gutiérrez-Arriola, J. / Colás, J. / Macías-Guarasa, J. / Enríquez, E. / Pardo, Juan Manuel: "Development of an emotional speech synthesiser in Spanish", 2099-2102.

Pavesic, N. / Gros, Jerneja: "S5: the SQEL slovene speech synthesis system", 2103-2106.

Rojc, Matej / Stergar, Janez / Wilhelm, Ralph / Hain, Horst-Udo / Holzapfel, Martin / Horvat, Bogomir: "A multilingual text processing engine for the PAPAGENO text-to-speech synthesis system", 2107-2110.

Suh, Chang K. / Kagoshima, Takehiko / Morita, Masahiro / Seto, Shigenobu / Akamine, Masami: "Toshiba English text-to-speech synthesizer (TESS)", 2111-2114.

Sannier, Frédérique / Aubergé, Véronique: "Towards the generation of French phonetic inflected forms", 2115-2118.

Tzoukermann, Evelyne / Ménard, Lucie / Ouellet, Marise: "Canadian French text-to-speech synthesis: modeling an optimal set of realizations for dialect markers", 2119-2122.

Busser, Bertjan / Daelemans, Walter / Bosch, Antal van den: "Machine learning of word pronunciation: the case against abstraction", 2123-2126.

Speech & the Internet

Ordowski, M. / Deshmukh, N. / Ganapathiraju, A. / Hamaker, J. / Picone, Joseph: "A public domain speech-to-text system", 2127-2130.

Fellbaum, Klaus / Richter, Joerg: "Human speech production - an internet-based interactive multimodal tutorial", 2131-2134.

Gibbon, Dafydd / Kölsch, Silke / Mertins, Inge / Schulte, Michaela / Trippel, Thorsten: "Terminology principles and support for spoken language system development", 2135-2138.

Horiuchi, Yasuo / Atsushi, Fujiwara / Ichikawa, Akira: "New WWW browser for visually impaired people using interactive voice technology", 2139-2142.

Hanika, Jirí / Horák, Petr: "Text to speech control protocol", 2143-2146.

Petek, Bojan: "Multilinguality and human language technology courseware", 2147-2150.

Rouillard, José / Caelen, Jean: "Multimodal information seeking dialogues on the world wide web", 2151-2154.

Tucker, Roger / Robinson, Tony / Christie, James: "Compression of acoustic features - are perceptual quality and recognition performance incompatible goals?", 2155-2158.

Vaufreydaz, Dominique / Rouillard, José / Akbar, Mohammad: "A network architecture for building applications that use speech recognition and/or synthesis", 2159-2162.

Speech Recognition - Language Modelling 2

Bellegarda, Jerome R.: "Context scope selection in multi-Span statistical language modeling", 2163-2166.

Gildea, Daniel / Hofmann, Thomas: "Topic-based language models using EM", 2167-2170.

Galescu, Lucian / Ringger, Eric K.: "Augmenting words with linguistic information for n-gram language models", 2171-2174.

Nasr, Alexis / Estéve, Yannick / Béchet, Frédéric / Spriet, Thierry / Mori, Renato de: "A language model combining n-grams and stochastic finite state automata", 2175-2178.

Wu, Jun / Khudanpur, Sanjeev: "Combining nonlocal, syntactic and n-gram dependencies in language modeling", 2179-2182.

Speech Signal Processing

Kiss, Imre / Kapanen, Pekka: "Robust feature vector compression algorithm for distributed speech recognition", 2183-2186.

Karjalainen, Matti / Tolonen, Tero: "Separation of speech signals using iterative multi-pitch analysis and prediction", 2187-2190.

Parris, Eluned S. / Carey, Michael J. / Lloyd-Thomas, Harvey: "Feature fusion for music detection", 2191-2194.

Vuuren, Sarel van / Hermansky, Hynek: "Speech variability in the modulation spectral domain - SANOVA technique -", 2195-2198.

Yang, Dekun / Meyer, Georg F. / Ainsworth, William A.: "Improving harmonic selection for speech intelligibility enhancement by the reassignment method", 2199-2202.

Text-Independent Speaker Verification and Tracking

Beigi, Homayoon S. M. / Maes, Stéphane H. / Chaudhari, Upendra V. / Sorensen, Jeffrey S.: "A hierarchical approach to large-scale speaker recognition", 2203-2206.

Cernocky, J. / Petrovska-Delacrélaz, D. / Pigeon, S. / Verlinde, P. / Chollet, Gérard: "A segmental approach to text-independent speaker verification", 2207-2210.

Johnson, S. E.: "Who spoke when? - automatic segmentation and clustering for determining speaker turns", 2211-2214.

Przybocki, Mark A. / Martin, Alvin F.: "The 1999 NIST speaker recognition evaluation, using summed two-channel telephone data for speaker detection and speaker tracking", 2215-2218.

Sönmez, Kemal / Heck, Larry / Weintraub, Mitchel: "Speaker tracking and detection with multiple speakers", 2219-2222.

Corpora

Aiello, Demetrio / Cerrato, Loredana / Delogu, Cristina / Carlo, Andrea Di: "The acquisition of a speech corpus for limited domain translation", 2223-2226.

Lee, Yue-Shi / Chen, Hsin-Hsi: "Tagging spoken corpus", 2227-2230.

Csatári, F. / Bakcsi, Zs. / Vicsi, Klára: "A hungarian child database for speech processing applications", 2231-2234.

Carson-Berndsen, Julie: "A generic lexicon tool for word model definition in multimodal applications", 2235-2238.

Cassidy, Steve: "Compiling multi-tiered speech databases into the relational model: experiments with the emu system", 2239-2242.

Elenius, Kjell: "Two Swedish Speechdat databases - some experiences and results", 2243-2246.

Hayamizu, Satoru / Nagaya, Shigeki / Watanuki, Keiko / Nakazawa, Masayuki / Nobe, Shuichi / Yoshimura, Takashi: "A multimodal database of gestures and speech", 2247-2250.

Matsui, Tomoko / Naito, Masaki / Singer, Harald / Nakamura, Atsushi / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "Japanese spontaneous speech database with wide regional and age distribution", 2251-2254.

Nakamura, Satoshi / Hiyane, Kazuo / Asano, Futoshi / Yamada, Takeshi / Endo, Takashi: "Data collection in real acoustical environments for sound scene understanding and hands-free speech recognition", 2255-2258.

Noguchi, Hiroaki / Kiriyama, Kazuhisa / Matsuda, Hiroshi / Taniguchi, Miki / Den, Yasuharu / Katagiri, Yasuhiro: "Automatic labeling of Japanese prosody using j-toBI style description", 2259-2262.

Pollák, Petr / Vopièka, Josef / Sovka, Pavel: "Czech language database of car speech and environmental noise", 2263-2266.

Kurematsu, Akira / Sukenori, Atsushi: "Language model selection based on the analysis of Japanese spontaneous speech on travel arrangement task", 2267-2270.

Schiel, Florian / Draxler, Christoph / Hoole, Phil / Tillmann, Hans G.: "New resources at BAS: acoustic, multimodal, linguistic", 2271-2274.

Sanders, Eric / Heuvel, Henk van den / Choukri, Khalid: "Building speech databases for cellular networks", 2275-2278.

Heuvel, Henk van den / Boudy, Jerôme / Comeyne, Robrecht / Euler, Stephan / Moreno, Asuncion / Richard, Gael: "The speechdat-car multilingual speech databases for in-car applications: some first validation results", 2279-2282.

Williams, Briony: "A welsh speech database: preliminary results", 2283-2286.

Speech Generation and Synthesis - Acoustic Synthesis and Units

Au, Oscar C. / Wan, Wanggen / Keung, Cyan L. / Yim, Chi H.: "Sinusoidal representation and auditory model-based parametric matching and smoothing and its application in speech analysis/synthesis", 2287-2290.

Balestri, Marcello / Pacchiotti, Alberto / Quazza, Silvia / Salza, Pier Luigi / Sandri, Stefano: "Choose the best to modify the least: a new generation concatenative synthesis system", 2291-2294.

Chou, Fu-chiang / Tseng, Chiu-yu / Lee, Lin-shan: "Selection of waveform units for corpus-based Mandarin speech synthesis based on decision trees and prosodic modification costs", 2295-2298.

Etxebarria, B. / Hernáez, I. / Madariaga, I. / Navas, E. / Rodríguez, J. C. / Gándara, R.: "Improving quality in a speech synthesizer based on the MBROLA algorithm", 2299-2302.

Huang, Yan / Xu, Bo: "A novel model TD-PSPTP for speech synthesis", 2303-2306.

Kapilow, David / Stylianou, Yannis / Schroeter, Juergen: "Detection of non-stationarity in speech signals and its application to time-scaling", 2307-2310.

Koyama, Takao / Takahashi, Jun-ichi: "A v-CV waveform based speech synthesis using global minimization of pitch conversion and concatenation distortion in v-CV unit sequence", 2311-2314.

Mann, Iain / McLaughlin, Steve: "Stable speech synthesis using recurrent radial basis functions", 2315-2318.

Meron, Yoram / Hirose, Keikichi: "Efficient weight training for selection based synthesis", 2319-2322.

Matousek, Jindrich: "Speech synthesis using HMM-based acoustic unit inventory", 2323-2326.

Macon, Michael W. / Clements, Mark A.: "An enhanced ABS/OLA sinusoidal model for waveform synthesis in TTS", 2327-2330.

Ouellet, Marise / Tzoukermann, Evelyne / Ménard, Lucie: "High vowel /i y u/ in canadian and continental French: an analysis for a TTS system", 2331-2334.

Tychtl, Zbynìk / Psutka, Josef: "Speech production based on the mel-frequency cepstral coefficients", 2335-2338.

Rank, Erhard: "Exploiting improved parameter smoothing within a hybrid concatenative/LPC speech synthesizer", 2339-2342.

Stylianou, Yannis: "Synchronization of speech frames based on phase data with application to concatenative speech synthesis", 2343-2346.

Yoshimura, Takayoshi / Tokuda, Keiichi / Masuko, Takashi / Kobayashi, Takao / Kitamura, Tadashi: "Simultaneous modeling of spectrum, pitch and duration in HMM-based speech synthesis", 2347-2350.

Speech and Noise 1

Glotin, Hervé / Berthommier, Frédéric / Tessier, Emmanuel: "A CASA-labelling model using the localisation cue for robust cocktail-party speech recognition", 2351-2354.

Bayya, Aruna / Yegnanarayana, B.: "Noise-invariant representation for speech signals", 2355-2358.

El-Maleh, Khaled / Kabal, Peter: "Natural-quality background noise coding using residual substitution", 2359-2362.

Fernández, Julian / Lleida, Eduardo / Masgrau, Enrique: "Microphone array design for robust speech acquisition and recognition", 2363-2366.

Guilmin, Gwénaél / Bouquin-Jeannès, Régine Le / Gournay, Philippe: "Study of the influence of noise pre-processing on the performance of a low bit rate parametric speech coder", 2367-2370.

Haverinen, Hemmo / Salmela, Petri / Häkkinen, Juha / Lehtokangas, Mikko / Saarinen, Jukka: "MLP network for enhancement of noisy MFCC vectors", 2371-2374.

Iso-Sipilä, J. / Laurila, K. / Hariharan, Ramalingam / Viikki, Olli: "Hands-free voice activation in noisy car environment", 2375-2378.

Karray, Lamia / Polard, Emmanuel: "A wavelet denoising technique to improve endpoint detection in adverse conditions", 2379-2382.

Kuropatwinski, Marcin / Leckschat, Dieter / Kroschel, Kristian / Czyzewski, Andrzej / Hales, Chaz: "Speech enhancement for linear-predictive-analysis-by-synthesis coders", 2383-2386.

Matsumoto, Hiroshi / Ubukata, Hiroaki: "Robust HMM to variation of noisy environments based on variance extension of noise models", 2387-2390.

