Interspeech 2016

815 papers

Exploiting Phone Log-Likelihood Ratio Features for the Detection of the Native Language of Non-Native English Speakers

Alberto Abad, Eugénio Ribeiro, Fabio Kepler, Ramón Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso

Multimodal Fusion of Multirate Acoustic, Prosodic, and Lexical Speaker Characteristics for Native Language Identification

Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar, Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula, Panayiotis Georgiou

Within-Speaker Features for Native Language Recognition in the Interspeech 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge

Mark Huckvale

Native Language Detection Using the I-Vector Framework

Mohammed Senoussaoui, Patrick Cardinal, Najim Dehak, Alessandro L. Koerich

Convolutional Neural Networks with Data Augmentation for Classifying Speakers’ Native Language

Gil Keren, Jun Deng, Jouni Pohjalainen, Björn Schuller

Accent Identification by Combining Deep Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks Trained on Long and Short Term Features

Yishan Jiao, Ming Tu, Visar Berisha, Julie Liss

Native Language Identification Using Spectral and Source-Based Features

Avni Rajpal, Tanvina B. Patel, Hardik B. Sailor, Maulik C. Madhavi, Hemant A. Patil

The Native Language Sub-Challenge: The Data

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

Two-Stage Data Augmentation for Low-Resourced Speech Recognition

William Hartmann, Tim Ng, Roger Hsiao, Stavros Tsakalidis, Richard Schwartz

The Use of Locally Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (LNCC) to Improve Speaker Recognition Accuracy in Highly Reverberant Rooms

Víctor Poblete, Juan Pablo Escudero, Josué Fredes, José Novoa, Richard M. Stern

Adversarial Multi-Task Learning of Deep Neural Networks for Robust Speech Recognition

Yusuke Shinohara

Robust Speech Recognition Using Generalized Distillation Framework

Konstantin Markov, Tomoko Matsui

Incorporating a Generative Front-End Layer to Deep Neural Network for Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition

Souvik Kundu, Khe Chai Sim, Mark J.F. Gales

Data Selection by Sequence Summarizing Neural Network in Mismatch Condition Training

Kateřina Žmolíková, Martin Karafiat, Karel Veselý, Marc Delcroix, Shinji Watanabe

An Engine for Online Video Search in Large Archives of the Holocaust Testimonies

Petr Stanislav, Jan Švec, Pavel Ircing

Silent-Speech Command Word Recognition Using Electro-Optical Stomatography

Simon Stone, Peter Birkholz

A Low Cost Desktop Robot and Tele-Presence Device for Interactive Speech Research

Michael C. Brady

Combining Feature and Model-Based Adaptation of RNNLMs for Multi-Genre Broadcast Speech Recognition

Salil Deena, Madina Hasan, Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain

Contextual Prediction Models for Speech Recognition

Yoni Halpern, Keith Hall, Vlad Schogol, Michael Riley, Brian Roark

Unsupervised Adaptation of Recurrent Neural Network Language Models

Siva Reddy Gangireddy, Pawel Swietojanski, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Entropy Based Pruning for Non-Negative Matrix Based Language Models with Contextual Features

Barlas Oguz, Issac Alphonso, Shuangyu Chang

Learning N-Gram Language Models from Uncertain Data

Vitaly Kuznetsov, Hank Liao, Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley, Brian Roark

Active and Semi-Supervised Learning in ASR: Benefits on the Acoustic and Language Models

Thomas Drugman, Janne Pylkkönen, Reinhard Kneser

Model-Based Parametric Prosody Synthesis with Deep Neural Network

Hao Liu, Heng Lu, Xu Shao, Yi Xu

An Investigation of Recurrent Neural Network Architectures Using Word Embeddings for Phrase Break Prediction

Anandaswarup Vadapalli, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty

On Smoothing and Enhancing Dynamics of Pitch Contours Represented by Discrete Orthogonal Polynomials for Prosody Generation

Chen-Yu Chiang

Probabilistic Amplitude Demodulation Features in Speech Synthesis for Improving Prosody

Alexandros Lazaridis, Milos Cernak, Philip N. Garner

Idlak Tangle: An Open Source Kaldi Based Parametric Speech Synthesiser Based on DNN

Blaise Potard, Matthew P. Aylett, David A. Baude, Petr Motlicek

Model Integration for HMM- and DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Using Product-of-Experts Framework

Kentaro Tachibana, Tomoki Toda, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

Using Text and Acoustic Features in Predicting Glottal Excitation Waveforms for Parametric Speech Synthesis with Recurrent Neural Networks

Lauri Juvela, Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Manu Airaksinen, Junichi Yamagishi

An Investigation of DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Using Speaker Codes

Nobukatsu Hojo, Yusuke Ijima, Hideyuki Mizuno

Fast, Compact, and High Quality LSTM-RNN Based Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesizers for Mobile Devices

Heiga Zen, Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Niels Egberts, Fergus Henderson, Przemysław Szczepaniak

Speaker Representations for Speaker Adaptation in Multiple Speakers’ BLSTM-RNN-Based Speech Synthesis

Yi Zhao, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Waveform Generation Based on Signal Reshaping for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Felipe Espic, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King

Voice Quality Control Using Perceptual Expressions for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Based on Cluster Adaptive Training

Yamato Ohtani, Koichiro Mori, Masahiro Morita

Improved Time-Frequency Trajectory Excitation Vocoder for DNN-Based Speech Synthesis

Eunwoo Song, Frank K. Soong, Hong-Goo Kang

The Parameterized Phoneme Identity Feature as a Continuous Real-Valued Vector for Neural Network Based Speech Synthesis

Zhengqi Wen, Ya Li, Jianhua Tao

First Step Towards End-to-End Parametric TTS Synthesis: Generating Spectral Parameters with Neural Attention

Wenfu Wang, Shuang Xu, Bo Xu

Recent Advances in Google Real-Time HMM-Driven Unit Selection Synthesizer

Xavi Gonzalvo, Siamak Tazari, Chun-An Chan, Markus Becker, Alexander Gutkin

Robust Multichannel Gender Classification from Speech in Movie Audio

Naveen Kumar, Md. Nasir, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Joint Sound Source Separation and Speaker Recognition

Jeroen Zegers, Hugo Van hamme

Factor Analysis Based Speaker Verification Using ASR

Hang Su, Steven Wegmann

Speaker Verification Using Short Utterances with DNN-Based Estimation of Subglottal Acoustic Features

Jinxi Guo, Gary Yeung, Deepak Muralidharan, Harish Arsikere, Amber Afshan

Investigating the Impact of Dialect Prestige on Lexical Decision

Mairym Lloréns Monteserín, Jason Zevin

Unit-Selection Attack Detection Based on Unfiltered Frequency-Domain Features

Ulrich Scherhag, Andreas Nautsch, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch

DNN-Based Amplitude and Phase Feature Enhancement for Noise Robust Speaker Identification

Zeyan Oo, Yuta Kawakami, Longbiao Wang, Seiichi Nakagawa, Xiong Xiao

Two-Pass IB Based Speaker Diarization System Using Meeting-Specific ANN Based Features

Nauman Dawalatabad, Srikanth Madikeri, C Chandra Sekhar, Hema A. Murthy

Priors for Speaker Counting and Diarization with AHC

Gregory Sell, Alan McCree, Daniel Garcia-Romero

On the Importance of Efficient Transition Modeling for Speaker Diarization

Itshak Lapidot, Jean-Francois Bonastre

DNN-Based Speaker Clustering for Speaker Diarisation

Rosanna Milner, Thomas Hain

A Speaker Diarization System for Studying Peer-Led Team Learning Groups

Harishchandra Dubey, Lakshmish Kaushik, Abhijeet Sangwan, John H.L. Hansen

Iterative PLDA Adaptation for Speaker Diarization

Gael Le Lan, Delphine Charlet, Anthony Larcher, Sylvain Meignier

Speaker Linking and Applications Using Non-Parametric Hashing Methods

Douglas E. Sturim, William M. Campbell

Frequency Estimation from Waveforms Using Multi-Layered Neural Networks

Prateek Verma, Ronald W. Schafer

A Fast and Accurate Fundamental Frequency Estimator Using Recursive Moving Average Filters

Ryunosuke Daido, Yuji Hisaminato

Robust Estimation of Fundamental Frequency Using Single Frequency Filtering Approach

Vishala Pannala, G. Aneeja, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, B. Yegnanarayana

Tone Classification in Mandarin Chinese Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Charles Chen, Răzvan Bunescu, Li Xu, Chang Liu

Phoneme, Phone Boundary, and Tone in Automatic Scoring of Mandarin Proficiency

Jiahong Yuan, Mark Liberman

Retrieval of Textual Song Lyrics from Sung Inputs

Anna M. Kruspe

Dynamic Stream Weighting for Turbo-Decoding-Based Audiovisual ASR

Sebastian Gergen, Steffen Zeiler, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz, Robert Nickel, Dorothea Kolossa

Improving Boundary Estimation in Audiovisual Speech Activity Detection Using Bayesian Information Criterion

Fei Tao, John H.L. Hansen, Carlos Busso

Text-Dependent Audiovisual Synchrony Detection for Spoofing Detection in Mobile Person Recognition

Amit Aides, Hagai Aronowitz

Speaker-Targeted Audio-Visual Models for Speech Recognition in Cocktail-Party Environments

Guan-Lin Chao, William Chan, Ian Lane

Automatic Genre and Show Identification of Broadcast Media

Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Raymond W.M. Ng, Thomas Hain

Error Correction in Lightly Supervised Alignment of Broadcast Subtitles

Julia Olcoz, Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain

Articulation Rate in Adverse Listening Conditions in Younger and Older Adults

Outi Tuomainen, Valerie Hazan

Exemplar Dynamics in Phonetic Convergence of Speech Rate

Antje Schweitzer, Michael Walsh

Does Auditory-Motor Learning of Speech Transfer from the CV Syllable to the CVCV Word?

Tiphaine Caudrelier, Pascal Perrier, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Amélie Rochet-Capellan

Sensorimotor Response to Visual Imagery of Tongue Displacement

William F. Katz, Divya Prabhakaran

Prosodic and Linguistic Analysis of Semantic Fluency Data: A Window into Speech Production and Cognition

Maria K. Wolters, Najoung Kim, Jung-Ho Kim, Sarah E. MacPherson, Jong C. Park

Assessing Idiosyncrasies in a Bayesian Model of Speech Communication

Marie-Lou Barnaud, Julien Diard, Pierre Bessière, Jean-Luc Schwartz

Detection of User Escalation in Human-Computer Interactions

Ian Beaver, Cynthia Freeman

On the Influence of Gender on Interruptions in Multiparty Dialogue

Paul Van Eecke, Raquel Fernández

Automatic Recognition of Social Roles Using Long Term Role Transitions in Small Group Interactions

Gaurav Fotedar, Aditya Gaonkar P., Saikat Chatterjee, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Hybrid Dialogue State Tracking for Real World Human-to-Human Dialogues

Kai Sun, Su Zhu, Lu Chen, Siqiu Yao, Xueyang Wu

Highlighting Psychological Features for Predicting Child Interjections During Story Telling

Gaël Lejeune, François Rioult, Bruno Cremilleux

A Stochastic Model for Computer-Aided Human-Human Dialogue

Merwan Barlier, Romain Laroche, Olivier Pietquin

Closing Remarks

Naomi Harte, Peter Jančovič, Karl-L. Schuchmann

Discussion

Naomi Harte, Peter Jančovič, Karl-L. Schuchmann

Poster Overview Presentations

Naomi Harte, Peter Jančovič, Karl-L. Schuchmann

Introduction

Naomi Harte, Peter Jančovič, Karl-L. Schuchmann

Fusing Acoustic Feature Representations for Computational Paralinguistics Tasks

Heysem Kaya, Alexey A. Karpov

Sincerity and Deception in Speech: Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Transfer- and Multi-Task Learning Perspective

Yue Zhang, Felix Weninger, Zhao Ren, Björn Schuller

Prediction of Deception and Sincerity from Speech Using Automatic Phone Recognition-Based Features

Robert Herms

Minimization of Regression and Ranking Losses with Shallow Neural Networks on Automatic Sincerity Evaluation

Hung-Shin Lee, Yu Tsao, Chi-Chun Lee, Hsin-Min Wang, Wei-Cheng Lin

Estimating the Sincerity of Apologies in Speech by DNN Rank Learning and Prosodic Analysis

Gábor Gosztolya, Tamás Grósz, György Szaszák, László Tóth

Automatic Estimation of Perceived Sincerity from Spoken Language

Brandon M. Booth, Rahul Gupta, Pavlos Papadopoulos, Ruchir Travadi, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

The Sincerity Sub-Challenge: The Data

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

Prosodic Cues and Answer Type Detection for the Deception Sub-Challenge

Claude Montacié, Marie-José Caraty

Is Deception Emotional? An Emotion-Driven Predictive Approach

Shahin Amiriparian, Jouni Pohjalainen, Erik Marchi, Sergey Pugachevskiy, Björn Schuller

Combining Acoustic-Prosodic, Lexical, and Phonotactic Features for Automatic Deception Detection

Sarah Ita Levitan, Guozhen An, Min Ma, Rivka Levitan, Andrew Rosenberg

The Deception Sub-Challenge: The Data

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

The INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Deception, Sincerity & Native Language

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

Far-Field ASR Without Parallel Data

Vijayaditya Peddinti, Vimal Manohar, Yiming Wang, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Multichannel Spatial Clustering for Robust Far-Field Automatic Speech Recognition in Mismatched Conditions

Michael I. Mandel, Jon Barker

Channel Selection for Distant Speech Recognition Exploiting Cepstral Distance

Cristina Guerrero, Georgina Tryfou, Maurizio Omologo

Improved MVDR Beamforming Using Single-Channel Mask Prediction Networks

Hakan Erdogan, John R. Hershey, Shinji Watanabe, Michael I. Mandel, Jonathan Le Roux

Neural Network Adaptive Beamforming for Robust Multichannel Speech Recognition

Bo Li, Tara N. Sainath, Ron J. Weiss, Kevin W. Wilson, Michiel Bacchiani

Reducing the Computational Complexity of Multimicrophone Acoustic Models with Integrated Feature Extraction

Tara N. Sainath, Arun Narayanan, Ron J. Weiss, Ehsan Variani, Kevin W. Wilson

Talking with Kids Really Matters: Early Language Experience Shapes Later Life Chances

Anne Fernald