Interspeech 2016

815 papers

Compact Feedforward Sequential Memory Networks for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition

Shiliang Zhang, Hui Jiang, Shifu Xiong, Si Wei, Li-Rong Dai

Interpretation of Low Dimensional Neural Network Bottleneck Features in Terms of Human Perception and Production

Philip Weber, Linxue Bai, Martin Russell, Peter Jančovič, Stephen Houghton

Unsupervised Deep Auditory Model Using Stack of Convolutional RBMs for Speech Recognition

Hardik B. Sailor, Hemant A. Patil

Phase-Aware Signal Processing for Automatic Speech Recognition

Johannes Fahringer, Tobias Schrank, Johannes Stahl, Pejman Mowlaee, Franz Pernkopf

Multi-Talker Speech Recognition Based on Blind Source Separation with ad hoc Microphone Array Using Smartphones and Cloud Storage

Keiko Ochi, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Miyabe, Shoji Makino

Reverberation-Robust One-Bit TDOA Based Moving Source Localization for Automatic Camera Steering

Harshavardhan Sundar, Gokul Deepak Manavalan, T.V. Sreenivas, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Speech Localisation in a Multitalker Mixture by Humans and Machines

Ning Ma, Guy J. Brown

A Robust Dual-Microphone Speech Source Localization Algorithm for Reverberant Environments

Yanmeng Guo, Xiaofei Wang, Chao Wu, Qiang Fu, Ning Ma

Adaptive Group Sparsity for Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Application to Unsupervised Source Separation

Xu Li, Ziteng Wang, Xiaofei Wang, Qiang Fu, Yonghong Yan

Monaural Source Separation Using a Random Forest Classifier

Cosimo Riday, Saurabh Bhargava, Richard H.R. Hahnloser, Shih-Chii Liu

Combining Mask Estimates for Single Channel Audio Source Separation Using Deep Neural Networks

Emad M. Grais, Gerard Roma, Andrew J.R. Simpson, Mark D. Plumbley

Effects of Cochlear Hearing Loss on the Benefits of Ideal Binary Masking

Vahid Montazeri, Shaikat Hossain, Peter F. Assmann

Blind Speech Separation with GCC-NMF

Sean U.N. Wood, Jean Rouat

Comparing the Influence of Spectro-Temporal Integration in Computational Speech Segregation

Thomas Bentsen, Tobias May, Abigail A. Kressner, Torsten Dau

Phonotactic Language Identification for Singing

Anna M. Kruspe

Long Short-Term Memory for Speaker Generalization in Supervised Speech Separation

Jitong Chen, Deliang Wang

Enhanced Harmonic Content and Vocal Note Based Predominant Melody Extraction from Vocal Polyphonic Music Signals

Gurunath Reddy M., K. Sreenivasa Rao

Improved Music Genre Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks

Weibin Zhang, Wenkang Lei, Xiangmin Xu, Xiaofeng Xing

Variation in Spoken North Sami Language

Kristiina Jokinen, Trung Ngo Trong, Ville Hautamäki

THU-EE System Description for NIST LRE 2015

Liang He, Yao Tian, Yi Liu, Jiaming Xu, Weiwei Liu

The Role of Spectral Resolution in Foreign-Accented Speech Perception

Michelle R. Kapolowicz, Vahid Montazeri, Peter F. Assmann

Sequence Summarizing Neural Networks for Spoken Language Recognition

Jan Pešán, Lukas Burget, Jan Černocký

Gating Recurrent Enhanced Memory Neural Networks on Language Identification

Wang Geng, Yuanyuan Zhao, Wenfu Wang, Xinyuan Cai, Bo Xu

Language Identification Based on Generative Modeling of Posteriorgram Sequences Extracted from Frame-by-Frame DNNs and LSTM-RNNs

Ryo Masumura, Taichi Asami, Hirokazu Masataki, Yushi Aono, Sumitaka Sakauchi

Out of Set Language Modelling in Hierarchical Language Identification

Saad Irtza, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Sarith Fernando, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Haizhou Li

Exploiting Hidden-Layer Responses of Deep Neural Networks for Language Recognition

Ruizhi Li, Sri Harish Mallidi, Lukas Burget, Oldřich Plchot, Najim Dehak

Joint Syntactic and Semantic Analysis with a Multitask Deep Learning Framework for Spoken Language Understanding

Jeremie Tafforeau, Frédéric Béchet, Thierry Artiere, Benoit Favre

A New Pre-Training Method for Training Deep Learning Models with Application to Spoken Language Understanding

Asli Celikyilmaz, Ruhi Sarikaya, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Xiaohu Liu, Nikhil Ramesh

Sequential Convolutional Neural Networks for Slot Filling in Spoken Language Understanding

Ngoc Thang Vu

End-to-End Memory Networks with Knowledge Carryover for Multi-Turn Spoken Language Understanding

Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng

A Step Beyond Local Observations with a Dialog Aware Bidirectional GRU Network for Spoken Language Understanding

Vedran Vukotić, Christian Raymond, Guillaume Gravier

Context-Sensitive and Role-Dependent Spoken Language Understanding Using Bidirectional and Attention LSTMs

Chiori Hori, Takaaki Hori, Shinji Watanabe, John R. Hershey

A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Language Identification Based on Recurrent Neural Networks

G. Gelly, Jean-Luc Gauvain, V.B. Le, A. Messaoudi

Stacked Long-Term TDNN for Spoken Language Recognition

Daniel Garcia-Romero, Alan McCree

Non-Iterative Parameter Estimation for Total Variability Model Using Randomized Singular Value Decomposition

Ruchir Travadi, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Pair-Wise Distance Metric Learning of Neural Network Model for Spoken Language Identification

Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai

The 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation: The Shared View of I2R, Fantastic4 and SingaMS

Kong Aik Lee, Haizhou Li, Li Deng, Ville Hautamäki, Wei Rao

Results of The 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

Hui Zhao, Désiré Bansé, George Doddington, Craig Greenberg, Jaime Hernández-Cordero

Improving Prosodic Boundaries Prediction for Mandarin Speech Synthesis by Using Enhanced Embedding Feature and Model Fusion Approach

Yibin Zheng, Ya Li, Zhengqi Wen, Xingguang Ding, Jianhua Tao

A Hybrid System for Continuous Word-Level Emphasis Modeling Based on HMM State Clustering and Adaptive Training

Quoc Truong Do, Tomoki Toda, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Pause Prediction from Text for Speech Synthesis with User-Definable Pause Insertion Likelihood Threshold

Norbert Braunschweiler, Ranniery Maia

Syllable-Level Representations of Suprasegmental Features for DNN-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi

Direct Expressive Voice Training Based on Semantic Selection

Igor Jauk, Antonio Bonafonte

Generation of Emotion Control Vector Using MDS-Based Space Transformation for Expressive Speech Synthesis

Yan-You Chen, Chung-Hsien Wu, Yu-Fong Huang

Voice-Quality Difference Between the Vowels in Filled Pauses and Ordinary Lexical Items

Kikuo Maekawa, Hiroki Mori

Classification of Voice Modality Using Electroglottogram Waveforms

Michal Borsky, Daryush D. Mehta, Julius P. Gudjohnsen, Jon Gudnason

Perceptual Salience of Voice Source Parameters in Signaling Focal Prominence

Irena Yanushevskaya, Andy Murphy, Christer Gobl, Ailbhe Ni Chasaide

L1-L2 Interference: The Case of Final Devoicing of French Voiced Fricatives in Final Position by German Learners

Sucheta Ghosh, Camille Fauth, Aghilas Sini, Yves Laprie

Automatic Measurement of Voice Onset Time and Prevoicing Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Yossi Adi, Joseph Keshet, Olga Dmitrieva, Matt Goldrick

Multiplicity of the Acoustic Correlates of the Fortis-Lenis Contrast: Plosives in Aberystwyth English

Míša Hejná

Automatic Assessment and Error Detection of Shadowing Speech: Case of English Spoken by Japanese Learners

Shuju Shi, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Shohei Toyama, Junwei Yue, Yutaka Yamauchi

HMM-Based Non-Native Accent Assessment Using Posterior Features

Ramya Rasipuram, Milos Cernak, Mathew Magimai-Doss

Phoneme Set Design Considering Integrated Acoustic and Linguistic Features of Second Language Speech

Xiaoyun Wang, Tsuneo Kato, Seiichi Yamamoto

Detecting Mispronunciations of L2 Learners and Providing Corrective Feedback Using Knowledge-Guided and Data-Driven Decision Trees

Wei Li, Kehuang Li, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Nancy F. Chen, Chin-Hui Lee

Self-Adaptive DNN for Improving Spoken Language Proficiency Assessment

Yao Qian, Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft

DNN Online with iVectors Acoustic Modeling and Doc2Vec Distributed Representations for Improving Automated Speech Scoring

Jidong Tao, Lei Chen, Chong Min Lee

Context Aware Mispronunciation Detection for Mandarin Pronunciation Training

Rong Tong, Nancy F. Chen, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Speech Ventures

Nicolas Scheffer, Korbinian Riedhammer, Alexandre Lebrun, David Suendermann-Oeft

Ketchup, Interdisciplinarity, and the Spread of Innovation in Speech and Language Processing

Dan Jurafsky

Optimizing Speech Recognition Evaluation Using Stratified Sampling

Janne Pylkkönen, Thomas Drugman, Max Bisani

Generation and Pruning of Pronunciation Variants to Improve ASR Accuracy

Zhenhao Ge, Aravind Ganapathiraju, Ananth N. Iyer, Scott A. Randal, Felix I. Wyss

Learning Personalized Pronunciations for Contact Name Recognition

Antoine Bruguier, Fuchun Peng, Françoise Beaufays

Unsupervised Joint Estimation of Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Systems and Acoustic Model Adaptation for Non-Native Speech Recognition

Satoshi Tsujioka, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura

Deriving Phonetic Transcriptions and Discovering Word Segmentations for Speech-to-Speech Translation in Low-Resource Settings

Andrew Wilkinson, Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W. Black

Real-Time Presentation Tracking Using Semantic Keyword Spotting

Reza Asadi, Harriet J. Fell, Timothy Bickmore, Ha Trinh

Automatic Speech Transcription for Low-Resource Languages — The Case of Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (Mexico)

Vikramjit Mitra, Andreas Kathol, Jonathan D. Amith, Rey Castillo García

Teaming Up: Making the Most of Diverse Representations for a Novel Personalized Speech Retrieval Application

Stephanie Pancoast, Murat Akbacak

Context-Aware Restaurant Recommendation for Natural Language Queries: A Formative User Study in the Automotive Domain

Philipp Fischer, Cornelius Styp von Rekowski, Andreas Nürnberger

Manipulating Word Lattices to Incorporate Human Corrections

Yashesh Gaur, Florian Metze, Jeffrey P. Bigham

Selection of Multi-Genre Broadcast Data for the Training of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems

P. Lanchantin, Mark J.F. Gales, Penny Karanasou, X. Liu, Y. Qian

TheanoLM — An Extensible Toolkit for Neural Network Language Modeling

Seppo Enarvi, Mikko Kurimo

Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network with Attention Mechanism for Punctuation Restoration

Ottokar Tilk, Tanel Alumäe

Multi-Language Neural Network Language Models

Anton Ragni, Edgar Dakin, Xie Chen, Mark J.F. Gales, Kate M. Knill

Overcoming Data Sparsity in Acoustic Modeling of Low-Resource Language by Borrowing Data and Model Parameters from High-Resource Languages

Basil Abraham, S. Umesh, Neethu Mariam Joy

Deep Neural Network Frontend for Continuous EMG-Based Speech Recognition

Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber

DNN-Based Feature Enhancement Using Joint Training Framework for Robust Multichannel Speech Recognition

