Table of Contents and Access to Abstracts

Keynotes

Pols, Louis C. W.: "Acquiring and implementing phonetic knowledge", K3-6.

Neuvo, Yrjö: "Mobile future", K7-10.

Brennan, Susan E.: "How visual co-presence and joint attention shape speaking", K11-12.

What do Industry and Universities Expect from Each Other? (Special Session)

Greenberg, Steven: "Whither speech technology? - a twenty-first century perspective", P3-6.

Dobler, Stefan / Hermansson, Hans / Minde, Tor-Björn: "3g mobile networks and mobile internet as a promotor for new applications - challenges to industry and universities", P7-10.

Niiniluoto, Ilkka: "Universities and industry: marriage or co-operation between independent partners?", 11-12.

Neuvo, Yrjö: "Considerations on what industry expects from universities", 13-14.

Strong, Gary: "A perspective on industry/university relationships in the US", 15-16.

Choukri, Khalid: "ELRA contribution to bridge the gap between industry and academia", 17-18.

Linguistic Modelling: Language Model Compression

Maltese, G. / Bravetti, P. / Crépy, H. / Grainger, B. J. / Herzog, M. / Palou, F.: "Combining word- and class-based language models: a comparative study in several languages using automatic and manual word-clustering techniques", 21-24.

Isogai, Shuntaro / Shirai, Katsuhiko / Yamamoto, Hirofumi / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "Multi-class composite n-gram language model using multiple word clusters and word successions", 25-28.

Zitouni, Imed / Smaili, Kamel / Haton, Jean-Paul: "Statistical language model based on a hierarchical approach: MCnv", 29-32.

Whittaker, E. W. D. / Raj, Bhiksha: "Quantization-based language model compression", 33-36.

Speech Production: Voice Source

Bloothooft, Gerrit / Wijck, Mieke van / Pabon, Peter: "Relations between vocal registers in voice breaks", 39-42.

Ramsay, Gordon: "A quasi-one-dimensional model of aerodynamic and acoustic flow in the time-varying vocal tract: source and excitation mechanisms", 43-46.

Henrich, Nathalie / d'Alessandro, Christophe / Doval, Boris: "Spectral correlates of voice open quotient and glottal flow asymmetry : theory, limits and experimental data", 47-50.

Avanzini, Federico / Alku, Paavo / Karjalainen, Matti: "One-delayed-mass model for efficient synthesis of glottal flow", 51-54.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Pronunciation and Subword Units

Zheng, Fang / Song, Zhanjiang / Fung, Pascale / Byrne, William: "Modeling pronunciation variation using context-dependent weighting and b/s refined acoustic modeling", 57-60.

Bazzi, Issam / Glass, James: "Learning units for domain-independent out-of- vocabulary word modelling", 61-64.

Nakajima, Hideharu / Hirano, Izumi / Sagisaka, Yoshinori / Shirai, Katsuhiko: "Pronunciation variant analysis using speaking style parallel corpus", 65-68.

Kneissler, Jan / Klakow, Dietrich: "Speech recognition for huge vocabularies by using optimized sub-word units", 69-72.

Lee, Kyung-Tak / Wellekens, Christian J.: "Dynamic lexicon using phonetic features", 1413-1416.

Ziegenhain, Ute / Bauer, Josef G.: "Triphone tying techniques combining a-priori rules and data driven methods", 1417-1420.

Bosch, Louis F. M. ten / Cremelie, Nick: "Pronunciation modeling and lexical adaptation in midsize vocabulary ASR", 1421-1424.

Yi, Liu / Fung, Pascale: "Estimating pronunciation variations from acoustic likelihood score for HMM reconstruction", 1425-1428.

Bisani, M. / Ney, Hermann: "Breadth-first search for finding the optimal phonetic transcription from multiple utterances", 1429-1432.

Wolff, Matthias / Eichner, Matthias / Hoffmann, Rüdiger: "Improved data-driven generation of pronunciation dictionaries using an adapted word list", 1433-1436.

Livescu, Karen / Glass, James: "Segment-based recognition on the phonebook task: initial results and observations on duration modeling", 1437-1440.

Riis, Søren Kamaric / Pedersen, Morten With / Jensen, Kare Jean: "Multilingual text-to-phoneme mapping", 1441-1444.

Tsai, Ming-yi / Chou, Fu-chiang / Lee, Lin-shan: "Pronunciation variation analysis with respect to various linguistic levels and contextual conditions for Mandarin Chinese", 1445-1448.

Tomokiyo, Laura Mayfield: "Hypothesis-driven accent discrimination", 1449-1452.

Ma, Changxue / Randolph, Mark A.: "An approach to automatic phonetic baseform generation based on Bayesian networks", 1453-1457.

Schramm, Hauke / Beyerlein, Peter: "Towards discriminative lexicon optimization", 1457-1460.

He, Xiaodong / Zhao, Yunxin: "Model complexity optimization for nonnative English speakers", 1461-1464.

Fegyó, Tibor / Mihajlik, Péter / Tatai, Péter / Gordos, Géza: "Pronunciation modeling in hungarian number recognition", 1465-1468.

Phonetics and Phonology: Prosody and Others

Swerts, Marc / Kloots, Hanne / Gillis, Steven / Schutter, Georges De: "Factors affecting schwa-insertion in final consonant clusters in standard dutch", 75-78.

Hitchcock, Leah / Greenberg, Steven: "Vowel height is intimately associated with stress accent in spontaneous american English discourse", 79-82.

Gibbon, Dafydd: "Finite state prosodic analysis of african corpus resources", 83-86.

Schröder, Marc / Cowie, Roddy / Douglas-Cowie, Ellen / Westerdijk, Machiel / Gielen, Stan: "Acoustic correlates of emotion dimensions in view of speech synthesis", 87-90.

Ouden, Hanny den / Terken, Jacques: "Measuring pitch range", 91-94.

Gibbon, Dafydd / Gut, Ulrike: "Measuring speech rhythm", 95-98.

D’Imperio, Mariapaola: "Tonal alignment, scaling and slope in Italian question and statement tunes", 99-102.

Iivonen, Antti: "Pragmatic temporal voice range profile as a tool in the research of speech styles", 103-106.

Kim, Wooil / Kim, Taeyun / Ahn, Sungjoo / Ko, Hanseok: "Model based stress decision method", 107-110.

Nordgård, Torbjørn / Foldvik, Arne Kjell: "Reduction of alternative pronunciations in the norwegian computational lexicon norkompleks", 111-114.

Elordieta, Gorka / Hualde, José Ignacio: "The role of duration as a correlate of accent in lekeitio basque", 115-118.

Johansson, Victoria / Horne, Merle / Strömqvist, Sven: "Word final aspiration as a phrase boundary cue: data from spontaneous Swedish discourse", 119-122.

Shen, Xipeng / Xu, Bo: "Study and auto-detection of stress based on tonal pitch range in Mandarin", 123-126.

Amir, Noam / Kerret, Ori / Karlinski, Dimitry: "Classifying emotions in speech: a comparison of methods", 127-130.

Speech Perception: First and Second Language Learning

Behne, Dawn M. / Czigler, Peter E. / Sullivan, Kirk P.H.: "Development of vowel quantity perception in late childhood", 133-136.

Yang, Byunggon: "A study on the production-perception link of English vowels produced by native and non-native speakers", 137-140.

Otake, Takashi / Yamaguchi, Yuka: "Japanese can be aware of syllables and morae: evidence from Japanese-English bilingual children", 141-144.

Callan, Daniel / Tajima, Keiichi / Callan, Akiko / Akahane-Yamada, Reiko / Masaki, Shinobu: "Neural processes underlying perceptual learning of a difficult second language phonetic contrast", 145-148.

Komatsu, Masahiko / Mori, Kazuya / Arai, Takayuki / Murahara, Yuji: "Human language identification with reduced segmental information: comparison between monolinguals and bilinguals", 149-152.

Speech Perception: Miscellaneous

Fernández, Santiago / Feijóo, Sergio: "Coarticulatory effects in perception", 155-158.

Harding, Sue / Meyer, Georg: "A case for multi-resolution auditory scene analysis", 159-162.

Ménard, Lucie / Schwartz, Jean-Luc / Boë, Louis-Jean / Kandel, Sonia / Vallée, Nathalie: "Perceptual identification and normalization of synthesized French vowels from birth to adulthood", 163-166.

Ménard, Lucie / Boë, Louis-Jean: "Perceptual categorization of maximal vowel spaces from birth to adulthood simulated by an articulatory model", 167-170.

Eskenazi, Maxine / Black, Alan W.: "A study on speech over the telephone and aging", 171-174.

Chen, Marcia / Alwan, Abeer: "On the perception of voicing for plosives in noise", 175-178.

Jiang, Jintao / Alwan, Abeer / Auer, Edward T. / Bernstein, Lynne E.: "Predicting visual consonant perception from physical measures", 179-182.

Ainsworth, William A. / Cervera, T.: "Effects of noise adaptation on the perception of voiced plosives in isolated syllables", 371-374.

Hiroshige, Makoto / Araki, Kenji / Tochinai, Koji: "On differential limen of word-based local speechrate variation in Japanese expressed by duration ratio", 375-378.

Tokuma, Wan: "A multidimensional scaling study of fricatives; a comparison of perceptual and physical dimensions", 379-382.

Swerts, Marc / Krahmer, Emiel: "Reconstructing dialogue history", 383-386.

House, David / Beskow, Jonas / Granström, Björn: "Timing and interaction of visual cues for prominence in audiovisual speech perception", 387-390.

Komatsu, Masahiko / Tokuma, Shinichi / Tokuma, Won / Arai, Takayuki: "Modelling the perceptual identification of Japanese consonants from LPC cepstral distances", 391-394.

Burnham, Denis / Ciocca, Valter / Stokes, Stephanie: "Auditory-visual perception of lexical tone", 395-398.

Eriksson, Anders / Thunberg, Gunilla C. / Traunmüller, Hartmut: "Syllable prominence: a matter of vocal effort, phonetic distinct-ness and top-down processing", 399-402.

Mixdorff, Hansjörg / Widera, Christina: "Perceived prominence in terms of a linguistically motivated quantitative intonation model", 403-406.

Hawkins, Sarah / Nguyen, Noël: "Perception of coda voicing from properties of the onset and nucleus of 'led' and 'let'", 407-410.

Lin, L. / Ambikairajah, E. / Holmes, W. H.: "Auditory filter bank design using masking curves", 411-414.

Erdenebat, Dashtseren / Shigeyoshi, Kitazawa / Tatsuya, Kitamura: "A new feature driven cochlear implant speech processing strategy", 415-418.

Noise Robust Recognition: Frontend and Compensation Algorithms (Special Session)

Zhu, Qifeng / Iseli, Markus / Cui, Xiaodong / Alwan, Abeer: "Noise robust feature extraction for ASR using the Aurora 2 database", 185-188.

Ellis, Daniel P.W. / Gomez, Manuel J. Reyes: "Investigations into tandem acoustic modeling for the Aurora task", 189-192.

Andrassy, Bernt / Vlaj, Damjan / Beaugeant, Christophe: "Recognition performance of the siemens front-end with and without frame dropping on the Aurora 2 database", 193-196.

Kotnik, Bojan / Kacic, Zdravko / Horvat, Bogomir: "A multiconditional robust front-end feature extraction with a noise reduction procedure based on improved spectral subtraction algorithm", 197-200.

Veth, Johan de / Mauuary, Laurent / Noe, Bernhard / Wet, Febe de / Sienel, Jürgen / Boves, Louis / Jouvet, Denis: "Feature vector selection to improve ASR robustness in noisy conditions", 201-204.

Macho, Dusan / Nadeu, Climent: "Comparison of spectral derivative parameters for robust speech recognition", 205-208.

Yapanel, Umit / Hansen, John H. L. / Sarikaya, Ruhi / Pellom, Bryan: "Robust digit recognition in noise: an evaluation using the AURORA corpus", 209-212.

Barker, Jon / Cooke, Martin / Green, Phil: "Robust ASR based on clean speech models: an evaluation of missing data techniques for connected digit recognition in noise", 213-217.

Droppo, Jasha / Deng, Li / Acero, Alex: "Evaluation of the SPLICE algorithm on the Aurora2 database", 217-220.

Segura, José C. / Torre, Angel de la / Benitez, M. Carmen / Peinado, Antonio M.: "Model-based compensation of the additive noise for continuous speech recognition. experiments using the Aurora II database and tasks", 221-224.

Morris, Andrew / Hagen, Astrid / Bourlard, Hervé: "MAP combination of multi-stream HMM or HMM/ANN experts", 225-228.

Jarc, Bojan / Babic, Rudolf: "Second order statistics spectrum estimation method for robust speech recognition", 229-232.

Yao, Kaisheng / Chen, Jingdong / Paliwal, Kuldip K. / Nakamura, Satoshi: "Feature extraction and model-based noise compensation for noisy speech recognition evaluated on AURORA 2 task", 233-236.

Linguistic Modelling: Language Model Adaptation

Federico, Marcello / Bertoldi, Nicola: "Broadcast news LM adaptation using contemporary texts", 239-242.

Maucec, Mirjam Sepesy / Kacic, Zdravko: "Topic detection for language model adaptation of highly-inflected languages by using a fuzzy comparison function", 243-246.

Georgila, Kallirroi / Fakotakis, Nikos / Kokkinakis, George: "Efficient stochastic finite-state networks for language modelling in spoken dialogue systems", 247-250.

Visweswariah, Karthik / Printz, Harry: "Language models conditioned on dialog state", 251-254.

