Interspeech 2016

815 papers

Deep Neural Network Based Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion Using Phone Sequence Information

Xurong Xie, Xunying Liu, Lan Wang

Articulatory Synthesis Based on Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data

Asterios Toutios, Tanner Sorensen, Krishna Somandepalli, Rachel Alexander, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Generative Acoustic-Phonemic-Speaker Model Based on Three-Way Restricted Boltzmann Machine

Toru Nakashika, Yasuhiro Minami

Audio-to-Visual Speech Conversion Using Deep Neural Networks

Sarah Taylor, Akihiro Kato, Iain Matthews, Ben Milner

Expressive Speech Driven Talking Avatar Synthesis with DBLSTM Using Limited Amount of Emotional Bimodal Data

Xu Li, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Xiaoyan Lou

Phoneme Embedding and its Application to Speech Driven Talking Avatar Synthesis

Xu Li, Zhiyong Wu, Helen Meng, Jia Jia, Xiaoyan Lou

An Articulatory-Based Singing Voice Synthesis Using Tongue and Lips Imaging

Aurore Jaumard-Hakoun, Kele Xu, Clémence Leboullenger, Pierre Roussel-Ragot, Bruce Denby

Efficient Thai Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Using CRF-Based Joint Sequence Modeling

Sittipong Saychum, Sarawoot Kongyoung, Anocha Rugchatjaroen, Patcharika Chootrakool, Sawit Kasuriya

Conditional Random Fields for the Tunisian Dialect Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion

Abir Masmoudi, Mariem Ellouze, Fethi Bougares, Yannick Esètve, Lamia Belguith

Unipolar Depression vs. Bipolar Disorder: An Elicitation-Based Approach to Short-Term Detection of Mood Disorder

Kun-Yi Huang, Chung-Hsien Wu, Yu-Ting Kuo, Fong-Lin Jang

A Deep Learning Approach to Modeling Empathy in Addiction Counseling

James Gibson, Dogan Can, Bo Xiao, Zac E. Imel, David C. Atkins

A Convex Model for Linguistic Influence in Group Conversations

Kan Kawabata, Visar Berisha, Anna Scaglione, Amy LaCross

Use of Vowels in Discriminating Speech-Laugh from Laughter and Neutral Speech

Sri Harsha Dumpala, P. Gangamohan, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana

Enhancement of Automatic Oral Presentation Assessment System Using Latent N-Grams Word Representation and Part-of-Speech Information

Wen-Yu Huang, Shan-Wen Hsiao, Hung-Ching Sun, Ming-Chuan Hsieh, Ming-Hsueh Tsai

Predicting Affective Dimensions Based on Self Assessed Depression Severity

Rahul Gupta, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Talking to a System and Talking to a Human: A Study from a Speech-to-Speech, Machine Translation Mediated Map Task

Hayakawa Akira, Saturnino Luz, Nick Campbell

Estimation of Children’s Physical Characteristics from Their Voices

Jill Fain Lehman, Rita Singh

Automatically Classifying Self-Rated Personality Scores from Speech

Guozhen An, Sarah Ita Levitan, Rivka Levitan, Andrew Rosenberg, Michelle Levine

Sparsely Connected and Disjointly Trained Deep Neural Networks for Low Resource Behavioral Annotation: Acoustic Classification in Couples’ Therapy

Haoqi Li, Brian Baucom, Panayiotis Georgiou

Speaker Age Classification and Regression Using i-Vectors

Joanna Grzybowska, Stanisław Kacprzak

Inter-Speech Clicks in an Interspeech Keynote

Jürgen Trouvain, Zofia Malisz

Combining CNN and BLSTM to Extract Textual and Acoustic Features for Recognizing Stances in Mandarin Ideological Debate Competition

Linchuan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Mingxing Xu, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai

Attention Assisted Discovery of Sub-Utterance Structure in Speech Emotion Recognition

Che-Wei Huang, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Vowel Fundamental and Formant Frequency Contributions to English and Mandarin Sentence Intelligibility

Daniel Fogerty, Fei Chen

Supplementary Motor Area Activation in Disfluency Perception: An fMRI Study of Listener Neural Responses to Spontaneously Produced Unfilled and Filled Pauses

Robert Eklund, Martin Ingvar

Comparing Different Methods for Analyzing ERP Signals

Kimberley Mulder, Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves

Neural Responses to Speech-Specific Modulations Derived from a Spectro-Temporal Filter Bank

Marina Frye, Cristiano Micheli, Inga M. Schepers, Gerwin Schalk, Jochem W. Rieger

Do GMM Phoneme Classifiers Perceive Synthetic Sibilants as Humans Do?

Gábor Pintér, Hiroki Watanabe

Modeling Noise Influence to Speech Intelligibility Non-Intrusively by Reduced Speech Dynamic Range

Fei Chen

Comparing the Contributions of Amplitude and Phase to Speech Intelligibility in a Vocoder-Based Speech Synthesis Model

Fei Chen, Benson C.L. Chiao

Pitch-Range Perception: The Dynamic Interaction Between Voice Quality and Fundamental Frequency

Jianjing Kuang, Mark Liberman

Colloquialising Modern Standard Arabic Text for Improved Speech Recognition

Sarah Al-Shareef, Thomas Hain

Web Data Selection Based on Word Embedding for Low-Resource Speech Recognition

Chuandong Xie, Wu Guo, Guoping Hu, Junhua Liu

Combining Semantic Word Classes and Sub-Word Unit Speech Recognition for Robust OOV Detection

Axel Horndasch, Anton Batliner, Caroline Kaufhold, Elmar Nöth

Acoustic Word Embeddings for ASR Error Detection

Sahar Ghannay, Yannick Estève, Nathalie Camelin, Paul Deléglise

Investigation of Semi-Supervised Acoustic Model Training Based on the Committee of Heterogeneous Neural Networks

Naoyuki Kanda, Shoji Harada, Xugang Lu, Hisashi Kawai

Recurrent Out-of-Vocabulary Word Detection Using Distribution of Features

Taichi Asami, Ryo Masumura, Yushi Aono, Koichi Shinoda

Semi-Supervised and Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer Learnings for DNN Hybrid Acoustic Models Under Low-Resource Conditions

Haihua Xu, Hang Su, Chongjia Ni, Xiong Xiao, Hao Huang

Supervised Learning of Acoustic Models in a Zero Resource Setting to Improve DPGMM Clustering

Michael Heck, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Learning Multiscale Features Directly from Waveforms

Zhenyao Zhu, Jesse H. Engel, Awni Hannun

Unsupervised Learning of Acoustic Units Using Autoencoders and Kohonen Nets

Vikramjit Mitra, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco

Joint Learning of Speaker and Phonetic Similarities with Siamese Networks

Neil Zeghidour, Gabriel Synnaeve, Nicolas Usunier, Emmanuel Dupoux

Inferring Phonemic Classes from CNN Activation Maps Using Clustering Techniques

Thomas Pellegrini, Sandrine Mouysset

Acoustic Properties of Formality in Conversational Japanese

Ethan Sherr-Ziarko

The Discourse Marker “so” in Turn-Taking and Turn-Releasing Behavior

Emma Rennie, Rebecca Lunsford, Peter A. Heeman

Respiratory Turn-Taking Cues

Marcin Włodarczak, Mattias Heldner

Disentrainment may be a Positive Thing: A Novel Measure of Unsigned Acoustic-Prosodic Synchrony, and its Relation to Speaker Engagement

Juan M. Pérez, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Agustín Gravano

Who Do You Think Will Speak Next? Perception of Turn-Taking Cues in Slovak and Argentine Spanish

Agustín Gravano, Pablo Brusco, Stefan Benus

The Perception of Overlapping Speech: Effects of Speaker Prosody and Listener Attitudes

Katherine Hilton

Optimal Unit Stitching in a Unit Selection Singing Synthesis System

Marius Cotescu

Expressive Control of Singing Voice Synthesis Using Musical Contexts and a Parametric F0 Model

Luc Ardaillon, Celine Chabot-Canet, Axel Roebel

Evaluation of Singing Synthesis: Methodology and Case Study with Concatenative and Performative Systems

Lionel Feugère, Christophe d’Alessandro, Samuel Delalez, Luc Ardaillon, Axel Roebel

Bertsokantari: a TTS Based Singing Synthesis System

Eder del Blanco, Inma Hernaez, Eva Navas, Xabier Sarasola, D. Erro

Vocal Effort Modification for Singing Synthesis

Olivier Perrotin, Christophe d’Alessandro

Expressive Singing Synthesis Based on Unit Selection for the Singing Synthesis Challenge 2016

Jordi Bonada, Martí Umbert, Merlijn Blaauw

SERAPHIM: A Wavetable Synthesis System with 3D Lip Animation for Real-Time Speech and Singing Applications on Mobile Platforms

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

Diagnosing People with Dementia Using Automatic Conversation Analysis

Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Markus Reuber, Traci Walker, Heidi Christensen

Recognition of Depression in Bipolar Disorder: Leveraging Cohort and Person-Specific Knowledge

Soheil Khorram, John Gideon, Melvin McInnis, Emily Mower Provost

Automatic Analysis of Typical and Atypical Encoding of Spontaneous Emotion in the Voice of Children

Fabien Ringeval, Erik Marchi, Charline Grossard, Jean Xavier, Mohamed CHETOUANI

Relation of Automatically Extracted Formant Trajectories with Intelligibility Loss and Speaking Rate Decline in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Rachelle L. Horwitz-Martin, Thomas F. Quatieri, Adam C. Lammert, James R. Williamson, Yana Yunusova

Neurophysiological Vocal Source Modeling for Biomarkers of Disease

Gregory Ciccarelli, Thomas F. Quatieri, Satrajit S. Ghosh

Towards Automatic Detection of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis from Speech Acoustic and Articulatory Samples

Jun Wang, Prasanna V. Kothalkar, Beiming Cao, Daragh Heitzman

Automatic Detection of Parkinson’s Disease Based on Modulated Vowels

Daria Hemmerling, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Andrzej Skalski, Janusz Gajda, Elmar Nöth

Acoustic-Prosodic and Turn-Taking Features in Interactions with Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Daniel Bone, Somer Bishop, Rahul Gupta, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Speaker Comparison for Forensic and Investigative Applications II

Jean-Francois Bonastre, Joseph P. Campbell, Anders Eriksson, Hiro Nakasone, Reva Schwartz

The Human Speech Cortex

Edward Chang

Mindfulness Special Event

Nikki Mirghafori

Real-Time Tracking of Speakers’ Emotions, States, and Traits on Mobile Platforms

Erik Marchi, Florian Eyben, Gerhard Hagerer, Björn Schuller

SparkNG: Interactive MATLAB Tools for Introduction to Speech Production, Perception and Processing Fundamentals and Application of the Aliasing-Free L-F Model Component

Hideki Kawahara

Measuring Pronunciation Improvement in Users of CAPT Tool TipTopTalk!

Cristian Tejedor-García, David Escudero-Mancebo, Enrique Cámara-Arenas, César González-Ferreras, Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo

Zara: An Empathetic Interactive Virtual Agent

Pascale Fung, Anik Dey, Farhad Bin Siddique, Ruixi Lin, Yang Yang

Perceived Usability and Cognitive Demand of Secondary Tasks in Spoken Versus Visual-Manual Automotive Interaction

Annika Silvervarg, Sofia Lindvall, Jonatan Andersson, Ida Esberg, Christian Jernberg

Implementing Acoustic-Prosodic Entrainment in a Conversational Avatar

Rivka Levitan, Stefan Benus, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Agustín Gravano, Florencia Savoretti

Making Personal Digital Assistants Aware of What They Do Not Know

Omar Zia Khan, Ruhi Sarikaya

Root Cause Analysis of Miscommunication Hotspots in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Spiros Georgiladakis, Georgia Athanasopoulou, Raveesh Meena, José Lopes, Arodami Chorianopoulou

A Sequence-to-Sequence Model for User Simulation in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Layla El Asri, Jing He, Kaheer Suleman

Personalized Natural Language Understanding

Xiaohu Liu, Ruhi Sarikaya, Liang Zhao, Yong Ni, Yi-cheng Pan

Automatic Pronunciation Generation by Utilizing a Semi-Supervised Deep Neural Networks

Naoya Takahashi, Tofigh Naghibi, Beat Pfister

Glottal Squeaks in VC Sequences

Míša Hejná, Pertti Palo, Scott Moisik

Kulning (Swedish Cattle Calls): Acoustic, EGG, Stroboscopic and High-Speed Video Analyses of an Unusual Singing Style

Ahmed Geneid, Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Anita McAllister, Robert Eklund

Vowel Characteristics in the Assessment of L2 English Pronunciation

Calbert Graham, Paula Buttery, Francis Nolan

Between- and Within-Speaker Effects of Bilingualism on F0 Variation

Rob Voigt, Dan Jurafsky, Meghan Sumner

Categorization of Natural Spanish Whistled Vowels by Naïve Spanish Listeners

Julien Meyer, Laure Dentel, Fanny Meunier

Emergence of Vocal Developmental Sequences in a Predictive Coding Model of Speech Acquisition

Shamima Najnin, Bonny Banerjee

Congruency Effect Between Articulation and Grasping in Native English Speakers

Mikko Tiainen, Fatima M. Felisberti, Kaisa Tiippana, Martti Vainio, Juraj Simko

An Improved 3D Geometric Tongue Model

Qiang Fang, Yun Chen, Haibo Wang, Jianguo Wei, Jianrong Wang

Mechanical Production of [b], [m] and [w] Using Controlled Labial and Velopharyngeal Gestures

Takayuki Arai

Phonetic Reduction Can Lead to Lengthening, and Enhancement Can Lead to Shortening

Clara Cohen, Matt Carlson

F0 Development in Acquiring Korean Stop Distinction

Gayeon Son

Velum Control for Oral Sounds

Reed Blaylock, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

A Longitudinal Study of Children’s Intonation in Narrative Speech

Jeffrey Kallay, Melissa A. Redford

Analyzing the Contribution of Top-Down Lexical and Bottom-Up Acoustic Cues in the Detection of Sentence Prominence

Sofoklis Kakouros, Joris Pelemans, Lyan Verwimp, Patrick Wambacq, Okko Rasanen

Prosody Modification Using Allpass Residual of Speech Signals

Karthika Vijayan, K. Sri Rama Murty

Cross-Gender and Cross-Dialect Tone Recognition for Vietnamese

Antje Schweitzer, Ngoc Thang Vu

The Acoustics of Lexical Stress in Italian as a Function of Stress Level and Speaking Style

Anders Eriksson, Pier Marco Bertinetto, Mattias Heldner, Rosalba Nodari, Giovanna Lenoci

Acoustic Differences Between English /t/ Glottalization and Phrasal Creak

Marc Garellek, Scott Seyfarth

Analysis of Glottal Stop in Assam Sora Language

Sishir Kalita, Luke Horo, Priyankoo Sarmah, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna, S. Dandapat

Speaker Identity and Voice Quality: Modeling Human Responses and Automatic Speaker Recognition

Soo Jin Park, Caroline Sigouin, Jody Kreiman, Patricia Keating, Jinxi Guo

Automatic Glottal Inverse Filtering with Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

Manu Airaksinen, Lauri Juvela, Tom Bäckström, Paavo Alku

Automatic Paragraph Segmentation with Lexical and Prosodic Features

Catherine Lai, Mireia Farrús, Johanna D. Moore