The emergence of compositional structure in language evolution and development
Mary E. Beckman

The technology powering personal digital assistants
Ruhi Sarikaya

The HBP-atlas — concept, perspectives, and application for language and speech research
Katrin Amunts

Voices of power, passion, and personality
Klaus Scherer

Learning the speech front-end with raw waveform CLDNNs
Tara N. Sainath, Ron J. Weiss, Andrew Senior, Kevin W. Wilson, Oriol Vinyals

Architectures for deep neural network based acoustic models defined over windowed speech waveforms
Mayank Bhargava, Richard Rose

Analysis of CNN-based speech recognition system using raw speech as input
Dimitri Palaz, Mathew Magimai-Doss, Ronan Collobert

Bilinear map of filter-bank outputs for DNN-based speech recognition
Tetsuji Ogawa, Kenshiro Ueda, Kouichi Katsurada, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Tsuneo Nitta

Speech recognition with temporal neural networks
Payton Lin, Dau-Cheng Lyu, Yun-Fan Chang, Yu Tsao

Convolutional neural networks for acoustic modeling of raw time signal in LVCSR
Pavel Golik, Zoltán Tüske, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Stable and unstable intervals as a basic segmentation procedure of the speech signal
Ulrike Glavitsch, Lei He, Volker Dellwo

Polysyllabic shortening and word-final lengthening in English
Andreas Windmann, Juraj Šimko, Petra Wagner

The acoustics of word stress in English as a function of stress level and speaking style
Anders Eriksson, Mattias Heldner

Pitch accent distribution in German infant-directed speech
Katharina Zahner, Muna Pohl, Bettina Braun

Acoustic correlates of perceived syllable prominence in German
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Christian Cossio-Mercado, Angelika Hönemann, Jorge Gurlekian, Diego Evin, Humberto Torres

Cross-modality matching of linguistic and emotional prosody
Simone Simonetti, Jeesun Kim, Chris Davis

Pitch scaling as a perceptual cue for questions in German
Jan Michalsky

Parameterization of prosodic headedness
Uwe D. Reichel, Katalin Mády, Štefan Beňuš

Detection of mizo tones
Biswajit Dev Sarma, Priyankoo Sarmah, Wendy Lalhminghlui, S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna

The intonation of echo wh-questions
Sophie Repp, Lena Rosin

Immediately postverbal questions in urdu
Farhat Jabeen, Tina Bögel, Miriam Butt

Prosodic (non-)realisation of broad, narrow and contrastive focus in Hungarian: a production and a perception study
Katalin Mády

F0 discontinuity as a marker of prosodic boundary strength in lombard speech
Štefan Beňuš, Uwe D. Reichel, Juraj Šimko

Comparing journalistic and spontaneous speech: prosodic and spectral analysis
Cédric Gendrot, Martine Adda-Decker, Yaru Wu

Rhythm influences the tonal realisation of focus
Nadja Schauffler, Katrin Schweitzer

Linguistic measures of pitch range in slavic and Germanic languages
Bistra Andreeva, Bernd Möbius, Grazyna Demenko, Frank Zimmerer, Jeanin Jügler

The effect of stress on vowel space in daxi hakka Chinese
Chunan Qiu, Jie Liang

Declination, peak height and pitch level in declaratives and questions of south connaught irish
Maria O'Reilly, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

Contextual variation of tones in mizo
Priyankoo Sarmah, Leena Dihingia, Wendy Lalhminghlui

The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in German
Daniela Wochner, Jana Schlegel, Nicole Dehé, Bettina Braun

A fast algorithm for improved intelligibility of speech-in-noise based on frequency and time domain energy reallocation
Tudor-Cătălin Zorilă, Yannis Stylianou

Intelligibility enhancement of casual speech for reverberant environments inspired by clear speech properties
Maria Koutsogiannaki, Petko N. Petkov, Yannis Stylianou

Intelligibility enhancement of vocal announcements for public address systems: a design for all through a presbycusis pre-compensation filter
A. Ben Jemaa, N. Mechergui, G. Courtois, A. Mudry, S. Djaziri-Larbi, M. Turki, H. Lissek, M. Jaidane

Model-based integration of reverberation for noise-adaptive near-end listening enhancement
Henning Schepker, David Hülsmeier, Jan Rennies, Simon Doclo

Online Lombard adaptation in incremental speech synthesis
Sebastian Rottschäfer, Hendrik Buschmeier, Herwin van Welbergen, Stefan Kopp

Comparison of Gaussian process regression and Gaussian mixture models in spectral tilt modelling for intelligibility enhancement of telephone speech
Emma Jokinen, Ulpu Remes, Paavo Alku

A discriminative reliability-aware classification model with applications to intelligibility classification in pathological speech
Naveen Kumar, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Voiced/unvoiced transitions in speech as a potential bio-marker to detect Parkinson's disease
J. R. Orozco-Arroyave, Florian Hönig, J. D. Arias-Londoño, J. F. Vargas-Bonilla, Sabine Skodda, J. Rusz, Elmar Nöth

Low-frequency components analysis in running speech for the automatic detection of Parkinson's disease
T. Villa-Cañas, J. D. Arias-Londoño, J. R. Orozco-Arroyave, J. F. Vargas-Bonilla, Elmar Nöth

Automatic detection of Parkinson's disease from continuous speech recorded in non-controlled noise conditions
J. C. Vásquez-Correa, T. Arias-Vergara, J. R. Orozco-Arroyave, J. F. Vargas-Bonilla, J. D. Arias-Londoño, Elmar Nöth

Relevance vector machine for depression prediction
Nicholas Cummins, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Julien Epps, Jarek Krajewski

Typicality and emotion in the voice of children with autism spectrum condition: evidence across three languages
Erik Marchi, Björn Schuller, Simon Baron-Cohen, Ofer Golan, Sven Bölte, Prerna Arora, Reinhold Häb-Umbach

Deep contextual language understanding in spoken dialogue systems
Chunxi Liu, Puyang Xu, Ruhi Sarikaya

RNN-based labeled data generation for spoken language understanding
Yik-Cheung Tam, Yangyang Shi, Hunk Chen, Mei-Yuh Hwang

Is it time to switch to word embedding and recurrent neural networks for spoken language understanding?
Vedran Vukotic, Christian Raymond, Guillaume Gravier

Recurrent neural network and LSTM models for lexical utterance classification
Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke

Semantic retrieval of personal photos using a deep autoencoder fusing visual features with speech annotations represented as word/paragraph vectors
Hung-tsung Lu, Yuan-ming Liou, Hung-yi Lee, Lin-shan Lee

A comparison of normalization techniques applied to latent space representations for speech analytics
Mohamed Morchid, Richard Dufour, Driss Matrouf

Study of entity-topic models for OOV proper name retrieval
Imran Sheikh, Irina Illina, Dominique Fohr

Audio quotation marks for natural language understanding
Simon Boutin, Réal Tremblay, Patrick Cardinal, Doug Peters, Pierre Dumouchel

Using word confusion networks for slot filling in spoken language understanding
Xiaohao Yang, Jia Liu

Distributed representation-based spoken word sense induction
Justin Chiu, Yajie Miao, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky

Structuring lectures in massive open online courses (MOOCs) for efficient learning by linking similar sections and predicting prerequisites
Sheng-syun Shen, Hung-yi Lee, Shang-wen Li, Victor Zue, Lin-shan Lee

News talk-show chaptering with journalistic genres
Delphine Charlet, Géraldine Damnati, Jérémy Trione

An analysis of time-aggregated and time-series features for scoring different aspects of multimodal presentation data
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Lei Chen, Chee Wee Leong, Gary Feng, David Suendermann-Oeft

Incorporating prosodic prominence evidence into term weights for spoken content retrieval
David N. Racca, Gareth J. F. Jones

Leveraging word embeddings for spoken document summarization
Kuan-Yu Chen, Shih-Hung Liu, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Mutually exclusive grounding for weakly supervised non-negative matrix factorisation
Vincent Renkens, Hugo Van hamme

Using semantic maps for robust natural language interaction with robots
Emanuele Bastianelli, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili, Daniele Nardi

Efficient learning for spoken language understanding tasks with word embedding based pre-training
Yi Luan, Shinji Watanabe, Bret Harsham

Zero-shot semantic parser for spoken language understanding
Emmanuel Ferreira, Bassam Jabaian, Fabrice Lefèvre

Adapting lexical representation and OOV handling from written to spoken language with word embedding
Jeremie Tafforeau, Thierry Artieres, Benoit Favre, Frederic Bechet

Dialog state tracking using long short-term memory neural networks
Xiaohao Yang, Jia Liu

Detecting repetitions in spoken dialogue systems using phonetic distances
José Lopes, Giampiero Salvi, Gabriel Skantze, Alberto Abad, Joakim Gustafson, Fernando Batista, Raveesh Meena, Isabel Trancoso

Multi-language hypotheses ranking and domain tracking for open domain dialogue systems
Paul A. Crook, Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Ruhi Sarikaya

Measuring mimicry in task-oriented conversations: degree of mimicry is related to task difficulty
Vijay Solanki, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Jane Stuart-Smith, Rachel Smith

Auto-imputing radial basis functions for neural-network turn-taking models
Kornel Laskowski

Effect of gender and call duration on customer satisfaction in call center big data
Quim Llimona, Jordi Luque, Xavier Anguera, Zoraida Hidalgo, Souneil Park, Nuria Oliver

Using profile similarity to measure agreement in personality perception
Zoraida Callejas, David Griol

Relieving mental stress of speakers using a tele-operated robot in foreign language speech education
Shizuka Nakamura, Miki Watanabe, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Kohei Ogawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Backward mimicry and forward influence in prosodic contour choice in standard American English
Agustín Gravano, Štefan Beňuš, Rivka Levitan, Julia Hirschberg

The role of speakers and context in classifying competition in overlapping speech
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi

Automatic detection and annotation of disfluencies in spoken French corpora
George Christodoulides, Mathieu Avanzi

Clustering novel intents in a conversational interaction system with semantic parsing
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Yun-Cheng Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, Gokhan Tur

Semantic analysis of spoken input using Markov logic networks
Vladimir Despotovic, Oliver Walter, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Hierarchical discriminative model for spoken language understanding based on convolutional neural network
Jan Švec, Adam Chýlek, Luboš Šmídl

Learning semantic hierarchy with distributed representations for unsupervised spoken language understanding
Yun-Nung Chen, William Yang Wang, Alexander I. Rudnicky

The effect of soft, modal and loud voice levels on entrainment in noisy conditions
Éva Székely, Mark T. Keane, Julie Carson-Berndsen

Does voice anthropomorphism affect lexical alignment in speech-based human-computer dialogue?
Benjamin R. Cowan, Holly P. Branigan

Exploiting top-down source models to improve binaural localisation of multiple sources in reverberant environments
Ning Ma, Guy J. Brown, Jose A. Gonzalez

Binaural sound source localisation and tracking using a dynamic spherical head model
Christopher Schymura, Fiete Winter, Dorothea Kolossa, Sascha Spors

The role of temporal resolution in modulation-based speech segregation
Tobias May, Thomas Bentsen, Torsten Dau

Improving automatic speech recognition in spatially-aware hearing aids
Hendrik Kayser, Constantin Spille, Daniel Marquardt, Bernd T. Meyer

Dereverberation for active human-robot communication robust to speaker's face orientation
Randy Gomez, Levko Ivanchuk, Keisuke Nakamura, Takeshi Mizumoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai

Multi-task learning for text-dependent speaker verification
Nanxin Chen, Yanmin Qian, Kai Yu

JFA for speaker recognition with random digit strings
Themos Stafylakis, Patrick Kenny, Md. Jahangir Alam, Marcel Kockmann

Structured prediction for speaker identification in TV series
Elena Knyazeva, Guillaume Wisniewski, Hervé Bredin, François Yvon

Speaker recognition by means of acoustic and phonetically informed GMMs
Sandro Cumani, Pietro Laface, Farzana Kulsoom

A fast approach to psychoacoustic model compensation for robust speaker recognition in additive noise
Ashish Panda

Blind score normalization method for PLDA based speaker recognition
Danila Doroshin, Nikolay Lubimov, Marina Nastasenko, Mikhail Kotov

Non-linear PLDA for i-vector speaker verification
Sergey Novoselov, Timur Pekhovsky, Oleg Kudashev, Valentin S. Mendelev, Alexey Prudnikov

On the need of template protection for voice authentication
Carlos Vaquero, Patricia Rodríguez

Evaluation and calibration of short-term aging effects in speaker verification
Finnian Kelly, John H. L. Hansen

Phone-centric local variability vector for text-constrained speaker verification
Liping Chen, Kong Aik Lee, Bin Ma, Wu Guo, Haizhou Li, Li-Rong Dai

Cosine distance features for robust speaker verification
Kuruvachan K. George, C. Santhosh Kumar, K I Ramachandran, Ashish Panda

Voice liveness detection algorithms based on pop noise caused by human breath for automatic speaker verification
Sayaka Shiota, Fernando Villavicencio, Junichi Yamagishi, Nobutaka Ono, Isao Echizen, Tomoko Matsui

Noise robust speaker recognition with convolutive sparse coding
Antti Hurmalainen, Rahim Saeidi, Tuomas Virtanen

Combining amplitude and phase-based features for speaker verification with short duration utterances
Md. Jahangir Alam, Patrick Kenny, Themos Stafylakis

The reddots data collection for speaker recognition
Kong Aik Lee, Anthony Larcher, Guangsen Wang, Patrick Kenny, Niko Brümmer, David van Leeuwen, Hagai Aronowitz, Marcel Kockmann, Carlos Vaquero, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li, Themos Stafylakis, Md. Jahangir Alam, Albert Swart, Javier Perez

Noise-robust speaker recognition based on morphological component analysis
Yongjun He, Chen Chen, Jiqing Han

Analysis of mutual duration and noise effects in speaker recognition: benefits of condition-matched cohort selection in score normalization
Andreas Nautsch, Rahim Saeidi, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

Robustness to additive noise of locally-normalized cepstral coefficients in speaker verification
Josué Fredes, José Novoa, Victor Poblete, Simon King, Richard M. Stern, Néstor Becerra Yoma

