An information-extraction approach to speech analysis and processing
Chin-Hui Lee

Music understanding and the future of music performance
Roger B. Dannenberg

Weighted transducers in speech and language processing
Michael Riley

Finding meaning in rodent ultrasonic vocalizations
Garet Lahvis

Large vocabulary speech recognition using deep tensor neural networks
Dong Yu, Li Deng, Frank Seide

Scalable minimum Bayes risk training of deep neural network acoustic models using distributed hessian-free optimization
Brian Kingsbury, Tara N. Sainath, Hagen Soltau

Discriminative feature-space transforms using deep neural networks
George Saon, Brian Kingsbury

Context-dependent MLPs for LVCSR: TANDEM, hybrid or both?
Zoltán Tüske, Martin Sundermeyer, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Recurrent neural networks for noise reduction in robust ASR
Andrew L. Maas, Quoc V. Le, Tyler M. O'Neil, Oriol Vinyals, Patrick Nguyen, Andrew Y. Ng

Pipelined back-propagation for context-dependent deep neural networks
Xie Chen, Adam Eversole, Gang Li, Dong Yu, Frank Seide

Are sparse representations rich enough for acoustic modeling?
Oriol Vinyals, Li Deng

A initial attempt on task-specific adaptation for deep neural network-based large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
Yeming Xiao, Zhen Zhang, Shang Cai, Jielin Pan, Yonghong Yan

Application of pretrained deep neural networks to large vocabulary speech recognition
Navdeep Jaitly, Patrick Nguyen, Andrew Senior, Vincent Vanhoucke

Cross-lingual and ensemble MLPs strategies for low-resource speech recognition
Yanmin Qian, Jia Liu

Initialization schemes for multilayer perceptron training and their impact on ASR performance using multilingual data
Ngoc Thang Vu, Wojtek Breiter, Florian Metze, Tanja Schultz

Hermitian based hidden activation functions for adaptation of hybrid HMM/ANN models
Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Jinyu Li, Chin-Hui Lee

Integrating deep neural networks into structural classification approach based on weighted finite-state transducers
Yotaro Kubo, Takaaki Hori, Atsushi Nakamura

Parallel training for deep stacking networks
Li Deng, Brian Hutchinson, Dong Yu

Articulatory feature based multilingual MLPs for low-resource speech recognition
Yanmin Qian, Jia Liu

Uncertainty-driven compensation of multi-stream MLP acoustic models for robust ASR ramon
Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Alberto Abad, João Paulo da Silva Neto

Arabic dialect identification - "is the secret in the silence?" and other observations
Hynek Bořil, Abhijeet Sangwan, John H. L. Hansen

The 2011 NIST language recognition evaluation
Craig S. Greenberg, Alvin F. Martin, Mark A. Przybocki

The BLZ submission to the NIST 2011 LRE: data collection, system development and performance
Luis Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes, Mikel Penagarikano, Amparo Varona, Mireia Diez, Germán Bordel, Alberto Abad, David Martínez, Jesus Villalba, Alfonso Ortega, Eduardo Lleida

Phonotactic language recognition using ivvectors and phoneme posteriogram counts
Luis Fernando D'Haro, Ondřej Glembek, Oldřich Plchot, Pavel Matějka, Mehdi Soufifar, Ricardo Cordoba, Jan Černocký

Supervector LDA: a new approach to reduced-complexity i-vector language recognition
Alan McCree, Bengt Borgström

Patrol team language identification system for DARPA RATS P1 evaluation
Pavel Matějka, Oldřich Plchot, Mehdi Soufifar, Ondřej Glembek, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Karel Veselý, František Grézl, Jeff Ma, Spyros Matsoukas, Najim Dehak

Articulatory strategies in obstruent production in Mandarin esophageal speech
Fang Hu, Yungang Wu, Wen Xu, Demin Han

Consonantal space area in children with a cleft palate: an acoustic study
Marion Béchet, Fabrice Hirsch, Camille Fauth, Rudolph Sock

Automated dysarthria severity classification for improved objective intelligibility assessment of spastic dysarthric speech
Milton Sarria Paja, Tiago H. Falk

Assessment of disordered voices using empirical mode decomposition in the log-spectral domain
Abdellah Kacha, Francis Grenez, Jean Schoentgen

Learning an artificial F₀-contour for ALT speech
Anna Katharina Fuchs, Martin Hagmüller

Ultrax: an animated midsagittal vocal tract display for speech therapy
Korin Richmond, Steve Renals

A study of mutual information for GMM-based spectral conversion
Hsin-Te Hwang, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang, Yih-Ru Wang, Sin-Horng Chen

Bayesian mixture of probabilistic linear regressions for voice conversion
Na Li, Yu Qiao

Iterative MMSE estimation of vocal tract length normalization factors for voice transformation
Daniel Erro, Eva Navas, Inma Hernáez

An HMM approach to residual estimation for high resolution voice conversion
Winston Percybrooks, Elliot Moore

Implementation of computationally efficient real-time voice conversion
Tomoki Toda, Takashi Muramatsu, Hideki Banno

Effects of speaker adaptive training on tensor-based arbitrary speaker conversion
Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose

Discrimination of linguistic and non-linguistic vocalizations in spontaneous speech: intra- and inter-corpus perspectives
Felix Weninger, Björn Schuller

Accentual transfer from Swiss-German to French. a study of "francais federal"
Mathieu Avanzi, Pauline Dubosson, Sandra Schwab, Nicolas Obin

Phonology & the interpretation of fine phonetic detail in Berlin German
Stefanie Jannedy, Melanie Weirich

Evaluation of a formant-based speech-driven lip motion generation
Carlos T. Ishi, Chaoran Liu, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita

Using spectral measures to differentiate Mandarin and Korean sibilant fricatives
Jeffrey Kallay, Jeffrey Holliday

EFL conversational triads: foreigner-directed speech and hyperarticulation
Hua-Li Jian, Richard Konopka

Syllable perception depends on tone perception
Iris Chuoying Ouyang, Khalil Iskarous

Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora
Christian T. DiCanio, Hosung Nam, Douglas H. Whalen, H. Timothy Bunnell, Jonathan D. Amith, Rey Castillo Garcia

How consonants, dialect and speech rate affect vowel devoicing?
Masako Fujimoto, Seiya Funatsu, Ichiro Fujimoto

Effects of stress and speech rate on vowel quality in Catalan and Spanish
Marianna Nadeu

Predictability affects vowel dispersion and dynamics in the Buckeye corpus
Michael McAuliffe, Molly Babel

Dialectal and generational variations in vowels in spontaneous speech
Robert Allen Fox, Ewa Jacewicz

Perceiving listener-directed speech: effects of authenticity and lexical neighborhood density
Rebecca Scarborough, Georgia Zellou

Acoustic cues of vowel quality to coda nasal perception in southern Min
Ying Chen, Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Susan Guion-Anderson

Lenition of /d/ in spontaneous Spanish and Catalan
Miquel Simonet, José I. Hualde, Marianna Nadeu

Distance-dependent noise reduction for two-channel microphones
Thomas Fehér, Dietmar Richter, Oliver Jokisch, Rüdiger Hoffmann

Direction of arrival estimation based on subband weighting for noisy conditions
Wei Xue, Wenju Liu

Binaural noise reduction using frequency-warped FIR filters
Jorge I. Marin-Hurtado, David V. Anderson

Exploring off time nature for speech enhancement
Meng Yu, Jack Xin

Model-based single-channel dereverberation in noisy acoustical environments
Xulei Bao, Jie Zhu

An auditory inspired multimodal framework for speech enhancement
Majid Mirbagheri, Sahar Akram, Shihab Shamma

Binary mask estimation for improved speech intelligibility in reverberant environments
Oldooz Hazrati, Jaewook Lee, Philipos C. Loizou

Enhancing subjective speech intelligibility using a statistical model of speech
Petko N. Petkov, W. Bastiaan Kleijn, Gustav Eje Henter

Morpheme level feature-based language models for German LVCSR
Amr El-Desoky Mousa, M. Ali Basha Shaik, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Tied-state mixture language model for WFST-based speech recognition
Hitoshi Yamamoto, Paul R. Dixon, Shigeki Matsuda, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka

Maximum entropy language model adaptation for mobile speech input
Tanel Alumäe, Kaarel Kaljurand

Supervised and unsupervised web-based language model domain adaptation
Gwénolé Lecorvé, John Dines, Thomas Hain, Petr Motlicek

A hierarchical Bayesian approach for semi-supervised discriminative language modeling
Yik-Cheung Tam, Paul Vozila

Leveraging social annotation for topic language model adaptation
Youzheng Wu, Kazuhiko Abe, Paul R. Dixon, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka

LSTM neural networks for language modeling
Martin Sundermeyer, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Phrasal cohort based unsupervised discriminative language modeling
Puyang Xu, Brian Roark, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Deriving conversation-based features from unlabeled speech for discriminative language modeling
Damianos Karakos, Brian Roark, Izhak Shafran, Kenji Sagae, Maider Lehr, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Puyang Xu, Nathan Glenn, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Murat Saraclar, Dan Bikel, Mark Dredze, Chris Callison-Burch, Yuan Cao, Keith Hall, Eva Hasler, Philip Koehn, Adam Lopez, Matt Post, Darcey Riley

Performance comparison of training algorithms for semi-supervised discriminative language modeling
Erinç Dikici, Arda Çelebi, Murat Saraçlar

On-the-fly topic adaptation for YouTube video transcription
Kapil Thadani, Fadi Biadsy, Dan Bikel

Portability of semantic annotations for fast development of dialogue corpora
Bassam Jabaian, Fabrice Lefèvre, Laurent Besacier

Optimization of dialog strategies using automatic dialog simulation and statistical dialog management techniques
David Griol, Zoraida Callejas, Ramón López-Cózar

Preference-learning based inverse reinforcement learning for dialog control
Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Yasuhiro Minami

A data-driven approach to understanding spoken route directions in human-robot dialogue
Raveesh Meena, Gabriel Skantze, Joakim Gustafson

Detecting system-directed utterances using dialogue-level features
Kazunori Komatani, Akira Hirano, Mikio Nakano

An online generated transducer to increase dialog manager coverage
Joaquin Planells, Lluís-F. Hurtado, Emilio Sanchis, Encarna Segarra

A sequential Bayesian dialog agent for computational ethnography
Abe Kazemzadeh, James Gibson, Juanchen Li, Sungbok Lee, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth Narayanan

Clippyscript: a programming language for multi-domain dialogue systems
Frank Seide, Sean McDirmid

Correlation between model-based approximations of grounding-related cognition and user judgments
Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Sebastian Möller

Assessment of user simulators for spoken dialogue systems by means of subspace multidimensional clustering
Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht

“help me, i need more user tests!” user simulations as supportive tool in the development process of spoken dialogue systems
Florian Kretzschmar, Sebastian Möller

Caller response timing patterns in spoken dialog systems
Silke M. Witt

A discriminative classification-based approach to information state updates for a multi-domain dialog system
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Ashley Fidler, Asli Celikyilmaz

Learning when to listen: detecting system-addressed speech in human-human-computer dialog
Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck

Exploiting the semantic web for unsupervised natural language semantic parsing
Gokhan Tur, Minwoo Jeong, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck

Prosodic entrainment in an information-driven dialog system
Andrew Fandrianto, Maxine Eskenazi

