Table of Contents and Access to Abstracts

Keynotes 1-4

Zue, Victor: "On organic interfaces", 1-8.

Scott, Sophie K.: "The neural basis of speech perception - a view from functional imaging", 9-13.

Waibel, Alex / Bernardin, Keni / Wölfel, Matthias: "Computer-supported human-human multilingual communication", 14-21.

Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves: "Self-organization in the evolution of shared systems of speech sounds: a computational study", 22-29.

Discriminative and Large Margin Techniques in Acoustic Modeling

Li, Jinyu / Lee, Chin-Hui: "Soft margin feature extraction for automatic speech recognition", 30-33.

Yin, Yan / Jiang, Hui: "A fast optimization method for large margin estimation of HMMs based on second order cone programming", 34-37.

Li, Hao-Zheng / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Frame margin probability discriminative training algorithm for noisy speech recognition", 38-41.

Valente, Fabio / Vepa, Jithendra / Plahl, Christian / Gollan, Christian / Hermansky, Hynek / Schlüter, Ralf: "Hierarchical neural networks feature extraction for LVCSR system", 42-45.

Olsen, Peder A. / Hershey, John R.: "Bhattacharyya error and divergence using variational importance sampling", 46-49.

Wu, Tingyao / Duchateau, Jacques / Compernolle, Dirk : "Phoneme dependent frame selection preference", 50-53.

Speech Production I, II

Zhou, Xinhui / Espy-Wilson, Carol Y. / Tiede, Mark / Boyce, Suzanne: "An articulatory and acoustic study of "retroflex" and "bunched" american English rhotic sound based on MRI", 54-57.

Martins, Paula / Carbone, Inês / Silva, Augusto / Teixeira, António J. S.: "An MRI study of european portuguese nasals", 58-61.

Takano, Sayoko / Matsuzaki, Hiroki / Motoki, Kunitoshi: "A four-cube FEM model of the extrinsic and intrinsic tongue muscles to simulate the production of vowel /i/", 62-65.

Torres, Juan / Moore, Elliot: "Performance evaluation of glottal quality measures from the perspective of vocal tract filter consistency", 66-69.

Singampalli, Veena D. / Jackson, Philip J. B.: "Statistical identification of critical, dependent and redundant articulators", 70-73.

Qin, Chao / Carreira-Perpiñán, Miguel Á.: "An empirical investigation of the nonuniqueness in the acoustic-to-articulatory mapping", 74-77.

Dusan, Sorin: "Vocal tract length during speech production", 1366-1369.

Miki, Nobuhiro / Hayashi, Kyohei: "Approximation method of subglottal system using ARMA filter", 1370-1373.

Toutios, Asterios / Margaritis, Konstantinos: "Enhancing acoustic-to-EPG mapping with lip position information", 1374-1377.

Kaburagi, Tokihiko / Tanabe, Yosuke: "A model of glottal flow incorporating viscous-inviscid interaction", 1378-1381.

Seeber, Kilian G.: "Thinking outside the cube: modeling language processing tasks in a multiple resource paradigm", 1382-1385.

Cisonni, Julien / Hirtum, Annemie Van / Willems, Jan / Pelorson, Xavier: "Experimental validation of direct and inverse glottal flow models for unsteady flow conditions", 1386-1389.

Nomura, Hideyuki / Funada, Tetsuo: "Effect of unsteady glottal flow on the speech production process", 1390-1393.

Schneider, Katrin / Möbius, Bernd: "Word stress correlates in spontaneous child-directed speech in German", 1394-1397.

Aron, Michael / Ferveur, Nicolas / Kerrien, Erwan / Berger, Marie-Odile / Laprie, Yves: "Acquisition and synchronization of multimodal articulatory data", 1398-1401.

Robert, Vincent / Laprie, Yves / Bonneau, Anne: "A phonetic concatenative approach of labial coarticulation", 1402-1405.

Turkmani, Aseel / Hilton, Adrian / Jackson, Philip J. B. / Edge, James: "Visual analysis of lip coarticulation in VCV utterances", 1406-1409.

Airas, Matti / Alku, Paavo: "Comparison of multiple voice source parameters in different phonation types", 1410-1413.

Knoll, Monja / Scharrer, Lisa: "Acoustic and affective comparisons of natural and imaginary infant-, foreigner- and adult-directed speech", 1414-1417.

Araújo, André / Jesus, Luis M. T. / Costa, Isabel M.: "Vowel production in two occlusal classes", 1418-1421.

Khatiwada, Rajesh: "Nepalese retroflex stops: a static palatography study of inter- and intra-speaker variability", 1422-1425.

Lamoureux, Charles A. / Boucher, Victor J.: "Effects of testosterone levels on temporal and intonational aspects of speech: more exploratory data", 1426-1428.

Phonetic Segmentation and Classification I, II

Karsmakers, Peter / Pelckmans, Kristiaan / Suykens, Johan / hamme, Hugo Van: "Fixed-size kernel logistic regression for phoneme classification", 78-81.

Park, Seung Seop / Shin, Jong Won / Kim, Jong Kyu / Kim, Nam Soo: "A multiple-model based framework for automatic speech segmentation", 82-85.

Jansen, Aren / Niyogi, Partha: "Semi-supervised learning of speech sounds", 86-89.

Parate, Abhinav / Verma, Ashish / Basak, Jayanta: "Evaluation of syllable stress using single class classifier", 90-93.

Huda, Mohammad Nurul / Muhammad, Ghulam / Horikawa, Junsei / Nitta, Tsuneo: "Distinctive phonetic feature (DPF) based phone segmentation using hybrid neural networks", 94-97.

Goldman, J. -Ph. / Avanzi, M. / Simon, A. -C. / Lacheret, Anne / Auchlin, A.: "A methodology for the automatic detection of perceived prominent syllables in spoken French", 98-101.

Niu, Xiaochuan / Santen, Jan P. H. van: "Dual-channel acoustic detection of nasalization states", 1921-1924.

Pruthi, Tarun / Espy-Wilson, Carol Y.: "Acoustic parameters for the automatic detection of vowel nasalization", 1925-1928.

Hou, Jun / Rabiner, Lawrence R. / Dusan, Sorin: "On the use of time-delay neural networks for highly accurate classification of stop consonants", 1929-1932.

Golipour, Ladan / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas: "A new approach for phoneme segmentation of speech signals", 1933-1936.

Stouten, Veronique / Demuynck, Kris / hamme, Hugo Van: "Automatically learning the units of speech by non-negative matrix factorisation", 1937-1940.

Kalinli, Ozlem / Narayanan, Shrikanth S.: "A saliency-based auditory attention model with applications to unsupervised prominent syllable detection in speech", 1941-1944.

An, Sung Jun / Kim, Young-Ik / Kil, Rhee Man: "Zero-crossing-based ratio masking for sound segregation", 1945-1948.

Tanaka, Satomi / Tsuzaki, Minoru / Kato, Hiroaki / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "Event detection of speech signals based on auditory processing with a dynamic compressive gammachirp filterbank", 1949-1952.

Scharenborg, Odette / Ernestus, Mirjam / Wan, Vincent: "Segmentation of speech: child's play?", 1953-1956.

Errity, Andrew / McKenna, John / Kirkpatrick, Barry: "Dimensionality reduction methods applied to both magnitude and phase derived features", 1957-1960.

Discourse, Dialog and Conversation

Mori, Hiroki / Kasuya, Hideki: "Voice source and vocal tract variations as cues to emotional states perceived from expressive conversational speech", 102-105.

Yang, Fan / Heeman, Peter A.: "Exploring initiative strategies using computer simulation", 106-109.

Tseng, Chiu-yu / Su, Zhao-yu: "From one base form to multiple output styles - predicting stylistic dynamics of discourse prosody", 110-113.

Crocco, Claudia / Savy, Renata: "Topic in dialogue: prosodic and syntactic features", 114-117.

Watanabe, Michiko / Den, Yasuharu / Hirose, Keikichi / Miwa, Shusaku / Minematsu, Nobuaki: "Features of pauses and conjunctions at syntactic and discourse boundaries in Japanese monologues", 118-121.

Spoken Dialog Systems I, II

Wootton, Craig / McTear, Michael / Anderson, Terry: "Utilizing online content as domain knowledge in a multi-domain dynamic dialogue system", 122-125.

Schooten, Boris van / Rosset, Sophie / Galibert, Olivier / Max, Aurélien / Akker, Rieks op den / Illouz, Gabriel: "Handling speech input in the ritel QA dialogue system", 126-129.

Kim, Woosung: "Online call quality monitoring for automating agent-based call centers", 130-133.

Möller, Sebastian / Engelbrecht, Klaus-Peter / Oulasvirta, Antti: "Analysis of communication failures for spoken dialogue systems", 134-137.

Mann, Sandra / Berton, André / Ehrlich, Ute: "How to access audio files of large data bases using in-car speech dialogue systems", 138-141.

Komatani, Kazunori / Kawahara, Tatsuya / Okuno, Hiroshi G.: "Analyzing temporal transition of real user's behaviors in a spoken dialogue system", 142-145.

Sherwani, J. / Yu, Dong / Paek, Tim / Czerwinski, Mary / Ju, Yun-Cheng / Acero, Alex: "Voicepedia: towards speech-based access to unstructured information", 146-149.

Rangarajan, Vivek / Bangalore, Srinivas / Narayanan, Shrikanth S.: "Exploiting prosodic features for dialog act tagging in a discriminative modeling framework", 150-153.

Ai, Hua / Roque, Antonio / Leuski, Anton / Traum, David: "Using information state to improve dialogue move identification in a spoken dialogue system", 154-157.

Chu, Shiu-Wah / O'Neill, Ian / Hanna, Philip: "Using multiple strategies to manage spoken dialogue", 158-161.

Quinderé, Marcelo / Lopes, Luís Seabra / Teixeira, António J. S.: "An information state based dialogue manager for a mobile robot", 162-165.

Yu, Dong / Ju, Yun-Cheng / Wang, Ye-Yi / Zweig, Geoffrey / Acero, Alex: "Automated directory assistance system - from theory to practice", 2709-2712.

Zweig, Geoffrey / Nguyen, Patrick / Ju, Yun-Cheng / Wang, Ye-Yi / Yu, Dong / Acero, Alex: "The voice-rate dialog system for consumer ratings", 2713-2716.

Winterboer, Andi / Hu, Jiang / Moore, Johanna D. / Nass, Clifford: "The influence of user tailoring and cognitive load on user performance in spoken dialogue systems", 2717-2720.

Wang, Ye-Yi / Yu, Dong / Ju, Yun-Cheng / Zweig, Geoffrey / Acero, Alex: "Confidence measures for voice search applications", 2721-2724.

Higashinaka, Ryuichiro / Dohsaka, Kohji / Amano, Shigeaki / Isozaki, Hideki: "Effects of quiz-style information presentation on user understanding", 2725-2728.

Kuo, Hong-Kwang Jeff / Goel, Vaibhava: "A data visualization and analysis method for natural language call routing system design", 2729-2732.

Accent and Language Identification I, II

Bauer, Josef G. / Andrassy, Bernt / Timoshenko, Ekaterina: "Discriminative optimization of language adapted HMMs for a language identification system based on parallel phoneme recognizers", 166-169.

Sim, Khe Chai / Li, Haizhou: "Fusion of contrastive acoustic models for parallel phonotactic spoken language identification", 170-173.

Wang, Liang / Ambikairajah, Eliathamby / Choi, Eric H. C.: "Multi-layer kohonen self-organizing feature map for language identification", 174-177.

Yin, Bo / Ambikairajah, Eliathamby / Chen, Fang: "Hierarchical language identification based on automatic language clustering", 178-181.

Timoshenko, Ekaterina / Höge, Harald: "Using speech rhythm for acoustic language identification", 182-185.

Wong, Ka-keung / Siu, Man-hung / Mak, Brian: "A model-based estimation of phonotactic language verification performance", 186-189.

Rosner, Mike / Farrugia, Paulseph-John: "A tagging algorithm for mixed language identification in a noisy domain", 190-193.

Toledano, Doroteo T. / Gonzalez-Dominguez, Javier / Abejon-Gonzalez, Alejandro / Spada, Danilo / Mateos-Garcia, Ismael / Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Joaquin: "Improved language recognition using better phonetic decoders and fusion with MFCC and SDC features", 194-197.

Leeuwen, David A. van / Truong, Khiet P.: "An open-set detection evaluation methodology applied to language and emotion recognition", 338-341.

Yang, Xi / Siu, Man-hung / Gish, Herbert / Mak, Brian: "Boosting with anti-models for automatic language identification", 342-345.

Castaldo, Fabio / Colibro, Daniele / Dalmasso, Emanuele / Laface, Pietro / Vair, Claudio: "Acoustic language identification using fast discriminative training", 346-349.

Li, Ming / Suo, Hongbin / Wu, Xiao / Lu, Ping / Yan, Yonghong: "Spoken language identification using score vector modeling and support vector machine", 350-353.

Cordoba, R. / D'Haro, L. F. / Fernandez-Martinez, F. / Macias-Guarasa, J. / Ferreiros, J.: "Language identification based on n-gram frequency ranking", 354-357.

Shen, Wade / Reynolds, Douglas: "Improving phonotactic language recognition with acoustic adaptation", 358-361.

Education and Training

Bolanos, Daniel / Ward, Wayne / Vuuren, Sarel Van / Garrido, Javier: "Syllable lattices as a basis for a children's speech reading tracker", 198-201.

Pan, Fuping / Zhao, Qingwei / Yan, Yonghong: "Mandarin vowel pronunciation quality evaluation by using formant pattern recognition", 202-205.

Black, Matthew / Tepperman, Joseph / Lee, Sungbok / Price, Patti / Narayanan, Shrikanth S.: "Automatic detection and classification of disfluent reading miscues in young children's speech for the purpose of assessment", 206-209.

Minematsu, Nobuaki / Kamata, K. / Asakawa, Satoshi / Makino, T. / Nishimura, T. / Hirose, Keikichi: "Structural assessment of language learners' pronunciation", 210-213.

Samir, Abdurrahman / Abdou, Sherif Mahdy / Khalil, Ahmed Husien / Rashwan, Mohsen: "Enhancing usability of CAPL system for qur'an recitation learning", 214-217.

Wet, Febe de / Walt, Christa van der / Niesler, Thomas: "Automatic large-scale oral language proficiency assessment", 218-221.

Robust ASR I, II

Denda, Yuki / Tanaka, Takamasa / Nakayama, Masato / Nishiura, Takanobu / Yamashita, Yoichi: "Noise-robust hands-free voice activity detection with adaptive zero crossing detection using talker direction estimation", 222-225.

Álvarez, A. / Martínez, R. / Gómez, P. / Nieto, V. / Rodellar, V.: "A robust mel-scale subband voice activity detector for a car platform", 226-229.

Ishizuka, Kentaro / Nakatani, Tomohiro / Fujimoto, Masakiyo / Miyazaki, Noboru: "Noise robust front-end processing with voice activity detection based on periodic to aperiodic component ratio", 230-233.

Toh, A. M. / Togneri, Roberto / Nordholm, Sven: "Feature and distribution normalization schemes for statistical mismatch reduction in reverberant speech recognition", 234-237.

Gibson, Matthew / Hain, Thomas: "Temporal masking for unsupervised minimum Bayes risk speaker adaptation", 238-241.

Hsieh, Tsung-hsueh / Hung, Jeih-weih: "Speech feature compensation based on pseudo stereo codebooks for robust speech recognition in additive noise environments", 242-245.

