Interspeech 2016

815 papers

Single-Channel Multi-Speaker Separation Using Deep Clustering

Yusuf Isik, Jonathan Le Roux, Zhuo Chen, Shinji Watanabe, John R. Hershey

A Sparse Spherical Harmonic-Based Model in Subbands for Head-Related Transfer Functions

Xiaoke Qi, Jianhua Tao

Likelihood Ratio Calculation in Acoustic-Phonetic Forensic Voice Comparison: Comparison of Three Statistical Modelling Approaches

Ewald Enzinger

A Praat-Based Algorithm to Extract the Amplitude Envelope and Temporal Fine Structure Using the Hilbert Transform

Lei He, Volker Dellwo

Today’s Most Frequently Used F0Estimation Methods, and Their Accuracy in Estimating Male and Female Pitch in Clean Speech

Sofia Strömbergsson

Evaluation of Phonatory Behavior of German and French Speakers in Native and Non-Native Speech

Manfred Pützer, Frank Zimmerer, Wolfgang Wokurek, Jeanin Jügler

/r/ as Language Marker in Bilingual Speech Production and Perception

Constantijn Kaland, Vincenzo Galatà, Lorenzo Spreafico, Alessandro Vietti

Respiratory Belts and Whistles: A Preliminary Study of Breathing Acoustics for Turn-Taking

Marcin Włodarczak, Mattias Heldner

Laughter Valence Prediction in Motivational Interviewing Based on Lexical and Acoustic Cues

Rahul Gupta, Nishant Nath, Taruna Agrawal, Panayiotis Georgiou, David C. Atkins

Speech Emotion Recognition Using Affective Saliency

Arodami Chorianopoulou, Polychronis Koutsakis, Alexandros Potamianos

At the Border of Acoustics and Linguistics: Bag-of-Audio-Words for the Recognition of Emotions in Speech

Maximilian Schmitt, Fabien Ringeval, Björn Schuller

Retrieving Categorical Emotions Using a Probabilistic Framework to Define Preference Learning Samples

Reza Lotfian, Carlos Busso

An Investigation of Emotional Speech in Depression Classification

Brian Stasak, Julien Epps, Nicholas Cummins, Roland Goecke

DBN-ivector Framework for Acoustic Emotion Recognition

Rui Xia, Yang Liu

State-of-the-Art MRI Protocol for Comprehensive Assessment of Vocal Tract Structure and Function

Sajan Goud Lingala, Asterios Toutios, Johannes Töger, Yongwan Lim, Yinghua Zhu

Tracking Contours of Orofacial Articulators from Real-Time MRI of Speech

Mathieu Labrunie, Pierre Badin, Dirk Voit, Arun A. Joseph, Laurent Lamalle

Characterizing Vocal Tract Dynamics Across Speakers Using Real-Time MRI

Tanner Sorensen, Asterios Toutios, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Investigation of Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Speech Production Using Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Adam C. Lammert, Christine H. Shadle, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Thomas F. Quatieri

Vocal Tract Length Normalization for Speaker Independent Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion

Ganesh Sivaraman, Vikramjit Mitra, Hosung Nam, Mark Tiede, Carol Espy-Wilson

Prediction of the Articulatory Movements of Unseen Phonemes of a Speaker Using the Speech Structure of Another Speaker

Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Exploring Session Variability and Template Aging in Speaker Verification for Fixed Phrase Short Utterances

Rohan Kumar Das, Sarfaraz Jelil, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna

i-Vector/HMM Based Text-Dependent Speaker Verification System for RedDots Challenge

Hossein Zeinali, Hossein Sameti, Lukas Burget, Jan Černocký, Nooshin Maghsoodi

Parallel Speaker and Content Modelling for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification

Jianbo Ma, Saad Irtza, Kaavya Sriskandaraja, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Utterance Verification for Text-Dependent Speaker Recognition: A Comparative Assessment Using the RedDots Corpus

Tomi Kinnunen, Md. Sahidullah, Ivan Kukanov, Héctor Delgado, Massimiliano Todisco

Text Dependent Speaker Verification Using Un-Supervised HMM-UBM and Temporal GMM-UBM

Achintya Kr. Sarkar, Zheng-Hua Tan

Tandem Features for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification on the RedDots Corpus

Md Jahangir Alam, Patrick Kenny, Vishwa Gupta

Joint Speaker and Lexical Modeling for Short-Term Characterization of Speaker

Guangsen Wang, Kong Aik Lee, Trung Hieu Nguyen, Hanwu Sun, Bin Ma

Towards End-to-End Speech Recognition with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Ying Zhang, Mohammad Pezeshki, Philemon Brakel, Saizheng Zhang, César Laurent

Phonetic Context Embeddings for DNN-HMM Phone Recognition

Leonardo Badino

Stimulated Deep Neural Network for Speech Recognition

Chunyang Wu, Penny Karanasou, Mark J.F. Gales, Khe Chai Sim

Exploiting Depth and Highway Connections in Convolutional Recurrent Deep Neural Networks for Speech Recognition

Wei-Ning Hsu, Yu Zhang, Ann Lee, James Glass

Acoustic Modeling Using Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Convolutional Units

Markus Nussbaum-thom, Jia Cui, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Vaibhava Goel

Segmental Recurrent Neural Networks for End-to-End Speech Recognition

Liang Lu, Lingpeng Kong, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith, Steve Renals

ARET — Automatic Reading of Educational Texts for Visually Impaired Students

Martin Gruber, Jindřich Matoušek, Zdeněk Hanzlíček, Zdeněk Krňoul, Zbyněk Zajíc

Lig-Aikuma: A Mobile App to Collect Parallel Speech for Under-Resourced Language Studies

Elodie Gauthier, David Blachon, Laurent Besacier, Guy-Noël Kouarata, Martine Adda-Decker

A Multimodal Dialogue System for Air Traffic Control Trainees Based on Discrete-Event Simulation

Luboš Šmídl, Adam Chýlek, Jan Švec

Open Language Interface for Voice Exploitation (OLIVE)

Aaron Lawson, Mitchell McLaren, Harry Bratt, Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco

Improving i-Vector and PLDA Based Speaker Clustering with Long-Term Features

Abraham Woubie, Jordi Luque, Javier Hernando

Deep Neural Networks for i-Vector Language Identification of Short Utterances in Cars

Omid Ghahabi, Antonio Bonafonte, Javier Hernando, Asunción Moreno

A Portable Automatic PA-TA-KA Syllable Detection System to Derive Biomarkers for Neurological Disorders

Fei Tao, Louis Daudet, Christian Poellabauer, Sandra L. Schneider, Carlos Busso

Data Selection and Adaptation for Naturalness in HMM-Based Speech Synthesis

Erica Cooper, Alison Chang, Yocheved Levitan, Julia Hirschberg

Speech Enhancement for a Noise-Robust Text-to-Speech Synthesis System Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi

Text-to-Speech for Individuals with Vision Loss: A User Study

Monika Podsiadło, Shweta Chahar

A Hierarchical Predictor of Synthetic Speech Naturalness Using Neural Networks

Takenori Yoshimura, Gustav Eje Henter, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi

Objective Evaluation Using Association Between Dimensions Within Spectral Features for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Yusuke Ijima, Taichi Asami, Hideyuki Mizuno

Objective Evaluation Methods for Chinese Text-To-Speech Systems

Teng Zhang, Zhipeng Chen, Ji Wu, Sam Lai, Wenhui Lei

Acoustic Analysis of Syllables Across Indian Languages

Anusha Prakash, Jeena J. Prakash, Hema A. Murthy

Personalized, Cross-Lingual TTS Using Phonetic Posteriorgrams

Lifa Sun, Hao Wang, Shiyin Kang, Kun Li, Helen Meng

Cross-Lingual Speaker Adaptation for Statistical Speech Synthesis Using Limited Data

Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo, Cenk Demiroglu

Comparing Articulatory and Acoustic Strategies for Reducing Non-Native Accents

Sandesh Aryal, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Voice Conversion Based on Trajectory Model Training of Neural Networks Considering Global Variance

Naoki Hosaka, Kei Hashimoto, Keiichiro Oura, Yoshihiko Nankaku, Keiichi Tokuda

Voice Conversion Based on Matrix Variate Gaussian Mixture Model Using Multiple Frame Features