The INTERSPEECH 2012 speaker trait challenge
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Felix Burkhardt, Rob van Son, Felix Weninger, Florian Eyben, Tobias Bocklet, Gelareh Mohammadi, Benjamin Weiss

On speaker-independent personality perception and prediction from speech
Tim Polzehl, Katrin Schoenenberg, Sebastian Möller, Florian Metze, Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Speaker personality classification using systems based on acoustic-lexical cues and an optimal tree-structured Bayesian network
Kartik Audhkhasi, Angeliki Metallinou, Ming Li, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Personality traits detection using a parallelized modified SFFS algorithm
Clément Chastagnol, Laurence Devillers

Feature selection for speaker traits
Jouni Pohjalainen, Serdar Kadioglu, Okko Räsänen

A frame pruning approach for paralinguistic recognition tasks
Johannes Wagner, Florian Lingenfelser, Elisabeth André

Modulation spectrum analysis for speaker personality trait recognition
Alexei Ivanov, Xin Chen

A comparison of classification paradigms for speaker likeability determination
Nicholas Cummins, Julien Epps, Jia Min Karen Kua

Predicting likability of speakers with Gaussian processes
Dingchao Lu, Fei Sha

Likability classification - a not so deep neural network approach
Raymond Brueckner, Björn Schuller

Genetic algorithm based feature selection for speaker trait classification
Dongrui Wu

Is 'not bad' good enough? aspects of unknown voices' likability
Benjamin Weiss, Felix Burkhardt

Multi-system fusion of extended context prosodic and cepstral features for paralinguistic speaker trait classification
Michelle Hewlett Sanchez, Aaron Lawson, Dimitra Vergyri, Harry Bratt

The log-Gabor method: speech classification using spectrogram image analysis
Harm Buisman, Eric Postma

Anchor models and WCCN normalization for speaker trait classification
Yazid Attabi, Pierre Dumouchel

Pitch and intonation contribution to speakers' traits classification
Claude Montacié, Marie-José Caraty

Text-dependent pathological voice detection
Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Hugo Meinedo, Miguel Bugalho, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, Alan W. Black

Intelligibility classification of pathological speech using fusion of multiple high level descriptors
Jangwon Kim, Naveen Kumar, Andreas Tsiartas, Ming Li, Shrikanth Narayanan

Interspeech pathology challenge: investigations into speaker and sentence specific effects
Anthony Stark, Alireza Bayestehtashk, Meysam Asgari, Izhak Shafran

Automatic intelligibility assessment of pathologic speech in head and neck cancer based on auditory-inspired spectro-temporal modulations
Xinhui Zhou, Daniel Garcia-Romero, Nima Mesgarani, Maureen Stone, Carol Espy-Wilson, Shihab Shamma

Detecting intelligibility by linear dimensionality reduction and normalized voice quality hierarchical features
Dong-Yan Huang, Yongwei Zhu, Dajun Wu, Rongshan Yu

Microphone array post-filter based on spatially-correlated noise measurements for distant speech recognition
Kenichi Kumatani, Bhiksha Raj, Rita Singh, John McDonough

Combining bottleneck-BLSTM and semi-supervised sparse NMF for recognition of conversational speech in highly instationary noise
Felix Weninger, Martin Wöllmer, Björn Schuller

Noise compensation for subspace Gaussian mixture models
Liang Lu, K. K. Chin, Arnab Ghoshal, Steve Renals

Combination of sparse classification and multilayer perceptron for noise-robust ASR
Yang Sun, Mathew M. Doss, Jort F. Gemmeke, Bert Cranen, Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves

Sub-band based log-energy and its dynamic range stretching for robust in-car speech recognition
Weifeng Li, Hervé Bourlard

Noise compensation for speech recognition using subspace Gaussian mixture models
Mohamed Bouallegue, Mickael Rouvier, Driss Matrouf, Georges Linarès

Novel metrics of speech rhythm for the assessment of emotion
Fabien Ringeval, Mohamed Chetouani, Björn Schuller

Temporal and situational context modeling for improved dominance recognition in meetings
Martin Wöllmer, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller, Gerhard Rigoll

Audiovisual correlates of basic emotions in blind and sighted people
Marc Swerts, Kitty Leuverink, Madelene Munnik, Vera Nijveld

Combining ranking and classification to improve emotion recognition in spontaneous speech
Houwei Cao, Ragini Verma, Ani Nenkova

Active learning by sparse instance tracking and classifier confidence in acoustic emotion recognition
Zixing Zhang, Björn Schuller

Emotion recognition using acoustic and lexical features
Viktor Rozgić, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Shirin Saleem, Rohit Kumar, Aravind Namandi Vembu, Rohit Prasad

Improving recognition of speaker states and traits by cumulative evidence: intoxication, sleepiness, age and gender
Felix Weninger, Erik Marchi, Björn Schuller

Speaker clustering in emotion recognition
Ni Ding, Julien Epps

Automatic detection of conflict escalation in spoken conversations
Samuel Kim, Sree Harsha Yella, Fabio Valente

The entropy of intoxicated speech.lexical creativity and heavy tongues
Uwe D. Reichel, Thomas Kisler

A robust unsupervised arousal rating framework using prosody with cross-corpora evaluation
Daniel Bone, Chi-Chun Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Unveiling the acoustic properties that describe the valence dimension
Carlos Busso, Tauhidur Rahman

Annotation and recognition of personality traits in spoken conversations from the AMI meetings corpus
Fabio Valente, Samuel Kim, Petr Motlicek

The effects of lexical tones and nasal coda /-n/ to sadness in Taiwan Hakka
Shao-ren Lyu

Confidence measures in speech emotion recognition based on semi-supervised learning
Jun Deng, Björn Schuller

Using i-vector space model for emotion recognition
Rui Xia, Yang Liu

Cries and whispers.classification of vocal effort in expressive speech
Nicolas Obin

Emotional speech: a spectral analysis
Pouria Fewzee, Fakhri Karray

Classifying skewed data: importance weighting to optimize average recall
Andrew Rosenberg

Gaze patterns in turn-taking
Catharine Oertel, Marcin Włodarczak, Jens Edlund, Petra Wagner, Joakim Gustafson

The "audio-visual face cover corpus": investigations into audio-visual speech and speaker recognition when the speaker's face is occluded by facewear
Natalie Fecher

A case study: detecting counselor reflections in psychotherapy for addictions using linguistic features
Doğan Can, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, David C. Atkins, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Synthetic speech discrimination using pitch pattern statistics derived from image analysis
Phillip L. De Leon, Bryan Stewart, Junichi Yamagishi

Pitch-scaled analysis based residual reconstruction for speech analysis and synthesis
Zhengqi Wen, Hideki Kawahara, Jianhua Tao

Robust pitch estimation using l₁-regularized maximum likelihood estimation
Feng Huang, Tan Lee

A full-band adaptive harmonic representation of speech
Gilles Degottex, Yannis Stylianou

Deviation measure of waveform symmetry and its application to high-speed and temporally-fine F₀ extraction for vocal sound texture manipulation
Hideki Kawahara, Masanori Morise, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino

Hidden Markov convolutive mixture model for pitch contour analysis of speech
Kota Yoshizato, Hirokazu Kameoka, Daisuke Saito, Shigeki Sagayama

Extrinsic normalization for vocal tracts depends on the signal, not on attention
Matthias Sjerps, James M. McQueen, Holger Mitterer

Perceptual learning of /f/-/s/ by older listeners
Odette Scharenborg, Esther Janse, Andrea Weber

Correlation between vocal tract length, body height, formant frequencies, and pitch frequency for the five Japanese vowels uttered by fifteen male speakers
Hiroaki Hatano, Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Takemoto, Parham Mokhtari, Kiyoshi Honda, Shinobu Masaki

Detection of transition segments in VCV utterances for estimation of the place of closure of oral stops for speech training
J. Jagbandhu, K. S. Nataraj, Prem C. Pandey

Audiovisual discrimination of CV syllables: a simultaneous fMRI-EEG study
Cyril Dubois, Rudolph Sock

Contribution of spectral shapes to tone perception
Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn, Surapol Vorapatratorn, Sirinart Tangruamsub, Proadpran Punyabukkana, Atiwong Suchato

Methodological issues in assessing perceptual representation of consonant sounds in Thai
Charturong Tantibundhit, Chutamanee Onsuwan, P. Phienphanich, Chai Wutiwiwatchai

Pitch and phonological perception of tone in the Suruí language of Rondônia (Brazil): identification task of LHL and LHH tonal patterns
Julien Meyer

The role of creaky voice in Mandarin tone 2 and tone 3 perception
Rui Cao, Ratree Wayland, Edith Kaan

Can litheners retune native categories acroth a thoneme boundary?
Michael D. Tyler, Mona M. Faris

Synthetic F₀ can effectively convey speaker ID in delexicalized speech
Eric Morley, Esther Klabbers, Jan P. H. van Santen, Alexander Kain, Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi

Evaluating prosodic processing for incremental speech synthesis
Timo Baumann, David Schlangen

Expressing speaker's intentions through sentence-final intonations for Japanese conversational speech synthesis
Kazuhiko Iwata, Tetsunori Kobayashi

Modeling pause-duration for style-specific speech synthesis
Alok Parlikar, Alan W. Black

Enumerating differences between various communicative functions for purposes of Czech expressive speech synthesis in limited domain
Martin Gruber

Quality analysis of macroprosodic F₀ dynamics in text-to-speech signals
Christoph R. Norrenbrock, Florian Hinterleitner, Ulrich Heute, Sebastian Möller

Improved automatic extraction of generation process model commands and its use for generating fundamental frequency contours for training HMM-based speech synthesis
Hiroya Hashimoto, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu

Discontinuous observation HMM for prosodic-event-based F₀ generation
Tomoki Koriyama, Takashi Nose, Takao Kobayashi

Hierarchical English emphatic speech synthesis based on HMM with limited training data
Fanbo Meng, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Lianhong Cai

Employing sentence structure: syntax trees as prosody generators
Sarah Hoffmann, Beat Pfister

A stochastic model of singing voice F₀ contours for characterizing expressive dynamic components
Yasunori Ohishi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Daichi Mochihashi, Kunio Kashino

Study on integration of speaker diarization with speaker adaptive speech recognition for broadcast transcription
Jan Silovsky, Petr Cerva, Jindrich Zdansky, Jan Nouza

On the use of spectral and iterative methods for speaker diarization
Stephen Shum, Najim Dehak, James Glass

Where did i go wrong?: identifying troublesome segments for speaker diarization systems
Mary Tai Knox, Nikki Mirghafori, Gerald Friedland

Speaker diarization of overlapping speech based on silence distribution in meeting recordings
Sree Harsha Yella, Fabio Valente

Phone adaptive training for speaker diarization
Simon Bozonnet, Ravichander Vipperla, Nicholas Evans

Compensating for ageing and quality variation in speaker verification
Finnian Kelly, Andrzej Drygajlo, Naomi Harte

Calibration of probabilistic age recognition
David van Leeuwen, Mohamad Hasan Bahari

Age estimation from telephone speech using i-vectors
Mohamad Hasan Bahari, Mitchell McLaren, Hugo Van hamme, David van Leeuwen

A factorized representation of FMLLR transform based on QR-decomposition
Shakti P. Rath, Martin Karafiát, Ondřej Glembek, Jan Černocký

A correlational discriminant approach to feature extraction for robust speech recognition
Vikrant Singh Tomar, Richard C. Rose

Discriminative training using non-uniform criteria for keyword spotting on spontaneous speech
Chao Weng, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang, Daniel Povey

Discriminative reranking for LVCSR leveraging invariant structure
Masayuki Suzuki, Gakuto Kurata, Masafumi Nishimura, Nobuaki Minematsu

Discriminative fuzzy clustering maximum a posterior linear regression for speaker adaptation
Ting-yao Hu, Yu Tsao, Lin-shan Lee

Simultaneous discriminative training and mixture splitting of HMMs for speech recognition
Muhammad Ali Tahir, Markus Nussbaum-Thom, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Low-SNR, speaker-dependent speech enhancement using GMMs and MFCCs
Laura Boucheron, Phillip L. De Leon

Can modified casual speech reach the intelligibility of clear speech?
Maria Koutsogiannaki, Michelle Pettinato, Cassie Mayo, Varvara Kandia, Yannis Stylianou

Speech enhancement using sparse convolutive non-negative matrix factorization with basis adaptation
Michael A. Carlin, Nicolas Malyska, Thomas F. Quatieri

Inventory-based audio-visual speech enhancement
Dorothea Kolossa, Robert Nickel, Steffen Zeiler, Rainer Martin

Utilization of the lombard effect in post-.ltering for intelligibility enhancement of telephone speech
Emma Jokinen, Paavo Alku, Martti Vainio

Speech enhancement by online non-negative spectrogram decomposition in nonstationary noise environments
Zhiyao Duan, Gautham J. Mysore, Paris Smaragdis

Phoneme resistance during speech-in-speech comprehension
Léo Varnet, Julien Meyer, Michel Hoen, Fanny Meunier

smile with a smile
Hugo Quené, Will Schuerman

Interactions between turn-taking gaps, disfluencies and social obligation
Rebecca Lunsford, Peter A. Heeman, Jan P. H. van Santen

Effect of being seen on the production of visible speech cues. a pilot study on lombard speech
Maëva Garnier, Lucie Ménard, Gabrielle Richard

Temporal entrainment in overlapped speech: cross-linguistic study
Marcin Włodarczak, Juraj Šimko, Petra Wagner

Based on isolated saliency or causal integration? toward a better understanding of human annotation process using multiple instance learning and sequential probability ratio test
Chi-Chun Lee, Athanasios Katsamanis, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Contrasting cues to verbal and non-verbal backchannels in multi-lingual dyadic rapport
Gina-Anne Levow, Susan Duncan

Prosodic measurements and question types in the spontal corpus of Swedish dialogues
Sofia Strömbergsson, Jens Edlund, David House

Measuring prosodic alignment in cooperative task-based conversations
Khiet P. Truong, Dirk Heylen

On the dynamics of overlap in multi-party conversation
Kornel Laskowski, Mattias Heldner, Jens Edlund

On the acoustics of overlapping laughter in conversational speech
Khiet P. Truong, Jürgen Trouvain

A corpus-based study of interruptions in spoken dialogue
Agustín Gravano, Julia Hirschberg

Text-to-speech intelligibility across speech rates
Ann K. Syrdal, H. Timothy Bunnell, Susan R. Hertz, Taniya Mishra, Murray Spiegel, Corine Bickley, Deborah Rekart, Matthew J. Makashay

Objective intelligibility assessment of text-to-speech system using template constrained generalized posterior probability
Linfang Wang, Lijuan Wang, Yan Teng, Zhe Geng, Frank K. Soong

Mel cepstral coefficient modification based on the glimpse proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-generated synthetic speech in noise
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King

Speech-in-noise intelligibility improvement based on spectral shaping and dynamic range compression
Tudor-Catalin Zorila, Varvara Kandia, Yannis Stylianou

Implementation of simple spectral techniques to enhance the intelligibility of speech using a harmonic model
Daniel Erro, Yannis Stylianou, Eva Navas, Inma Hernáez

Making conversational vowels more clear
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain, Jan P. H. van Santen

Naturalness judgement of prosodic variation of Japanese utterances with prosody modified stimuli
Chiharu Tsurutani, Shunichi Ishihara

Effects of dialectal origin on articulation rate in French
Mathieu Avanzi, Pauline Dubosson, Sandra Schwab

A new approach of speaking rate modeling for Mandarin speech prosody
Chiao-Hua Hsieh, Chen-Yu Chiang, Yih-Ru Wang, Hsiu-Min Yu, Sin-Horng Chen

Modelling pause duration as a function of contextual length
David Doukhan, Albert Rilliard, Sophie Rosset, Christophe D'Alessandro

Production and perception of focus in PFC and non-PFC languages: comparing beijing Mandarin and hainan tsat
Bei Wang, Chenxia Li, Qian Wu, Xiaxia Zhang, Baofeng Wang, Yi Xu

Prosodic realization of focus in statement and question in tibetan (lhasa dialect)
Xiaxia Zhang, Bei Wang, Qian Wu, Yi Xu

Effect of noise type and level on focus related fundamental frequency changes
Martti Vainio, Daniel Aalto, Antti Suni, Anja Arnhold, Tuomo Raitio, Henri Seijo, Juhani Järvikivi, Paavo Alku

Role of prosody in automatic modality recognition of bangla speech
Anal Warsi, Tulika Basu, Debasis Mazumdar

Where to associate stressed additive particles? evidence from speech prosody
Bettina Braun

From PVI to perception: a return to the roots of rhythm in broadcast news
Matthew Benton

A methodology for the study of rhythm in drummed forms of languages: application to Bora Manguare of Amazon
Julien Meyer, Laure Dentel, Frank Seifart

Perception of pitch contours among native tone listeners
Ratree Wayland, Donruethai Laphasradakul, Edith Kaan, Rui Cao

Pitch range control of Japanese boundary pitch movements
Yosuke Igarashi, Hanae Koiso

Perceived prosodic boundaries in taiwanese and their acoustic correlates
Grace Kuo

Phonetic foreignization of Mandarin for dubbing in imported western movies
Laying Hon, Yuan Jia, Aijun Li

Prosodic contex-based analysis of disfluencies.
Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata

Describing the development of intonational categories using a target-oriented parametric approach
Britta Lintfert, Bernd Möbius

Automatic detection of high vocal effort in telephone speech
Jouni Pohjalainen, Tuomo Raitio, Hannu Pulakka, Paavo Alku

Analysis of mimicry speech
D. Gomathi, Sathya Adithya Thati, Karthik Venkat Sridaran, Bayya Yegnanarayana

Estimation of the vocal tract shape of nasals using a Bayesian scheme
Christian H. Kasess, Wolfgang Kreuzer, Ewald Enzinger, Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo

Advances in combined electro-optical palatography
Peter Birkholz, Philippe Dächert, Christiane Neuschaefer-Rube

Noise robust pitch tracking by subband autocorrelation classification
Byung Suk Lee, Daniel P. W. Ellis

Inference of critical articulator position for fricative consonants
Alexander Sepulveda, Rodrigo Capobianco-Guido, German Castellanos-Dominguez

Vocal tremor measurement based on autocorrelation of contours
Markus Brückl

Model-based duration-difference approach on accent evaluation of L2 learner
Chatchawarn Hansakunbuntheung, Ananlada Chotimongkol, Sumonmas Thatphithakkul, Patcharika Chootrakool

Continuous articulatory-to-acoustic mapping using phone-based trajectory HMM for a silent speech interface
Thomas Hueber, Gérard Bailly, Bruce Denby

Prediction of turn-taking by combining prosodic and eye-gaze information in poster conversations
Tatsuya Kawahara, Takuma Iwatate, Katsuya Takanashi

Using quality ratings to predict modality choice in multimodal systems
Ina Wechsung, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Sebastian Möller

HMM based continuous EOG recognition for eye-input speech interface
Fuming Fang, Takahiro Shinozaki, Yasuo Horiuchi, Shingo Kuroiwa, Sadaoki Furui, Toshimitsu Musha

A random, semantically appropriate sentence generator for speaker verification
Jason Lilley, Amanda Stent, Ilija Zeljkovic

Coherent topic transition in a conversational agent
Daniel Macias-Galindo, Wilson Wong, Lawrence Cavedon, John Thangarajah

Using reinforcement learning for dialogue management Policies: towards understanding MDP violations and convergence
Peter A. Heeman, Jordan Fryer, Rebecca Lunsford, Andrew Rueckert, Ethan Selfridge

Enhancing speech understanding in spoken dialogue systems by means of a new frame-correction technique
Ramón López-Cózar, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

Prosodic cues to disengagement and uncertainty in physics tutorial dialogues
Diane Litman, Heather Friedberg, Kate Forbes-Riley

Spoken dialogs with a virtual science tutor
Wayne H. Ward, Daniel Bolanos, Ronald A. Cole

Real-time lecture transcription using ASR for Czech hearing impaired or deaf students
Petr Cerva, Jan Silovsky, Jindrich Zdansky, Jan Nouza, Jiri Malek

Application of structural events detected on ASR outputs for automated speaking assessment
Lei Chen, Su-Youn Yoon

Addressing confusions in spoken language in ESL pronunciation tutors
Oscar Saz, Maxine Eskenazi

The use of DBN-HMMs for mispronunciation detection and diagnosis in L2 English to support computer-aided pronunciation training
Xiaojun Qian, Helen Meng, Frank K. Soong

Practice and feedback in L2 speaking: an evaluation of the DISCO CALL system
Catia Cucchiarini, Joost van Doremalen, Helmer Strik

Cross-speaker acoustic-to-articulatory inversion using phone-based trajectory HMM for pronunciation training
Thomas Hueber, Atef Ben-Youssef, Gérard Bailly, Pierre Badin, Frédéric Elisei

MAP estimation of whole-word acoustic models with dictionary priors
Keith Kintzley, Aren Jansen, Hynek Hermansky

Data-driven posterior features for low resource speech recognition applications
Samuel Thomas, Sriram Ganapathy, Aren Jansen, Hynek Hermansky

Sparse Bayesian factor analysis for stereo-based stochastic mapping
Xiaodong Cui, Mohamed Afify, George Saon, Vaibhava Goel

Word discovery with beta process factor analysis
Niklas Vanhainen, Giampiero Salvi

Speaker adaptation using variational Bayesian linear regression in normalized feature space
Seong-Jun Hahm, Atsunori Ogawa, Masakiyo Fujimoto, Takaaki Hori, Atsushi Nakamura

Bayesian feature enhancement for ASR of noisy reverberant real-world data
Alexander Krueger, Oliver Walter, Volker Leutnant, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Robust tracking for automatic reading tutors
Emre Yilmaz, Dirk van Compernolle, Hugo Van hamme

Maximum F1-score discriminative training for automatic mispronunciation detection in computer-assisted language learning
Hao Huang, Jianming Wang, Halidan Abudureyimu

Error pattern detection integrating generative and discriminative learning for computer-aided pronunciation training
Yow-Bang Wang, Lin-Shan Lee

The automatic assessment of non-native prosody: combining classical prosodic analysis with acoustic modelling
Florian Hönig, Tobias Bocklet, Korbinian Riedhammer, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth

Improving L1-specific phonological error diagnosis in computer assisted pronunciation training
Theban Stanley, Kadri Hacioglu

