Interspeech 2016

815 papers

My-Own-Voice: A Web Service That Allows You to Create a Text-to-Speech Voice From Your Own Voice

Fabrice Malfrere, Olivier Deroo, Emmanuelle Franques, Jonathan Hourez, Nicolas Mazars

SERAPHIM Live! — Singing Synthesis for the Performer, the Composer, and the 3D Game Developer

Paul Yaozhu Chan, Minghui Dong, Grace Xue Hui Ho, Haizhou Li

Remeeting — Deep Insights to Conversations

Allen Guo, Arlo Faria, Korbinian Riedhammer

English Language Speech Assistant

Xavier Anguera, Vu Van

Speech Rhythm in Parkinson’s Disease: A Study on Italian

Massimo Pettorino, Maria Grazia Busà, Elisa Pellegrino

Does She Speak RTT? Towards an Earlier Identification of Rett Syndrome Through Intelligent Pre-Linguistic Vocalisation Analysis

Florian B. Pokorny, Peter B. Marschik, Christa Einspieler, Björn Schuller

Speech Recognition in Alzheimer’s Disease and in its Assessment

Luke Zhou, Kathleen C. Fraser, Frank Rudzicz

Cross-Cultural Depression Recognition from Vocal Biomarkers

Sharifa Alghowinem, Roland Goecke, Julien Epps, Michael Wagner, Jeffrey Cohn

Speech-Based Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease in Conversational German

Jochen Weiner, Christian Herff, Tanja Schultz

Parkinson’s Disease Progression Assessment from Speech Using GMM-UBM

T. Arias-Vergara, J.C. Vasquez-Correa, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, J.F. Vargas-Bonilla, Elmar Nöth

Speech Features for Depression Detection

Saurabh Sahu, Carol Espy-Wilson

Phone Synchronous Decoding with CTC Lattice

Zhehuai Chen, Wei Deng, Tao Xu, Kai Yu

Rescoring by Combination of Posteriorgram Score and Subword-Matching Score for Use in Query-by-Example

Masato Obara, Kazunori Kojima, Kazuyo Tanaka, Shi-wook Lee, Yoshiaki Itoh

Comparison of Multiple System Combination Techniques for Keyword Spotting

William Hartmann, Le Zhang, Kerri Barnes, Roger Hsiao, Stavros Tsakalidis

A WFST Framework for Single-Pass Multi-Stream Decoding

Sirui Xu, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Efficient Segmental Cascades for Speech Recognition

Hao Tang, Weiran Wang, Kevin Gimpel, Karen Livescu

Log-Linear System Combination Using Structured Support Vector Machines

J. Yang, Anton Ragni, Mark J.F. Gales, Kate M. Knill

Memory-Efficient Modeling and Search Techniques for Hardware ASR Decoders

Michael Price, Anantha Chandrakasan, James Glass

An Adaptive Multi-Band System for Low Power Voice Command Recognition

Qing He, Gregory W. Wornell, Wei Ma

Why do ASR Systems Despite Neural Nets Still Depend on Robust Features

Angel Mario Castro Martinez, Marc René Schädler

Model Compression Applied to Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting

George Tucker, Minhua Wu, Ming Sun, Sankaran Panchapagesan, Gengshen Fu

Phonetic and Phonological Posterior Search Space Hashing Exploiting Class-Specific Sparsity Structures

Afsaneh Asaei, Gil Luyet, Milos Cernak, Hervé Bourlard

Maximum a posteriori Based Decoding for CTC Acoustic Models

Naoyuki Kanda, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai

Improving Deep Neural Networks Based Speaker Verification Using Unlabeled Data

Yao Tian, Meng Cai, Liang He, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Jia Liu

Universal Background Sparse Coding and Multilayer Bootstrap Network for Speaker Clustering

Xiao-Lei Zhang

Twin Model G-PLDA for Duration Mismatch Compensation in Text-Independent Speaker Verification