Nemer, Elias / Goubran, Rafik / Mahmoud, Samy: "The fourth-order cumulant of speech signals with application to voice activity detection", 2391-2394.

Shieh, Woei-Chyang / Chang, Sen-Chia: "The dependence of feature vectors under adverse noise", 2395-2398.

Tchorz, Jürgen / Kollmeier, Birger: "Speech detection and SNR prediction basing on amplitude modulation pattern recognition", 2399-2402.

Vicente, Luis / Elliott, Stephen J. / Masgrau, Enrique: "Fast active noise control for robust speech acquisition", 2403-2406.

Vizinho, Ascension / Green, Phil / Cooke, M. / Josifovski, Ljubomir: "Missing data theory, spectral subtraction and signal-to-noise estimation for robust ASR: an integrated study", 2407-2410.

Vetter, Rolf / Virag, Nathalie / Renevey, Philippe / Vesin, Jean-Marc: "Single channel speech enhancement using principal component analysis and MDL subspace selection", 2411-2414.

Speech Translation

Barrachina, Sergio / Vilar, Juan Miguel: "Automatically deriving categories for translation", 2415-2418.

Corazza, A.: "An inter-domain portable approach to interchange format construction", 2419-2422.

Casañ, G. A. / Castaño, M. A.: "Distributed representation of vocabularies in the RECONTRA neural translator", 2423-2426.

Reithinger, Norbert: "Robust information extraction in a speech translation system", 2427-2430.

Sugaya, Fumiaki / Takezawa, Toshiyuki / Yokoo, Akio / Yamamoto, Seiichi: "End-to-end evaluation in ATR-MATRIX: speech translation system between English and Japanese", 2431-2434.

Topic Detection and Tracking

Dharanipragada, S. / Franz, Martin / McCarley, J. S. / Roukos, Salim / Ward, T.: "Story segmentation and topic detection for recognized speech", 2435-2438.

Jin, Hubert / Schwartz, Richard / Sista, Sreenivasa / Walls, Frederick: "Topic tracking for radio, TV broadcast, and newswire", 2439-2442.

Lowe, Stephen A.: "The beta-binomial mixture model for word frequencies in documents with applications to information retrieval", 2443-2446.

Nakazawa, Masayuki / Zhang, Jianxin / Oka, Ryuichi: "Topic spotting and its description of summary from spontaneous speech", 2447-2450.

Walls, Frederick / Jin, Hubert / Sista, Sreenivasa / Schwartz, Richard: "Topic detection in broadcast news", 2451-2454.

Speech & the Internet

Bowerman, Chris / Eriksson, Anders / Huckvale, Mark / Rosner, Mike / Tatham, Mark / Wolters, Maria: "Criteria for evaluating internet tutorials in speech communication sciences", 2455-2458.

Drygajlo, Andrzej / Delafontaine, Guy: "Javaspeechlab - interactive speech analysis laboratory on the world-wide web", 2459-2462.

Digalakis, Vassilis / Tsakalidis, Stavros / Neumeyer, Leonardo: "Reviving discrete HMMs: the myth about the superiority of continuous HMMs", 2463-2466.

Fujisaki, Hiroya / Kameda, Hiroyuki / Ohno, Sumio / Abe, Kenji / Iijima, Michio / Suzuki, Masayoshi / Taketa, Kazunari: "Principles and design of an intelligent system for information retrieval over the internet with a multimodal dialogue interface", 2467-2470.

Nishimoto, Takuya / Yuki, Hidehiro / Kawahara, Takehiko / Niimi, Yasuhisa: "An asynchronous virtual meeting system for bi-directional speech dialog", 2471-2474.

Speech Recognition - Adaptation

Botinis, Antonis / Fourakis, Marios / Prinou, Irini: "Prosodic effects on segmental durations in greek", 2475-2478.

Blomberg, Mats: "Within-utterance correlation for speech recognition", 2479-2482.

Gelin, Philippe / Junqua, Jean-Claude: "Techniques for robust speech recognition in the car environment", 2483-2486.

Giuliani, Diego: "An on-line acoustic compensation technique for robust speech recognition", 2487-2490.

Hung, Wei-Wen / Wang, Hsiao-Chuan: "Using adaptive signal limiter together with noise-robust techniques for noisy speech recognition", 2491-2494.

Hong, Wei-Tyng / Chen, Sin-Horng: "A robust environment-effects suppression training algorithm for adverse Mandarin speech recognition", 2495-2498.

Harju, Mikko / Salmela, Petri / Viikki, Olli / Lehtokangas, Mikko / Saarinen, Jukka: "Robust speaker adaptation of continuous density HMMS using multilayer perceptron network", 2499-2502.

Li, Chengrong / Chen, Jingdong / Xu, Bo: "Regression class selection and speaker adaptation with MLLR in Mandarin continuous speech recognition", 2503-2506.

Li, Guoqiang / Du, Limin / Hou, Ziqiang: "Regression transformation of prior means for speaker adaptation", 2507-2510.

Feng, Liu / Che, Chi-wei / Yu, Peng / Wang, Zuoying: "Linguistic tree based maximum likelihood model interpolation", 2511-2514.

Naito, Masaki / Deng, Li / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "Model-based speaker normalization methods for speech recognition", 2515-2518.

Nguyen, Patrick / Wellekens, Christian / Junqua, Jean-Claude: "Maximum likelihood eigenspace and MLLR for speech recognition in noisy environments", 2519-2522.

Ono, Yoshio / Yamada, Maki / Hoshimi, Masakatsu: "A study of speaker adaptation for speaker independent speech recognition method using phoneme similarity vector", 2523-2526.

Uebel, L. F. / Woodland, P. C.: "An investigation into vocal tract length normalisation", 2527-2530.

Yuk, Zong Suk / Flanagan, James / Krishnamoorthy, Mahesh / Dayanidhi, Krishna: "Adaptation to environment and speaker using maximum likelihood neural networks", 2531-2534.

Yu, Xiuyang / Ward, Wayne: "Corrective training for speaker adaptation", 2535-2538.

Obradovic, R. / Pekar, D. / Krco, S. / Delic, V. / Senk, V.: "A robust speaker-independent CPU-based ASR system", 2881-2884.

Enhancements, Echo Cancellation, and Quality Measures

Abouchakra, Rabih / Kabal, Peter: "Delay estimation for transform domain acoustical echo cancellation", 2539-2542.

Beaugeant, C. / Scalart, Pascal: "Noise reduction using perceptual spectral change", 2543-2546.

Hussain, Amir / Campbell, Douglas R.: "Intelligibility improvements using diverse sub-band processing applied to noisy speech", 2547-2550.

Koutras, Athanasios / Dermatas, Evangelos / Kokkinakis, George: "Recognizing simultaneous speech: a genetic algorithm approach", 2551-2554.

Bielawski, Krzysztof / Petrovsky, Alexander A.: "Speech enhancement system for hands-free telephone based on the psychoacoustically motivated filter bank with allpass frequency transformation #", 2555-2558.

Shields, P. W. / Campbell, Douglas R.: "Speech enhancement using a multi-microphone sub-band adaptive griffiths-jim noise canceller", 2559-2562.

Szarvas, M. / Fegyó, T. / Tatai, P. / Gordos, Géza: "Qualiphone-a: a perceptual speech quality evaluation system for analog mobile networks", 2563-2566.

Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Kajita, Shoji / Takeda, Kazuya / Itakura, Fumitada: "Speech enhancement using nonlinear microphone array under nonstationary noise conditions", 2567-2570.

Sarikaya, Ruhi / Hansen, John H. L.: "Auditory masking threshold estimation for broadband noise sources with application to speech enhancement", 2571-2574.

Unoki, Masashi / Akagi, Masato: "Segregation of vowel in background noise using the model of segregating two acoustic sources based on auditory scene analysis", 2575-2578.

Veaux, Christophe / Scalart, Pascal / Gilloire, André: "Analysis and on-line detection of audible distortions in GSM telephony", 2579-2582.

Ru, Wen Rong / Lin, Shih-Chen / Chen, Po-Cheng / Kuo, Chun-Hung: "A parameter-based 2-talker detection apparatus for echo cancellation", 2583-2586.

Yen, Kuan-Chieh / Huang, Jun / Zhao, Yunxin: "Co-channel speech separation in the presence of correlated and uncorrelated noises", 2587-2590.

Speech and Noise 2

Burshtein, David / Gannot, Sharon: "Speech enhancement using a mixture-maximum model", 2591-2594.

Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Joaquin / Cruz-Llanas, Santiago / Ortega-Garcia, Javier: "Concurrent speakers separation through binaural processing of stereo recordings", 2595-2598.

Gustafsson, Harald / Nordholm, Sven / Claesson, Ingvar: "Spectral subtraction with adaptive averaging of the gain function", 2599-2602.

Gaillard, François / Berthommier, Frédéric / Feng, Gang / Schwartz, Jean-Luc: "A reliability criterion for time-frequency labeling based on periodicity in an auditory scene", 2603-2606.

Koval, Serguei / Stolbov, Mikhail / Khitrov, Mikhail: "Broadband noise cancellation systems: new approach to working performance optimization", 2607-2610.

Linhard, Klaus / Haulick, Tim: "Noise subtraction with parametric recursive gain curves", 2611-2614.

Masgrau, Enrique / Aguilar, Luis / Lleida, Eduardo: "Performance comparison of several adaptive schemes for microphone array beamforming", 2615-2618.

Mizumachi, Mitsunori / Akagi, Masato: "An objective distortion estimator for hearing aids and its application to noise reduction", 2619-2622.

Nemer, Elias / Goubran, Rafik / Mahmoud, Samy: "Speech enhancement using fourth-order cumulants and time-domain optimal filters", 2623-2626.

Renevey, Philippe / Drygajlo, Andrzej: "Missing feature theory and probabilistic estimation of clean speech components for robust speech recognition", 2627-2630.

Salavedra, Josep M. / Bou, Xavier: "Distortion effects of several cumulant-based wiener filtering algorithms", 2631-2634.

Svoboda, Milan / Sovka, Pavel / Pollák, Petr: "Combined noise suppression system for monaural cochlear implants", 2635-2638.

Wijngaarden, Sander J. van / Steeneken, Herman J. M.: "Objective prediction of speech intelligibility at high ambient noise levels using the speech transmission index", 2639-2642.

Wan, Eric A. / Merwe, Rudolph van der: "Noise-regularized adaptive filtering for speech enhancement", 2643-2646.

Zarubin, F. / Kovtonyuk, A. / Zadiraka, K.: "Speech enhancement using karhunen-love transformation and wiener filtering in critical bands", 2647-2650.

Spoken Dialogue Systems

Brondsted, Tom: "The CPK NLP suite for spoken language understanding", 2651-2654.

Chung, Grace / Seneff, Stephanie / Hetherington, Lee: "Towards multi-domain speech understanding using a two-stage recognizer", 2655-2658.

Ipsic, I. / Mihelic, F. / Dobrisek, S. / Gros, Jerneja / Pavesic, N.: "A slovenian spoken dialog system for air flight inquiries", 2659-2662.

Ramaswamy, Ganesh / Kleindienst, Jan / Coffman, Daniel / Gopalakrishnan, Ponani / Neti, Chalapathy: "A pervasive conversational interface for information interaction", 2663-2666.

Vromans, B. / Vark, R.J. van / Rueber, B. / Kellner, A.: "Extending the SUSI system with negative knowledge", 2667-2670.

Speech Perception

Crouzet, Olivier / Bacri, Nicole: "Phonological constraints in speech segmentation processes: investigating levels of implementation.", 2671-2674.

Damper, Robert I. / Gunn, Steve R.: "Learning phonetic distinctions from speech signals", 2675-2678.

Moreton, Elliott / Amano, Shigeaki: "Phonotactics in the perception of Japanese vowel length: evidence for long-distance dependencies", 2679-2682.

Peperkamp, Sharon / Dupoux, Emmanuel / Sebastián-Gallés, Núria: "Perception of stress by French, Spanish, and bilingual subjects", 2683-2686.

Silipo, Rosaria / Greenberg, Steven / Arai, Takayuki: "Temporal constraints on speech intelligibility as deduced from exceedingly sparse spectral representations", 2687-2690.

Corpora

Choukri, Khalid / Mapelli, ValéRie / Allen, Jeff: "New developments within the european language resources association (ELRA)", 2691-2694.

Eskenazi, Maxine / Rudnicky, Alexander I. / Gregory, Karin / Constantinides, Paul / Brennan, Robert / Bennett, Christina / Allen, Jwan: "Data collection and processing in the carnegie mellon communicator", 2695-2698.

Höge, Harald / Draxler, Christoph / Heuvel, Henk van den / Johansen, Finn Tore / Sanders, Eric / Tropf, Herbert S.: "Speechdat multilingual speech databases for teleservices: across the finish line", 2699-2702.

Mengel, Andreas / Heid, Ulrich: "Enhancing reusability of speech corpora by hyperlinked query output", 2703-2706.

Silverman, Kim / Anderson, Victoria / Bellegarda, Jerome / Lenzo, Kevin / Naik, Devang: "Design and ccollection of a corpus of polyphones and prosodic contexts for speech synthesis research and development", 2707-2708.

Speech Recognition - Training

Chang, Sen-Chia / Chien, Shih-Chieh / Shieh, Woei-Chyang: "Mandarin telephone speech recognition using MCE/GPD-based speaker cluster HMM", 2709-2712.

Fonollosa, A. R. / Batlle, Eloi: "Combining length restrictions and n-best techniques in multiple-pass search strategies", 2713-2716.

Gelin-Huet, Cecile / Rose, Kenneth / Rao, Ajit: "The deterministic annealing approach for discriminative continuous HMM design", 2717-2720.

Huo, Qiang / Ma, Bin: "On-line adaptive learning of CDHMM parameters based on multiple-stream prior evolution and posterior pooling", 2721-2724.

Kemp, Thomas / Waibel, Alex: "Unsupervised training of a speech recognizer: recent experiments", 2725-2728.

Chesta, C. / Laface, Pietro / Nigra, M.: "Piecewise HMM discriminative training", 2729-2732.

Lefévre, Fabrice / Montacié, Claude / Caraty, Marie-José: "A MLE algorithm for the k-NN HMM system", 2733-2736.

McDonough, John / Byrne, William: "Single-pass adapted training with all-pass transforms", 2737-2740.

Nogueiras-Rodríguez, Albino / Marino, José B.: "Minimum confusibility training of context dependent demiphones", 2741-2744.

Rudzionis, A. / Rudzionis, V.: "Phoneme recognition in fixed context using regularized discriminant analysis", 2745-2748.

Tran, Dat / Wagner, Michael: "Hidden Markov models using fuzzy estimation", 2749-2752.

Vair, Claudio / Mercogliano, Massimiliano / Fissore, Luciano: "Incremental training of CDHMMs using bayesian learning", 2753-2756.

Willett, Daniel / Müller, Stefan / Rigoll, Gerhard: "A discriminative training procedure based on language model and dictionary for LVCSR", 2757-2760.

Wu, Jian / Guo, Qing: "A novel discriminative method for HMM in automatic speech recognition", 2761-2764.

Speech Analysis and Segmentation

Avadhanulu, J. V. / Mathew, M. / Sreenivas, T. V.: "EARLYZER: perceptualy motivated robust TFR of speech", 2765-2768.

Aguilera, C. M. / Navas, A. / Urquiza, R. / Gago, A.: "Frequency lowering using a discrete exponential transform", 2769-2772.

Martino, Joseph Di / Laprie, Yves: "An efficient F0 determination algorithm based on the implicit calculation of the autocorrelation of the temporal excitation signal", 2773-2776.

Howitt, Andrew Wilson: "Vowel landmark detection", 2777-2780.