A self-learning assistive vocal interface based on vocabulary learning and grammar induction
Jort F. Gemmeke, Janneke van de Loo, Guy de Pauw, Joris Driesen, Hugo Van hamme, Walter Daelemans

Real-time visualization of English pronunciation on an IPA chart based on articulatory feature extraction
Yurie Iribe, Takurou Mori, Kouichi Katsurada, Goh Kawai, Tsuneo Nitta

Acoustic feature-based non-scorable response detection for an automated speaking proficiency assessment
Je Hun Jeon, Su-Youn Yoon

Pronunciation quality evaluation of sentences by combining word based scores
Jorge Wuth, Néstor Becerra Yoma, Leopoldo Benavides, Hiram Vivanco

Designing a spoken language interface for a tutorial dialogue system
Peter Bell, Myroslava Dzikovska, Amy Isard

Automatic pronunciation error detection based on extended pronunciation space using the unsupervised clustering of pronunciation errors
Long Zhang, Haifeng Li, Lin Ma

Less errors with TTS? a dictation experiment with foreign language learners
Thomas Pellegrini, Ângela Costa, Isabel Trancoso

Improvement in automatic pronunciation scoring using additional basic scores and learning to rank
Liang-Yu Chen, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang

Automatic tone assessment of non-native Mandarin speakers
Jian Cheng

On the modeling of voiceless stop sounds of speech using adaptive quasi-harmonic models
George P. Kafentzis, Olivier Rosec, Yannis Stylianou

An alignment matching method to explore pseudosyllable properties across different corpora
Raymond W. M. Ng, Thomas Hain, Keikichi Hirose

Deep architectures for articulatory inversion
Benigno Uria, Iain Murray, Steve Renals, Korin Richmond

Automatic measurement of positive and negative voice onset time
Katharine Henry, Morgan Sonderegger, Joseph Keshet

Efficient multipulse approximation of speech excitation using the most singular manifold
Vahid Khanagha, Khalid Daoudi

Intrinsic spectral analysis for zero and high resource speech recognition
Aren Jansen, Samuel Thomas, Hynek Hermansky

Computational modelling of the recognition of foreign-accented speech
Odette Scharenborg, Marijt Witteman, Andrea Weber

The production and perception of Estonian quantity degrees by native and non-native speakers
Lya Meister, Einar Meister

Perception of the moraic obstruent /q/: a cross-linguistic study
Makiko Sadakata, Mizuki Shingai, Alex Brandmeyer, Kaoru Sekiyama

Comparative analysis of intensity between native speakers and Japanese speakers of English
Tomoko Nariai, Kazuyo Tanaka, Tatsuya Kawahara

Auditory and dynamic modeling paradigms to detect L2 mispronunciations
Christos Koniaris, Olov Engwall, Giampiero Salvi

Cross linguistic comparison of Mandarin and English EMA articulatory data
Sheng Li, Lan Wang

Physiological and acoustic study of word initial post-lexical gemination in Moroccan Arabic
Chakir Zeroual, Diamantis Gafos, Phil Hoole, John Esling

Perceptual assimilation of Arabic voiceless fricatives by English monolinguals
Michael D. Tyler, Sarah Fenwick

Non-auditory cognitive capabilities in computational modeling of early language acquisition
Okko Räsänen

Modeling spoken language acquisition with a generic cognitive architecture for associative learning
Okko Räsänen, Heikki Rasilo, Unto K. Laine

Pitch estimation based on long frame harmonic model and short frame average correlation coefficient
Dongmei Wang, Philipos C. Loizou

Diagnostic prediction of transmitted speech quality: a new framework for signal-based and parametric models
Sebastian Möller, Marcel Wältermann, Nicolas Côté

Enumerative algebraic coding for ACELP
Tom Bäckström

Speech enhancement with bivariate gamma model
Atanu Saha, Tetsuya Shimamura

Improvements of the beta-order minimum mean-square error (MMSE) spectral amplitude estimator using chi priors
Marek Trawicki, Michael Johnson

Enhancing speech by reconstruction from robust acoustic features
Philip Harding, Ben Milner

Joint pitch-analysis formant-synthesis framework for CS recovery of speech
Srikanth Raj Chetupally, Thippur V. Sreenivas

A new noise-tracking algorithm for generalizing binary time-frequency (t-f) masking to ratio masking
Shan Liang, Wei Jiang, Wenju Liu

Optimised spectral weightings for noise-dependent speech intelligibility enhancement
Yan Tang, Martin Cooke

Exploring rich expressive information from audiobook data using cluster adaptive training
Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Vincent Wan, Javier Latorre, Masami Akamine

Turning a monolingual speaker into multilingual for a mixed-language TTS
Ji He, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Sheng Zhao

Using HMM-based speech synthesis to reconstruct the voice of individuals with degenerative speech disorders
Christophe Veaux, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King

Speech factorization for HMM-TTS based on cluster adaptive training
Javier Latorre, Vincent Wan, Mark J. F. Gales, Langzhou Chen, K. K. Chin, Kate Knill, Masami Akamine

Factored MLLR adaptation algorithm for HMM-based expressive TTS
June Sig Sung, Doo Hwa Hong, Hyun Woo Koo, Nam Soo Kim

Speaker-adaptive visual speech synthesis in the HMM-framework
Dietmar Schabus, Michael Pucher, Gregor Hofer

Cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis based on perceptual characteristics and speaker interpolation
Viviane de Franca Oliveira, Sayaka Shiota, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

C2h: a computational model of H&h-based phonetic contrast in synthetic speech
Mauro Nicolao, Javier Latorre, Roger K. Moore

Vowel creation by articulatory control in HMM-based parametric speech synthesis
Zhen-Hua Ling, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi

Analysis of speaker clustering strategies for HMM-based speech synthesis
Rasmus Dall, Christophe Veaux, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King

Word relevance modeling for speech recognition
Kuan-Yu Chen, Hao-Chin Chang, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang

Using context-free grammars for embedded speech recognition with weighted finite-state transducers
Frank Duckhorn, Rüdiger Hoffmann

Automatic transcription error recovery for person name recognition
Richard Dufour, Géraldine Damnati, Delphine Charlet, Frédéric Béchet

Efficient beam width control to suppress excessive speech recognition computation time based on prior score range normalization
Satoshi Kobashikawa, Takaaki Hori, Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, Taichi Asami, Hirokazu Masataki, Satoshi Takahashi

Search space pruning based on anticipated path recombination in LVCSR
David Nolden, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Estimating word-stability during incremental speech recognition
Ian McGraw, Alexander Gruenstein

Using broad phonetic classes to guide search in automatic speech recognition
Stefan Ziegler, Bogdan Ludusan, Guillaume Gravier

Parallel combination of multilingual speech streams for improved ASR
João Miranda, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Alan W. Black

Low latency combination of parallelized single-pass LVCSR systems
Fethi Bougares, Mickael Rouvier, Yannick Estève, Georges Linarès

Efficient on-the-fly hypothesis rescoring in a hybrid GPU/CPU-based large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine
Jungsuk Kim, Jike Chong, Ian Lane

Fully automated neuropsychological assessment for detecting mild cognitive impairment
Maider Lehr, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Izhak Shafran, Brian Roark

Spontaneous-speech acoustic-prosodic features of children with autism and the interacting psychologist
Daniel Bone, Matthew P. Black, Chi-Chun Lee, Marian E. Williams, Pat Levitt, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan

Contrastive intonation in autism: the effect of speaker- and listener-perspective
Constantijn Kaland, Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts

Characterizing covert articulation in apraxic speech using real-time MRI
Christina Hagedorn, Michael Proctor, Louis Goldstein, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Automatic word naming recognition for treatment and assessment of aphasia
Alberto Abad, Anna Pompili, Angela Costa, Isabel Trancoso

Vocal-source biomarkers for depression: a link to psychomotor activity
Thomas F. Quatieri, Nicolas Malyska

Audio and contact microphones for cough detection
Thomas Drugman, Jerome Urbain, Nathalie Bauwens, Ricardo Chessini, Anne-Sophie Aubriot, Patrick Lebecque, Thierry Dutoit

Analyzing and interpreting automatically learned rules across dialects
Nancy F. Chen, Wade Shen, Joseph P. Campbell

The effect of use of drugs on speaker's fundamental frequency and formants
Andrey Raev, Yuri Matveev, Tatiana Goloshchapova

On the assessment of audiovisual cues to speaker confidence by preteens with typical development (TD) and a-typical development (AD)
Marc Swerts, Cees de Bie

Interplay between verbal response latency and physiology of children with autism during ECA interactions
Theodora Chaspari, Chi-Chun Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan

Combination of multiple speech dimensions for automatic assessment of dysarthric speech intelligibility
Myung Jong Kim, Hoirin Kim

Whole-word recognition from articulatory movements for silent speech interfaces
Jun Wang, Ashok Samal, Jordan R. Green, Frank Rudzicz

Verifying session level pronunciation accuracy in a speech therapy application
Shou-Chun Yin, Richard C. Rose, Yun Tang

Duration of ambulatory monitoring needed to accurately estimate voice use
Daryush D. Mehta, Rebecca Woodbury Listfield, Harold A. Cheyne II, James T. Heaton, Shengran W. Feng, Matías Zañartu, Robert E. Hillman

Evaluating NLP features for automatic prediction of language impairment using child speech transcripts
Khairun-nisa Hassanali, Yang Liu, Thamar Solorio

Quantitative analysis of pitch in speech of children with neurodevelopmental disorders
Géza Kiss, Jan P. H. van Santen, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Lois M. Black

Discriminatively learning factorized finite state pronunciation models from dynamic Bayesian networks
Preethi Jyothi, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Karen Livescu

Joint decoding for speech recognition and semantic tagging
Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Investigation of maximum entropy hybrid language models for open vocabulary German and Polish LVCSR
M. Ali Basha Shaik, Amr El-Desoky Mousa, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

A specialized WFST approach for class models and dynamic vocabulary
Paul R. Dixon, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka

Dynamic grammars with lookahead composition for WFST-based speech recognition
Josef R. Novak, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose

Knowledge-based word lattice rescoring in a dynamic context
Todd Shore, Friedrich Faubel, Hartmut Helmke, Dietrich Klakow

Mixture component clustering for efficient speaker verification
Richard D. McClanahan, Phillip L. De Leon

Front-end channel compensation using mixture-dependent feature transformations for i-vector speaker recognition
Taufiq Hasan, John H. L. Hansen

Query-by-example using speaker content graphs
William M. Campbell, Elliot Singer

Unsupervised NAP training data design for speaker recognition
Hanwu Sun, Bin Ma

The role of score calibration in speaker recognition
George Doddington

A Bayesian approach to speaker recognition based on GMMs using multiple model structures
Takafumi Hattori, Kei Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

Residual phase cepstrum coefficients with application to cross-lingual speaker verification
Jianglin Wang, Michael Johnson

Speaker veri.cation using neighborhood preserving embedding
Chunyan Liang, Jinchao Yang, Lin Yang, Yonghong Yan

Discriminative decision function based scoring method in joint factor analysis for speaker verification
Chunyan Liang, Xiang Zhang, Lin Yang, Yonghong Yan

Integrated feature normalization and enhancement for robust speaker recognition using acoustic factor analysis
Taufiq Hasan, John H. L. Hansen

Factor analysis and nuisance attribute projection revisited
Lukáš Machlica, Zbyněk Zajic

Compensation of intrinsic variability with factor analysis modeling for robust speaker verification
Sheng Chen, Mingxing Xu

RSR2015: database for text-dependent speaker verification using multiple pass-phrases
Anthony Larcher, Kong Aik Lee, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Speaker idiosyncratic rhythmic features in the speech signal
Volker Dellwo, Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly

Bilinear factor analysis for i-vector based speaker verification
Yun Lei, Lukáš Burget, Nicolas Scheffer

Unsupervised speaker identification using overlaid texts in TV broadcast
Johann Poignant, Hervé Bredin, Viet Bac Le, Laurent Besacier, Claude Barras, Georges Quénot

Mask estimation and refinement for MFT-based robust speaker verification
Yali Zhao, Lie Xie, Zhonghua Fu

Sparse probabilistic linear discriminant analysis for speaker verification
Hai Yang, Chunyan Liang, Yunfei Xu, Lin Yang, Yonghong Yan

Study of the effect of i-vector modeling on short and mismatch utterance duration for speaker verification
Achintya Kumar Sarkar, Driss Matrouf, Pierre Michel Bousquet, Jean-François Bonastre

Ensemble classifiers using unsupervised data selection for speaker recognition
Chien-Lin Huang, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Bin Ma

A method of speaker identification based on phoneme mean F-Ratio contribution
Songgun Hyon, Hongcui Wang, Chen Zhao, Jianguo Wei, Jianwu Dang

Mitigating effects of recording condition mismatch in speaker recognition using partial least squares
Jeremiah J. Remus, Jenniffer M. Estrada, Stephanie A. C. Schuckers

Similarities in fundamental frequency in infant speech segmentation models
Ellen Marklund, Francisco Lacerda, Iris-Corinna Schwarz, Ulla Sundberg

Phonological complexity and vocabulary size in 30-month-old Swedish children
Ulrika Marklund, Ulla Sundberg, Iris-Corinna Schwarz, Francisco Lacerda

Auditory-visual speech to infants and adults: signals and correlations
Jeesun Kim, Chris Davis, Christine Kitamura

Objective child vocal development measurement with naturalistic daylong audio recording
Dongxin Xu, Jill Gilkerson, Jeffery A. Richards

Speech production-perception relationships in children with speech delay
Kyoko Nagao, Mark Paullin, Vilena Livinsky, James B. Polikoff, Linda D. Vallino, Thierry G. Morlet, N. Carolyn Schanen, H. Timothy Bunnell

Synthetic correction of deviant speech – children's perception of phonologically modified recordings of their own speech
Sofia Strömbergsson

Combining multiple high quality corpora for improving HMM-TTS
Vincent Wan, Javier Latorre, K. K. Chin, Langzhou Chen, Mark J. F. Gales, Heiga Zen, Kate Knill, Masami Akamine

An evaluation of parameter generation methods with rich context models in HMM-based speech synthesis
Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Using Bayesian networks to find relevant context features for HMM-based speech synthesis
Heng Lu, Simon King

Considering global variance of the log power spectrum derived from mel-cepstrum in HMM-based parametric speech synthesis
Xiang Yin, Zhen-Hua Ling, Ming Lei, Lirong Dai

A speech parameter generation algorithm using local bariance for HMM-based speech synthesis
Vataya Chunwijitra, Takashi Nose, Takao Kobayashi

Histogram-based spectral equalization for HMM-based speech synthesis using mel-LSP
Yamato Ohtani, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

Wideband parametric speech synthesis using warped linear prediction
Tuomo Raitio, Antti Suni, Martti Vainio, Paavo Alku

Modeling the creaky excitation for parametric speech synthesis
Thomas Drugman, John Kane, Christer Gobl

Amplitude spectrum based excitation model for HMM-based speech synthesis
Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao

Speech synthesis using a non-maximally decimated filter bank for embedded systems
Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Tsuneo Kato

Ways to implement global variance in statistical speech synthesis
Hanna Silén, Elina Helander, Jani Nurminen, Moncef Gabbouj

HMM-based speech synthesis using sub-band basis spectrum model
Yamato Ohtani, Masatsune Tamura, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine

Comparing different acoustic modeling techniques for multilingual boosting
David Imseng, John Dines, Petr Motlicek, Philip N. Garner, Hervé Bourlard

Model-based approaches to adaptive training in reverberant environments
Yongqiang Wang, Mark J. F. Gales

Model-based approaches for degraded channel modelling in robust ASR
Mark J. F. Gales, Federico Flego

Improved model selection for the ASR-driven binary mask
William Hartmann, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Accelerated batch learning of convex log-linear models for LVCSR
Simon Wiesler, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Improving discriminative training for robust acoustic models in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
Janne Pylkkönen, Mikko Kurimo

Semi-supervised methods for improving keyword search of unseen terms
Scott Novotney, Ivan Bulyko, Richard Schwartz, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Owen Kimball

Probabilistic speaker-class based acoustic modeling for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
Xiangang Li, Dan Su, Zaihu Pang, Xihong Wu

Classification of stressed speech using physical parameters derived from two-mass model
Xiao Yao, Takatoshi Jitsuhiro, Chiyomi Miyajima, Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda

IVN-based joint training of GMM and HMMs using an improved VTS-based feature compensation for noisy speech recognition
Jun Du, Qiang Huo

Amplitude modulation filters as feature sets for robust ASR: constant absolute or relative bandwidth?
Niko Moritz, Jörn Anemüller, Birger Kollmeier

Effect of speech priors in single-channel speech-music separation for ASR
Cemil Demir, A. Taylan Cemgil, Murat Saraçlar

On the role of binary mask pattern in automatic speech recognition
Arun Narayanan, DeLiang Wang

Dereverberation based on wavelet packet filtering for robust automatic speech recognition
Randy Gomez, Tatsuya Kawahara

Spectral intersections for non-stationary signal separation
Trausti Kristjansson, Thad Hughes

Speech recognition by denoising and dereverberation based on spectral subtraction in a real noisy reverberant environment
Kyohei Odani, Longbiao Wang, Atsuhiko Kai

Q-Gaussian based spectral subtraction for robust speech recognition
Hilman F. Pardede, Koichi Shinoda, Koji Iwano

Hooking up spectro-temporal filters with auditory-inspired representations for robust automatic speech recognition
Bernd T. Meyer, Constantin Spille, Birger Kollmeier, Nelson Morgan

Feature extraction based on hearing system signal processing for robust large vocabulary speech recognition
Qi Peter Li, Xie Sun

Automatic estimation of the first two subglottal resonances in children's speech with application to speaker normalization in limited-data conditions
Harish Arsikere, Gary K. F. Leung, Steven M. Lulich, Abeer Alwan

Robust phoneme recognition based on biomimetic speech contours
Michael A. Carlin, Kailash Patil, Sridhar Krishna Nemala, Mounya Elhilali

A feature space transformation method for personalization using generalized i-vector clustering
Kaisheng Yao, Yifan Gong, Chaojun Liu

Longer features: they do a speech detector good
T. J. Tsai, Nelson Morgan

Robust feature extraction for speech recognition by enhancing auditory spectrum
Md Jahangir Alam, Patrick Kenny, Douglas O'Shaughnessy

Enhancing vocal tract length normalization with elastic registration for automatic speech recognition
Florian Müller, Alfred Mertins

Beamforming using uniform circular arrays for distant speech recognition in reverberant environments and double talk scenarios
Hannes Pessentheiner, Stefan Petrik, Harald Romsdorfer

Novel approach to live captioning through re-speaking: tailoring speech recognition to re-speaker's needs
Aleš Pražák, Zdeněk Loos, Jan Trmal, Josef V. Psutka, Josef Psutka

Development and evaluation of automatic punctuation for French and English speech-to-text
Jáchym Kolář, Lori Lamel

Spoken document clustering using word confusion networks
Shajith Ikbal, Sachindra Joshi, Ashish Verma, Om D. Deshmukh

Dynamic conditional random fields for joint sentence boundary and punctuation prediction
Xuancong Wang, Hwee Tou Ng, Khe Chai Sim

Analysis of the characteristics of talk-show TV programs
Fabio Brugnara, Daniele Falavigna, Diego Giuliani, Roberto Gretter

Rethinking the corpus: moving towards dynamic linguistic resources
Andrew Rosenberg

Speaker recognition for children's speech
Saeid Safavi, Maryam Najafian, Abualsoud Hanani, Martin Russell, Peter Jančovič, Michael Carey

A simple and efficient method to align very long speech signals to acoustically imperfect transcriptions
Germán Bordel, Mikel Penagarikano, Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, Amparo Varona

Estimation of talker's head orientation based on discrimination of the shape of cross-power spectrum phase coefficients
Ryoichi Takashima, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki

Sentence detection using multiple annotations
Ann Lee, James Glass

A speaker-role based approach for detecting Politicians in TV broadcast news
Delphine Charlet, Geraldine Damnati

Relative importance of temporal envelope and fine structure cues in low- and high- order harmonic regions for Mandarin lexical-tone recognition
Guangting Mai

Real-time implementation of multi-band frequency compression for listeners with moderate sensorineural impairment
Nitya Tiwari, Prem C. Pandey, Pandurangarao N. Kulkarni

Word prominence detection using robust yet simple prosodic features
Taniya Mishra, Vivek Rangarajan Sridhar, Alistair Conkie

Online story segmentation of multilingual streaming broadcast news
Amit Srivastava, Saurabh Khanwalkar, Gretchen Markiewicz, Guruprasad Saikumar

Average spectrotemporal structure of continuous speech matches with the frequency resolution of human hearing
Okko Räsänen

Perceptual importance of the phase related information in speech
Ibon Saratxaga, Inma Hernáez, Michael Pucher, Eva Navas, Iñaki Sainz

Improving the entropy estimate of neuronal firings of modeled cochlear nucleus neurons
Andrea Grigorescu, Marek Rudnicki, Michael Isik, Werner Hemmert, Stefano Rini

Perception of synthetic speech in adult users of cochlear implants
Kyoko Nagao, Mark Paullin, James B. Polikoff, Jason Lilley, H. Timothy Bunnell

Hearing loss and the use of acoustic cues in phonetic categorisation of fricatives
Odette Scharenborg, Esther Janse

Intelligibility of speech spoken in noise/reverberation for older adults in reverberant environments
Nao Hodoshima, Takayuki Arai, Kiyohiro Kurisu

Improved speech intelligibility with a chimaera hearing aid algorithm
Andrew Hines, Naomi Harte

Unsupervised acoustic analyses of normal and lombard speech, with spectral envelope transformation to improve intelligibility
Elizabeth Godoy, Yannis Stylianou

The effect of dichotic processing on the perception of binaural cues
Akiko Amano-Kusumoto, Justin M. Aronoff, Motokuni Itoh, Sigfrid D. Soli

Speech and speaker separation in human auditory cortex
Nima Mesgarani, Edward Chang

On the effect of the acoustic environment on the accuracy of perception of speaker orientation from auditory cues alone
Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner, Joakim Gustafson

Sibilant speech detection in noise
Sira Gonzalez, Mike Brookes

Voice activity detection using speech recognizer feedback
Kit Thambiratnam, Weiwu Zhu, Frank Seide

Descriptive vocabulary development for degraded speech
Dushyant Sharma, Gaston Hilkhuysen, Patrick A. Naylor, Nikolay D. Gaubitch, Mark Huckvale, Mike Brookes

Overlapped speech detection in meeting using cross-channel spectral subtraction and spectrum similarity
Ryo Yokoyama, Yu Nasu, Koichi Shinoda, Koji Iwano

Speech restoration based on deep learning autoencoder with layer-wised pretraining
Xugang Lu, Shigeki Matsuda, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka

Detection and positioning of overlapped sounds in a room environment
Rupayan Chakraborty, Climent Nadeu, Taras Butko

Foreground speech segmentation using zero frequency filtered signal
K. T. Deepak, Biswajit Dev Sarma, S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna

The effect of spectral estimator on common spectral measures for sibilant fricatives
Patrick Reidy, Mary Beckman

Gaussian mixture gain priors for regularized nonnegative matrix factorization in single- channel source separation
Emad M. Grais, Hakan Erdogan

Speaker independent single channel source separation using sinusoidal features
Shivesh Ranjan, Karen L. Payton, Pejman Mowlaee

Boosting classification based speech separation using temporal dynamics
Yuxuan Wang, DeLiang Wang

Acoustic features for classification based speech separation
Yuxuan Wang, Kun Han, DeLiang Wang

Hidden Markov models as priors for regularized nonnegative matrix factorization in single-channel source separation
Emad M. Grais, Hakan Erdogan

Unconstrained speech separation by composition of longest segments
Ming Ji, Ramji Srinivasan, Danny Crookes

Modulation domain blind source separation for noisy speech mixture
Yi Zhang, Yunxin Zhao

Phase estimation for signal reconstruction in single-channel source separation
Pejman Mowlaee, Rahim Saeidi, Rainer Martin

Bayesian group sparse learning for nonnegative matrix factorization
Jen-Tzung Chien, Hsin-Lung Hsieh

Resonator-based creaky voice detection
Thomas Drugman, John Kane, Christer Gobl

Effect of tongue tip trilling on the glottal excitation source
V. K. Mittal, N. Dhananjaya, Bayya Yegnanarayana

Estimating the voice source in noise
Gang Chen, Yen-Liang Shue, Jody Kreiman, Abeer Alwan

Voice source analysis using biomechanical modeling and glottal inverse filtering
Alan Pinheiro, Tuomo Raitio, Danyane Gomes, Paavo Alku

Speech modeling and processing by low-dimensional dynamic glottal models
Carlo Drioli, Andrea Calanca

Improved formant frequency estimation from high-pitched vowels by downgrading the contribution of the glottal source with weighted linear prediction
Paavo Alku, Jouni Pohjalainen, Martti Vainio, Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Brad Story

Automatic topology generation of glottal source HMM
Akira Sasou

Towards glottal source controllability in expressive speech synthesis
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Tuomo Raitio, Nicolas Obin, Paavo Alku, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan M. Montero

Combining temporal and cepstral features for the automatic perceptual categorization of disordered connected speech
Ali Alpan, Jean Schoentgen, Francis Grenez

A preliminary study on cross-databases emotion recognition using the glottal features in speech
Rui Sun, Elliot Moore II

Analysis on the importance of short-term speech parameterizations for emotional statistical parametric speech synthesis
Ranniery Maia, Masami Akamine

Analysis of vocal tremor and jitter by empirical mode decomposition of glottal cycle length time series
Christophe Mertens, Francis Grenez, Jean Schoentgen

Utilizing Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for improved glottal inverse filtering
Harri Auvinen, Tuomo Raitio, Samuli Siltanen, Paavo Alku

Glottal source shape parameter estimation using phase minimization variants
Stefan Huber, Axel Roebel, Gilles Degottex

Glottal waveform analysis of physical task stress speech
Keith W. Godin, Taufiq Hasan, John H. L. Hansen

Speaker discrimination ability of glottal waveform features
Juan Félix Torres, Elliot Moore

Paraphrastic language models
Xunying Liu, Mark J. F. Gales, Phillip C. Woodland

Efficient structured language modeling for speech recognition
Ariya Rastrow, Mark Dredze, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Towards recurrent neural networks language models with linguistic and contextual features
Yangyang Shi, Pascal Wiggers, Catholijn M. Jonker

Conversion of recurrent neural network language models to weighted finite state transducers for automatic speech recognition
Gwénolé Lecorvé, Petr Motlicek

Large scale hierarchical neural network language models
Hong-Kwang Kuo, Ebru Arısoy, Ahmad Emami, Paul Vozila

A sparse plus low rank maximum entropy language model
Brian Hutchinson, Mari Ostendorf, Maryam Fazel

PLDA modeling in i-vector and supervector space for speaker verification
Ye Jiang, Kong Aik Lee, Zhenmin Tang, Bin Ma, Anthony Larcher, Haizhou Li

Supervized mixture of PLDA models for cross-channel speaker verification
Konstantin Simonchik, Timur Pekhovsky, Andrey Shulipa, Anton Afanasyev

Spoofing countermeasures for the protection of automatic speaker recognition systems against attacks with artificial signals
Federico Alegre, Ravichander Vipperla, Nicholas Evans

PLDA using Gaussian restricted boltzmann machines with application to speaker verification
Themos Stafylakis, Patrick Kenny, Mohammed Senoussaoui, Pierre Dumouchel

Mean hilbert envelope coefficients (MHEC) for robust speaker recognition
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Taufiq Hasan, John H. L. Hansen

Detecting converted speech and natural speech for anti-spoofing attack in speaker recognition
Zhizheng Wu, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Maximising objective speech intelligibility by local F₀ modulation
Julián Villegas, Martin Cooke

Effect of prosodic changes on speech intelligibility
Catherine Mayo, Vincent Aubanel, Martin Cooke

Effects of visual speech information on native listener judgments of L2 consonant intelligibility
Saya Kawase, Yue Wang

Perceptual compensation for the effects of reverberation on consonant identification: a comparison of human and machine performance
Guy J. Brown, Amy V. Beeston, Kalle J. Palomäki

The intelligibility of lombard speech: communicative setting matters
Michael Fitzpatrick, Jeesun Kim, Chris Davis

Performance comparison of intrusive objective speech intelligibility and quality metrics for cochlear implant users
João Felipe Santos, Stefano Cosentino, Oldooz Hazrati, Philipos C. Loizou, Tiago H. Falk

Exploiting temporal sequence structure for semantic analysis of multimedia
Sourish Chaudhuri, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj

Time delay estimation for speech signal based on FOC-spectrum
Hong Liu, Xiaofei Li

Low-rank audio signal classification under soft margin and trace norm constraints
Ziqiang Shi, Tieran Zheng, Jiqing Han, Shiwen Deng

GCC-PHAT based head orientation estimation
Carlos Segura, Javier Hernando

Plagiarism detection in polyphonic music using monaural signal separation
Soham De, Indradyumna Roy, Tarunima Prabhakar, Kriti Suneja, Sourish Chaudhuri, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj

TDOA estimation for multiple speakers in underdetermined case
Mariem Bouafif, Zied Lachiri

Local-feature-map integration using convolutional neural networks for music genre classification
Toru Nakashika, Christophe Garcia, Tetsuya Takiguchi

Training deep nets with imbalanced and unlabeled data
Jeff Berry, Ian Fasel, Luciano Fadiga, Diana Archangeli

Speech data clustering based on phoneme error trend for unsupervised acoustic model adaptation
Taichi Asami, Satoshi Kobashikawa, Hirokazu Masataki, Osamu Yoshioka, Satoshi Takahashi

Gaussian map based acoustic model adaptation using untranscribed data for speech recognition in severely adverse environments
Wooil Kim, John H. L. Hansen

Investigating performance of the discriminative methods for long-term speaker adaptation
Danning Jiang, Dimitri Kanevsky, Vaibhava Goel, Yong Qin

A two-stage speaker adaptation approach for subspace Gaussian mixture model based nonnative speech recognition
Bo Li, Khe Chai Sim

A comparative study of adaptive, automatic recognition of disordered speech
Heidi Christensen, Stuart Cunningham, Charles Fox, Phil Green, Thomas Hain

Phoneme class based adaptation for mismatch acoustic modeling of distant noisy speech
Seçkin Uluskan, John H. L. Hansen

Rapid nonlinear speaker adaptation for large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition
Zoi Roupakia, Anton Ragni, Mark J. F. Gales

A study on using word-level HMMs to improve ASR performance over state-of-the-art phone-level acoustic modeling for LVCSR
I-Fan Chen, Chin-Hui Lee

Factored adaptation using a combination of feature-space and model-space transforms
Michael Seltzer, Alex Acero

Exploring discriminative speech trajectory structures
Heyun Huang, Louis ten Bosch, Bert Cranen, Lou Boves

Estimating classifier performance in unknown noise
Ehsan Variani, Hynek Hermansky

Continuous digit recognition in noise: reservoirs can do an excellent job!
Azarakhsh Jalalvand, Fabian Triefenbach, Jean-Pierre Martens

Optimization-based control for the extended baum-welch algorithm
Janne Pylkkönen, Mikko Kurimo

Normalization of spectro-temporal Gabor filter bank features for improved robust automatic speech recognition systems
Marc René Schädler, Birger Kollmeier

Phone recognition in critical bands using sub-band temporal modulations
Feipeng Li, Sri Harish Mallidi, Hynek Hermansky

Combining acoustic data driven G2p and letter-to-sound rules for under resource lexicon generation
Ramya Rasipuram, Mathew M. Doss

CRF-based diacritisation of colloquial Arabic for automatic speech recognition
Sarah Al-Shareef, Thomas Hain

Analysis of temporal resolution in frequency domain linear prediction
Sriram Ganapathy, Hynek Hermansky

White listing and score normalization for keyword spotting of noisy speech
Bing Zhang, Richard Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis, Long Nguyen, Spyros Matsoukas

Complementary phone error training
Frank Diehl, Phillip C. Woodland

Posterior-scaled MPE: novel discriminative training criteria
Markus Nussbaum-Thom, Zoltan Tuske, Georg Heigold, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Improve the implementation of pitch features for Mandarin digit string recognition task
Pei Ding, Liqiang He

Exploring joint equalization of spatial-temporal contextual statistics of speech features for robust speech recognition
Hsin-Ju Hsieh, Jeih-weih Hung, Berlin Chen

Speaker-dependent voice activity detection robust to background speech noise
Shigeki Matsuda, Naoya Ito, Kosuke Tsujino, Hideki Kashioka, Shigeki Sagayama

Log-spectral feature reconstruction based on an occlusion model for noise robust speech recognition
Jose A. González, Antonio M. Peinado, Angel M. Gómez, Ning Ma

Decoding of uncertain features using the posterior distribution of the clean data for robust speech recognition
Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz, Dorothea Kolossa

Coupling identification and reconstruction of missing features for noise-robust automatic speech recognition
Ning Ma, Jon Barker

Integrating stress information in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
Bogdan Ludusan, Stefan Ziegler, Guillaume Gravier

Group sparse hidden Markov models for speech recognition
Jen-Tzung Chien, Cheng-Chun Chiang

The speech recognition virtual kitchen: an initial prototype
Florian Metze, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Perma and Balloon: tools for string alignment and text processing
Uwe D. Reichel

Visartico: a visualization tool for articulatory data
Slim Ouni, Loïc Mangeonjean, Ingmar Steiner

Towards automated annotation of audio and video recordings by application of advanced web-services
Przemyslaw Lenkiewicz, Dieter van Uytvanck, Peter Wittenburg, Sebastian Drude

A rule based pronunciation generator and regional accent databank for Portuguese
Simone Ashby, Sílvia Barbosa, Silvia Brandão, José Pedro Ferreira, Maarten Janssen, Catarina Silva, Mário Eduardo Viaro

Speech enhancement for android (SEA): a speech processing demonstration tool for android based smart phones and tablets
Roger Chappel, Kuldip Paliwal

ProTK: an improved prosody toolkit
Jacob Okamoto, Serguei Pakhomov, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke

Speechmark: landmark detection tool for speech analysis
Suzanne Boyce, Harriet Fell, Joel MacAuslan

A tutorial dialogue system with unrestricted spoken input
Peter Bell, Myroslava Dzikovska, Amy Isard

Integrating adaptive beam-forming and auditory features for robust large vocabulary speech recognition
Xie Sun, Qi Peter Li, Manli Zhu, Qiru Zhou

A natural in-car speech interface to internet services using hybrid ASR
Hansjörg Hofmann, Ute Ehrlich, Klaus Bader, Ilona Nothelfer, André Berton

How marni helps English language learners acquire oral reading fluency
Ronald A. Cole, Daniel Bolanos, Wayne H. Ward, J. T. Carmer, Eric Borts, Edward Svirsky

Demonstration of advanced multi-modal, network-centric communication management suite
Victor Finomore Jr, John Stewart, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj, Ron Dallman

Dutch automatic speech recognition on the web: towards a general purpose system
Joris Pelemans, Kris Demuynck, Patrick Wambacq

An on-line, cloud-based Spanish-Spanish sign language translation system
Javier Tejedor, Fernando López-Colino, Jordi Porta, José Colás

Efficient segmental conditional random fields for one-pass phone recognition
Yanzhang He, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Enhanced polyphone decision tree adaptation for accented speech recognition
Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Florian Metze, Tanja Schultz

Efficient VTS adaptation using jacobian approximation
Jinyu Li, Michael L. Seltzer, Yifan Gong

Robust triphone mapping for acoustic modeling
Miloš Cerňak, David Imseng, Hervé Bourlard

Sparse banded precision matrices for low resource speech recognition
Weibin Zhang, Pascale Fung

Semi-blind model adaptation using piece-wise energy decay curve for large reverberant environments
Abdul Waheed Mohammed, Marco Matassoni, Harikrishna Maganti, Maurizio Omologo

Developments of a hybrid pre-processor based on frequency shifting for stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation
Bruno C. Bispo, Diamantino S. Freitas

Example-based speech enhancement with joint of spatial, spectral & temporal cues of speech and noise
Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix, Mehrez Souden, Tomohiro Nakatani

A fast-converging adaptive frequency-domain MVDR beamformer for speech enhancement
Shengkui Zhao, Douglas L. Jones

A signal-separation-based array postfilter for distant speech recognition
Rita Singh, Kenichi Kumatani, John McDonough, Chen Liu

Constrained multichannel speech dereverberation
Meng Yu, Frank K. Soong

A triple-microphone real-time speech enhancement algorithm based on approximate array analytical solutions
Ryan Ritch, Meng Yu, Jack Xin

Developing a speech activity detection system for the DARPA RATS program
Tim Ng, Bing Zhang, Long Nguyen, Spyros Matsoukas, Xinhui Zhou, Nima Mesgarani, Karel Veselý, Pavel Matějka

Speech activity detection for noisy data using adaptation techniques
Mohamed Kamal Omar

Speech/nonspeech segmentation in web videos
Ananya Misra

On the use of machine learning methods for speech and voicing classification
Philip Harding, Ben Milner

Acoustic and data-driven features for robust speech activity detection
Samuel Thomas, Sri Harish Mallidi, Thomas Janu, Hynek Hermansky, Nima Mesgarani, Xinhui Zhou, Shihab Shamma, Tim Ng, Bing Zhang, Long Nguyen, Spyros Matsoukas

A two-step NMF based algorithm for single channel speech separation
Shuo Wang, Wenjun Wu

Meaning inhibition and sentence processing in Chinese: evidence from negative priming
Michael C. W. Yip

Similar speaker selection technique based on distance metric learning with perceptual voice quality similarity
Yusuke Ijima, Mitsuaki Isogai, Hideyuki Mizuno

Gendered sound symbolism and masking effects in speech processing
Molly Babel, Grant McGuire

Modeling cue trading in human word recognition
Louis ten Bosch, Odette Scharenborg

Accounting for speech rate in spoken word recognition
David Cheng-Huan Li, Elsi Kaiser

The processes underlying two frequent casual speech phenomena in Dutch: a production experiment
Iris Hanique, Mirjam Ernestus

Intrinsic velocity differences of lip and jaw movements: preliminary results
Peter Birkholz, Phil Hoole

Co-occurrence of reduced word forms in natural speech
Malte C. Viebahn, Mirjam Ernestus, James M. McQueen

Voice production mechanisms of vibrato in Noh
Ikuyo Yoshinaga, Jiangping Kong

Automatic detection of hypernasal speech signals using nonlinear and entropy measurements
Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Julian David Arias-Londoño, Jesús Francisco Vargas-Bonilla, Elmar Nöth

Effects of the availability of visual information and presence of competing conversations on speech production
Vincent Aubanel, Martin Cooke, Emma Foster, Maria Luisa Garcia Lecumberri, Catherine Mayo

Constrained maximum mutual information dimensionality reduction for language identification
Shuai Huang, Glen A. Coppersmith, Damianos Karakos

Phonotactic language recognition using MLP features
Mohamed Faouzi BenZeghiba, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel

The EHU systems for the NIST 2011 language recognition evaluation
Mikel Penagarikano, Amparo Varona, Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, Mireia Diez, German Bordel

Study of different backends in a state-of-the-art language recognition system
Mikel Penagarikano, Amparo Varona, Mireia Diez, Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, German Bordel

On the use of non-linear polynomial kernel SVMs in language recognition
Sibel Yaman, Jason Pelecanos, Mohamed Kamal Omar

Exemplar-based sparse representation for language recognition on i-vectors
Bing Jiang, Yan Song, Wu Guo, Lirong Dai

Subspace-based feature representation and learning for language recognition
Yu-Chin Shih, Hung-Shin Lee, Hsin-Min Wang, Shyh-Kang Jeng

Effect of relevance factor of maximum a posteriori adaptation for GMM-SVM in speaker and language recognition
Changhuai You, Haizhou Li, Bin Ma, Kong Aik Lee

Using time-synchronous phone co-occurrences in a SVM-phonotactic dialect recognition system
Amparo Varona, Mikel Penagarikano, Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, German Bordel, Mireia Diez

Nativeness classification with suprasegmental features on the accent group level
Mahnoosh Mehrabani, Joseph Tepperman, Emily Nava

Open-vocabulary retrieval of spoken content with shorter/longer queries considering word/subword-based acoustic feature similarity
Huny-yi Lee, Po-wei Chou, Lin-shan Lee

Consumer-level multimedia event detection through unsupervised audio signal modeling
Byungki Byun, Ilseo Kim, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Chin-Hui Lee

Event-based video retrieval using audio
Qin Jin, Peter Schulam, Shourabh Rawat, Susanne Burger, Duo Ding, Florian Metze

Compact audio representation for event detection in consumer media
Xiaodan Zhuang, Stavros Tsakalidis, Shuang Wu, Pradeep Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan

N-gram FST indexing for spoken term detection
Chao Liu, Dong Wang, Javier Tejedor

Spoken inquiry discrimination using bag-of-words for speech-oriented guidance system
Haruka Majima, Rafael Torres, Yoko Fujita, Hiromichi Kawanami, Tomoko Matsui, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano

Robust event detection from spoken content in consumer domain videos
Stavros Tsakalidis, Xiaodan Zhuang, Roger Hsiao, Shuang Wu, Pradeep Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan

Bag-of-audio-words approach for multimedia event classification
Stephanie Pancoast, Murat Akbacak

Improvements in Japanese voice search
Ken-ichi Iso, Edward Whittaker, Tadashi Emori, Junpei Miyake

A conversational movie search system based on conditional random fields
Jingjing Liu, Scott Cyphers, Panupong Pasupat, Ian McGraw, James Glass

Interactive spoken content retrieval with different types of actions optimized by a Markov decision process
Tsung-Hsien Wen, Hung-Yi Lee, Lin-Shan Lee

Voice query refinement
Cyril Allauzen, Edward Benson, Ciprian Chelba, Michael Riley, Johan Schalkwyk

Indexing raw acoustic features for scalable zero resource search
Aren Jansen, Benjamin Van Durme

Lexical-phonetic automata for spoken utterance indexing and retrieval
Julien Fayolle, Murat Saraçlar, Fabienne Moreau, Christian Raymond, Guillaume Gravier

Automating crowd-supervised learning for spoken language systems
Ian McGraw, Scott Cyphers, Panupong Pasupat, Jingjing Liu, James Glass

Enhancing exemplar-based posteriors for speech recognition tasks
Tara N. Sainath, David Nahamoo, Dimitri Kanevsky, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Advances in noise robust digit recognition using hybrid exemplar-based techniques
Jort F. Gemmeke, Hugo Van hamme

Group sparsity for speaker identity discrimination in factorisation-based speech recognition
Antti Hurmalainen, Rahim Saeidi, Tuomas Virtanen

Using sparse classification outputs as feature observations for noise-robust ASR
Yang Sun, Bert Cranen, Jort F. Gemmeke, Lou Boves, Louis ten Bosch, Mathew M. Doss

Synthetic references for template-based ASR using posterior features
Serena Soldo, Mathew Magimai-Doss, Hervé Bourlard

Heterogeneous convolutive non-negative sparse coding
Dong Wang, Javier Tejedor

Convolutive non-negative sparse coding and new features for speech overlap handling in speaker diarization
Jürgen T. Geiger, Ravichander Vipperla, Simon Bozonnet, Nicholas Evans, Björn Schuller, Gerhard Rigoll

Selection of TDOA parameters for MDM speaker diarization
Beatriz Martínez-González, José M. Pardo, Julián D. Echeverry-Correa, José A. Vallejo-Pinto, Roberto Barra-Chicote

Confidence for speaker diarization using PCA spectral ratio
Orith Toledo-Ronen, Hagai Aronowitz

Fully Bayesian speaker clustering based on hierarchically structured utterance-oriented Dirichlet process mixture model
Naohiro Tawara, Tetsuji Ogawa, Shinji Watanabe, Atsushi Nakamura, Tetsunori Kobayashi

Diartk: an open source toolkit for research in multistream speaker diarization and its application to meetings recordings
Deepu Vijayasenan, Fabio Valente

I-vectors and ILP clustering adapted to cross-show speaker diarization
Grégor Dupuy, Mickael Rouvier, Sylvain Meignier, Yannick Estève

Emphatic segments and emphasis spread in Lebanese Arabic: a real-time magnetic resonance imaging study
Assaf Israel, Michael Proctor, Louis Goldstein, Khalil Iskarous, Shrikanth Narayanan

Using magnetic resonance to image the pharynx during Arabic speech: static and dynamic aspects
Ryan K. Shosted, Bradley P. Sutton, Abbas Benmamoun

Articulatory speaker normalisation based on MRI-data using three-way linear decomposition methods
Julián Andrés Valdés Vargas, Pierre Badin, Laurent Lamalle

Vowels produced by sliding three-tube model with different lengths
Takayuki Arai

Estimating the vocal-tract area function from formants using a sensitivity function and least square
Tokihiko Kaburagi, Tetsuro Takano, Yuki Sakamoto

Modeling source-tract interaction in speech production: voicing onset vs. vowel height after a voiceless obstruent
Jorge C. Lucero, Laura L. Koenig, Susanne Fuchs

Modelling a noisy-channel for voice conversion using articulatory features
Bajibabu Bollepalli, Alan W. Black, Kishore Prahallad

Asymmetries in the perception of synthesized speech
Anna C. Janska, Erich Schröger, Thomas Jacobsen, Robert A. J. Clark

Predicting character-appropriate voices for a TTS-based storyteller system
Erica Greene, Taniya Mishra, Patrick Haffner, Alistair Conkie

Psychoacoustic segment scoring for multi-form speech synthesis
Alexander Sorin, Slava Shechtman, Vincent Pollet

Pauses and respiratory markers of the structure of book reading
Gérard Bailly, Cécilia Gouvernayre

Proper name splicing in computer games with TTS
Blaise Potard, Matthew P. Aylett, Christopher J. Pidcock

Speaker clustering for a mixture of singing and reading
Mahnoosh Mehrabani, John H. L. Hansen

Automatic speech segmentation using probabilistic latent component modeling
Sayan Ghosh, Thippur V. Sreenivas

Overlapping sound event recognition using local spectrogram features with the generalised hough transform
Jonathan Dennis, Huy Dat Tran, Eng Siong Chng

Automatic phoneme segmentation using auditory attention features
Ozlem Kalinli

A non-uniform filterbank for speaker recognition
Jia Min Karen Kua, Tharmarajah Thiruvaran, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Towards an unsupervised speaking style voice building framework: multi.style speaker diarization
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Beatriz Martinez-Gonzalez, Veronica Lopez–Ludeña, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Javier Ferreiros, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan M. Montero

KNNDIST: a non-parametric distance measure for speaker segmentation
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Hossein Sameti, Mahsa Sadat Elyasi Langarani, Amirhossein Tavanaei

Lexical story co-segmentation of Chinese broadcast news
Wei Feng, Xuecheng Nie, Liang Wan, Lei Xie, Jianmin Jiang

Toward an optimum feature set and HMM model parameters for automatic phonetic alignment of spontaneous speech
Montri Karnjanadecha, Stephen A. Zahorian

Spelling as a complementary strategy for speech recognition
Keith Vertanen, Per Ola Kristensson

Automatic error recovery for pronunciation dictionaries
Tim Schlippe, Sebastian Ochs, Ngoc Thang Vu, Tanja Schultz

Confidence measure for speech indexing based on latent dirichlet allocation
Grégory Senay, Georges Linarès

Mixed probabilistic and deterministic dependency parsing
Christophe Cerisara, Alejandra Lorenzo

Automatic vocabulary adaptation based on semantic similarity and speech recognition confidence measure
Shoko Yamahata, Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, Atsunori Ogawa, Hirokazu Masataki, Osamu Yoshioka, Satoshi Takahashi

Towards empirical dialog-state modeling and its use in language modeling
Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega

Evaluation of many-to-many alignment algorithm by automatic pronunciation annotation using web text mining
Keigo Kubo, Hiromichi Kawanami, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano

Applying multiview learning algorithms to human-human conversation classification
Sokol Koço, Cécile Capponi, Frédéric Béchet

Automatic transcription of lecture speech using language model based on speaking- style transformation of proceeding texts
Yuya Akita, Makoto Watanabe, Tatsuya Kawahara

Normalization of text messages using character- and phone-based machine translation approaches
Chen Li, Yang Liu

A weighted combination of speech with text-based models for Arabic diacritization
Aisha S. Azim, Xiaoxuan Wang, Sim Khe Chai

Using sub-word-level information for confidence estimation with conditional random field models
Matthew S. Seigel, Phillip C. Woodland

Supervised spoken document summarization jointly considering utterance importance and redundancy by structured support vector machine
Hung-yi Lee, Yu-yu Chou, Yow-Bang Wang, Lin-shan Lee

Integrating intra-speaker topic modeling and temporal-based inter-speaker topic modeling in random walk for improved multi-party meeting summarization
Yun-Nung Chen, Florian Metze

Language modeling for voice-enabled social TV using tweets
Junlan Feng, Bernard Renger

Detecting OOV named-entities in conversational speech
Rohit Kumar, Rohit Prasad, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Aravind Namandi Vembu, Dave Stallard, Stavros Tsakalidis, Prem Natarajan

Unsupervised deep belief features for speech translation
Sameer Maskey, Bowen Zhou

Euskoparl: a speech and text Spanish-basque parallel corpus
Alicia Pérez, José M. Alcaide, María-Inés Torres

Comparing transcription agreement on non-native English speech corpus between native and non-native annotators
Hyuksu Ryu, Sunhee Kim, Minhwa Chung

Podcastle: collaborative training of language models on the basis of wisdom of crowds
Jun Ogata, Masataka Goto

Speech pattern discovery using audio-visual fusion and canonical correlation analysis
Lei Xie, Yinqing Xu, Lilei Zheng, Qiang Huang, Bingfeng Li

Power mean pyramid scores for summarization evaluation
Sameer Maskey, Andrew Rosenberg

Visualizing tool for evaluating inter-label similarity in prosodic labeling experiments
David Escudero-Mancebo, Eva Estebas-Vilaplana

Objective, subjective and linguistic roads to perceptual prominence.how are they compared and why?
Petra Wagner, Fabio Tamburini, Andreas Windmann

Audio-visual evaluation and detection of word prominence in a human-machine interaction scenario
Martin Heckmann

Obtaining prominence judgments from naive listeners.influence of rating scales linguistic levels and normalisation
Denis Arnold, Petra Wagner, Bernd Möbius

Towards hierarchical prosodic prominence generation in TTS synthesis
Leonardo Badino, Robert A. J. Clark, Mirjam Wester

Investigating syllabic prominence with conditional random fields and latent-dynamic conditional random fields
Francesco Cutugno, Enrico Leone, Bogdan Ludusan, Antonio Origlia

Disentangling lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic influences on German prominence - evidence from a production study
Barbara Samlowski, Petra Wagner, Bernd Möbius

Using prominence and phrasing predictions to improve weighted dictionary pronunciation models
Andrew Rosenberg

A continuous prominence score based on acoustic features
Jean-Philippe Goldman, Mathieu Avanzi, Antoine Auchlin, Anne Catherine Simon

More on the normalization of syllable prominence ratings
Christopher Sappok, Denis Arnold

F₀ and the perception of prominence
Tim Mahrt, Jennifer Cole, Margaret Fleck, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Language differences in the perceptual weight of prominence-lending properties
Bistra Andreeva, William Barry, Magdalena Wolska

A novel confidence measure based on context consistency for spoken term detection
Haiyang Li, Jiqing Han, Tieran Zheng, Guibin Zheng

Discriminatively trained phoneme confusion model for keyword spotting
Panagiota Karanasou, Lukas Burget, Dimitra Vergyri, Murat Akbacak, Arindam Mandal

Inverting the point process model for fast phonetic keyword search
Keith Kintzley, Aren Jansen, Kenneth Church, Hynek Hermansky

Exploiting discriminative point process models for spoken term detection
Atta Norouzian, Aren Jansen, Richard C. Rose, Samuel Thomas

Subword speech recognition for detection of unseen words
Ivan Bulyko, José Herrero, Chris Mihelich, Owen Kimball

OOV word detection using hybrid models with mixed types of fragments
Long Qin, Alexander Rudnicky

An automatic child-directed speech detector for the study of child language development
Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy

Aligning manifolds to model the earliest phonological abstraction in infant-caretaker vocal imitation
Andrew R. Plummer

The F₀ fall delay of lexical pitch accent in Japanese infant-directed speech
Yoko Saikachi, Mafuyu Kitahara, Ken'ya Nishikawa, Ai Kanato, Reiko Mazuka

Childrenfs productions of multi-syllabic lexical stress patterns in different prosodic positions
Irina A. Shport

Prosodic marking of continuation versus completion in childrenfs narratives
Melissa A. Redford, Laura C. Dilley, Jessica L. Gamache, Elizabeth A. Wieland

Judging temporal onset differences for concurrent vowels: results for young, middleaged, and older adults
Daniel Fogerty, Diane Kewley-Port, Larry E. Humes

Combining frame and segment based models for environmental sound classification
Pengfei Hu, Wenju Liu, Wei Jiang

Using blob detection in missing feature linear-frequency cepstral coefficients for robust sound event recognition
Yi Ren Leng, Huy Dat Tran

Goal-oriented auditory scene recognition
Kailash Patil, Mounya Elhilali

Prof-life-log: audio environment detection for naturalistic audio streams
Ali Ziaei, Abhijeet Sangwan, John H. L. Hansen

Pooling robust shift-invariant sparse representations of acoustic signals
Po-Sen Huang, Jianchao Yang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Feng Liang, Thomas S. Huang

Evaluation of a sparse representation-based classifier for bird phrase classification under limited data conditions
Lee Ngee Tan, Kantapon Kaewtip, Martin L. Cody, Charles E. Taylor, Abeer Alwan

Improving WFST-based G2p conversion with alignment constraints and RNNLM n-best rescoring
Josef R. Novak, Paul R. Dixon, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka

Expand CRF to model long distance dependencies in prosodic break prediction
Jian Luan, Bolei He, Hairong Xia, Linfang Wang, Daniela Braga, Sheng Zhao

Perceptual foundations for naturalistic variability in the prosody of synthetic speech
Nanette Veilleux, Jonathan Barnes, Alejna Brugos, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

Comparison of grapheme-to-phoneme methods on large pronunciation dictionaries and LVCSR tasks
Stefan Hahn, Paul Vozila, Maximilian Bisani

A simple hybrid acoustic/morphologically-constrained technique for the synthesis of stop consonants in various vocalic contexts
Frédéric Berthommier, Laurent Girin, Louis-Jean Boë

The IIIT-h indic speech databases
Kishore Prahallad, E. Naresh Kumar, Venkatesh Keri, S. Rajendran, Alan W. Black

Detecting acronyms from capital letter sequences in Spanish
Rubén San-Segundo, Juan M. Montero, Verónica López-Ludeña, Simon King

Hidden conditional random fields with M-to-N alignments for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
Patrick Lehnen, Stefan Hahn, Vlad-Andrei Guta, Hermann Ney

Phrase boundary assignment from text in multiple domains
Andrew Rosenberg, Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Improved prediction of Japanese word accent sandhi using CRF
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Articulatory VCV synthesis from EMA data
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Nasality from Moroccan Arabic nasal and pharyngeal consonants: patterns of airflow and nasalance
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Inter-gestural timing in French nasal vowels: a comparative study of (liege, tournai) northern French vs. (marseille, toulouse) southern French
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Nasal coarticulation and contrastive stress
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An MRI study of the oral articulation of European Portuguese nasal vowels
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Acoustic and perceptual similarity in coarticulatorily nasalized vowels
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Articulatory differences between oral and nasal vowels based on the simulation of a speaker-adaptive articulatory model
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