Chen, Langzhou / Gauvain, Jean-Luc / Lamel, Lori / Adda, Gilles / Adda, Martine: "Using information retrieval methods for language model adaptation", 255-258.

Speech Production: Articulation

Engwall, Olov: "Making the tongue model talk: merging MRI & EMA measurements", 261-264.

Moen, Inger / Simonsen, Hanne Gram / Huseby, Morten / Grue, John: "The relationship between intraoral air pressure and tongue/palate contact during the articulation of norwegian /t/ and /d/", 265-268.

Elgendy, Ahmed M. / Pols, Louis C. W.: "Mechanical versus perceptual constraints as determinants of articulatory strategy", 269-272.

Gick, Bryan / Wilson, Ian: "Pre-liquid excrescent schwa: what happens when vocalic targets conflict", 273-276.

Ouni, Slim / Laprie, Yves: "Exploring the null space of the acoustic-to- articulatory inversion using a hypercube codebook", 277-280.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Topic Detection and Information Retrieval

Theunissen, M. W. / Scheffler, K. / Preez, J. A. du: "Phoneme-based topic spotting on the switchboard corpus", 283-286.

Franz, Martin / McCarley, J. Scott / Ward, Todd / Zhu, Wei-Jing: "Topic styles in IR and TDT: effect on system behavior", 287-290.

Zweig, Geoffrey / Huang, Jing / Padmanabhan, Mukund: "Extracting caller information from voicemail", 291-294.

Kuo, Hong-Kwang Jeff / Lee, Chin-Hui: "A portability study on natural language call steering", 295-298.

Chen, Berlin / Wang, Hsin-min / Lee, Lin-shan: "Improved spoken document retrieval by exploring extra acoustic and linguistic cues", 299-302.

Phonetics and Phonology: Segmentals and Synthesis

Tsukada, Kimiko: "Native vs non-native production of English vowels in spontaneous speech: an acoustic phonetic study", 305-308.

Goronzy, Silke / Sahakyan, Marina / Wokurek, Wolfgang: "Is non-native pronunciation modelling necessary ?", 309-312.

Laprie, Yves / Bonneau, Anne: "Burst segmentation and evaluation of acoustic cues", 313-316.

Granser, Theodor / Moosmüller, Sylvia: "The schwa in albanian", 317-320.

Ashby, Simone / Carson-Berndsen, Julie / Joue, Gina: "A testbed for developing multilingual phonotactic descriptions", 321-324.

Fung, Wing-Nga / Lau, Sze-Lok: "A physiological analysis of nasals and nasalization in Chinese", 325-328.

Donovan, Robert E.: "A component by component listening test analysis of the IBM trainable speech synthesis system", 329-332.

Pan, Shimei / McKeown, Kathleen / Hirschberg, Julia: "Semantic abnormality and its realization in spoken language", 333-336.

Campbell, Nick: "TALKING FOREIGN - concatenative speech synthesis and the language barrier", 337-340.

Jensen, Christian: "Schwa-assimilation in danish synthetic speech", 341-344.

Tamura, Masatsune / Masuko, Takashi / Tokuda, Keiichi / Kobayashi, Takao: "Text-to-speech synthesis with arbitrary speaker's voice from average voice", 345-348.

Toda, Tomoki / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "High quality voice conversion based on Gaussian mixture model with dynamic frequency warping", 349-352.

Tang, Min / Wang, Chao / Seneff, Stephanie: "Voice transformations: from speech synthesis to mammalian vocalizations", 353-356.

Gutiérrez-Arriola, J. M. / Montero, J. M. / Vallejo, J. A. / Córdoba, R. / San-Segundo, R. / Pardo, Juan M.: "A new multi-speaker formant synthesizer that applies voice conversion techniques", 357-360.

Mashimo, Mikiko / Toda, Tomoki / Shikano, Kiyohiro / Campbell, Nick: "Evaluation of cross-language voice conversion based on GMM and straight", 361-364.

Coulston, Rachel: "Ejective reduction in chaha is conditioned by more than prosodic position", 365-368.

Noise Robust Recognition: Frontend (Special Session)

Kim, Hong Kook / Rose, Richard C. / Kang, Hong-Goo: "Acoustic feature compensation based on decomposition of speech and noise for ASR in noisy environments", 421-424.

Cheng, Yan Ming / Macho, Dusan / Wei, Yuanjun / Ealey, Douglas / Kelleher, Holly / Pearce, David / Kushner, William / Ramabadran, Tenkasi: "A robust front-end algorithm for distributed speech recognition", 425-428.

Benitez, M. Carmen / Burget, Lukas / Chen, Barry / Dupont, Stephane / Garudadri, Hari / Hermansky, Hynek / Jain, Pratibha / Kajarekar, Sachin / Morgan, Nelson / Sivadas, Sunil: "Robust ASR front-end using spectral-based and discriminant features: experiments on the Aurora tasks", 429-432.

Noé, Bernhard / Sienel, Jürgen / Jouvet, Denis / Mauuary, Laurent / Veth, Johan de / Boves, Louis / Wet, Febe de: "Noise reduction for noise robust feature extraction for distributed speech recognition", 433-436.

Ealey, Douglas / Kelleher, Holly / Pearce, David: "Harmonic tunnelling: tracking non-stationary noises during speech", 437-440.

Linguistic Modelling: Semantic Modelling

Carter, David / Gransden, Ian: "Resource-limited sentence boundary detection", 443-446.

Pargellis, Andrew / Fosler-Lussier, Eric / Potamianos, Alexandros / Lee, Chin-Hui: "Metrics for measuring domain independence of semantic classes", 447-450.

Mou, Xiaolong / Seneff, Stephanie / Zue, Victor: "Context-dependent probabilistic hierarchical sublexical modelling using finite state transducers", 451-454.

Bellegarda, Jerome R. / Silverman, Kim E. A.: "Data-driven semantic inference for unconstrained desktop command and control", 455-458.

Jansche, Martin: "Information extraction via heuristics for a movie showtime query system", 459-462.

Speech Perception: Recognition and Intelligibility

Otake, Takashi / Cutler, Anne: "Recognition of (almost) spoken words: evidence from word play in Japanese", 465-468.

Colotte, Vincent / Laprie, Yves / Bonneau, Anne: "Perceptual experiments on enhanced and slowed down speech sentences for second language acquisition", 469-473.

Greenberg, Steven / Arai, Takayuki: "The relation between speech intelligibility and the complex modulation spectrum", 473-476.

Crouzet, Olivier / Ainsworth, William A.: "Envelope information in speech processing: acoustic-phonetic analysis vs. auditory figure-ground segregation", 477-480.

Adank, Patti / Hout, Roeland van / Smits, Roel: "A comparison between human vowel normalization strategies and acoustic vowel transformation techniques", 481-484.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: LVCSR

Ircing, P. / Krbec, P. / Hajic, J. / Psutka, J. / Khudanpur, S. / Jelinek, Frederick / Byrne, William: "On large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of highly inflectional language - czech", 487-490.

Shinozaki, Takahiro / Hori, Chiori / Furui, Sadaoki: "Towards automatic transcription of spontaneous presentations", 491-494.

Siohan, Olivier / Ando, Akio / Afify, Mohamed / Jiang, Hui / Lee, Chin-Hui / Li, Qi / Liu, Feng / Onoe, Kazuo / Soong, Frank K. / Zhou, Qiru: "A real-time Japanese broadcast news closed-captioning system", 495-498.

Beyerlein, Peter / Aubert, X. / Harris, M. / Meyer, C. / Schramm, Hauke: "Investigations on conversational speech recognition", 499-502.

Gao, Yuqing / Erdogan, Hakan / Li, Yongxin / Goel, Vaibhava / Picheny, Michael: "Recent advances in speech recognition system for IBM DARPA communicator", 503-506.

Willett, Daniel / McDermott, Erik / Minami, Yasuhiro / Katagiri, Shigeru: "Time and memory efficient viterbi decoding for LVCSR using a precompiled search network", 847-850.

Liu, Feng / Afify, Mohamed / Jiang, Hui / Siohan, Olivier: "A new verification-based fast match approach to large vocabulary speech recognition", 851-854.

Nakagawa, Seiichi / Horibe, Yukihisa: "A fast calculation method in LVCSRS by time-skipping and clustering of probability density distributions", 855-858.

Homma, Shinichi / Kobayashi, Akio / Sato, Shoei / Imai, Toru / Ando, Akio: "Speech recognition of Japanese news commentary", 859-862.

Speech Synthesis: Systems and Prosody

Cosi, Piero / Tesser, Fabio / Gretter, Roberto / Avesani, Cinzia / Macon, Mike: "Festival speaks Italian!", 509-512.

Monaghan, Alex / Kassaei, Mahmoud / Luckin, Mark / Amador-Hernandez, Mariscela / Lowry, Andrew / Faulkner, Dan / Sannier, Fred: "Multilingual TTS for computer telephony: the aculab approach", 513-516.

Kiss, Géza / Németh, Géza / Olaszy, Gábor / Gordos, Géza: "A flexible multilingual TTS development and speech research tool", 517-520.

Klabbers, Esther / Stöber, Karlheinz / Veldhuis, Raymond / Wagner, Petra / Breuer, Stefan: "Speech synthesis development made easy: the bonn open synthesis system", 521-525.

Olaszy, Gábor / Németh, Géza / Olaszi, Péter: "Automatic prosody generation - a model for hungarian", 525-528.

Herwijnen, Olga van / Terken, Jacques: "Evaluation of PROS-3 for the assignment of prosodic structure, compared to assignment by human experts", 529-532.

Yamashita, Yoichi / Ishida, Tomoyoshi: "Stochastic F0 contour model based on the clustering of F0 shapes of a syntactic unit", 533-536.

Sun, Xuejing / Applebaum, Ted H.: "Intonational phrase break prediction using decision tree and n-gram model", 537-540.

Zaki, A. / Rajouani, A. / Najim, M.: "Synthesizing intonation of standard arabic language", 541-545.

Xu, Dawei / Mori, Hiroki / Kasuya, Hideki: "Invariance of relative F0 change field of Chinese disyllabic words", 545-548.

Müller, Achim F. / Hoffmann, Rüdiger: "Accent label prediction by time delay neural networks using gating clusters", 549-553.

Henrichsen, Peter Juel: "Transformation-based learning of danish stress assignment", 553-556.

Baumann, Stefan / Trouvain, Jürgen: "On the prosody of German telephone numbers", 557-560.

Schröder, Marc: "Emotional speech synthesis: a review", 561-564.

Gustafson, Kjell / House, David: "Fun or boring? a web-based evaluation of expressive synthesis for children", 565-568.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Articulatory and Perceptual Approaches to ASR

Chen, Jingdong / Paliwal, Kuldip K. / Nakamura, Satoshi: "Sub-band based additive noise removal for robust speech recognition", 571-574.

Tam, Yik-Cheung / Mak, Brian: "Development of an asynchronous multi-band system for continuous speech recognition", 575-578.

Jancovic, Peter / Ming, Ji: "A multi-band approach based on the probabilistic union model and frequency-filtering features for robust speech recognition", 579-582.

Gu, Liang / Rose, Kenneth: "Split-band perceptual harmonic cepstral coefficients as acoustic features for speech recognition", 583-586.

Hagen, Astrid / Bourlard, Herve: "Error correcting posterior combination for robust multi-band speech recognition", 587-590.

Gajic, Bojana / Paliwal, Kuldip K.: "Robust parameters for speech recognition based on subband spectral centroid histograms", 591-594.

Edmondson, William H. / Zhang, Li: "Pseudo-articulatory representations and the recognition of syllable patterns in speech", 595-598.

Frankel, Joe / King, Simon: "ASR - articulatory speech recognition", 599-602.

Ma, Jeff Z. / Deng, Li: "Efficient decoding strategy for conversational speech recognition using state-space models for vocal-tract-resonance dynamics", 603-606.

Weber, Katrin / Bengio, Samy / Bourlard, Hervé: "HMM2- extraction of formant structures and their use for robust ASR", 607-610.

Yu, Xiaoqing / Wan, Wanggen / Lun, Daniel P. K.: "Auditory model based speech recognition in noisy environment", 611-614.

Wendt, Sascha / Fink, Gernot A. / Kummert, Franz: "Forward masking for increased robustness in automatic speech recognition", 615-618.

Li, Qi / Soong, Frank K. / Siohan, Olivier: "An auditory system-based feature for robust speech recognition", 619-622.

Noise Robust Recognition: Robust Systems - What Helps? (Special Session)

Lieb, Markus / Fischer, Alexander: "Experiments with the philips continuous ASR system on the AURORA noisy digits database", 625-628.

Saon, George / Huerta, Juan M. / Jan, Ea-Ee: "Robust digit recognition in noisy environments: the IBM Aurora 2 system", 629-632.

Afify, Mohamed / Jiang, Hui / Korkmazskiy, F. / Lee, Chin-Hui / Li, Qi / Siohan, Olivier / Soong, Frank K. / Surendran, Arun C.: "Evaluating the Aurora connected digit recognition task -- a bell labs approach", 633-636.

Phonetics and Phonology: Segmentals

Fougeron, Cécile / Goldman, J. P. / Frauenfelder, U. H.: "Liaison and schwa deletion in French: an effect of lexical frequency and competition?", 639-642.

Zee, Eric / Lee, Wai-Sum: "An acoustical analysis of the vowels in beijing Mandarin", 643-646.

Delvaux, Veronique / Soquet, Alain: "Discriminant analysis of nasal vs. oral vowels in French: comparison between different parametric representations", 647-650.

Demolin, Didier / Delvaux, Véronique: "Whispery voiced nasal stops in rwanda", 651-654.

Speech Production: Prosody

Fant, Gunnar / Kruckenberg, Anita / Liljencrants, Johan / Botinis, Antonis: "Prominence correlates. a study of Swedish", 657-660.

Ohno, Sumio / Fujisaki, Hiroya: "Quantitative analysis of the effects of emphasis upon prosodic features of speech", 661-664.

Dogil, Grzegorz / Möbius, Bernd: "Towards a model of target oriented production of prosody", 665-668.

Shih, Chilin / Kochanski, Greg: "Prosody control for speaking and singing styles", 669-672.

Kochanski, Greg / Shih, Chilin: "Automated modeling of Chinese intonation in continuous speech", 911-914.

Frid, Johan: "Prediction of intonation patterns of accented words in a corpus of read Swedish news through pitch contour stylization", 915-918.

Alku, Paavo / Vintturi, Juha / Vilkma, Erkki: "The use of fundamental frequency raising as a strategy for increasing vocal intensity in soft, normal, and loud phonation", 919-922.

Botinis, Antonis / Fourakis, Marios / Bannert, Robert: "Prosodic interactions on segmental durations ingreek", 923-926.

Chu, Min / Feng, Yongqiang: "Study on factors influencing durations of syllables in Mandarin", 927-930.

Gustafson-Capkova, Sofia / Megyesi, Beata: "A comparative study of pauses in dialogues and read speech", 931-934.

Takamaru, Keiichi / Hiroshige, Makoto / Araki, Kenji / Tochinai, Koji: "Detecting Japanese local speech rate deceleration in spontaneous conversational speech using a variable threshold", 935-938.

Petersen, Niels Reinholt: "Modelling fundamental frequency in first post-tonic syllables in danish sentences", 939-942.

Savino, Michelina: "Non-finality and pre-finality in bari Italian intonation: a preliminary account", 943-946.

Mixdorff, Hansjörg / Jokisch, Oliver: "Building an integrated prosodic model of German", 947-950.

Ibrahim, Omar A. G. / El-Ramly, S.H. / Abdel-Kader, N.S.: "A model of F0 contour for arabic affirmative and interrogative sentences", 951-954.

Smith, Caroline L. / Hogan, Lisa A.: "Variation in final lengthening as a function of topic structure", 955-958.

Herwijnen, Olga van / Terken, Jacques: "Do speakers realize the prosodic structure they say they do?", 959-962.

Tabain, Marija / Rolland, Guillaume / Savariaux, Christophe: "Coarticulatory effects at prosodic boundaries: some acoustic results", 963-966.

Barbosa, Plínio A.: "Generating duration from a cognitively plausible model of rhythm production", 967-970.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Acoustic Modelling - I

Stuttle, M. N. / Gales, M. J. F.: "A mixture of Gaussians front end for speech recognition", 675-678.

Zheng, Jing / Butzberger, John / Franco, Horacio / Stolcke, Andreas: "Improved maximum mutual information estimation training of continuous density HMMs", 679-682.

Perronnin, Florent / Kuhn, Roland / Nguyen, Patrick / Junqua, Jean-Claude: "Maximum-likelihood training of a bipartite acoustic model for speech recognition", 683-686.

Sarikaya, Ruhi / Hansen, John H. L.: "Analysis of the root-cepstrum for acoustic modeling and fast decoding in speech recognition", 687-690.

Eide, Ellen: "Distinctive features for use in an automatic speech recognition system", 1613-1616.

Zhang, Jiyong / Zheng, Fang / Li, Jing / Luo, Chunhua / Zhang, Guoliang: "Improved context-dependent acoustic modeling for continuous Chinese speech recognition", 1617-1620.

Duchateau, Jacques / Demuynck, Kris / Compernolle, Dirk Van / Wambacq, Patrick: "Class definition in discriminant feature analysis", 1621-1624.

Segura, Jose C. / Benitez, M. Carmen / Torre, Angel de la / Rubio, Antonio J.: "Feature extraction from time-frequency matrices for robust speech recognition", 1625-1628.

Peng, Yu / Zuoying, Wang: "Using spatial correlation information in speech recognition", 1629-1632.

Bauer, Josef G.: "On the choice of classes in MCE based discriminative HMM-training for speech recognizers used in the telephone environment", 1633-1636.

Keshet, Joseph / Chazan, Dan / Bobrovsky, Ben-Zion: "Plosive spotting with margin classifiers", 1637-1640.

Brugnara, Fabio: "Model agglomeration for context-dependent acoustic modeling", 1641-1644.

Levit, M. / Gorin, A. L. / Wright, J. H.: "Multipass algorithm for acquisition of salient acoustic morphemes", 1645-1648.

Emori, Tadashi / Shinoda, Koichi: "Rapid vocal tract length normalization using maximum likelihood estimation", 1649-1652.

Okuda, Kozo / Matsui, Tomoko / Nakamura, Satoshi: "Towards the creation of acoustic models for stressed Japanese speech", 1653-1656.

Baba, Akira / Yoshizawa, Shinichi / Yamada, Miichi / Lee, Akinobu / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Elderly acoustic model for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition", 1657-1660.

Zhang, Jin-Song / Zhang, Shu-Wu / Sagisaka, Yoshinori / Nakamura, Satoshi: "A hybrid approach to enhance task portability of acoustic models in Chinese speech recognition", 1661-1664.

Rodriguez, L. J. / Torres, I. / Varona, A.: "Evaluation of sublexical and lexical models of acoustic disfluencies for spontaneous speech recognition in Spanish", 1665-1668.

Deviren, Murat / Daoudi, Khalid: "Structural learning of dynamic Bayesian networks in speech recognition", 1669-1672.

Linguistic Modelling: Language Models

Onishi, Shigehiko / Yamamoto, Hirofumi / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "Structured language model for class identification of out-of-vocabulary words arising from multiple wordclasses", 693-696.

Jitsuhiro, Takatoshi / Yamamoto, Hirofumi / Yamada, Setsuo / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "New language models using phrase structures extracted from parse trees", 697-700.

Sicilia-Garcia, E. I. / Ming, Ji / Smith, F. J.: "Triggering individual word domains in n-gram language models", 701-704.

Akiba, Tomoyosi / Itou, Katunobu: "A structured statistical language model conditioned by arbitrarily abstracted grammatical categories based on GLR parsing", 705-708.

Matsui, Atsushi / Segi, Hiroyuki / Kobayashi, Akio / Imai, Toru / Ando, Akio: "Speech recognition of broadcast sports news", 709-712.

Mori, Shinsuke / Nishimura, Masafumi / Itoh, Nobuyasu: "Improvement of a structured language model: arbori-context tree", 713-716.

Kim, Woosung / Khudanpur, Sanjeev / Wu, Jun: "Smoothing issues in the structured language model", 717-720.

Shen, Xipeng / Xu, Bo: "The study of the effect of training set on statistical language modeling", 721-724.

Esteve, Yannick / Bechet, Frédéric / Nasr, Alexis / Mori, Renato De: "Stochastic finite state automata language model triggered by dialogue states", 725-728.

Rayner, Manny / Dowding, John / Hockey, Beth Ann: "A baseline method for compiling typed unification grammars into context free language models", 729-732.

Whittaker, E. W. D. / Raj, Bhiksha: "Comparison of width-wise and length-wise language model compression", 733-736.

Siivola, Vesa / Kurimo, Mikko / Lagus, Krista: "Large vocabulary statistical language modeling for continuous speech recognition in finnish", 737-740.

López-Cózar, R. / Milone, D. H.: "A new technique based on augmented language models to improve the performance of spoken dialogue systems", 741-744.

Takagi, Kazuyuki / Ozeki, Kazuhiko: "Pause information for dependency analysis of read Japanese sentences", 1041-1044.

Chen, Berlin / Wang, Hsin-min / Lee, Lin-shan: "An HMM/n-gram-based linguistic processing approach for Mandarin spoken document retrieval", 1045-1048.

Lin, Yi-Chung / Wang, Huei-Ming: "Probabilistic concept verification for language understanding in spoken dialogue systems", 1049-1052.

Külekcý, M. Oguzhan / Özkan, Mehmed: "Turkish word segmentation using morphological analyzer", 1053-1056.

Tarsaku, Pongthai / Sornlertlamvanich, Virach / Thongprasirt, Rachod: "Thai grapheme-to-phoneme using probabilistic GLR parser", 1057-1060.

Blache, Philippe / Hirst, Daniel: "Aligning prosody and syntax in property grammars", 1061-1064.

Barkat, Melissa / Vasilescu, Ioana: "From perceptual designs to linguistic typology and automatic language identification : overview and perspectives", 1065-1068.

Fitt, Susan: "Morphological approaches for an English pronunciation lexicon", 1069-1072.

Joue, Gina / Carson-Berndsen, Julie: "An embodiment paradigm for speech recognition systems", 1073-1076.

Xu, Kui / Weng, Fuliang / Meng, Helen M. / Luk, Po Chui: "Multi-parser architecture for query processing", 1077-1080.

Chen, Yi-Chia / Lin, Yi-Chung: "Two-stage probabilistic approach to text segmentation", 1081-1084.

Ordelman, Roeland / Hessen, Arjan van / Jong, Franciska de: "Lexicon optimization for dutch speech recognition in spoken document retrieval", 1085-1088.

Brøndsted, Tom: "Evaluation of recent speech grammar standardization efforts", 1089-1092.

Speaker Recognition: Identification, Verification and Tracking. Speech Recognition and Understanding: Language Identification

Brungart, Douglas S. / Scott, Kimberly R. / Simpson, Brian D.: "The influence of vocal effort on human speaker identification", 747-750.

Faltlhauser, Robert / Ruske, Günther: "Improving speaker recognition using phonetically structured Gaussian mixture models", 751-754.

Sanderson, Conrad / Paliwal, Kuldip K.: "Information fusion for robust speaker verification", 755-758.

Satoh, Takayuki / Masuko, Takashi / Kobayashi, Takao / Tokuda, Keiichi: "A robust speaker verification system against imposture using an HMM-based speech synthesis system", 759-762.

Surendran, Arun C.: "Sequential decisions for faster and more flexible verification", 763-766.

Tsai, Wei-Ho / Chu, Y. C. / Huang, Chao-Shih / Chang, Wen-Whei: "Background learning of speaker voices for textindependent speaker identification", 767-771.

Tsai, Wei-Ho / Chang, Wen-Whei / Huang, Chao-Shih: "Explicit exploitation of stochastic characteristics of test utterance for text-independent speaker identification", 771-774.

Wutiwiwatchai, Chai / Achariyakulporn, Varin / Kasuriya, Sawit: "Improvement of speaker verification for Thai language", 775-778.

Rodríguez-Saeta, Javier / Koechling, Christian / Hernando, Javier: "Speaker identification for car infotainment applications", 779-782.

Schalk, H. / Reininger, Herbert / Euler, Stephan: "A system for text dependent speaker verification - field trial evaluation and simulation results", 783-786.

Martin, Alvin F. / Przybocki, Mark A.: "Speaker recognition in a multi-speaker environment", 787-790.

Ou, Zhijian / Wang, Zuoying: "A new DP-like speaker clustering algorithm", 791-794.

Sivakumaran, P. / Fortuna, J. / Ariyaeeinia, A. M.: "On the use of the Bayesian information criterion in multiple speaker detection", 795-798.

Benarousse, Laurent / Geoffrois, Edouard: "Preliminary experiments on language identification using broadcast news recordings", 799-802.

Kirchhoff, Katrin / Parandekar, Sonia: "Multi-stream statistical n-gram modeling with application to automatic language identification", 803-806.

Phonetics and Phonology: Prominence and Timing

Streefkerk, Barbertje M. / Pols, Louis C. W. / Bosch, Louis F. M. ten: "Up to what level can acoustical and textual features predict prominence", 811-814.

Chung, Hyunsong / Huckvale, Mark A.: "Linguistic factors affecting timing in Korean with application to speech synthesis", 815-818.

Schaeffler, Felix: "Measuring rhythmic deviation in second language speech", 819-822.

Maddieson, Ian: "Good timing: place-dependent voice onset time in ejective stops", 823-826.

Speech Synthesis: Concatenation

Francois, Helene / Boeffard, Olivier: "Design of an optimal continuous speech database for text-to-speech synthesis considered as a set covering problem", 829-832.

Vosnidis, Christos / Digalakis, Vassilis: "Use of clustering information for coarticulation compensation in speech synthesis by word concatenation", 833-836.

Founda, Maria / Tambouratzis, George / Chalamandaris, Aimilios / Carayannis, George: "Reducing spectral mismatches in concatenative speech synthesis via systematic database enrichment", 837-840.

Ferencz, Attila / Choi, Sung-Woo / Song, Ho-Eun / Koo, Myoung-Wan: "Hansori 2001 - corpus-based implementation of the Korean hansori text-to-speech synthesizer", 841-844.

Barry, William / Nielsen, Claus / Andersen, Ove: "Must diphone synthesis be so unnatural?", 975-978.

Syrdal, Ann K.: "Phonetic effects on listener detection of vowel concatenation", 979-982.

Boeffard, Olivier: "Variable-length acoustic units inference for text-to-speech synthesis", 983-986.

Bulyko, Ivan / Ostendorf, Mari: "Unit selection for speech synthesis using splicing costs with weighted finite state transducers", 987-990.

Law, K. M. / Lee, Tan / Lau, Wai: "Cantonese text-to-speech synthesis using sub-syllable units", 991-994.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Noise Robustness

Wet, Febe de / Cranen, Bert / Veth, Johan de / Boves, Loe: "A comparison of LPC and FFT-based acoustic features for noise robust ASR", 865-868.