Jianbo Ma, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Kong Aik Lee

Transfer Learning for Speaker Verification on Short Utterances

Qingyang Hong, Lin Li, Lihong Wan, Jun Zhang, Feng Tong

Text-Available Speaker Recognition System for Forensic Applications

Chengzhu Yu, Chunlei Zhang, Finnian Kelly, Abhijeet Sangwan, John H.L. Hansen

Speaker-Dependent Dictionary-Based Speech Enhancement for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification

Nicolai Bæk Thomsen, Dennis Alexander Lehmann Thomsen, Zheng-Hua Tan, Børge Lindberg, Søren Holdt Jensen

Short Utterance Variance Modelling and Utterance Partitioning for PLDA Speaker Verification

Ahilan Kanagasundaram, David Dean, Sridha Sridharan, Clinton Fookes, Ivan Himawan

Probabilistic Approach Using Joint Long and Short Session i-Vectors Modeling to Deal with Short Utterances for Speaker Recognition

Waad Ben Kheder, Driss Matrouf, Moez Ajili, Jean-Francois Bonastre

On the Issue of Calibration in DNN-Based Speaker Recognition Systems

Mitchell McLaren, Diego Castan, Luciana Ferrer, Aaron Lawson

Novel Subband Autoencoder Features for Detection of Spoofed Speech

Meet H. Soni, Tanvina B. Patel, Hemant A. Patil

Mahalanobis Metric Scoring Learned from Weighted Pairwise Constraints in I-Vector Speaker Recognition System

Zhenchun Lei, Yanhong Wan, Jian Luo, Yingen Yang

Inter-Task System Fusion for Speaker Recognition

M. Ferras, Srikanth Madikeri, S. Dey, Petr Motlicek, Hervé Bourlard

Data Selection for Within-Class Covariance Estimation

Elliot Singer, Tyler Campbell, Douglas Reynolds

Analysis of Face Mask Effect on Speaker Recognition

Rahim Saeidi, Ilkka Huhtakallio, Paavo Alku

A Robust Non-Parametric and Filtering Based Approach for Glottal Closure Instant Detection

Pradeep Rengaswamy, Gurunath Reddy M., K. Sreenivasa Rao, Pallab Dasgupta

TUSK: A Framework for Overviewing the Performance of F0 Estimators

Masanori Morise, Hideki Kawahara

RNN-BLSTM Based Multi-Pitch Estimation

Jianshu Zhang, Jian Tang, Li-Rong Dai

Towards Minimally Invasive Velar State Detection in Normal and Silent Speech

Peter Birkholz, Petko Bakardjiev, Steffen Kürbis, Rico Petrick

Phase-Encoded Speech Spectrograms

Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Modeling and Transforming Speech Using Variational Autoencoders

Merlijn Blaauw, Jordi Bonada

Improved Depiction of Tissue Boundaries in Vocal Tract Real-Time MRI Using Automatic Off-Resonance Correction

Yongwan Lim, Sajan Goud Lingala, Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Krishna S. Nayak

Time-Varying Quasi-Closed-Phase Weighted Linear Prediction Analysis of Speech for Accurate Formant Detection and Tracking

Dhananjaya Gowda, Paavo Alku

Assessing Speech Quality in Speech-Aware Hearing Aids Based on Phoneme Posteriorgrams

Constantin Spille, Hendrik Kayser, Hynek Hermansky, Bernd T. Meyer

Introducing the Turbo-Twin-HMM for Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement

Steffen Zeiler, Hendrik Meutzner, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz, Dorothea Kolossa

On the Appropriateness of Complex-Valued Neural Networks for Speech Enhancement

Lukas Drude, Bhiksha Raj, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Single-Channel Speech Enhancement Using Double Spectrum

Martin Blass, Pejman Mowlaee, W. Bastiaan Kleijn

Multi-Channel Linear Prediction Based on Binaural Coherence for Speech Dereverberation

Hong Liu, Xiuling Wang, Miao Sun, Cheng Pang

Joint Enhancement and Coding of Speech by Incorporating Wiener Filtering in a CELP Codec

Johannes Fischer, Tom Bäckström

Statistical Modeling of Speaker’s Voice with Temporal Co-Location for Active Voice Authentication

Zhong Meng, Biing-Hwang Juang

Robust Speaker Recognition with Combined Use of Acoustic and Throat Microphone Speech

Md. Sahidullah, Rosa Gonzalez Hautamäki, Dennis Alexander Lehmann Thomsen, Tomi Kinnunen, Zheng-Hua Tan

An Investigation of Spoofing Speech Detection Under Additive Noise and Reverberant Conditions

Xiaohai Tian, Zhizheng Wu, Xiong Xiao, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Investigation of Sub-Band Discriminative Information Between Spoofed and Genuine Speech

Kaavya Sriskandaraja, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Phu Ngoc Le, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Cross-Database Evaluation of Audio-Based Spoofing Detection Systems

Pavel Korshunov, Sébastien Marcel

Integrated Spoofing Countermeasures and Automatic Speaker Verification: An Evaluation on ASVspoof 2015

Md. Sahidullah, Héctor Delgado, Massimiliano Todisco, Hong Yu, Tomi Kinnunen

Effects of Urgent Speech and Preceding Sounds on Speech Intelligibility in Noisy and Reverberant Environments

Nao Hodoshima

Factors Affecting the Intelligibility of Sine-Wave Speech

Fei Chen, Daniel Fogerty

Understanding Periodically Interrupted Mandarin Speech

Jing Liu, Rosanna H.N. Tong, Fei Chen

Temporal Envelopes in Sine-Wave Speech Recognition

Li Xu

Glimpsing Predictions for Natural and Vocoded Sentence Intelligibility During Modulation Masking: Effect of the Glimpse Cutoff Criterion

Bobby Gibbs, Daniel Fogerty

Release from Energetic Masking Caused by Repeated Patterns of Glimpsing Windows

Maury Lander-Portnoy

The NU-NAIST Voice Conversion System for the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016

Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Satoshi Nakamura, Tomoki Toda

ML Parameter Generation with a Reformulated MGE Training Criterion — Participation in the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016

D. Erro, A. Alonso, L. Serrano, D. Tavarez, I. Odriozola

Applying Spectral Normalisation and Efficient Envelope Estimation and Statistical Transformation for the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016

Fernando Villavicencio, Junichi Yamagishi, Jordi Bonada, Felipe Espic

Locally Linear Embedding for Exemplar-Based Spectral Conversion

YI-CHIAO WU, Hsin-Te Hwang, Chin-Cheng Hsu, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang

A Voice Conversion Mapping Function Based on a Stacked Joint-Autoencoder

Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Alexander Kain

The USTC System for Voice Conversion Challenge 2016: Neural Network Based Approaches for Spectrum, Aperiodicity and F0Conversion

Ling-Hui Chen, Li-Juan Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yuan Jiang, Li-Rong Dai

Analysis of the Voice Conversion Challenge 2016 Evaluation Results

Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi

The Voice Conversion Challenge 2016

Tomoki Toda, Ling-Hui Chen, Daisuke Saito, Fernando Villavicencio, Mirjam Wester

Experiences with Shared Resources for Research and Education in Speech and Language Processing

Rebecca Bates, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Florian Metze, Martha Larson, Gina-Anne Levow

The Berkeley Phonetics Machine

Ronald L. Sprouse, Keith Johnson

Sharing Speech Synthesis Software for Research and Education Within Low-Tech and Low-Resource Communities

Andrew R. Plummer, Mary E. Beckman

webASR 2 — Improved Cloud Based Speech Technology

Thomas Hain, Jeremy Christian, Oscar Saz, Salil Deena, Madina Hasan

CloudCAST — Remote Speech Technology for Speech Professionals

Phil Green, Ricard Marxer, Stuart Cunningham, Heidi Christensen, Frank Rudzicz

Virtual Machines and Containers as a Platform for Experimentation

Florian Metze, Eric Riebling, Anne S. Warlaumont, Elika Bergelson

Improving Children’s Speech Recognition Through Out-of-Domain Data Augmentation

Joachim Fainberg, Peter Bell, Mike Lincoln, Steve Renals

Subspace LHUC for Fast Adaptation of Deep Neural Network Acoustic Models

Lahiru Samarakoon, Khe Chai Sim

Domain Adaptation of CNN Based Acoustic Models Under Limited Resource Settings

Masayuki Suzuki, Ryuki Tachibana, Samuel Thomas, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, George Saon

Adaptation of Neural Networks Constrained by Prior Statistics of Node Co-Activations

Tasha Nagamine, Zhuo Chen, Nima Mesgarani

Transfer Learning with Bottleneck Feature Networks for Whispered Speech Recognition

Boon Pang Lim, Faith Wong, Yuyao Li, Jia Wei Bay

Context Adaptive Neural Network for Rapid Adaptation of Deep CNN Based Acoustic Models

Marc Delcroix, Keisuke Kinoshita, Atsunori Ogawa, Takuya Yoshioka, Dung T. Tran

Flexible, Rapid Authoring of Goal-Orientated, Multi-Turn Dialogues Using the Task Completion Platform

Alex Marin, Paul Crook, Omar Zia Khan, Vasiliy Radostev, Khushboo Aggarwal

A Real-Time Framework for Visual Feedback of Articulatory Data Using Statistical Shape Models

Kristy James, Alexander Hewer, Ingmar Steiner, Stefanie Wuhrer

Identifying Perceptually Similar Voices with a Speaker Recognition System Using Auto-Phonetic Features

Finnian Kelly, Anil Alexander, Oscar Forth, Samuel Kent, Jonas Lindh

The Magic Stone: A Video Game to Improve Communication Skills of People with Intellectual Disabilities

Mario Corrales-Astorgano, David Escudero-Mancebo, César González-Ferreras, Yurena Gutiérrez-González, Valle Flores-Lucas

Voting Detector: A Combination of Anomaly Detectors to Reveal Annotation Errors in TTS Corpora

Jindřich Matoušek, Daniel Tihelka

An Expectation Maximization Approach to Joint Modeling of Multidimensional Ratings Derived from Multiple Annotators

Anil Ramakrishna, Rahul Gupta, Ruth B. Grossman, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

The SRI Speech-Based Collaborative Learning Corpus

Colleen Richey, Cynthia D’Angelo, Nonye Alozie, Harry Bratt, Elizabeth Shriberg

SingaKids-Mandarin: Speech Corpus of Singaporean Children Speaking Mandarin Chinese

Nancy F. Chen, Rong Tong, Darren Wee, Peixuan Lee, Bin Ma

The SRI CLEO Speaker-State Corpus

Andreas Kathol, Elizabeth Shriberg, Massimilano de Zambotti

Open Source Speech and Language Resources for Frisian

Emre Yılmaz, Henk van den Heuvel, Jelske Dijkstra, Hans Van de Velde, Frederik Kampstra

The SIWIS Database: A Multilingual Speech Database with Acted Emphasis

Jean-Philippe Goldman, Pierre-Edouard Honnet, Rob Clark, Philip N. Garner, Maria Ivanova

A DNN-HMM Approach to Story Segmentation

Jia Yu, Xiong Xiao, Lei Xie, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Using Zero-Frequency Resonator to Extract Multilingual Intonation Structure

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

Unsupervised Stress Information Labeling Using Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model for Statistical Speech Synthesis

Decha Moungsri, Tomoki Koriyama, Takao Kobayashi

On the Suitability of Vocalic Sandwiches in a Corpus-Based TTS Engine

David Guennec, Damien Lolive

Generating Gestural Scores from Acoustics Through a Sparse Anchor-Based Representation of Speech

Christopher Liberatore, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Articulatory-to-Acoustic Conversion with Cascaded Prediction of Spectral and Excitation Features Using Neural Networks

Zheng-Chen Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Li-Rong Dai