Probabilistic linear discriminant analysis for robust speaker identification in co-channel speech
Navid Shokouhi, John H. L. Hansen

Community detection with manifold learning on speaker i-vector space for Chinese
Hongcui Wang, Di Jin, Lantian Li, Jianwu Dang

A comparison of neural network feature transforms for speaker diarization
Sree Harsha Yella, Andreas Stolcke

Clustering short push-to-talk segments
Ilya Shapiro, Neta Rabin, Irit Opher, Itshak Lapidot

Exploring ANN back-ends for i-vector based speaker age estimation
Anna Fedorova, Ondřej Glembek, Tomi Kinnunen, Pavel Matějka

Analysis of the second phase of the 2013-2014 i-vector machine learning challenge
Désiré Bansé, George R. Doddington, Daniel Garcia-Romero, John J. Godfrey, Craig S. Greenberg, Jaime Hernández-Cordero, John M. Howard, Alvin F. Martin, Lisa P. Mason, Alan McCree, Douglas A. Reynolds

NIST language recognition evaluation — plans for 2015
Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, John M. Howard, Désiré Bansé, George R. Doddington, Jaime Hernández-Cordero, Lisa P. Mason

Factor analysis for speaker segmentation and improved speaker diarization
Brecht Desplanques, Kris Demuynck, Jean-Pierre Martens

Enhanced speaker diarization with detection of backchannels using eye-gaze information in poster conversations
Koji Inoue, Yukoh Wakabayashi, Hiromasa Yoshimoto, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara

Novel clustering selection criterion for fast binary key speaker diarization
Héctor Delgado, Xavier Anguera, Corinne Fredouille, Javier Serrano

Speaker diarization with i-vectors from DNN senone posteriors
Gregory Sell, Daniel Garcia-Romero, Alan McCree

Using voice-quality measurements with prosodic and spectral features for speaker diarization
Abraham Woubie, Jordi Luque, Javier Hernando

Integrating online i-vector extractor with information bottleneck based speaker diarization system
Srikanth Madikeri, Ivan Himawan, Petr Motlicek, Marc Ferras

Phase perception of the glottal excitation of vocoded speech
Tuomo Raitio, Lauri Juvela, Antti Suni, Martti Vainio, Paavo Alku

Using acoustics to improve pronunciation for synthesis of low resource languages
Sunayana Sitaram, Serena Jeblee, Alan W. Black

Sub-band text-to-speech combining sample-based spectrum with statistically generated spectrum
Tadashi Inai, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Yusuke Ijima, Noboru Miyazaki, Hideyuki Mizuno

Pruning redundant synthesis units based on static and delta unit appearance frequency
Heng Lu, Wei Zhang, Xu Shao, Quan Zhou, Wenhui Lei, Hongbin Zhou, Andrew Breen

Emotional transplant in statistical speech synthesis based on emotion additive model
Yamato Ohtani, Yu Nasu, Masahiro Morita, Masami Akamine

Generalized variable parameter HMMs based acoustic-to-articulatory inversion
Xurong Xie, Xunying Liu, Lan Wang, Rongfeng Su

Semi-supervised training of a voice conversion mapping function using a joint-autoencoder
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

On glottal source shape parameter transformation using a novel deterministic and stochastic speech analysis and synthesis system
Stefan Huber, Axel Roebel

Fluent personalized speech synthesis with prosodic word-level spontaneous speech generation
Yi-Chin Huang, Chung-Hsien Wu, Ming-Ge Shie

Non-native speech synthesis preserving speaker individuality based on partial correction of prosodic and phonetic characteristics
Yuji Oshima, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Evaluation of state mapping based foreign accent conversion
Markus Toman, Michael Pucher

Minimum trajectory error training for deep neural networks, combined with stacked bottleneck features
Zhizheng Wu, Simon King

Combining extreme learning machine and decision tree for duration prediction in HMM based speech synthesis
Yang Wang, Minghao Yang, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao

F0 parameterization of glottalized tones for HMM-based vietnamese TTS
Duy Khanh Ninh, Yoichi Yamashita

Deep neural network context embeddings for model selection in rich-context HMM synthesis
Thomas Merritt, Junichi Yamagishi, Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King

An investigation of context clustering for statistical speech synthesis with deep neural network
Bo Chen, Zhehuai Chen, Jiachen Xu, Kai Yu

Sentence-level control vectors for deep neural network speech synthesis
Oliver Watts, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King

Micro-structure of disfluencies: basics for conversational speech synthesis
Simon Betz, Petra Wagner, David Schlangen

Using automatic stress extraction from audio for improved prosody modelling in speech synthesis
György Szaszák, András Beke, Gábor Olaszy, Bálint Pál Tóth

Reconstructing voices within the multiple-average-voice-model framework
Pierre Lanchantin, Christophe Veaux, Mark J. F. Gales, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi

HMM based myanmar text to speech system
Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Andrew Finch, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Eiichiro Sumita

Multiple feed-forward deep neural networks for statistical parametric speech synthesis
Shinji Takaki, SangJin Kim, Junichi Yamagishi, JongJin Kim

Sequence-to-sequence neural net models for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
Kaisheng Yao, Geoffrey Zweig

Knowledge versus data in TTS: evaluation of a continuum of synthesis systems
Rosie Kay, Oliver Watts, Roberto Barra Chicote, Cassie Mayo

Improving G2p from wiktionary and other (web) resources
Steffen Eger

BLSTM neural networks for speech driven head motion synthesis
Chuang Ding, Pengcheng Zhu, Lei Xie

Articulatory controllable speech modification based on Gaussian mixture models with direct waveform modification using spectrum differential
Patrick Lumban Tobing, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Reconstructing intelligible audio speech from visual speech features
Thomas Le Cornu, Ben Milner

Universal grapheme-based speech synthesis
Sunayana Sitaram, Alok Parlikar, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Alan W. Black

Artificial personality and disfluency
Mirjam Wester, Matthew Aylett, Marcus Tomalin, Rasmus Dall

Comparison of chironomic stylization versus statistical modeling of prosody for expressive speech synthesis
Marc Evrard, Samuel Delalez, Christophe d'Alessandro, Albert Rilliard

A multi-layer F0 model for singing voice synthesis using a b-spline representation with intuitive controls
Luc Ardaillon, Gilles Degottex, Axel Roebel

Creating expressive synthetic voices by unsupervised clustering of audiobooks
Igor Jauk, Antonio Bonafonte, Paula Lopez-Otero, Laura Docio-Fernandez

Articulatory-based conversion of foreign accents with deep neural networks
Sandesh Aryal, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Anomaly-based annotation errors detection in TTS corpora
Jindřich Matoušek, Daniel Tihelka

Analysing automatic descriptions of intonation with ICARUS
Katrin Schweitzer, Markus Gärtner, Arndt Riester, Ina Rösiger, Kerstin Eckart, Jonas Kuhn, Grzegorz Dogil

iCALL corpus: Mandarin Chinese spoken by non-native speakers of European descent
Nancy F. Chen, Rong Tong, Darren Wee, Peixuan Lee, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Development of a Cantonese dysarthric speech corpus
Ka Ho Wong, Yu Ting Yeung, Edwin H. Y. Chan, Patrick C. M. Wong, Gina-Anne Levow, Helen Meng

Stylex: a corpus of educational videos for research on speaking styles and their impact on engagement and learning
Harish Arsikere, Sonal Patil, Ranjeet Kumar, Kundan Shrivastava, Om Deshmukh

A dialog act tagging approach to behavioral coding: a case study of addiction counseling conversations
Doğan Can, David C. Atkins, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Analysing rhythm in ritual discourse in yucatec maya using automatic speech alignment
Valentina Vapnarsky, Claude Barras, Cédric Becquey, David Doukhan, Martine Adda-Decker, Lori Lamel

Noise-matched training of CRF based sentence end detection models
Madina Hasan, Rama Doddipatla, Thomas Hain

The effect of spectral slope on pitch perception
Jianjing Kuang, Mark Liberman

Combined cine- and tagged-MRI for tracking landmarks on the tongue surface
Honghao Bao, Wenhuan Lu, Kiyoshi Honda, Jianguo Wei, Qiang Fang, Jianwu Dang

Human vocal tract growth: a longitudinal study of the development of various anatomical structures
Guillaume Barbier, Louis-Jean Boë, Guillaume Captier, Rafael Laboissière

Analysis of coarticulated speech using estimated articulatory trajectories
Ganesh Sivaraman, Vikramjit Mitra, Mark K. Tiede, Elliot Saltzman, Louis Goldstein, Carol Espy-Wilson

Speech planning in 4-year-old children versus adults: acoustic and articulatory analyses
Guillaume Barbier, Pascal Perrier, Lucie Ménard, Yohan Payan, Mark K. Tiede, Joseph S. Perkell

Morphological and acoustic analysis of the vocal tract using a multi-speaker volumetric MRI dataset
Tokihiko Kaburagi

Experimental assessment of the tongue incompressibility hypothesis during speech production
Zisis Iason Skordilis, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Multilingual bottleneck features for language recognition
Radek Fér, Pavel Matějka, František Grézl, Oldřich Plchot, Jan Černocký

DNN senone MAP multinomial i-vectors for phonotactic language recognition
Alan McCree, Daniel Garcia-Romero

Deep bottleneck network based i-vector representation for language identification
Yan Song, Xinhai Hong, Bing Jiang, Ruilian Cui, Ian McLoughlin, Li-Rong Dai

An end-to-end approach to language identification in short utterances using convolutional neural networks
Alicia Lozano-Diez, Ruben Zazo-Candil, Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez, Doroteo T. Toledano, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez

Boosting universal speech attributes classification with deep neural network for foreign accent characterization
Ville Hautamäki, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Hamid Behravan, Valerio Mario Salerno, Ivan Kukanov

Multilingual tandem bottleneck feature for language identification
Wang Geng, Jie Li, Shanshan Zhang, Xinyuan Cai, Bo Xu

On compressibility of neural network phonological features for low bit rate speech coding
Afsaneh Asaei, Milos Cernak, Hervé Bourlard

Robust and accurate LSF location with laguerre method
Michał Lenarczyk

Interactivity-aware playout adaptation
Jochen Issing, Nikolaus Färber, Reinhard German

Advanced time shrinking using a drop classifier based on codec features
Jochen Issing, Nikolaus Färber, Reinhard German

Measuring and monitoring speech quality for voice over IP with POLQA, viSQOL and p.563
Andrew Hines, Eoin Gillen, Naomi Harte

Towards the prediction of human speaker identification performance from measured speech quality
Laura Fernández Gallardo, Sebastian Möller

Personalization of word-phrase-entity language models
M. Levit, Andreas Stolcke, R. Subba, S. Parthasarathy, S. Chang, S. Xie, T. Anastasakos, Benoit Dumoulin

Discriminative bilinear language modeling for broadcast transcriptions
Akio Kobayashi, Manon Ichiki, Takahiro Oku, Kazuo Onoe, Shoei Sato

Recognize foreign low-frequency words with similar pairs
Xi Ma, Xiaoxi Wang, Dong Wang, Zhiyong Zhang

Combinations of various language model technologies including data expansion and adaptation in spontaneous speech recognition
Ryo Masumura, Taichi Asami, Takanobu Oba, Hirokazu Masataki, Sumitaka Sakauchi, Akinori Ito

Bringing contextual information to google speech recognition
Petar Aleksic, Mohammadreza Ghodsi, Assaf Michaely, Cyril Allauzen, Keith Hall, Brian Roark, David Rybach, Pedro Moreno

Sequence-based class tagging for robust transcription in ASR
Lucy Vasserman, Vlad Schogol, Keith Hall

The INTERSPEECH 2015 computational paralinguistics challenge: nativeness, Parkinson's & eating condition
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Simone Hantke, Florian Hönig, J. R. Orozco-Arroyave, Elmar Nöth, Yue Zhang, Felix Weninger

The degree of nativeness sub-challenge: the data
Florian Hönig

Phrase accentuation verification and phonetic variation measurement for the degree of nativeness sub-challenge
Claude Montacié, Marie-José Caraty

Combining multiple approaches to predict the degree of nativeness
Eugénio Ribeiro, Jaime Ferreira, Julia Olcoz, Alberto Abad, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso

Automated evaluation of non-native English pronunciation quality: combining knowledge- and data-driven features at multiple time scales
Matthew P. Black, Daniel Bone, Zisis Iason Skordilis, Rahul Gupta, Wei Xia, Pavlos Papadopoulos, Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula, Bo Xiao, Maarten Van Segbroeck, Jangwon Kim, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

The Parkinson's condition sub-challenge: the data
J. R. Orozco-Arroyave

Estimating the severity of Parkinson's disease from speech using linear regression and database partitioning
Dávid Sztahó, Gábor Kiss, Klára Vicsi

Random forest-based prediction of Parkinson's disease progression using acoustic, ASR and intelligibility features
Alexander Zlotnik, Juan M. Montero, Rubén San-Segundo, Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín

Automatic recognition of unified Parkinson's disease rating from speech with acoustic, i-vector and phonotactic features
Guozhen An, David Guy Brizan, Min Ma, Michelle Morales, Ali Raza Syed, Andrew Rosenberg

Parkinson's condition estimation using speech acoustic and inversely mapped articulatory data
Seongjun Hahm, Jun Wang

Segment-dependent dynamics in predicting Parkinson's disease
James R. Williamson, Thomas F. Quatieri, Brian S. Helfer, Joseph Perricone, Satrajit S. Ghosh, Gregory Ciccarelli, Daryush D. Mehta

The eating condition sub-challenge: the data
Anton Batliner

Automatic classification of eating conditions from speech using acoustic feature selection and a set of hierarchical support vector machine classifiers
Abhay Prasad, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Combining hierarchical classification with frequency weighting for the recognition of eating conditions
Johannes Wagner, Andreas Seiderer, Florian Lingenfelser, Elisabeth André

Acoustic group feature selection using wrapper method for automatic eating condition recognition
Dara Pir, Theodore Brown

Comparing SVM, softmax, and shallow neural networks for eating condition classification
Thomas Pellegrini

Using representation learning and out-of-domain data for a paralinguistic speech task
Benjamin Milde, Chris Biemann

Fisher vectors with cascaded normalization for paralinguistic analysis
Heysem Kaya, Alexey A. Karpov, Albert Ali Salah