Yi Yang, Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Speech Bandwidth Extension Using Bottleneck Features and Deep Recurrent Neural Networks

Yu Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Li-Rong Dai

Parallel Dictionary Learning for Voice Conversion Using Discriminative Graph-Embedded Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki

A KL Divergence and DNN-Based Approach to Voice Conversion without Parallel Training Sentences

Feng-Long Xie, Frank K. Soong, Haifeng Li

Perception of Tone in Whispered Mandarin Sentences: The Case for Singapore Mandarin

Yuling Gu, Boon Pang Lim, Nancy F. Chen

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Using Bimodal-Trained Bottleneck Features for a Person with Severe Hearing Loss

Yuki Takashima, Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki, Nobuyuki Mitani

Effect of Noise on Lexical Tone Perception in Cantonese-Speaking Amusics

Jing Shao, Caicai Zhang, Gang Peng, Yike Yang, William S.-Y. Wang

Automatic Discrimination of Soft Voice Onset Using Acoustic Features of Breathy Voicing

Keiko Ochi, Koichi Mori, Naomi Sakai, Nobutaka Ono

Modulation Spectral Features for Predicting Vocal Emotion Recognition by Simulated Cochlear Implants

Zhi Zhu, Ryota Miyauchi, Yukiko Araki, Masashi Unoki

Auditory Processing Impairments Under Background Noise in Children with Non-Syndromic Cleft Lip and/or Palate

Yang Feng, Zhang Lu

The Production of Intervocalic Glides in Non Dysarthric Parkinsonian Speech

V. Delvaux, V. Roland, K. Huet, M. Piccaluga, M.C. Haelewyck

Differential Effects of Velopharyngeal Dysfunction on Speech Intelligibility During Early and Late Stages of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Panying Rong, Yana Yunusova, Jordan R. Green

Identifying Hearing Loss from Learned Speech Kernels

Shamima Najnin, Bonny Banerjee, Lisa Lucks Mendel, Masoumeh Heidari Kapourchali, Jayanta Kumar Dutta

Perceived Naturalness of Electrolaryngeal Speech Produced Using sEMG-Controlled vs. Manual Pitch Modulation

K.F. Nagle, J.T. Heaton

Impaired Categorical Perception of Mandarin Tones and its Relationship to Language Ability in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Fei Chen, Nan Yan, Xiaojie Pan, Feng Yang, Zhuanzhuan Ji

Recognition of Dysarthric Speech Using Voice Parameters for Speaker Adaptation and Multi-Taper Spectral Estimation

Chitralekha Bhat, Bhavik Vachhani, Sunil Kopparapu

Evaluation of a Phone-Based Anomaly Detection Approach for Dysarthric Speech

Imed Laaridh, Corinne Fredouille, Christine Meunier

Combining Non-Pathological Data of Different Language Varieties to Improve DNN-HMM Performance on Pathological Speech

Emre Yılmaz, Mario Ganzeboom, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik

Auditory-Visual Perception of VCVs Produced by People with Down Syndrome: Preliminary Results

Alexandre Hennequin, Amélie Rochet-Capellan, Marion Dohen

L2 Acquisition and Production of the English Rhotic Pharyngeal Gesture

Sarah Harper, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Audiovisual Training Effects for Japanese Children Learning English /r/-/l/

Yasuaki Shinohara

Naturalness Judgement of L2 English Through Dubbing Practice

Dean Luo, Ruxin Luo, Lixin Wang

Putting German [ʃ] and [ç] in Two Different Boxes: Native German vs L2 German of French Learners

Jane Wottawa, Martine Adda-Decker, Frédéric Isel

Effects of L1 Phonotactic Constraints on L2 Word Segmentation Strategies

Tamami Katayama

Joint Effect of Dialect and Mandarin on English Vowel Production: A Case Study in Changsha EFL Learners

Xinyi Wen, Yuan Jia

Development of Mandarin Onset-Rime Detection in Relation to Age and Pinyin Instruction

Fei Chen, Nan Yan, Xunan Huang, Hao Zhang, Lan Wang

Automatic Classification of Lexical Stress in English and Arabic Languages Using Deep Learning