Kang Hyun Lee, Tae Gyoon Kang, Woo Hyun Kang, Nam Soo Kim

Sage: The New BBN Speech Processing Platform

Roger Hsiao, Ralf Meermeier, Tim Ng, Zhongqiang Huang, Maxwell Jordan

On Employing a Highly Mismatched Crowd for Speech Transcription

Purushotam Radadia, Rahul Kumar, Kanika Kalra, Shirish Karande, Sachin Lodha

Progress and Prospects for Spoken Language Technology: Results from Four Sexennial Surveys

Roger K. Moore, Ricard Marxer

Progress and Prospects for Spoken Language Technology: What Ordinary People Think

Roger K. Moore, Hui Li, Shih-Hao Liao

Minimizing Annotation Effort for Adaptation of Speech-Activity Detection Systems

Luciana Ferrer, Martin Graciarena

Manual versus Automated: The Challenging Routine of Infant Vocalisation Segmentation in Home Videos to Study Neuro(mal)development

Florian B. Pokorny, Robert Peharz, Wolfgang Roth, Matthias Zöhrer, Franz Pernkopf

HAPPY Team Entry to NIST OpenSAD Challenge: A Fusion of Short-Term Unsupervised and Segment i-Vector Based Speech Activity Detectors

Tomi Kinnunen, Alexey Sholokhov, Elie Khoury, Dennis Alexander Lehmann Thomsen, Md. Sahidullah

Artificial Neural Network-Based Feature Combination for Spatial Voice Activity Detection

Stefan Meier, Walter Kellermann

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for Acoustic Event Recognition

Naoya Takahashi, Michael Gygli, Beat Pfister, Luc Van Gool

Robust Sound Event Detection in Continuous Audio Environments

Haomin Zhang, Ian McLoughlin, Yan Song

Hierarchical Classification of Speaker and Background Noise and Estimation of SNR Using Sparse Representation

K.V. Vijay Girish, A.G. Ramakrishnan, T.V. Ananthapadmanabha

Towards Smart-Cars That Can Listen: Abnormal Acoustic Event Detection on the Road

Mahesh Kumar Nandwana, Taufiq Hasan

Anchored Speech Detection

Roland Maas, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Brian King, Ruitong Huang, Bjorn Hoffmeister

Combining Energy and Cross-Entropy Analysis for Nuclear Segments Detection

Antonio Origlia, Francesco Cutugno

Deep Neural Network Bottleneck Features for Acoustic Event Recognition

Seongkyu Mun, Suwon Shon, Wooil Kim, Hanseok Ko

Enhancing Multilingual Recognition of Emotion in Speech by Language Identification

Hesam Sagha, Pavel Matějka, Maryna Gavryukova, Filip Povolny, Erik Marchi

End-to-End Language Identification Using Attention-Based Recurrent Neural Networks

Wang Geng, Wenfu Wang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Xinyuan Cai, Bo Xu

Combining Weak Tokenisers for Phonotactic Language Recognition in a Resource-Constrained Setting

Raymond W.M. Ng, Bhusan Chettri, Thomas Hain

Automatic Dialect Detection in Arabic Broadcast Speech

Ahmed Ali, Najim Dehak, Patrick Cardinal, Sameer Khurana, Sree Harsha Yella

An Investigation of Deep Neural Network Architectures for Language Recognition in Indian Languages

Mounika K.V., Sivanand Achanta, Lakshmi H. R., Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, Anil Kumar Vuppala

A Feature Normalisation Technique for PLLR Based Language Identification Systems

Sarith Fernando, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Language Recognition via Sparse Coding

Youngjune L. Gwon, William M. Campbell, Douglas E. Sturim, H.T. Kung

Towards Building an Attentive Artificial Listener: On the Perception of Attentiveness in Feedback Utterances

Catharine Oertel, Joakim Gustafson, Alan W. Black

Predicting User Satisfaction from Turn-Taking in Spoken Conversations

Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi