Interspeech 2017

844 papers

Visible Vowels: A Tool for the Visualization of Vowel Variation

Wilbert Heeringa, Hans Van de Velde

The ModelTalker Project: A Web-Based Voice Banking Pipeline for ALS/MND Patients

H. Timothy Bunnell, Jason Lilley, Kathleen McGrath

Remote Articulation Test System Based on WebRTC

Ikuyo Masuda-Katsuse

Vocal-Tract Model with Static Articulators: Lips, Teeth, Tongue, and More

Takayuki Arai

Soundtracing for Realtime Speech Adjustment to Environmental Conditions in 3D Simulations

Bartosz Ziółko, Tomasz Pȩdzimąż, Szymon Pałka

Complex-Valued Restricted Boltzmann Machine for Direct Learning of Frequency Spectra

Toru Nakashika, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi

An Expanded Taxonomy of Semiotic Classes for Text Normalization

Daan van Esch, Richard Sproat

Siri On-Device Deep Learning-Guided Unit Selection Text-to-Speech System

Tim Capes, Paul Coles, Alistair Conkie, Ladan Golipour, Abie Hadjitarkhani

Tacotron: Towards End-to-End Speech Synthesis

Yuxuan Wang, R.J. Skerry-Ryan, Daisy Stanton, Yonghui Wu, Ron J. Weiss

A Neural Parametric Singing Synthesizer

Merlijn Blaauw, Jordi Bonada

Real-Time Reactive Speech Synthesis: Incorporating Interruptions

Mirjam Wester, David A. Braude, Blaise Potard, Matthew P. Aylett, Francesca Shaw

Predicting Head Pose from Speech with a Conditional Variational Autoencoder

David Greenwood, Stephen Laycock, Iain Matthews

Evaluation of a Silent Speech Interface Based on Magnetic Sensing and Deep Learning for a Phonetically Rich Vocabulary

Jose A. Gonzalez, Lam A. Cheah, Phil D. Green, James M. Gilbert, Stephen R. Ell

Phase Modeling Using Integrated Linear Prediction Residual for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Nagaraj Adiga, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Bias and Statistical Significance in Evaluating Speech Synthesis with Mean Opinion Scores

Andrew Rosenberg, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Utterance Selection for Optimizing Intelligibility of TTS Voices Trained on ASR Data

Erica Cooper, Xinyue Wang, Alison Chang, Yocheved Levitan, Julia Hirschberg

Unit Selection with Hierarchical Cascaded Long Short Term Memory Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Nets

Vincent Pollet, Enrico Zovato, Sufian Irhimeh, Pier Batzu

Sampling-Based Speech Parameter Generation Using Moment-Matching Networks

Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Koriyama, Hiroshi Saruwatari

Principles for Learning Controllable TTS from Annotated and Latent Variation

Gustav Eje Henter, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi

Towards Intelligent Crowdsourcing for Audio Data Annotation: Integrating Active Learning in the Real World

Simone Hantke, Zixing Zhang, Björn Schuller

Effects of Training Data Variety in Generating Glottal Pulses from Acoustic Features with DNNs

Manu Airaksinen, Paavo Alku

Don’t Count on ASR to Transcribe for You: Breaking Bias with Two Crowds

Michael Levit, Yan Huang, Shuangyu Chang, Yifan Gong

Automatic Labelling of Prosodic Prominence, Phrasing and Disfluencies in French Speech by Simulating the Perception of Naïve and Expert Listeners

George Christodoulides, Mathieu Avanzi, Anne Catherine Simon

Glottal Source Estimation from Coded Telephone Speech Using a Deep Neural Network

N.P. Narendra, Manu Airaksinen, Paavo Alku

Perception and Production of Word-Final /ʁ/ in French

Cedric Gendrot

Cross-Linguistic Distinctions Between Professional and Non-Professional Speaking Styles

Plínio A. Barbosa, Sandra Madureira, Philippe Boula de Mareüil

Rdas a Control Parameter to Explore Affective Correlates of the Tense-Lax Continuum

Andy Murphy, Irena Yanushevskaya, Ailbhe Ni Chasaide, Christer Gobl

Developing an Embosi (Bantu C25) Speech Variant Dictionary to Model Vowel Elision and Morpheme Deletion

Jamison Cooper-Leavitt, Lori Lamel, Annie Rialland, Martine Adda-Decker, Gilles Adda

Electrophysiological Correlates of Familiar Voice Recognition

Julien Plante-Hébert, Victor J. Boucher, Boutheina Jemel

Stability of Prosodic Characteristics Across Age and Gender Groups

Jan Volín, Tereza Tykalová, Tomáš Bořil

Effect of Language, Speaking Style and Speaker on Long-Term F0 Estimation

Pablo Arantes, Anders Eriksson, Suska Gutzeit

Mapping Across Feature Spaces in Forensic Voice Comparison: The Contribution of Auditory-Based Voice Quality to (Semi-)Automatic System Testing

Vincent Hughes, Philip Harrison, Paul Foulkes, Peter French, Colleen Kavanagh

Polyglot and Speech Corpus Tools: A System for Representing, Integrating, and Querying Speech Corpora

Michael McAuliffe, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Michaela Socolof, Morgan Sonderegger

The Effects of Real and Placebo Alcohol on Deaffrication

Urban Zihlmann

Adaptive Multichannel Dereverberation for Automatic Speech Recognition

Joe Caroselli, Izhak Shafran, Arun Narayanan, Richard Rose

Robust Speech Recognition Based on Binaural Auditory Processing

Anjali Menon, Chanwoo Kim, Richard M. Stern

End-to-End Speech Recognition with Auditory Attention for Multi-Microphone Distance Speech Recognition

Suyoun Kim, Ian Lane

To Improve the Robustness of LSTM-RNN Acoustic Models Using Higher-Order Feedback from Multiple Histories

Hengguan Huang, Brian Mak

Attention-Based LSTM with Multi-Task Learning for Distant Speech Recognition

Yu Zhang, Pengyuan Zhang, Yonghong Yan

Uncertainty Decoding with Adaptive Sampling for Noise Robust DNN-Based Acoustic Modeling

Dung T. Tran, Marc Delcroix, Atsunori Ogawa, Tomohiro Nakatani

Joint Training of Multi-Channel-Condition Dereverberation and Acoustic Modeling of Microphone Array Speech for Robust Distant Speech Recognition

Fengpei Ge, Kehuang Li, Bo Wu, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Yonghong Yan

Global SNR Estimation of Speech Signals for Unknown Noise Conditions Using Noise Adapted Non-Linear Regression

Pavlos Papadopoulos, Ruchir Travadi, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Factored Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Noise Robust Speech Recognition

Masakiyo Fujimoto

Improved Automatic Speech Recognition Using Subband Temporal Envelope Features and Time-Delay Neural Network Denoising Autoencoder

Cong-Thanh Do, Yannis Stylianou

Speaker Change Detection in Broadcast TV Using Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks

Ruiqing Yin, Hervé Bredin, Claude Barras

Gate Activation Signal Analysis for Gated Recurrent Neural Networks and its Correlation with Phoneme Boundaries

Yu-Hsuan Wang, Cheng-Tao Chung, Hung-yi Lee

Deep Learning Techniques in Tandem with Signal Processing Cues for Phonetic Segmentation for Text to Speech Synthesis in Indian Languages

Arun Baby, Jeena J. Prakash, Rupak Vignesh, Hema A. Murthy

Endpoint Detection Using Grid Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Streaming Speech Recognition

Shuo-Yiin Chang, Bo Li, Tara N. Sainath, Gabor Simko, Carolina Parada

Data Augmentation, Missing Feature Mask and Kernel Classification for Through-the-Wall Acoustic Surveillance

Huy Dat Tran, Wen Zheng Terence Ng, Yi Ren Leng

Occupancy Detection in Commercial and Residential Environments Using Audio Signal

Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, Attila Reiss, Mirko Ruhs, Robert Duerichen, Zhe Feng

Shadowing Synthesized Speech — Segmental Analysis of Phonetic Convergence

Iona Gessinger, Eran Raveh, Sébastien Le Maguer, Bernd Möbius, Ingmar Steiner

How Long is Too Long? How Pause Features After Requests Affect the Perceived Willingness of Affirmative Answers

Lea S. Kohtz, Oliver Niebuhr

The Social Life of Setswana Ejectives

Daniel Duran, Jagoda Bruni, Grzegorz Dogil, Justus Roux

Schwa Realization in French: Using Automatic Speech Processing to Study Phonological and Socio-Linguistic Factors in Large Corpora

Yaru Wu, Martine Adda-Decker, Cécile Fougeron, Lori Lamel

Voice Disguise vs. Impersonation: Acoustic and Perceptual Measurements of Vocal Flexibility in Non Experts

Véronique Delvaux, Lise Caucheteux, Kathy Huet, Myriam Piccaluga, Bernard Harmegnies

What is the Relevant Population? Considerations for the Computation of Likelihood Ratios in Forensic Voice Comparison

Vincent Hughes, Paul Foulkes

Building Audio-Visual Phonetically Annotated Arabic Corpus for Expressive Text to Speech

Omnia Abdo, Sherif Abdou, Mervat Fashal

Automatic Construction of the Finnish Parliament Speech Corpus

André Mansikkaniemi, Peter Smit, Mikko Kurimo

The Extended SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus: Designing a Corpus with Variable Information Density

David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Vera Demberg

NTCD-TIMIT: A New Database and Baseline for Noise-Robust Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz

PRAV: A Phonetically Rich Audio Visual Corpus

Abhishek Narwekar, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

CALYOU: A Comparable Spoken Algerian Corpus Harvested from YouTube

K. Abidi, M.A. Menacer, Kamel Smaili

Improving Robustness of Speaker Recognition to New Conditions Using Unlabeled Data

Diego Castan, Mitchell McLaren, Luciana Ferrer, Aaron Lawson, Alicia Lozano-Diez

Speaker Verification Under Adverse Conditions Using i-Vector Adaptation and Neural Networks

Jahangir Alam, Patrick Kenny, Gautam Bhattacharya, Marcel Kockmann

Unsupervised Discriminative Training of PLDA for Domain Adaptation in Speaker Verification

Qiongqiong Wang, Takafumi Koshinaka

i-Vector Transformation Using a Novel Discriminative Denoising Autoencoder for Noise-Robust Speaker Recognition

Shivangi Mahto, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Takafumi Koshinaka

Curriculum Learning Based Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Noise Robust Speaker Recognition

Shivesh Ranjan, Abhinav Misra, John H.L. Hansen

CNN-Based Joint Mapping of Short and Long Utterance i-Vectors for Speaker Verification Using Short Utterances

Jinxi Guo, Usha Amrutha Nookala, Abeer Alwan

Neural Speech Recognizer: Acoustic-to-Word LSTM Model for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition

Hagen Soltau, Hank Liao, Haşim Sak

An Analysis of “Attention” in Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Rohit Prabhavalkar, Tara N. Sainath, Bo Li, Kanishka Rao, Navdeep Jaitly

Efficient Knowledge Distillation from an Ensemble of Teachers

Takashi Fukuda, Masayuki Suzuki, Gakuto Kurata, Samuel Thomas, Jia Cui

Gaussian Prediction Based Attention for Online End-to-End Speech Recognition

JunFeng Hou, Shiliang Zhang, Li-Rong Dai

Semi-Supervised DNN Training with Word Selection for ASR

Karel Veselý, Lukas Burget, Jan Černocký

Deep Neural Factorization for Speech Recognition

Jen-Tzung Chien, Chen Shen

Visually Grounded Learning of Keyword Prediction from Untranscribed Speech

Herman Kamper, Shane Settle, Gregory Shakhnarovich, Karen Livescu

DNN-Based Ultrasound-to-Speech Conversion for a Silent Speech Interface

Tamás Gábor Csapó, Tamás Grósz, Gábor Gosztolya, László Tóth, Alexandra Markó

Turbo Decoders for Audio-Visual Continuous Speech Recognition

Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz

Improving Speaker-Independent Lipreading with Domain-Adversarial Training

Michael Wand, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Improving Computer Lipreading via DNN Sequence Discriminative Training Techniques

Kwanchiva Thangthai, Richard Harvey

Combining Residual Networks with LSTMs for Lipreading

Themos Stafylakis, Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Concatenative Resynthesis Using Twin Networks

Soumi Maiti, Michael I. Mandel

SEGAN: Speech Enhancement Generative Adversarial Network

Santiago Pascual, Antonio Bonafonte, Joan Serrà

Exploring Low-Dimensional Structures of Modulation Spectra for Robust Speech Recognition

Bi-Cheng Yan, Chin-Hong Shih, Shih-Hung Liu, Berlin Chen

Improving Mask Learning Based Speech Enhancement System with Restoration Layers and Residual Connection

Zhuo Chen, Yan Huang, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

Improved Codebook-Based Speech Enhancement Based on MBE Model

Qizheng Huang, Changchun Bao, Xianyun Wang

Deep Recurrent Neural Network Based Monaural Speech Separation Using Recurrent Temporal Restricted Boltzmann Machines

Suman Samui, Indrajit Chakrabarti, Soumya K. Ghosh

Batuhan Gundogdu, Murat Saraclar

Symbol Sequence Search from Telephone Conversation

Masayuki Suzuki, Gakuto Kurata, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Kenneth W. Church

Compressed Time Delay Neural Network for Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting

Ming Sun, David Snyder, Yixin Gao, Varun Nagaraja, Mike Rodehorst

The STC Keyword Search System for OpenKWS 2016 Evaluation

Yuri Khokhlov, Ivan Medennikov, Aleksei Romanenko, Valentin Mendelev, Maxim Korenevsky

The Kaldi OpenKWS System: Improving Low Resource Keyword Search

Jan Trmal, Matthew Wiesner, Vijayaditya Peddinti, XiaoHui Zhang, Pegah Ghahremani

A Rescoring Approach for Keyword Search Using Lattice Context Information

Zhipeng Chen, Ji Wu

pyannote.metrics: A Toolkit for Reproducible Evaluation, Diagnostic, and Error Analysis of Speaker Diarization Systems

Hervé Bredin

Combining Speaker Turn Embedding and Incremental Structure Prediction for Low-Latency Speaker Diarization

Guillaume Wisniewksi, Hervé Bredin, G. Gelly, Claude Barras

Estimating Speaker Clustering Quality Using Logistic Regression

Yishai Cohen, Itshak Lapidot

A Triplet Ranking-Based Neural Network for Speaker Diarization and Linking

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

Speaker2Vec: Unsupervised Learning and Adaptation of a Speaker Manifold Using Deep Neural Networks with an Evaluation on Speaker Segmentation

Arindam Jati, Panayiotis Georgiou

Speaker Diarization Using Convolutional Neural Network for Statistics Accumulation Refinement

Zbyněk Zajíc, Marek Hrúz, Luděk Müller

Discriminative Autoencoders for Acoustic Modeling

Ming-Han Yang, Hung-Shin Lee, Yu-Ding Lu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yu Tsao

Exploiting Eigenposteriors for Semi-Supervised Training of DNN Acoustic Models with Sequence Discrimination

Pranay Dighe, Afsaneh Asaei, Hervé Bourlard