Yamada, Miichi / Baba, Akira / Yoshizawa, Shinichi / Mera, Yuichiro / Lee, Akinobu / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Unsupervised noisy environment adaptation algorithm using MLLR and speaker selection", 869-872.

Tufekci, Zekeriya / Gowdy, John N. / Gurbuz, Sabri / Patterson, E.: "Applying parallel model compensation with mel-frequency discrete wavelet coefficients for noise-robust speech recognition", 873-876.

Hwang, Tai-Hwei / Yuo, Kuo-Hwei / Wang, Hsiao-Chuan: "Linear interpolation of cepstral variance for noisy speech recognition", 877-880.

Matsumoto, Hiroshi / Shimizu, Akihiko / Yamamoto, Kazumasa: "Evaluation of a generalized dynamic cepstrum in distant speech recognition", 881-884.

Martin, Arnaud / Damnati, Géraldine / Mauuary, Laurent: "Robust speech/non-speech detection using LDA applied to MFCC for continuous speech recognition", 885-888.

Trentin, Edmondo / Gori, Marco: "Toward noise-tolerant acoustic models", 889-892.

Evans, Nicholas W. D. / Mason, John S.: "Noise estimation without explicit speech, non-speech detection: a comparison of mean, modal and median based approaches", 893-896.

Chengalvarayan, Rathi: "Evaluation of front-end features and noise compensation methods for robust Mandarin speech recognition", 897-900.

Frey, Brendan J. / Deng, Li / Acero, Alex / Kristjansson, Trausti: "ALGONQUIN: iterating laplace's method to remove multiple types of acoustic distortion for robust speech recognition", 901-904.

Hansen, John H. L. / Sarikaya, Ruhi / Yapanel, Umit / Pellom, Bryan: "Robust speech recognition in noise: an evaluation using the SPINE corpus", 905-908.

Siu, Manhung / Chan, Yu-Chung: "Robust speech recognition against packet loss", 1095-1098.

Naito, Masaki / Kuroiwa, Shingo / Kato, Tsuneo / Shimizu, Tohru / Higuchi, Norio: "Rapid CODEC adaptation for cellular phone speech recognition", 1099-1102.

Gallardo-Antolin, Ascension / Pelaez-Moreno, Carmen / Diaz-de-Maria, Fernando: "A robust front-end for ASR over IP snd GSM networks: an integrated scenario", 1103-1106.

Renevey, Philippe / Vetter, Rolf / Krauss, Jens: "Robust speech recognition using missing feature theory and vector quantization", 1107-1110.

Ming, Ji / Jancovic, Peter / Hanna, Philip / Stewart, Darryl: "Modeling the mixtures of known noise and unknown unexpected noise for robust speech recognition", 1111-1114.

Kawamura, Takayoshi / Takeda, Kazuya / Itakura, Fumitada: "Robust speech recognition based on selective use of missing frequency band HMMs", 1115-1118.

Masuda-Katsuse, Ikuyo: "A new method for speech recognition in the presence of non-stationary, unpredictable and high-level noise", 1119-1122.

Kotnik, Bojan / Kacic, Zdravko / Horvat, Bogomir: "A computational efficient real time noise robust speech recognition based on improved spectral subtraction method", 1123-1126.

Vlaj, Damjan / Kacic, Zdravko / Horvat, Bogomir: "The use of noisy frame elimination and frequency spectrum magnitude reduction in noise robust speech recognition", 1127-1130.

Chien, Jen-Tzung: "Combined linear regression adaptation and Bayesian predictive classification for robust speech recognition", 1131-1134.

Hilger, Florian / Ney, Hermann: "Quantile based histogram equalization for noise robust speech recognition", 1135-1138.

Yao, Kaisheng / Paliwal, Kuldip K. / Nakamura, Satoshi: "Sequential noise compensation by a sequential kullback proximal algorithm", 1139-1142.

Signal Analysis: Microphone Arrays & Source Localisation

Koutras, Athanasios / Dermatas, Evangelos / Kokkinakis, George: "Blind speech separation of moving speakers using hybrid neural networks", 997-1000.

Herbordt, W. / Buchner, H. / Kellermann, W.: "Computationally efficient frequency-domain combination of acoustic echo cancellation and robust adaptive beamforming", 1001-1004.

Seltzer, Michael L. / Raj, Bhiksha: "Calibration of microphone arrays for improved speech recognition", 1005-1008.

Koutras, Athanasios / Dermatas, Evangelos / Kokkinakis, George: "Improving simultaneous speech recognition in real room environments using overdetermined blind source separation", 1009-1012.

Asano, Futoshi / Goto, Masataka / Itou, Katunobu / Asoh, Hideki: "Real-time sound source localization and separation system and its application to automatic speech recognition", 1013-1016.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Audio-Visual Processing

Lee, Joohun / Kim, JinYoung: "An efficient lipreading method using the symmetry of lip", 1019-1022.

Heckmann, Martin / Wild, Thorsten / Berthommier, Frédéric / Kroschel, Kristian: "Comparing audio- and a-posteriori-probability-based stream confidence measures for audio-visual speech recognition", 1023-1026.

Potamianos, Gerasimos / Neti, Chalapathy / Iyengar, Giridharan / Helmuth, Eric: "Large-vocabulary audio-visual speech recognition by machines and humans", 1027-1030.

Daubias, Philippe / Deleglise, Paul: "Evaluation of an automatically obtained shape and appearance model for automatic audio visual speech recognition", 1031-1034.

Pelachaud, C. / Magno-Caldognetto, E. / Zmarich, C. / Cosi, Piero: "An approach to an Italian talking head", 1035-1038.

SIGshow (Special Session)

Eriksson, Anders / Bloothooft, Gerrit: "Education on the web: launch of three new websites".

Hirst, Daniel / Bel, Bernard / Campbell, Nick: "SProSIG: a special interest group on speech prosody",

Bonastre, Jean-François / Magrin-Chagnolleau, Ivan / Euler, Stephan / Pellegrino, François / André-Obrecht, Régine / Mason, John S. / Bimbot, Frédéric: "SPeaker and language characterization (spLC): a special interest group (SIG) of ISCA", 1145-1148.

Campbell, Nick / Hess, Wolfgang / Möbius, Bernd / Santen, Jan van: "The ISCA special interest group on speech synthesis", 1149-1152.

Massaro, Dominic W.: "Auditory visual speech processing", 1153-1156.

Bimbot, Frédéric / Bonastre, Jean-Francois: "The specificity of French speech processing (no proceedings paper)", paper 1344.

Dybkjær, Laila: "SIGdial - special interest group on discourse and dialogue", 1345-1348.

Delcloque, Philippe: "Integrating speech technology in language learning: an overview of the activities of inSTIL", 1349-1352.

Nadeu, Climent / Ó’Cróinín, Donncha / Petek, Bojan / Sarasola, Kepa / Williams, Briony: "ISCA SALTMIL SIG: speech and language technology for minority languages", 1353-1556.

Speech Synthesis: Prosody

Chen, Weijun / Lin, Fuzong / Li, Jianmin / Zhang, Bo: "Training prosodic phrasing rules for Chinese TTS systems", 1159-1162.

Heggtveit, Per Olav / Natvig, Jon Emil: "Intonation modelling with a lexicon of natural F0 contours", 1163-1166.

Silverman, Kim E. A. / Bellegarda, Jerime R. / Lenzo, Kevin A.: "Smooth contour estimation in data-driven pitch modelling", 1167-1170.

Saito, Takashi / Sakamoto, Masaharu: "Generating F0 contours by statistical manipulation of natural F0 shapes", 1171-1174.

Hirschberg, Julia / Rambow, Owen: "Learning prosodic features using a tree representation", 1175-1178.

Applications: Multimodal Applications

Gurbuz, Sabri / Patterson, Eric K. / Tufekci, Zekeriya / Gowdy, John N.: "Lip-reading from parametric lip contours for audio- visual speech recognition", 1181-1184.

Lucey, Simon / Sridharan, Sridha / Chandran, Vinod: "An investigation of HMM classifier combination strategies for improved audio-visual speech recognition", 1185-1188.

Bernsen, Niels Ole / Dybkjær, Laila: "Combining multi-party speech and text exchanges over the internet", 1189-1192.

Nakadai, Kazuhiro / Hidai, Ken-ichi / Okuno, Hiroshi G. / Kitano, Hiroaki: "Real-time multiple speaker tracking by multi-modal integration for mobile robots", 1193-1196.

Nitta, Tsuneo / Katsurada, Kouichi / Yamada, Hirobumi / Nakamura, Yusaku / Kobayashi, Satoshi: "XISL: an attempt to separate multimodal interactions from XML contents", 1197-1200.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Speaker Adaptation

Gunawardana, Asela / Byrne, William: "Discriminative speaker adaptation with conditional maximum likelihood linear regression", 1203-1206.

Kenny, Patrick / Boulianne, Gilles / Dumouchel, Pierre: "What is the best type of prior distribution for EMAP speaker adaptation?", 1207-1210.

Kim, Yoon: "Maximum-likelihood affine cepstral filtering (MLACF) technique for speaker normalization", 1211-1214.

Zhou, Bowen / Hansen, John H. L.: "A novel algorithm for rapid speaker adaptation based on structural maximum likelihood eigenspace mapping", 1215-1218.

Yoshizawa, Shinichi / Baba, Akira / Matsunami, Kanako / Mera, Yuichirou / Yamada, Miichi / Lee, Akinobu / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Evaluation on unsupervised speaker adaptation based on sufficient HMM statictics of selected speakers", 1219-1222.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Adaptation

Lei, Jia / Bo, Xu: "A novel target-driven MLLR adaptation algorithm with multi-layer structure", 1225-1228.

Wallhoff, Frank / Willett, Daniel / Rigoll, Gerhard: "Scaled likelihood linear regression for hidden Markov model adaptation", 1229-1232.

Myrvoll, Tor Andre / Paliwal, Kuldip K. / Svendsen, Torbjørn: "Fast adaptation using constrained affine transformations with hierarchical priors", 1233-1236.

Liu, Xiaoxing / Yuan, Baosheng / Yan, Yonghong: "A context adaptation approach for building context dependent models in LVCSR", 1237-1240.

Lefevre, Fabrice / Gauvain, Jean-Luc / Lamel, Lori: "Improving genericity for task-independent speech recognition", 1241-1244.

Matrouf, Driss / Bellot, Olivier / Nocera, Pascal / Linares, Georges / Bonastre, Jean-Francois: "A posteriori and a priori transformations for speaker adaptation in large vocabulary speech recognition systems", 1245-1248.

Purnell, Darryl W. / Botha, Elizabeth C.: "Bayesian methods for HMM speech recognition with limited training data", 1249-1252.

Wong, Kwok-Man / Mak, Brian: "Rapid speaker adaptation using MLLR and subspace regression classes", 1253-1256.

Yoma, Nestor Becerra / Silva, Jorge: "Speaker adaptation of output probabilities and state duration distributions for speech recognition", 1257-1260.

Wu, Jian / Chang, Eric: "Cohorts based custom models for rapid speaker and dialect adaptation", 1261-1264.

Vasilache, Marcel / Viikki, Olli: "Speaker adaptation of quantized parameter HMMs", 1265-1268.

Tsao, Yu / Lee, Shang-Ming / Chou, Fu-Chiang / Lee, Lin-Shan: "Segmental eigenvoice for rapid speaker adaptation", 1269-1272.

Warakagoda, Narada D. / Johnsen, Magne H.: "Speaker adaptation in an ASR system based on nonlinear dynamical systems", 1273-1276.

Dialogue Systems: Project Descriptions

Córdoba, R. / San-Segundo, R. / Montero, J. M. / Colás, J. / Ferreiros, J. / Macías-Guarasa, J. / Pardo, Juan M.: "An interactive directory assistance service for Spanish with large-vocabulary recognition", 1279-1282.

Xu, Yunbiao / Araki, Masahiro / Niimi, Yasuhisa: "A multilingual-supporting dialog system using a common dialog controller", 1283-1286.

Nouza, Tomas / Nouza, Jan: "Graphic platform for designing and developing practical voice interaction systems", 1287-1290.

Besacier, Laurent / Blanchon, H. / Fouquet, Y. / Guilbaud, J. P. / Helme, S. / Mazenot, S. / Moraru, D. / Vaufreydaz, D.: "Speech translation for French in the NESPOLE! european project", 1291-1294.

Hickey, Marianne / Brittan, Paul St John: "Lessons from the development of a conversational interface", 1295-1298.

Hirschberg, Julia / Bacchiani, Michiel / Hindle, Don / Isenhour, Phil / Rosenberg, Aaron / Stark, Litza / Stead, Larry / Whittaker, Steve / Zamchick, Gary: "SCANMail: browsing and searching speech data by content", 1299-1302.

Lo, Wai-Kit / Schone, Patrick / Meng, Helen M.: "Multi-scale retrieval in MEI: an English-Chinese translingual speech retrieval system", 1303-1306.

Chien, Shih-Chieh / Chang, Sen-Chia: "Compact word graph in spoken dialogue system", 1307-1310.

Sasajima, Munehiko / Yano, Takebhide / Shimomori, Taishi / Uehara, Tatsuya: "MINOS-II: a prototype car navigation system with mixed initiative turn taking dialogue", 1311-1314.

Kiriyama, Shinya / Hirose, Keikichi / Minematsu, Nobuaki: "Use of topic knowledge in spoken dialogue information retrieval system for academic documents", 1315-1318.

Komatani, Kazunori / Tanaka, Katsuaki / Kashima, Hiroaki / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "Domain-independent spoken dialogue platform using key-phrase spotting based on combined language model", 1319-1322.

Durston, Peter J. / Farrell, Mark / Attwater, David / Allen, James / Kuo, Hong-Kwang Jeff / Afify, Mohamed / Fosler-Lussier, Eric / Lee, Chin-Hui: "OASIS natural language call steering trial", 1323-1326.

Azzini, Ivano / Falavigna, Daniele / Gretter, Roberto / Lanzola, Giordano / Orlandi, Marco: "First steps toward an adaptive spoken dialogue system in medical domain", 1327-1330.

Nakano, Mikio / Minami, Yasuhiro / Seneff, Stephanie / Hazen, Timothy J. / Cyphers, D. Scott / Glass, James / Polifroni, Joseph / Zue, Victor: "Mokusei: a telephone-based Japanese conversational system in the weather domain", 1331-1334.

Glass, James / Weinstein, Eugene: "Speechbuilder: facilitating spoken dialogue system development", 1335-1338.

Rahim, M. / Fabbrizio, Giuseppe Di / Kamm, C. / Walker, Marilyn / Pokrovsky, A. / Ruscitti, P. / Levin, E. / Lee, S. / Syrdal, Ann K. / Schlosser, K.: "Voice-IF: a mixed-initiative spoken dialogue system for AT&t conference services", 1339-1342.

Wahlster, Wolfgang / Reithinger, Norbert / Blocher, Anselm: "Smartkom: multimodal communication with a life- like character", 1547-1550.

Meng, Helen M. / Chan, Shuk Fong / Wong, Yee Fong / Chan, Cheong Chat / Wong, Yiu Wing / Fung, Tien Ying / Tsui, Wai Ching / Chen, Ke / Wang, Lan / Wu, Ting Yao / Li, Xiaolong / Lee, Tan / Choi, Wing Nin / Ching, P. C. / Chi, Huisheng: "ISIS: a learning system with combined interaction and delegation dialogs", 1551-1554.

Wang, Ye-Yi: "Robust language understanding in mipad", 1555-1558.

Lemon, Oliver / Bracy, Anne / Gruenstein, Alexander / Peters, Stanley: "The WITAS multi-modal dialogue system I", 1559-1562.

Shriver, Stefanie / Rosenfeld, Roni / Zhu, Xiaojin / Toth, Arthur / Rudnicky, Alexander I. / Flueckiger, Markus: "Universalizing speech: notes from the USI project", 1563-1566.

Dialogue Systems: Resources

Shriberg, Elizabeth / Stolcke, Andreas / Baron, Don: "Observations on overlap: findings and implications for automatic processing of multi-party conversation", 1359-1362.

Beckham, Jennifer L. / Fabbrizio, Giuseppe Di / Klarlund, Nils: "Towards SMIL as a foundation for multimodal, multimedia applications", 1363-1366.

Kipp, Michael: "ANVIL - a generic annotation tool for multimodal dialogue", 1367-1370.

Walker, Marilyn / Aberdeen, J. / Boland, J. / Bratt, E. / Garofolo, J. / Hirschman, Lynette / Le, A. / Lee, S. / Narayanan, Shrikanth / Papineni, K. / Pellom, Bryan / Polifroni, Joseph / Potamianos, Alexandros / Prabhu, P. / Rudnicky, Alexander I. / Sanders, G. / Seneff, Stephanie / Stallard, D. / Whittaker, Steve: "DARPA communicator dialog travel planning systems: the june 2000 data collection", 1371-1374.

Speaker Recognition: Features and Transforms

Huang, Chao / Chen, Tao / Li, Stan / Chang, Eric / Zhou, Jianlai: "Analysis of speaker variability", 1377-1380.

Nishida, M. / Ariki, Y.: "Speaker recognition by separating phonetic space and speaker space", 1381-1384.

Wang, Nick J.-C. / Tsai, Wei-Ho / Lee, Lin-Shan: "Eigen-MLLR coefficients as new feature parameters for speaker identification", 1385-1388.

Navratil, Jiri / Chaudhari, Upendra V. / Ramaswamy, Ganesh N.: "Speaker verification using target and background dependent linear transforms and multi-system fusion", 1389-1392.

Speech Perception: Prosody

Caspers, Johanneke: "Testing the perceptual relevance of syntactic completion and melodic configuration for turn-taking in dutch", 1395-1398.

Rietveld, Toni / Vermillion, Patricia: "Cues for perceived pitch register", 1399-1402.

Chen, Aoju / Rietveld, Toni / Gussenhoven, Carlos: "Language-specific effects of pitch range on the perception of universal intonational meaning", 1403-1406.

Janse, Esther: "Comparing word-level intelligibility after linear vs. non-linear time-compression", 1407-1410.

Speech Production: Miscellaneous

Koopmans-van Beinum, Florien J. / Clement, Chris J. / Dikkenberg-Pot, Ineke Van den: "AMSTIVOC (AMsterdam system for transcription of infant VOCalizations) applied to utterances of deaf and normally hearing infants", 1471-1474.

Engwall, Olov: "Using linguopalatal contact patterns to tune a 3d tongue model", 1475-1478.

Kaburagi, Tokihiko / Honda, Masaaki: "Electromagnetic articulograph (EMA) based on a nonparametric representation of tthe magnetic field", 1479-1482.

Teixeira, A. / Vaz, F.: "European portuguese nasal vowels: an EMMA study", 1483-1486.

Fuchs, Susanne / Perrier, Pascal / Mooshammer, Christine: "The role of the palate in tongue kinematics: an experimental assessment in v sequences from EPG and EMMA data", 1487-1490.

Aylett, Matthew P.: "Modelling care of articulation with HMMs is dangerous", 1491-1494.

Murphy, Peter J.: "Spectral tilt as a perturbation-free measurement of noise levels in voice signals", 1495-1498.

Schoentgen, Jean: "Estimation of the modulation frequency and modulation depth of the fundamental frequency owing to vocal micro-tremor of the voice source signal", 1499-1502.

Dinther, Ralph van / Veldhuis, Raymond N.J. / Kohlrausch, Armin: "The perceptual relevance of glottal-pulse parameter variations", 1503-1506.

Ogner, Marcel / Kacic, Zdravko: "Speaker normalization based on test to reference speaker mapping", 1507-1510.

Pitermann, Michel / Munhall, Kevin G.: "A face-to-muscle inversion of a biomechanical face model for audiovisual and motor control research", 1511-1514.

South, Allan J: "A model of vowel production under positive pressure breathing", 1515-1518.

Podhorski, Adam / Czepulonis, Marek: "Helium speech normalisation by codebook mapping", 1519-1523.

Existing and Future Corpora: Next Generation Speech Resources (Special Session)

Campbell, Nick: "Building a corpus of natural speech - and tools for the processing of expressive speech", 1525-1528.

Broeder, Daan / Brugman, Hennie / Wittenburg, Peter: "Aspects of modern multi-modal/multi-media corpora exploitation environments", 1529-1532.

Bigbee, Tony / Loehr, Dan / Harper, Lisa: "Emerging requirements for multi-modal annotation and analysis tools", 1533-1536.

Altosaar, Toomas / Karjalainen, Matti / Vainio, Martti: "Three-dimensional modelling of speech corpora: added value through visualisation", 1537-1540.

Türk, Ulrich: "The technical processing in smartkom data collection: a case study", 1541-1544.

Signal Analysis: Speech Processing in Car Environments

Matassoni, M. / Omologo, M. / Svaizer, P.: "Use of real and contaminated speech for training of a hands-free in-car speech recognizer", 1569-1572.

Plucienkowski, Jay P. / Hansen, John H. L. / Angkititrakul, Pongtep: "Combined front-end signal processing for in-vehicle speech systems", 1573-1576.

Selouani, Sid-Ahmed / Tolba, Hesham / O’Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Robust automatic speech recognition in low-SNR car environments by the application of a connectionist subspace-based approach to the melbased cepstral coefficients", 1577-1580.

Korthauer, Andreas: "Recognition of spelled city names in automotive environments", 1581-1584.

Lleida, Eduardo / Masgrau, Enrique / Ortega, Alfonso: "Acoustic echo control and noise reduction for cabin car communication", 1585-1588.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Finite State Transducers for ASR

Hazen, Timothy J. / Hetherington, I. Lee / Park, Alex: "FST-based recognition techniques for multi-lingual and multi-domain spontaneous speech", 1591-1594.

Boulianne, Gilles / Ouellet, Pierre / Dumouchel, Pierre: "A transducer approach to word graph generation", 1595-1598.

Hetherington, I. Lee: "An efficient implementation of phonological rules using finite-state transducers", 1599-1602.

Mohri, Mehryar / Riley, Michael: "A weight pushing algorithm for large vocabulary speech recognition", 1603-1606.

Seward, Alexander: "Transducer optimizations for tight-coupled decoding", 1607-1612.

Resources, Assessment and Standards: Assessment Tools & Methodology

Wijngaarden, Sander J. van / Smeele, Paula M.T. / Steeneken, Herman J.M.: "A new method for testing communication efficiency and user acceptability of speech communication channels", 1675-1678.

Cucchiarini, Catia / Binnenpoorte, Diana / Goddijn, Simo: "Phonetic transcriptions in the spoken dutch corpus: how to combine efficiency and good transcription quality", 1679-1682.

Hutchinson, Ben: "A functional approach to speech recognition evaluation", 1683-1686.

Möller, Sebastian / Berger, Jens: "Instrumental derivation of equipment impairment factors for describing telephone speech codec degradations", 1687-1690.

Lee, Akinobu / Kawahara, Tatsuya / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Julius --- an open source real-time large vocabulary recognition engine", 1691-1694.

Toledano, Doroteo Torre / Gómez, Luis A. Hernández: "Local refinement of phonetic boundaries: a general framework and its application using different transition models", 1695-1698.

Ludwig, Thorsten / Heute, Ulrich: "Detection of digital transmission systems for voice quality measurements", 1699-1702.

Lewis, Eric / Tatham, Mark: "Automatic segmentation of recorded speech into syllables for speech synthesis", 1703-1706.

Teixeira, João Paulo / Freitas, Diamantino / Braga, Daniela / Barros, Maria João / Latsch, Vagner: "Phonetic events from the labeling the european portuguese database for speech synthesis, FEUP/IPBDB", 1707-1710.

Nefti, Samir / Boeffard, Olivier: "Acoustical and topological experiments for an HMM-based speech segmentation system", 1711-1714.

Zhou, Qiru / Zheng, Jinsong / Lee, Chin-Hui: "TclBLASR: an automatic speech recognition extension for tcl", 1715-1718.

Existing and Future Corpora: Automated Analysis of Speech Resources (Special Session)

Kessens, Judith M. / Strik, Helmer: "Lower WERs do not guarantee better transcriptions", 1721-1724.

Chang, Shuangyu / Greenberg, Steven / Wester, Mirjam: "An elitist approach to articulatory-acoustic feature classification", 1725-1728.

Wester, Mirjam / Greenberg, Steven / Chang, Shuangyu: "A dutch treatment of an elitist approach to articulatory-acoustic feature classification", 1729-1732.

Dialogue Systems: Dialogue Systems and Generation

Galley, Michel / Fosler-Lussier, Eric / Potamianos, Alexandros: "Hybrid natural language generation for spoken dialogue systems", 1735-1738.

Cook, Nicholas J. / Benest, Ian D.: "The generation of speech for a search guide", 1739-1742.

Araki, Masahiro / Ono, Tasuku / Ueda, Kiyoshi / Nishimoto, Takuya / Niimi, Yasuhisa: "An automatic dialogue system generator from the internet information contents", 1743-1746.

Rogati, Monica / Walker, Marilyn / Rambow, Owen: "Training a sentence planner for spoken dialog: the impact of syntactic and planning features", 1747-1750.

Speaker Recognition: Alternative Trends in Verification

Vivaracho, Carlos E. / Ortega-García, Javier / Alonso, Luis / Moro, Quiliano I.: "A comparative study of MLP-based artificial neural networks in text-independent speaker verification against GMM-based systems", 1753-1757.

Fine, Shai / Navratil, Jiri / Gopinath, Ramesh A.: "Enhancing GMM scores using SVM "hints"", 1757-1760.

Kharroubi, Jamal / Petrovska-Delacretaz, Dijana / Chollet, Gerard: "Combining GMM's with suport vector machines for text-independent speaker verification", 1761-1764.

Gu, Yong / Thomas, Trevor: "A text-independent speaker verification system using support vector machines classifier", 1765-1768.

Stapert, Robert P. / Mason, John S.: "A segmental mixture model for speaker recognition", 2509-2512.

Blouet, Raphael / Bimbot, Frédéric: "Tree based score computation for speaker verification", 2513-2516.

Andrews, Walter D. / Kohler, Mary A. / Campbell, Joseph P.: "Phonetic speaker recognition", 2517-2520.

Doddington, George: "Speaker recognition based on idiolectal differences between speakers", 2521-2524.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Speech Understanding

Hori, Chiori / Furui, Sadaoki: "Advances in automatic speech summarization", 1771-1774.

Hacioglu, Kadri / Ward, Wayne: "A word graph interface for a flexible concept based speech understanding framework", 1775-1778.

Knight, Sylvia / Gorrell, Genevieve / Rayner, Manny / Milward, David / Koeling, Rob / Lewin, Ian: "Comparing grammar-based and robust approaches to speech understanding: a case study", 1779-1782.

Abdou, Sherif / Scordilis, Michael: "Integrating multiple knowledge sources for improved speech understanding", 1783-1786.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Algorithms and Architectures

Litichever, Zeev / Chazan, Dan: "Classification of transition sounds with application to automatic speech recognition", 1789-1792.

