Interspeech 2016

815 papers

Quantitative Analysis of Backchannels Uttered by an Interviewer During Neuropsychological Tests

Gérard Bailly, Frédéric Elisei, Alexandra Juphard, Olivier Moreaud

Using Past Speaker Behavior to Better Predict Turn Transitions

Tomer Meshorer, Peter A. Heeman

Measuring Turn-Taking Offsets in Human-Human Dialogues

Rebecca Lunsford, Peter A. Heeman, Emma Rennie

Prediction and Generation of Backchannel Form for Attentive Listening Systems

Tatsuya Kawahara, Takashi Yamaguchi, Koji Inoue, Katsuya Takanashi, Nigel Ward

Speech Intelligibility Prediction Based on the Envelope Power Spectrum Model with the Dynamic Compressive Gammachirp Auditory Filterbank

Katsuhiko Yamamoto, Toshio Irino, Toshie Matsui, Shoko Araki, Keisuke Kinoshita

Generalizing Steady State Suppression for Enhanced Intelligibility Under Reverberation

Petko N. Petkov, Yannis Stylianou

A Phase-Based Time-Frequency Masking for Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement in Domestic Environments

Alessio Brutti, Antigoni Tsiami, Athanasios Katsamanis, Petros Maragos

Causal Speech Enhancement Combining Data-Driven Learning and Suppression Rule Estimation

Seyedmahdad Mirsamadi, Ivan Tashev

Noise Aware and Combined Noise Models for Speech Denoising in Unknown Noise Conditions

Pavlos Papadopoulos, Colin Vaz, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Local Sparsity Based Online Dictionary Learning for Environment-Adaptive Speech Enhancement with Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Kwang Myung Jeon, Hong Kook Kim

Enhance the Word Vector with Prosodic Information for the Recurrent Neural Network Based TTS System

Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi

Redefining the Linguistic Context Feature Set for HMM and DNN TTS Through Position and Parsing

Rasmus Dall, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

Adaptive Latency for Part-of-Speech Tagging in Incremental Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Maël Pouget, Olha Nahorna, Thomas Hueber, Gérard Bailly

Predicting Pronunciations with Syllabification and Stress with Recurrent Neural Networks

Daan van Esch, Mason Chua, Kanishka Rao

Deep Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Utilizing Complex Many-to-Many Alignments

Amr El-Desoky Mousa, Björn Schuller

Improving TTS with Corpus-Specific Pronunciation Adaptation

Marie Tahon, Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive

The Role of Pitch in Punjabi Word Identification

Jasmeen Kanwal, Amanda Ritchart

Relationships Between Functional Load and Auditory Confusability Under Different Speech Environments

Shinae Kang, Clara Cohen

The Effect of Background Noise on the Activation of Phonological and Semantic Information During Spoken-Word Recognition

Florian Hintz, Odette Scharenborg

Processing and Adaptation to Ambiguous Sounds during the Course of Perceptual Learning

Polina Drozdova, Roeland van Hout, Odette Scharenborg

Do Listeners Learn Better from Natural Speech?

Michael McAuliffe, Molly Babel, Charlotte Vaughn

Combining Data-Oriented and Process-Oriented Approaches to Modeling Reaction Time Data

Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves, M. Ernestus

Speaker Recognition Using Real vs Synthetic Parallel Data for DNN Channel Compensation

Fred Richardson, Michael Brandstein, Jennifer Melot, Douglas Reynolds

Synthesis of Device-Independent Noise Corpora for Realistic ASR Evaluation

Hannes Gamper, Mark R.P. Thomas, Lyle Corbin, Ivan Tashev

Realistic Multi-Microphone Data Simulation for Distant Speech Recognition

Mirco Ravanelli, Piergiorgio Svaizer, Maurizio Omologo

A French Corpus for Distant-Microphone Speech Processing in Real Homes

Nancy Bertin, Ewen Camberlein, Emmanuel Vincent, Romain Lebarbenchon, Stéphane Peillon

Corpora for the Evaluation of Robust Speaker Recognition Systems

Douglas E. Sturim, Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo, Joseph P. Campbell

The Use of Read versus Conversational Lombard Speech in Spectral Tilt Modeling for Intelligibility Enhancement in Near-End Noise Conditions

Emma Jokinen, Ulpu Remes, Paavo Alku

Robustness in Speech, Speaker, and Language Recognition: “You’ve Got to Know Your Limitations”

John H.L. Hansen, Hynek Bořil

Sequence Student-Teacher Training of Deep Neural Networks

Jeremy H.M. Wong, Mark J.F. Gales

Virtual Adversarial Training Applied to Neural Higher-Order Factors for Phone Classification

Martin Ratajczak, Sebastian Tschiatschek, Franz Pernkopf

Purely Sequence-Trained Neural Networks for ASR Based on Lattice-Free MMI

Daniel Povey, Vijayaditya Peddinti, Daniel Galvez, Pegah Ghahremani, Vimal Manohar

On the Efficient Representation and Execution of Deep Acoustic Models

Raziel Alvarez, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Anton Bakhtin

Jointly Learning to Locate and Classify Words Using Convolutional Networks

Dimitri Palaz, Gabriel Synnaeve, Ronan Collobert

How Neural Network Depth Compensates for HMM Conditional Independence Assumptions in DNN-HMM Acoustic Models

Suman Ravuri, Steven Wegmann

Towards Machine Comprehension of Spoken Content: Initial TOEFL Listening Comprehension Test by Machine

Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Sheng-syun Shen, Hung-yi Lee, Lin-shan Lee

Improving Generalisation to New Speakers in Spoken Dialogue State Tracking

Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Phil Green

Objective Language Feature Analysis in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders During Autism Assessment

Manoj Kumar, Rahul Gupta, Daniel Bone, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Somer Bishop

Neural Attention Models for Sequence Classification: Analysis and Application to Key Term Extraction and Dialogue Act Detection

Sheng-syun Shen, Hung-yi Lee

Target-Based State and Tracking Algorithm for Spoken Dialogue System

Miao Li, Zhiyang He, Ji Wu

Dialogue Session Segmentation by Embedding-Enhanced TextTiling

Yiping Song, Lili Mou, Rui Yan, Li Yi, Zinan Zhu

Improving the Probabilistic Framework for Representing Dialogue Systems with User Response Model

Miao Li, Zhipeng Chen, Ji Wu

L2 English Rhythm in Read Speech by Chinese Students

Hongwei Ding, Xinping Xu

Pronunciation Error Detection for New Language Learners

Sean Robertson, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn

Pronunciation Assessment of Japanese Learners of French with GOP Scores and Phonetic Information

Vincent Laborde, Thomas Pellegrini, Lionel Fontan, Julie Mauclair, Halima Sahraoui

Improving Automatic Recognition of Aphasic Speech with AphasiaBank

Duc Le, Emily Mower Provost

Detection of Total Syllables and Canonical Syllables in Infant Vocalizations

Anne S. Warlaumont, Heather L. Ramsdell-Hudock

Dysarthric Speech Recognition Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence-Based Hidden Markov Model

Myungjong Kim, Jun Wang, Hoirin Kim

Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation of Non-Native Mandarin Tone by Using Multi-Level Confidence Measures

Ju Lin, Yanlu Xie, Jinsong Zhang

Automated Screening of Speech Development Issues in Children by Identifying Phonological Error Patterns

Lauren Ward, Alessandro Stefani, Daniel Smith, Andreas Duenser, Jill Freyne

Deep Neural Networks for Voice Quality Assessment Based on the GRBAS Scale

Simin Xie, Nan Yan, Ping Yu, Manwa L. Ng, Lan Wang

Using Clinician Annotations to Improve Automatic Speech Recognition of Stuttered Speech

Peter A. Heeman, Rebecca Lunsford, Andy McMillin, J. Scott Yaruss

Mispronunciation Detection Leveraging Maximum Performance Criterion Training of Acoustic Models and Decision Functions

Yao-Chi Hsu, Ming-Han Yang, Hsiao-Tsung Hung, Berlin Chen

YIN-Bird: Improved Pitch Tracking for Bird Vocalisations

Colm O’Reilly, Nicola M. Marples, David J. Kelly, Naomi Harte

A Real-Time Parametric General-Purpose Mammalian Vocal Synthesiser

Roger K. Moore

Robust Detection of Multiple Bioacoustic Events with Repetitive Structures

Frank Kurth

Localizing Bird Songs Using an Open Source Robot Audition System with a Microphone Array

Reiji Suzuki, Shiho Matsubayashi, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi G. Okuno

Feature Learning and Automatic Segmentation for Dolphin Communication Analysis

Daniel Kohlsdorf, Denise Herzing, Thad Starner

Cost Effective Acoustic Monitoring of Bird Species

Ciira wa Maina

Recognition of Multiple Bird Species Based on Penalised Maximum Likelihood and HMM-Based Modelling of Individual Vocalisation Elements

Peter Jančovič, Münevver Köküer

Individual Identity in Songbirds: Signal Representations and Metric Learning for Locating the Information in Complex Corvid Calls

Dan Stowell, Veronica Morfi, Lisa F. Gill

Sinusoidal Modelling for Ecoacoustics

Patrice Guyot, Alice Eldridge, Ying Chen Eyre-Walker, Alison Johnston, Thomas Pellegrini

Call Alternation Between Specific Pairs of Male Frogs Revealed by a Sound-Imaging Method in Their Natural Habitat

Ikkyu Aihara, Takeshi Mizumoto, Hiromitsu Awano, Hiroshi G. Okuno

A Framework for Automated Marmoset Vocalization Detection and Classification

Alan Wisler, Laura J. Brattain, Rogier Landman, Thomas F. Quatieri

Noise-Robust Hidden Markov Models for Limited Training Data for Within-Species Bird Phrase Classification

Kantapon Kaewtip, Charles Taylor, Abeer Alwan

Bird Song Synthesis Based on Hidden Markov Models

Jordi Bonada, Robert Lachlan, Merlijn Blaauw

Semi-Coupled Dictionary Based Automatic Bandwidth Extension Approach for Enhancing Children’s ASR

Ganji Sreeram, Rohit Sinha

A Spectral Modulation Sensitivity Weighted Pre-Emphasis Filter for Active Noise Control System

Kah-Meng Cheong, Yuh-Yuan Wang, Tai-Shih Chi

Improved a priori SAP Estimator in Complex Noisy Environment for Dual Channel Microphone System

Youna Ji, Young-cheol Park

Probabilistic Spatial Filter Estimation for Signal Enhancement in Multi-Channel Automatic Speech Recognition

Hendrik Kayser, Niko Moritz, Jörn Anemüller

An Interaural Magnification Algorithm for Enhancement of Naturally-Occurring Level Differences

Shadi Pirhosseinloo, Kostas Kokkinakis

EVS Channel Aware Mode Robustness to Frame Erasures

Anssi Rämö, Antti Kurittu, Henri Toukomaa

An Objective Evaluation Methodology for Blind Bandwidth Extension

Stéphane Villette, Sen Li, Pravin Ramadas, Daniel J. Sinder

Entropy Coding of Spectral Envelopes for Speech and Audio Coding Using Distribution Quantization

Srikanth Korse, Tobias Jähnel, Tom Bäckström

Better Evaluation of ASR in Speech Translation Context Using Word Embeddings

Ngoc-Tien Le, Christophe Servan, Benjamin Lecouteux, Laurent Besacier

Transferring Emphasis in Speech Translation Using Hard-Attentional Neural Network Models

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

Sentence Boundary Detection Based on Parallel Lexical and Acoustic Models

Xiaoyin Che, Sheng Luo, Haojin Yang, Christoph Meinel

Disfluency Detection Using a Bidirectional LSTM

Vicky Zayats, Mari Ostendorf, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Learning a Translation Model from Word Lattices

Oliver Adams, Graham Neubig, Trevor Cohn, Steven Bird

Dynamic Transcription for Low-Latency Speech Translation

Jan Niehues, Thai Son Nguyen, Eunah Cho, Thanh-Le Ha, Kevin Kilgour

Modulation Enhancement of Temporal Envelopes for Increasing Speech Intelligibility in Noise

Maria Koutsogiannaki, Yannis Stylianou

Intelligibility of Disordered Speech: Global and Detailed Scores

Mario Ganzeboom, Marjoke Bakker, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Intelligibility Enhancement at the Receiving End of the Speech Transmission System — Effects of Far-End Noise Reduction

Emma Jokinen, Paavo Alku

Analyzing the Relation Between Overall Quality and the Quality of Individual Phases in a Telephone Conversation

Friedemann Köster, Sebastian Möller

Glimpse-Based Metrics for Predicting Speech Intelligibility in Additive Noise Conditions

Yan Tang, Martin Cooke

Blind Recovery of Perceptual Models in Distributed Speech and Audio Coding

Tom Bäckström, Florin Ghido, Johannes Fischer

Singing Voice Synthesis Based on Deep Neural Networks

Masanari Nishimura, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

GlottDNN — A Full-Band Glottal Vocoder for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Manu Airaksinen, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Lauri Juvela, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King

Multi-Language Multi-Speaker Acoustic Modeling for LSTM-RNN Based Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Bo Li, Heiga Zen

A Template-Based Approach for Speech Synthesis Intonation Generation Using LSTMs

Srikanth Ronanki, Gustav Eje Henter, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King

Visual Speech Synthesis Using Dynamic Visemes, Contextual Features and DNNs

Ausdang Thangthai, Ben Milner, Sarah Taylor

Deep Bidirectional LSTM Modeling of Timbre and Prosody for Emotional Voice Conversion

Huaiping Ming, Dongyan Huang, Lei Xie, Jie Wu, Minghui Dong

Interaction Between Lexical Tone and Intonation: An EMA Study

Hao Yi, Sam Tilsen

Perceptual Lateralization of Coda Rhotic Production in Puerto Rican Spanish

Mairym Lloréns Monteserín, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Louis Goldstein

Effects of Subglottal-Coupling and Interdental-Space on Formant Trajectories During Front-to-Back Vowel Transitions in Chinese

Shuanglin Fan, Kiyoshi Honda, Jianwu Dang, Hui Feng

Marginal Contrast Among Romanian Vowels: Evidence from ASR and Functional Load

Margaret E.L. Renwick, Ioana Vasilescu, Camille Dutrey, Lori Lamel, Bianca Vieru

Illustrating the Production of the International Phonetic Alphabet Sounds Using Fast Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Asterios Toutios, Sajan Goud Lingala, Colin Vaz, Jangwon Kim, John Esling

A Preliminary Ultrasound Study of Nasal and Lateral Coronals in Arrernte

Marija Tabain, RIchard Beare

The INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: A Summary of Results

Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Julia Hirschberg, Judee K. Burgoon

Determining Native Language and Deception Using Phonetic Features and Classifier Combination

Gábor Gosztolya, Tamás Grósz, Róbert Busa-Fekete, László Tóth