Automatic estimation of Parkinson's disease severity from diverse speech tasks
Jangwon Kim, Md. Nasir, Rahul Gupta, Maarten Van Segbroeck, Daniel Bone, Matthew P. Black, Zisis Iason Skordilis, Zhaojun Yang, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Assessing the degree of nativeness and Parkinson's condition using Gaussian processes and deep rectifier neural networks
Tamás Grósz, Róbert Busa-Fekete, Gábor Gosztolya, László Tóth

The INTERSPEECH 2015 computational paralinguistics challenge: a summary of results
Stefan Steidl

Wrapping up: the story of the compare challenges, what we learned and where to go
Anton Batliner

Recognition of voiced sounds with a continuous state HMM
S. M. Houghton, Colin J. Champion, Philip Weber

Learning speech rate in speech recognition
Xiangyu Zeng, Shi Yin, Dong Wang

Pronunciation and silence probability modeling for ASR
Guoguo Chen, Hainan Xu, Minhua Wu, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Exploring minimal pronunciation modeling for low resource languages
Marelie Davel, Etienne Barnard, Charl van Heerden, William Hartmann, Damianos Karakos, Richard Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis

Attribute knowledge integration for speech recognition based on multi-task learning neural networks
Hao Zheng, Zhanlei Yang, Liwei Qiao, Jianping Li, Wenju Liu

Detecting audio-visual synchrony using deep neural networks
Etienne Marcheret, Gerasimos Potamianos, Josef Vopicka, Vaibhava Goel

Cross database training of audio-visual hidden Markov models for phone recognition
Shahram Kalantari, David Dean, Houman Ghaemmaghami, Sridha Sridharan, Clinton Fookes

Incorporating visual information for spoken term detection
Shahram Kalantari, David Dean, Sridha Sridharan

Integration of deep bottleneck features for audio-visual speech recognition
Hiroshi Ninomiya, Norihide Kitaoka, Satoshi Tamura, Yurie Iribe, Kazuya Takeda

Automatic detection of sentence prominence in speech using predictability of word-level acoustic features
Sofoklis Kakouros, Okko Räsänen

An empirical model of emphatic word detection
Milos Cernak, Pierre-Edouard Honnet

Using tilt for automatic emphasis detection with Bayesian networks
Yishuang Ning, Zhiyong Wu, Xiaoyan Lou, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Lianhong Cai

Analysis of a low-dimensional bottleneck neural network representation of speech for modelling speech dynamics
Linxue Bai, Peter Jančovič, Martin Russell, Philip Weber

Statistical acoustic-to-articulatory mapping unified with speaker normalization based on voice conversion
Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose

Analysis of features from analytic representation of speech using MP-ABX measures
Raghavendra Reddy Pappagari, Karthika Vijayan, K. Sri Rama Murty

Source-filter separation of speech signal in the phase domain
Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Thomas Hain

A maximum likelihood approach to the detection of moments of maximum excitation and its application to high-quality speech parameterization
Ranniery Maia, Yannis Stylianou, Masami Akamine

SABR: sparse, anchor-based representation of the speech signal
Christopher Liberatore, Sandesh Aryal, Zelun Wang, Seth Polsley, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Automatic transformation of irregular to regular voice by residual analysis and synthesis
Tamás Gábor Csapó, Géza Németh

Optical sensor calibration for electro-optical stomatography
Simon Preuß, Peter Birkholz

From text to formants — indirect model for trajectory prediction based on a multi-speaker parallel speech database
Kálmán Abari, Tamás Gábor Csapó, Bálint Pál Tóth, Gábor Olaszy

Layered nonnegative matrix factorization for speech separation
Chung-Chien Hsu, Jen-Tzung Chien, Tai-Shih Chi

Robust tongue tracking in ultrasound images: a multi-hypothesis approach
Catherine Laporte, Lucie Ménard

Objective measures for predicting the intelligibility of spectrally smoothed speech with artificial excitation
Danny Websdale, Thomas Le Cornu, Ben Milner

Vocal tremor analysis via AM-FM decomposition of empirical modes of the glottal cycle length time series
Christophe Mertens, Francis Grenez, François Viallet, Alain Ghio, Sabine Skodda, Jean Schoentgen

Estimating lower vocal tract features with closed-open phase spectral analyses
Elizabeth Godoy, Nicolas Malyska, Thomas F. Quatieri

Inductive implementation of segmental HMMs as CS-HMMs
S. M. Houghton, Colin J. Champion

A discriminative analysis within and across voiced and unvoiced consonants in neutral and whispered speech in multiple indian languages
G. Nisha Meenakshi, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Aligning meeting recordings via adaptive fingerprinting
T. J. Tsai, Andreas Stolcke

On representation learning for artificial bandwidth extension
Matthias Zöhrer, Robert Peharz, Franz Pernkopf

AM-FM based filter bank analysis for estimation of spectro-temporal envelopes and its application for speaker recognition in noisy reverberant environments
Dhananjaya Gowda, Rahim Saeidi, Paavo Alku

Fast and accurate phase unwrapping
Thomas Drugman, Yannis Stylianou

Sparse representation with temporal max-smoothing for acoustic event detection
Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai

Estimation of glottal closure instants from telephone speech using a group delay-based approach that considers speech signal as a spectrum
G Anushiya Rachel, P Vijayalakshmi, T Nagarajan

The role of prosody and voice quality in text-dependent categories of storytelling across languages
Raúl Montaño, Francesc Alías

Neuromorphic based oscillatory device for incremental syllable boundary detection
Alexandre Hyafil, Milos Cernak

Mispronunciation detection without nonnative training data
Ann Lee, James Glass

Automatic accentedness evaluation of non-native speech using phonetic and sub-phonetic posterior probabilities
Ramya Rasipuram, Milos Cernak, Alexandre Nachen, Mathew Magimai-Doss

Using F0 contours to assess nativeness in a sentence repeat task
Min Ma, Keelan Evanini, Anastassia Loukina, Xinhao Wang, Klaus Zechner

Using linguistic indicators of difficulty to identify mild cognitive impairment
Rebecca Lunsford, Peter A. Heeman

Automatic intelligibility measures applied to speech signals simulating age-related hearing loss
Lionel Fontan, Jérôme Farinas, Isabelle Ferrané, Julien Pinquier, Xavier Aumont

Assessing empathy using static and dynamic behavior models based on therapist's language in addiction counseling
Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula, Bo Xiao, Zac E. Imel, David C. Atkins, Panayiotis G. Georgiou

SVitchboard II and fiSVer i: high-quality limited-complexity corpora of conversational English speech
Yuzong Liu, Rishabh Iyer, Katrin Kirchhoff, Jeff Bilmes

Fully unsupervised small-vocabulary speech recognition using a segmental Bayesian model
Herman Kamper, Aren Jansen, Sharon Goldwater

LSTM for punctuation restoration in speech transcripts
Ottokar Tilk, Tanel Alumäe

Noise robust exemplar matching for speech enhancement: applications to automatic speech recognition
Emre Yılmaz, Deepak Baby, Hugo Van hamme

A study on robust detection of pronunciation erroneous tendency based on deep neural network
Yingming Gao, Yanlu Xie, Wen Cao, Jinsong Zhang

Vowel mispronunciation detection using DNN acoustic models with cross-lingual training
Shrikant Joshi, Nachiket Deo, Preeti Rao

Confidence-features and confidence-scores for ASR applications in arbitration and DNN speaker adaptation
Kshitiz Kumar, Ziad Al Bawab, Yong Zhao, Chaojun Liu, Benoit Dumoulin, Yifan Gong

Topic modeling for conference analytics
Pengfei Liu, Shoaib Jameel, Wai Lam, Bin Ma, Helen Meng

Sparse coding based features for speech units classification
Pulkit Sharma, Vinayak Abrol, A. D. Dileep, Anil Kumar Sao

Smarter driving with IDA, the intelligent driving assistant for singapore
Andreea I. Niculescu, Ngoc Thuy Huong Thai, Chongjia Ni, Boon Pang Lim, Kheng Hui Yeo, Rafael E. Banchs

Talk it out: adding speech interaction to support informational and transactional applications on public touch-screen kiosks
Kheng Hui Yeo, Rafael E. Banchs

Conversational agent and management tools for conference and tourism domain
Luis Fernando D'Haro, Seokhwan Kim, Rafael E. Banchs

Latvian speech-to-text transcription service
Askars Salimbajevs, Jevgenijs Strigins

System supporting speaker identification in emergency call center
Jakub Gałka, Joanna Grzybowska, Magdalena Igras, Paweł Jaciów, Kamil Wajda, Marcin Witkowski, Mariusz Ziółko

QAT² — the QCRI advanced transcription and translation system
Ahmed Abdelali, Ahmed Ali, Francisco Guzmán, Felix Stahlberg, Stephan Vogel, Yifan Zhang

Implementation of a live dialectal media subtitling system
Michael Stadtschnitzer, Christoph Schmidt

A system for automatic broadcast news summarisation, geolocation and translation
Peter Bell, Catherine Lai, Clare Llewellyn, Alexandra Birch, Mark Sinclair

Media monitoring system for latvian radio and TV broadcasts
Artūrs Znotiņš, Kaspars Polis, Roberts Darģis

Meeting assistant application
Michel Assayag, Jonathan Huang, Jonathan Mamou, Oren Pereg, Saurav Sahay, Oren Shamir, Georg Stemmer, Moshe Wasserblat

SARMATA 2.0 automatic Polish language speech recognition system
Bartosz Ziółko, Tomasz Jadczyk, Dawid Skurzok, Piotr Żelasko, Jakub Gałka, Tomasz Pȩdzimąż, Ireneusz Gawlik, Szymon Pałka

Remeeting — get more out of meetings
Arlo Faria, Korbinian Riedhammer

Web application system for pronunciation practice by children with disabilities and to support cooperation of teachers and medical workers
Ikuyo Masuda-Katsuse

PATSY — it's all about pronunciation!
Caroline Kaufhold, Vadim Gamidov, Andreas Kiessling, Klaus Reinhard, Elmar Nöth

Real-time pitch modification system for speech and singing voice
Elias Azarov, Maxim Vashkevich, Denis Likhachov, Alexander Petrovsky

Nao is doing humour in the CHIST-ERA joker project
Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis, Lucile Béchade, Mohamed A. Sehili, Agnès Delaborde, Vincent Letard, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Paul Deléglise, Yannick Estève, Sophie Rosset, Laurence Devillers

ABIMS — auditory bewildered interaction measurement system
Lisa Lange, Bartholomäus Pfeiffer, Daniel Duran

Phontasia — a game for training German orthography
Kay Berkling, Nadine Pflaumer, Alexei Coyplove

E-commu-book: an assistive technology for users with speech impairments
Ka Ho Wong, Wai Kim Leung, Helen Meng

Swiss graphogame: concept and design presentation of a computerised reading intervention for children with high risk for poor reading outcomes
Martina Röthlisberger, Iliana I. Karipidis, Georgette Pleisch, Volker Dellwo, Ulla Richardson, Silvia Brem

Neolexon — a therapy app for patients with aphasia
Jakob Pfab, Hanna Jakob, Mona Späth, Christoph Draxler

Acoustic stress detection for improved navigation of educational videos
Sonal Patil, Harish Arsikere, Om Deshmukh

Multimodal read-aloud ebooks for language learning
Xavier Anguera

Speech technologies for african languages: example of a multilingual calculator for education
Laurent Besacier, Elodie Gauthier, Mathieu Mangeot, Philippe Bretier, Paul Bagshaw, Olivier Rosec, Thierry Moudenc, François Pellegrino, Sylvie Voisin, Egidio Marsico, Pascal Nocera

The reddots platform for mobile crowd-sourcing of speech data
Kong Aik Lee, Guangsen Wang, Kam Pheng Ng, Hanwu Sun, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Ngoc Thuy Huong Thai, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Two extensions of umeda and teranishi's physical models of the human vocal tract
Takayuki Arai

Collaborative annotation for person identification in TV shows
Matheuz Budnik, Laurent Besacier, Johann Poignant, Hervé Bredin, Claude Barras, Mickael Stefas, Pierrick Bruneau, Thomas Tamisier

Phonetic/linguistic web services at BAS
Thomas Kisler, Florian Schiel, Uwe D. Reichel, Christoph Draxler

Managing speech databases with emur and the EMU-webapp
Raphael Winkelmann

Visual comparison of speaker groups
Sebastian Wankerl, Florian Hönig, Anton Batliner, J. R. Orozco-Arroyave, Elmar Nöth

Tools for rapid customization of S2s systems for emergent domains
Rohit Kumar, Matthew E. Roy, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Dennis N. Mehay, Nina Zinovieva

The speech recognition virtual kitchen turns one
Florian Metze, Eric Riebling, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Andrew Plummer, Rebecca Bates

Model-based adaptive pre-processing of speech for enhanced intelligibility in noise and reverberation
Jan Rennies, Andreas Volgenandt, Henning Schepker, Simon Doclo

Experiences with and new application ideas for the interspeech app
Sebastian Möller, Tilo Westermann

Traditional IVR and visual IVR — killing two birds with one stone
Dmitry Sityaev, Praphul Kumar, Rajesh Ramchander

Bayesian integration of sound source separation and speech recognition: a new approach to simultaneous speech recognition
Kousuke Itakura, Izaya Nishimuta, Yoshiaki Bando, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Channel selection in the short-time modulation domain for distant speech recognition
Ivan Himawan, Petr Motlicek, Sridha Sridharan, David Dean, Dian Tjondronegoro

A multi-channel speech enhancement framework for robust NMF-based speech recognition for speech-impaired users
Gert Dekkers, Toon van Waterschoot, Bart Vanrumste, Bert Van Den Broeck, Jort F. Gemmeke, Hugo Van hamme, Peter Karsmakers

Sound source separation algorithm using phase difference and angle distribution modeling near the target
Chanwoo Kim, Kean K. Chin

Contaminated speech training methods for robust DNN-HMM distant speech recognition
Mirco Ravanelli, Maurizio Omologo

Distance-aware DNNs for robust speech recognition
Yajie Miao, Florian Metze

Perception and production of vowel contrasts in German learners of English
Helena Levy

Goodness of tone (GOT) for non-native Mandarin tone recognition
Rong Tong, Nancy F. Chen, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

The effect of high-variability training on the perception and production of French stops by German native speakers
Jeanin Jügler, Frank Zimmerer, Bernd Möbius, Christoph Draxler

Perception of Mandarin tones by native tibetan speakers
Wenfu Bao, Hui Feng, Jianwu Dang, Zhilei Liu, Yang Yu, Siyu Wang

Study of acoustic correlates of English lexical stress produced by native (L1) bengali speakers compared to native (L1) English speakers
Shambhu Nath Saha, Shyamal Kr. Das Mandal

Prosodic phrasing unique to the acquisition of L2 intonation — an analysis of L2 Japanese intonation by L1 Swedish learners
Yasuko Nagano-Madsen

Fusion of LVCSR and posteriorgram based keyword search
Leda Sarı, Batuhan Gündoğdu, Murat Saraçlar

Improving speech recognition and keyword search for low resource languages using web data
Gideon Mendels, Erica Cooper, Victor Soto, Julia Hirschberg, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill, Anton Ragni, Haipeng Wang

Two-step spoken term detection using SVM classifier trained with pre-indexed keywords based on ASR result
Kentaro Domoto, Takehito Utsuro, Naoki Sawada, Hiromitsu Nishizaki

Enhancing low resource keyword spotting with automatically retrieved web documents
Le Zhang, Damianos Karakos, William Hartmann, Roger Hsiao, Richard Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis

A comparison between a DNN and a CRF disfluency detection and reconstruction system
Dario Bertero, Linlin Wang, Ho Yin Chan, Pascale Fung

Recurrent neural networks for incremental disfluency detection
Julian Hough, David Schlangen

Fusion of multiple parameterisations for DNN-based sinusoidal speech synthesis with multi-task learning
Qiong Hu, Zhizheng Wu, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi, Yannis Stylianou, Ranniery Maia

An investigation of recurrent neural network architectures for statistical parametric speech synthesis
Sivanand Achanta, Tejas Godambe, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty

Sequence generation error (SGE) minimization based deep neural networks training for text-to-speech synthesis
Yuchen Fan, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He

Towards minimum perceptual error training for DNN-based speech synthesis
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King

Deep neural network-based statistical parametric speech synthesis system using improved time-frequency trajectory excitation model
Eunwoo Song, Hong-Goo Kang

A study of speaker adaptation for DNN-based speech synthesis
Zhizheng Wu, Pawel Swietojanski, Christophe Veaux, Steve Renals, Simon King

High-resolution acoustic modeling and compact language modeling of language-universal speech attributes for spoken language identification
Yannan Wang, Jun Du, Li-Rong Dai, Chin-Hui Lee

Phonemes frequency based PLLR dimensionality reduction for language recognition
Saad Irtza, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Phu Ngoc Le, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Haizhou Li

Exploiting i-vector posterior covariances for short-duration language recognition
Sandro Cumani, Oldřich Plchot, Radek Fér

Using the beat histogram for speech rhythm description and language identification
Athanasios Lykartsis, Stefan Weinzierl

Speaker recognition for speech under face cover
Rahim Saeidi, Tuija Niemi, Hanna Karppelin, Jouni Pohjalainen, Tomi Kinnunen, Paavo Alku

Dataset-invariant covariance normalization for out-domain PLDA speaker verification
Md. Hafizur Rahman, Ahilan Kanagasundaram, David Dean, Sridha Sridharan

Sparse coding of total variability matrix
Longting Xu, Kong Aik Lee, Haizhou Li, Zhen Yang

Duration dependent covariance regularization in PLDA modeling for speaker verification
Weicheng Cai, Ming Li, Lin Li, QingYang Hong

Exploiting supervector structure for speaker recognition trained on a small development set
Hagai Aronowitz

Modified-prior PLDA and score calibration for duration mismatch compensation in speaker recognition system
QingYang Hong, Lin Li, Ming Li, Ling Huang, Lihong Wan, Jun Zhang

Speaker verification using Gaussian posteriorgrams on fixed phrase short utterances
Sarfaraz Jelil, Rohan Kumar Das, Rohit Sinha, S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Importance of intelligible phonemes for human speaker recognition in different channel bandwidths
Laura Fernández Gallardo, Sebastian Möller, Michael Wagner

Denoising autoencoder-based speaker feature restoration for utterances of short duration
Hitoshi Yamamoto, Takafumi Koshinaka

Full multicondition training for robust i-vector based speaker recognition
Dayana Ribas, Emmanuel Vincent, José Ramón Calvo

Maximum a posteriori adaptation of network parameters in deep models
Zhen Huang, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, I-Fan Chen, Jinyu Li, Jiadong Wu, Chin-Hui Lee

Regularized sequence-level deep neural network model adaptation
Yan Huang, Yifan Gong

Modeling speaker variability using long short-term memory networks for speech recognition
Xiangang Li, Xihong Wu

Intermediate-layer DNN adaptation for offline and session-based iterative speaker adaptation
Kshitiz Kumar, Chaojun Liu, Kaisheng Yao, Yifan Gong

Speaker adaptation of convolutional neural network using speaker specific subspace vectors of SGMM
Murali Karthick B., Prateek Kolhar, S. Umesh

On speaker adaptation of long short-term memory recurrent neural networks
Yajie Miao, Florian Metze

Automatic identification of received language in MEG
Emilio Parisotto, Youness A. Ghassabeh, Matt J. MacDonald, Adelina Cozma, Elizabeth W. Pang, Frank Rudzicz

Detection of cardiovascular reactivity in speech
Laurens van der Werff, Jón Guðnason, Kamilla Rún Jóhannsdóttir

Lateralization in emotional speech perception following transcranial direct current stimulation
Alex Francois-Nienaber, Jed A. Meltzer, Frank Rudzicz

Speech reconstruction from human auditory cortex with deep neural networks
Minda Yang, Sameer A. Sheth, Catherine A. Schevon, Guy M. McKhann, Nima Mesgarani

Temporal dynamics of the speech readiness potential, and its use in a neural decoder of speech-motor intention
Jonathan S. Brumberg, Nichol Castro, Akshatha Rao

Continuous speech recognition from ECoG
Dominic Heger, Christian Herff, Adriana de Pesters, Dominic Telaar, Peter Brunner, Gerwin Schalk, Tanja Schultz

Locally-connected and convolutional neural networks for small footprint speaker recognition
Yu-hsin Chen, Ignacio Lopez-Moreno, Tara N. Sainath, Mirkó Visontai, Raziel Alvarez, Carolina Parada

Insights into deep neural networks for speaker recognition
Daniel Garcia-Romero, Alan McCree

A unified deep neural network for speaker and language recognition
Fred Richardson, Douglas A. Reynolds, Najim Dehak

Investigation of bottleneck features and multilingual deep neural networks for speaker verification
Yao Tian, Meng Cai, Liang He, Jia Liu

Frequency offset correction in single sideband (SSB) speech by deep neural network for speaker verification
Hua Xing, Gang Liu, John H. L. Hansen

Exploring robustness of DNN/RNN for extracting speaker baum-welch statistics in mismatched conditions
Hao Zheng, Shanshan Zhang, Wenju Liu

Simultaneous optimization of multiple tree structures for factor analyzed HMM-based speech synthesis
Takenori Yoshimura, Kei Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

HMM training strategy for incremental speech synthesis
Maël Pouget, Thomas Hueber, Gérard Bailly, Timo Baumann

Modulation spectrum-constrained trajectory training algorithm for HMM-based speech synthesis
Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, Satoshi Nakamura

Random forests for statistical speech synthesis
Alan W. Black, Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar

Speaker adaptation using relevance vector regression for HMM-based expressive TTS
Doo Hwa Hong, Joun Yeop Lee, Se Young Jang, Nam Soo Kim

Towards a linear dynamical model based speech synthesizer
Vassilis Tsiaras, Ranniery Maia, Vassilis Diakoloukas, Yannis Stylianou, Vassilis Digalakis

Providing objective metrics of team communication skills via interpersonal coordination mechanisms
Céline De Looze, Brian Vaughan, Finnian Kelly, Alison Kay

Dialog act modeling for virtual personal assistant applications using a small volume of labeled data and domain knowledge
Donghyeon Lee, Jinsik Lee, Eun-Kyoung Kim, Jaewon Lee

A polyglot domain optimised text-to-speech system for railway station announcements
Csaba Zainkó, Mátyás Bartalis, Géza Németh, Gábor Olaszy

Development of hindi speech recognition system of agricultural commodities using deep neural network
Partho Mandal, Shalini Jain, Gaurav Ojha, Anupam Shukla

Real-time audio signal enhancement for hands-free speech applications
Thomas Fehér, Michael Freitag, Christian Gruber

Personalized synthetic voices for speaking impaired: website and app
D. Erro, Inma Hernaez, Agustin Alonso, D. García-Lorenzo, Eva Navas, J. Ye, H. Arzelus, Igor Jauk, N. Q. Hy, C. Magariños, R. Pérez-Ramón, M. Sulír, Xiaohai Tian, X. Wang

Under-resourced speech recognition based on the speech manifold
Reza Sahraeian, Dirk Van Compernolle, Febe de Wet

Multilingual features based keyword search for very low-resource languages
Pavel Golik, Zoltán Tüske, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Second language speech recognition using multiple-pass decoding with lexicon represented by multiple reduced phoneme sets
Xiaoyun Wang, Seiichi Yamamoto

Using resources from a closely-related language to develop ASR for a very under-resourced language: a case study for iban
Sarah Samson Juan, Laurent Besacier, Benjamin Lecouteux, Mohamed Dyab

Prediction of speech recognition accuracy for utterance classification
Maxim L. Korenevsky, Andrey B. Smirnov, Valentin S. Mendelev

Error bounds for context reduction and feature omission
Eugen Beck, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

A metric for evaluating speech recognizer output based on human-perception model
Nobuyasu Itoh, Gakuto Kurata, Ryuki Tachibana, Masafumi Nishimura

How to evaluate ASR output for named entity recognition?
Mohamed Ameur Ben Jannet, Olivier Galibert, Martine Adda-Decker, Sophie Rosset

Acoustic-prosodic analysis of attitudinal expressions in German
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Angelika Hönemann, Albert Rilliard

Continuous emotion tracking using total variability space
Hossein Khaki, Engin Erzin

An analysis of the relationship between signal-derived vocal arousal score and human emotion production and perception
Chi-Chun Lee, Daniel Bone, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Morphology of vocal affect bursts: exploring expressive interjections in Japanese conversation
Hiroki Mori

Emotion clustering based on probabilistic linear discriminant analysis
Mahnoosh Mehrabani, Ozlem Kalinli, Ruxin Chen

Objective study of the performance degradation in emotion recognition through the AMR-WB+ codec
Aaron Albin, Elliot Moore

Analysis of excitation source features of speech for emotion recognition
Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, P. Gangamohan, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana

An investigation of emotion change detection from speech
Zhaocheng Huang, Julien Epps, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Crosslinguistic comparison on the perception of Mandarin attitudinal speech
Wentao Gu, Ping Tang, Keikichi Hirose, Véronique Aubergé

Conflict intensity estimation from speech using Greedy forward-backward feature selection
Gábor Gosztolya

Exploring acoustic differences between Cantonese (tonal) and English (non-tonal) spoken expressions of emotions
Chee Seng Chong, Jeesun Kim, Chris Davis

Valence, arousal and dominance estimation for English, German, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish lexica using semantic models
Elisavet Palogiannidi, Elias Iosif, Polychronis Koutsakis, Alexandros Potamianos

Dimensionality reduction for speech emotion features by multiscale kernels
Xinzhou Xu, Jun Deng, Wenming Zheng, Li Zhao, Björn Schuller

High-level feature representation using recurrent neural network for speech emotion recognition
Jinkyu Lee, Ivan Tashev

Speech emotion classification using tree-structured sparse logistic regression
Myung Jong Kim, Joohong Yoo, Younggwan Kim, Hoirin Kim

Annotators' agreement and spontaneous emotion classification performance
Bogdan Vlasenko, Andreas Wendemuth

Multi-stream long short-term memory neural network language model
Ebru Arisoy, Murat Saraçlar

Composition-based on-the-fly rescoring for salient n-gram biasing
Keith Hall, Eunjoon Cho, Cyril Allauzen, Françoise Beaufays, Noah Coccaro, Kaisuke Nakajima, Michael Riley, Brian Roark, David Rybach, Linda Zhang

Learning phrase patterns for ASR name error detection using semantic similarity
Alex Marin, Mari Ostendorf, Ji He

Sparse non-negative matrix language modeling for skip-grams
Noam Shazeer, Joris Pelemans, Ciprian Chelba

Pruning sparse non-negative matrix n-gram language models
Joris Pelemans, Noam Shazeer, Ciprian Chelba

Geo-location for voice search language modeling
Ciprian Chelba, Xuedong Zhang, Keith Hall

On efficient training of word classes and their application to recurrent neural network language models
Rami Botros, Kazuki Irie, Martin Sundermeyer, Hermann Ney

Deep semantic encodings for language modeling
Ali Orkan Bayer, Giuseppe Riccardi

Learning OOV through semantic relatedness in spoken dialog systems
Ming Sun, Yun-Nung Chen, Alexander I. Rudnicky

TDTO language modeling with feedforward neural networks
Tze Yuang Chong, Rafael E. Banchs, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Improvements to the pruning behavior of DNN acoustic models
Matthias Paulik

Fast and accurate recurrent neural network acoustic models for speech recognition
Haşim Sak, Andrew Senior, Kanishka Rao, Françoise Beaufays

Compressing deep neural networks using a rank-constrained topology
Preetum Nakkiran, Raziel Alvarez, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Carolina Parada

Convolutional neural networks for small-footprint keyword spotting
Tara N. Sainath, Carolina Parada

Efficient GPU implementation of convolutional neural networks for speech recognition
Ewout van den Berg, Daniel Brand, Rajesh Bordawekar, Leonid Rachevsky, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Scalable distributed DNN training using commodity GPU cloud computing
Nikko Strom

Joint source localization and separation in spherical harmonic domain using a sparsity based method
Sachin N. Kalkur, Sandeep Reddy C., Rajesh M. Hegde