Mostafa Shahin, Julien Epps, Beena Ahmed

Sound Pattern Matching for Automatic Prosodic Event Detection

Milos Cernak, Afsaneh Asaei, Pierre-Edouard Honnet, Philip N. Garner, Hervé Bourlard

Sensitivity of Quantitative RT-MRI Metrics of Vocal Tract Dynamics to Image Reconstruction Settings

Johannes Töger, Yongwan Lim, Sajan Goud Lingala, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Krishna S. Nayak

Robust Vowel Landmark Detection Using Epoch-Based Features

Sri Harsha Dumpala, Bhanu Teja Nellore, Raghu Ram Nevali, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, B. Yegnanarayana

Novel Nonlinear Prediction Based Features for Spoofed Speech Detection

Himanshu N. Bhavsar, Tanvina B. Patel, Hemant A. Patil

Automatic Classification of Phonation Modes in Singing Voice: Towards Singing Style Characterisation and Application to Ethnomusicological Recordings

Jean-Luc Rouas, Leonidas Ioannidis

Automated Pause Insertion for Improved Intelligibility Under Reverberation

Petko N. Petkov, Norbert Braunschweiler, Yannis Stylianou

Predicting Binaural Speech Intelligibility from Signals Estimated by a Blind Source Separation Algorithm

Qingju Liu, Yan Tang, Philip J.B. Jackson, Wenwu Wang

Relative Contributions of Amplitude and Phase to the Intelligibility Advantage of Ideal Binary Masked Sentences

Lei Wang, Shufeng Zhu, Diliang Chen, Yong Feng, Fei Chen

Speech Synthesis in Noisy Environment by Enhancing Strength of Excitation and Formant Prominence

Bidisha Sharma, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Effectiveness of Near-End Speech Enhancement Under Equal-Loudness and Equal-Level Constraints

Tudor-catalin Zorila, Sheila Flanagan, Brian C.J. Moore, Yannis Stylianou

Assessing Level-Dependent Segmental Contribution to the Intelligibility of Speech Processed by Single-Channel Noise-Suppression Algorithms

Tian Guan, Guangxing Chu, Fei Chen, Feng Yang

Spectral Enhancement of Cleft Lip and Palate Speech

Vikram C.M., Nagaraj Adiga, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Towards an Automated Screening Tool for Developmental Speech and Language Impairments

Jen J. Gong, Maryann Gong, Dina Levy-Lambert, Jordan R. Green, Tiffany P. Hogan

Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment from Spontaneous Speech by Correlation-Based Phonetic Feature Selection

Gábor Gosztolya, László Tóth, Tamás Grósz, Veronika Vincze, Ildikó Hoffmann

Long-Term Stability of Tracheoesophageal Voices

Klaske E. van Sluis, Michiel W.M. van den Brekel, Frans J.M. Hilgers, Rob J.J.H. van Son

Predicting Severity of Voice Disorder from DNN-HMM Acoustic Posteriors

Tan Lee, Yuanyuan Liu, Yu Ting Yeung, Thomas K.T. Law, Kathy Y.S. Lee

Toward Development and Evaluation of Pain Level-Rating Scale for Emergency Triage based on Vocal Characteristics and Facial Expressions

Fu-Sheng Tsai, Ya-Ling Hsu, Wei-Chen Chen, Yi-Ming Weng, Chip-Jin Ng

The Rhythmic Constraint on Prosodic Boundaries in Mandarin Chinese Based on Corpora of Silent Reading and Speech Perception

Wei Lai, Jiahong Yuan, Ya Li, Xiaoying Xu, Mark Liberman

The Acoustic Manifestation of Prominence in Stressless Languages

Angeliki Athanasopoulou, Irene Vogel

Automatic Analysis of Phonetic Speech Style Dimensions

Neville Ryant, Mark Liberman

Organizing Syllables into Sandhi Domains — Evidence from F0 and Duration Patterns in Shanghai Chinese

Bijun Ling, Jie Liang

The Perceptual Effect of L1 Prosody Transplantation on L2 Speech: The Case of French Accented German

Jeanin Jügler, Frank Zimmerer, Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius