Interspeech 2017

844 papers

Non-Uniform MCE Training of Deep Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks for Keyword Spotting

Zhong Meng, Biing-Hwang Juang

Annealed f-Smoothing as a Mechanism to Speed up Neural Network Training

Tara N. Sainath, Vijayaditya Peddinti, Olivier Siohan, Arun Narayanan

Optimizing Expected Word Error Rate via Sampling for Speech Recognition

Matt Shannon

Multitask Learning with Low-Level Auxiliary Tasks for Encoder-Decoder Based Speech Recognition

Shubham Toshniwal, Hao Tang, Liang Lu, Karen Livescu

Discussion

Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner

The INTERSPEECH 2017 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: A Summary of Results

Stefan Steidl

Introducing Weighted Kernel Classifiers for Handling Imbalanced Paralinguistic Corpora: Snoring, Addressee and Cold

Heysem Kaya, Alexey A. Karpov

DNN-Based Feature Extraction and Classifier Combination for Child-Directed Speech, Cold and Snoring Identification

Gábor Gosztolya, Róbert Busa-Fekete, Tamás Grósz, László Tóth

Exploring Fusion Methods and Feature Space for the Classification of Paralinguistic Information

David Tavarez, Xabier Sarasola, Agustin Alonso, Jon Sanchez, Luis Serrano

Snore Sound Classification Using Image-Based Deep Spectrum Features

Shahin Amiriparian, Maurice Gerczuk, Sandra Ottl, Nicholas Cummins, Michael Freitag

An ‘End-to-Evolution’ Hybrid Approach for Snore Sound Classification

Michael Freitag, Shahin Amiriparian, Nicholas Cummins, Maurice Gerczuk, Björn Schuller

A Dual Source-Filter Model of Snore Audio for Snorer Group Classification

Achuth Rao M.V., Shivani Yadav, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Synthesis of VV Utterances from Muscle Activation to Sound with a 3D Model

Saeed Dabbaghchian, Marc Arnela, Olov Engwall, Oriol Guasch

A Unified Numerical Simulation of Vowel Production That Comprises Phonation and the Emitted Sound

Niyazi Cem Degirmenci, Johan Jansson, Johan Hoffman, Marc Arnela, Patricia Sánchez-Martín

Waveform Patterns in Pitch Glides Near a Vocal Tract Resonance

Tiina Murtola, Jarmo Malinen

A Fast Robust 1D Flow Model for a Self-Oscillating Coupled 2D FEM Vocal Fold Simulation

Arvind Vasudevan, Victor Zappi, Peter Anderson, Sidney Fels

A Semi-Polar Grid Strategy for the Three-Dimensional Finite Element Simulation of Vowel-Vowel Sequences

Marc Arnela, Saeed Dabbaghchian, Oriol Guasch, Olov Engwall

Acoustic Analysis of Detailed Three-Dimensional Shape of the Human Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses

Tatsuya Kitamura, Hironori Takemoto, Hisanori Makinae, Tetsutaro Yamaguchi, Kotaro Maki

An Integrated Solution for Snoring Sound Classification Using Bhattacharyya Distance Based GMM Supervectors with SVM, Feature Selection with Random Forest and Spectrogram with CNN

Tin Lay Nwe, Huy Dat Tran, Wen Zheng Terence Ng, Bin Ma

Phoneme State Posteriorgram Features for Speech Based Automatic Classification of Speakers in Cold and Healthy Condition

Akshay Kalkunte Suresh, Srinivasa Raghavan K.M., Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Infected Phonemes: How a Cold Impairs Speech on a Phonetic Level

Johannes Wagner, Thiago Fraga-Silva, Yvan Josse, Dominik Schiller, Andreas Seiderer

End-to-End Deep Learning Framework for Speech Paralinguistics Detection Based on Perception Aware Spectrum

Danwei Cai, Zhidong Ni, Wenbo Liu, Weicheng Cai, Gang Li

It Sounds Like You Have a Cold! Testing Voice Features for the Interspeech 2017 Computational Paralinguistics Cold Challenge

Mark Huckvale, András Beke

Description of the Homebank Child/Adult Addressee Corpus (HB-CHAAC)

Elika Bergelson, Andrei Amatuni, Marisa Casillas, Amanda Seidl, Melanie Soderstrom

Description of the Munich-Passau Snore Sound Corpus (MPSSC)

Christoph Janott, Anton Batliner

Description of the Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Corpus (URTIC)

