Table of Contents and Access to Abstracts

Language Modeling for Spoken Dialog Systems

Purver, Matthew / Ratiu, Florin / Cavedon, Lawrence: "Robust interpretation in dialogue by combining confidence scores with contextual features", paper 1314-Mon1A1O.1.

Ye, Hui / Young, Steve: "A clustering approach to semantic decoding", paper 1118-Mon1A1O.2.

Misu, Teruhisa / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "A bootstrapping approach for developing language model of new spoken dialogue systems by selecting web texts", paper 1167-Mon1A1O.3.

Horndasch, Axel / Nöth, Elmar / Batliner, Anton / Warnke, Volker: "Phoneme-to-grapheme mapping for spoken inquiries to the semantic web", paper 1635-Mon1A1O.4.

Weilhammer, Karl / Stuttle, Matthew N. / Young, Steve: "Bootstrapping language models for dialogue systems", paper 1482-Mon1A1O.5.

Feng, Junlan: "Question answering with discriminative learning algorithms", paper 1642-Mon1A1O.6.

Feature Enhancement for Robust ASR

Kenny, Patrick / Gupta, Vishwa / Boulianne, G. / Ouellet, Pierre / Dumouchel, Pierre: "Feature normalization using smoothed mixture transformations", paper 1026-Mon1A2O.1.

Hsieh, Chia-Hsin / Wu, Chung-Hsien / Lin, Jun-Yu: "Stochastic vector mapping-based feature enhancement using prior model and environment adaptation for noisy speech recognition", paper 1170-Mon1A2O.2.

Nasersharif, Babak / Akbari, Ahmad: "A framework for robust MFCC feature extraction using SNR-dependent compression of enhanced mel filter bank energies", paper 1632-Mon1A2O.3.

Faubel, Friedrich / Wölfel, Matthias: "Coupling particle filters with automatic speech recognition for speech feature enhancement", paper 1683-Mon1A2O.4.

Hsu, Chang-wen / Lee, Lin-shan: "Extension and further analysis of higher order cepstral moment normalization (HOCMN) for robust features in speech recognition", paper 1748-Mon1A2O.5.

Islam, Md. Babul / Matsumoto, Hiroshi / Yamamoto, Kazumasa: "An improved mel-wiener filter for mel-LPC based speech recognition", paper 1830-Mon1A2O.6.

Dialog and Discourse

Hurtado, Lluis F. / Griol, David / Segarra, Encarna / Emilio, Emilio / Sanchis, Sanchis: "A stochastic approach for dialog management based on neural networks", paper 1206-Mon1A3O.1.

Rotaru, Mihai / Litman, Diane J.: "Discourse structure and speech recognition problems", paper 1650-Mon1A3O.2.

Banerjee, Satanjeev / Rudnicky, Alexander I.: "A texttiling based approach to topic boundary detection in meetings", paper 1827-Mon1A3O.3.

Schulz, Stefan / Donker, Hilko: "An user-centered development of an intuitive dialog control for speech-controlled music selection in cars", paper 1855-Mon1A3O.4.

Raux, Antoine / Bohus, Dan / Langner, Brian / Black, Alan W. / Eskenazi, Maxine: "Doing research on a deployed spoken dialogue system: one year of let's go! experience", paper 1794-Mon1A3O.5.

Liscombe, Jackson / Venditti, Jennifer J. / Hirschberg, Julia: "Detecting question-bearing turns in spoken tutorial dialogues", paper 1491-Mon1A3O.6.

The Speech Separation Challenge

Srinivasan, Soundararajan / Shao, Yang / Jin, Zhaozhang / Wang, DeLiang: "A computational auditory scene analysis system for robust speech recognition", paper 1547-Mon1WeS.1.

Han, Runqiang / Zhao, Pei / Gao, Qin / Zhang, Zhiping / Wu, Hao / Wu, Xihong: "CASA based speech separation for robust speech recognition", paper 2068-Mon1WeS.2.

Every, Mark R. / Jackson, Philip J.B.: "Enhancement of harmonic content of speech based on a dynamic programming pitch tracking algorithm", paper 1637-Mon1WeS.3.

Barker, Jon / Coy, André / Ma, Ning / Cooke, Martin: "Recent advances in speech fragment decoding techniques", paper 1479-Mon1WeS.4.

Virtanen, Tuomas: "Speech recognition using factorial hidden Markov models for separation in the feature space", paper 1850-Mon1WeS.5.

Ming, Ji / Hazen, Timothy J. / Glass, James R.: "Combining missing-feature theory, speech enhancement and speaker-dependent/-independent modeling for speech separation", paper 1377-Mon1WeS.6.

Kristjansson, T. / Hershey, J. / Olsen, P. / Rennie, S. / Gopinath, Ramesh: "Super-human multi-talker speech recognition: the IBM 2006 speech separation challenge system", paper 1775-Mon1WeS.7.

Deshmukh, Om D. / Espy-Wilson, Carol Y.: "Modified phase opponency based solution to the speech separation challenge", paper 1936-Mon1WeS.8.

Multilingual and Multi-Accent Processing

Lööf, J. / Bisani, M. / Gollan, Ch. / Heigold, G. / Hoffmeister, Björn / Plahl, Ch. / Schlüter, Ralf / Ney, Hermann: "The 2006 RWTH parliamentary speeches transcription system", paper 1545-Mon1BuP.1.

Bouselmi, G. / Fohr, D. / Illina, I. / Haton, Jean-Paul: "Multilingual non-native speech recognition using phonetic confusion-based acoustic model modification and graphemic constraints", paper 1569-Mon1BuP.2.

Chan, Joyce Y. C. / Ching, P. C. / Lee, Tan / Cao, Houwei: "Automatic speech recognition of Cantonese-English code-mixing utterances", paper 1065-Mon1BuP.3.

Zimmerman, M. / Hakkani-Tür, Dilek / Fung, J. / Mirghafori, N. / Gottlieb, L. / Shriberg, Elizabeth / Liu, Yang: "The ICSI+ multilingual sentence segmentation system", paper 1808-Mon1BuP.4.

Cheng, Yan Ming / Ma, Changxue / Melnar, Lynette: "Cross-language evaluation of voice-to-phoneme conversions for voice-tag application in embedded platforms", paper 1062-Mon1BuP.5.

Wang, Huanliang / Qian, Yao / Soong, Frank K. / Zhou, Jian-Lai / Han, Jiqing: "A multi-space distribution (MSD) approach to speech recognition of tonal languages", paper 1473-Mon1BuP.6.

Le, Viet Bac / Besacier, Laurent: "Comparison of acoustic modeling techniques for Vietnamese and Khmer ASR", paper 1662-Mon1BuP.7.

Liu, Yi / Fung, Pascale: "Multi-accent Chinese speech recognition", paper 1887-Mon1BuP.8.

Ghorshi, Seyed / Vaseghi, Saeed / Yan, Qin: "Comparative analysis of formants of British, american and australian accents", paper 1252-Mon1BuP.9.

Liu, Linquan / Zheng, Thomas Fang / Wu, Wenhu: "Automatic initial/final generation for dialectal Chinese speech recognition", paper 1051-Mon1BuP.10.

Sarikaya, Ruhi / Emam, Ossama / Zitouni, Imed / Gao, Yuqing: "Maximum entropy modeling for diacritization of Arabic text", paper 1418-Mon1BuP.11.

Lihan, Slavomír / Juhár, Jozef / Cizmár, Anton: "Comparison of Slovak and Czech speech recognition based on grapheme and phoneme acoustic models", paper 1462-Mon1BuP.12.

Corpora, Annotation, and Assessment Metrics I, II

Jones, Rhys James / Choy, Ambrose / Williams, Briony: "Integrating Festival and Windows", paper 1380-Mon1CaP.1.

Munteanu, Cosmin / Penn, Gerald / Baecker, Ron / Toms, Elaine / James, David: "Measuring the acceptable word error rate of machine-generated webcast transcripts", paper 1756-Mon1CaP.2.

Nagino, Goshu / Shozakai, Makoto: "Analyzing reusability of speech corpus based on statistical multidimensional scaling method", paper 1382-Mon1CaP.3.

Fitt, Susan / Richmond, Korin: "Redundancy and productivity in the speech technology lexicon - can we do better?", paper 1202-1CaP.4.

Yamada, Takeshi / Kumakura, Masakazu / Kitawaki, Nobuhiko: "Word intelligibility estimation of noise-reduced speech", paper 1443-1CaP.5.

Draxler, Christoph: "Exploring the unknown - collecting 1000 speakers over the internet for the ph@ttsessionz database of adolescent speakers", paper 1217-Mon1CaP.6.

Murphy, Timothy / Picovici, Dorel / Mahdi, Abdulhussain E.: "A new single-ended measure for assessment of speech quality", paper 1538-Mon1CaP.7.

Ní Chasaide, Ailbhe / Wogan, John / Raghallaigh, Brian Ó / Bhriain, Áine Ní / Zoerner, Eric / Berthelsen, Harald / Gobl, Christer: "Speech technology for minority languages: the case of Irish (gaelic)", paper 1378-Mon1CaP.8.

Fraga, Francisco José / Ynoguti, Carlos Alberto / Chiovato, André Godoi: "Further investigations on the relationship between objective measures of speech quality and speech recognition rates in noisy environments", paper 1877-Mon1CaP.9.

Grancharov, Volodya / Zhao, David Y. / Lindblom, Jonas / Kleijn, W. Bastiaan: "Non-intrusive speech quality assessment with low computational complexity", paper 1391-Mon1CaP.10.

Liang, Min-Siong / Lyu, Ren-Yuan / Chiang, Yuang-Chin: "Using speech recognition technique for constructing a phonetically transcribed taiwanese (min-nan) text corpus", paper 1442-Mon1CaP.11.

Zgank, Andrej / Rotovnik, Tomas / Grasic, Matej / Kos, Marko / Vlaj, Damjan / Kacic, Zdravko: "Sloparl - slovenian parliamentary speech and text corpus for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition", paper 1493-Mon1CaP.12.

Toh, Siew Leng / Yang, Fan / Heeman, Peter A.: "An annotation scheme for agreement analysis", paper 1857-Mon1CaP.13.

Aoki, Hitoshi / Kurashima, Atsuko / Takahashi, Akira: "Conversational quality estimation model for wideband IP-telephony services", paper 1036-Tue2WeO.1.

Kilanski, Kelley / Malkin, Jonathan / Li, Xiao / Wright, Richard / Bilmes, Jeff A.: "The vocal joystick data collection effort and vowel corpus", paper 1885-Tue2WeO.2.

Sityaev, Dmitry / Knill, Katherine / Burrows, Tina: "Comparison of the ITU-t p.85 standard to other methods for the evaluation of text-to-speech systems", paper 1233-Tue2WeO.3.

Heeman, Peter A. / McMillin, Andy / Yaruss, J. Scott: "An annotation scheme for complex disfluencies", paper 1859-Tue2WeO.4.

Bael, Christophe Van / Boves, Lou / Heuvel, Henk van den / Strik, Helmer: "Automatic phonetic transcription of large speech corpora: a comparative study", paper 1173-Tue2WeO.5.

Shi, Yongmei / Zhou, Lina: "Examining knowledge sources for human error correction", paper 1530-Tue2WeO.6.

Speech Coding

Chang, Joon-Hyuk / Lim, Woohyung / Kim, Nam Soo: "Signal modification incorporating perceptual weighting filter", paper 1495-Mon1FoP.1.

Nurminen, Jani: "Enhanced dynamic codebook reordering for advanced quantizer structures", paper 1560-Mon1FoP.2.

Lee, Chang-Heon / Jung, Sung-Kyo / Eriksson, Thomas / Jun, Won-Suk / Kang, Hong-Goo: "An efficient segment-based speech compression technique for hand-held TTS systems", paper 1980-Mon1FoP.3.

Ramasubramanian, V. / Harish, D.: "An unified unit-selection framework for ultra low bit-rate speech coding", paper 2028-Mon1FoP.4.

Thyssen, Jes / Chen, Juin-Hwey: "Efficient VQ techniques and general noise shaping in noise feedback coding", paper 1254-Mon1FoP.5.

Qian, Yasheng / Hsu, Wei-Shou / Kabal, Peter: "Classified comfort noise generation for efficient voice transmission", paper 1307-Mon1FoP.6.

Kövesi, Balázs / Massaloux, Dominique / Virette, David / Bensa, Julien: "Integration of a CELP coder in the ARDOR universal sound codec", paper 1309-Mon1FoP.7.

Chatterjee, Saikat / Sreenivas, T. V.: "Two stage transform vector quantization of LSFs for wideband speech coding", paper 1433-Mon1FoP.8.

Chatterjee, Saikat / Sreenivas, T. V.: "Comparison of prediction based LSF quantization methods using split VQ", paper 1435-Mon1FoP.9.

Hofbauer, Konrad / Kubin, Gernot: "High-rate data embedding in unvoiced speech", paper 1906-Mon1FoP.10.

Anderson, Kyle D. / Gournay, Philippe: "Pitch resynchronization while recovering from a late frame in a predictive speech decoder", paper 1029-Mon1FoP.11.

Speech Enhancement I, II

Suhadi, Suhadi / Stan, Sorel / Fingscheidt, Tim: "A novel environment-dependent speech enhancement method with optimized memory footprint", paper 1181-Mon2A1O.1.

Zavarehei, Esfandiar / Vaseghi, Saeed / Yan, Qin: "Weighted codebook mapping for noisy speech enhancement using harmonic-noise model", paper 1244-Mon2A1O.2.

Jensen, J. / Hendriks, R. C. / Erkelens, J. S. / Heusdens, R.: "MMSE estimation of complex-valued discrete Fourier coefficients with generalized gamma priors", paper 1277-Mon2A1O.3.

Subramanya, Amarnag / Seltzer, Michael L. / Acero, Alex: "Automatic removal of typed keystrokes from speech signals", paper 1324-Mon2A1O.4.

Rank, Erhard / Kubin, Gernot: "Lattice LP filtering for noise reduction in speech signals", paper 1643-Mon2A1O.5.

Deshmukh, Om D. / Espy-Wilson, Carol Y.: "Speech enhancement using modified phase opponency model", paper 1699-Mon2A1O.6.

Jin, Wen / Scordilis, Michael: "Single channel speech enhancement by frequency domain constrained optimization and temporal masking", paper 1027-Tue3FoP.1.

Shin, Jong Won / Lee, Seung Yeol / Yun, Hwan Sik / Kim, Nam Soo: "Speech enhancement based on residual noise shaping", paper 1201-Tue3FoP.2.

Pulakka, Hannu / Laaksonen, Laura / Alku, Paavo: "Quality improvement of telephone speech by artificial bandwidth expansion - listening tests in three languages", paper 1245-Tue3FoP.3.

Shannon, Benjamin J. / Paliwal, Kuldip K.: "Role of phase estimation in speech enhancement", paper 1330-Tue3FoP.4.

Shannon, Benjamin J. / Paliwal, Kuldip K. / Nadeu, Climent: "Speech enhancement based on spectral estimation from higher-lag autocorrelation", paper 1331-Tue3FoP.5.

Krishnamurthy, Nitish / Hansen, John H. L.: "Noise update modeling for speech enhancement: when do we do enough?", paper 1396-Tue3FoP.6.

Shahina, A. / Yegnanarayana, B.: "Mapping neural networks for bandwidth extension of narrowband speech", paper 1840-Tue3FoP.7.

Das, Amit / Hansen, John H. L.: "Decision directed constrained iterative speech enhancement", paper 1866-Tue3FoP.8.

Murakami, Takahiro / Ishida, Yoshihisa: "Adaptive filtering for attenuating musical noise caused by spectral subtraction", paper 1919-Tue3FoP.9.

Hu, Yi / Loizou, Philipos C.: "Evaluation of objective measures for speech enhancement", paper 2007-Tue3FoP.10.

Song, Myung-Suk / Lee, Chang-Heon / Kang, Hong-Goo: "Performance analysis of various single channel speech enhancement algorithms for automatic speech recognition", paper 2073-Tue3FoP.11.

ASR Other I, II

Boulianne, G. / Beaumont, J.-F. / Boisvert, M. / Brousseau, J. / Cardinal, P. / Chapdelaine, C. / Comeau, M. / Ouellet, Pierre / Osterrath, F.: "Computer-assisted closed-captioning of live TV broadcasts in French", paper 1424-Mon2A2O.1.

Afify, Mohamed / Sarikaya, Ruhi / Kuo, Hong-Kwang Jeff / Besacier, Laurent / Gao, Yuqing: "On the use of morphological analysis for dialectal Arabic speech recognition", paper 1444-Mon2A2O.2.

Trancoso, Isabel / Nunes, Ricardo / Neves, Luís / Viana, Céu / Moniz, Helena / Caseiro, Diamantino / Mata, Ana Isabel: "Recognition of classroom lectures in european portuguese", paper 1524-Mon2A2O.3.

Pellegrini, Thomas / Lamel, Lori: "Investigating automatic decomposition for ASR in less represented languages", paper 1776-Mon2A2O.4.

Nimaan, Abdillahi / Nocéra, Pascal / Bonastre, Jean-François: "Automatic transcription of Somali language", paper 1817-Mon2A2O.5.

Çetin, Özgür / Shriberg, Elizabeth: "Analysis of overlaps in meetings by dialog factors, hot spots, speakers, and collection site: insights for automatic speech recognition", paper 1915-Mon2A2O.6.

Takeda, Ryu / Yamamoto, Shun'ichi / Komatani, Kazunori / Ogata, Tetsuya / Okuno, Hiroshi G.: "Improving speech recognition of two simultaneous speech signals by integrating ICA BSS and automatic missing feature mask generation", paper 1729-Thu1CaP.1.

Kim, Wooil / Hansen, John H. L.: "Missing-feature reconstruction for band-limited speech recognition in spoken document retrieval", paper 1826-Thu1CaP.2.

Koo, Hahn / Cheng, Yan Ming: "Incremental learning of MAP context-dependent edit operations for spoken phone number recognition in an embedded platform", paper 1032-Thu1CaP.3.

Obuchi, Yasunari / Hataoka, Nobuo: "Development and evaluation of speech database in automotive environments for practical speech recognition systems", paper 1168-Thu1CaP.4.

Yu, Dong / Ju, Yun-Cheng / Acero, Alex: "An effective and efficient utterance verification technology using word n-gram filler models", paper 1408-Thu1CaP.5.

Górriz, J. M. / Ramírez, Javier / Puntonet, C. G. / Segura, José C.: "An efficient bispectrum phase entropy-based algorithm for VAD", paper 1440-Thu1CaP.6.

Cerva, Petr / Nouza, Jan / Silovsky, Jan: "Two-step unsupervised speaker adaptation based on speaker and gender recognition and HMM combination", paper 1441-Thu1CaP.7.

Nakamura, Satoshi / Fujimoto, Masakiyo / Takeda, Kazuya: "CENSREC2: corpus and evaluation environments for in car continuous digit speech recognition", paper 1726-1CaP.8.

Chu, Cheng-Tao / Sung, Yun-Hsuan / Zhao, Yuan / Jurafsky, Daniel: "Detection of word fragments in Mandarin telephone conversation", paper 1730-Thu1CaP.9.

Huo, Qiang / Li, Wei: "A DTW-based dissimilarity measure for left-to-right hidden Markov models and its application to word confusability analysis", paper 1745-Thu1CaP.10.

Gómez, Angel M. / Ramos-Muñoz, Juan J. / Peinado, Antonio M. / Sánchez, Victoria: "Multi-flow block interleaving applied to distributed speech recognition over IP networks", paper 1365-Thu1CaP.11.

Lin, Edward C. / Yu, Kai / Rutenbar, Rob A. / Chen, Tsuhan: "Moving speech recognition from software to silicon: the in silico vox project", paper 1942-Thu1CaP.12.

Ma, Chengyuan / Tsao, Yu / Lee, Chin-Hui: "A study on detection based automatic speech recognition", paper 2053-Thu1CaP.13.

Chitturi, Rahul / Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark: "Novel time domain multi-class SVMs for landmark detection", paper 1904-Thu1CaP.14.

Modeling Prosodic Features

Ananthakrishnan, Sankaranarayanan / Narayanan, Shrikanth: "Combining acoustic, lexical, and syntactic evidence for automatic unsupervised prosody labeling", paper 1335-Mon2A3O.1.

Rosenberg, Andrew / Hirschberg, Julia: "On the correlation between energy and pitch accent in read English speech", paper 1294-Mon2A3O.2.

Hirose, Keikichi / Asano, Yasufumi / Minematsu, Nobuaki: "Corpus-based generation of fundamental frequency contours using generation process model and considering emotional focuses", paper 1902-Mon2A3O.3.

Dubeda, Tomás: "Prosodic boundaries in Czech: an experiment based on delexicalized speech", paper 1056-Mon2A3O.4.

Yi, Lifu / Li, Jian / Lou, Xiaoyan / Hao, Jie: "Totally data-driven intonation prediction model using a novel F0 contour parametric representation", paper 1465-Mon2A3O.5.

Dilley, Laura / Breen, Mara / Bolivar, Marti / Kraemer, John / Gibson, Edward: "A comparison of inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: rap (rhythm and pitch) and toBI (tones and break indices)", paper 1619-Mon2A3O.6.

Spoken Information Retrieval

Alphonso, Issac / Chang, Shuangyu: "Saliency parsing for automated directory assistance", paper 1421-Mon2WeO.1.

Iwata, Kohei / Itoh, Yoshiaki / Kojima, Kazunori / Ishigame, Masaaki / Tanaka, Kazuyo / Lee, Shi-wook: "Open-vocabulary spoken document retrieval based on new subword models and subword phonetic similarity", paper 1342-Mon2WeO.2.

Li, Xiang / Jan, Ea-Ee / Wu, Cheng / Lubensky, David: "Improved topic classification over maximum entropy model using k-norm based new objectives", paper 2066-Mon2WeO.3.

Pan, Yi-cheng / Chen, Jia-yu / Lee, Yen-shin / Fu, Yi-sheng / Lee, Lin-shan: "Efficient interactive retrieval of spoken documents with key terms ranked by reinforcement learning", paper 1577-Mon2WeO.4.

Sudoh, Katsuhito / Tsukada, Hajime / Isozaki, Hideki: "Discriminative named entity recognition of speech data using speech recognition confidence", paper 1153-Mon2WeO.5.

Turunen, Ville T. / Kurimo, Mikko: "Using latent semantic indexing for morph-based spoken document retrieval", paper 1220-Mon2WeO.6.

Front-End Methods for ASR

Schlüter, Ralf / Zolnay, András / Ney, Hermann: "Feature combination using linear discriminant analysis and its pitfalls", paper 1077-Mon2BuP.1.

Valente, Fabio / Hermansky, Hynek: "Discriminant linear processing of time-frequency plane", paper 1300-Mon2BuP.2.

Uraga, Esmeralda / Hain, Thomas: "Automatic speech recognition experiments with articulatory data", paper 1725-Mon2BuP.3.

Stouten, Frederik / Martens, Jean-Pierre: "Speech recognition with phonological features: some issues to attend", paper 1081-Mon2BuP.4.

Wölfel, Matthias / Fügen, Christian / Ikbal, Shajith / McDonough, John W.: "Multi-source far-distance microphone selection and combination for automatic transcription of lectures", paper 1253-Mon2BuP.5.

Breithaupt, Colin / Martin, Rainer: "Statistical analysis and performance of DFT domain noise reduction filters for robust speech recognition", paper 1537-Mon2BuP.6.

García, L. / Segura, José C. / Benítez, Carmen / Ramírez, Javier / Torre, Ángel de la: "Normalization of the inter-frame information using smoothing filtering", paper 1687-Mon2BuP.7.

Ghulam, Muhammad / Horikawa, Junsei / Nitta, Tsuneo: "Comparative study on contributions of pitch-synchronization and peak-amplitude towards robustness issue of ASR", paper 1781-Mon2BuP.8.

Ariki, Yasuo / Kato, Shunsuke / Takiguchi, Tetsuya: "Phoneme recognition based on fisher weight map to higher-order local auto-correlation", paper 1883-Mon2BuP.9.

Boril, Hynek / Fousek, Petr / Pollák, Petr: "Data-driven design of front-end filter bank for Lombard speech recognition", paper 1803-Mon2BuP.10.

Ljolje, Andrej: "Optimization of class weights for LDA feature transformations", paper 2031-Mon2BuP.11.

Pylkkönen, Janne: "LDA based feature estimation methods for LVCSR", paper 1213-Mon2BuP.12.

Farahani, G. / Ahadi, S.M. / Homayounpour, M. Mehdi: "Robust feature extraction based on spectral peaks of group delay and autocorrelation function and phase domain analysis", paper 1563-Mon2BuP.13.

Panchapagesan, Sankaran: "Frequency warping by linear transformation of standard MFCC", paper 1924-Mon2BuP.14.

Language and Dialect Recognition

Reyes-Herrera, Ana Lilia / Villaseñor-Pineda, Luis / Montes-y-Gómez, Manuel: "Automatic language identification using wavelets", paper 1998-Mon2CaP.1.

Bauer, Josef G. / Timoshenko, Ekaterina: "Minimum classification error training of hidden Markov models for acoustic language identification", paper 1981-Mon2CaP.2.

Timoshenko, Ekaterina / Bauer, Josef G.: "Unsupervised adaptation for acoustic language identification", paper 1494-Mon2CaP.3.

Basavaraja, S. V. / Sreenivas, T. V.: "Low complexity LID using pruned pattern tables of LZW", paper 1398-Mon2CaP.4.

Yang, Xi / Zhai, Lu-Feng / Siu, Manhung / Gish, Herbert: "Improved language identification using support vector machines for language modeling", paper 1450-Mon2CaP.5.

Navratil, Jiri: "Recent advances in phonotactic language recognition using binary-decision trees", paper 1338-Mon2CaP.6.

Lin, Chi-Yueh / Wang, Hsiao-Chuan: "Fusion of phonotactic and prosodic knowledge for language identification", paper 1166-Mon2CaP.7.

Li, Haizhou / Ma, Bin / Tong, Rong: "Vector-based spoken language recognition using output coding", paper 1155-Mon2CaP.8.

Guijarrubia, Victor G. / Torres, M. Ines: "Basque-Spanish language identification using phone-based methods", paper 1892-Mon2CaP.9.

Ikeno, Ayako / Hansen, John H. L.: "The role of prosody in the perception of US native English accents", paper 1437-Mon2CaP.10.

Vieru-Dimulescu, Bianca / Boula de Mareüil, Philippe: "Perceptual identification and phonetic analysis of 6 foreign accents in French", paper 1251-Mon2CaP.11.

Huang, Rongqing / Hansen, John H. L.: "Unsupervised Spanish dialect classification", paper 1242-Mon2CaP.12.

Spoken Dialog Systems I, II

Gieselmann, Petra / Waibel, Alex: "Dynamic extension of a grammar-based dialogue system: constructing an all-recipes knowing robot", paper 1091-Mon2FoP.1.

Gruenstein, Alexander / Seneff, Stephanie / Wang, Chao: "Scalable and portable web-based multimodal dialogue interaction with geographical databases", paper 1095-Mon2FoP.2.

Ackermann, Chantal / Libossek, Marion: "System- versus user-initiative dialog strategy for driver information systems", paper 1172-Mon2FoP.3.

Krsmanovic, Filip / Spencer, Curtis / Jurafsky, Daniel / Ng, Andrew Y.: "Have we met? MDP based speaker ID for robot dialogue", paper 1193-Mon2FoP.4.

Son, Rob J. J. H. van / Wesseling, Wieneke / Pols, Louis C. W.: "Prominent words as anchors for TRP projection", paper 1235-Mon2FoP.5.

Cuayáhuitl, Heriberto / Renals, Steve / Lemon, Oliver / Shimodaira, Hiroshi: "Learning multi-goal dialogue strategies using reinforcement learning with reduced state-action spaces", paper 1282-Mon2FoP.6.

Mayer, Jörg / Jasinskaja, Ekaterina / Kölsch, Ulrike: "Pitch range and pause duration as markers of discourse hierarchy: perception experiments", paper 1290-Mon2FoP.7.

Roque, Antonio / Leuski, Anton / Rangarajan, Vivek / Robinson, Susan / Vaswani, Ashish / Narayanan, Shrikanth / Traum, David: "Radiobot-CFF: a spoken dialogue system for military training", paper 1828-Mon2FoP.8.

Yamada, Shinya / Itoh, Toshihiko / Araki, Kenji: "Is voice quality enough? - study on how the situation and user²s awareness influence the utterance features", paper 1955-Mon2FoP.9.

Juhár, Jozef / Ondas, Stanislav / Cizmár, Anton / Rusko, Milan / Rozinaj, Gregor / Jarina, Roman: "Development of slovak GALAXY/voiceXML based spoken language dialogue system to retrieve information from the internet", paper 2056-Mon2FoP.10.

Degerstedt, Lars / Jönsson, Arne: "LINTest: a development tool for testing dialogue systems", paper 1555-Mon2FoP.11.

Ito, Akinori / Shimada, Keisuke / Suzuki, Motoyuki / Makino, Shozo: "A user simulator based on voiceXML for evaluation of spoken dialog systems", paper 1358-Tue2A3O.1.

Jokinen, Kristiina / Hurtig, Topi: "User expectations and real experience on a multimodal interactive system", paper 1815-Tue2A3O.2.

Burkhardt, F. / Ajmera, J. / Englert, Roman / Stegmann, J. / Burleson, W.: "Detecting anger in automated voice portal dialogs", paper 1977-Tue2A3O.3.

Turunen, Markku / Hakulinen, Jaakko / Kainulainen, Anssi: "Evaluation of a spoken dialogue system with usability tests and long-term pilot studies: similarities and differences", paper 1978-Tue2A3O.4.

Weng, Fuliang / Varges, Sebastian / Raghunathan, Badri / Ratiu, Florin / Pon-Barry, Heather / Lathrop, Brian / Zhang, Qi / Bratt, Harry / Scheideck, Tobias / Xu, Kui / Purver, Matthew / Mishra, Rohit / Lien, Annie / Raya, M. / Peters, S. / Meng, Y. / Russell, J. / Cavedon, Lawrence / Shriberg, Elizabeth / Schmidt, H. / Prieto, R.: "CHAT: a conversational helper for automotive tasks", paper 2020-Tue2A3O.5.

Georgila, Kallirroi / Henderson, James / Lemon, Oliver: "User simulation for spoken dialogue systems: learning and evaluation", paper 2035-Tue2A3O.6.

Speaker Characterization and Recognition I-IV

Chao, Yi-Hsiang / Tsai, Wei-Ho / Wang, Hsin-Min / Chang, Ruei-Chuan: "Improving the characterization of the alternative hypothesis via kernel discriminant analysis for likelihood ratio-based speaker verification", paper 1431-Mon3A1O.1.

Lei, Zhenchun / Yang, Yingchun / Wu, Zhaohui: "A discriminative method for speaker verification using the difference information", paper 1952-Mon3A1O.2.

Scheffer, Nicolas / Bonastre, Jean-François: "A multiclass framework for speaker verification within an acoustic event sequence system", paper 1574-Mon3A1O.3.

Ma, Bin / Zhu, Donglai / Tong, Rong / Li, Haizhou: "Speaker cluster based GMM tokenization for speaker recognition", paper 1429-Mon3A1O.4.

Garreton, Claudio / Yoma, Nestor Becerra / Molina, Carlos / Huenupan, Fernando: "Intra-speaker variability compensation in speaker verification with limited enrolling data", paper 1425-Mon3A1O.5.

Chetty, Girija / Wagner, Michael: "Speaking faces for face-voice speaker identity verification", paper 2025-Mon3A1O.6.

Prahallad, Kishore / Sudhakar, Varanasi / Ranganatham, Veluru / Bharat, Krishna M. / Debashish, S. Roy: "Significance of formants from difference spectrum for speaker identification", paper 1583-Tue1CaP.1.

Zamalloa, Maider / Bordel, Germán / Rodríguez, Luis Javier / Penagarikano, Mikel / Uribe, Juan Pedro: "Using genetic algorithms to weight acoustic features for speaker recognition", paper 1240-Tue1CaP.2.

Padilla, Michael T. / Quatieri, Thomas F. / Reynolds, Douglas A.: "Missing feature theory with soft spectral subtraction for speaker verification", paper 1918-Tue1CaP.3.

Mary, Leena / Yegnanarayana, B.: "Prosodic features for speaker verification", paper 1999-Tue1CaP.4.

Liu, Ming / Huang, Thomas S.: "Unsupervised learning of HMM topology for text-dependent speaker verification", paper 1302-Tue1CaP.5.

Anguita, Jan / Hernando, Javier: "On the use of Jacobian adaptation in real speaker verification applications", paper 1604-Tue1CaP.6.

Liu, Ming / Ning, Huazhong / Huang, Thomas S. / Zhang, Zhengyou: "A novel framework of text-independent speaker verification based on utterance transform and iterative cohort modeling", paper 2034-Tue1CaP.7.

Prakash, Vinod / Hansen, John H. L.: "A cohort - UBM approach to mitigate data sparseness for in-set/out-of-set speaker recognition", paper 1847-Tue1CaP.8.

Varadarajan, Vaishnevi S. / Hansen, John H. L.: "Analysis of lombard effect under different types and levels of noise with application to in-set speaker ID systems", paper 1599-Tue1CaP.9.

McCree, Alan: "Reducing speech coding distortion for speaker identification", paper 1989-Tue1CaP.10.

Kato, Tsuneo / Kawai, Hisashi: "A text-prompted distributed speaker verification system implemented on a cellular phone and a mobile terminal", paper 1896-Tue1CaP.11.

Vishnubhotla, Srikanth / Espy-Wilson, Carol Y.: "Automatic detection of irregular phonation in continuous speech", paper 1893-Tue1CaP.12.

Ramasubramanian, V. / Vijaywargiay, Deepak / Praveen, Kumar V.: "Highly noise robust text-dependent speaker recognition based on hypothesized wiener filtering", paper 1474-Wed1A1O.1.

Fujihara, Hiromasa / Kitahara, Tetsuro / Goto, Masataka / Komatani, Kazunori / Ogata, Tetsuya / Okuno, Hiroshi G.: "Speaker identification under noisy environments by using harmonic structure extraction and reliable frame weighting", paper 1525-Wed1A1O.2.

Stergiou, Andreas / Pnevmatikakis, Aristodemos / Polymenakos, Lazaros C.: "Enhancing the performance of a GMM-based speaker identification system in a multi-microphone setup", paper 1608-Wed1A1O.3.

Longworth, C. / Gales, M. J. F.: "Discriminative adaptation for speaker verification", paper 1553-Wed1A1O.4.

Hatch, Andrew O. / Kajarekar, Sachin / Stolcke, Andreas: "Within-class covariance normalization for SVM-based speaker recognition", paper 1874-Wed1A1O.5.

Espy-Wilson, Carol Y. / Manocha, Sandeep / Vishnubhotla, Srikanth: "A new set of features for text-independent speaker identification", paper 1880-Wed1A1O.6.

Ofoegbu, Uchechukwu O. / Iyer, Ananth N. / Yantorno, Robert E. / Wenndt, Stanley J.: "Detection of a third speaker in telephone conversations", paper 1133-Wed3CaP.1.

Biatov, Konstantin / Köhler, Joachim: "Improvement speaker clustering using global similarity features", paper 1451-Wed3CaP.2.

Narayanaswamy, Balakrishnan / Gangadharaiah, Rashmi / Stern, Richard M.: "Voting for two speaker segmentation", paper 1932-Wed3CaP.3.

Preti, Alexandre / Bonastre, Jean-François: "Unsupervised model adaptation for speaker verification", paper 1554-Wed3CaP.4.

Zheng, Rong / Zhang, Shuwu / Xu, Bo: "A quality measure method using Gaussian mixture models and divergence measure for speaker identification", paper 1328-Wed3CaP.5.

Zhang, Yushi / Abdulla, Waleed H.: "Gammatone auditory filterbank and independent component analysis for speaker identification", paper 1354-Wed3CaP.6.

Wu, Wei / Zheng, Thomas Fang / Xu, Ming-Xing / Bao, Huan-Jun: "Study on speaker verification on emotional speech", paper 1124-Wed3CaP.7.

Farrús, M. / Garde, A. / Ejarque, P. / Luque, J. / Hernando, Javier: "On the fusion of prosody, voice spectrum and face features for multimodal person verification", paper 1256-Wed3CaP.8.

Pruthi, Tarun / Espy-Wilson, Carol Y.: "An MRI based study of the acoustic effects of sinus cavities and its application to speaker recognition", paper 1411-Wed3CaP.9.

Kojima, Mariko / Matsui, Tomoko / Kawanami, Hiromichi / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Speaker verification with non-audible murmur segments", paper 1773-Wed3CaP.10.

Müller, Christian: "Automatic recognition of speakers² age and gender on the basis of empirical studies", paper 1031-Wed3CaP.11.

Fox, E. J. S. / Roberts, J. D. / Bennamoun, M.: "Text-independent speaker identification in birds", paper 1068-Wed3CaP.12.

Potamitis, Ilyas / Ganchev, Todor / Fakotakis, Nikos: "Automatic acoustic identification of insects inspired by the speaker recognition paradigm", paper 1505-Wed3CaP.13.

System Combination

Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco / Li, Jinyu / Lee, Chin-Hui: "A study on lattice rescoring with knowledge scores for automatic speech recognition", paper 1319-Mon3A2O.1.

Stüker, Sebastian / Fügen, Christian / Burger, Susanne / Wölfel, Matthias: "Cross-system adaptation and combination for continuous speech recognition: the influence of phoneme set and acoustic front-end", paper 1509-Mon3A2O.2.

Breslin, C. / Gales, M. J. F.: "Generating complementary systems for speech recognition", paper 1541-Mon3A2O.3.

Zhang, Rong / Rudnicky, Alexander I.: "Investigations of issues for using multiple acoustic models to improve continuous speech recognition", paper 1707-Mon3A2O.4.

Chen, I-Fan / Lee, Lin-shan: "A new framework for system combination based on integrated hypothesis space", paper 1728-Mon3A2O.5.

Hoffmeister, Björn / Klein, Tobias / Schlüter, Ralf / Ney, Hermann: "Frame based system combination and a comparison with weighted ROVER and CNC", paper 1523-Mon3A2O.6.

Interpreting Prosodic Variation

Yuan, Jiahong / Liberman, Mark / Cieri, Christopher: "Towards an integrated understanding of speaking rate in conversation", paper 1795-Mon3A3O.1.

Vu, Minh Quang / Trân, Ðô Ðat / Castelli, Eric: "Prosody of interrogative and affirmative sentences in vietnamese language: analysis and perceptive results", paper 1844-Mon3A3O.2.

Venditti, Jennifer J. / Hirschberg, Julia / Liscombe, Jackson: "Intonational cues to student questions in tutoring dialogs", paper 1407-Mon3A3O.3.

Krahmer, Emiel / Swerts, Marc: "Testing the effect of audiovisual cues to prominence via a reaction-time experiment", paper 1288-Mon3A3O.4.

Gravano, Agustín / Hirschberg, Julia: "Effect of genre, speaker, and word class on the realization of given and new information", paper 1747-Mon3A3O.5.

Vainio, Martti / Järvikivi, Juhani / Werner, Stefan: "Word order and tonal shape in the production of focus in short Finnish utterances", paper 1595-Mon3A3O.6.

Articulatory Modeling

Kröger, Bernd J. / Birkholz, Peter / Kannampuzha, Jim / Neuschaefer-Rube, Christiane: "Modeling sensory-to-motor mappings using neural nets and a 3d articulatory speech synthesizer", paper 1192-Mon3WeS.1.

Fontecave, Julie / Berthommier, Frédéric: "Semi-automatic extraction of vocal tract movements from cineradiographic data", paper 1439-Mon3WeS.2.

Jou, Szu-Chen / Schultz, Tanja / Walliczek, Matthias / Kraft, Florian / Waibel, Alex: "Towards continuous speech recognition using surface electromyography", paper 1592-Mon3WeS.3.

Richmond, Korin: "A trajectory mixture density network for the acoustic-articulatory inversion mapping", paper 1790-Mon3WeS.4.

Metze, Florian: "Articulatory features for "meeting" speech recognition", paper 1891-Mon3WeS.5.

Krnoul, Zdenek / Zelezný, Milos / Müller, Ludek / Kanis, Jakub: "Training of coarticulation models using dominance functions and visual unit selection methods for audio-visual speech synthesis", paper 1905-Mon3WeS.6.

Acoustic Modeling I - Training and Topologies

Zhang, Le / Renals, Steve: "Phone recognition analysis for trajectory HMM", paper 1203-Mon3BuP.1.

Keshet, Joseph / Shalev-Shwartz, Shai / Bengio, Samy / Singer, Yoram / Chazan, Dan: "Discriminative kernel-based phoneme sequence recognition", paper 1284-Mon3BuP.2.

Morris, Jeremy / Fosler-Lussier, Eric: "Combining phonetic attributes using conditional random fields", paper 1287-Mon3BuP.3.

Nagarajan, T. / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Discriminative MLE training using a product of Gaussian likelihoods", paper 1292-Mon3BuP.4.

Li, Hao-Zheng / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas: "State-level variable modeling for phoneme classification", paper 1332-Mon3BuP.5.

Li, Xiaolong / Deng, Li / Yu, Dong / Acero, Alex: "A time-synchronous phonetic decoder for a long-contextual-Span hidden trajectory model", paper 1409-Mon3BuP.6.

Casar, Marta / Fonollosa, Jose A. R.: "Analysis of HMM temporal evolution for automatic speech recognition and utterance verification", paper 1586-Mon3BuP.7.

Tang, Min / Ganapathiraju, Aravind: "Improvements to bucket box intersection algorithm for fast GMM computation in embedded speech recognition systems", paper 1678-Mon3BuP.8.

Markov, Konstantin / Nakamura, Satoshi: "Forward-backwards training of hybrid HMM/BN acoustic models", paper 1838-Mon3BuP.9.

Gehrig, Dirk / Schaaf, Thomas: "A comparative study of Gaussian selection methods in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition", paper 1954-Mon3BuP.10.

Suk, Soo-Young / Hahm, Seong-Jun / Jung, Ho-Youl / Chung, Hyun-Yeol: "A successive state and mixture splitting for optimizing the size of models in speech recognition", paper 2022-Mon3BuP.11.

Ion, Valentin / Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold: "Improved source modeling and predictive classification for channel robust speech recognition", paper 1083-Mon3BuP.12.

Acoustic Signal Segmentation and Classification

Kühne, Marco / Togneri, Roberto: "Automatic English stop consonants classification using wavelet analysis and hidden Markov models", paper 1174-Mon3CaP.1.

Wu, Tingyao / Compernolle, Dirk Van / Duchateau, Jacques / Hamme, Hugo Van: "Single frame selection for phoneme classification", paper 1247-Mon3CaP.2.

Dusan, Sorin / Rabiner, Lawrence: "On the relation between maximum spectral transition positions and phone boundaries", paper 1317-Mon3CaP.3.

Yingthawornsuk, T. / Keskinpala, H. Kaymaz / France, D. / Wilkes, D. M. / Shiavi, R. G. / Salomon, R. M.: "Objective estimation of suicidal risk using vocal output characteristics", paper 1321-Mon3CaP.4.

Didiot, E. / Illina, I. / Mella, O. / Fohr, D. / Haton, Jean-Paul: "A wavelet-based parameterization for speech/music segmentation", paper 1361-Mon3CaP.5.

Nagino, Goshu / Shozakai, Makoto: "Distance measure between Gaussian distributions for discriminating speaking styles", paper 1383-Mon3CaP.6.

Pernkopf, Franz / Pham, Tuan Van: "Bayesian networks for phonetic classification using time-scale features", paper 1532-Mon3CaP.7.

Beringer, Nicole: "Fast and effective retraining on contrastive vocal characteristics with bidirectional long short-term memory nets", paper 1602-Mon3CaP.8.

Ma, Ning / Green, Phil / Coy, André: "Exploiting dendritic autocorrelogram structure to identify spectro-temporal regions dominated by a single sound source", paper 1639-Mon3CaP.9.

Leelaphattarakij, Pairote / Punyabukkana, Proadpran / Suchato, Atiwong: "Locating phone boundaries from acoustic discontinuities using a two-staged approach", paper 1734-Mon3CaP.10.

Fu, Qiang / Juang, Biing-Hwang: "Investigation on rescoring using minimum verification error (MVE) detectors", paper 1761-Mon3CaP.11.

Fu, Qiang / Moreno-Daniel, Antonio / Juang, Biing-Hwang / Zhou, Jian-Lai / Soong, Frank K.: "Generalization of the minimum classification error (MCE) training based on maximizing generalized posterior probability (GPP)", paper 1780-Mon3CaP.12.

Carlin, Michael A. / Smolenski, Brett Y. / Wenndt, Stanley J.: "Unsupervised detection of whispered speech in the presence of normal phonation", paper 1990-Mon3CaP.13.

Anguera, Xavier / Wooters, Chuck / Hernando, Javier: "Friends and enemies: a novel initialization for speaker diarization", paper 1661-Mon3CaP.14.

Linguistics, Phonology, and Phonetics I, II

Surana, Kushan / Slifka, Janet: "Acoustic cues for the classification of regular and irregular phonation", paper 1755-Mon3FoP.1.

Nitisaroj, Rattima: "Realizations and representations of Thai tones in monomoraic syllables", paper 1381-Mon3FoP.2.

Jacobi, Irene / Pols, Louis C. W. / Stroop, Jan: "Measuring and comparing vowel qualities in a Dutch spontaneous speech corpus", paper 1215-Mon3FoP.3.

Li, Aijun / Fang, Qiang / Xiong, Ziyu: "Phonetic research on accented Chinese in three dialectal regions: Shanghai, Wuhan and Xiamen", paper 1143-Mon3FoP.4.

Zhang, Chi / Wu, Ji / Xiao, Xi / Wang, Zuoying: "Pronunciation variation modeling for Mandarin with accent", paper 1849-Mon3FoP.5.

Nielsen, Kuniko Y.: "Specificity and generalizability of spontaneous phonetic imitation", paper 1326-Mon3FoP.6.

Bael, Christophe Van / Halteren, Hans van: "On the sufficiency of automatic phonetic transcriptions for pronunciation variation research", paper 1265-Mon3FoP.7.

Kazemzadeh, Abe / Tepperman, Joseph / Silva, Jorge / You, Hong / Lee, Sungbok / Alwan, Abeer / Narayanan, Shrikanth: "Automatic detection of voice onset time contrasts for use in pronunciation assessment", paper 1884-Mon3FoP.8.

Hirano, Hiroko / Kawai, Goh / Hirose, Keikichi / Minematsu, Nobuaki: "Unfilled pauses in Japanese sentences read aloud by non-native learners", paper 1871-Mon3FoP.9.

Hamabe, Ryoji / Uchimoto, Kiyotaka / Kawahara, Tatsuya / Isahara, Hitoshi: "Detection of quotations and inserted clauses and its application to dependency structure analysis in spontaneous Japanese", paper 1151-Mon3FoP.10.

Tseng, Chun-Han / Chen, Chia-Ping: "Chinese input method based on reduced Mandarin phonetic alphabet", paper 1944-Mon3FoP.11.

Suzuki, Yoshimi / Fukumoto, Fumiyo: "Thesaurus expansion using similar word pairs from patent documents", paper 1920-Mon3FoP.12.

Schone, Patrick: "Low-resource autodiacritization of abjads for speech keyword search", paper 1412-Mon3FoP.13.

Hertz, Susan R.: "A model of the regularities underlying speaker variation: evidence from hybrid synthesis", paper 1286-Tue3A3O.1.

Speyer, Augustin: "Pauses as a tool to ensure rhythmic wellformedness", paper 1406-Tue3A3O.2.

Watanabe, Michiko / Den, Yasuharu / Hirose, Keikichi / Miwa, Shusaku / Minematsu, Nobuaki: "Factors affecting speakers² choice of fillers in Japanese presentations", paper 1498-Tue3A3O.3.

Davel, Marelie / Barnard, Etienne: "Developing consistent pronunciation models for phonemic variants", paper 1760-Tue3A3O.4.

Lee, Jinsik / Kim, Seungwon / Lee, Gary Geunbae: "Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion using automatically extracted associative rules for Korean TTS system", paper 1405-Tue3A3O.5.

Charoenpornsawat, Paisarn / Schultz, Tanja: "Example-based grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for Thai", paper 1782-Tue3A3O.6.

Speech Translation

Riesa, Jason / Mohit, Behrang / Knight, Kevin / Marcu, Daniel: "Building an English-iraqi Arabic machine translation system for spoken utterances with limited resources", paper 2012-Tue1A1O.1.

Maskey, Sameer / Zhou, Bowen / Gao, Yuqing: "A phrase-level machine translation approach for disfluency detection using weighted finite state transducers", paper 1886-Tue1A1O.2.

Lee, Jonghoon / Lee, Donghyeon / Lee, Gary Geunbae: "Improving phrase-based Korean-English statistical machine translation", paper 1371-Tue1A1O.3.

Stallard, David / Choi, Fred / Krstovski, Kriste / Natarajan, Prem / Prasad, Rohit / Saleem, Shirin: "A hybrid phrase-based/statistical speech translation system", paper 1732-Tue1A1O.4.

Wang, Chao / Seneff, Stephanie: "High-quality speech translation in the flight domain", paper 1135-Tue1A1O.5.

Hsiao, Roger / Venugopal, Ashish / Köhler, Thilo / Zhang, Ying / Charoenpornsawat, Paisarn / Zollmann, Andreas / Vogel, Stephan / Black, Alan W. / Schultz, Tanja / Waibel, Alex: "Optimizing components for handheld two-way speech translation for an English-iraqi Arabic system", paper 1712-Tue1A1O.6.

Acoustic Modeling II - Adaptation

Sehr, Armin / Zeller, Marcus / Kellermann, Walter: "Distant-talking continuous speech recognition based on a novel reverberation model in the feature domain", paper 1111-Tue1A2O.1.

Lei, Xin / Hamaker, Jon / He, Xiaodong: "Robust feature space adaptation for telephony speech recognition", paper 1743-Tue1A2O.2.

Thatphithakkul, Nattanun / Kruatrachue, Boontee / Wutiwiwatchai, Chai / Marukatat, Sanparith / Boonpiam, Vataya: "A simulated-data adaptation technique for robust speech recognition", paper 1157-Tue1A2O.3.

Hirsch, Hans-Günter / Finster, Harald: "A new HMM adaptation approach for the case of a hands-free speech input in reverberant rooms", paper 1175-Tue1A2O.4.

Tsao, Yu / Lee, Chin-Hui: "A vector space approach to environment modeling for robust speech recognition", paper 1617-Tue1A2O.5.

Chien, Jen-Tzung / Ting, Chuan-Wei: "Subspace modeling and selection for noisy speech recognition", paper 1333-Tue1A2O.6.

Emotional Speech and Speaker State

Schuller, Björn / Köhler, Niels / Müller, Ronald / Rigoll, Gerhard: "Recognition of interest in human conversational speech", paper 1621-Tue1A3O.1.

Ai, Hua / Litman, Diane J. / Forbes-Riley, Kate / Rotaru, Mihai / Tetreault, Joel / Purandare, Amruta: "Using system and user performance features to improve emotion detection in spoken tutoring dialogs", paper 1682-Tue1A3O.2.

Devillers, Laurence / Vidrascu, Laurence: "Real-life emotions detection with lexical and paralinguistic cues on human-human call center dialogs", paper 1636-Tue1A3O.3.

Wilting, Janneke / Krahmer, Emiel / Swerts, Marc: "Real vs. acted emotional speech", paper 1093-Tue1A3O.4.

Neiberg, Daniel / Elenius, Kjell / Laskowski, Kornel: "Emotion recognition in spontaneous speech using GMMs", paper 1581-Tue1A3O.5.

Enos, Frank / Benus, Stefan / Cautin, Robin L. / Graciarena, Martin / Hirschberg, Julia / Shriberg, Elizabeth: "Personality factors in human deception detection: comparing human to machine performance", paper 1664-Tue1A3O.6.

Speech and Language in Education

Cleuren, Leen / Duchateau, Jacques / Sips, Alain / Ghesquière, Pol / Hamme, Hugo Van: "Developing an automatic assessment tool for children²s oral reading", paper 1113-Tue1WeS.1.

Waple, Christopher / Tsubota, Yasushi / Dantsuji, Masatake / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "Prototyping a call system for students of Japanese using dynamic diagram generation and interactive hints", paper 1171-Tue1WeS.2.

Massaro, Dominic W. / Liu, Ying / Chen, Trevor H. / Perfetti, Charles: "A multilingual embodied conversational agent for tutoring speech and language learning", paper 1313-Tue1WeS.3.

Heilman, Michael / Collins-Thompson, Kevyn / Callan, Jamie / Eskenazi, Maxine: "Classroom success of an intelligent tutoring system for lexical practice and reading comprehension", paper 1325-Tue1WeS.4.

Petersen, Sarah E. / Ostendorf, Mari: "Assessing the reading level of web pages", paper 1610-Tue1WeS.5.

Mostow, Jack: "Is ASR accurate enough for automated reading tutors, and how can we tell?", paper 1796-Tue1WeS.6.

Tsurutani, Chiharu / Yamauchi, Yutaka / Minematsu, Nobuaki / Luo, Dean / Maruyama, Kazutaka / Hirose, Keikichi: "Development of a program for self assessment of Japanese pronunciation by English learners", paper 1805-Tue1WeS.7.

Tepperman, Joseph / Silva, Jorge / Kazemzadeh, Abe / You, Hong / Lee, Sungbok / Alwan, Abeer / Narayanan, Shrikanth: "Pronunciation verification of children²s speech for automatic literacy assessment", paper 1814-Tue1WeS.8.

Abdou, Sherif Mahdy / Hamid, Salah Eldeen / Rashwan, Mohsen / Samir, Abdurrahman / Abdel-Hamid, Ossama / Shahin, Mostafa / Nazih, Waleed: "Computer aided pronunciation learning system using speech recognition techniques", paper 1888-Tue1WeS.9.

Speech Perception I, II

Lobdell, Bryce / Allen, Jont B.: "An information theoretic tool for investigating speech perception", paper 1209-Tue1BuP.1.

Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart: "An adaptive sampling procedure for speech perception experiments", paper 1147-Tue1BuP.2.

Viswanathan, Navin / Magnuson, James S. / Fowler, Carol A.: "Disentangling gestural and auditory contrast accounts of compensation for coarticulation", paper 2045-Tue1BuP.3.

Yip, Michael C. W.: "The role of positional probability in the segmentation of Cantonese speech", paper 1034-Tue1BuP.4.

Haque, Shahina / Takara, Tomio: "Nasality perception of vowels in different language background", paper 1108-Tue1BuP.5.

Hodoshima, Nao / Behne, Dawn / Arai, Takayuki: "Steady-state suppression in reverberation: a comparison of native and nonnative speech perception", paper 1819-Tue1BuP.6.

Joto, Akiyo: "Effect of dynamic information of formants on discrimination of English vowels in consonantal contexts by Japanese listeners", paper 1926-Tue1BuP.7.

Wang, Yue / Behne, Dawn / Jiang, Haisheng / Danyluck, Chad: "Native and nonnative audio-visual perception of English fricatives in quiet and cafe-noise backgrounds", paper 1798-Tue1BuP.8.

Grawunder, Sven / Bose, Ines / Hertha, Birgit / Trauselt, Franziska / Anders, Lutz Christian: "Perceptive and acoustic measurement of average speaking pitch of female and male speakers in German radio news", paper 1966-Tue1BuP.9.

Assmann, Peter F. / Dembling, Sophia / Nearey, Terrance M.: "Effects of frequency shifts on perceived naturalness and gender information in speech", paper 1710-Tue1BuP.10.

Tohyama, Hitomi / Matsubara, Shigeki: "Influence of pause length on listeners² impressions in simultaneous interpretation", paper 1959-Tue1BuP.11.

Schwarz, Iris-Corinna / Burnham, Denis: "New measures to chart toddlers² speech perception and language development: a test of the lexical restructuring hypothesis", paper 1864-Tue1BuP.12.

Torre, Ángel de la / Roldán, Cristina / Sainz, Manuel: "Perception of fundamental frequency in cochlear implant patients", paper 1477-Tue1BuP.13.

Creel, Sarah C. / Dahan, Delphine / Swingley, Daniel: "Effects of featural similarity and overlap position on lexical confusions and overt similarity judgments", paper 1298-Wed1A3O.1.

Mixdorff, Hansjörg / Hu, Yu: "Word structure and tone perception in Mandarin", paper 1609-Wed1A3O.2.

Woehrling, Cecile / Boula de Mareüil, Philippe: "Identification of regional accents in French: perception and categorization", paper 1261-Wed1A3O.3.

Phatak, Sandeep / Allen, Jont B.: "Consonant and vowel confusions in speech-weighted noise", paper 1061-Wed1A3O.4.

Broersma, Mirjam: "Accident - execute: increased activation in nonnative listening", paper 1511-Wed1A3O.5.

Scholz, Kirstin / Waltermann, Marcel / Huo, Lu / Raake, Alexander / Möller, Sebastian / Heute, Ulrich: "Estimation of the quality dimension "directness/frequency content" for the instrumental assessment of speech quality", paper 1219-Wed1A3O.6.

Speech Production, Physiology, and Pathology I, II

Pluymaekers, Mark / Ernestus, Mirjam / Baayen, R. Harald: "Effects of word frequency on the acoustic durations of affixes", paper 1241-Tue1FoP.1.

Niu, Xiaochuan / Kain, Alexander B. / Santen, Jan P. H. van: "A noninvasive, low-cost device to study the velopharyngeal port during speech and some preliminary results", paper 1829-Tue1FoP.2.

Aboutabit, Noureddine / Beautemps, Denis / Besacier, Laurent: "Characterization of cued speech vowels from the inner lip contour", paper 1515-Tue1FoP.3.

Gobl, Christer: "Modelling aspiration noise during phonation using the LF voice source model", paper 1718-Tue1FoP.4.

Wei, Jianguo / Lu, Xugang / Dang, Jianwu: "A simulation based parameter optimization for a coarticulation model", paper 1772-Tue1FoP.5.

Kacha, A. / Grenez, Francis / Schoentgen, Jean: "Multivariate analysis of frame-based acoustic cues of dysperiodicities in connected speech", paper 1388-Tue1FoP.6.

Kovacs, Tom / Finan, Donald S.: "Effects of midline tongue piercing on spectral centroid frequencies of sibilants", paper 1310-Tue1FoP.7.

Vijayalakshmi, P. / Reddy, M. R. / O’Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Assessment of articulatory sub-systems of dysarthric speech using an isolated-style phoneme recognition system", paper 1281-Tue1FoP.8.

Finan, Donald S. / Boliek, Carol A.: "Respiratory/laryngeal interactions during sustained vowel production in children", paper 1833-Tue1FoP.9.

Bunnell, H. Timothy / Polikoff, James B.: "Acoustic characterization of children with speech delay", paper 2057-Tue1FoP.10.

Saz, Oscar / Miguel, Antonio / Lleida, Eduardo / Ortega, Alfonso / Buera, Luis: "Study of time and frequency variability in pathological speech and error reduction methods for automatic speech recognition", paper 1266-Tue1FoP.11.

Iseli, Markus / Shue, Yen-Liang / Epstein, Melissa A. / Keating, Patricia / Kreiman, Jody / Alwan, Abeer: "Voice source correlates of prosodic features in american English: a pilot study", paper 1933-Thu1A3O.1.

Bosch, Louis ten / Baayen, R. Harald / Ernestus, Mirjam: "On speech variation and word type differentiation by articulatory feature representations", paper 1923-Thu1A3O.2.

Lee, Sungbok / Bresch, Erik / Adams, Jason / Kazemzadeh, Abe / Narayanan, Shrikanth: "A study of emotional speech articulation using a fast magnetic resonance imaging technique", paper 1792-Thu1A3O.3.

Kjellström, Hedvig / Engwall, Olov / Bälter, Olle: "Reconstructing tongue movements from audio and video", paper 1071-Thu1A3O.4.

Feng, Gang / Kotenkoff, Cyril: "New considerations for vowel nasalization based on separate mouth-nose recording", paper 1096-Thu1A3O.5.

Garnier, Maeva / Bailly, Lucie / Dohen, Marion / Welby, Pauline / Loevenbruck, Helene: "An acoustic and articulatory study of Lombard speech: global effects on the utterance", paper 1862-Thu1A3O.6.

Formant Estimation

Cnockaert, Laurence / Schoentgen, Jean / Auzou, Pascal / Ozsancak, Canan / Grenez, Francis: "Tracking of involuntary formant frequency variations and application to parkinsonian speech", paper 1043-Tue2A1O.1.

Weruaga, Luis / Al-Khayat, Amar: "All-pole model estimation of vocal tract on the frequency domain", paper 1188-Tue2A1O.2.

Darch, Jonathan / Milner, Ben: "HMM-based MAP prediction of voiced and unvoiced formant frequencies from noisy MFCC vectors", paper 1540-Tue2A1O.3.

Anand, Joseph M. / Guruprasad, S. / Yegnanarayana, B.: "Extracting formants from short segments of speech using group delay functions", paper 1848-Tue2A1O.4.

Özbek, I. Yücel / Demirekler, Mübeccel: "Tracking of visible vocal tract resonances (VVTR) based on kalman filtering", paper 2029-Tue2A1O.5.

Chaari, Salma / Ouni, Kais / Ellouze, Noureddine: "Wavelet ridge track interpretation in terms of formants", paper 2030-Tue2A1O.6.

Language Processing Beyond and Below the Word-Level

Kurimo, Mikko / Creutz, Mathias / Varjokallio, Matti / Arsoy, Ebru / Saraclar, Murat: "Unsupervised segmentation of words into morphemes - morpho challenge 2005 application to automatic speech recognition", paper 1512-Tue2A2O.1.

Arsoy, Ebru / Saraclar, Murat: "Lattice extension and rescoring based approaches for LVCSR of Turkish", paper 1622-Tue2A2O.2.

Kobus, Catherine / Damnati, Geraldine / Delphin-Poulat, Lionel / Mori, Renato De: "Exploiting semantic relations for a spoken language understanding application", paper 1269-Tue2A2O.3.

Akita, Yuya / Saikou, Masahiro / Nanjo, Hiroaki / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "Sentence boundary detection of spontaneous Japanese using statistical language model and support vector machines", paper 1370-Tue2A2O.4.

Virpioja, Sami / Kurimo, Mikko: "Compact n-gram models by incremental growing and clustering of histories", paper 1231-Tue2A2O.5.

Camelin, Nathalie / Damnati, Geraldine / Bechet, Frederic / Mori, Renato De: "Opinion mining in a telephone survey corpus", paper 1417-Tue2A2O.6.

Robustness and Adaptation for ASR

Peinado, Antonio M. / Gómez, Angel M. / Sánchez, Victoria / Pérez-Córdoba, José L. / Rubio, Antonio J.: "An integrated solution for error concealment in DSR systems over wireless channels", paper 1273-Tue2BuP.1.

Gómez, Angel M. / Peinado, Antonio M. / Sánchez, Victoria / Carmona, José L. / Rubio, Antonio J.: "Interleaving and MMSE estimation with VQ replicas for distributed speech recognition over lossy packet networks", paper 1279-Tue2BuP.2.

Chen, Gang / Tolba, Hesham / O’Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Noise-robust speech recognition of conversational telephone speech", paper 1304-Tue2BuP.3.

Kuroiwa, Shingo / Tsuge, Satoru / Ren, Fuji: "Lost speech reconstruction method using speech recognition based on missing feature theory and HMM-based speech synthesis", paper 1347-Tue2BuP.4.

Selouani, Sid-Ahmed / O’Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Speaker adaptation using evolutionary-based linear transform", paper 1368-Tue2BuP.5.

Wang, Jingying / Wang, Zuoying: "A speaker adaptation algorithm using principal curves in noisy environments", paper 1374-Tue2BuP.6.

Clarke, Constance / Jurafsky, Daniel: "Limitations of MLLR adaptation with Spanish-accented English: an error analysis", paper 1611-Tue2BuP.7.

Liao, H. / Gales, M. J. F.: "Issues with uncertainty decoding for noise robust speech recognition", paper 1627-Tue2BuP.8.

Xu, Haitian / Rigazio, Luca / Kryze, David: "Vector taylor series based joint uncertainty decoding", paper 1688-Tue2BuP.9.

Huo, Qiang / Zhu, Donglai: "A maximum likelihood training approach to irrelevant variability compensation based on piecewise linear transformations", paper 1740-Tue2BuP.10.

Mandal, Arindam / Ostendorf, Mari / Stolcke, Andreas: "Speaker clustered regression-class trees for MLLR adaptation", paper 1763-Tue2BuP.11.

Tan, Zheng-Hua / Dalsgaard, Paul / Lindberg, Børge: "Robust speech recognition over mobile networks using combined weighted viterbi decoding and subvector based error concealment", paper 1825-Tue2BuP.12.

Zen, Heiga / Nankaku, Yoshihiko / Tokuda, Keiichi / Kitamura, Tadashi: "Speaker adaptation of trajectory HMMs using feature-space MLLR", paper 1958-Tue2BuP.13.

Povey, Daniel / Saon, George: "Feature and model space speaker adaptation with full covariance Gaussians", paper 2050-Tue2BuP.14.

Multimodal, Translation and Information Retrieval

Gispert, Adrià de / Mariño, José B.: "Linguistic tuple segmentation in n-gram-based statistical machine translation", paper 1049-Tue2CaP.1.

Oba, Takanobu / Hori, Takaaki / Nakamura, Atsushi: "Sentence boundary detection using sequential dependency analysis combined with CRF-based chunking", paper 1657-Tue2CaP.2.

Bangalore, Srinivas / Haffner, Patrick / Kanthak, Stephan: "Sequence classification for machine translation", paper 1722-Tue2CaP.3.

Itoh, Yoshiaki / Otake, Takayuki / Iwata, Kohei / Kojima, Kazunori / Ishigame, Masaaki / Tanaka, Kazuyo / Lee, Shi-wook: "Two-stage vocabulary-free spoken document retrieval - subword identification and re-recognition of the identified sections", paper 1865-Tue2CaP.4.

Surdeanu, Mihai / Dominguez-Sal, David / Comas, Pere R.: "Design and performance analysis of a factoid question answering system for spontaneous speech transcriptions", paper 1046-Tue2CaP.5.

Takezawa, Toshiyuki / Shimizu, Tohru: "Performance improvement of dialog speech translation by rejecting unreliable utterances", paper 1100-Tue2CaP.6.

Ettelaie, Emil / Georgiou, Panayiotis G. / Narayanan, Shrikanth: "Cross-lingual dialog model for speech to speech translation", paper 1858-Tue2CaP.7.

Akbacak, Murat / Hansen, John H. L.: "A robust fusion method for multilingual spoken document retrieval systems employing tiered resources", paper 1835-Tue2CaP.8.

Zhu, Weizhong / Zhou, Bowen / Prosser, Charles / Krbec, Pavel / Gao, Yuqing: "Recent advances of IBM’s handheld speech translation system", paper 1590-Tue2CaP.9.

Stenchikova, Svetlana / Hakkani-Tür, Dilek / Tur, Gokhan: "QASR: question answering using semantic roles for speech interface", paper 2054-Tue2CaP.10.

Maas, Jan F. / Wrede, Britta / Sagerer, Gerhard: "Towards a multimodal topic tracking system for a mobile robot", paper 1121-Tue2CaP.11.

Kaiser, Edward C. / Barthelmess, Paulo: "Edge-splitting in a cumulative multimodal system, for a no-wait temporal threshold on information fusion, combined with an under-specified display", paper 2016-Tue2CaP.12.

Hui, Pui-Yu / Meng, Helen M.: "Joint interpretation of input speech and pen gestures for multimodal human-computer interaction", paper 1834-Tue2CaP.13.

Advances in Acoustic Segmentation

Cournapeau, David / Kawahara, Tatsuya / Mase, Kenji / Toriyama, Tomoji: "Voice activity detector based on enhanced cumulant of LPC residual and on-line EM algorithm", paper 1375-Tue3A1O.1.

Huggins-Daines, David / Rudnicky, Alexander I.: "A constrained baum-welch algorithm for improved phoneme segmentation and efficient training", paper 1580-Tue3A1O.2.

Valente, Fabio: "Infinite models for speaker clustering", paper 1329-Tue3A1O.3.

Dines, John / Vepa, Jithendra / Hain, Thomas: "The segmentation of multi-channel meeting recordings for automatic speech recognition", paper 1548-Tue3A1O.4.

Kuo, Jen-Wei / Wang, Hsin-Min: "Minimum boundary error training for automatic phonetic segmentation", paper 1497-Tue3A1O.5.

Schuler, William / Miller, Tim / Wu, Stephen / Exley, Andrew: "Dynamic evidence models in a DBN phone recognizer", paper 1770-Tue3A1O.6.

Acoustic Modeling III - LVCSR

Ramabhadran, B. / Siohan, Olivier / Mangu, L. / Zweig, G. / Westphal, M. / Schulz, H. / Soneiro, A.: "The IBM 2006 speech transcription system for european parliamentary speeches", paper 2027-Tue3A2O.1.

Fügen, Christian / Wölfel, Matthias / McDonough, John W. / Ikbal, Shajith / Kraft, Florian / Laskowski, Kornel / Ostendorf, Mari / Stüker, Sebastian / Kumatani, Kenichi: "Advances in lecture recognition: the ISL RT-06s evaluation system", paper 1415-Tue3A2O.2.

Hwang, Mei-Yuh / Lei, Xin / Wang, Wen / Shinozaki, Takahiro: "Investigation on Mandarin broadcast news speech recognition", paper 1916-Tue3A2O.3.

Lei, Xin / Siu, Manhung / Hwang, Mei-Yuh / Ostendorf, Mari / Lee, Tan: "Improved tone modeling for Mandarin broadcast news speech recognition", paper 1752-Tue3A2O.4.

Huang, Jui-Ting / Lee, Lin-shan: "Prosodic modeling in large vocabulary Mandarin speech recognition", paper 1546-Tue3A2O.5.

Sun, Ying / Willett, Daniel / Brueckner, Raymond / Gruhn, Rainer / Bühler, Dirk: "Experiments on Chinese speech recognition with tonal models and pitch estimation using the Mandarin speecon data", paper 1452-Tue3A2O.6.

Speech and Visual Processing

Beskow, Jonas / Granström, Björn / House, David: "Visual correlates to prominence in several expressive modes", paper 1922-Tue3WeO.1.

Barkhuysen, Pashiera / Krahmer, Emiel / Swerts, Marc: "How auditory and visual prosody is used in end-of-utterance detection", paper 1238-Tue3WeO.2.

Swerts, Marc / Krahmer, Emiel: "The importance of different facial areas for signalling visual prominence", paper 1289-Tue3WeO.3.

Chaloupka, Josef: "Visual speech segmentation and speaker recognition for transcription of TV news", paper 1485-Tue3WeO.4.

Cortés, G. / García, L. / Benítez, Carmen / Segura, José C.: "HMM-based continuous sign language recognition using a fast optical flow parameterization of visual information", paper 1543-Tue3WeO.5.

Shao, Xu / Barker, Jon: "Audio-visual speech recognition in the presence of a competing speaker", paper 1589-Tue3WeO.6.

Text-to-Speech I, II

Strom, Volker / Clark, Robert A. J. / King, Simon: "Expressive prosody for unit-selection speech synthesis", paper 1522-Tue3BuP.1.

Carlson, Rolf / Gustafson, Kjell / Strangert, Eva: "Cues for hesitation in speech synthesis", paper 1516-Tue3BuP.2.

Alías, Francesc / Socoró, Joan Claudi / Sevillano, Xavier / Iriondo, Ignasi / Gonzalvo, Xavier: "Multi-domain text-to-speech synthesis by automatic text classification", paper 1579-Tue3BuP.3.

Yi, Lifu / Li, Jian / Lou, Xiaoyan / Hao, Jie: "Phrase break prediction using logistic generalized linear model", paper 1468-Tue3BuP.4.

Clark, Robert A. J. / King, Simon: "Joint prosodic and segmental unit selection speech synthesis", paper 1262-Tue3BuP.5.

Kim, Yeon-Jun / Syrdal, Ann K. / Conkie, Alistair / Beutnagel, Mark C.: "Phonetically enriched labeling in unit selection TTS synthesis", paper 2055-Tue3BuP.6.

Bellegarda, Jerome R.: "Further developments in LSM-based boundary training for unit selection TTS", paper 1142-Tue3BuP.7.

Nose, Takashi / Yamagishi, Junichi / Kobayashi, Takao: "A style control technique for speech synthesis using multiple regression HSMM", paper 1184-Tue3BuP.8.

Ogata, Katsumi / Tachibana, Makoto / Yamagishi, Junichi / Kobayashi, Takao: "Acoustic model training based on linear transformation and MAP modification for HSMM-based speech synthesis", paper 1787-Tue3BuP.9.

Abdel-Hamid, Ossama / Abdou, Sherif Mahdy / Rashwan, Mohsen: "Improving Arabic HMM based speech synthesis quality", paper 1693-Tue3BuP.10.

Homayounpour, M. Mehdi / Namnabat, Majid: "Farsbayan: a unit selection based Farsi speech synthesizer", paper 1997-Tue3BuP.11.

Anberbir, Tadesse / Takara, Tomio: "Amharic speech synthesis using cepstral method with stress generation rule", paper 1107-Tue3BuP.12.

Thangthai, Ausdang / Hansakunbuntheung, Chatchawarn / Siricharoenchai, Rungkarn / Wutiwiwatchai, Chai: "Automatic syllable-pattern induction in statistical Thai text-to-phone transcription", paper 1964-Tue3BuP.13.

Oosthuizen, H. J. / Phihlela, S. T. / Manamela, M. J. D.: "Development of prototype text-to-speech systems for northern sotho", paper 1070-Tue3BuP.14.

You, Jiali / Chen, Yining / Chu, Min / Zhao, Yong / Wang, Jinlin: "Identify language origin of personal names with normalized appearance number of web pages", paper 1353-Tue3BuP.15.

Weiss, Christian / Hess, Wolfgang: "Conditional random fields for hierarchical segment selection in text-to-speech synthesis", paper 1090-Wed3BuP.1.

Krul, Aleksandra / Damnati, Géraldine / Yvon, François / Moudenc, Thierry: "Corpus design based on the kullback-leibler divergence for text-to-speech synthesis application", paper 1647-Wed3BuP.2.

Ling, Zhen-Hua / Wang, Ren-Hua: "HMM-based unit selection using frame sized speech segments", paper 1104-Wed3BuP.3.

Taylor, Paul: "The target cost formulation in unit selection speech synthesis", paper 1455-Wed3BuP.4.

Tihelka, Daniel / Matousek, Jindrich: "Unit selection and its relation to symbolic prosody: a new approach", paper 1618-Wed3BuP.5.

Wu, Yi-Jian / Guo, Wu / Wang, Ren-Hua: "Minimum generation error criterion for tree-based clustering of context dependent HMMs", paper 1373-Wed3BuP.6.

Kang, Heng / Liu, Wenju: "Selective-LPC based representation of STRAIGHT spectrum and its applications in spectral smoothing", paper 1109-Wed3BuP.7.

Jilka, Matthias / Möbius, Bernd: "Towards a comprehensive investigation of factors relevant to peak alignment using a unit selection corpus", paper 1565-Wed3BuP.8.

Utama, Robert J. / Syrdal, Ann K. / Conkie, Alistair: "Six approaches to limited domain concatenative speech synthesis", paper 1047-Wed3BuP.9.

Fischer, V. / Kunzmann, S.: "From pre-recorded prompts to corporate voices: on the migration of interactive voice response applications", paper 1042-Wed3BuP.10.

Park, Seung Seop / Shin, Jong Won / Kim, Nam Soo: "Automatic speech segmentation with multiple statistical models", paper 1199-Wed3BuP.11.

Pärssinen, Kimmo / Moberg, Marko: "Evaluation of perceptual quality of control point reduction in rule-based synthesis", paper 1178-Wed3BuP.12.

Coorman, Geert: "Segment connection networks for corpus-based speech synthesis", paper 1962-Wed3BuP.13.

Special Populations - Learners, Aged, Challenged

Tsuji, Ryo / Kasami, Tomohiko / Ishikawa, Shogo / Kiriyama, Shinya / Takebayashi, Yoichi / Kitazawa, Shigeyoshi: "Observations of the spoken language acquisition process based on a multimodal infant behavior corpus", paper 1953-Tue3CaP.1.

Marklund, Ellen / Lacerda, Francisco: "Infants² ability to extract verbs from continuous speech", paper 1986-Tue3CaP.2.

Bion, Ricardo A.H. / Escudero, Paola / Rauber, Andréia S. / Baptista, Barbara O.: "Category formation and the role of spectral quality in the perception and production of English front vowels", paper 1270-Tue3CaP.3.

Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka / Dodane, Christelle / Metta, Sabine / Gérard, Claire: "Productions in bilinguism, early foreign language learning and monolinguism: a prosodic comparison", paper 1582-Tue3CaP.4.

Hirata, Yukari / Whitehurst, Elizabeth / Cullings, Emily / Whiton, Jacob / Glenn, Carol: "Training native English speakers to identify Japanese vowel length with fast rate sentences", paper 1395-Tue3CaP.5.

Chen, Jiang-Chun / Hsu, Wei-Tang / Jang, J.-S. Roger / Lyu, Ren-Yuan / Chiang, Yuang-Chin: "Formant-based English vowel assessment for Chinese in Taiwan", paper 1968-Tue3CaP.6.

Metzner, Jörg / Schmittfull, Marcel / Schnell, Karl: "Substitute sounds for ventriloquism and speech disorders", paper 1426-Tue3CaP.7.

Wei, Si / Liu, Qing-Sheng / Hu, Yu / Wang, Ren-Hua: "Automatic Mandarin pronunciation scoring for native learners with dialect accent", paper 1669-Tue3CaP.8.

Fujita, Kengo / Kato, Tsuneo / Kawai, Hisashi: "Quick individual fitting methods of simplified hearing compensation for elderly people", paper 1879-Tue3CaP.9.

Li, Xiao / Malkin, Jonathan / Harada, Susumu / Bilmes, Jeff A. / Wright, Richard / Landay, James: "An online adaptive filtering algorithm for the vocal joystick", paper 1872-Tue3CaP.10.

Nakamura, Keigo / Toda, Tomoki / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Speaking aid system for total laryngectomees using voice conversion of body transmitted artificial speech", paper 1839-Tue3CaP.11.

San-Segundo, R. / Barra, R. / D’Haro, L. F. / Montero, J. M. / Córdoba, R. / Ferreiros, J.: "A Spanish speech to sign language translation system for assisting deaf-mute people", paper 1243-Tue3CaP.12.

Klintfors, Eeva / Lacerda, Francisco: "Potential relevance of audio-visual integration in mammals for computational modeling", paper 1992-Tue3CaP.13.

Rytting, C. Anton: "Finding the gaps: applying a connectionist model of word segmentation to noisy phone-recognized speech data", paper 2062-Tue3CaP.14.

Robust ASR

Wang, Shizhen / Cui, Xiaodong / Alwan, Abeer: "Rapid speaker adaptation using regression-tree based spectral peak alignment", paper 1334-Wed1A2O.1.

Kim, Chanwoo / Chiu, Yu-Hsiang / Stern, Richard M.: "Physiologically-motivated synchrony-based processing for robust automatic speech recognition", paper 1975-Wed1A2O.2.

Walliczek, Matthias / Kraft, Florian / Jou, Szu-Chen / Schultz, Tanja / Waibel, Alex: "Sub-word unit based non-audible speech recognition using surface electromyography", paper 1596-Wed1A2O.3.

Vicente-Peña, Jesús / Díaz-de-María, Fernando / Kleijn, Bastiaan: "Individual on-line variance adaptation of frequency filtered parameters for robust ASR", paper 1221-Wed1A2O.4.

Zhang, Bing / Matsoukas, Spyros / Schwartz, Richard: "Recent progress on the discriminative region-dependent transform for speech feature extraction", paper 1573-Wed1A2O.5.

Rademacher, Jan / Wächter, Matthias / Mertins, Alfred: "Improved warping-invariant features for automatic speech recognition", paper 1216-Wed1A2O.6.

Speech Summarization

Nenkova, Ani: "Summarization evaluation for text and speech: issues and approaches", paper 2079-Wed1WeS.1.

Zhu, Xiaodan / Penn, Gerald: "Summarization of spontaneous conversations", paper 1899-Wed1WeS.2.

Chatain, Pierre / Whittaker, Edward / Mrozinski, Joanna / Furui, Sadaoki: "Perplexity based linguistic model adaptation for speech summarisation", paper 1677-Wed1WeS.3.

Lee, Lin-shan / Kong, Sheng-yi / Pan, Yi-cheng / Fu, Yi-sheng / Huang, Yu-tsun: "Multi-layered summarization of spoken document archives by information extraction and semantic structuring", paper 1568-Wed1WeS.4.

Maskey, Sameer / Hirschberg, Julia: "Soundbite detection in broadcast news domain", paper 1690-Wed1WeS.5.

Murray, Gabriel / Renals, Steve: "Dialogue act compression via pitch contour preservation", paper 1585-Wed1WeS.6.

Acoustic Modeling IV

Kubo, Toshiaki / Ogawa, Tetsuji / Kobayashi, Tetsunori: "Manifold HLDA and its application to robust speech recognition", paper 1949-Wed1BuP.1.

Buera, Luis / Lleida, Eduardo / Nolazco-Flores, Juan A. / Miguel, Antonio / Ortega, Alfonso: "Time-dependent cross-probability model for multi-environment model based LInear normalization", paper 1271-Wed1BuP.2.

Povey, Daniel: "SPAM and full covariance for speech recognition", paper 2047-Wed1BuP.3.

Sakti, Sakriani / Markov, Konstantin / Nakamura, Satoshi: "The use of Bayesian network for incorporating accent, gender and wide-context dependency information", paper 1812-Wed1BuP.4.

Wang, Yu / Fosler-Lussier, Eric: "Integrating phonetic boundary discrimination explicitly into HMM systems", paper 1820-Wed1BuP.5.

Xie, Zhimin / Niyogi, Partha: "Robust acoustic-based syllable detection", paper 1327-Wed1BuP.6.

He, Lei / Hao, Jie: "A tone recognition framework for continuous Mandarin speech", paper 1348-Wed1BuP.7.

Hämäläinen, Annika / Bosch, Louis ten / Boves, Lou: "Pronunciation variant-based multi-path HMMs for syllables", paper 1630-Wed1BuP.8.

Park, Junho / Ko, Hanseok: "A new state-dependent phonetic tied-mixture model with head-body-tail structured HMM for real-time continuous phoneme recognition system", paper 1982-Wed1BuP.9.

Zgank, Andrej / Kacic, Zdravko: "Conversion from phoneme based to grapheme based acoustic models for speech recognition", paper 1500-Wed1BuP.10.

Kim, Bong-Wan / Choi, Dae-Lim / Um, Yongnam / Lee, Yong-Ju: "Phone vector DHMM to decode a phone recognizer's output", paper 1903-Wed1BuP.11.

Nagarajan, T. / Vijayalakshmi, P. / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Combining multiple-sized sub-word units in a speech recognition system using baseform selection", paper 1280-Wed1BuP.12.

Miguel, Antonio / Lleida, Eduardo / Juan, Alfons / Buera, Luis / Ortega, Alfonso / Saz, Oscar: "Local transformation models for speech recognition", paper 1275-Wed1BuP.13.

Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition

Imai, Toru / Sato, Shoei / Kobayashi, Akio / Onoe, Kazuo / Homma, Shinichi: "Online speech detection and dual-gender speech recognition for captioning broadcast news", paper 1103-Wed1CaP.1.

Hazen, Timothy J.: "Automatic alignment and error correction of human generated transcripts for long speech recordings", paper 1258-Wed1CaP.2.

Chang, Shuangyu: "Improving speech recognition accuracy with multi-confidence thresholding", paper 1346-Wed1CaP.3.

Servan, Christophe / Raymond, Christian / Béchet, Frédéric / Nocéra, Pascal: "Conceptual decoding from word lattices: application to the spoken dialogue corpus MEDIA", paper 1416-Wed1CaP.4.

Huang, Shilei / Xie, Xiang / Kuang, Jingming: "Improving the performance of out-of-vocabulary word rejection by using support vector machines", paper 1535-Wed1CaP.5.

Demuynck, Kris / Compernolle, Dirk Van / Hamme, Hugo Van: "Robust phone lattice decoding", paper 1631-Wed1CaP.6.

Lecouteux, Benjamin / Linarès, Georges / Nocéra, Pascal / Bonastre, Jean-François: "Imperfect transcript driven speech recognition", paper 1660-Wed1CaP.7.

Xue, Jian / Hu, Rusheng / Zhao, Yunxin: "New improvements in decoding speed and latency for automatic captioning", paper 1739-Wed1CaP.8.

Saleem, Shirin / Prasad, Rohit / Natarajan, Prem: "Colloquial Iraqi ASR for speech translation", paper 1771-Wed1CaP.9.

Hakamata, Tomohiro / Lee, Akinobu / Nankaku, Yoshihiko / Tokuda, Keiichi: "Reducing computation on parallel decoding using frame-wise confidence scores", paper 1878-Wed1CaP.10.

Ketabdar, Hamed / Vepa, Jithendra / Bengio, Samy / Bourlard, Hervé: "Posterior based keyword spotting with a priori thresholds", paper 1939-Wed1CaP.11.

Zhou, Zhengyu / Meng, Helen M. / Lo, Wai Kit: "A multi-pass error detection and correction framework for Mandarin LVCSR", paper 1947-Wed1CaP.12.

Nouza, Jan / Zdansky, Jindrich / Cerva, Petr / Kolorenc, Jan: "Continual on-line monitoring of Czech spoken broadcast programs", paper 1478-Wed1CaP.13.

Speech/Noise/Music Segmentation

Zhang, Shilei / Jiang, Hongchen / Zhang, Shuwu / Xu, Bo: "Fast SVM training based on the choice of effective samples for audio classification", paper 1073-Wed1FoP.1.

Schmalenstroeer, Joerg / Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold: "Online speaker change detection by combining BIC with microphone array beamforming", paper 1078-Wed1FoP.2.

Ramírez, Javier / Yélamos, Pablo / Górriz, J. M. / Segura, José C. / García, L.: "Speech/non-speech discrimination combining advanced feature extraction and SVM learning", paper 1134-Wed1FoP.3.

Jarifi, Safaa / Pastor, Dominique / Rosec, Olivier: "Cooperation between global and local methods for the automatic segmentation of speech synthesis corpora", paper 1160-Wed1FoP.4.

Heckmann, Martin / Moebus, Marco / Joublin, Frank / Goerick, Christian: "Speaker independent voiced-unvoiced detection evaluated in different speaking styles", paper 1249-Wed1FoP.5.

Anguera, Xavier / Wooters, Chuck / Pardo, Jose M.: "Robust speaker diarization for meetings: ICSI RT06s evaluation system", paper 1716-Wed1FoP.6.

Coy, André / Barker, Jon: "A multipitch tracker for monaural speech segmentation", paper 1979-Wed1FoP.7.

Chitturi, Rahul / Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark: "Novel entropy based moving average refiners for HMM landmarks", paper 1911-Wed1FoP.8.

Kim, Gibak / Cho, Nam Ik: "Two-microphone voice activity detection in the presence of coherent interference", paper 1917-Wed1FoP.9.

Myrvoll, Tor André / Matsui, Tomoko: "On a greedy learning algorithm for dPLRM with applications to phonetic feature detection", paper 2063-Wed1FoP.10.

Pitch Estimation

Moore II, Elliot / Torres, Juan: "Improving glottal waveform estimation through rank-based glottal quality assessment", paper 1296-Wed2A1O.1.

Alías, Francesc / Monzo, Carlos / Socoró, Joan Claudi: "A pitch marks filtering algorithm based on restricted dynamic programming", paper 1625-Wed2A1O.2.

Malyska, Nicolas / Quatieri, Thomas F.: "Analysis of nonmodal phonation using minimum entropy deconvolution", paper 1807-Wed2A1O.3.

Nakano, Tomoyasu / Goto, Masataka / Hiraga, Yuzuru: "An automatic singing skill evaluation method for unknown melodies using pitch interval accuracy and vibrato features", paper 1854-Wed2A1O.4.

Zahorian, Stephen A. / Dikshit, Princy / Hu, Hongbing: "A spectral-temporal method for pitch tracking", paper 1910-Wed2A1O.5.

Rahman, M. Shahidur / Tanaka, Hirobumi / Shimamura, Tetsuya: "Pitch determination using aligned AMDF", paper 1960-Wed2A1O.6.

Acoustic Modeling V - Novel Approaches

Han, Yan / Boves, Lou: "Syllable-length path mixture hidden Markov models with trajectory clustering for continuous speech recognition", paper 1460-Wed2A2O.1.

Cincarek, Tobias / Toda, Tomoki / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Acoustic modeling for spoken dialogue systems based on unsupervised utterance-based selective training", paper 1481-Wed2A2O.2.

Lévy, Christophe / Linarès, Georges / Bonastre, Jean-François: "GMM-based acoustic modeling for embedded speech recognition", paper 1255-Wed2A2O.3.

Wachter, Mathias De / Demuynck, Kris / Compernolle, Dirk Van: "Boosting HMM performance with a memory upgrade", paper 1126-Wed2A2O.4.

Deng, Y. / Li, X. / Kwan, C. / Xu, R. / Raj, B. / Stern, Richard M. / Williamson, D.: "An integrated approach to improve speech recognition rate for non-native speakers", paper 1472-Wed2A2O.5.

Hu, Rusheng / Zhao, Yunxin: "Bayesian decision tree state tying for conversational speech recognition", paper 1263-Wed2A2O.6.

Corpus-Based Synthesis

Kirkpatrick, Barry / O’Brien, Darragh / Scaife, Ronán: "Feature extraction for spectral continuity measures in concatenative speech synthesis", paper 1385-Wed2A3O.1.

Sakai, Shinsuke / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "Decision tree-based training of probabilistic concatenation models for corpus-based speech synthesis", paper 1564-Wed2A3O.2.

Zhao, Yong / Peng, Di / Wang, Lijuan / Chu, Min / Chen, Yining / Yu, Peng / Guo, Jun: "Constructing stylistic synthesis databases from audio books", paper 1559-Wed2A3O.3.

Conkie, Alistair / Syrdal, Ann K.: "Expanding phonetic coverage in unit selection synthesis through unit substitution from a donor voice", paper 2001-Wed2A3O.4.

Taylor, Paul: "Unifying unit selection and hidden Markov model speech synthesis", paper 1456-Wed2A3O.5.

Black, Alan W.: "CLUSTERGEN: a statistical parametric synthesizer using trajectory modeling", paper 1394-Wed2A3O.6.

Spoken Dialog Technology R&D

Rieser, Verena / Lemon, Oliver: "Cluster-based user simulations for learning dialogue strategies", paper 1127-Wed2WeS.1.

Lewis, Charles / Fabbrizio, Giuseppe Di: "Prompt selection with reinforcement learning in an AT&t call routing application", paper 1744-Wed2WeS.2.

Goronzy, Silke / Mochales, Raquel / Beringer, Nicole: "Developing speech dialogs for multimodal HMIs using finite state machines", paper 1544-Wed2WeS.3.

Pfleger, Norbert / Schehl, Jan: "Development of advanced dialog systems with PATE", paper 1598-Wed2WeS.4.

Subramanian, Rajah Annamalai / Cohen, Philip: "A joint intention-based dialogue engine", paper 1843-Wed2WeS.5.

Möller, Sebastian / Englert, Roman / Engelbrecht, Klaus / Hafner, Verena / Jameson, Anthony / Oulasvirta, Antti / Raake, Alexander / Reithinger, Norbert: "Memo: towards automatic usability evaluation of spoken dialogue services by user error simulations", paper 1131-Wed2WeS.6.

Modeling Speaker Emotional State

Matthews, Brett / Bakis, Raimo / Eide, Ellen: "Synthesizing breathiness in natural speech with sinusoidal modelling", paper 1087-Wed2BuP.1.

Nicolao, Mauro / Drioli, Carlo / Cosi, Piero: "Voice GMM modelling for FESTIVAL/MBROLA emotive TTS synthesis", paper 1597-Wed2BuP.2.

Cabral, João P. / Oliveira, Luís C.: "Emovoice: a system to generate emotions in speech", paper 1645-Wed2BuP.3.

Wu, Zhiyong / Zhang, Shen / Cai, Lianhong / Meng, Helen M.: "Real-time synthesis of Chinese visual speech and facial expressions using MPEG-4 FAP features in a three-dimensional avatar", paper 1823-Wed2BuP.4.

Yang, Hongwu / Meng, Helen M. / Cai, Lianhong: "Modeling the acoustic correlates of expressive elements in text genres for expressive text-to-speech synthesis", paper 1935-Wed2BuP.5.

Zhang, Sheng / Ching, P. C. / Kong, Fanrang: "Automatic emotion recognition of speech signal in Mandarin", paper 1128-Wed2BuP.6.

Kao, Yi-hao / Lee, Lin-shan: "Feature analysis for emotion recognition from Mandarin speech considering the special characteristics of Chinese language", paper 1504-Wed2BuP.7.

Schuller, Björn / Rigoll, Gerhard: "Timing levels in segment-based speech emotion recognition", paper 1695-Wed2BuP.8.

Nisimura, Ryuichi / Omae, Souji / Kawahara, Hideki / Irino, Toshio: "Analyzing dialogue data for real-world emotional speech classification", paper 1675-Wed2BuP.9.

Alm, Cecilia Ovesdotter / Llorà, Xavier: "Evolving emotional prosody", paper 1741-Wed2BuP.10.

Luo, Xin / Fu, Qian-Jie / Galvin III, John J.: "Vocal emotion recognition with cochlear implants", paper 1315-Wed2BuP.11.

Matsunaga, S. / Sakaguchi, S. / Yamashita, M. / Miyahara, S. / Nishitani, S. / Shinohara, K.: "Emotion detection in infants² cries based on a maximum likelihood approach", paper 1345-Wed2BuP.12.

Tepperman, Joseph / Traum, David / Narayanan, Shrikanth: ""yeah right": sarcasm recognition for spoken dialogue systems", paper 1821-Wed2BuP.13.

Kumar, Rohit / Rosé, Carolyn P. / Litman, Diane J.: "Identification of confusion and surprise in spoken dialog using prosodic features", paper 1921-Wed2BuP.14.

Nwe, Tin Lay / Li, Haizhou / Dong, Minghui: "Analysis and detection of speech under sleep deprivation", paper 1934-Wed2BuP.15.

Vasilescu, Ioana / Adda-Decker, Martine: "Language, gender, speaking style and language proficiency as factors influencing the autonomous vocalic filler production in spontaneous speech", paper 1994-Wed2BuP.16.

Language Modeling and ASR Applications

Lavecchia, Caroline / Smaïli, Kamel / Haton, Jean-Paul: "How to handle gender and number agreement in statistical language models?", paper 1362-Wed2CaP.1.

Chan, Oscar / Togneri, Roberto: "Prosodic features for a maximum entropy language model", paper 1150-Wed2CaP.2.

Mori, Shinsuke: "Language model adaptation with a word list and a raw corpus", paper 1146-Wed2CaP.3.

Wiggers, Pascal / Rothkrantz, Léon J.M.: "Topic-based language modeling with dynamic Bayesian networks", paper 1882-Wed2CaP.4.

Yamamoto, Hirofumi / Kikui, Genichiro / Nakamura, Satoshi / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "Speech recognition of foreign out-of-vocabulary words using a hierarchical language model", paper 1692-Wed2CaP.5.

Hu, Xinhui / Yamamoto, Hirofumi / Kikui, Genichiro / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "Language modeling of Chinese personal names based on character units for continuous Chinese speech recognition", paper 1979-Wed2CaP.6.

Lakshmi, A. / Murthy, Hema A.: "A syllable based continuous speech recognizer for Tamil", paper 1055-Wed2CaP.7.

Woszczyna, Monika / Charoenpornsawat, Paisarn / Schultz, Tanja: "Spontaneous Thai speech recognition", paper 1419-Wed2CaP.8.

Gerosa, M. / Giuliani, D. / Narayanan, Shrikanth: "Acoustic analysis and automatic recognition of spontaneous children²s speech", paper 1082-Wed2CaP.9.

Vertanen, Keith: "Speech and speech recognition during dictation corrections", paper 1094-Wed2CaP.10.

Smídl, Lubos / Psutka, Josef V.: "Comparison of keyword spotting methods for searching in speech", paper 1587-Wed2CaP.11.

Balakrishna, Mithun / Cerovic, Cyril / Moldovan, Dan / Cave, Ellis: "Automatic generation of statistical language models for interactive voice response applications", paper 1648-Wed2CaP.12.

Ju, Yun-Cheng / Wang, Ye-Yi / Acero, Alex: "Call analysis with classification using speech and non-speech features", paper 2011-Wed2CaP.13.

Spoken Language Understanding

Wu, Wei-Lin / Lu, Ru-Zhan / Liu, Hui / Gao, Feng: "A spoken language understanding approach using successive learners", paper 1987-Wed2FoP.1.

Stewart, Osamuyimen / Huerta, Juan / Jan, Ea-Ee / Wu, Cheng / Li, Xiang / Lubensky, David: "Conversational help desk: vague callers and context switch", paper 1291-Wed2FoP.2.

Rosset, Sophie / Galibert, Olivier / Illouz, Gabriel / Max, Aurélien: "Integrating spoken dialog and question answering: the ritel project", paper 1529-Wed2FoP.3.

Prommer, Thomas / Holzapfel, Hartwig / Waibel, Alex: "Rapid simulation-driven reinforcement learning of multimodal dialog strategies in human-robot interaction", paper 1551-Wed2FoP.4.

Aist, Gregory / Allen, James / Campana, Ellen / Galescu, Lucian / Gallo, Carlos A. Gómez / Stoness, Scott C. / Swift, Mary / Tanenhaus, Michael: "Software architectures for incremental understanding of human speech", paper 1869-Wed2FoP.5.

Schiel, Florian / Draxler, Christoph / Libossek, Marion: "Lingua machinae - an unorthodox proposal", paper 2026-Wed2FoP.6.

Pon-Barry, Heather / Weng, Fuliang / Varges, Sebastian: "Evaluation of content presentation strategies for an in-car spoken dialogue system", paper 2044-Wed2FoP.7.

Goel, Vaibhava / Gopinath, Ramesh: "On designing context sensitive language models for spoken dialog systems", paper 2052-Wed2FoP.8.

Liu, Yang: "Using SVM and error-correcting codes for multiclass dialog act classification in meeting corpus", paper 1306-Wed2FoP.9.

Holzapfel, Hartwig / Waibel, Alex: "A multilingual expectations model for contextual utterances in mixed-initiative spoken dialogue", paper 1614-Wed2FoP.10.

Fukubayashi, Yuichiro / Komatani, Kazunori / Ogata, Tetsuya / Okuno, Hiroshi G.: "Dynamic help generation by estimating user²s mental model in spoken dialogue systems", paper 1750-Wed2FoP.11.

Surendran, Dinoj / Levow, Gina-Anne: "Dialog act tagging with support vector machines and hidden Markov models", paper 1831-Wed2FoP.12.

Segmentation and VAD

Torre, Ángel de la / Ramírez, Javier / Benítez, Carmen / Segura, José C. / García, L. / Rubio, Antonio J.: "Noise robust model-based voice activity detection", paper 1476-Wed3A1O.1.

Shi, Yu / Soong, Frank K. / Zhou, Jian-Lai: "Auto-segmentation based VAD for robust ASR", paper 1749-Wed3A1O.2.

Boakye, Kofi / Stolcke, Andreas: "Improved speech activity detection using cross-channel features for recognition of multiparty meetings", paper 1824-Wed3A1O.3.

Kida, Yusuke / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "Evaluation of voice activity detection by combining multiple features with weight adaptation", paper 1152-Wed3A1O.4.

Lee, Keansub / Ellis, Daniel P. W.: "Voice activity detection in personal audio recordings using autocorrelogram compensation", paper 1753-Wed3A1O.5.

Rifkin, Ryan / Mesgarani, Nima: "Discriminating speech and non-speech with regularized least squares", paper 1779-Wed3A1O.6.

Technologies for Specific Populations: Learners and Challenged

Lee, John / Seneff, Stephanie: "Automatic grammar correction for second-language learners", paper 1299-Wed3A3O.1.

Neri, Ambra / Cucchiarini, Catia / Strik, Helmer: "ASR-based corrective feedback on pronunciation: does it really work?", paper 1372-Wed3A3O.2.

Dong, Minghui / Li, Haizhou / Nwe, Tin Lay: "Evaluating prosody of Mandarin speech for language learning", paper 1432-Wed3A3O.3.

Trancoso, Isabel / Duarte, Carlos / Serralheiro, António / Caseiro, Diamantino / Carriço, Luís / Viana, Céu: "Spoken language technologies applied to digital talking books", paper 1448-Wed3A3O.4.

Iida, Akemi / Ito, Jun / Kajima, Shimpei / Sugawara, Tsutomu: "Building an English speech synthesis system from a Japanese ALS patient²s voice", paper 1948-Wed3A3O.5.

Karpov, Alexey / Ronzhin, Andrey / Cadiou, Alexandre: "Multi-modal system ICANDO: intellectual computer assistant for disabled operators", paper 1234-Wed3A3O.6.

The Prosody of Turn-Taking and Dialog Acts

Skantze, Gabriel / House, David / Edlund, Jens: "User responses to prosodic variation in fragmentary grounding utterances in dialog", paper 1229-Wed3WeS.1.

Ishi, Carlos Toshinori / Ishiguro, Hiroshi / Hagita, Norihiro: "Analysis of prosodic and linguistic cues of phrase finals for turn-taking and dialog acts", paper 1961-Wed3WeS.2.

Schlangen, David: "From reaction to prediction: experiments with computational models of turn-taking", paper 1200-Wed3WeS.3.

Kolár, Jáchym / Shriberg, Elizabeth / Liu, Yang: "On speaker-specific prosodic models for automatic dialog act segmentation of multi-party meetings", paper 1900-Wed3WeS.4.

Ward, Nigel G. / Bayyari, Yaffa Al: "A case study in the identification of prosodic cues to turn-taking: back-channeling in Arabic", paper 1257-Wed3WeS.5.

Edlund, Jens / Heldner, Mattias: "/nailon/ - software for online analysis of prosody", paper 1557-Wed3WeS.6.

Multichannel Speech Enhancement/Speech Perception

Li, Junfeng / Akagi, Masato / Suzuki, Yôiti: "Improved hybrid microphone array post-filter by integrating a robust speech absence probability estimator for speech enhancement", paper 1035-Wed3FoP.1.

Gerkmann, Timo / Martin, Rainer: "Soft decision combining for dual channel noise reduction", paper 1059-Wed3FoP.2.

Chen, Guo / Parsa, Vijay: "An improved affine projection algorithm based crosstalk resistant adaptive noise canceller", paper 1320-Wed3FoP.3.

Leukimmiatis, Stamatis / Dimitriadis, Dimitrios / Maragos, Petros: "An optimum microphone array post-filter for speech applications", paper 1389-Wed3FoP.4.

Flego, Federico / Omologo, Maurizio: "Multi-microphone periodicity function for robust F0 estimation in real noisy and reverberant environments", paper 1536-Wed3FoP.5.

Abutalebi, H. R. / Pourahmadi, M. / Aghabozorgi, M.R.: "A new dual-microphone speech enhancement method for oriented noises", paper 1973-Wed3FoP.6.

Lovitt, Andrew / Allen, Jont B.: "50 years late: repeating miller-nicely 1955", paper 1297-Wed3FoP.7.

Sakamoto, Shuichi / Yoshikawa, Tadahiro / Amano, Shigeaki / Suzuki, Yôiti / Kondo, Tadahisa: "New 20-word lists for word intelligibility test in Japanese", paper 1517-Wed3FoP.8.

Li, Guoping / Lutman, Mark E.: "Sparseness and speech perception in noise", paper 1466-Wed3FoP.9.

Liu, Wei M. / Mason, John S. D. / Evans, Nicholas W. D. / Jellyman, Keith A.: "An assessment of automatic speech recognition as speech intelligibility estimation in the context of additive noise", paper 1191-Wed3FoP.10.

Wältermann, Marcel / Scholz, Kirstin / Raake, Alexander / Heute, Ulrich / Möller, Sebastian: "Underlying quality dimensions of modern telephone connections", paper 1089-Wed3FoP.11.

Chen, Guo / Parsa, Vijay / Scollie, Susan: "An ERB loudness pattern based objective speech quality measure", paper 1318-Wed3FoP.12.

Diarization in ASR

Ning, Huazhong / Liu, Ming / Tang, Hao / Huang, Thomas S.: "A spectral clustering approach to speaker diarization", paper 1607-Thu1A1O.1.

Zdansky, Jindrich: "BINSEG: an efficient speaker-based segmentation technique", paper 1459-Thu1A1O.2.

Gallardo-Antolín, Ascensión / Anguera, Xavier / Wooters, Chuck: "Multi-stream speaker diarization systems for the meetings domain", paper 1620-Thu1A1O.3.

Lopes, Carla / Perdigão, Fernando: "Improved performance evaluation of speech event detectors", paper 1615-Thu1A1O.4.

Pardo, Jose M. / Anguera, Xavier / Wooters, Chuck: "Speaker diarization for multiple distant microphone meetings: mixing acoustic features and inter-channel time differences", paper 1337-Thu1A1O.5.

Pham, Tuan Van / Kubin, Gernot: "Low-complexity and efficient classification of voiced/unvoiced/silence for noisy environments", paper 1400-Thu1A1O.6.

Language Model Adaptation, Refinement, and Evaluation

Suzuki, Motoyuki / Kajiura, Yasutomo / Ito, Akinori / Makino, Shozo: "Unsupervised language model adaptation based on automatic text collection from WWW", paper 1806Thu1A2O.1.

Tam, Yik-Cheung / Schultz, Tanja: "Unsupervised language model adaptation using latent semantic marginals", paper 1705-Thu1A2O.2.

Mrva, David / Woodland, Philip C.: "Unsupervised language model adaptation for Mandarin broadcast conversation transcription", paper 1549-Thu1A2O.3.

Klakow, Dietrich: "Language model adaptation for tiny adaptation corpora", paper 1446-Thu1A2O.4.

Ljolje, Andrej: "Pronunciation dependent language models", paper 1991-Thu1A2O.5.

Nanavati, Amit Anil / Rajput, Nitendra: "Improving perplexity measures to incorporate acoustic confusability", paper 1940-Thu1A2O.6.

Voice Morphing

Qin, Long / Wu, Yi-Jian / Ling, Zhen-Hua / Wang, Ren-Hua: "Improving the performance of HMM-based voice conversion using context clustering decision tree and appropriate regression matrix format", paper 1105-Thu1BuP.1.

Lee, Chung-Han / Wu, Chung-Hsien: "Map-based adaptation for speech conversion using adaptation data selection and non-parallel training", paper 1164-Thu1BuP.2.

Nurminen, Jani / Tian, Jilei / Popa, Victor: "Novel method for data clustering and mode selection with application in voice conversion", paper 1463-Thu1BuP.3.

Sündermann, David / Höge, Harald / Bonafonte, Antonio / Ney, Hermann / Hirschberg, Julia: "Text-independent cross-language voice conversion", paper 1665-Thu1BuP.4.

Ohtani, Yamato / Toda, Tomoki / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Maximum likelihood voice conversion based on GMM with STRAIGHT mixed excitation", paper 1681-Thu1BuP.5.

Nakagiri, Mikihiro / Toda, Tomoki / Kashioka, Hideki / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Improving body transmitted unvoiced speech with statistical voice conversion", paper 1719-Thu1BuP.6.

Saino, Keijiro / Zen, Heiga / Nankaku, Yoshihiko / Lee, Akinobu / Tokuda, Keiichi: "An HMM-based singing voice synthesis system", paper 2077-Thu1BuP.7.

Uto, Yosuke / Nankaku, Yoshihiko / Toda, Tomoki / Lee, Akinobu / Tokuda, Keiichi: "Voice conversion based on mixtures of factor analyzers", paper 2076-Thu1BuP.8.

Tian, Jilei / Nurminen, Jani / Popa, Victor: "Efficient Gaussian mixture model evaluation in voice conversion", paper 1533-Thu1BuP.9.

Nakano, Yuji / Tachibana, Makoto / Yamagishi, Junichi / Kobayashi, Takao: "Constrained structural maximum a posteriori linear regression for average-voice-based speech synthesis", paper 1784-Thu1BuP.10.

Shuang, Zhi-Wei / Bakis, Raimo / Shechtman, Slava / Chazan, Dan / Qin, Yong: "Frequency warping based on mapping formant parameters", paper 1768-Thu1BuP.11.

Lin, Cheng-Yuan / Jang, J.-S. Roger: "Automatic phonetic segmentation by using a SPM-based approach for a Mandarin singing voice corpus", paper 1489-Thu1BuP.12.

Lal, Partha: "A comparison of singing evaluation algorithms", paper 1119-Thu1BuP.13.

Prosody

Ng, Raymond W. M. / Lee, Tan / Gu, Wentao: "Towards automatic parameter extraction of command-response model for Cantonese", paper 1363-Thu1FoP.1.

Campillo, Francisco / Santen, Jan P. H. van / Banga, Eduardo R.: "A model for the f0 reset in corpus-based intonation approaches", paper 1404-Thu1FoP.2.

Bailly, Gérard / Gorisch, Jan: "Generating German intonation with a trainable prosodic model", paper 2017-Thu1FoP.3.

Kim, Seungwon / Lee, Jinsik / Kim, Byeongchang / Lee, Gary Geunbae: "Incorporating second-order information into two-step major phrase break prediction for Korean", paper 1487-Thu1FoP.4.

Yi, Lifu / Li, Jian / Lou, Xiaoyan / Hao, Jie: "Totally data-driven duration modeling based on generalized linear model for Mandarin TTS", paper 1837-Thu1FoP.5.

Özturk, Özlem / Ciloglu, Tolga: "Segmental duration modeling in Turkish", paper 2004-Thu1FoP.6.

Dalen, Rogier C. van / Wiggers, Pascal / Rothkrantz, Léon J. M.: "Lexical stress in continuous speech recognition", paper 1578-Thu1FoP.7.

Wang, Siwei / Levow, Gina-Anne: "Improving tone recognition with combined frequency and amplitude modelling", paper 1651-Thu1FoP.8.

Lin, Che-Kuang / Lee, Lin-shan: "Latent prosodic modeling (LPM) for speech with applications in recognizing spontaneous Mandarin speech with disfluencies", paper 1901-Thu1FoP.9.

Hirose, Keikichi / Hu, Hui / Wang, Xiaodong / Minematsu, Nobuaki: "Tone recognition of continuous speech of standard Chinese using neural network and tone nucleus model", paper 1929-Thu1FoP.10.

Solorio, Thamar / Fuentes, Olac / Ward, Nigel G. / Bayyari, Yaffa Al: "Prosodic feature generation for back-channel prediction", paper 1724-Thu1FoP.11.

Wesseling, Wieneke / Son, Rob J. J. H. van / Pols, Louis C. W.: "On the sufficiency and redundancy of pitch for TRP projection", paper 1972-Thu1FoP.12.

Discriminative Training

Gibson, Matthew / Hain, Thomas: "Hypothesis spaces for minimum Bayes risk training in large vocabulary speech recognition", paper 1653-Thu2A1O.1.

Du, Jun / Liu, Peng / Soong, Frank K. / Zhou, Jian-Lai / Wang1, Ren-Hua: "Minimum divergence based discriminative training", paper 1703-Thu2A1O.2.

Li, Xinwei / Jiang, Hui: "Solving large margin estimation of HMMS via semidefinite programming", paper 1064-Thu2A1O.3.

Yu, Dong / Deng, Li / He, Xiaodong / Acero, Alex: "Use of incrementally regulated discriminative margins in MCE training for speech recognition", paper 1410-Thu2A1O.4.

Li, Jinyu / Yuan, Ming / Lee, Chin-Hui: "Soft margin estimation of hidden Markov model parameters", paper 1316-Thu2A1O.5.

Wang, Ye-Yi / Acero, Alex: "Discriminative models for spoken language understanding", paper 1766-Thu2A1O.6.

Speech Synthesis

Gibert, G. / Bailly, Gérard / Elisei, F.: "Evaluating a virtual speech cuer", paper 1539-Thu2A3O.1.

Tomokiyo, Laura Mayfield / Peterson, Kay / Black, Alan W. / Lenzo, Kevin A.: "Intelligibility of machine translation output in speech synthesis", paper 1268-Thu2A3O.2.

Tachibana, Makoto / Nose, Takashi / Yamagishi, Junichi / Kobayashi, Takao: "A technique for controlling voice quality of synthetic speech using multiple regression HSMM", paper 1778-Thu2A3O.3.

Polyakova, Tatyana / Bonafonte, Antonio: "Learning from errors in grapheme-to-phoneme conversion", paper 1742-Thu2A3O.4.

Toda, Tomoki / Ohtani, Yamato / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Eigenvoice conversion based on Gaussian mixture model", paper 1717-Thu2A3O.5.

Langner, Brian / Kumar, Rohit / Chan, Arthur / Gu, Lingyun / Black, Alan W.: "Generating time-constrained audio presentations of structured information", paper 2075-Thu2A3O.6.

Multimodal Processing

Alsaade, F. / Ariyaeeinia, A. / Meng, L. / Malegaonkar, A.: "Multimodal authentication using qualitative support vector machines", paper 1364-Thu2WeO.1.

Pitsikalis, Vassilis / Katsamanis, Athanassios / Papandreou, George / Maragos, Petros: "Adaptive multimodal fusion by uncertainty compensation", paper 1950-Thu2WeO.2.

Hardison, Debra M.: "Effects of familiarity with faces and voices on second-language speech processing: components of memory traces", paper 1097-Thu2WeO.3.

Tamura, Satoshi / Hashimoto, Koji / Zhu, Jiong / Hayamizu, Satoru / Asai, Hirotsugu / Tanahashi, Hideki / Kanagawa, Makoto: "Automatic metadata generation and video editing based on speech and image recognition for medical education contents", paper 1132-Thu2WeO.4.

Almajai, Ibrahim / Milner, Ben / Darch, Jonathan: "Analysis of correlation between audio and visual speech features for clean audio feature prediction in noise", paper 1634-Thu2WeO.5.

Govokhina, Oxana / Bailly, Gérard / Breton, Gaspard / Bagshaw, Paul: "TDA: a new trainable trajectory formation system for facial animation", paper 1274-Thu2WeO.6.

Speech Analysis

Biagetti, Giorgio / Crippa, Paolo / Turchetti, Claudio: "Modeling of speech signals based on Bessel-like orthogonal transform", paper 1054-Thu2BuP.1.

Jinachitra, Pamornpol: "Glottal closure and opening detection for flexible parametric voice coding", paper 1359-Thu2BuP.2.

Trmal, Jan / Vanek, Jan / Müller, Ludek / Zelinka, Jan: "Independent components for acoustic modeling", paper 1526-Thu2BuP.3.

Mehta, Daryush / Quatieri, Thomas F.: "Pitch-scale modification using the modulated aspiration noise source", paper 1542-Thu2BuP.4.

Ezzat, Tony / Bouvrie, Jake / Poggio, Tomaso: "Max-Gabor analysis and synthesis of spectrograms", paper 1561-Thu2BuP.5.

Quintana-Morales, Pedro J. / Navarro-Mesa, Juan L. / Ravelo-Garcia, Antonio G. / Lorenzo-Garcia, Fernando D.: "Monitoring of the natural voice variations in open and closed phases with frequency warped ARMA modeling", paper 1572-Thu2BuP.6.

Kameoka, Hirokazu / Roux, Jonathan Le / Ono, Nobutaka / Sagayama, Shigeki: "Speech analyzer using a joint estimation model of spectral envelope and fine structure", paper 1641-Thu2BuP.7.

Errity, Andrew / McKenna, John: "An investigation of manifold learning for speech analysis", paper 1667-Thu2BuP.8.

Bouvrie, Jake / Ezzat, Tony: "An incremental algorithm for signal reconstruction from short-time fourier transform magnitude", paper 1691-Thu2BuP.9.

Takahashi, Toru / Nishi, Masashi / Irino, Toshio / Kawahara, Hideki: "Automatic assignment of anchoring points on vowel templates for defining correspondence between time-frequency representations of speech samples", paper 1737-Thu2BuP.10.

Prasad, S. / Srinivasan, S. / Pannuri, M. / Lazarou, G. / Picone, Joseph: "Nonlinear dynamical invariants for speech recognition", paper 1799-Thu2BuP.11.

Advances in Noisy ASR

Lin, Shih-Hsiang / Yeh, Yao-Ming / Chen, Berlin: "Exploiting polynomial-fit histogram equalization and temporal average for robust speech recognition", paper 1195-Thu2CaP.1.

Demange, Sébastien / Cerisara, Christophe / Haton, Jean-Paul: "Missing data mask models with global frequency and temporal constraints", paper 1226-Thu2CaP.2.

Misra, Hemant / Vepa, Jithendra / Bourlard, Hervé: "Multi-stream ASR: an oracle perspective", paper 1663-Thu2CaP.3.

Iwano, Koji / Kojima, Kaname / Furui, Sadaoki: "A weight estimation method using LDA for multi-band speech recognition", paper 1680-Thu2CaP.4.

Hsu, Chang-wen / Lee, Lin-shan: "Powered cepstral normalization (p-CN) for robust features in speech recognition", paper 1746-Thu2CaP.5.

Ding, Pei / He, Lei / Yan, Xiang / Hao, Jie: "Robust automatic speech recognition for accented Mandarin in car environments", paper 1764-Thu2CaP.6.

Lu, Xugang / Unoki, Masashi / Akagi, Masato: "A robust feature extraction based on the MTF concept for speech recognition in reverberant environment", paper 1801-Thu2CaP.7.

Kim, Young Joon / Lim, Woohyung / Kim, Nam Soo: "Clean speech feature estimation based on soft spectral masking", paper 1897-Thu2CaP.8.

Vali, Mansoor / Salehi, Seyyed Ali Seyyed / Karimi, Kazem: "Robust speech recognition by modifying clean and telephone feature vectors using bidirectional neural network", paper 2072-Thu2CaP.9.

Tai, Chung-fu / Hung, Jeih-weih: "Silence energy normalization for robust speech recognition in additive noise environment", paper 1492-Thu2CaP.10.

Segbroeck, Maarten Van / hamme, Hugo Van: "Handling convolutional noise in missing data automatic speech recognition", paper 1248-Thu2CaP.11.

Kitaoka, Norihide / Hamaguchi, Souta / Nakagawa, Seiichi: "Noisy speech recognition based on selection of multiple noise suppression methods using noise GMMs", paper 1207-Thu2CaP.12.

Aradilla, Guillermo / Vepa, Jithendra / Bourlard, Hervé: "Using posterior-based features in template matching for speech recognition", paper 1186-Thu2CaP.13.

Obuchi, Yasunari / Hataoka, Nobuo: "Hypothesis-based feature combination of multiple speech inputs for robust speech recognition in automotive environments", paper 1165-Thu2CaP.14.

Source Separation and Localization

Koldovsky, Zbynek / Nouza, Jan / Kolorenc, Jan: "Continuous time-frequency masking method for blind speech separation with adaptive choice of threshold parameter using ICA", paper 1224-Thu2FoP.1.

Liang, Yanxue / Hagiwara, Ichiro: "Multistage convolutive blind source separation for speech mixture", paper 1369-Thu2FoP.2.

Asano, Futoshi / Ogata, Jun: "Detection and separation of speech events in meeting recordings", paper 1098-Thu2FoP.3.

Abad, Alberto / Segura, Carlos / Macho, Duàn / Hernando, Javier / Nadeu, Climent: "Audio person tracking in a smart-room environment", paper 1649-Thu2FoP.4.

Gehrig, Tobias / Klee, Ulrich / McDonough, John W. / Ikbal, Shajith / Wölfel, Matthias / Fügen, Christian: "Tracking and beamforming for multiple simultaneous speakers with probabilistic data association filters", paper 2038-Thu2FoP.5.

Heckmann, Martin / Rodemann, Tobias / Scholling, Bjorn / Joublin, Frank / Goerick, Christian: "Modeling the precedence effect for binaural sound source localization in noisy and echoic environments", paper 1196-Thu2FoP.6.

Talantzis, Fotios / Constantinides, Anthony G. / Polymenakos, Lazaros C.: "Using a differential microphone array to estimate the direction of arrival of two acoustic sources", paper 1190-Thu2FoP.7.

Brutti, Alessio / Omologo, Maurizio / Svaizer, Piergiorgio: "Speaker localization based on oriented global coherence field", paper 1467-Thu2FoP.8.

Radfar, M. H. / Dansereau, R. M. / Sayadiyan, A.: "Performance evaluation of three features for model-based single channel speech separation problem", paper 2005-Thu2FoP.9.

Schmidt, Mikkel N. / Olsson, Rasmus K.: "Single-channel speech separation using sparse non-negative matrix factorization", paper 1652-Thu2FoP.10.

Hu, Rong / Zhao, Yunxin: "Adaptive speech enhancement for speech separation in diffuse noise", paper 1751-Thu2FoP.11.

Attias, H. T.: "A probabilistic graphical model for microphone array source separation using rich pre-trained source models", paper 1946-Thu2FoP.12.

Visser, Erik: "Geometrically constrained permutation-free source separation in an undercomplete speech unmixing scenario", paper 1086-Thu2FoP.13.

Olszewski, Dirk / Linhard, Klaus: "Highly directional multi-beam audio loudspeaker", paper 1239-Thu2FoP.14.