Dimitriadis, Dimitrios / Maragos, Petros / Lefkimmiatis, Stamatios: "Multiband, multisensor robust features for noisy speech recognition", 246-249.

Sasou, Akira / Kojima, Hiroaki: "Noise robust speech recognition for voice driven wheelchair", 250-253.

Hu, Yu / Huo, Qiang: "Irrelevant variability normalization based HMM training using VTS approximation of an explicit model of environmental distortions", 1042-1045.

Buera, Luis / Miguel, Antonio / Lleida, Eduardo / Saz, Óscar / Ortega, Alfonso: "On the jointly unsupervised feature vector normalization and acoustic model compensation for robust speech recognition", 1046-1049.

Tsao, Yu / Lee, Chin-Hui: "An ensemble modeling approach to joint characterization of speaker and speaking environments", 1050-1053.

Lin, Shih-Hsiang / Yeh, Yao-Ming / Chen, Berlin: "Cluster-based polynomial-fit histogram equalization (CPHEQ) for robust speech recognition", 1054-1057.

Martinez, Pedro M. / Segura, Jose C. / Garcia, Luz: "Robust distributed speech recognition using histogram equalization and correlation information", 1058-1061.

Chien, Jen-Tzung / Shinoda, Koichi / Furui, Sadaoki: "Predictive minimum Bayes risk classification for robust speech recognition", 1062-1065.

Ma, Ning / Barker, Jon / Green, Phil: "Applying word duration constraints by using unrolled HMMs", 1066-1069.

Xiao, Xiong / Chng, Eng Siong / Li, Haizhou: "Evaluating the temporal structure normalisation technique on the Aurora-4 task", 1070-1073.

Bořil, Hynek / Fousek, Petr / Höge, Harald: "Two-stage system for robust neutral/lombard speech recognition", 1074-1077.

Jitsuhiro, Takatoshi / Toriyama, Tomoji / Kogure, Kiyoshi: "Noise suppression using search strategy with multi-model compositions", 1078-1081.

Nishiura, Takanobu / Hirano, Yoshiki / Denda, Yuki / Nakayama, Masato: "Investigations into early and late reflections on distant-talking speech recognition toward suitable reverberation criteria", 1082-1085.

Windmann, Stefan / Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold: "An approach to iterative speech feature enhancement and recognition", 1086-1089.

Hung, Jeih-weih: "Optimization of temporal filters in the modulation frequency domain for constructing robust features in speech recognition", 1090-1093.

Petrick, Rico / Lohde, Kevin / Wolff, Matthias / Hoffmann, Rüdiger: "The harming part of room acoustics in automatic speech recognition", 1094-1097.

Liao, Yuan Fu / Yang, Yh-Her / Hsu, Chi-Hui / Lee, Cheng-Chang / Zeng, Jing-Teng: "A reference model weighting-based method for robust speech recognition", 1098-1101.

Nasersharif, Babak / Akbari, Ahmad / Homayounpour, Mohammad Mehdi: "Mel sub-band filtering and compression for robust speech recognition", 1102-1105.

Adaptation in ASR I, II

Tang, Yun / Rose, Richard: "Clustered maximum likelihood linear basis for rapid speaker adaptation", 254-257.

Teng, Wenxuan / Gravier, Guillaume / Bimbot, Frédéric / Soufflet, Frédéric: "Rapid speaker adaptation by reference model interpolation", 258-261.

Gomez, Randy / Toda, Tomoki / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Rapid unsupervised speaker adaptation using single utterance based on MLLR and speaker selection", 262-265.

Mak, Brian / Hsiao, Roger: "Robustness of several kernel-based fast adaptation methods on noisy LVCSR", 266-269.

Pylkkönen, Janne: "Estimating VTLN warping factors by distribution matching", 270-273.

Liu, Ming / Zhou, Xi / Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark / Huang, Thomas S. / Zhang, Zhengyou: "Frequency domain correspondence for speaker normalization", 274-277.

Nishida, Masafumi / Horiuchi, Yasuo / Ichikawa, Akira: "Unsupervised training of adaptation rate using q-learning in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition", 278-281.

Karafiát, Martin / Burget, Lukáš / Černocký, Jan / Hain, Thomas: "Application of CMLLR in narrow band wide band adapted systems", 282-285.

Lévy, Christophe / Linarès, Georges / Bonastre, Jean-François: "Fast adaptation of GMM-based compact models", 286-289.

Lööf, Jonas / Schlüter, Ralf / Ney, Hermann: "Efficient estimation of speaker-specific projecting feature transforms", 1557-1560.

Omar, Mohamed Kamal: "Regularized feature-based maximum likelihood linear regression for speech recognition", 1561-1564.

Morales, Omar Caballero / Cox, Stephen: "Modelling confusion matrices to improve speech recognition accuracy, with an application to dysarthric speech", 1565-1568.

Huo, Qiang / Li, Wei: "An active approach to speaker and task adaptation based on automatic analysis of vocabulary confusability", 1569-1572.

Zheng, Jing / Stolcke, Andreas: "fMPE-MAP: improved discriminative adaptation for modeling new domains", 1573-1576.

Hazen, Timothy J. / McDermott, Erik: "Discriminative MCE-based speaker adaptation of acoustic models for a spoken lecture processing task", 1577-1580.

Speaker Verification & Identification I-IV

Karam, Zahi N. / Campbell, William M.: "A new kernel for SVM MLLR based speaker recognition", 290-293.

Lee, Kong-Aik / You, Changhuai / Li, Haizhou / Kinnunen, Tomi: "A GMM-based probabilistic sequence kernel for speaker verification", 294-297.

Aronowitz, Hagai: "Speaker recognition using kernel-PCA and intersession variability modeling", 298-301.

Dehak, Réda / Dehak, Najim / Kenny, Patrick / Dumouchel, Pierre: "Linear and non linear kernel GMM supervector machines for speaker verification", 302-305.

Lopez-Moreno, Ignacio / Mateos-Garcia, Ismael / Ramos, Daniel / Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Joaquin: "Support vector regression for speaker verification", 306-309.

Longworth, C. / Gales, M. J. F.: "Derivative and parametric kernels for speaker verification", 310-313.

Calvo, Jose R. / Fernández, Rafael / Hernández, Gabriel: "Application of shifted delta cepstral features in speaker verification", 734-737.

Ferrer, Luciana / Sönmez, Kemal / Shriberg, Elizabeth: "A smoothing kernel for spatially related features and its application to speaker verification", 738-741.

Charlet, D. / Collet, M. / Bimbot, Frédéric: "VZ-norm: an extension of z-norm to the multivariate case for anchor model based speaker verification", 742-745.

Lei, Howard / Mirghafori, Nikki: "Word-conditioned HMM supervectors for speaker recognition", 746-749.

Tsai, Wei-Ho: "Speaker clustering using direct maximization of a BIC-based score", 750-753.

Preti, A. / Bonastre, Jean-François / Matrouf, Driss / Capman, F. / Ravera, B.: "Confidence measure based unsupervised target model adaptation for speaker verification", 754-757.

Bao, Huanjun / Xu, Ming-Xing / Zheng, Thomas Fang: "Emotion attribute projection for speaker recognition on emotional speech", 758-761.

Zhang, Shi-Xiong / Mak, Man-Wai / Meng, Helen: "High-level feature-based speaker verification via articulatory phonetic-class pronunciation modeling", 762-765.

Yingthawornsuk, T. / Keskinpala, H. Kaymaz / Wilkes, D. M. / Shiavi, R. G. / Salomon, R. M.: "Direct acoustic feature using iterative EM algorithm and spectral energy for classifying suicidal speech", 766-769.

Garreton, Claudio / Yoma, Nestor Becerra / Huenupán, Fernando / Molina, Carlos: "On comparing and combining intra-speaker variability compensation and unsupervised model adaptation in speaker verification", 770-773.

Zhao, Xianyu / Dong, Yuan / Yang, Hao / Zhao, Jian / Lu, Liang / Wang, Haila: "Comparison of two kinds of speaker location representation for SVM-based speaker verification", 774-777.

Farrús, Mireia / Hernando, Javier / Ejarque, Pascual: "Jitter and shimmer measurements for speaker recognition", 778-781.

Shan, Zhenyu / Yang, Yingchun / Ye, Ruizhi: "Natural-emotion GMM transformation algorithm for emotional speaker recognition", 782-785.

Tseng, Ivy H. / Verscheure, Olivier / Turaga, Deepak S. / Chaudhari, Upendra V.: "Optimized one-bit quantization for adapted GMM-based speaker verification", 786-789.

McLaren, Mitchell / Vogt, Robbie / Baker, Brendan / Sridharan, Sridha: "A comparison of session variability compensation techniques for SVM-based speaker recognition", 790-793.

Fauve, Benoît / Evans, Nicholas / Pearson, Neil / Bonastre, Jean-François / Mason, John: "Influence of task duration in text-independent speaker verification", 794-797.

Shriberg, Elizabeth / Ferrer, Luciana: "A text-constrained prosodic system for speaker verification", 1226-1229.

Hannani, Asmaa El / Petrovska-Delacrétaz, Dijana: "Fusing acoustic, phonetic and data-driven systems for text-independent speaker verification", 1230-1233.

Dehak, Najim / Kenny, Patrick / Dumouchel, Pierre: "Continuous prosodic features and formant modeling with joint factor analysis for speaker verification", 1234-1237.

Vair, Claudio / Colibro, Daniele / Castaldo, Fabio / Dalmasso, Emanuele / Laface, Pietro: "Loquendo - Politecnico di torino's 2006 NIST speaker recognition evaluation system", 1238-1241.

Matrouf, Driss / Scheffer, Nicolas / Fauve, Benoît / Bonastre, Jean-François: "A straightforward and efficient implementation of the factor analysis model for speaker verification", 1242-1245.

Hazen, Timothy J. / Schultz, Daniel: "Multi-modal user authentication from video for mobile or variable-environment applications", 1246-1249.

Gerber, Michael / Beutler, René / Pfister, Beat: "Quasi text-independent speaker-verification based on pattern matching", 1993-1996.

Solewicz, Yosef A. / Koppel, Moshe: "Virtual fusion for speaker recognition", 1997-2000.

Chao, Yi-Hsiang / Tsai, Wei-Ho / Cheng, Shih-Sian / Wang, Hsin-Min / Chang, Ruei-Chuan: "Evolutionary minimum verification error learning of the alternative hypothesis model for LLR-based speaker verification", 2001-2004.

Nakagawa, Seiichi / Asakawa, Kouhei / Wang, Longbiao: "Speaker recognition by combining MFCC and phase information", 2005-2008.

Manocha, Sandeep / Espy-Wilson, Carol Y.: "A semi-automatic approach for speaker mining of tapped telephone conversations", 2009-2012.

Yang, Hao / Dong, Yuan / Zhao, Xianyu / Zhao, Jian / Lu, Liang / Wang, Haila: "Cluster adaptive training weights as features in SVM-based speaker verification", 2013-2016.

Okamoto, Hideki / Kojima, Mariko / Matsui, Tomoko / Kawanami, Hiromichi / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Study on speaker verification with non-audible murmur segments", 2017-2020.

Lu, Xugang / Dang, Jianwu: "Dimension reduction for speaker identification based on mutual information", 2021-2024.

Lindh, Jonas / Eriksson, Anders: "Robustness of long time measures of fundamental frequency", 2025-2028.

Prakash, Vinod / Hansen, John H. L.: "Score distribution scaling for speaker recognition", 2029-2032.

Morris, A. C. / Koreman, J. / Ly-Van, B. / Sellahewa, H. / Jassim, S. / Gómez, R. Llarena: "Global features for rapid identity verification with dynamic biometric data", 2033-2036.

Pham, Tuan Van / Neffe, Michael / Kubin, Gernot: "Robust voice activity detection for narrow-bandwidth speaker verification under adverse environments", 2037-2040.

Huenupán, Fernando / Yoma, Nestor Becerra / Molina, Carlos / Garreton, Claudio: "Speaker verification with multiple classifier fusion using Bayes based confidence measure", 2041-2044.

Chetty, Girija / Wagner, Michael: "Audiovisual speaker identity verification based on lip motion features", 2045-2048.

Tur, Gokhan / Shriberg, Elizabeth / Stolcke, Andreas / Kajarekar, Sachin: "Duration and pronunciation conditioned lexical modeling for speaker verification", 2049-2052.

Bonastre, Jean-François / Matrouf, Driss / Fredouille, Corinne: "Artificial impostor voice transformation effects on false acceptance rates", 2053-2056.

Spoken Data Retrieval I, II

Miller, David R. H. / Kleber, Michael / Kao, Chia-Lin / Kimball, Owen / Colthurst, Thomas / Lowe, Stephen A. / Schwartz, Richard M. / Gish, Herbert: "Rapid and accurate spoken term detection", 314-317.

Pan, Yi-cheng / Chang, Hung-lin / Chen, Berlin / Lee, Lin-shan: "Subword-based position specific posterior lattices (s-PSPL) for indexing speech information", 318-321.

Merkel, Andreas / Klakow, Dietrich: "Improved methods for language model based question classification", 322-325.

Akiba, Tomoyosi / Tsujimura, Hirofumi: "Error-tolerant question answering for spoken documents", 326-329.

Hakkani-Tür, Dilek / Tur, Gokhan / Levit, Michael: "Exploiting information extraction annotations for document retrieval in distillation tasks", 330-333.

Thambiratnam, K. / Seide, F.: "Learning spoken document similarity and recommendation using supervised probabilistic latent semantic analysis", 334-337.

Wallace, Roy / Vogt, Robbie / Sridharan, Sridha: "A phonetic search approach to the 2006 NIST spoken term detection evaluation", 2385-2388.

Itoh, Yoshiaki / Iwata, Kohei / Kojima, Kazunori / Ishigame, Masaaki / Tanaka, Kazuyo / Lee, Shi-wook: "An integration method of retrieval results using plural subword models for vocabulary-free spoken document retrieval", 2389-2392.

Vergyri, Dimitra / Shafran, Izhak / Stolcke, Andreas / Gadde, Ramana R. / Akbacak, Murat / Roark, Brian / Wang, Wen: "The SRI/OGI 2006 spoken term detection system", 2393-2396.

Goto, Masataka / Ogata, Jun / Eto, Kouichirou: "Podcastle: a web 2.0 approach to speech recognition research", 2397-2400.

Camelin, Nathalie / Béchet, Frédéric / Damnati, Géraldine / Mori, Renato De: "Speech mining in noisy audio message corpus", 2401-2404.

Shao, Jian / Zhao, Qingwei / Zhang, Pengyuan / Liu, Zhaojie / Yan, Yonghong: "A fast fuzzy keyword spotting algorithm based on syllable confusion network", 2405-2408.

Kim, Wooil / Hansen, John H. L.: "Advances in speechfind: transcript reliability estimation employing confidence measure based on discriminative sub-word model for SDR", 2409-2412.

Favre, Benoit / Bonastre, Jean-François / Bellot, Patrice: "An interactive timeline for speech database browsing", 2413-2416.

Speech Perception I, II

Yip, Michael C. W.: "Spoken word recognition of Chinese homophones: a further investigation", 362-365.

Wolters, Maria / Campbell, Pauline / DePlacido, Christine / Liddell, Amy / Owens, David: "The role of outer hair cell function in the perception of synthetic versus natural speech", 366-369.

Kusumoto, Akiko / Kain, Alexander B. / Hosom, John-Paul / Santen, Jan P. H. van: "Hybridizing conversational and clear speech", 370-373.

Dufour, Sophie / Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans: "Neighborhood density and neighborhood frequency effects in French spoken word recognition", 374-377.

Irino, Toshio / Aoki, Yoshie / Hayashi, Yoshie / Kawahara, Hideki / Patterson, Roy D.: "Discrimination and recognition of scaled word sounds", 378-381.

Tóth, László: "Benchmarking human performance on the acoustic and linguistic subtasks of ASR systems", 382-385.

Yang, Lin / Zhang, Jianping / Yan, Yonghong: "Contributions of temporal fine structure cues to Chinese speech recognition in cochlear implant simulation", 386-389.

Wu, Xihong / Chen, Jing / Yang, Zhigang / Huang, Qiang / Wang, Mengyuan / Li, Liang: "Effect of number of masking talkers on speech-on-speech masking in Chinese", 390-393.

Bagou, Odile / Dufour, Sophie / Fougeron, Cécile / Content, Alain / Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans: "Do different boundary types induce subtle acoustic cues to which French listeners are sensitive?", 394-397.

Stadler, Svante / Leijon, Arne / Hagerman, Björn: "An information theoretic approach to predict speech intelligibility for listeners with normal and impaired hearing", 398-401.

Wade, Travis / Möbius, Bernd: "Speaking rate effects in a landmark-based phonetic exemplar model", 402-405.

Maniwa, Kazumi / Jongman, Allard / Wade, Travis: "Acoustic correlates of intelligibility enhancements in clearly produced fricatives", 406-409.

Jürgens, Tim / Brand, Thomas / Kollmeier, Birger: "Modelling the human-machine gap in speech reception: microscopic speech intelligibility prediction for normal-hearing subjects with an auditory model", 410-413.

Ikeno, Ayako / Hansen, John H. L.: "Lombard speech impact on perceptual speaker recognition", 414-417.

Goy, Huiwen / Pichora-Fuller, Kathleen / Lieshout, Pascal van / Singh, Gurjit / Schneider, Bruce: "Effect of within- and between-talker variability on word identification in noise by younger and older adults", 418-421.

Bunnell, H. Timothy / Schanen, N. Carolyn / Vallino, Linda D. / Morlet, Thierry G. / Polikoff, James B. / Driscoll, Jennette D. / Mantell, James T.: "Speech perception in children with speech sound disorder", 422-425.

Wang, Huan / Hemmert, Werner: "Speech coding and information processing by auditory neurons", 426-429.

Gilbert, Annie C. / Boucher, Victor J.: "What do listeners attend to in hearing prosodic structures? investigating the human speech-parser using short-term recall", 430-433.

Brungart, Douglas S. / Iyer, Nandini: "Time-compressed speech perception with speech and noise maskers", 1581-1584.

Cutler, Anne / Cooke, Martin / Lecumberri, Maria Luisa Garcia / Pasveer, Dennis: "L2 consonant identification in noise: cross-language comparisons", 1585-1588.

Le, Jennifer T. / Best, Catherine T. / Tyler, Michael D. / Kroos, Christian: "Effects of non-native dialects on spoken word recognition", 1589-1592.

Meyer, Julien / Meunier, Fanny / Dentel, Laure: "Identification of natural whistled vowels by non-whistlers", 1593-1596.

Jesse, Alexandra / McQueen, James M.: "Prelexical adjustments to speaker idiosyncrasies: are they position-specific?", 1597-1600.

Mitterer, Holger: "Top-down effects on compensation for coarticulation are not replicable", 1601-1604.

Prosody: Prosodic Structure

Igarashi, Yosuke: "Pitch pattern alternation in goshogawara Japanese: evidence for a prosodic phrase above the domain for downstep", 434-437.

Nesterenko, Irina / Skrelin, Pavel: "Some evidence on the phonetics and phonology of prosodic phrasing in Russian", 438-441.

Volín, Jan / Skarnitzl, Radek: "Temporal downtrends in Czech read speech", 442-445.

Cho, Hyongsil / Hirst, Daniel: "Empirical evidence for prosodic phrasing: pauses as linguistic annotation in Korean read speech", 446-449.

Dreyer, Markus / Shafran, Izhak: "Exploiting prosody for PCFGs with latent annotations", 450-453.

Shi, Qin / Jiang, DanNing / Meng, FanPing / Qin, Yong: "Combining length distribution model with decision tree in prosodic phrase prediction", 454-457.

Yang, Li-chiung: "Duration and pauses as boundary-markers in speech: a cross-linguistic study", 458-461.

Prosodic Modeling I, II

Yu, Jian / Huang, Lixing / Tao, Jianhua / Wang, Xia: "Modeling incompletion phenomenon in Mandarin dialog prosody", 462-465.

Tamm, Anne / Abari, Kálmán / Olaszy, Gábor: "Accent assignment algorithm in Hungarian, based on syntactic analysis", 466-469.

Lin, Cheng-Yuan / Jao, Pei-Chi / Jang, J. -S. Roger: "An effective initial/final duration prediction method for corpus-based singing voice synthesis of Mandarin Chinese", 470-473.

Németh, Géza / Fék, Márk / Csapó, Tamás Gábor: "Increasing prosodic variability of text-to-speech synthesizers", 474-477.

Lolive, Damien / Barbot, Nelly / Boeffard, Olivier: "Unsupervised HMM classification of F0 curves", 478-481.

Read, Ian / Cox, Stephen: "Automatic pitch accent prediction for text-to-speech synthesis", 482-485.

Ni, Xinqiang / Chen, Yining / Soong, Frank K. / Chu, Min / Zhang, Ping: "An unsupervised approach to automatic prosodic annotation", 486-489.

Inanoglu, Zeynep / Young, Steve: "A system for transforming the emotion in speech: combining data-driven conversion techniques for prosody and voice quality", 490-493.

Chiang, Chen-Yu / Yu, Hsiu-Min / Wang, Yih-Ru / Chen, Sin-Horng: "An automatic prosody labeling method for Mandarin speech", 494-497.

Hirose, Keikichi / Ochi, Keiko / Minematsu, Nobuaki: "Corpus-based generation of prosodic features from text based on generation process model", 1274-1277.

Tian, Jilei / Nurminen, Jani / Kiss, Imre: "Novel eigenpitch-based prosody model for text-to-speech synthesis", 1278-1281.

Strom, Volker / Nenkova, Ani / Clark, Robert / Vazquez-Alvarez, Yolanda / Brenier, Jason / King, Simon / Jurafsky, Dan: "Modelling prominence and emphasis improves unit-selection synthesis", 1282-1285.

Takada, Seiya / Yagi, Yuji / Hirose, Keikichi / Minematsu, Nobuaki: "A framework of reply speech generation for concept-to-speech conversion in spoken dialogue systems", 1286-1289.

Stocksmeier, Thorsten / Kopp, Stefan / Gibbon, Dafydd: "Synthesis of prosodic attitudinal variants in German backchannel ja", 1290-1293.

Li, Ke / Greenberg, Yoko / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "Inter-language prosodic style modification experiment using word impression vector for communicative speech generation", 1294-1297.

Speech Analysis

Crammer, Koby: "A conservative aggressive subspace tracker", 498-501.

Nilsson, Mattias / Kleijn, W. Bastiaan: "Mutual information and the speech signal", 502-505.

Ezzat, Tony / Bouvrie, Jake / Poggio, Tomaso: "Spectro-temporal analysis of speech using 2-d Gabor filters", 506-509.

Dekens, Tomas / Demol, Mike / Verhelst, Werner / Verhoeve, Piet: "A comparative study of speech rate estimation techniques", 510-513.

Falk, Tiago H. / Yuan, Hua / Chan, Wai-Yip: "Spectro-temporal processing for blind estimation of reverberation time and single-ended quality measurement of reverberant speech", 514-517.

Spectral Analysis, Formants and Vocal Tract Models

Waterschoot, Toon van / Moonen, Marc: "Linear prediction of audio signals", 518-521.

Magi, Carlo / Bäckström, Tom / Alku, Paavo: "Stabilised weighted linear prediction - a robust all-pole method for speech processing", 522-525.

Rudoy, Daniel / Spendley, Daniel N. / Wolfe, Patrick J.: "Conditionally linear Gaussian models for estimating vocal tract resonances", 526-529.

Schnell, Karl / Lacroix, Arild: "Time-varying pre-emphasis and inverse filtering of speech", 530-533.

Thiemann, Joachim / Kabal, Peter: "Reconstructing audio signals from modified non-coherent hilbert envelopes", 534-537.

Nguyen, Binh Phu / Akagi, Masato: "A flexible spectral modification method based on temporal decomposition and Gaussian mixture model", 538-541.

Darch, Jonathan / Milner, Ben: "A comparison of estimated and MAP-predicted formants and fundamental frequencies with a speech reconstruction application", 542-545.

Deng, Huiqun / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Effect of incomplete glottal closures on estimates of glottal waves via inverse filtering of vowel sounds", 546-549.

Kalgaonkar, Kaustubh / Clements, Mark A.: "Vocal tract and area function estimation with both lip and glottal losses", 550-553.

, Guruprasad S. / , Yegnanarayana B. / , Sri Rama Murty K.: "Detection of instants of glottal closure using characteristics of excitation source", 554-557.

Sturmel, Nicolas / D'Alessandro, Christophe / Doval, Boris: "A comparative evaluation of the zeros of z transform representation for voice source estimation", 558-561.

Speech and Audio Processing for Intelligent Environments

Loenen, Evert van: "Paper 1315 was not available at the time of publication ambient intelligence - an overview", paper 0.

Härmä, Aki: "Ambient telephony: scenarios and research challenges", 562-565.

Obuchi, Yasunari / Amano, Akio: "Always listening to you: creating exhaustive audio database in home environments", 566-569.

Schmalenstroeer, Joerg / Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold: "Joint speaker segmentation, localization and identification for streaming audio", 570-573.

Lu, Yan-Chen / Cooke, Martin / Christensen, Heidi: "Active binaural distance estimation for dynamic sources", 574-577.

Borgström, Bengt J. / Alwan, Abeer: "A packetization and variable bitrate interframe compression scheme for vector quantizer-based distributed speech recognition", 578-581.

Wölfel, Matthias: "Channel selection by class separability measures for automatic transcriptions on distant microphones", 582-585.

Wyatt, Danny / Choudhury, Tanzeem / Bilmes, Jeff: "Conversation detection and speaker segmentation in privacy-sensitive situated speech data", 586-589.

Abad, Alberto / Segura, Carlos / Nadeu, Climent / Hernando, Javier: "Audio-based approaches to head orientation estimation in a smart-room", 590-593.

Ion, Valentin / Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold: "Multi-resolution soft features for channel-robust distributed speech recognition", 594-597.

Language Modeling I, II

Su, Yi / Jelinek, Frederick / Khudanpur, Sanjeev: "Large-scale random forest language models for speech recognition", 598-601.

Akita, Yuya / Nemoto, Yusuke / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "PLSA-based topic detection in meetings for adaptation of lexicon and language model", 602-605.

Sako, Atsushi / Takiguchi, Tetsuya / Ariki, Yasuo: "Language modeling using PLSA-based topic HMM", 606-609.

Pan, Yi-cheng / Lee, Lin-shan: "Lexicon adaptation with reduced character error (LARCE) - a new direction in Chinese language modeling", 610-613.

Wu, Meng-Sung / Chien, Jen-Tzung: "Minimum rank error training for language modeling", 614-617.

Wang, Wen / Stolcke, Andreas: "Integrating MAP, marginals, and unsupervised language model adaptation", 618-621.

Yamazaki, Hiroki / Iwano, Koji / Shinoda, Koichi / Furui, Sadaoki / Yokota, Haruo: "Dynamic language model adaptation using presentation slides for lecture speech recognition", 2349-2352.

Munteanu, Cosmin / Penn, Gerald / Baecker, Ron: "Web-based language modelling for automatic lecture transcription", 2353-2356.

Alumäe, Tanel / Kirt, Toomas: "LSA-based language model adaptation for highly inflected languages", 2357-2360.

Heidel, Aaron / Chang, Hung-an / Lee, Lin-shan: "Language model adaptation using latent dirichlet allocation and an efficient topic inference algorithm", 2361-2364.

Yaman, Sibel / Chien, Jen-Tzung / Lee, Chin-Hui: "Structural Bayesian language modeling and adaptation", 2365-2368.

Martins, Ciro / Teixeira, António J. S. / Neto, João: "Vocabulary selection for a broadcast news transcription system using a morpho-syntactic approach", 2369-2372.

Bach, Nguyen / Noamany, Mohamed / Lane, Ian / Schultz, Tanja: "Handling OOV words in Arabic ASR via flexible morphological constraints", 2373-2376.

Justo, Raquel / Torres, M. Inés: "Phrases in category-based language models for Spanish and basque ASR", 2377-2380.

Arısoy, Ebru / Sak, Haşim / Saraçlar, Murat: "Language modeling for automatic turkish broadcast news transcription", 2381-2384.

Prosody Production and Perception

Calhoun, Sasha: "Predicting focus through prominence structure", 622-625.

Bulut, Murtaza / Lee, Sungbok / Narayanan, Shrikanth S.: "Analysis of emotional speech prosody in terms of part of speech tags", 626-629.

Liu, Fang / Xu, Yi: "The neutral tone in question intonation in Mandarin", 630-633.

Rochet-Capellan, Amélie / Schwartz, Jean-Luc / Laboissière, Rafael / Galvàn, Arturo: "Pointing to a target while naming it with /pata/ or /tapa/: the effect of consonants and stress position on jaw-finger coordination", 634-637.

Hide, Øydis / Gillis, Steven / Govaerts, Paul: "Suprasegmental aspects of pre-lexical speech in cochlear implanted children", 638-641.

Niebuhr, Oliver: "Categorical perception in intonation: a matter of signal dynamics?", 642-645.

Multimodal Speech Recognition

Aboutabit, Noureddine / Beautemps, Denis / Clarke, Jeanne / Besacier, Laurent: "A HMM recognition of consonant-vowel syllables from lip contours: the cued speech case", 646-649.

Lucey, Patrick / Potamianos, Gerasimos / Sridharan, Sridha: "A unified approach to multi-pose audio-visual ASR", 650-653.

Seymour, Rowan / Stewart, Darryl / Ming, Ji: "Audio-visual integration for robust speech recognition using maximum weighted stream posteriors", 654-657.

Hueber, Thomas / Chollet, Gérard / Denby, Bruce / Dreyfus, Gérard / Stone, Maureen: "Continuous-speech phone recognition from ultrasound and optical images of the tongue and lips", 658-661.

Zhu, Bo / Hazen, Timothy J. / Glass, James: "Multimodal speech recognition with ultrasonic sensors", 662-665.

Dean, David / Lucey, Patrick / Sridharan, Sridha / Wark, Tim: "Fused HMM-adaptation of multi-stream HMMs for audio-visual speech recognition", 666-669.

Speech and Other Modalities

Ishi, Carlos T. / Ishiguro, Hiroshi / Hagita, Norihiro: "Analysis of head motions and speech in spoken dialogue", 670-673.

Larsen, Lars Bo / Jensen, Kasper L. / Larsen, Søren / Rasmussen, Morten: "A paradigm for mobile speech-centric services", 674-677.

Campr, Pavel / Hrúz, Marek / Železný, Miloš: "Design and recording of Czech sign language corpus for automatic sign language recognition", 678-681.

Edlund, Jens / Beskow, Jonas: "Pushy versus meek - using avatars to influence turn-taking behaviour", 682-685.

Wand, Michael / Jou, Szu-Chen Stan / Schultz, Tanja: "Wavelet-based front-end for electromyographic speech recognition", 686-689.