Regularized non-negative matrix factorization using alternating direction method of multipliers and its application to source separation
Shaofei Zhang, Dong-Yan Huang, Lei Xie, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li, Minghui Dong

Two-stage multi-target joint learning for monaural speech separation
Shuai Nie, Shan Liang, Wei Xue, Xueliang Zhang, Wenju Liu, Like Dong, Hong Yang

Multi-objective learning and mask-based post-processing for deep neural network based speech enhancement
Yong Xu, Jun Du, Zhen Huang, Li-Rong Dai, Chin-Hui Lee

Discriminative nonnegative matrix factorization using cross-reconstruction error for source separation
Kisoo Kwon, Jong Won Shin, Hyung Yong Kim, Nam Soo Kim

Using audio and visual information for single channel speaker separation
Faheem Khan, Ben Milner

On the nature of the features generated in the human auditory pathway for phone recognition
Harald Höge

How the slope of the speech spectrum affects the perception of speaker size
Kodai Yamamoto, Toshio Irino, Ryuichi Nisimura, Hideki Kawahara, Roy D. Patterson

Weakly-supervised word learning is improved by an active online algorithm
Heikki Rasilo, Okko Räsänen

The effect of cochlear implant processing on speaker intelligibility: a perceptual study and computer model
Lin Lin, Jon Barker, Guy J. Brown

Phonetic-phonological feature emerges by associating phonetic with semantic information — a GSOM-based modeling study
Mengxue Cao, Aijun Li, Qiang Fang, Bernd J. Kröger

DIANA: towards computational modeling reaction times in lexical decision in north American English
L. ten Bosch, L. Boves, B. Tucker, M. Ernestus

Automatic phrase boundary labeling of speech synthesis database using context-dependent HMMs and n-gram prior distributions
Qian Chen, Zhen-Hua Ling, Chen-Yu Yang, Li-Rong Dai

A perceptual investigation of wavelet-based decomposition of f0 for text-to-speech synthesis
Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Junichi Yamagishi, Robert A. J. Clark

Duration prediction using multi-level model for GPR-based speech synthesis
Decha Moungsri, Tomoki Koriyama, Takao Kobayashi

Data-driven foot-based intonation generator for text-to-speech synthesis
Mahsa Sadat Elyasi Langarani, Jan van Santen, Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

Weighted correlation based atom decomposition intonation modelling
Branislav Gerazov, Pierre-Edouard Honnet, Aleksandar Gjoreski, Philip N. Garner

Using deep bidirectional recurrent neural networks for prosodic-target prediction in a unit-selection text-to-speech system
Raul Fernandez, Asaf Rendel, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ron Hoory

Large vocabulary automatic speech recognition for children
Hank Liao, Golan Pundak, Olivier Siohan, Melissa K. Carroll, Noah Coccaro, Qi-Ming Jiang, Tara N. Sainath, Andrew Senior, Françoise Beaufays, Michiel Bacchiani

Acoustic-prosodic correlates of `awkward' prosody in story retellings from adolescents with autism
Daniel Bone, Matthew P. Black, Anil Ramakrishna, Ruth Grossman, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Evidence of phonological processes in automatic recognition of children's speech
Eva Fringi, Jill Fain Lehman, Martin Russell

Influence of speaker familiarity on blind and visually impaired children's perception of synthetic voices in audio games
Michael Pucher, Markus Toman, Dietmar Schabus, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Bettina Zillinger, Erich Schmid

Low-memory fast on-line adaptation for acoustically mismatched children's speech recognition
S. Shahnawazuddin, Rohit Sinha

Large vocabulary children's speech recognition with DNN-HMM and SGMM acoustic modeling
Diego Giuliani, Bagher BabaAli

HMM adaptation for child speech synthesis
Avashna Govender, Febe de Wet, Jules-Raymond Tapamo

Vocal turn-taking patterns in groups of children performing collaborative tasks: an exploratory study
Jaebok Kim, Khiet P. Truong, Vicky Charisi, Cristina Zaga, Manja Lohse, Dirk Heylen, Vanessa Evers

Towards an automated screening tool for pediatric speech delay
Roozbeh Sadeghian, Stephen A. Zahorian

Children's reading aloud performance: a database and automatic detection of disfluencies
Jorge Proença, Dirce Celorico, Sara Candeias, Carla Lopes, Fernando Perdigão

Keyword spotting in multi-player voice driven games for children
Harshavardhan Sundar, Jill Fain Lehman, Rita Singh

Age-dependent height estimation and speaker normalization for children's speech using the first three subglottal resonances
Jinxi Guo, Rohit Paturi, Gary Yeung, Steven M. Lulich, Harish Arsikere, Abeer Alwan

The effect of speakers' regional varieties on listeners' decision-making
Adrian Leemann, Camilla Bernardasci, Francis Nolan

Word-initial glottal stop insertion, hiatus resolution and linking in British English
Robert Fuchs

Acoustic analysis of Mandarin affricates
Shanpeng Li, Wentao Gu

Homophonous phonotactic and morphonotactic consonant clusters in word-final position
Hannah Leykum, Sylvia Moosmüller, Wolfgang U. Dressler

Consonant duration and VOT as a function of syllable complexity and voicing in a sub-set of Spanish clusters
Mark Gibson, Ana María Fernández Planas, Adamantios Gafos, Emily Remirez

Hands-on tool producing front vowels for phonetic education: aiming for pronunciation training with tactile sensation
Takayuki Arai

Acoustics of articulatory constraints: vowel classification and nasalization
Indranil Dutta, Ayushi Pandey

Voice-conditioned allophones of MOUTH and PRICE in bahamian creole
Janina Kraus

Analysis of spatial variation with app-based crowdsourced audio data
Marie-José Kolly, Adrian Leemann, Florian Matter

Confusability in L2 vowels: analyzing the role of different features
Mátyás Jani, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik

Perception of French speakers' German vowels
Frank Zimmerer, Jürgen Trouvain

Unintuitive phonetic behavior in tswana post-nasal stops
Jagoda Bruni, Daniel Duran, Grzegorz Dogil

Classification of place-of-articulation of stop consonants using temporal analysis
A. P. Prathosh, A. G. Ramakrishnan, T. V. Ananthapadmanabha

The emergence of nasal velar codas in Brazilian Portuguese: an rt-MRI study
Marissa Barlaz, Maojing Fu, Zhi-Pei Liang, Ryan Shosted, Brad Sutton

Salient dimensions in implicit phonotactic learning
Elise Michon, Emmanuel Dupoux, Alejandrina Cristia

An acoustic examination of the three-way sibilant contrast in lower sorbian
Phil Howson

Investigating consonant reduction in Mandarin Chinese with improved forced alignment
Jiahong Yuan, Mark Liberman

Durational characteristics and timing patterns of Russian onset clusters at two speaking rates
Marianne Pouplier, Stefania Marin, Alexei Kochetov

Modeling temporal dependency for robust estimation of LP model parameters in speech enhancement
Chun Hoy Wong, Tan Lee, Yu Ting Yeung, P. C. Ching

Learning a speech manifold for signal subspace speech denoising
Colin Vaz, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

An iterative speech model-based a priori SNR estimator
Samy Elshamy, Nilesh Madhu, Wouter Tirry, Tim Fingscheidt

Multi-resolution stacking for speech separation based on boosted DNN
Xiao-Lei Zhang, DeLiang Wang

Least squares estimate of the initial phases in STFT based speech enhancement
Sidsel Marie Nørholm, Martin Krawczyk-Becker, Timo Gerkmann, Steven van de Par, Jesper Rindom Jensen, Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Enhancement of non-stationary speech using harmonic chirp filters
Sidsel Marie Nørholm, Jesper Rindom Jensen, Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Text-informed speech enhancement with deep neural networks
Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix, Atsunori Ogawa, Tomohiro Nakatani

Complex tensor factorization in modulation frequency domain for single-channel speech enhancement
Shogo Masaya, Masashi Unoki

Systematic integration of acoustic echo canceller and noise reduction modules for voice communication systems
Hyeonjoo Kang, JeeSok Lee, Soonho Baek, Hong-Goo Kang

DNN-based residual echo suppression
Chul Min Lee, Jong Won Shin, Nam Soo Kim

Codebook-based speech enhancement using Markov process and speech-presence probability
Qi He, Changchun Bao, Feng Bao

On optimal smoothing in minimum statistics based noise tracking
Aleksej Chinaev, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

A data-driven speech enhancement method based on modeled long-range temporal dynamics
Yue Hao, Changchun Bao, Feng Bao, Feng Deng

Improved phase reconstruction in single-channel speech separation
Florian Mayer, Pejman Mowlaee

Time-frequency kernel-based CNN for speech recognition
Tuo Zhao, Yunxin Zhao, Xin Chen

Consonant recognition with continuous-state hidden Markov models and perceptually-motivated features
Philip Weber, Colin J. Champion, S. M. Houghton, Peter Jančovič, Martin Russell

Investigating factor analysis features for deep neural networks in noisy speech recognition
Sriram Ganapathy, Samuel Thomas, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Steven Rennie

Ensemble of Gaussian mixture localized neural networks with application to phone recognition
Ruchir Travadi, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

DNN derived filters for processing of modulation spectrum of speech
Jan Pešán, Lukáš Burget, Hynek Hermansky, Karel Veselý

Exploring how deep neural networks form phonemic categories
Tasha Nagamine, Michael L. Seltzer, Nima Mesgarani

Pronunciation accuracy and intelligibility of non-native speech
Anastassia Loukina, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft, Alexei V. Ivanov, Klaus Zechner

Productions of /h/ in German: French vs. German speakers
Frank Zimmerer, Jürgen Trouvain

German non-native realizations of French voiced fricatives in final position of a group of words
Anne Bonneau, Martine Cadot

From newcastle MOUTH to aussie ears: australians' perceptual assimilation and adaptation for newcastle UK vowels
Catherine T. Best, Jason A. Shaw, Gerard Docherty, Bronwen G. Evans, Paul Foulkes, Jennifer Hay, Jalal Al-Tamimi, Katharine Mair, Karen E. Mulak, Sophie Wood

Wubuy coronal stop perception by speakers of three dialects of bangla
Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett Baker, Olga Maxwell, Janet Fletcher

Using melody metrics to compare English speech read by native speakers and by L2 Chinese speakers from shanghai
Daniel Hirst, Hongwei Ding

Predicting therapist empathy in motivational interviews using language features inspired by psycholinguistic norms
James Gibson, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Francisco Romero, David C. Atkins, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Therapy language analysis using automatically generated psycholinguistic norms
Nikolaos Malandrakis, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

A dynamic model for behavioral analysis of couple interactions using acoustic features
Wei Xia, James Gibson, Bo Xiao, Brian Baucom, Panayiotis G. Georgiou

Analysis and modeling of the role of laughter in motivational interviewing based psychotherapy conversations
Rahul Gupta, Theodora Chaspari, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, David C. Atkins, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

The discourse value of social signals at topic change moments
Francesca Bonin, Nick Campbell, Carl Vogel

Automatic detection of uncertainty in spontaneous German dialogue
Tobias Schrank, Barbara Schuppler

Face reading from speech — predicting facial action units from audio cues
Fabien Ringeval, Erik Marchi, Marc Mehu, Klaus Scherer, Björn Schuller

A new front-end for classification of non-speech sounds: a study on human whistle
Mahesh Kumar Nandwana, Hynek Bořil, John H. L. Hansen

Robust features for sonorant segmentation in continuous speech
Sri Harsha Dumpala, Bhanu Teja Nellore, Raghu Ram Nevali, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana

Reduction of reverberation effects in the MFCC modulation spectrum for improved classification of acoustic signals
Sebastian Gergen, Anil Nagathil, Rainer Martin

Spiking neural networks and the generalised hough transform for speech pattern detection
Jonathan Dennis, Huy Dat Tran, Haizhou Li

Acoustic event recognition using dominant spectral basis vectors
Woohyun Choi, Sangwook Park, David K. Han, Hanseok Ko

A statistical model-based voice activity detection using multiple DNNs and noise awareness
Inyoung Hwang, Jaeseong Sim, Sang-Hyeon Kim, Kwang-Sub Song, Joon-Hyuk Chang

A universal VAD based on jointly trained deep neural networks
Qing Wang, Jun Du, Xiao Bao, Zi-Rui Wang, Li-Rong Dai, Chin-Hui Lee

Spectrographic speech mask estimation using the time-frequency correlation of speech presence
Ge Zhan, Zhaoqiong Huang, Dongwen Ying, Jielin Pan, Yonghong Yan

Complete-linkage clustering for voice activity detection in audio and visual speech
Houman Ghaemmaghami, David Dean, Shahram Kalantari, Sridha Sridharan, Clinton Fookes

A model based voice activity detector for noisy environments
Kaavya Sriskandaraja, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Phu Ngoc Le, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

An unsupervised visual-only voice activity detection approach using temporal orofacial features
Fei Tao, John H. L. Hansen, Carlos Busso

Automatic detection of equipment alarms in a neonatal intensive care unit environment: a knowledge-based approach
Ganna Raboshchuk, Peter Jančovič, Climent Nadeu, Alex Peiró Lilja, Münevver Köküer, Blanca Muñoz Mahamud, Ana Riverola de Veciana

“multilingual” deep neural network for music genre classification
Jia Dai, Wenju Liu, Chongjia Ni, Like Dong, Hong Yang

Accurate endpointing with expected pause duration
Baiyang Liu, Bjorn Hoffmeister, Ariya Rastrow

Locality constrained transitive distance clustering on speech data
Wenbo Liu, Zhiding Yu, Bhiksha Raj, Ming Li

Feature extraction strategies in deep learning based acoustic event detection
Miquel Espi, Masakiyo Fujimoto, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tomohiro Nakatani

An acoustic event detection framework and evaluation metric for surveillance in cars
Peter Transfeld, Simon Receveur, Tim Fingscheidt

Diachronic semantic cohesion for topic segmentation of TV broadcast news
Abdessalam Bouchekif, Géraldine Damnati, Yannick Estève, Delphine Charlet, Nathalie Camelin

Comparison of forced-alignment speech recognition and humans for generating reference VAD
Ivan Kraljevski, Zheng-Hua Tan, Maria Paola Bissiri

Improving voice activity detection in movies
Bernhard Lehner, Gerhard Widmer, Reinhard Sonnleitner

Learning from real users: rating dialogue success with neural networks for reinforcement learning in spoken dialogue systems
Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Milica Gašić, Dongho Kim, Nikola Mrkšić, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve Young

A framework to develop context-aware adaptive dialogue system
David Griol, Zoraida Callejas, Ramón López-Cózar

A proposal to develop domain and subtask-adaptive dialog management models
David Griol, Zoraida Callejas

Hypotheses ranking and state tracking for a multi-domain dialog system using multiple ASR alternates
Omar Zia Khan, Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Paul A. Crook, Ruhi Sarikaya

An entropy minimization framework for goal-driven dialogue management
Ji Wu, Miao Li, Chin-Hui Lee

Context-dependent error correction of spoken referring expressions
Ingrid Zukerman, Andisheh Partovi, Su Nam Kim

Automatic speaker verification spoofing and countermeasures (ASVspoof 2015): introductory talk by the organizers
Zhizheng Wu, Tomi Kinnunen

ASVspoof 2015: the first automatic speaker verification spoofing and countermeasures challenge
Zhizheng Wu, Tomi Kinnunen, Nicholas Evans, Junichi Yamagishi, Cemal Hanilçi, Md. Sahidullah, Aleksandr Sizov

The AHOLAB RPS SSD spoofing challenge 2015 submission
Jon Sanchez, Ibon Saratxaga, Inma Hernaez, Eva Navas, D. Erro

Human vs machine spoofing detection on wideband and narrowband data
Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi

Spoofing speech detection using high dimensional magnitude and phase features: the NTU approach for ASVspoof 2015 challenge
Xiong Xiao, Xiaohai Tian, Steven Du, Haihua Xu, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Classifiers for synthetic speech detection: a comparison
Cemal Hanilçi, Tomi Kinnunen, Md. Sahidullah, Aleksandr Sizov

Combining evidences from mel cepstral, cochlear filter cepstral and instantaneous frequency features for detection of natural vs. spoofed speech
Tanvina B. Patel, Hemant A. Patil

Spoofing detection with DNN and one-class SVM for the ASVspoof 2015 challenge
Jesús Villalba, Antonio Miguel, Alfonso Ortega, Eduardo Lleida

Development of CRIM system for the automatic speaker verification spoofing and countermeasures challenge 2015
Md. Jahangir Alam, Patrick Kenny, Gautam Bhattacharya, Themos Stafylakis

Spoofing countermeasure based on analysis of linear prediction error
Artur Janicki

Simultaneous utilization of spectral magnitude and phase information to extract supervectors for speaker verification anti-spoofing
Yi Liu, Yao Tian, Liang He, Jia Liu, Michael T. Johnson

A comparison of features for synthetic speech detection
Md. Sahidullah, Tomi Kinnunen, Cemal Hanilçi

Relative phase information for detecting human speech and spoofed speech
Longbiao Wang, Yohei Yoshida, Yuta Kawakami, Seiichi Nakagawa

Robust deep feature for spoofing detection — the SJTU system for ASVspoof 2015 challenge
Nanxin Chen, Yanmin Qian, Heinrich Dinkel, Bo Chen, Kai Yu

Automatic speaker verification spoofing and countermeasures (ASVspoof 2015): open discussion and future plans
Junichi Yamagishi, Nicholas Evans

Applying GPGPU to recurrent neural network language model based fast network search in the real-time LVCSR
Kyungmin Lee, Chiyoun Park, Ilhwan Kim, Namhoon Kim, Jaewon Lee

Real-time integration of dynamic context information for improving automatic speech recognition
Youssef Oualil, Marc Schulder, Hartmut Helmke, Anna Schmidt, Dietrich Klakow

Rapid vocabulary addition to context-dependent decoder graphs
Cyril Allauzen, Michael Riley

Modeling phonetic context with non-random forests for speech recognition
Hainan Xu, Guoguo Chen, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Ant colony algorithm applied to automatic speech recognition graph decoding
Benjamin Lecouteux, Didier Schwab

Garbage modeling for on-device speech recognition
Christophe Van Gysel, Leonid Velikovich, Ian McGraw, Françoise Beaufays

A comparative study of BNF and DNN multilingual training on cross-lingual low-resource speech recognition
Haihua Xu, Van Hai Do, Xiong Xiao, Eng Siong Chng

Neural higher-order factors in conditional random fields for phoneme classification
Martin Ratajczak, Sebastian Tschiatschek, Franz Pernkopf

Stacked auto-encoder for ASR error detection and word error rate prediction
Shahab Jalalvand, Daniele Falavigna

Estimation of the air-tissue boundaries of the vocal tract in the mid-sagittal plane from electromagnetic articulograph data
Satyabrata Parida, Ashok Kumar Pattem, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

A new Italian dataset of parallel acoustic and articulatory data
Claudia Canevari, Leonardo Badino, Luciano Fadiga

Error analysis of extracted tongue contours from 2d ultrasound images
Tamás Gábor Csapó, Steven M. Lulich

Accuracy of a markerless acquisition technique for studying speech articulators
Andrea Bandini, Slim Ouni, Piero Cosi, Silvia Orlandi, Claudia Manfredi

Measuring oral and nasal airflow in production of Chinese plosive
Yujie Chi, Kiyoshi Honda, Jianguo Wei, Hui Feng, Jianwu Dang

Enhanced videokymographic data analysis based on vocal folds dynamics modeling
Carlo Drioli, Gian Luca Foresti

Interpolation of tongue fleshpoint kinematics from combined EMA position and orientation data
Andrew J. Kolb, Michael T. Johnson, Jeffrey Berry

A new technique for assessing glottal dynamics in speech and singing by means of optical-flow computation
Gustavo Andrade-Miranda, Nathalie Henrich Bernardoni, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente

On the incompatibility of trilling and palatalization: a single-subject study of sustained apical and uvular trills
Alexei Kochetov, Phil Howson

Articulatory movement prediction using deep bidirectional long short-term memory based recurrent neural networks and word/phone embeddings
Pengcheng Zhu, Lei Xie, Yunlin Chen

Adapting machine translation models toward misrecognized speech with text-to-speech pronunciation rules and acoustic confusability
Nicholas Ruiz, Qin Gao, William Lewis, Marcello Federico

“speech is silver, but silence is golden”: improving speech-to-speech translation performance by slashing users input
Frederic Bechet, Benoit Favre, Mickael Rouvier

A study on the stability and effectiveness of features in quality estimation for spoken language translation
Raymond W. M. Ng, Kashif Shah, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain

Efficient language model adaptation for automatic speech recognition of spoken translations
Joris Pelemans, Tom Vanallemeersch, Kris Demuynck, Hugo Van hamme, Patrick Wambacq

Speed or accuracy? a study in evaluation of simultaneous speech translation
Takashi Mieno, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

Large scale speech-to-text translation with out-of-domain corpora using better context-based models and domain adaptation
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Paweł Przybysz, Arleta Staszuk, Eun-Kyoung Kim, Jaewon Lee

An i-vector backend for speaker verification
Patrick Kenny, Themos Stafylakis, Md. Jahangir Alam, Marcel Kockmann

Multi-channel speaker verification based on total variability modelling
Joana Correia, Alessio Brutti, Alberto Abad

SNR-invariant PLDA modeling for robust speaker verification
Na Li, Man-Wai Mak

Investigating in-domain data requirements for PLDA training
Md. Hafizur Rahman, David Dean, Ahilan Kanagasundaram, Sridha Sridharan

Migrating i-vectors between speaker recognition systems using regression neural networks
Ondřej Glembek, Pavel Matějka, Oldřich Plchot, Jan Pešán, Lukáš Burget, Petr Schwarz

Improving PLDA speaker verification using WMFD and linear-weighted approaches in limited microphone data conditions
Ahilan Kanagasundaram, David Dean, Sridha Sridharan

The relationship between voice source parameters and the maxima dispersion quotient (MDQ)
Christer Gobl, Irena Yanushevskaya, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

Glottal inverse filtering based on quadratic programming
Manu Airaksinen, Tom Bäckström, Paavo Alku

Automatic detection of creaky voice using epoch parameters
N. P. Narendra, K. Sreenivasa Rao

Perception of voicing in the absence of native voicing experience
Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett Baker

The relationship between acoustic and perceived intraspeaker variability in voice quality
Jody Kreiman, Soo Jin Park, Patricia A. Keating, Abeer Alwan

Perceptual cues of whispered tones: are they really special?
Li Jiao, Qiuwu Ma, Ting Wang, Yi Xu

Multiscale recurrent neural network based language model
Tsuyoshi Morioka, Tomoharu Iwata, Takaaki Hori, Tetsunori Kobayashi

Bag-of-words input for long history representation in neural network-based language models for speech recognition
Kazuki Irie, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Efficient machine translation decoding with slow language models
Ahmad Emami

Latent words recurrent neural network language models
Ryo Masumura, Taichi Asami, Takanobu Oba, Hirokazu Masataki, Sumitaka Sakauchi, Akinori Ito

Combining multiple-type input units using recurrent neural network for LVCSR language modeling
Vataya Chunwijitra, Ananlada Chotimongkol, Chai Wutiwiwatchai

Prosodically-enhanced recurrent neural network language models
Siva Reddy Gangireddy, Steve Renals, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Akinobu Lee

Biosignal-based spoken communication: welcome and introduction
Matthias Janke, Michael Wand

A comprehensive 3d biomechanically-driven vocal tract model including inverse dynamics for speech research
Peter Anderson, Negar M. Harandi, Scott Moisik, Ian Stavness, Sidney Fels

Low frequency ultrasonic voice activity detection using convolutional neural networks
Ian McLoughlin, Yan Song

Real-time control of a DNN-based articulatory synthesizer for silent speech conversion: a pilot study
Florent Bocquelet, Thomas Hueber, Laurent Girin, Christophe Savariaux, Blaise Yvert

Tongue tracking in ultrasound images using eigentongue decomposition and artificial neural networks
Diandra Fabre, Thomas Hueber, Florent Bocquelet, Pierre Badin

Speaker-independent silent speech recognition with across-speaker articulatory normalization and speaker adaptive training
Jun Wang, Seongjun Hahm

Codebook clustering for unit selection based EMG-to-speech conversion
Lorenz Diener, Matthias Janke, Tanja Schultz

Flexible tracking of auditory attention
Majid Mirbagheri, Bradley Ekin, Les Atlas, Adrian K. C. Lee

Biosignal-based spoken communication: panel and discussion
Matthias Janke, Michael Wand

A study on deep neural network acoustic model adaptation for robust far-field speech recognition
Seyedmahdad Mirsamadi, John H. L. Hansen

Speech dereverberation using long short-term memory
Masato Mimura, Shinsuke Sakai, Tatsuya Kawahara

Reverberation robust acoustic modeling using i-vectors with time delay neural networks
Vijayaditya Peddinti, Guoguo Chen, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Delta-melspectra features for noise robustness to DNN-based ASR systems
Kshitiz Kumar, Chaojun Liu, Yifan Gong

Combating reverberation in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
Vikramjit Mitra, Julien Van Hout, Mitchell McLaren, Wen Wang, Martin Graciarena, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco

Three ways to adapt a CTS recognizer to unseen reverberated speech in BUT system for the ASpIRE challenge
Martin Karafiát, František Grézl, Lukáš Burget, Igor Szöke, Jan Černocký

Robust parameter estimation for audio declipping in noise
Mark J. Harvilla, Richard M. Stern

Multi-task learning deep neural networks for speech feature denoising
Bin Huang, Dengfeng Ke, Hao Zheng, Bo Xu, Yanyan Xu, Kaile Su

Time-frequency masking for large scale robust speech recognition
Yuxuan Wang, Ananya Misra, Kean K. Chin

Efficient use of DNN bottleneck features in generalized variable parameter HMMs for noise robust speech recognition
Rongfeng Su, Xurong Xie, Xunying Liu, Lan Wang

Investigating modulation spectrogram features for deep neural network-based automatic speech recognition
Deepak Baby, Hugo Van hamme

Deep neural network based spectral feature mapping for robust speech recognition
Kun Han, Yanzhang He, Deblin Bagchi, Eric Fosler-Lussier, DeLiang Wang

Analyzing speech rate entrainment and its relation to therapist empathy in drug addiction counseling
Bo Xiao, Zac E. Imel, David C. Atkins, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Agreement and disagreement utterance detection in conversational speech by extracting and integrating local features
Atsushi Ando, Taichi Asami, Manabu Okamoto, Hirokazu Masataki, Sumitaka Sakauchi

Still together?: the role of acoustic features in predicting marital outcome
Md. Nasir, Wei Xia, Bo Xiao, Brian Baucom, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Panayiotis G. Georgiou

On evaluation metrics for social signal detection
Gábor Gosztolya

Laughter and filler detection in naturalistic audio
Lakshmish Kaushik, Abhijeet Sangwan, John H. L. Hansen

Automatic formatted transcripts for videos
Aasish Pappu, Amanda Stent

Does my speech rock? automatic assessment of public speaking skills
Lucas Azaïs, Adrien Payan, Tianjiao Sun, Guillaume Vidal, Tina Zhang, Eduardo Coutinho, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller

Verbal intelligence identification based on text classification
Roman Sergienko, Alexander Schmitt

A multimodal approach for automatic assessment of school principals' oral presentation during pre-service training program
Shan-Wen Hsiao, Hung-Ching Sun, Ming-Chuan Hsieh, Ming-Hsueh Tsai, Hsin-Chih Lin, Chi-Chun Lee

Are you TED talk material? comparing prosody in professors and TED speakers
T. J. Tsai

Detection of cognitive states and their correlation to speech recognition performance in speech-to-speech machine translation systems
Hayakawa Akira, Fasih Haider, Loredana Cerrato, Nick Campbell, Saturnino Luz

Perceptual speech quality dimensions in a conversational situation
Friedemann Köster, Sebastian Möller

Multidimensional evaluation and predicting overall speech quality
Jens Berger, Anna Llagostera

On speech intelligibility estimation of phase-aware single-channel speech enhancement
Andreas Gaich, Pejman Mowlaee

A framework for the evaluation of microscopic intelligibility models
Ricard Marxer, Martin Cooke, Jon Barker

A binaural short time objective intelligibility measure for noisy and enhanced speech
Asger Heidemann Andersen, Jan Mark de Haan, Zheng-Hua Tan, Jesper Jensen

A glimpse-based approach for predicting binaural intelligibility with single and multiple maskers in anechoic conditions
Yan Tang, Martin Cooke, Bruno M. Fazenda, Trevor J. Cox

Improving the prediction power of the speech transmission index to account for non-linear distortions introduced by noise-reduction algorithms
Fei Chen

DNN-based speech bandwidth expansion and its application to adding high-frequency missing features for automatic speech recognition of narrowband speech
Kehuang Li, Zhen Huang, Yong Xu, Chin-Hui Lee

Speech quality evaluation of artificial bandwidth extension: comparing subjective judgments and instrumental predictions
Hannu Pulakka, Ville Myllylä, Anssi Rämö, Paavo Alku

Synchronous overlap and add of spectra for enhancement of excitation in artificial bandwidth extension of speech
M. A. Tuğtekin Turan, Engin Erzin

Speech bandwidth expansion based on deep neural networks
Yingxue Wang, Shenghui Zhao, Wenbo Liu, Ming Li, Jingming Kuang

A novel method of artificial bandwidth extension using deep architecture
Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao, Zhengqi Wen, Ya Li, Danish Bukhari

Annotating large lattices with the exact word error
Rogier C. van Dalen, Mark J. F. Gales

Semi-supervised maximum mutual information training of deep neural network acoustic models
Vimal Manohar, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Rectified linear neural networks with tied-scalar regularization for LVCSR
Shiliang Zhang, Hui Jiang, Si Wei, Li-Rong Dai

Segmental conditional random fields with deep neural networks as acoustic models for first-pass word recognition
Yanzhang He, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Distinct triphone acoustic modeling using deep neural networks
Dongpeng Chen, Brian Mak

Minimum word error training of RNN-based voice activity detection
Gregory Gelly, Jean-Luc Gauvain

Vocal biomarkers to discriminate cognitive load in a working memory task
Thomas F. Quatieri, James R. Williamson, Christopher J. Smalt, Tejash Patel, Joseph Perricone, Daryush D. Mehta, Brian S. Helfer, Gregory Ciccarelli, Darrell Ricke, Nicolas Malyska, Jeff Palmer, Kristin Heaton, Marianna Eddy, Joseph Moran

I-vector based physical task stress detection with different fusion strategies
Chunlei Zhang, Gang Liu, Chengzhu Yu, John H. L. Hansen

Automatic detection of mild cognitive impairment from spontaneous speech using ASR
László Tóth, Gábor Gosztolya, Veronika Vincze, Ildikó Hoffmann, Gréta Szatlóczki, Edit Biró, Fruzsina Zsura, Magdolna Pákáski, János Kálmán

Contemporary stochastic feature selection algorithms for speech-based emotion recognition
Maxim Sidorov, Christina Brester, Alexander Schmitt

Effect of different jitter-induced glottal pulse shape changes in periodicity perturbation measures
Carlos A. Ferrer, Diana Torres, Eduardo González, José Ramón Calvo, Eduardo Castillo

Automatic audio sentiment extraction using keyword spotting
Lakshmish Kaushik, Abhijeet Sangwan, John H. L. Hansen

Unsupervised relation detection using automatic alignment of query patterns extracted from knowledge graphs and query click logs
Panupong Pasupat, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

A latent variable model for joint pause prediction and dependency parsing
The Tung Nguyen, Graham Neubig, Hiroyuki Shindo, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

Extractive meeting summarization through speaker zone detection
Mohammad Hadi Bokaei, Hossein Sameti, Yang Liu

Positional language modeling for extractive broadcast news speech summarization
Shih-Hung Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsu-Chun Yen, Wen-Lian Hsu

Speech-based location estimation of first responders in a simulated search and rescue scenario
Saeid Mokaram, Roger K. Moore

Constructive feedback, thinking process and cooperation: assessing the quality of classroom interaction
Tahir Sousa, Lucie Flekova, Margot Mieskes, Iryna Gurevych

A real-time variable-q non-stationary Gabor transform for pitch shifting
Dong-Yan Huang, Minghui Dong, Haizhou Li

Many-to-many voice conversion based on multiple non-negative matrix factorization
Ryo Aihara, Testuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki

Statistical singing voice conversion based on direct waveform modification with global variance
Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

System fusion for high-performance voice conversion
Xiaohai Tian, Zhizheng Wu, Siu Wa Lee, Quy Hy Nguyen, Minghui Dong, Eng Siong Chng

Speaker adaptation using only vocalic segments via frequency warping
Agustin Alonso, D. Erro, Eva Navas, Inma Hernaez

Non-audible murmur enhancement based on statistical conversion using air- and body-conductive microphones in noisy environments
Yusuke Tajiri, Kou Tanaka, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Advanced crowdsourcing for speech and beyond: introduction by the organizers
Tim Polzehl, Gina-Anne Levow

Transcribing continuous speech using mismatched crowdsourcing
Preethi Jyothi, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Selection and aggregation techniques for crowdsourced semantic annotation task
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Marcos Calvo, Arindam Ghosh, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Ali Orkan Bayer, Giuseppe Riccardi, Fernando García, Emilio Sanchis

Controlling quality and handling fraud in large scale crowdsourcing speech data collections
Spencer Rothwell, Ahmad Elshenawy, Steele Carter, Daniela Braga, Faraz Romani, Michael Kennewick, Bob Kennewick

Data collection and annotation for state-of-the-art NER using unmanaged crowds
Spencer Rothwell, Steele Carter, Ahmad Elshenawy, Vladislavs Dovgalecs, Safiyyah Saleem, Daniela Braga, Bob Kennewick

Robustness in speech quality assessment and temporal training expiry in mobile crowdsourcing environments
Tim Polzehl, Babak Naderi, Friedemann Köster, Sebastian Möller

Effect of trapping questions on the reliability of speech quality judgments in a crowdsourcing paradigm
Babak Naderi, Tim Polzehl, Ina Wechsung, Friedemann Köster, Sebastian Möller

Voice Äpp: a mobile app for crowdsourcing Swiss German dialect data
Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Volker Dellwo, Ingrid Hove, Ibrahim Almajai, Sarah Grimm, Sylvain Robert, Daniel Wanitsch

Expert and crowdsourced annotation of pronunciation errors for automatic scoring systems
Anastassia Loukina, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft, Klaus Zechner

Capcap: an output-agreement game for video captioning
Hernisa Kacorri, Kaoru Shinkawa, Shin Saito

Auris populi: crowdsourced native transcriptions of Dutch vowels spoken by adult Spanish learners
Pepi Burgos, Eric Sanders, Catia Cucchiarini, Roeland van Hout, Helmer Strik

Crowdsource a little to label a lot: labeling a speech corpus of dialectal Arabic
Samantha Wray, Ahmed Ali

Using keyword spotting to help humans correct captioning faster
Yashesh Gaur, Florian Metze, Yajie Miao, Jeffrey P. Bigham

Validating and optimizing a crowdsourced method for gradient measures of child speech
Tara McAllister Byun, Elaine Hitchcock, Daphna Harel

Joint training of speech separation, filterbank and acoustic model for robust automatic speech recognition
Zhong-Qiu Wang, DeLiang Wang

Joint environment and speaker normalization using factored front-end CMLLR
Shakti Rath, Sunil Sivadas, Bin Ma

Robust speech recognition using DNN-HMM acoustic model combining noise-aware training with spectral subtraction
Akihiro Abe, Kazumasa Yamamoto, Seiichi Nakagawa

Robust i-vector extraction for neural network adaptation in noisy environment
Chengzhu Yu, Atsunori Ogawa, Marc Delcroix, Takuya Yoshioka, Tomohiro Nakatani, John H. L. Hansen

Spectrally selective dithering for distorted speech recognition
Michal Borsky, Petr Mizera, Petr Pollak

Feature-space speaker adaptation for probabilistic linear discriminant analysis acoustic models
Liang Lu, Steve Renals

Speaker adaptation using the i-vector technique for bottleneck features
Patrick Cardinal, Najim Dehak, Yu Zhang, James Glass

I-vector estimation using informative priors for adaptation of deep neural networks
Penny Karanasou, Mark J. F. Gales, Philip C. Woodland

Robust i-vector based adaptation of DNN acoustic model for speech recognition
Sri Garimella, Arindam Mandal, Nikko Strom, Bjorn Hoffmeister, Spyros Matsoukas, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi

GMM-derived features for effective unsupervised adaptation of deep neural network acoustic models
Natalia Tomashenko, Yuri Khokhlov

Unsupervised adaptation for deep neural network using linear least square method
Roger Hsiao, Tim Ng, Stavros Tsakalidis, Long Nguyen, Richard Schwartz

Ensemble speaker modeling using speaker adaptive training deep neural network for speaker adaptation
Sheng Li, Xugang Lu, Yuya Akita, Tatsuya Kawahara

Data-selective transfer learning for multi-domain speech recognition
Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain

Language-independent method for analysis of German stuttering recordings
Tomas Lustyk, Petr Bergl, Tino Haderlein, Elmar Nöth, Roman Cmejla

An investigation of MDVP parameters for voice pathology detection on three different databases
Ahmed Al-nasheri, Zulfiqar Ali, Ghulam Muhammad, Mansour Alsulaiman

Energy distribution analysis and nonlinear dynamical analysis of adductor spasmodic dysphonia
Jiantao Wu, Ping Yu, Nan Yan, Lan Wang, Xiaohui Yang, Manwa L. Ng

Auditory-visual tone perception in hearing impaired Thai listeners
Benjawan Kasisopa, Nittayapa Klangpornkun, Denis Burnham

Speech intelligibility decline in individuals with fast and slow rates of ALS progression
Panying Rong, Yana Yunusova, Jordan R. Green

Latency analysis of speech shadowing reveals processing differences in Japanese adults who do and do not stutter
Rong Na A, Koichi Mori, Naomi Sakai

A syllable-based analysis of speech temporal organization: a comparison between speaking styles in dysarthric and healthy populations
Brigitte Bigi, Katarzyna Klessa, Laurianne Georgeton, Christine Meunier

Autonomous measurement of speech intelligibility utilizing automatic speech recognition
Bernd T. Meyer, Birger Kollmeier, Jasper Ooster

Can you hear me? acoustic modifications in speech directed to foreigners and hearing-impaired people
Monja Angelika Knoll, Melissa Johnstone, Charlene Blakely

Improving automatic forced alignment for dysarthric speech transcription
Yu Ting Yeung, Ka Ho Wong, Helen Meng

Communicative needs and respiratory constraints
Marcin Włodarczak, Mattias Heldner, Jens Edlund

Analysis and classification of cooperative and competitive dialogs
Uwe D. Reichel, Nina Pörner, Dianne Nowack, Jennifer Cole

Towards automatic detection of reported speech in dialogue using prosodic cues
Alessandra Cervone, Catherine Lai, Silvia Pareti, Peter Bell

Modeling phrasing and prominence using deep recurrent learning
Andrew Rosenberg, Raul Fernandez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Pitch declination and reset as a function of utterance duration in conversational speech data
Céline De Looze, Irena Yanushevskaya, Andy Murphy, Eoghan O'Connor, Christer Gobl

Investigating the role of `yeah' in stance-dense conversation
Valerie Freeman, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard Wright, Mari Ostendorf

Enhanced processing of a lost language: linguistic knowledge or linguistic skill?
Jiyoun Choi, Mirjam Broersma, Anne Cutler

Production inconsistencies delay adaptation to foreign accents
Ann-Kathrin Grohe, Gregory J. Poarch, Adriana Hanulíková, Andrea Weber

Acquisition of English speech rhythm by monolingual children
Mikhail Ordin, Leona Polyanskaya

Durational information in word-initial lexical embeddings in spoken Dutch
Odette Scharenborg

The development of categorical perception of lexical tones in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers
Fei Chen, Nan Yan, Lan Wang, Tao Yang, Jiantao Wu, Han Zhao, Gang Peng

Perception of Italian liquids by Japanese listeners: comparisons to Spanish liquids
Tomohiko Ooigawa

The IBM 2015 English conversational telephone speech recognition system
George Saon, Hong-Kwang J. Kuo, Steven Rennie, Michael Picheny

The cambridge university 2014 BOLT conversational telephone Mandarin Chinese LVCSR system for speech translation
Xunying Liu, Federico Flego, Linlin Wang, C. Zhang, Mark J. F. Gales, Philip C. Woodland

The IBM BOLT speech transcription system
Samuel Thomas, George Saon, Hong-Kwang J. Kuo, Lidia Mangu

Improvements in RWTH LVCSR evaluation systems for Polish, Portuguese, English, urdu, and Arabic
M. Ali Basha Shaik, Zoltán Tüske, M. Ali Tahir, Markus Nußbaum-Thom, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Active learning based data selection for limited resource STT and KWS
Thiago Fraga-Silva, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Antoine Laurent, Viet-Bac Le, Abdel Messaoudi

Improved hindi broadcast ASR by adapting the language model and pronunciation model using a priori syntactic and morphophonemic knowledge
Preethi Jyothi, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

The zero resource speech challenge 2015
Maarten Versteegh, Roland Thiollière, Thomas Schatz, Xuan Nga Cao, Xavier Anguera, Aren Jansen, Emmanuel Dupoux

Discovering discrete subword units with binarized autoencoders and hidden-Markov-model encoders
Leonardo Badino, Alessio Mereta, Lorenzo Rosasco

A hybrid dynamic time warping-deep neural network architecture for unsupervised acoustic modeling
Roland Thiollière, Ewan Dunbar, Gabriel Synnaeve, Maarten Versteegh, Emmanuel Dupoux

Automatic segmentation and clustering of speech using sparse coding and metaheuristic search
Wiehan Agenbag, Thomas Niesler

Parallel inference of dirichlet process Gaussian mixture models for unsupervised acoustic modeling: a feasibility study
Hongjie Chen, Cheung-Chi Leung, Lei Xie, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Using articulatory features and inferred phonological segments in zero resource speech processing
Pallavi Baljekar, Sunayana Sitaram, Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, Alan W. Black

A comparison of neural network methods for unsupervised representation learning on the zero resource speech challenge
Daniel Renshaw, Herman Kamper, Aren Jansen, Sharon Goldwater

Unsupervised word discovery from speech using automatic segmentation into syllable-like units
Okko Räsänen, Gabriel Doyle, Michael C. Frank

An evaluation of graph clustering methods for unsupervised term discovery
Vince Lyzinski, Gregory Sell, Aren Jansen

A time delay neural network architecture for efficient modeling of long temporal contexts
Vijayaditya Peddinti, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Long short-term memory based convolutional recurrent neural networks for large vocabulary speech recognition
Xiangang Li, Xihong Wu

Parameterised sigmoid and reLU hidden activation functions for DNN acoustic modelling
C. Zhang, Philip C. Woodland

Discriminative template learning in group-convolutional networks for invariant speech representations
Chiyuan Zhang, Stephen Voinea, Georgios Evangelopoulos, Lorenzo Rosasco, Tomaso Poggio

Investigation of parametric rectified linear units for noise robust speech recognition
Sunil Sivadas, Zhenzhou Wu, Ma Bin

Multi-softmax deep neural network for semi-supervised training
Hang Su, Haihua Xu

A multi-region deep neural network model in speech recognition
Jia Cui, George Saon, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Brian Kingsbury

A study of the recurrent neural network encoder-decoder for large vocabulary speech recognition
Liang Lu, Xingxing Zhang, Kyunghyun Cho, Steve Renals

Gaussian free cluster tree construction using deep neural network
Linchen Zhu, Kevin Kilgour, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel

Very deep convolutional neural networks for LVCSR
Mengxiao Bi, Yanmin Qian, Kai Yu

Transferring knowledge from a RNN to a DNN
William Chan, Nan Rosemary Ke, Ian Lane

SVD-based universal DNN modeling for multiple scenarios
Changliang Liu, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

Speech enhancement and recognition using multi-task learning of long short-term memory recurrent neural networks
Zhuo Chen, Shinji Watanabe, Hakan Erdogan, John R. Hershey

Speaker-dependent multipitch tracking using deep neural networks
Yuzhou Liu, DeLiang Wang

An error correction scheme for GCI detection algorithms using pitch smoothness criterion
Sujith P., A. P. Prathosh, A. G. Ramakrishnan, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Robust pitch estimation in noisy speech using ZTW and group delay function
RaviShankar Prasad, B. Yegnanarayana

Robust localization of single sound source based on phase difference regression
Zhaoqiong Huang, Ge Zhan, Dongwen Ying, Yonghong Yan

Frequency map selection using a RBFN-based classifier in the MVDR beamformer for speaker localization in reverberant rooms
Daniele Salvati, Carlo Drioli, Gian Luca Foresti

Exploiting deep neural networks and head movements for binaural localisation of multiple speakers in reverberant conditions
Ning Ma, Guy J. Brown, Tobias May

Joint optimization of recurrent networks exploiting source auto-regression for source separation
Shuai Nie, Wei Xue, Shan Liang, Xueliang Zhang, Wenju Liu, Liwei Qiao, Jianping Li

Real-time audio-to-score alignment of singing voice based on melody and lyric information
Rong Gong, Philippe Cuvillier, Nicolas Obin, Arshia Cont

Vocal separation from monaural music using adaptive auditory filtering based on kernel back-fitting
Jun-Yong Lee, Hye-Seung Cho, Hyoung-Gook Kim

A two-stage singing voice separation algorithm using spectro-temporal modulation features
Frederick Z. Yen, Mao-Chang Huang, Tai-Shih Chi

Robust sound event classification using LBP-HOG based bag-of-audio-words feature representation
Hyungjun Lim, Myung Jong Kim, Hoirin Kim

Action planning and congruency effect between articulation and grasping
Mikko Tiainen, Lari Vainio, Kaisa Tiippana, Naeem Komeilipoor, Martti Vainio

Cognitive workload and vocabulary sparseness: theory and practice
Ron M. Hecht, Aharon Bar-Hillel, Stas Tiomkin, Hadar Levi, Omer Tsimhoni, Naftali Tishby

Counting competing speakers in a timeframe — human versus computer
Valentin Andrei, Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo, Corneliu Burileanu

Segmental contribution to the intelligibility of ideal binary-masked sentences
Fei Chen, Alexander Siu Tai Kwok

Perception of an existing and non-existing L2 English phoneme behind noise by Japanese native speakers
Mako Ishida, Takayuki Arai

Viseme comparison based on phonetic cues for varying speech accents
Chitralekha Bhat, Sunil Kopparapu

Quantifying difference in vocalizations of bird populations
Colm O'Reilly, Nicola M. Marples, David J. Kelly, Naomi Harte

Reverberation-robust acoustic indoor localization
Jae Choi, Jeunghun Kim, Shin Jae Kang, Nam Soo Kim

An alternating optimization approach for phase retrieval
Huaiping Ming, Dong-Yan Huang, Lei Xie, Haizhou Li, Minghui Dong

Learning to estimate reverberation time in noisy and reverberant rooms
Xiong Xiao, Shengkui Zhao, Xionghu Zhong, Douglas L. Jones, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Direction of arrival estimation based on reverberation weighting and noise error estimator
Cheng Pang, Jie Zhang, Hong Liu

Representing nonspeech audio signals through speech classification models
Huy Phan, Lars Hertel, Marco Maass, Radoslaw Mazur, Alfred Mertins

Mitigating the effects of non-stationary unseen noises on language recognition performance
Luciana Ferrer, Mitchell McLaren, Aaron Lawson, Martin Graciarena

An information theory based data-homogeneity measure for voice comparison
Moez Ajili, Jean-François Bonastre, Solange Rossato, Juliette Kahn, Itshak Lapidot

The QUT-NOISE-SRE protocol for the evaluation of noisy speaker recognition
David Dean, Ahilan Kanagasundaram, Houman Ghaemmaghami, Md. Hafizur Rahman, Sridha Sridharan

Score stabilization for speaker recognition trained on a small development set
Hagai Aronowitz

Anti-spoofing system: an investigation of measures to detect synthetic and human speech
Abhinav Misra, Shivesh Ranjan, Chunlei Zhang, John H. L. Hansen

A likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison in microphone vs. mobile mismatched conditions using Japanese /ai/
Michael J. Carne

Are we using enough listeners? no! — an empirically-supported critique of interspeech 2014 TTS evaluations
Mirjam Wester, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter

How to compare TTS systems: a new subjective evaluation methodology focused on differences
Jonathan Chevelu, Damien Lolive, Sébastien Le Maguer, David Guennec

Double-ended prediction of the naturalness ratings of the blizzard challenge 2008-2013
Lukas Latacz, Werner Verhelst

Entropy-based sentence selection for speech synthesis using phonetic and prosodic contexts
Takashi Nose, Yusuke Arao, Takao Kobayashi, Komei Sugiura, Yoshinori Shiga, Akinori Ito

A comparison of speech synthesis systems based on GPR, HMM, and DNN with a small amount of training data
Tomoki Koriyama, Takao Kobayashi

Objective intelligibility assessment of text-to-speech systems through utterance verification
Raphael Ullmann, Ramya Rasipuram, Mathew Magimai-Doss, Hervé Bourlard

Continuous word representation using neural networks for proper name retrieval from diachronic documents
Dominique Fohr, Irina Illina

Recurrent neural network language model adaptation for multi-genre broadcast speech recognition
X. Chen, T. Tan, Xunying Liu, Pierre Lanchantin, M. Wan, Mark J. F. Gales, Philip C. Woodland

Paragraph vector based topic model for language model adaptation
Wengong Jin, Tianxing He, Yanmin Qian, Kai Yu

Personalized speech recognizer with keyword-based personalized lexicon and language model using word vector representations
Ching-Feng Yeh, Yuan-ming Liou, Hung-yi Lee, Lin-shan Lee

Discriminative data selection for lightly supervised training of acoustic model using closed caption texts
Sheng Li, Yuya Akita, Tatsuya Kawahara

Cross-lingual transfer learning during supervised training in low resource scenarios
Amit Das, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Robust speech processing using observation uncertainty and uncertainty propagation: session and paper overview
Ramón F. Astudillo, Shinji Watanabe, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz, Dorothea Kolossa

Uncertainty propagation for noise robust speaker recognition: the case of NIST-SRE
Dayana Ribas, Emmanuel Vincent, José Ramón Calvo

Uncertainty training and decoding methods of deep neural networks based on stochastic representation of enhanced features
Yuuki Tachioka, Shinji Watanabe

Accounting for uncertainty of i-vectors in speaker recognition using uncertainty propagation and modified imputation
Rahim Saeidi, Paavo Alku

Autoencoder based multi-stream combination for noise robust speech recognition
Sri Harish Mallidi, Tetsuji Ogawa, Karel Veselý, Phani S. Nidadavolu, Hynek Hermansky

Uncertainty decoding for DNN-HMM hybrid systems based on numerical sampling
Christian Huemmer, Roland Maas, Andreas Schwarz, Ramón F. Astudillo, Walter Kellermann

Uncertainty propagation through deep neural networks
Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz, Shinji Watanabe, John R. Hershey, Emmanuel Vincent, Dorothea Kolossa

Handling derivative filterbank features in bounded-marginalization-based missing data automatic speech recognition
Marco Kühne

Large-scale, sequence-discriminative, joint adaptive training for masking-based robust ASR
Arun Narayanan, Ananya Misra, Kean K. Chin

Integration of DNN based speech enhancement and ASR
Ramón F. Astudillo, Joana Correia, Isabel Trancoso

A general artificial neural network extension for HTK
C. Zhang, Philip C. Woodland

Audio augmentation for speech recognition
Tom Ko, Vijayaditya Peddinti, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

A diversity-penalizing ensemble training method for deep learning
Xiaohui Zhang, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Deep neural network training emphasizing central frames
Gakuto Kurata, Daniel Willett

Training deep bidirectional LSTM acoustic model for LVCSR by a context-sensitive-chunk BPTT approach
Kai Chen, Zhi-Jie Yan, Qiang Huo

Structured output layer with auxiliary targets for context-dependent acoustic modelling
Pawel Swietojanski, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Complementary tasks for context-dependent deep neural network acoustic models
Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Towards end-to-end speech recognition for Chinese Mandarin using long short-term memory recurrent neural networks
Jie Li, Heng Zhang, Xinyuan Cai, Bo Xu

Improving deep neural networks based multi-accent Mandarin speech recognition using i-vectors and accent-specific top layer
Mingming Chen, Zhanlei Yang, Jizhong Liang, Yanpeng Li, Wenju Liu

Rapid adaptation for deep neural networks through multi-task learning
Zhen Huang, Jinyu Li, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, I-Fan Chen, Ji Wu, Chin-Hui Lee

fMLLR based feature-space speaker adaptation of DNN acoustic models
Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Bjorn Hoffmeister, Spyros Matsoukas, Arindam Mandal, Nikko Strom, Sri Garimella

I-vector dependent feature space transformations for adaptive speech recognition
Xiangang Li, Xihong Wu

Unsupervised domain discovery using latent dirichlet allocation for acoustic modelling in speech recognition
Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain

Training data selection for acoustic modeling via submodular optimization of joint kullback-leibler divergence
Taichi Asami, Ryo Masumura, Hirokazu Masataki, Manabu Okamoto, Sumitaka Sakauchi

Combination of NN and CRF models for joint detection of punctuation and disfluencies
Eunah Cho, Kevin Kilgour, Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel

Tunable keyword-aware language modeling and context dependent fillers for LVCSR-based spoken keyword search
Tze Siong Lau, I-Fan Chen, Chin-Hui Lee

Joint decoding of tandem and hybrid systems for improved keyword spotting on low resource languages
Haipeng Wang, Anton Ragni, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill, Philip C. Woodland, C. Zhang

Preserving word-level emphasis in speech-to-speech translation using linear regression HSMMs
Quoc Truong Do, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

Phonology-augmented statistical transliteration for low-resource languages
Hoang Gia Ngo, Nancy F. Chen, Binh Minh Nguyen, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Evaluation of re-ranking by prioritizing highly ranked documents in spoken term detection
Kazuki Oouchi, Ryota Konno, Takahiro Akyu, Kazuma Konno, Kazunori Kojima, Kazuyo Tanaka, Shi-wook Lee, Yoshiaki Itoh

Distinctive feature based representation of speech for query-by-example spoken term detection
Abhijeet Saxena, B. Yegnanarayana

Combination of diverse subword units in spoken term detection
Shi-wook Lee, Kazuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Itoh

Sparse modeling of posterior exemplars for keyword detection
Dhananjay Ram, Afsaneh Asaei, Pranay Dighe, Hervé Bourlard

Stress level detection using double-layer subband filter
Tin Lay Nwe, Qianli Xu, Cuntai Guan, Bin Ma

Prosodic characteristics of read speech before and after treadmill running
Jürgen Trouvain, Khiet P. Truong

A database for analysis of speech under physical stress: detection of exercise intensity while running and talking
Khiet P. Truong, Arne Nieuwenhuys, Peter Beek, Vanessa Evers

Stressed out: what speech tells us about stress
Will Paul, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Reynold Bailey, Joe Geigel, Linwei Wang

Prediction of heart rate changes from speech features during interaction with a misbehaving dialog system
Andreas Tsiartas, Andreas Kathol, Elizabeth Shriberg, Massimiliano de Zambotti, Adrian Willoughby

Acoustic correlates for perceived effort levels in expressive speech
Mary Pietrowicz, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Karrie Karahalios

Pitch-based speech perturbation measures using a novel GCI detection algorithm: application to pathological voice classification
Khalid Daoudi, Ashwini Jaya Kumar

Speech-based assessment of PTSD in a military population using diverse feature classes
Dimitra Vergyri, Bruce Knoth, Elizabeth Shriberg, Vikramjit Mitra, Mitchell McLaren, Luciana Ferrer, Pablo Garcia, Charles Marmar

Cognitive impairment prediction in the elderly based on vocal biomarkers
Bea Yu, Thomas F. Quatieri, James R. Williamson, James C. Mundt

Automatic age detection in normal and pathological voice
J. -A. Gómez-García, L. Moro-Velázquez, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, G. Castellanos-Domínguez