Faizakov, Avi / Cohen, Arnon / Vaich, Tzur: "Gaussian subtraction (GS) algorithms for word spotting in continuous speech", 1793-1796.

Shire, Michael L.: "Relating frame accuracy with word error in hybrid ANN-HMM ASR", 1797-1800.

Zhang, Guoliang / Zheng, Fang / Wu, Wenhu: "A two-layer lexical tree based beam search in continuous Chinese speech recognition", 1801-1804.

Itoh, Yoshiaki / Tanaka, Kazuyo: "Automatic labeling and digesting for lecture speech utilizing repeated speech by shift CDP", 1805-1808.

Hori, Takaaki / Noda, Yoshiaki / Matsunaga, Shoichi: "Improved phoneme-history-dependent search for large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition", 1809-1813.

Psutka, Josef / Müller, Ludek / Psutka, Josef V.: "Comparison of MFCC and PLP parameterizations in the speaker independent continuous speech recognition task", 1813-1816.

Pusateri, Ernest / Thong, J.M. Van: "N-best list generation using word and phoneme recognition fusion", 1817-1820.

Ahn, Dong-Hoon / Chung, Minhwa: "A one pass semi-dynamic network decoder based on language model network", 1821-1824.

Macherey, W. / Keysers, D. / Dahmen, J. / Ney, Hermann: "Improving automatic speech recognition using tangent distance", 1825-1828.

Chotimongkol, Ananlada / Rudnicky, Alexander I.: "N-best speech hypotheses reordering using linear regression", 1829-1832.

Deligne, Sabine / Eide, Ellen / Gopinath, Ramesh / Kanevsky, Dimitri / Maison, Benoit / Olsen, Peder / Printz, Harry / Sedivy, Jan: "Low-resource hidden Markov model speech recognition", 1833-1836.

Hirsch, H. G. / Hellwig, K. / Dobler, S.: "Speech recognition at multiple sampling rates", 1837-1840.

Shimodaira, Hiroshi / Noma, Ken-ichi / Nakai, Mitsuru / Sagayama, Shigeki: "Support vector machine with dynamic time-alignment kernel for speech recognition", 1841-1844.

Srinivasamurthy, Naveen / Ortega, Antonio / Narayanan, Shrikanth: "Efficient scalable speech compression for scalable speech recognition", 1845-1848.

Signal Analysis: Speech Enhancement and Noise Processing

Stadermann, J. / Stahl, V. / Rose, G.: "Voice activity detection in noisy environments", 1851-1854.

Sheikhzadeh, Hamid / Abutalebi, Hamid Reza: "An improved wavelet-based speech enhancement system", 1855-1858.

Ramabadran, Tenkasi / Meunier, Jeff / Jasiuk, Mark / Kushner, Bill: "Enhancing distributed speech recognition with back- end speech reconstruction", 1859-1862.

Tihelka, Jiri / Sovka, Pavel: "Implementation effective one-channel noise reduction system", 1863-1866.

Kim, Hyoung-Gook / Obermayer, Klaus / Bode, Mathias / Ruwisch, Dietmar: "Efficient speech enhancement by diffusive gain factors (DGF)", 1867-1870.

Mahé, Gaël / Gilloire, André: "Correction of the voice timbre distortions on telephone network", 1871-1874.

Lee, Yunjung / Lee, Joohun / Lee, Ki Yong / Shirai, Katsuhiko: "Speech enhancement based on IMM with NPHMM", 1875-1878.

Fujimoto, M. / Ariki, Y.: "Speech recognition under musical environments using kalman filter and iterative MLLR adaptation", 1879-1882.

Vetter, Rolf / Renevey, Philippe / Krauss, Jens: "Dual channel speech enhancement using coherence function and MDL-based subspace approach in bark domain", 1883-1886.

Renevey, Philippe / Drygajlo, Andrzej: "Entropy based voice activity detection in very noisy conditions", 1887-1890.

Karnebäck, Stefan: "Discrimination between speech and music based on a low frequency modulation feature", 1891-1894.

Cheng, Yiou-Wen / Lee, Lin-Shan: "Credibility proof for speech content and speaker verification by fragile watermarking with consecutive frame-based processing", 1895-1898.

Potamitis, I. / Fakotakis, Nikos / Kokkinakis, George: "Map estimation for on-line noise compensation of time trajectories of spectral coefficients", 1899-1902.

Attias, Hagai / Deng, Li / Acero, Alex / Platt, John C.: "A new method for speech denoising and robust speech recognition using probabilistic models for clean speech and for noise", 1903-1906.

Speech Synthesis: Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion

Kienappel, Anne K. / Kneser, Reinhard: "Designing very compact decision trees for grapheme-to-phoneme transcription", 1911-1914.

Mana, Franco / Massimino, Paolo / Pacchiotti, Alberto: "Using machine learning techniques for grapheme to phoneme transcription", 1915-1918.

Llitjos, Ariadna Font / Black, Alan W.: "Knowledge of language origin improves pronunciation accuracy of proper names", 1919-1922.

Boula de Mareüil, Philippe / Floricic, Franck: "On the pronunciation of acronyms in French and in Italian", 1923-1926.

Signal Analysis: Speech Enhancement

Shin, Vladimir I. / Kim, Doh-Suk / Kim, Moo Young / Kim, Jeongsu: "Enhancement of noisy speech by using improved global soft decision", 1929-1932.

Cohen, Israel: "Enhancement of speech using bark-scaled wavelet packet decomposition", 1933-1936.

Bahoura, Mohammed / Rouat, Jean: "A new approach for wavelet speech enhancement", 1937-1940.

Yoon, Sukhyun / Yoo, Chang D.: "Speech/noise-dominant decision for speech enhancement", 1941-1944.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Discriminative Training

Wang, Fan / Zheng, Fang / Wu, Wenhu: "An MCE based classification tree using hierarchical feature-weighting in speech recognition", 1947-1950.

Zhou, Jianlai / Chang, Eric / Huang, Chao: "Selective MCE training strategy in Mandarin speech recognition", 1951-1954.

Wu, Chung-Hsien / Yan, Gwo-Lang: "Discriminative disfluency modeling for spontaneous speech recognition", 1955-1958.

Hung, Jeih-weih / Wang, Hsin-min / Lee, Lin-shan: "Comparative analysis for data-driven temporal filters obtained via principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) in speech recognition", 1959-1962.

Speech Coding: Advances in Speech Coding

Heikkinen, Ari / Ruoppila, Vesa T. / Pietilä, Samuli: "Coding method for successive pitch periods", 1965-1968.

Nurminen, Jani / Heikkinen, Ari / Saarinen, Jukka: "Objective evaluation of methods for quantization of variable-dimension spectral vectors in WI speech coding", 1969-1972.

Pobloth, Harald / Kleijn, W. Bastiaan: "Squared error as a measure of phase distortion", 1973-1976.

Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos: "Non-linear predictive vector quantization of speech", 1977-1980.

Katugampala, Nilantha / Kondoz, Ahmet M.: "A variable rate hybrid coder based on a synchronized harmonic excitation", 1981-1984.

Ho, M. S. / Molyneux, D. J. / Cheetham, B. M. G.: "A hybrid sub-band sinusoidal coding scheme", 1985-1988.

Lukasiak, J. / Burnett, I. S. / Ritz, C. H.: "Low rate speech coding incorporating simultaneously masked spectrally weighted linear prediction", 1989-1992.

Najaf-Zadeh, Hossein / Kabal, Peter: "Narrowband perceptual audio coding: enhancements for speech", 1993-1996.

Bessette, B. / Lefebvre, Roch / Salami, R. / Jelinek, M. / Vainio, J. / Rotola-Pukkila, J. / Mikkola, H. / Jarvinen, K.: "Techniques for high-quality ACELP coding of wideband speech", 1997-2000.

Pujalte, Sílvia / Moreno, Asunción: "Wideband ACELP at 16 kb/s with multi-band excitation", 2001-2004.

Lee, Seung Won / Bae, Keun Sung: "Wideband speech coding algorithm with application of discrete wavelet transform to upper band", 2005-2008.

Satheesh, S. / Sreenivas, T. V.: "A switched DPCM/subband coder for pre-echo reduction", 2009-2012.

Etemoglu, Cagri Özgenc / Cuperman, Vladimir: "A generalized multistage VQ approach for spectral magnitude quantization", 2013-2016.

Jung, Sung-Kyo / Park, Young-Cheol / Youn, Sung-Wan / Kim, Kyoung-Tae / Youn, Dae-Hee: "Efficient implementation of ITU-t g.723.1 speech coder for multichannel voice transmission and storage", 2017-2020.

Resources, Assessment and Standards: Corpora

Hansen, John H. L. / Angkititrakul, Pongtep / Plucienkowski, Jay / Gallant, Stephen / Yapanel, Umit / Pellom, Bryan / Ward, Wayne / Cole, Ron: ""CU-move" : analysis & corpus development for interactive in-vehicle speech systems", 2023-2026.

Kawaguchi, Nobuo / Matsubara, Shigeki / Takeda, Kazuya / Itakura, Fumitada: "Multimedia data collection of in-car speech communication", 2027-2030.

Heeman, Peter A. / Cole, David / Cronk, Andrew: "The u.s. speechdat-car data collection", 2031-2034.

Németh, Géza / Zainkó, Csaba: "Word unit based multilingual comparative analysis of text corpora", 2035-2038.

Backfried, Gerhard / Hecht, Robert / Loots, Sabine / Pfannerer, Norbert / Riedler, Jürgen / Schiefer, Christian: "Creating a european English broadcast news transcription corpus and system", 2039-2042.

Burger, Susanne / Besacier, Laurent / Coletti, Paolo / Metze, Florian / Morel, Céline: "The nespole! voIP dialogue database", 2043-2046.

Matousek, Jindrich / Psutka, Josef / Kruta, Jiri: "Design of speech corpus for text-to-speech synthesis", 2047-2050.

Son, Rob J. J. H. van / Binnenpoorte, Diana / Heuvel, Henk van den / Pols, Louis C. W.: "The IFA corpus: a phonemically segmented dutch "open source" speech database", 2051-2054.

Louw, Philippa H. / Roux, Justus C. / Botha, Elizabeth C.: "African speech technology (AST) telephone speech databases: corpus design and contents", 2055-2058.

Heuvel, Henk van den / Boudy, Jerome / Bakcsi, Zsolt / Cernocky, Jan / Galunov, Valery / Kochanina, Julia / Majewski, Wojciech / Pollak, Petr / Rusko, Milan / Sadowski, Jerzy / Staroniewicz, Piotr / Tropf, Herbert S.: "Speechdat-e: five eastern european speech databases for voice-operated teleservices completed", 2059-2062.

Gibbon, Dafydd / Trippel, Thorsten / Sharoff, Serge: "Concordancing for parallel spoken language corpora", 2063-2066.

Psutka, Josef / Radova, Vlasta / Müller, Ludek / Matousek, Jindrich / Ircing, Pavel / Graff, David: "Large broadcast news and read speech corpora of spoken czech", 2067-2070.

Yablonsky, Serge A.: "Development of Russian lexical databases, corpora and supporting tools for speech products", 2071-2074.

Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita F. / Tambouratzis, George D. / Carayannis, George V.: "Constructing a segment database for greek time domain speech synthesis", 2075-2078.

Resources, Assessment and Standards: Assessment Methodology

Hone, Kate S. / Graham, Robert: "Subjective assessment of speech-system interface usability", 2083-2086.

Chu, Min / Peng, Hu: "An objective measure for estimating MOS of synthesized speech", 2087-2090.

Strik, Helmer / Cucchiarini, Catia / Kessens, Judith M.: "Comparing the performance of two CSRs: how to determine the significance level of the differences", 2091-2094.

Terashima, Ryuta / Hoshino, Hiroyuki / Wakita, Toshihiro: "Prediction of low recognition rate words for isolated word recognition system", 2095-2098.

Batusek, Robert: "An objective measure for assessment of the concatenative TTS segment inventories", 2099-2102.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Confidence Measures

Zhang, Rong / Rudnicky, Alexander I.: "Word level confidence annotation using combinations of features", 2105-2108.

Moreno, Pedro J. / Logan, Beth / Raj, Bhiksha: "A boosting approach for confidence scoring", 2109-2112.

Charlet, Delphine / Mercier, Guy / Jouvet, Denis: "On combining confidence measures for improved rejection of incorrect data", 2113-2116.

Palmer, David D. / Ostendorf, Mari: "Improved word confidence estimation using long range features", 2117-2120.

Carpenter, Paul / Jin, Chun / Wilson, Daniel / Zhang, Rong / Bohus, Dan / Rudnicky, Alexander I.: "Is this conversation on track?", 2121.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Language Modelling

Nisimura, Ryuichi / Komatsu, Kumiko / Kuroda, Yuka / Nagatomo, Kentaro / Lee, Akinobu / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Automatic n-gram language model creation from web resources", 2127-2130.

Caseiro, Diamantino / Trancoso, Isabel: "On integrating the lexicon with the language model", 2131-2134.

Varona, A. / Torres, I.: "Back-off smoothing evaluation over syntactic language models", 2135-2138.

Wu, Genqing / Zheng, Fang / Jin, Ling / Wu, Wenhu: "An online incremental language model adaptation method", 2139-2142.

Samuelsson, Christer / Hieronymus, James L.: "Using boosting and POS word graph tagging to improve speech recognition", 2143-2146.

Dialogue Systems: Techniques and Strategies

Yan, Pengju / Zheng, Fang / Xu, Mingxing: "Robust parsing in spoken dialogue systems", 2149-2152.

Huang, Yinfei / Zheng, Fang / Su, Yi / Li, Fang / Wu, Wenhu: "A theme structure method for the ellipsis resolution", 2153-2156.

Haase, Martin / Kriechbaum, Werner / Möhler, Gregor / Stenzel, Gerhard: "Deriving document structure from prosodic cues", 2157-2160.

Su, Yi / Zheng, Fang / Huang, Yinfei: "Design of a semantic parser with support to ellipsis resolution in a Chinese spoken language dialogue system", 2161-2164.

San-Segundo, R. / Montero, J. M. / Colás, J. / Gutiérrez, J. / Ramos, J. M. / Pardo, Juan M.: "Methodology for dialogue design in telephone-based spoken dialogue systems: a Spanish train information system", 2165-2168.

Zhang, Bo / Cai, Qingsheng / Mao, Jianfeng / Chang, Eric / Guo, Baining: "Spoken dialogue management as planning and acting under uncertainty", 2169-2172.

Matsusaka, Yosuke / Fujie, Shinya / Kobayashi, Tetsunori: "Modeling of conversational strategy for the robot participating in the group conversation", 2173-2176.

Terken, Jacques / Riele, Saskia te: "Supporting the construction of a user model in speech-only interfaces by adding multi-modality", 2177-2180.

Tseng, Shu-Chuan: "A word- and turn-oriented approach to exploring the structure of Mandarin dialogues", 2181-2184.

Niimi, Yasuhisa / Oku, Tomoki / Nishimoto, Takuya / Araki, Masahiro: "A rule based approach to extraction of topics and dialog acts in a spoken dialog system", 2185-2188.

Turunen, Markku / Hakulinen, Jaakko: "Agent-based error handling in spoken dialogue systems", 2189-2192.

Degerstedt, Lars / Jönsson, Arne: "Iterative implementation of dialogue system modules", 2193-2196.

Oppermann, Daniela / Schiel, Florian / Steininger, Silke / Beringer, Nicole: "Off-talk - a problem for human-machine-interaction?", 2197-2200.

Schwarz, Jana / Matousek, Vaclav: "Automatic analysis of real dialogues and generating of training corpora", 2201-2204.

Macherey, Klaus / Och, Franz Josef / Ney, Hermann: "Natural language understanding using statistical machine translation", 2205-2208.

Zhang, Jianping / Ward, Wayne / Pellom, Bryan / Yu, Xiuyang / Hacioglu, Kadri: "Improvements in audio processing and language modeling in the CU communicator", 2209-2212.

Tsai, Augustine / Pargellis, Andrew N. / Lee, Chin-Hui / Olive, Joseph P.: "Dialogue session: management using voiceXML", 2213-2216.

Ammicht, Egbert / Potamianos, Alexandros / Fosler-Lussier, Eric: "Ambiguity representation and resolution in spoken dialogue systems", 2217-2220.

Popovici, C. / Andorno, M. / Laface, P. / Fissore, L. / Nigra, M. / Vair, C.: "Learning of user formulations for business listings in automatic directory assistance", 2325-2328.

Louloudis, D. / Tsopanoglou, A. / Fakotakis, Nikos / Kokkinakis, George: "Mathematical modeling of spoken human - machine dialogues including erroneous confirmations", 2329-2332.

Lewin, Ian: "Limited enquiry negotiation dialogues", 2333-2336.

Cox, Stephen / Shahshahani, Ben: "A comparison of some different techniques for vector based call-routing", 2337-2340.

Niklfeld, Georg / Finan, Robert / Pucher, Michael: "Architecture for adaptive multimodal dialog systems based on voiceXML", 2341-2344.

Speech Synthesis: Miscellaneous

Tsuzaki, Minoru: "Feature extraction by auditory modeling for unit selection in concatenative speech synthesis", 2223-2226.

Lee, Minkyu: "Perceptual cost functions for unit searching in large corpus-based text-to-speech", 2227-2230.

Kim, Sanghun / Lee, Youngjik / Hirose, Keikichi: "Pruning of redundant synthesis instances based on weighted vector quantization", 2231-2234.

Fitt, Susan: "Using real words for recording diphones", 2235-2238.

Dines, John / Sridharan, Sridha / Moody, Miles: "Application of the trended hidden Markov model to speech synthesis", 2239-2242.

Sandri, Stefano / Zovato, Enrico: "Two features to check phonetic transcriptions in text to speech systems", 2243-2246.

Xydas, Gerasimos / Kouroupetroglou, Georgios: "Text-to-speech scripting interface for appropriate vocalisation of e-texts", 2247-2250.

Rojc, Matej / Kacic, Zdravko: "Representation of large lexica using finite-state transducers for the multilingual text-to-speech synthesis systems", 2251-2254.

Hirose, Keikichi / Eto, Masaya / Minematsu, Nobuaki / Sakurai, Atsuhiro: "Corpus-based synthesis of fundamental frequency contours based on a generation process model", 2255-2258.

Tychtl, Zbyn.ek / Psutka, Josef: "Corpus-based database of residual excitations used for speech reconstruction from MFCCs", 2259-2262.

Yoshimura, Takayoshi / Tokuda, Keiichi / Masuko, Takashi / Kobayashi, Takao / Kitamura, Tadashi: "Mixed excitation for HMM-based speech synthesis", 2263-2266.

Ohtsuka, Takahiro / Kasuya, Hideki: "Aperiodicity control in ARX-based speech analysis-synthesis method", 2267-2270.

Karjalainen, Matti / Paatero, Tuomas: "Generalized source-filter structures for speech synthesis", 2271-2274.

Wypych, Mikolaj: "The speech synthesis environment and parametric modeling of coarticulation", 2275-2278.

Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology: Experiments and Experiences (Special Session)

Carson-Berndsen, Julie / Walsh, Michael: "Defining constraints for multilinear speech processing", 2281-2284.

Batliner, Anton / Möbius, Bernd / Möhler, Gregor / Schweitzer, Antje / Nöth, Elmar: "Prosodic models, automatic speech understanding, and speech synthesis: towards the common ground", 2285-2288.

Christensenyz, Heidi / Lindbergy, Børge / Anderseny, Ove: "Introducing phonetically motivated information into ASR", 2289-2292.

Gravier, Guillaume / Yvon, Francois / Jacob, Bruno / Bimbot, Frédéric: "Integrating contextual phonological rules in a large vocabulary decoder", 2293-2296.

Pastor-i-Gadea, M. / Casacuberta, F.: "Automatic learning of finite state automata for pronunciation modeling", 2297-2300.

Speech Coding: Wideband Speech Coding

Rotola-Pukkila, J. / Vainio, J. / Mikkola, H. / Järvinen, K. / Bessette, B. / Lefebvre, Roch / Salami, R. / Jeline, M.: "AMR wideband codec - leap in mobile communication voice quality", 2303-2306.

Farrugia, Maria / Kondoz, Ahmet M.: "Combined speech and audio coding with bit rate and bandwidth scalability", 2307-2310.

Fék, Mark / Várkonyi-Kóczy, Annamária R. / Boucher, Jean-Marc: "Joint speech and audio coding combining sinusoidal modeling and wavelet packets", 2311-2314.

Ritz, C. H. / Burnett, I. S.: "Temporal decomposition: a promising approach to low rate wideband speech compression", 2315-2318.

Ragot, Stephane / Lahdili, Hassan / Lefebvre, Roch: "Wideband LSF quantization by generalized voronoi codes", 2319-2322.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Robust ASR

Rigazio, Luca / Nguyen, Patrick / Kryze, David / Junqua, Jean-Claude: "Separating speaker and environment variabilities for improved recognition in non-stationary conditions", 2347-2350.

Rose, Richard C. / Kim, Hong Kook / Hindle, Don: "Robust speech recognition techniques applied to a speech in noise task", 2351-2355.

Afify, Mohamed / Siohan, Olivier / Lee, Chin-Hui: "Minimax classification with parametric neighborhoods for noisy speech recognition", 2355-2358.

Padmanabhan, M. / Dharanipragada, S.: "Maximum likelihood non-linear transformation for environment adaptation in speech recognition", 2359-2362.

Turunen, Jari / Vlaj, Damjan: "A study of speech coding parameters in speech recognition", 2363-2366.

Applications: Miscellaneous Applications

Garcia-Mateo, Carmen / Docio-Fernandez, Laura / Cardenal-Lopez, Antonio: "Some practical considerations in the deployment of a wireless-communication interactive voice response system", 2369-2372.

Rosenberg, Aaron / Hirschberg, Julia / Bacchiani, Michiel / Parthasarathy, S. / Isenhour, Philip / Stead, Larry: "Caller identification for the SCANMail voicemail browser", 2373-2376.

Koumpis, Konstantinos / Renals, Steve / Niranjan, Mahesan: "Extractive summarization of voicemail using lexical and prosodic feature subset selection", 2377-2380.

Scharenborg, Odette / Sturm, Janienke / Boves, Lou: "Business listings in automatic directory assistance", 2381-2384.

Pastor-i-Gadea, M. / Sanchis, A. / Casacuberta, F. / Vidal, E.: "Eutrans: a speech-to-speech translator prototype", 2385-2388.

Metze, Florian / McDonough, John / Soltau, Hagen: "Speech recognition over netmeeting connections", 2389-2392.

Martín, Juan C. Díaz / Zapata, Juan L. García / García, José M. Rodríguez / Salgado, José F. Álvarez / Bueno, Pablo Espada / Vilda, Pedro Gómez: "DIARCA: a component approach to voice recognition", 2393-2396.

Kyung, Y. J. / Jung, J. O. / Sohn, S. M. / Chun, H. J. / Moon, S. Y. / Kim, M. H. / Sull, W. H.: "The mvprotek : m-commerce voice verification system", 2397-2400.

Alm, Norman / Iwabuchi, Mamoru / Andreasen, Peter N. / Nakamura, Kenryu / Murray, Iain R.: "Real-time multilingual communication by means of prestored conversational units", 2401-2404.

Murray, Iain R. / Arnott, John L. / Alm, Norman / Dye, Richard / Harper, Gillian: "Writing script-based dialogues for AAC", 2405-2409.

Iida, Akemi / Sakurada, Yosuke / Campbell, Nick / Yasumura, Michiaki: "Communication aid for non-vocal people using corpusbased concatenative speech synthesis", 2409-2412.

Suzuki, Noriko / Kakehi, Kazuhiko / Takeuchi, Yugo / Okada, Michio: "Social effects on vocal rate with echoic mimicry using prosody-only voice", 2413-2416.

Castelli, Eric / Istrate, Dan: "Everyday life sounds and speech analysis for a medical telemonitoring system", 2417-2420.

Draxler, Christoph / Bengler, Klaus / Olaverri-Monreal, Christina: "Speaking while driving - preliminary results on spellings in the German speechdat-car database", 2421-2424.

Signal Analysis: Pitch and Speech Analysis

Chazan, Dan / Tzur, Meir (Zibulski) / Hoory, Ron / Cohen, Gilad: "Efficient periodicity extraction based on sine-wave representation and its application to pitch determination of speech signals", 2427-2430.

Shdaifat, I. / Grigat, R. / Lütgert, Stefan: "Viseme recognition using multiple feature matching", 2431-2434.

Hirtum, A. Van / Berckmans, D.: "The fundamental frequency of cough by autocorrelation analysis", 2435-2438.

Ishimoto, Yuichi / Unoki, Masashi / Akagi, Masato: "A fundamental frequency estimation method for noisy speech based on instantaneous amplitude and frequency", 2439-2442.

Sasou, Akira / Tanaka, Kazuyo: "Robust LP analysis using glottal source HMM with application to high-pitched and noise corrupted speech", 2443-2446.

Choi, Yong-Soo / Youn, Dae-Hee: "Fast harmonic estimation using a low resolution pitch for low bit rate harmonic coding", 2447-2450.

Cheveigné, Alain de / Kawahara, Hideki: "Comparative evaluation of F0 estimation algorithms", 2451-2454.

Ishi, Carlos Toshinori / Minematsu, Nobuaki / Nishide, Ryuji / Hirose, Keikichi: "Identification of accent and intonation in sentences for CALL systems", 2455-2458.

Kawahara, Hideki / Zolfaghari, Parham: "Systematic F0 glitches around nasal-vowel transitions", 2459-2462.

Wojdel, Jacek C. / Rothkrantz, Leon J. M.: "Using aerial and geometric features in automatic lip-reading", 2463-2466.

Schnell, Karl / Lacroix, Arild: "Inverse filtering of tube models with frequency dependent tube terminations", 2467-2470.

Ouni, Kaïs / Lachiri, Zied / Ellouze, Noureddine: "Formant estimation using gammachirp filterbank", 2471-2474.

Potamitis, I. / Fakotakis, Nikos: "Autoregressive time-frequency interpolation in the context of missing data theory for impulsive noise compensation", 2475-2478.

Petrinovic, D. / Cuperman, Vladimir: "Analysis of the voiced speech using the generalized fourier transform with quadratic phase", 2479-2482.

Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology: Is Phonetic Knowledge any use? Panel discussion (Special Session)

Greenberg, Steven: "From here to utility - melding phonetic insight with speech technology", 2485-2488.

Speech Coding: Speech Transmission Systems

Park, Sang-Wook / Park, Young-Cheol / Youn, Dae-Hee: "Speech quality measure for voIP using wavelet based bark coherence function", 2491-2494.

Wijngaarden, Sander J. van / Steeneken, Herman J. M.: "A proposed method for measuring language dependency of narrow band voice coders", 2495-2498.

Yoon, Sung Wan / Jung, Sung Kyo / Park, Young Cheol / Youn, Dae Hee: "An efficient transcoding algorithm for g.723.1 and g.729a speech coders", 2499-2502.

Perez-Cordoba, Jose L. / Rubio, Antonio J. / Peinado, Antonio M. / Torre, Angel de la: "Joint source-channel coding for low bit-rate coding of LSP parameters", 2503-2506.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Rhythm and Timing in ASR

Wrede, Britta / Fink, Gernot A. / Sagerer, Gerhard: "An investigation of modelling aspects for ratedependent speech recognition", 2527-2530.

Nanjo, Hiroaki / Kato, Kazuomi / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "Speaking rate dependent acoustic modeling for spontaneous lecture speech recognition", 2531-2534.

Fábián, Tibor / Pfau, Thilo / Ruske, Günther: "Analysis of n-best output hypotheses for fast speech in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition", 2535-2538.

Farinas, Jérôme / Pellegrino, François: "Automatic rhythm modeling for language identification", 2539-2542.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Confidence Measures and OOV

Zhang, Yaxin / Lee, Raymond / Madievski, Anton: "Confidence measure (CM) estimation for large vocabulary speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system", 2545-2548.

Kodama, Yasuhiro / Utsuro, Takehito / Nishizaki, Hiromitsu / Nakagawa, Seiichi: "Experimental evaluation on confidence of agreement among multiple Japanese LVCSR models", 2549-2552.

San-Segundo, R. / Macías-Guarasa, J. / Ferreiros, J. / Martín, P. / Pardo, Juan M.: "Detection of recognition errors and out of the spelling dictionary names in a spelled name recognizer for Spanish", 2553-2556.

Mengusoglu, Erhan / Ris, Christophe: "Use of acoustic prior information for confidence measure in ASR applications", 2557-2560.

Ferrer, Luciana / Estienne, Claudio: "Improving performance of a keyword spotting system by using a new confidence measure", 2561-2564.

Tan, Beng T. / Gu, Yong / Thomas, Trevor: "Word level confidence measures using n-best sub-hypotheses likelihood ratio", 2565-2568.

Goel, Vaibhava / Kumar, Shankar / Byrne, William: "Confidence based lattice segmentation and minimum Bayes-risk decoding", 2569-2572.

Jiang, Hui / Soong, Frank K. / Lee, Chin-Hui: "A data selection strategy for utterance verification in continuous speech recognition", 2573-2576.

Ogata, J. / Ariki, Y.: "Improved speech recognition using iterative decoding based on confidence measures", 2577-2580.

Schaaf, Thomas: "Detection of OOV words using generalized word models and a semantic class language model", 2581-2584.

Bouwman, Gies / Sturm, Janienke / Boves, Lou: "Effects of OOV rates on keyphrase rejection schemes", 2585-2588.

Signal Analysis: Source Localisation and Beam Forming

Sánchez-Bote, J. L. / González-Rodríguez, J. / Simón-Zorita, D.: "A new auditory based microphone array and objective evaluation using e-RASTI", 2591-2594.

Araki, Shoko / Makino, Shoji / Mukai, Ryo / Saruwatari, Hiroshi: "Equivalence between frequency domain blind source separation and frequency domain adaptive null beamformers", 2595-2598.

Mukai, Ryo / Araki, Shoko / Makino, Shoji: "Separation and dereverberation performance of frequency domain blind source separation for speech in a reverberant environment", 2599-2602.

Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Kawamura, Toshiya / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Blind source separation for speech based on fast-convergence algorithm with ICA and beamforming", 2603-2606.

Mizumachi, Mitsunori / Nakamura, Satoshi: "Noise reduction using paired-microphones for both far-field and near-field sound sources", 2607-2610.

Nishiura, Takanobu / Nakamura, Satoshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Statistical sound source identification in a real acoustic environment for robust speech recognition using a microphone array", 2611-2614.

Álvarez-Marquina, A. / Gómez-Vilda, P. / Martínez-Olalla, R. / Nieto-Lluís, V. / Rodellar-Biarge, V.: "Speech enhancement and source separation based on binaural negative beamforming", 2615-2618.

Gómez-Vilda, P. / Álvarez-Marquina, A. / Nieto-Lluís, V. / Rodellar-Biarge, V. / Martínez-Olalla, R.: "Multiple source separation in the frequency domain using negative beamforming", 2619-2622.

Martin, Rainer / Petrovsky, Alexey / Lotter, Thomas: "Planar superdirective microphone arrays for speech acquisition in the car", 2623-2626.

Kinnunen, Tomi / Kärkkäinen, Ismo / Fränti, Pasi: "Is speech data clustered? - statistical analysis of cepstral features", 2627-2630.

Nokas, George / Dermatas, Evangelos / Kokkinakis, George: "Maximum likelihood adaptation for distant speech recognition of stationary and moving speakers in reverberant environments", 2631-2634.

Couvreur, Laurent / Ris, Christophe / Couvreur, Christophe: "Model-based blind estimation of reverberation time: application to robust ASR in reverberant environments", 2635-2638.

Momomura, Yasunori / Okada, Kenji / Arai, Takayuki / Kanedera, Noboru / Murahara, Yuji: "Using the modulation complex wavelet transform for feature extraction in automatic speech recognition", 2639-2642.

Okuno, Hiroshi G. / Nakadai, Kazuhiro / Lourens, Tino / Kitano, Hiroaki: "Separating three simultaneous speeches with two microphones by integrating auditory and visual processing", 2643-2646.

Signal Analysis: Speech Features and Modelling

Funaki, Keiichi: "A time-varying complex AR speech analysis based on GLS and ELS method", 2649-2652.

Pitz, Michael / Molau, Sirko / Schlüter, Ralf / Ney, Hermann: "Vocal tract normalization equals linear transformation in cepstral space", 2653-2656.

Yu, An-Tze / Wang, Hsiao-Chuan: "An algorithm for finding line spectrum frequencies of added speech signals and its application to robust speech recognition", 2657-2660.

Gonon, G. / Montrésor, S. / Baudry, M.: "Improved entropic gain for speech signals analysis/synthesis based on an adaptive time-frequency segmentation scheme", 2661-2664.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Kids, Toys and Emotions

Lucke, Helmut / Omote, Masanori: "Automatic word acquisition from continuous speech", 2667-2670.

Li, Qun / Russell, Martin J.: "Why is automatic recognition of children's speech difficult?", 2671-2674.

Arunachalam, Sudha / Gould, Dylan / Andersen, Elaine / Byrd, Dani / Narayanan, Shrikanth: "Politeness and frustration language in child-machine interactions", 2675-2678.

Nogueiras, Albino / Moreno, Asunción / Bonafonte, Antonio / Mariño, José B.: "Speech emotion recognition using hidden Markov models", 2679-2682.

Applications: Media Applications

Ibrahim, Aseel / Lundberg, Jonas / Johansson, Jenny: "Speech enhanced remote control for media terminal", 2685-2688.

Amaral, Rui / Langlois, Thibault / Meinedo, Hugo / Neto, Joao / Souto, Nuno / Trancoso, Isabel: "The development of a portuguese version of a media watch system", 2689-2692.

Roach, Matthew / Mason, John S.: "Classification of video genre using audio", 2693-2696.

Horiuchi, Yasuo / Ichikawa, Akira: "Prosody in finger braille and teletext receiver for finger braille", 2697-2702.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Distributed Speech Recognition

Bernard, Alexis / Alwan, Abeer: "Joint channel decoding - Viterbi recognition for wireless applications", 2703-2706.

Peinado, Antonio M. / Sanchez, Victoria / Segura, José C. / Perez-Cordoba, José L.: "MMSE-based channel error mitigation for distributed speech recognition", 2707-2710.

Stadermann, J. / Meermeier, R. / Rigoll, Gerhard: "Distributed speech recognition using traditional and hybrid modeling techniques", 2711-2714.

Riskin, Eve A. / Boulis, Constantinos / Otterson, Scott / Ostendorf, Mari: "Graceful degradation of speech recognition performance over lossy packet networks", 2715-2718.

Speech Recognition and Understanding: Prosody and Cross-Language in ASR

Schultz, Tanja / Waibel, Alex: "Experiments on cross-language acoustic modeling", 2721-2724.

Zgank, Andrej / Imperl, Bojan / Johansen, Finn Tore / Kacic, Zdravko / Horvat, Bogomir: "Crosslingual speech recognition with multilingual acoustic models based on agglomerative and tree-based triphone clustering", 2725-2729.

Harju, Mikko / Salmela, Petri / Leppänen, Jussi / Viikki, Olli / Saarinen, Jukka: "Comparing parameter tying methods for multilingual acoustic modelling", 2729-2732.

Chengalvarayan, Rathi: "Accent-independent universal HMM-based speech recognizer for american, australian and british English", 2733-2736.

Chen, Fang / Sääv, Jonas: "The effect of time stress on automatic speech recognition accuracy when using second language", 2737-2740.

Wong, Yiu Wing / Chang, Eric: "The effect of pitch and lexical tone on different Mandarin speech recognition tasks", 2741-2744.

Stemmer, Georg / Nöth, Elmar / Niemann, Heinrich: "Acoustic modeling of foreign words in a German speech recognition system", 2745-2748.

Siu, K. C. / Meng, Helen M.: "Semi-automatic grammar induction for bi-directional English-Chinese machine translation", 2749-2752.

Charnvivit, Patavee / Jitapunkul, Somchai / Ahkuputra, Visarut / Maneenoi, Ekkarit / Thathong, Umavasee / Thampanitchawong, Boonchai: "F0 feature extraction by polynomial regression function for monosyllabic Thai tone recognition", 2753-2756.

Kim, Ji-Hwan / Woodland, P. C.: "The use of prosody in a combined system for punctuation generation and speech recognition", 2757-2760.

Wang, Chao / Seneff, Stephanie: "Lexical stress modeling for improved speech recognition of spontaneous telephone speech in the jupiter domain", 2761-2765.

Stephenson, Todd A. / Mathew, M. / Bourlard, Herve: "Modeling auxiliary information in Bayesian network based ASR", 2765-2768.

Chen, Feili / Chang, Eric: "A new dynamic HMM model for speech recognition", 2769-2772.

Wang, Wern-Jun / Lee, Chun-Jen / Huang, Eng-Fong / Chen, Sin-Horng: "Multi-keyword spotting of telephone speech using orthogonal transform-based SBR and RNN prosodic model", 2773-2776.

Iskra, Andrej / Petek, Bojan / Brøndsted, Tom: "Recognition of slovenian speech: within and cross-language experiments on monophones using the speechdat(II)", 2777-2780.

Batliner, Anton / Buckow, Jan / Huber, Richard / Warnke, Volker / Nöth, Elmar / Niemann, Heinrich: "Boiling down prosody for the classification of boundaries and accents in German and English", 2781-2784.

Education: Education and Training

Drygajlo, Andrzej / Garcia Molina, Gary: "Javaspeakerrecognition - interactive workbench for visualizing speaker recognition concepts on the WWW", 2787-2790.

Arai, Takayuki / Usuki, Nobuyuki / Murahara, Yuji: "Prototype of a vocal-tract model for vowel production designed for education in speech science", 2791-2794.

Cooke, Martin / Garcia-Lecumberri, Maria Luisa / Maidment, John: "A tool for automatic feedback on phonemic transcription", 2795-2798.

Chang, Eric / Shi, Yu / Zhou, Jianlai / Huang, Chao: "Speech lab in a box: a Mandarin speech toolbox to jumpstart speech related research", 2799-2802.

Jong, John H. A. L. de / Bernstein, Jared: "Relating phonepass scores overall scores to the council of europe framework level descriptors", 2803-2806.

Vicsi, Klára / Roach, Peter / Öster, Anne-Marie / Kacic, Zdravko / Csatári, F. / Sfakianaki, A. / Veronik, R. / Gordos, Géza: "A multilingual, multimodal, speech training system, SPECO", 2807-2810.

Nakamura, Naoki / Minematsu, Nobuaki / Nakagawa, Seiichi: "Instantaneous estimation of accentuation habits for Japanese students to learn English pronunciation", 2811-2814.

Tanaka, Takashi / Mori, Kazumasa / Kobayashi, Satoshi / Nakagawa, Seiichi: "Automatic construction of CALL system from TV news program with captions", 2815-2818.

Speaker Recognition: Features and Robustness

Arcienega, Mijail / Drygajlo, Andrzej: "Pitch-dependent GMMs for text-independent speaker recognition systems", 2821-2825.

Ezzaidi, Hassan / Rouat, Jean / O’Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Towards combining pitch and MFCC for speaker recognition systems", 2825-2828.

Kim, Yu-Jin / Jung, Hea-Kyoung / Chung, Jae-Ho: "Formant-broadened CMS using peak-picking in LOG spectrum", 2829-2832.

Mashao, Daniel J. / Baloyi, N. Tinyiko: "Improvements in the speaker identification rate using feature-sets", 2833-2836.

Miyajima, Chiyomi / Tokuda, Keiichi / Kitamura, Tadashi: "Minimum classification error training for speaker identification using Gaussian mixture models based on multi-space probability distribution", 2837-2840.

Yadong, Wu / Zhizhu, Li: "Speaker recognition based on feature space trace", 2841-2844.

Yoma, Nestor Becerra / Fernandez, Miguel Villar: "Additive and convolutional noise canceling in speaker verification using a stochastic weighted viterbi algorithm", 2845-2848.

Yoshida, Kenichi / Takagi, Kazuyuki / Ozeki, Kazuhiko: "A multi-SNR subband model for speaker identification under noisy environments", 2849-2852.