Ferré, Gaëlle / Bertrand, Roxane / Blache, Philippe / Espesser, Robert / Rauzy, Stéphane: "Intensive gestures in French and their multimodal correlates", 690-693.

Ouni, Slim / Ouni, Kais: "Aspects of visual speech in Arabic", 694-697.

Burnham, Denis / Reynolds, Jessica / Vignali, Guillaume / Bollwerk, Sandra / Jones, Caroline: "Rigid vs non-rigid face and head motion in phone and tone perception", 698-701.

Multimodal/Multimedia Signal Processing

Kjellström, Hedvig / Engwall, Olov / Abdou, Sherif Mahdy / Bälter, Olle: "Audio-visual phoneme classification for pronunciation training applications", 702-705.

Grauwinkel, Katja / Dewitt, Britta / Fagel, Sascha: "Visual information and redundancy conveyed by internal articulator dynamics in synthetic audiovisual speech", 706-709.

Zhou, Wei / Wang, Zengfu: "A speech rate related lip movement model for speech animation", 710-713.

Wu, Guanyong / Zhu, Jie: "An extension 2DPCA based visual feature extraction method for audio-visual speech recognition", 714-717.

Lee, Soo-jong / Park, Jun / Kim, Eung-kyeu: "Preventing an external acoustic noise from being misrecognized as a speech recognition object by confirming the lip movement image signal", 718-721.

Hofer, Gregor / Shimodaira, Hiroshi: "Automatic head motion prediction from speech data", 722-725.

Denda, Yuki / Nishiura, Takanobu / Yamashita, Yoichi: "Omnidirectional audio-visual talker localizer with dynamic feature fusion based on validity and reliability criteria", 726-729.

Campbell, Nick / Douxchamps, Damien: "Processing image and audio information for recognising discourse participation status through features of face and voice", 730-733.

Speech Enhancement

Wójcicki, Kamil K. / So, Stephen / Paliwal, Kuldip K.: "The effect of the additivity assumption on time and frequency domain wiener filtering for speech enhancement", 798-801.

Li, Junfeng / Sakamoto, Shuichi / Hongo, Satoshi / Akagi, Masato / Suzuki, Yôiti: "Noise reduction based on adaptive β-order generalized spectral subtraction for speech enhancement", 802-805.

Das, Amit / Hansen, John H. L.: "Class constrained ROVER based speech enhancement", 806-809.

Deger, Erhan / Molla, Md. Khademul Islam / Hirose, Keikichi / Minematsu, Nobuaki / Hasan, Md. Kamrul: "EMD based soft-thresholding for speech enhancement", 810-813.

Borowicz, Adam / Petrovsky, Alexander: "An approximate solution for perceptually constrained signal subspace speech enhancement method", 814-817.

Fingscheidt, Tim / Suhadi, Suhadi: "Quality assessment of speech enhancement systems by separation of enhanced speech, noise, and echo", 818-821.

Aicha, Anis Ben / Jebara, Sofia Ben: "Perceptual musical noise reduction using critical bands tonality coefficients and masking thresholds", 822-825.

Mauler, Dirk / Nagathil, Anil M. / Martin, Rainer: "On optimal estimation of compressed speech for hearing aids", 826-829.

Hendriks, Richard C. / Jensen, Jesper / Heusdens, Richard: "DFT domain subspace based noise tracking for speech enhancement", 830-833.

Krishnamurthy, Nitish / Hansen, John H. L.: "Noise tracking for speech systems in adverse environments", 834-837.

Essebbar, Abderrahman / Poinsard, Tristan: "Speech enhancement using multi-reference noise reduction in a vehicle environment", 838-841.

Warsitz, Ernst / Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold / Vu, Dang Hai Tran: "Blind adaptive principal eigenvector beamforming for acoustical source separation", 842-845.

Koldovský, Zbyněk / Tichavský, Petr: "Time-domain blind audio source separation using advanced ICA methods", 846-849.

Lee, S. W. / Soong, Frank K. / Ching, P. C.: "Model-based speech separation with single-microphone input", 850-853.

Kinoshita, Keisuke / Delcroix, Marc / Nakatani, Tomohiro / Miyoshi, Masato: "Multi-step linear prediction based speech dereverberation in noisy reverberant environment", 854-857.

Lee, Seung Yeol / Shin, Jong Won / Yun, Hwan Sik / Kim, Nam Soo: "A statistical model based post-filtering algorithm for residual echo suppression", 858-861.

Huang, Xiaoshan / Zhao, Xiaoqun: "An optimal speech enhancement under speech uncertainty probability and masking property of auditory system", 862-865.

Structure-based and Template-based Automatic Speech Recognition

Maier, Viktoria / Moore, Roger K.: "Temporal episodic memory model: an evolution of minerva2", 866-869.

Coro, Gianpaolo / Cutugno, Francesco / Caropreso, Fulvio: "Speech recognition with factorial-HMM syllabic acoustic models", 870-873.

Wachter, Mathias De / Demuynck, Kris / Wambacq, Patrick / Compernolle, Dirk Van: "Evaluating acoustic distance measures for template based recognition", 874-877.

Han, Yan / Boves, Lou: "Hierarchical acoustic modeling based on random-effects regression for automatic speech recognition", 878-881.

Hämäläinen, Annika / Bosch, Louis ten / Boves, Lou: "Construction and analysis of multiple paths in syllable models", 882-885.

Espy-Wilson, Carol Y. / Pruthi, Tarun / Juneja, Amit / Deshmukh, Om: "Landmark-based approach to speech recognition: an alternative to HMMs", 886-889.

Asakawa, Satoshi / Minematsu, Nobuaki / Hirose, Keikichi: "Automatic recognition of connected vowels only using speaker-invariant representation of speech dynamics", 890-893.

Togneri, Roberto / Deng, Li: "A structured speech model parameterized by recursive dynamics and neural networks", 894-897.

Deng, Li / Strik, Helmer: "Structure-based and template-based automatic speech recognition - comparing parametric and non-parametric approaches", 898-901.

Grangier, David / Bengio, Samy: "Learning the inter-frame distance for discriminative template-based keyword detection", 902-905.

Yu, Dong / Deng, Li / Acero, Alex: "Handling phonetic context and speaker variation in a structure-based speech recognizer", 906-909.

Robust ASR Against Noise and Reverberation

Segbroeck, Maarten Van / hamme, Hugo Van: "Vector-quantization based mask estimation for missing data automatic speech recognition", 910-913.

Demange, Sébastien / Cerisara, Christophe / Haton, Jean-Paul: "Accurate marginalization range for missing data recognition", 914-917.

Kühne, Marco / Togneri, Roberto / Nordholm, Sven: "Smooth soft mel-spectrographic masks based on blind sparse source separation", 918-921.

Laidler, Jonathan / Cooke, Martin / Lawrence, Neil D.: "Model-driven detection of clean speech patches in noise", 922-925.

Stern, Richard M. / Gouvêa, Evandro B. / Thattai, Govindarajan: ""polyaural" array processing for automatic speech recognition in degraded environments", 926-929.

Morales, Nicolás / Gu, Liang / Gao, Yuqing: "Adding noise to improve noise robustness in speech recognition", 930-933.

Language Resources and Tools

Fosler-Lussier, Eric / Dilley, Laura / Tyson, Na'im / Pitt, Mark: "The buckeye corpus of speech: updates and enhancements", 934-937.

Barroso, N. / Ezeiza, A. / Gilisagasti, N. / Ipiña, K. López de / López, A. / López, J. M.: "Development of multimodal resources for multilingual information retrieval in the basque context", 938-941.

Schwartz, Reva / Shen, Wade / Campbell, Joseph / Paget, Shelley / Vonwiller, Julie / Estival, Dominique / Cieri, Christopher: "Construction of a phonotactic dialect corpus using semiautomatic annotation", 942-945.

Abdennadher, Slim / Aly, Mohamed / Bühler, Dirk / Minker, Wolfgang / Pittermann, Johannes: "BECAM tool - a semi-automatic tool for bootstrapping emotion corpus annotation and management", 946-949.

Cieri, Christopher / Corson, Linda / Graff, David / Walker, Kevin: "Resources for new research directions in speaker recognition: the mixer 3, 4 and 5 corpora", 950-953.

Heeman, Peter A. / McMillin, Andy / Yaruss, J. Scott: "Intercoder reliability in annotating complex disfluencies", 954-957.

Single-channel Speech Enhancement

Radfar, M. H. / Dansereau, R. M.: "Single channel speech separation using maximum a posteriori estimation", 958-961.

Suhadi, Suhadi / Fingscheidt, Tim: "Speech enhancement with improved a posteriori SNR computation", 962-965.

Tat, Thang Vu / Seide, Germine / Unoki, Masashi / Akagi, Masato: "Method of LP-based blind restoration for improving intelligibility of bone-conducted speech", 966-969.

Falk, Tiago H. / Stadler, Svante / Kleijn, W. Bastiaan / Chan, Wai-Yip: "Noise suppression based on extending a speech-dominated modulation band", 970-973.

Abolhassani, Amin Haji / Selouani, Sid-Ahmed / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas / Harkat, Mohamed-Faouzi: "Speech enhancement using PCA and variance of the reconstruction error model identification", 974-977.

Shin, Jong Won / Lim, Woohyung / Sung, Junesig / Kim, Nam Soo: "Speech reinforcement based on partial specific loudness", 978-981.

Phonetics and Phonology

Rathcke, Tamara / Harrington, Jonathan: "The phonetics and phonology of high and low tones in two falling f0-contours in standard German", 982-985.

John, Tina / Harrington, Jonathan: "Temporal alignment of creaky voice in neutralised realisations of an underlying, post-nasal voicing contrast in German", 986-989.

Demol, Mike / Verhelst, Werner / Verhoeve, Piet: "The duration of speech pauses in a multilingual environment", 990-993.

Gibbon, Dafydd / Bachan, Jolanta / Demenko, Grażyna: "Syllable timing patterns in Polish: results from annotation mining", 994-997.

Kalimeris, Constandinos / Bakamidis, Stelios: "Minimal pairs and functional loads of sound contrasts obtained from a list of modern greek words", 998-1001.

Wissing, Daan: "More on acoustic correlates of stress", 1002-1005.

Woehrling, Cécile / Mareüil, Philippe Boula de: "Comparing praat and snack formant measurements on two large corpora of northern and southern French", 1006-1009.

Barry, William / Andreeva, Bistra / Steiner, Ingmar: "The phonetic exponency of phrasal accentuation in French and German", 1010-1013.

Christodoulou, Christiana: "Phonetic geminates in cypriot greek: the case of voiceless plosives", 1014-1017.

Williams, Darcie / Poiré, François: "Predicting vowel duration in spontaneous canadian French speech", 1018-1021.

Chow, Ivan / Poiré, François: "Rhotic variation and schwa epenthesis in windsor French", 1022-1025.

Bürki, Audrey / Fougeron, Cécile / Gendrot, Cédric: "On the categorical nature of the process involved in schwa elision in French", 1026-1029.

Hu, Yue-Ning / Chu, Min / Huang, Chao / Zhang, Yan-Ning: "Exploring tonal variations via context-dependent tone models", 1030-1033.

Martin, Philippe / Li, Jun: "Acoustic analysis of the neutral tone in Mandarin", 1034-1037.

Ho, Rerrario Shui-Ching / Sagisaka, Yoshinori: "F₀ analysis of perceptual distance among Cantonese level tones", 1038-1041.

Features for ASR

Hsu, Chang-wen / Lee, Lin-shan: "Extended powered cepstral normalization (p-CN) with range equalization for robust features in speech recognition", 1106-1109.

Sakai, Makoto / Kitaoka, Norihide / Nakagawa, Seiichi: "Selection of optimal dimensionality reduction method using chernoff bound for segmental unit input HMM", 1110-1113.

Tyagi, Vivek: "Fepstrum: an improved modulation spectrum for ASR", 1114-1117.

Macho, Dušan: "Narrowband to wideband feature expansion for robust multilingual ASR", 1118-1121.

Li, Weifeng / Bourlard, Hervé: "Non-linear spectral contrast stretching for in-car speech recognition", 1122-1125.

Li, Xiao-Bing / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas: "Clustering-based two-dimensional linear discriminant analysis for speech recognition", 1126-1129.

Kubo, Yotaro / Okawa, Shigeki / Kurematsu, Akira / Shirai, Katsuhiko: "A study on temporal features derived by analytic signal", 1130-1133.

Zahorian, Stephen A. / Singh, Tara / Hu, Hongbing: "Dimensionality reduction of speech features using nonlinear principal components analysis", 1134-1137.

Sanand, D. R. / Kumar, D. Dinesh / Umesh, S.: "Linear transformation approach to VTLN using dynamic frequency warping", 1138-1141.

Alencar, Vladimir Fabregas Surigué de / Alcaim, Abraham: "Features interpolation domain for distributed speech recognition and performance for ITU-t g.723.1 CODEC", 1142-1145.

Sato, Shoei / Onoe, Kazuo / Kobayashi, Akio / Homma, Shinich / Imai, Toru / Takagi, Tohru / Kobayashi, Tetsunori: "Dynamic integration of multiple feature streams for robust real-time LVCSR", 1146-1149.

Matsumasa, Hironori / Takiguchi, Tetsuya / Ariki, Yasuo / Li, Ichao / Nakabayashi, Toshitaka: "PCA-based feature extraction for fluctuation in speaking style of articulation disorders", 1150-1153.

Valente, Fabio / Vepa, Jithendra / Hermansky, Hynek: "Multi-stream features combination based on dempster-shafer rule for LVCSR system", 1154-1157.

Singh-Miller, Natasha / Collins, Michael / Hazen, Timothy J.: "Dimensionality reduction for speech recognition using neighborhood components analysis", 1158-1161.

Su, Dan / Wu, Xihong / Chi, Huisheng: "Probabilistic latent speaker analysis for large vocabulary speech recognition", 1162-1165.

Prasanna, S. R. Mahadeva / Hermansky, Hynek: "MRASTA and PLP in automatic speech recognition", 1166-1169.

Objective Assessment of Voice and Speech Quality

Brückl, Markus: "Women's vocal aging: a longitudinal approach", 1170-1173.

Cnockaert, Laurence / Schoentgen, Jean / Ozsancak, Canan / Auzou, Pascal / Grenez, Francis: "Effect of intensive voice therapy on vocal tremor for parkinson speakers", 1174-1177.

Alpan, A. / Kacha, A. / Grenez, Francis / Schoentgen, Jean: "Assessment of vocal dysperiodicities in connected disordered speech", 1178-1181.

Laukkanen, Anne-Maria / Horáček, Jaromír / Švancara, Pavel / Lehtinen, Elina: "Effects of FE modelled consequences of tonsillectomy on perceptual evaluation of voice", 1182-1185.

Leeuw, Irma M. Verdonck-de / Bosch, Louis ten / Chao, Li Ying / Rinkel, Rico N. P. M. / Borggreven, Pepijn A. / Boves, Lou / Leemans, C. René: "Speech quality after major surgery of the oral cavity and oropharynx with microvascular soft tissue reconstruction", 1186-1189.

Bruijn, Christel de / Whiteside, Sandra: "Voice fatigue and use of speech recognition: a study of voice quality ratings", 1190-1193.

Bonastre, Jean-François / Fredouille, Corinne / Ghio, A. / Giovanni, A. / Pouchoulin, G. / Révis, J. / Teston, B. / Yu, P.: "Complementary approaches for voice disorder assessment", 1194-1197.

Pouchoulin, G. / Fredouille, Corinne / Bonastre, Jean-François / Ghio, A. / Giovanni, A.: "Frequency study for the characterization of the dysphonic voices", 1198-1201.

Boucher, Victor J.: "Acoustic correlates of laryngeal-muscle fatigue: findings for a phonometric prevention of acquired voice pathologies", 1202-1205.

Maier, Andreas / Schuster, Maria / Batliner, Anton / Nöth, Elmar / Nkenke, Emeka: "Automatic scoring of the intelligibility in patients with cancer of the oral cavity", 1206-1209.

Duchateau, Jacques / Cleuren, Leen / hamme, Hugo Van / Ghesquière, Pol: "Automatic assessment of children's reading level", 1210-1213.

Ferrer, Carlos / Hernández-Díaz, María E. / González, Eduardo: "Using waveform matching techniques in the measurement of shimmer in voiced signals", 1214-1217.

Fraile, R. / Godino-Llorente, J. I. / Sáenz-Lechón, N. / Osma-Ruiz, V. / Gómez-Vilda, P.: "Analysis of the impact of analogue telephone channel on MFCC parameters for voice pathology detection", 1218-1221.

Manfredi, C. / Bocchi, L. / Cantarella, G. / Peretti, G. / Guidi, G. / Mezzatesta, V.: "Objective parameters from videokymographic images: a user-friendly interface", 1222-1225.

Discourse, Dialog and Emotion Expression

House, David: "Integrating audio and visual cues for speaker friendliness in multimodal speech synthesis", 1250-1253.

Wesseling, Wieneke / Son, R. J. J. H. van / Pols, Louis C. W.: "The influence of masking words on the prediction of TRPs in a shadowed dialog", 1254-1257.

Laskowski, Kornel / Burger, Susanne: "Analysis of the occurrence of laughter in meetings", 1258-1261.

Barkhuysen, Pashiera / Krahmer, Emiel / Swerts, Marc: "Incremental perception of acted and real emotional speech", 1262-1265.

Schlangen, David / Fernández, Raquel: "Speaking through a noisy channel - experiments on inducing clarification behaviour in human-human dialogue", 1266-1269.

D'Alessandro, Christophe / Rilliard, Albert / Beux, Sylvain Le: "Computerized chironomy: evaluation of hand-controlled intonation reiteration", 1270-1273.

Resource Acquisition and Preparation; Resource and System Evaluation

Habernal, Ivan / Konopík, Miloslav: "JAAE: the java abstract annotation editor", 1298-1301.

Nagino, Goshu / Shozakai, Makoto / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "How to judge reusability of existing speech corpora for target task by utilizing statistical multidimensional scaling", 1302-1305.

Rutten, Peter: "Feasibility of constructing an expressive speech corpus from television soap opera dialogue", 1306-1309.

Orr, Rosemary / Llinares, Bernat González i / Petersen, Françoise / Hüttenrauch, Helge / Böcker, Martin / Tate, Michael: "Collection of empirical data for standardization of generic vocabularies in speech driven ICT devices and services", 1310-1313.

Selmini, Antonio Marcos / Violaro, Fábio: "Acoustic-phonetic features for refining the explicit speech segmentation", 1314-1317.

Lecouteux, B. / Linarès, Georges / Beaugendre, Frédéric / Nocera, Pascal: "Text island spotting in large speech databases", 1318-1321.

Paek, Tim / Ju, Yun-Cheng / Meek, Christopher: "People watcher: a game for eliciting human-transcribed data for automated directory assistance", 1322-1325.

Kun, Andrew / Paek, Tim / Medenica, Zeljko: "The effect of speech interface accuracy on driving performance", 1326-1329.

Zhang, Hua / Wang, Lijuan / Soong, Frank K. / Liu, Wenju: "Context constrained-generalized posterior probability for verifying phone transcriptions", 1330-1333.

Angkititrakul, Pongtep / Kwak, DongGu / Choi, SangJo / Kim, JeongHee / PhucPhan, Anh / Sathyanarayana, Amardeep / Hansen, John H. L.: "Getting start with UTDrive: driver-behavior modeling and assessment of distraction for in-vehicle speech systems", 1334-1337.

Kolluru, BalaKrishna / Gotoh, Yoshihiko: "Relative evaluation of informativeness in machine generated summaries", 1338-1341.

Takezawa, Toshiyuki / Mizushima, Masahide / Shimizu, Tohru / Kikui, Genichiro: "A method for evaluating task-oriented spoken dialog translation systems based on communication efficiency", 1342-1345.

Hooijdonk, Charlotte van / Commandeur, Edwin / Cozijn, Reinier / Krahmer, Emiel / Marsi, Erwin: "Using eye movements for online evaluation of speech synthesis", 1346-1349.

Li, Jian / Sityaev, Dmitry / Hao, Jie: "Sentence level intelligibility evaluation for Mandarin text-to-speech systems using semantically unpredictable sentences", 1350-1353.

Kessens, Judith / Leeuwen, David A. van: "N-best: the northern- and southern-dutch benchmark evaluation of speech recognition technology", 1354-1357.

Holter, Trym / Sørsdal, Svein: "A MAP based approach to adaptive speech intelligibility measurements", 1358-1361.

Boonsuk, Sirinoot / Punyabukkana, Proadpran / Suchato, Atiwong: "Phone boundary detection using selective refinements and context-dependent acoustic features", 1362-1365.

ASR: New Paradigms

Tan, Tien-Ping / Besacier, Laurent: "Modeling context and language variation for non-native speech recognition", 1429-1432.

Zhao, Xufang / O'Shaughnessy, Douglas: "An evaluation of cross-language adaptation and native speech training for rapid HMM construction based on very limited training data", 1433-1436.

Markov, Konstantin / Nakamura, Satoshi: "Never-ending learning with dynamic hidden Markov network", 1437-1440.

Breslin, C. / Gales, M. J. F.: "Building multiple complementary systems using directed decision trees", 1441-1444.

Nanjo, Hiroaki / Oku, Yuichi / Yoshimi, Takehiko: "Automatic speech recognition framework for multilingual audio contents", 1445-1448.

Bouselmi, G. / Fohr, Dominique / Illina, I.: "Combined acoustic and pronunciation modelling for non-native speech recognition", 1449-1452.

Emori, Tadashi / Onishi, Yoshifumi / Shinoda, Koichi: "Automatic estimation of scaling factors among probabilistic models in speech recognition", 1453-1456.

Stoimenov, Emilian / McDonough, John: "Memory efficient modeling of polyphone context with weighted finite-state transducers", 1457-1460.

Pylypenko, Valeriy: "Extra large vocabulary continuous speech recognition algorithm based on information retrieval", 1461-1464.

Hetherington, I. Lee: "PocketSUMMIT: small-footprint continuous speech recognition", 1465-1468.

Cincarek, Tobias / Shindo, Izumi / Toda, Tomoki / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Development of preschool children subsystem for ASR and q&a in a real-environment speech-oriented guidance task", 1469-1472.

Ma, Chengyuan / Lee, Chin-Hui: "A study on word detector design and knowledge-based pruning and rescoring", 1473-1476.

Colthurst, Thomas / Arvizo, Tresi / Kao, Chia-Lin / Kimball, Owen / Lowe, Stephen A. / Miller, David R. H. / Sciver, Jim Van: "Parameter tuning for fast speech recognition", 1477-1480.

Bosch, Louis ten / Cranen, Bert: "A computational model for unsupervised word discovery", 1481-1484.

Meyer, Bernd T. / Wächter, Matthias / Brand, Thomas / Kollmeier, Birger: "Phoneme confusions in human and automatic speech recognition", 1485-1488.

Ohta, Kengo / Tsuchiya, Masatoshi / Nakagawa, Seiichi: "Construction of spoken language model including fillers using filler prediction model", 1489-1492.

Kumaran, Raghunandan / Bilmes, Jeff / Kirchhoff, Katrin: "Attention shift decoding for conversational speech recognition", 1493-1496.

Speech and Language Technology for Less-resourced Languages

Mihajlik, Péter / Fegyó, Tibor / Tüske, Zoltán / Ircing, Pavel: "A morpho-graphemic approach for the recognition of spontaneous speech in agglutinative languages - like Hungarian", 1497-1500.

Yang, Mei / Zheng, Jing / Kathol, Andreas: "A semi-supervised learning approach for morpheme segmentation for an Arabic dialect", 1501-1504.

Huyssteen, Gerhard B. van / Puttkammer, Martin J.: "Accelerating the annotation of lexical data for less-resourced languages", 1505-1508.

Draxler, Christoph: "On web-based creation of speech resources for less-resourced languages", 1509-1512.

Martinović, Miroslav / Vesić, Srdjan / Rakić, Goran: "Building an information retrieval system for serbian - challenges and solutions", 1513-1516.

Pauw, Guy De / Wagacha, Peter Waiganjo: "Bootstrapping morphological analysis of gĩkũyũ using unsupervised maximum entropy learning", 1517-1520.

Gros, Jerneja Žganec / Gruden, Stanislav: "The voiceTRAN machine translation system", 1521-1524.

Paulo, Sérgio / Oliveira, Luís C.: "MuLAS: a framework for automatically building multi-tier corpora", 1525-1528.

Ringersma, Jacquelijn / Kemps-Snijders, Marc: "Creating multimedia dictionaries of endangered languages using LEXUS", 1529-1532.

Loftsson, Hrafn / Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur: "IceNLP: a natural language processing toolkit for icelandic", 1533-1536.

Peche, Marius / Davel, Marelie / Barnard, Etienne: "Phonotactic spoken language identification with limited training data", 1537-1540.

Abate, Solomon Teferra / Menzel, Wolfgang: "Automatic speech recognition for an under-resourced language - amharic", 1541-1544.

Nimaan, Abdillahi / Nocera, Pascal / Béchet, Frédéric / Bonastre, Jean-François: "Information retrieval strategies for accessing african audio corpora", 1545-1548.

Siivola, Vesa / Creutz, Mathias / Kurimo, Mikko: "Morfessor and variKN machine learning tools for speech and language technology", 1549-1552.

Jongtaveesataporn, Markpong / Thienlikit, Issara / Wutiwiwatchai, Chai / Furui, Sadaoki: "Towards better language modeling for Thai LVCSR", 1553-1556.

Spoken Language Understanding

Raymond, Christian / Riccardi, Giuseppe: "Generative and discriminative algorithms for spoken language understanding", 1605-1608.

Iosif, Elias / Potamianos, Alexandros: "A soft-clustering algorithm for automatic induction of semantic classes", 1609-1612.

Gravano, Agustín / Benus, Stefan / Hirschberg, Julia / Mitchell, Shira / Vovsha, Ilia: "Classification of discourse functions of affirmative words in spoken dialogue", 1613-1616.

Minescu, Bogdan / Damnati, Géraldine / Béchet, Frédéric / Mori, Renato De: "Conditional use of word lattices, confusion networks and 1-best string hypotheses in a sequential interpretation strategy", 1617-1620.

Kolář, Jáchym / Liu, Yang / Shriberg, Elizabeth: "Speaker adaptation of language models for automatic dialog act segmentation of meetings", 1621-1624.

Albalate, Amparo / Dimitrov, Dimitar / Pieraccini, Roberto: "Unsupervised categorisation approaches for technical support automated agents", 1625-1628.

Pitch Extraction I, II

Wohlmayr, Michael / Képesi, Marián: "Joint position-pitch extraction from multichannel audio", 1629-1632.

Kim, Hyun Soo: "Morphological pre-processing technique and its applications on speech signal", 1633-1636.

Pelle, Patricia A. / Estienne, Claudio F.: "A pitch extraction system based on phase locked loops and consensus decision", 1637-1640.

Legát, Milan / Matoušek, Jindřich / Tihelka, Daniel: "A robust multi-phase pitch-mark detection algorithm", 1641-1644.

Molla, Md. Khademul Islam / Hirose, Keikichi / Minematsu, Nobuaki / Hasan, Md. Kamrul: "Pitch estimation of noisy speech signals using empirical mode decomposition", 1645-1648.

Hirst, Daniel / Cho, Hyongsil / Kim, Sunhee / Yu, Hyunji: "Evaluating two versions of the momel pitch modelling algorithm on a corpus of read speech in Korean", 1649-1652.

Hussein, Hussein / Jokisch, Oliver: "Hybrid electroglottograph and speech signal based algorithm for pitch marking", 1653-1656.

Droppo, Jasha / Acero, Alex: "A fine pitch model for speech", 2757-2760.

Ghosh, Prasanta Kumar / Ortega, Antonio / Narayanan, Shrikanth S.: "Pitch period estimation using multipulse model and wavelet transform", 2761-2764.

Heckmann, Martin / Joublin, Frank / Goerick, Christian: "Combining rate and place information for robust pitch extraction", 2765-2768.

Christensen, Heidi / Ma, Ning / Wrigley, Stuart N. / Barker, Jon: "Integrating pitch and localisation cues at a speech fragment level", 2769-2772.

Liénard, Jean-Sylvain / Signol, François / Barras, Claude: "Speech fundamental frequency estimation using the alternate comb", 2773-2776.

Rosenberg, Andrew / Hirschberg, Julia: "Detecting pitch accent using pitch-corrected energy-based predictors", 2777-2780.

Speech Coding and Transmission

Chatterjee, Saikat / Sreenivas, T. V.: "Normalized two stage SVQ for minimum complexity wide-band LSF quantization", 1657-1660.

Zhang, Peng / Bao, Chang-chun: "A novel 2kb/s waveform interpolation speech coder based on non-negative matrix factorization", 1661-1664.

Ismail, Ahmed / Dakroury, Yasser / Abbas, Hazem: "A novel energy distribution comparison approach for robust speech spectrum vector quantization", 1665-1668.

Ismail, Ahmed / Dakroury, Yasser / Abbas, Hazem: "Novel low-band phase representation for low bit-rate speech coding", 1669-1672.

Wu, Chun-Feng / Lee, Cheng-Lung / Chang, Wen-Whei: "Perceptual-based playout mechanisms for multi-stream voice over IP networks", 1673-1676.

Zopf, Robert / Thyssen, Jes / Chen, Juin-Hwey: "Time-warping and re-phasing in packet loss concealment", 1677-1680.

Agiomyrgiannakis, Yannis / Stylianou, Yannis: "The harmonic model codec (HMC) framework for voIP", 1681-1684.

Agiomyrgiannakis, Yannis / Stylianou, Yannis: "Bit-erasure channel decoding for GMM-based multiple description coding", 1685-1688.

Yuan, Hua / Falk, Tiago H. / Chan, Wai-Yip: "Degradation-classification assisted single-ended quality measurement of speech", 1689-1692.

Raake, Alexander / Spors, Sascha / Ahrens, Jens / Ajmera, Jitendra: "Concept and evaluation of a downward-compatible system for spatial teleconferencing using automatic speaker clustering", 1693-1696.

Lee, Min-Ki / Kim, Kyung-Tae / Kang, Hong-Goo / Youn, Dae Hee: "Speech quality estimation using packet loss effects in CELP-type speech coders", 1697-1700.

Oshikiri, Masahiro / Ehara, Hiroyuki / Morii, Toshiyuki / Yamanashi, Tomofumi / Satoh, Kaoru / Yoshida, Koji: "An 8-32 kbit/s scalable wideband coder extended with MDCT-based bandwidth extension on top of a 6.8 kbit/s narrowband CELP coder", 1701-1704.

Topics in Acoustic Modeling

Wielgat, Robert / Zieliński, Tomasz P. / Świętojański, Paweł / Żołądź, Piotr / Król, Daniel / Woźniak, Tomasz / Grabias, Stanisław: "Comparison of HMM and DTW methods in automatic recognition of pathological phoneme pronunciation", 1705-1708.

Yu, K. / Gales, M. J. F. / Woodland, P. C.: "Unsupervised training with directed manual transcription for recognising Mandarin broadcast audio", 1709-1712.

Wu, Hao / Wu, Xihong: "Context dependent syllable acoustic model for continuous Chinese speech recognition", 1713-1716.

Oikonomidis, Dimitris / Diakoloukas, Vassilis / Digalakis, Vassilis: "A sub-optimal viterbi-like search for linear dynamic models classification", 1717-1720.

Heigold, Georg / Schlüter, Ralf / Ney, Hermann: "On the equivalence of Gaussian HMM and Gaussian HMM-like hidden conditional random fields", 1721-1724.

Scanzio, Stefano / Laface, Pietro / Gemello, Roberto / Mana, Franco: "Speeding-up neural network training using sentence and frame selection", 1725-1728.

Liu, Linquan / Zheng, Thomas Fang / Akabane, Makoto / Chen, Ruxin / Wu, Wenhu: "Using a small development set to build a robust dialectal Chinese speech recognizer", 1729-1732.

Confidence Measures (and Related Topics)

Molina, Carlos / Yoma, Nestor Becerra / Huenupán, Fernando / Garreton, Claudio: "Unsupervised re-scoring of observation probability in viterbi based on reinforcement learning by using confidence measure and HMM neighborhood", 1733-1736.

Lin, Shiuan-Sung / Yvon, François: "Optimization on decoding graphs by discriminative training", 1737-1740.

Huet, Stéphane / Gravier, Guillaume / Sébillot, Pascale: "Morphosyntactic processing of n-best lists for improved recognition and confidence measure computation", 1741-1744.

Li, Xiang / Huerta, Juan M.: "How predictable is ASR confidence in dialog applications?", 1745-1748.

Allauzen, Alexandre: "Error detection in confusion network", 1749-1752.

Oba, Takanobu / Hori, Takaaki / Nakamura, Atsushi: "An approach to efficient generation of high-accuracy and compact error-corrective models for speech recognition", 1753-1756.

Ketabdar, Hamed / Hannemann, Mirko / Hermansky, Hynek: "Detection of out-of-vocabulary words in posterior based ASR", 1757-1760.

Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion

Braga, Daniela / Coelho, Luís / , Fernando Gil V. Resende Jr.: "Homograph ambiguity resolution in front-end design for portuguese TTS systems", 1761-1764.

Choueiter, Ghinwa F. / Seneff, Stephanie / Glass, James: "New word acquisition using subword modeling", 1765-1768.

Thomas, Samuel / Verma, Ashish: "Language identification of person names using CF-IOF based weighing function", 1769-1772.

Heuvel, Henk van den / Martens, Jean-Pierre / Konings, Nanneke: "G2p conversion of names: what can we do (better)?", 1773-1776.

Thangthai, Ausdang / Wutiwiwatchai, Chai / Ragchatjaroen, Anocha / Saychum, Sittipong: "A learning method for Thai phonetization of English words", 1777-1780.

Werner, Steffen / Hoffmann, Rüdiger: "Spontaneous speech synthesis by pronunciation variant selection - a comparison to natural speech", 1781-1784.

Tsourakis, Nikos / Digalakis, Vassilis: "A generic methodology of converting transliterated text to phonetic strings case study: greeklish", 1785-1788.

Singh, Rita / Gouvêa, Evandro B. / Raj, Bhiksha: "Probabilistic deduction of symbol mappings for extension of lexicons", 1789-1792.

Lexical and Prosodic Modeling

Astrov, Sergey / Hofer, Joachim / Höge, Harald: "Use of syllable center detection for improved duration modeling in Chinese Mandarin connected digits recognition", 1793-1796.

Pellegrini, Thomas / Lamel, Lori: "Using phonetic features in unsupervised word decompounding for ASR with application to a less-represented language", 1797-1800.

Qiang, Sheng / Qian, Yao / Soong, Frank K. / Xu, Congfu: "Robust F0 modeling for Mandarin speech recognition in noise", 1801-1804.

Seppi, Dino / Falavigna, Daniele / Stemmer, Georg / Gretter, Roberto: "Word duration modeling for word graph rescoring in LVCSR", 1805-1808.

Tamburini, Fabio / Wagner, Petra: "On automatic prominence detection for German", 1809-1812.

Ananthakrishnan, Sankaranarayanan / Narayanan, Shrikanth S.: "Prosody-enriched lattices for improved syllable recognition", 1813-1816.

Pinto, Joel / Lovitt, Andrew / Hermansky, Hynek: "Exploiting phoneme similarities in hybrid HMM-ANN keyword spotting", 1817-1820.

Liu, C. E. / Thambiratnam, K. / Seide, F.: "Online vocabulary adaptation using limited adaptation data", 1821-1824.

Speech Recognition by Automatic Attribute Transcription

Lee, Chin-Hui / Clements, Mark A. / Dusan, Sorin / Fosler-Lussier, Eric / Johnson, Keith / Juang, Biing-Hwang / Rabiner, Lawrence R.: "An overview on automatic speech attribute transcription (ASAT)", 1825-1828.

Bromberg, Ilana / Qian, Qian / Hou, Jun / Li, Jinyu / Ma, Chengyuan / Matthews, Brett / Moreno-Daniel, Antonio / Morris, Jeremy / Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco / Tsao, Yu / Wang, Yu: "Detection-based ASR in the automatic speech attribute transcription project", 1829-1832.

Lin, Chi-Yueh / Wang, Hsiao-Chuan: "Attribute-based Mandarin speech recognition using conditional random fields", 1833-1836.

Strik, Helmer / Truong, Khiet P. / Wet, Febe de / Cucchiarini, Catia: "Comparing classifiers for pronunciation error detection", 1837-1840.

Krajewski, Jarek / Kröger, Bernd: "Using prosodic and spectral characteristics for sleepiness detection", 1841-1844.

Ore, Brian M. / Slyh, Raymond E.: "Score fusion for articulatory feature detection", 1845-1848.

Speaker Diarization

Otterson, Scott: "Improved location features for meeting speaker diarization", 1849-1852.

Han, Kyu J. / Narayanan, Shrikanth S.: "A robust stopping criterion for agglomerative hierarchical clustering in a speaker diarization system", 1853-1856.

Huijbregts, Marijn / Wooters, Chuck: "The blame game: performance analysis of speaker diarization system components", 1857-1860.

Aronowitz, Hagai: "Trainable speaker diarization", 1861-1864.

Huang, Jing / Marcheret, Etienne / Visweswariah, Karthik: "Improving speaker diarization for CHIL lecture meetings", 1865-1868.

Le, Viet-Bac / Mella, Odile / Fohr, Dominique: "Speaker diarization using normalized cross likelihood ratio", 1869-1872.

First and Second Language Learning

Lee, Wai-Sum: "Tone production by the speakers of different age-and-gender groups", 1873-1876.

Xu, Nan / Burnham, Denis / Kitamura, Christine: "Vowels and tones in infant directed speech: hyperarticulation for both, but different developmental patterns", 1877-1880.

Ko, Eon-Suk: "Acquisition of vowel duration in children speaking american English", 1881-1884.

Hirano, Hiroko / Hirose, Keikichi / Kawai, Goh / Gu, Wentao / Minematsu, Nobuaki: "F₀ models show Chinese speakers of Japanese insert intonational boundaries and drop pitch", 1885-1888.

Escudero, Paola / Kastelein, Jelle / Weiand, Klara / Son, R. J. J. H. van: "Formal modelling of L1 and L2 perceptual learning: computational linguistics versus machine learning", 1889-1892.

Broersma, Mirjam: "Kettle hinders cat, shadow does not hinder shed: activation of ‘almost embedded’ words in nonnative listening", 1893-1896.

Speech Synthesis I, II

Krstulović, Sacha / Hunecke, Anna / Schröder, Marc: "An HMM-based speech synthesis system applied to German and its adaptation to a limited set of expressive football announcements", 1897-1900.

Gu, Liang / Zhang, Wei / Tahir, Lazkin / Gao, Yuqing: "Statistical vowelization of Arabic text for speech synthesis in speech-to-speech translation systems", 1901-1904.

Liu, Wu / Huang, Dezhi / Dong, Yuan / Mao, Xinnian / Wang, Haila: "A pair-based language model for the robust lexical analysis in Chinese text-to-speech synthesis", 1905-1908.

Maia, R. / Toda, Tomoki / Zen, Heiga / Nankaku, Yoshihiko / Tokuda, Keiichi: "A trainable excitation model for HMM-based speech synthesis", 1909-1912.

Steigner, Jochen / Schröder, Marc: "Cross-language phonemisation in German text-to-speech synthesis", 1913-1916.

Tachibana, Ryuki / Nagano, Tohru / Kurata, Gakuto / Nishimura, Masafumi / Babaguchi, Noboru: "Preliminary experiments toward automatic generation of new TTS voices from recorded speech alone", 1917-1920.

Chomphan, Suphattharachai / Kobayashi, Takao: "Implementation and evaluation of an HMM-based Thai speech synthesis system", 2849-2852.

Bonardo, Davide / Zovato, Enrico: "Speech synthesis enhancement in noisy environments", 2853-2856.

Schmid, Helmut / Möbius, Bernd / Weidenkaff, Julia: "Tagging syllable boundaries with joint n-gram models", 2857-2860.

Xu, Jun / Huang, Dezhi / Wang, Yongxin / Dong, Yuan / Cai, Lianhong / Wang, Haila: "Hierarchical non-uniform unit selection based on prosodic structure", 2861-2864.

Birkholz, Peter: "Control of an articulatory speech synthesizer based on dynamic approximation of spatial articulatory targets", 2865-2868.

Nishizawa, Nobuyuki / Kawai, Hisashi: "A preselection method based on cost degradation from the optimal sequence for concatenative speech synthesis", 2869-2872.

Strecha, Guntram / Eichner, Matthias / Hoffmann, Rüdiger: "Line cepstral quefrencies and their use for acoustic inventory coding", 2873-2876.

Cahill, Peter / Aioanei, Daniel / Carson-Berndsen, Julie: "Articulatory acoustic feature applications in speech synthesis", 2877-2880.

Krul, Aleksandra / Damnati, Géraldine / Yvon, François / Boidin, Cédric / Moudenc, Thierry: "Approaches for adaptive database reduction for text-to-speech synthesis", 2881-2884.

Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han / Hung, Hsi-Chuan / Dai, Hong-Jie / Hsu, Wen-Lian: "Exploiting unlabeled internal data in conditional random fields to reduce word segmentation errors for Chinese texts", 2885-2888.

Kirkpatrick, Barry / O'Brien, Darragh / Scaife, Ronán / Errity, Andrew: "On the role of spectral dynamics in unit selection speech synthesis", 2889-2892.

Langner, Brian / Black, Alan W.: "ugloss: a framework for improving spoken language generation understandability", 2893-2896.

Schnell, Karl / Lacroix, Arild: "Combination of LSF and pole based parameter interpolation for model-based diphone concatenation", 2897-2900.

Prahallad, Kishore / Toth, Arthur R. / Black, Alan W.: "Automatic building of synthetic voices from large multi-paragraph speech databases", 2901-2904.

Gallardo-Antolín, A. / Barra, R. / Schröder, Marc / Krstulović, Sacha / Montero, J. M.: "Automatic phonetic segmentation of Spanish emotional speech", 2905-2908.

Lin, Dacheng / Zhao, Yong / Soong, Frank K. / Chu, Min / Zhao, Jieyu: "Iterative unit selection with unnatural prosody detection", 2909-2912.

Voice Conversion and Modification

Hanzlíček, Zdeněk / Matoušek, Jindřich: "F0 transformation within the voice conversion framework", 1961-1964.

Erro, Daniel / Moreno, Asunción: "Weighted frequency warping for voice conversion", 1965-1968.

Erro, Daniel / Moreno, Asunción: "Frame alignment method for cross-lingual voice conversion", 1969-1972.

Nurminen, Jani / Tian, Jilei / Popa, Victor: "Voicing level control with application in voice conversion", 1973-1976.

Percybrooks, Winston S. / Moore, Elliot: "New algorithm for LPC residual estimation from LSF vectors for a voice conversion system", 1977-1980.

Ohtani, Yamato / Toda, Tomoki / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Speaker adaptive training for one-to-many eigenvoice conversion based on Gaussian mixture model", 1981-1984.

Petkov, Petko N. / Kleijn, W. Bastiaan: "Improving the phase vocoder approach to pitch-shifting", 1985-1988.

Mesbahi, Larbi / Barreaud, Vincent / Boeffard, Olivier: "Comparing GMM-based speech transformation systems", 1989-1992.

Improved Acoustic Modeling for ASR

Kuo, Jen-Wei / Lo, Hung-Yi / Wang, Hsin-Min: "Improved HMM/SVM methods for automatic phoneme segmentation", 2057-2060.

Shinozaki, Takahiro / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "Gaussian mixture optimization for HMM based on efficient cross-validation", 2061-2064.

Zen, Heiga / Nankaku, Yoshihiko / Tokuda, Keiichi: "Model-space MLLR for trajectory HMMs", 2065-2068.

Ketabdar, Hamed / Bourlard, Hervé: "In-context phone posteriors as complementary features for tandem ASR", 2069-2072.

Qian, Qian / He, Xiaodong / Deng, Li: "Phone-discriminating minimum classification error (p-MCE) training for phonetic recognition", 2073-2076.

Lamel, Lori / Messaoudi, Abdel. / Gauvain, Jean-Luc: "Improved acoustic modeling for transcribing Arabic broadcast data", 2077-2080.

McDermott, Erik / Nakamura, Atsushi: "String and lattice based discriminative training for the corpus of spontaneous Japanese lecture transcription task", 2081-2084.

Kang, Byung-Ok / Jung, Ho-Young / Lee, Yun-Keun: "Discriminative noise adaptive training approach for an environment migration", 2085-2088.

Chen, Jia-Yu / Olsen, Peder A. / Hershey, John R.: "Word confusability - measuring hidden Markov model similarity", 2089-2092.

Deselaers, Thomas / Heigold, Georg / Ney, Hermann: "Speech recognition with state-based nearest neighbour classifiers", 2093-2096.

Teunen, Remco / Akamine, Masami: "HMM-based speech recognition using decision trees instead of GMMs", 2097-2100.

Gollan, Christian / Hahn, Stefan / Schlüter, Ralf / Ney, Hermann: "An improved method for unsupervised training of LVCSR systems", 2101-2104.

Omar, Mohamed Kamal: "A variational approach to robust maximum likelihood estimation for speech recognition", 2105-2108.

Yu, Kai / Rutenbar, Rob A.: "Generating small, accurate acoustic models with a modified Bayesian information criterion", 2109-2112.

Bell, Peter / King, Simon: "Sparse Gaussian graphical models for speech recognition", 2113-2116.

Sakti, Sakriani / Markov, Konstantin / Nakamura, Satoshi: "An HMM acoustic model incorporating various additional knowledge sources", 2117-2120.

Varjokallio, Matti / Kurimo, Mikko: "Comparison of subspace methods for Gaussian mixture models in speech recognition", 2121-2124.

Multilingualism in Speech and Language Processing

Schultz, Tanja / Black, Alan W. / Badaskar, Sameer / Hornyak, Matthew / Kominek, John: "SPICE: web-based tools for rapid language adaptation in speech processing systems", 2125-2128.

Deprez, Filip / Odijk, Jan / Moortel, Jan De: "Introduction to multilingual corpus-based concatenative speech synthesis", 2129-2132.

Stouten, Frederik / Martens, Jean-Pierre: "Recognition of foreign names spoken by native speakers", 2133-2136.

Cordoba, R. / D'Haro, L. F. / Fernandez-Martinez, F. / Montero, J. M. / Barra, R.: "Language identification using several sources of information with a multiple-Gaussian classifier", 2137-2140.

Solar, Carmen Del / Pérez, Guillermo / Florencio, Eva / Moral, David / Amores, Gabriel / Manchón, Pilar: "Dynamic language change in MIMUS", 2141-2144.

Systems for LVCSR and Rich Transcription I, II

Lööf, Jonas / Gollan, Christian / Hahn, Stefan / Heigold, Georg / Hoffmeister, B. / Plahl, Christian / Rybach, David / Schlüter, Ralf / Ney, Hermann: "The RWTH 2007 TC-STAR evaluation system for european English and Spanish", 2145-2148.

Koh, Eugene Chin Wei / Sun, Hanwu / Nwe, Tin Lay / Nguyen, Trung Hieu / Ma, Bin / Chng, Eng Siong / Li, Haizhou / Rahardja, Susanto: "Using direction of arrival estimate and acoustic feature information in speaker diarization", 2149-2152.

Batista, Fernando / Caseiro, Diamantino / Mamede, Nuno / Trancoso, Isabel: "Recovering punctuation marks for automatic speech recognition", 2153-2156.

Yeh, Jui-Feng / Wu, Chung-Hsien / Wu, Wei-Yen: "Disfluency correction of spontaneous speech using conditional random fields with variable-length features", 2157-2160.

Huang, Jing / Marcheret, Etienne / Visweswariah, Karthik / Libal, Vit / Potamianos, Gerasimos: "Detection, diarization, and transcription of far-field lecture speech", 2161-2164.

Hazen, Timothy J. / Sherry, Brennan / Adler, Mark: "Speech-based annotation and retrieval of digital photographs", 2165-2168.

Guz, Umit / Cuendet, Sébastien / Hakkani-Tür, Dilek / Tur, Gokhan: "Co-training using prosodic and lexical information for sentence segmentation", 2597-2600.

Estève, Yannick / Meignier, Sylvain / Deléglise, Paul / Mauclair, Julie: "Extracting true speaker identities from transcriptions", 2601-2604.

Fu, Rong / Benest, Ian D.: "An improved speaker diarization system", 2605-2608.

Stüker, Sebastian / Fügen, Christian / Kraft, Florian / Wölfel, Matthias: "The ISL 2007 English speech transcription system for european parliament speeches", 2609-2612.

Hwang, Mei-Yuh / Wang, Wen / Lei, Xin / Zheng, Jing / Cetin, Ozgur / Peng, Gang: "Advances in Mandarin broadcast speech recognition", 2613-2616.

Ogata, Jun / Goto, Masataka / Eto, Kouichirou: "Automatic transcription for a web 2.0 service to search podcasts", 2617-2620.

Language Learning and Assessment

Tepperman, Joseph / Kazemzadeh, Abe / Narayanan, Shrikanth S.: "A text-free approach to assessing nonnative intonation", 2169-2172.

Lee, John / Seneff, Stephanie: "Automatic generation of cloze items for prepositions", 2173-2176.

Waple, Christopher / Wang, Hongcui / Kawahara, Tatsuya / Tsubota, Yasushi / Dantsuji, Masatake: "Evaluating and optimizing Japanese tutor system featuring dynamic question generation and interactive guidance", 2177-2180.

Cucchiarini, Catia / Neri, Ambra / Wet, Febe de / Strik, Helmer: "ASR-based pronunciation training: scoring accuracy and pedagogical effectiveness of a system for dutch L2 learners", 2181-2184.

Tepperman, Joseph / Black, Matthew / Price, Patti / Lee, Sungbok / Kazemzadeh, Abe / Gerosa, Matteo / Heritage, Margaret / Alwan, Abeer / Narayanan, Shrikanth S.: "A Bayesian network classifier for word-level reading assessment", 2185-2188.

Multimodal Interaction: Analysis and Technology

Holzapfel, Hartwig / Waibel, Alex: "Behavior models for learning and receptionist dialogs", 2189-2192.

Turunen, Markku / Hakulinen, Jaakko / Kainulainen, Anssi / Melto, Aleksi / Hurtig, Topi: "Design of a rich multimodal interface for mobile spoken route guidance", 2193-2196.

Theune, Mariët / Hofs, Dennis / Kessel, Marco van: "The virtual guide: a direction giving embodied conversational agent", 2197-2200.

Gandhe, Sudeep / Traum, David: "Creating spoken dialogue characters from corpora without annotations", 2201-2204.

Hui, Pui-Yu / Zhou, Zhengyu / Meng, Helen: "Complementarity and redundancy in multimodal user inputs with speech and pen gestures", 2205-2208.

Bell, Linda / Gustafson, Joakim: "Children's convergence in referring expressions to graphical objects in a speech-enabled computer game", 2209-2212.

Emotion

Kawatsu, Hiromi / Ohno, Sumio: "An analysis of individual differences in the f₀ contour and the duration of anger utterances at several degrees", 2213-2216.

Arimoto, Yoshiko / Ohno, Sumio / Iida, Hitoshi: "Acoustic features of anger utterances during natural dialog", 2217-2220.

Biadsy, Fadi / Hirschberg, Julia / Rosenberg, Andrew / Dakka, Wisam: "Comparing american and palestinian perceptions of charisma using acoustic-prosodic and lexical analysis", 2221-2224.

Busso, Carlos / Lee, Sungbok / Narayanan, Shrikanth S.: "Using neutral speech models for emotional speech analysis", 2225-2228.

Satoh, N. / Yamauchi, K. / Matsunaga, S. / Yamashita, M. / Nakagawa, R. / Shinohara, K.: "Emotion clustering using the results of subjective opinion tests for emotion recognition in infants' cries", 2229-2232.

Barra, R. / Montero, J. M. / Macias-Guarasa, J. / Gutiérrez-Arriola, J. / Ferreiros, J. / Pardo, J. M.: "On the limitations of voice conversion techniques in emotion identification tasks", 2233-2236.

Dupuis, Kate / Pichora-Fuller, Kathleen: "Use of lexical and affective prosodic cues to emotion by younger and older adults", 2237-2240.

Gupta, Purnima / Rajput, Nitendra: "Two-stream emotion recognition for call center monitoring", 2241-2244.

Grichkovtsova, Ioulia / Lacheret, Anne / Morel, Michel: "The role of intonation and voice quality in the affective speech perception", 2245-2248.

Vlasenko, Bogdan / Schuller, Björn / Wendemuth, Andreas / Rigoll, Gerhard: "Combining frame and turn-level information for robust recognition of emotions within speech", 2249-2252.

Speakers: Expression, Emotion and Personality Recognition

Schuller, Björn / Batliner, Anton / Seppi, Dino / Steidl, Stefan / Vogt, Thurid / Wagner, Johannes / Devillers, Laurence / Vidrascu, Laurence / Amir, Noam / Kessous, Loic / Aharonson, Vered: "The relevance of feature type for the automatic classification of emotional user states: low level descriptors and functionals", 2253-2256.

Quang, Vũ Minh / Besacier, Laurent / Castelli, Eric: "Automatic question detection: prosodic-lexical features and crosslingual experiments", 2257-2260.

Tachibana, Makoto / Kawashima, Keigo / Yamagishi, Junichi / Kobayashi, Takao: "Performance evaluation of HMM-based style classification with a small amount of training data", 2261-2264.

Truong, Khiet P. / Leeuwen, David A. van: "Visualizing acoustic similarities between emotions in speech: an acoustic map of emotions", 2265-2268.

Hu, Hao / Xu, Ming-Xing / Wu, Wei: "Fusion of global statistical and segmental spectral features for speech emotion recognition", 2269-2272.

Sethu, Vidhyasaharan / Ambikairajah, Eliathamby / Epps, Julien: "Group delay features for emotion detection", 2273-2276.

Müller, Christian / Burkhardt, Felix: "Combining short-term cepstral and long-term pitch features for automatic recognition of speaker age", 2277-2280.

Enos, Frank / Shriberg, Elizabeth / Graciarena, Martin / Hirschberg, Julia / Stolcke, Andreas: "Detecting deception using critical segments", 2281-2284.

Nose, Takashi / Kato, Yoichi / Kobayashi, Takao: "Style estimation of speech based on multiple regression hidden semi-Markov model", 2285-2288.

Zhang, Chi / Hansen, John H. L.: "Analysis and classification of speech mode: whispered through shouted", 2289-2292.

First Language, Second Language, Cross-language

Bettoni-Techio, Melissa / Rauber, Andréia S. / Koerich, Rosana Denise: "Perception and production of word-final alveolar stops by brazilian portuguese learners of English", 2293-2296.

Kluge, Denise Cristina / Rauber, Andréia S. / Reis, Mara Silvia / Bion, Ricardo A. Hoffmann: "The relationship between the perception and production of English nasal codas by brazilian learners of English", 2297-2300.

Utashiro, Takafumi / Kawai, Goh: "CALL courseware for learning reactive tokens in face-to-face dialogs", 2301-2304.

Kiriyama, Shinya / Tsuji, Ryo / Kasami, Tomohiko / Ishikawa, Shogo / Otani, Naofumi / Horiuchi, Hiroaki / Takebayashi, Yoichi / Kitazawa, Shigeyoshi: "The developmental analysis of demonstrative expression skills utilizing a multimodal infant behavior corpus", 2305-2308.

Lyakso, Elena E. / Frolova, Olga V.: "Russian vowels system acoustic features development in ontogenesis", 2309-2312.

Alphen, Petra van / Bree, Elise de / Fikkert, Paula / Wijnen, Frank: "The role of metrical stress in comprehension and production in dutch children at-risk of dyslexia", 2313-2316.

Nakagawa, Seiichi / Ohta, Kei: "A statistical method of evaluating pronunciation proficiency for presentation in English", 2317-2320.

Joto, Akiyo / Nagase, Yoshiki / Funatsu, Seiya: "The intelligibility and its relations to acoustic characteristics of English /s/ and /esh/ produced by native speakers of Japanese", 2321-2324.

Goudbeek, Martijn / Swingley, Daniel / Kluender, Keith R.: "The limits of multidimensional category learning", 2325-2328.

Uther, Maria / Uther, James / Athanasopoulos, Panos / Singh, Pushpendra / Akahane-Yamada, Reiko: "Mobile adaptive CALL (MAC): a lightweight speech-based intervention for mobile language learners", 2329-2332.

Best, Catherine T. / Hallé, Pierre A. / Pardo, Jennifer S.: "English and French speakers' perception of voicing distinctions in non-native lateral consonant syllable onsets", 2333-2336.

Lacerda, Francisco / Gustavsson, Lisa: "Predicting the consequences of vocalizations in early infancy", 2337-2340.

Weenink, David / Chen, Guangqin / Chen, Zongyan / Konink, Stefan de / Vierkant, Dennis / Hagen, Eveline van / Son, R. J. J. H. van: "Learning tone distinctions for Mandarin Chinese", 2341-2344.

Lai, Catherine / Gorman, Kyle / Yuan, Jiahong / Liberman, Mark: "Perception of disfluency: language differences and listener bias", 2345-2348.

Novel Techniques for the NATO Non-native Air-traffic Control and HIWIRE Cockpit Databases

Pigeon, Stephane / Shen, Wade / Lawson, Aaron / Leeuwen, David A. van: "Design and characterization of the non-native military air traffic communications database (nnMATC)", 2417-2420.

Shen, Wade / Reynolds, Douglas: "A comparison of speaker clustering and speech recognition techniques for air situational awareness", 2421-2424.

Dimitriadis, Dimitrios / Segura, Jose C. / Garcia, Luz / Potamianos, Alexandros / Maragos, Petros / Pitsikalis, Vassilis: "Advanced front-end for robust speech recognition in extremely adverse environments", 2425-2428.

Gemello, Roberto / Mana, Franco / Scanzio, Stefano: "Experiments on hiwire database using denoising and adaptation with a hybrid HMM-ANN model", 2429-2432.

Smolenski, Brett Y.: "Detection and removal of switching noise in push-to-talk and voice operated exchange communications systems", 2433-2436.

Buera, Luis / Miguel, Antonio / Saz, Óscar / Lleida, Eduardo / Ortega, Alfonso: "Evaluation of the combined use of MEMLIN and MLLR on the non-native adaptation task of hiwire project database", 2437-2440.

Systems for Spoken Language Translation I, II

Déchelotte, Daniel / Schwenk, Holger / Adda, Gilles / Gauvain, Jean-Luc: "Improved machine translation of speech-to-text outputs", 2441-2444.

Saleem, S. / Subramanian, K. / Prasad, R. / Stallard, David / Kao, Chia-Lin / Natarajan, P. / Suleiman, R.: "Improvements in machine translation for English/iraqi speech translation", 2445-2448.

Matusov, Evgeny / Hillard, Dustin / Magimai-Doss, Mathew / Hakkani-Tür, Dilek / Ostendorf, Mari / Ney, Hermann: "Improving speech translation with automatic boundary prediction", 2449-2452.

Cattoni, Roldano / Bertoldi, Nicola / Federico, Marcello: "Punctuating confusion networks for speech translation", 2453-2456.

Reddy, Aarthi / Rose, Richard / Désilets, Alain: "Integration of ASR and machine translation models in a document translation task", 2457-2460.

Tam, Yik-Cheung / Schultz, Tanja: "Bilingual LSA-based translation lexicon adaptation for spoken language translation", 2461-2464.

Stallard, David / Choi, Fred / Kao, Chia-Lin / Krstovski, Kriste / Natarajan, P. / Prasad, R. / Saleem, S. / Subramanian, K.: "The BBN 2007 displayless English/iraqi speech-to-speech translation system", 2817-2820.

Sarikaya, Ruhi / Deng, Yonggang / Gao, Yuqing: "Context dependent word modeling for statistical machine translation using part-of-speech tags", 2821-2824.

Appling, Darren Scott / Campbell, Nick: "Translating conversational speech to standard linguistic form", 2825-2828.

Lavecchia, Caroline / Smaïli, Kamel / Langlois, David / Haton, Jean-Paul: "Using inter-lingual triggers for machine translation", 2829-2832.

Falavigna, Daniele / Bertoldi, Nicola / Brugnara, Fabio / Cattoni, Roldano / Cettolo, Mauro / Chen, Boxing / Federico, Marcello / Giuliani, Diego / Gretter, Roberto / Gupta, Deepa / Seppi, Dino: "The IRST English-Spanish translation system for european parliament speeches", 2833-2836.

Fügen, Christian / Kolss, Muntsin: "The influence of utterance chunking on machine translation performance", 2837-2840.

Precoda, Kristin / Zheng, Jing / Vergyri, Dimitra / Franco, Horacio / Richey, Colleen / Kathol, Andreas / Kajarekar, Sachin: "Iraqcomm: a next generation translation system", 2841-2844.

Rao, Sharath / Lane, Ian / Schultz, Tanja: "Optimizing sentence segmentation for spoken language translation", 2845-2848.

Articulatory Features

Richmond, Korin: "A multitask learning perspective on acoustic-articulatory inversion", 2465-2468.

Qin, Chao / Carreira-Perpiñán, Miguel Á.: "A comparison of acoustic features for articulatory inversion", 2469-2472.

Scharenborg, Odette / Wan, Vincent: "Can unquantised articulatory feature continuums be modelled?", 2473-2476.

Shah, Milind S. / Pandey, Prem C.: "Estimation of place of articulation in stop consonants for visual feedback", 2477-2480.

Potard, Blaise / Laprie, Yves: "Compact representations of the articulatory-to-acoustic mapping", 2481-2484.

Frankel, Joe / Magimai-Doss, Mathew / King, Simon / Livescu, Karen / Çetin, Özgür: "Articulatory feature classifiers trained on 2000 hours of telephone speech", 2485-2488.

Wideband Speech Processing

Nour-Eldin, Amr H. / Kabal, Peter: "Objective analysis of the effect of memory inclusion on bandwidth extension of narrowband speech", 2489-2492.

Geiser, Bernd / Taddei, Hervé / Vary, Peter: "Artificial bandwidth extension without side information for ITU-t g.729.1", 2493-2496.

Pulakka, Hannu / Alku, Paavo / Laaksonen, Laura / Valve, Päivi: "The effect of highband harmonic structure in the artificial bandwidth expansion of telephone speech", 2497-2500.

Kuroiwa, Shingo / Takashina, Masashi / Tsuge, Satoru / Fuji, Ren: "Artificial bandwidth extension for speech signals using speech recogniton", 2501-2504.

Guerchi, Driss / Rabie, Tamer / Louzi, Abdelrhani: "Voicing-based codebook in low-rate wideband CELP coding", 2505-2508.

Duni, Ethan R. / Rao, Bhaskar D.: "Performance of speaker-dependent wideband speech coding", 2509-2512.

Accessibility Issues

Dreuw, Philippe / Rybach, David / Deselaers, Thomas / Zahedi, Morteza / Ney, Hermann: "Speech recognition techniques for a sign language recognition system", 2513-2516.

Nakamura, Keigo / Toda, Tomoki / Saruwatari, Hiroshi / Shikano, Kiyohiro: "Impact of various small sound source signals on voice conversion accuracy in speech communication aid for laryngectomees", 2517-2520.

Cerva, Petr / Nouza, Jan: "Design and development of voice controlled aids for motor-handicapped persons", 2521-2524.

Katsurada, Kouichi / Okuma, Yuji / Yano, Makoto / Iribe, Yurie / Nitta, Tsuneo: "Management of static/dynamic properties in a multimodal interaction system", 2525-2528.

San-Segundo, R. / Pérez, A. / Ortiz, D. / D'Haro, L. F. / Torres, M. Inés / Casacuberta, F.: "Evaluation of alternatives on speech to sign language translation", 2529-2532.

Németh, Géza / Olaszy, Gábor / Bartalis, Mátyás / Kiss, Géza / Zainkó, Csaba / Mihajlik, Péter: "Speech based drug information system for aged and visually impaired persons", 2533-2536.

Nogueira, Waldo / Harczos, Tamás / Edler, Bernd / Ostermann, Jörn / Büchner, Andreas: "Automatic speech recognition with a cochlear implant front-end", 2537-2540.

Suk, Soo-Young / Kojima, Hiroaki: "Voice activated powered wheelchair with non-voice rejection algorithm", 2541-2544.

Sitbon, Laurianne / Bellot, Patrice / Blache, Philippe: "Phonetic based sentence level rewriting of questions typed by dyslexic spellers in an information retrieval context", 2545-2548.

New Application Areas

Berton, André / Regel-Brietzmann, Peter / Block, Hans-Ulrich / Schachtl, Stefanie / Gehrke, Manfred: "How to integrate speech-operated internet information dialogs into a car", 2549-2552.

Glass, James / Hazen, Timothy J. / Cyphers, Scott / Malioutov, Igor / Huynh, David / Barzilay, Regina: "Recent progress in the MIT spoken lecture processing project", 2553-2556.

Fischer, Philipp / Österle, Andreas / Berton, André / Regel-Brietzmann, Peter: "How to personalize speech applications for web-based information in a car", 2557-2560.

Ikeda, Satoshi / Komatani, Kazunori / Ogata, Tetsuya / Okuno, Hiroshi G.: "Topic estimation with domain extensibility for guiding user's out-of-grammar utterances in multi-domain spoken dialogue systems", 2561-2564.

Nishimura, Ryota / Kitaoka, Norihide / Nakagawa, Seiichi: "Prosody change and response timing analysis in spontaneously spoken dialogs and their modeling in a spoken dialog system", 2565-2568.

Tamura, Satoshi / Takamatsu, Kunihiko / Ogura, Shinji / Hayamizu, Satoru: "GEMSIS - a novel application of speech recognition to emergency and disaster medicine", 2569-2572.

Coulston, Rachel / Klabbers, Esther / Villiers, Jacques de / Hosom, John-Paul: "Application of speech technology in a home based assessment kiosk for early detection of alzheimer's disease", 2573-2576.

Vybornova, Olga / Gemo, Monica / Moncarey, Ronald / Macq, Benoit: "Ontology-based multimodal high level fusion involving natural language analysis for aged people home care application", 2577-2580.

Story Segmentation

Chan, Shing-kai / Xie, Lei / Meng, Helen: "Modeling the statistical behavior of lexical chains to capture word cohesiveness for automatic story segmentation", 2581-2584.

Fung, James G. / Hakkani-Tür, Dilek / Magimai-Doss, Mathew / Shriberg, Elizabeth / Cuendet, Sébastien / Mirghafori, Nikki: "Cross-linguistic analysis of prosodic features for sentence segmentation", 2585-2588.

Rosenberg, Andrew / Sharifi, Mehrbod / Hirschberg, Julia: "Varying input segmentation for story boundary detection in English, Arabic and Mandarin broadcast news", 2589-2592.

Kolluru, BalaKrishna / Gotoh, Yoshihiko: "Speaker role based structural classification of broadcast news stories", 2593-2596.

Prosody: Production

Jilka, Matthias / Möbius, Bernd: "The influence of vowel quality features on peak alignment", 2621-2624.

Shue, Yen-Liang / Iseli, Markus / Veilleux, Nanette / Alwan, Abeer: "Pitch accent versus lexical stress: quantifying acoustic measures related to the voice source", 2625-2628.

Benus, Stefan / Gravano, Agustín / Hirschberg, Julia: "Prosody, emotions, and… ‘whatever’", 2629-2632.

Gu, Wentao / Ho, Rerrario Shui-Ching / Lee, Tan: "Modeling tones in hakka on the basis of the command-response model", 2633-2636.

Kentner, Gerrit: "Length, ordering preference and intonational phrasing: evidence from pauses", 2637-2640.

Peters, Jörg / Hanssen, Judith / Gussenhoven, Carlos: "Alignment of the second low target in dutch falling-rising pitch contours", 2641-2644.

Moniz, Helena / Mata, Ana Isabel / Viana, M. Céu: "On filled-pauses and prolongations in european portuguese", 2645-2648.

Prosody: Perception

Olsberg, Michael / Xu, Yi / Green, Jeremy: "Dependence of tone perception on syllable perception", 2649-2652.

Winkler, Ralf: "Testing the relevance of speech rate, pitch and a glottal Chink for the perception of age in synthesized speech using formant synthesis", 2653-2656.

Böhm, Tamás / Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie: "Utterance-final glottalization as a cue for familiar speaker recognition", 2657-2660.

Huang, Chun-Fang / Akagi, Masato: "A rule-based speech morphing for verifying a expressive speech perception model", 2661-2664.

Helander, Elina E. / Nurminen, Jani: "On the importance of pure prosody in the perception of speaker identity", 2665-2668.

Chen, Shi-Han / Kuo, Chih-Chung: "Perceptual relevance of pitch contours of Mandarin tones and its efficacy in prosody generation of speech synthesis", 2669-2672.

Nishizaki, Hiromitsu / Sohmiya, Mitsuhiro / Kobayashi, Kenji / Sekiguchi, Yoshihiro: "The effect of filled pauses in a lecture speech on impressive evaluation of listeners", 2673-2676.

Li, Yujia / Lee, Tan: "Perceptual equivalence of approximated Cantonese tone contours", 2677-2680.

Shahid, Suleman / Krahmer, Emiel / Swerts, Marc: "Audiovisual emotional speech of game playing children: effects of age and culture", 2681-2684.

Machine Learning for Spoken Dialog Systems

Lemon, Oliver / Pietquin, Olivier: "Machine learning for spoken dialogue systems", 2685-2688.

Rieser, Verena / Lemon, Oliver: "Learning dialogue strategies for interactive database search", 2689-2692.

Cuayáhuitl, Heriberto / Renals, Steve / Lemon, Oliver / Shimodaira, Hiroshi: "Hierarchical dialogue optimization using semi-Markov decision processes", 2693-2696.

Ai, Hua / Litman, Diane J.: "Knowledge consistent user simulations for dialog systems", 2697-2700.

Wu, Hsu-Chih / Seneff, Stephanie: "Reducing recognition error rate based on context relationships among dialogue turns", 2701-2704.

Misu, Teruhisa / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "Bayes risk-based optimization of dialogue management for document retrieval system with speech interface", 2705-2708.

Phonetics

Ulbrich, Christiane / Ulbrich, Horst: "Realisations and alternations in German /r/-realisation", 2733-2736.

Doty, Christopher S. / Idemaru, Kaori / Guion, Susan G.: "Singleton and geminate stops in Finnish - acoustic correlates", 2737-2740.

Bael, Christophe Van / Baayen, Harald / Strik, Helmer: "Segment deletion in spontaneous speech: a corpus study using mixed effects models with crossed random effects", 2741-2744.

Zheng, Hongying / Tsang, Peter W. M. / Wang, William S. -Y.: "Categorical perception of Cantonese tones in context: a cross-linguistic study", 2745-2748.

Chen, Yiya / Yuan, Jiahong: "A corpus study of the 3^rd tone sandhi in standard Chinese", 2749-2752.

Harrington, Jonathan / Palethorpe, Sallyanne / Watson, Catherine I.: "Age-related changes in fundamental frequency and formants: a longitudinal study of four speakers", 2753-2756.

Spoken Language Understanding and Summarization

Zhang, Jian / Chan, Ho Yin / Fung, Pascale / Cao, Lu: "A comparative study on speech summarization of broadcast news and lecture speech", 2781-2784.

Murray, Gabriel / Renals, Steve: "Towards online speech summarization", 2785-2788.

Yamagata, Tomoyuki / Sako, Atsushi / Takiguchi, Tetsuya / Ariki, Yasuo: "System request detection in conversation based on acoustic and speaker alternation features", 2789-2792.

Levit, Michael / Boschee, Elizabeth / Freedman, Marjorie: "Selecting on-topic sentences from natural language corpora", 2793-2796.

Kim, Seokhwan / Jeong, Minwoo / Lee, Gary Geunbae: "A semi-supervised method for efficient construction of statistical spoken language understanding resources", 2797-2800.

Fujii, Yasuhisa / Kitaoka, Norihide / Nakagawa, Seiichi: "Automatic extraction of cue phrases for important sentences in lecture speech and automatic lecture speech summarization", 2801-2804.

Chen, Yi-Ting / Chiu, Hsuan-Sheng / Wang, Hsin-Min / Chen, Berlin: "A unified probabilistic generative framework for extractive spoken document summarization", 2805-2808.

Hébert, Matthieu: "Generic class-based statistical language models for robust speech understanding in directed dialog applications", 2809-2812.

Seltzer, Michael L. / Ju, Yun-Cheng / Tashev, Ivan / Acero, Alex: "Robust location understanding in spoken dialog systems using intersections", 2813-2816.

Voice Activity Detection and Sound Classification

Markaki, Maria / Wohlmayr, Michael / Stylianou, Yannis: "Speech-nonspeech discrimination using the information bottleneck method and spectro-temporal modulation index", 2913-2916.

Jang, Keun Won / Kim, Dong Kook / Chang, Joon-Hyuk: "A uniformly most powerful test for statistical model-based voice activity detection", 2917-2920.

Dines, John / Vepa, Jithendra: "Direct optimisation of a multilayer perceptron for the estimation of cepstral mean and variance statistics", 2921-2924.

Huijbregts, Marijn / Wooters, Chuck / Ordelman, Roeland: "Filtering the unknown: speech activity detection in heterogeneous video collections", 2925-2928.

Sangwan, Abhijeet / Krishnamurthy, Nitish / Hansen, John H. L.: "Environmentally aware voice activity detector", 2929-2932.

Fujimoto, Masakiyo / Ishizuka, Kentaro: "Noise robust voice activity detection based on switching kalman filter", 2933-2936.

Jo, Q-Haing / Park, Yun-Sik / Lee, Kye-Hwan / Song, Ji-Hyun / Chang, Joon-Hyuk: "Voice activity detection based on support vector machine using effective feature vectors", 2937-2940.

, Sri Rama Murty K. / , Yegnanarayana B. / , Guruprasad S.: "Voice activity detection in degraded speech using excitation source information", 2941-2944.

Cournapeau, David / Kawahara, Tatsuya: "Evaluation of real-time voice activity detection based on high order statistics", 2945-2948.

Guo, Yanmeng / Qian, Qian / Yan, Yonghong: "Robust voice activity detection based on adaptive sub-band energy sequence analysis and harmonic detection", 2949-2952.

Fredouille, Corinne / Evans, Nicholas: "The influence of speech activity detection and overlap on speaker diarization for meeting room recordings", 2953-2956.

Kim, Gibak / Cho, Nam Ik: "Voice activity detection using the phase vector in microphone array", 2957-2960.

Flego, Federico / Zieger, Christian / Omologo, Maurizio: "Adaptive weighting of microphone arrays for distant-talking F0 and voiced/unvoiced estimation", 2961-2964.

Murthy, A. Sreenivasa / Sekhar, S. Chandra / Sreenivas, T. V.: "Robust and high-resolution voiced/unvoiced classification in noisy speech using a signal smoothness criterion", 2965-2968.

Sainath, Tara N. / Zue, Victor / Kanevsky, Dimitri: "Audio classification using extended baum-welch transformations", 2969-2972.

Knox, Mary Tai / Mirghafori, Nikki: "Automatic laughter detection using neural networks", 2973-2976.

Peng, Gang / Hwang, Mei-Yuh / Ostendorf, Mari: "Automatic acoustic segmentation for speech recognition on broadcast recordings", 2977-2980.

Unreviewed Papers for Special Sessions

Birkholz, Peter: "Articulatory synthesis of singing", 4001-4004.

Saitou, Takeshi / Goto, Masataka / Unoki, Masashi / Akagi, Masato: "Vocal conversion from speaking voice to singing voice using STRAIGHT", 4005-4006.

Roebel, Axel / Fineberg, Joshua: "Speech to chant transformation with the phase vocoder", 4007-4008.

Kenmochi, Hideki / Ohshita, Hayato: "VOCALOID - commercial singing synthesizer based on sample concatenation", 4009-4010.

D’Alessandro, Nicolas / Dutoit, Thierry: "RAMCESS/handsketch : a multi-representation framework for realtime and expressive singing synthesis", 4011-4012.

Ternström, Sten / Sundberg, Johan: "Formant-based synthesis of singing", 4013-4014.

Sloetjes, Han / Russel, Albert / Klassmann, Alexander: "ELAN: a free and open-source multimedia annotation tool", 4015-4016.

Szakos, Jozsef / Glavitsch, Ulrike: "Speechindexer in action: managing endangered Formosan languages", 4017-4019.

Ifukube, Tohru / Shimizu, Yasuyuki: "A portable record player for wax cylinders using a laser-beam reflection method", 4020.