Kawahara, Hideki / Katayose, Haruhiro / Cheveigné, Alain de / Patterson, Roy D.: "Fixed point analysis of frequency to instantaneous frequency mapping for accurate estimation of F0 and periodicity", 2781-2784.

Lawlor, B. / Fagan, A. D.: "A novel high quality efficient algorithm for time-scale modification of speech", 2785-2788.

Lee, Minkyu / Santen, Jan van / Möbius, Bernd / Olive, Joseph: "Formant tracking using segmental phonemic information", 2789-2792.

McKenna, John / Isard, Stephen: "Tailoring kalman filtering towards speaker characterisation", 2793-2796.

Salomon, Ariel / Espy-Wilson, Carol: "Automatic detection of manner events based on temporal parameters", 2797-2800.

Seck, Mouhamadou / Bimbot, Frédéric / Zugaj, Didier / Delyon, Bernard: "Two-class signal segmentation for speech/music detection in audio tracks", 2801-2804.

Tuan, Vu Ngoc / d'Alessandro, Christophe: "Robust glottal closure detection using the wavelet transform", 2805-2808.

Santen, Jan P. H. van / Sproat, Richard W.: "High-accuracy automatic segmentation", 2809-2812.

Zeljkovic, Ilija / Stylianou, Yannis: "Single complex sinusoid and ARHE model based pitch extractors", 2813-2816.

Speech and Noise 3

Álvarez, A. / Martínez, R. / Gómez, P. / Nieto, V. / Pérez, M. M.: "A robust isolated word recognizer for highly non-stationary environments. recognition results", 2817-2820.

Afify, Mohamed: "Sequential bias compensation for robust speech recognition", 2821-2824.

Tarcisio, Coianiz / Daniele, Falavigna / Roberto, Gretter / Marco, Orlandi: "Use of simulated data for robust telephone speech recognition", 2825-2828.

Hauptman, Y. / Bistritz, Y.: "On the use of time alignments for noisy speech recognition", 2829-2832.

Häkkinen, Juha / Suontausta, J. / Hariharan, Ramalingam / Vasilache, M. / Laurila, K.: "Improved feature vector normalization for noise robust connected speech recognition", 2833-2836.

Josifovski, Ljubomir / Cooke, Martin / Green, Phil / Vizinho, Ascension: "State based imputation of missing data for robust speech recognition and speech enhancement", 2837-2840.

Kermorvant, Christopher / Morris, Andrew: "A comparison of two strategies for ASR in additive noise: missing data and spectral subtraction", 2841-2844.

Milner, Ben / Farrell, Mark: "A comparison of techniques for tone compensation in payphone-based speech recognition", 2845-2848.

Menéndez-Pidal, Xavier / Chen, Ruxin / Wu, Duanpei / Tanaka, Mick: "Front-end improvements to reduce stationary & variable channel and noise distortions in continuous speech recognition tasks", 2849-2852.

Nokas, G. / Dermatas, E.: "Speech recognition in noisy reverberant rooms using a frequency domain blind deconvolution method", 2853-2856.

Schless, Volker / Class, Fritz / Sandl, Peter: "Optimization of a speech recognizer for aircraft environments", 2857-2860.

Yoma, Nestor Becerra / Ling, Lee Luan / Stump, Sandra Dotto: "Temporal constraints in viterbi alignment for speech recognition in noise", 2861-2864.

Yamamoto, Kazumasa / Nakagawa, Seiichi: "HMM composition of segmental unit input HMM for noisy speech recognition", 2865-2868.

Yoma, Nestor Becerra / Ling, Lee Luan / Stump, Sandra Dotto: "Robust connected word speech recognition using weighted viterbi algorithm and context-dependent temporal constraints", 2869-2872.

Yao, Kaisheng / Shi, Bertram / Fung, Pascale / Cao, Zhigang: "Liftered forward masking procedure for robust digits recognition", 2873-2876.

Zhao, Yunxin: "Channel identification and spectrum estimation for robust automatic speech recognition", 2877-2880.