Jarek Krajewski, Sebastian Schieder, Anton Batliner

The INTERSPEECH 2017 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Addressee, Cold & Snoring

Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Elika Bergelson, Jarek Krajewski

Re-Inventing Speech — The Biological Way

Björn Lindblom

Modifying Amazon’s Alexa ASR Grammar and Lexicon — A Case Study

Hassan Alam, Aman Kumar, Manan Vyas, Tina Werner, Rachmat Hartono

Nora the Empathetic Psychologist

Genta Indra Winata, Onno Kampman, Yang Yang, Anik Dey, Pascale Fung

Towards an Autarkic Embedded Cognitive User Interface

Frank Duckhorn, Markus Huber, Werner Meyer, Oliver Jokisch, Constanze Tschöpe

A Robust Medical Speech-to-Speech/Speech-to-Sign Phraselator

Farhia Ahmed, Pierrette Bouillon, Chelle Destefano, Johanna Gerlach, Sonia Halimi

Integrating the Talkamatic Dialogue Manager with Alexa

Staffan Larsson, Alex Berman, Andreas Krona, Fredrik Kronlid

SIAK — A Game for Foreign Language Pronunciation Learning

Reima Karhila, Sari Ylinen, Seppo Enarvi, Kalle Palomäki, Aleksander Nikulin

TBT (Toolkit to Build TTS): A High Performance Framework to Build Multiple Language HTS Voice

Atish Shankar Ghone, Rachana Nerpagar, Pranaw Kumar, Arun Baby, Aswin Shanmugam

Voice Conservation and TTS System for People Facing Total Laryngectomy

Markéta Jůzová, Daniel Tihelka, Jindřich Matoušek, Zdeněk Hanzlíček

WebSubDub — Experimental System for Creating High-Quality Alternative Audio Track for TV Broadcasting

Martin Gruber, Jindřich Matoušek, Zdeněk Hanzlíček, Jakub Vit, Daniel Tihelka

A Thematicity-Based Prosody Enrichment Tool for CTS

Mónica Domínguez, Mireia Farrús, Leo Wanner

Creating a Voice for MiRo, the World’s First Commercial Biomimetic Robot

Roger K. Moore, Ben Mitchinson

Segment Level Voice Conversion with Recurrent Neural Networks

Miguel Varela Ramos, Alan W. Black, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso, Nuno Fonseca

Spectro-Temporal Modelling with Time-Frequency LSTM and Structured Output Layer for Voice Conversion

Runnan Li, Zhiyong Wu, Yishuang Ning, Lifa Sun, Helen Meng

Speaker Adaptation in DNN-Based Speech Synthesis Using d-Vectors

Rama Doddipatla, Norbert Braunschweiler, Ranniery Maia

Emotional Voice Conversion with Adaptive Scales F0 Based on Wavelet Transform Using Limited Amount of Emotional Data

Zhaojie Luo, Jinhui Chen, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki

Generative Adversarial Network-Based Glottal Waveform Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Bajibabu Bollepalli, Lauri Juvela, Paavo Alku

Generative Adversarial Network-Based Postfilter for STFT Spectrograms

Takuhiro Kaneko, Shinji Takaki, Hirokazu Kameoka, Junichi Yamagishi

Speaker Dependent Approach for Enhancing a Glossectomy Patient’s Speech via GMM-Based Voice Conversion

Kei Tanaka, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Masaaki Sato, Shogo Minagi

Denoising Recurrent Neural Network for Deep Bidirectional LSTM Based Voice Conversion

Jie Wu, D.-Y. Huang, Lei Xie, Haizhou Li

Phoneme-Discriminative Features for Dysarthric Speech Conversion

Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki

CAB: An Energy-Based Speaker Clustering Model for Rapid Adaptation in Non-Parallel Voice Conversion

Toru Nakashika

Voice Conversion from Unaligned Corpora Using Variational Autoencoding Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks

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

Speaker Dependency Analysis, Audiovisual Fusion Cues and a Multimodal BLSTM for Conversational Engagement Recognition

Yuyun Huang, Emer Gilmartin, Nick Campbell

OpenMM: An Open-Source Multimodal Feature Extraction Tool

Michelle Renee Morales, Stefan Scherer, Rivka Levitan

Spanish Sign Language Recognition with Different Topology Hidden Markov Models

Carlos-D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Zuzanna Parcheta

Online Adaptation of an Attention-Based Neural Network for Natural Language Generation

Matthieu Riou, Bassam Jabaian, Stéphane Huet, Fabrice Lefèvre

To Plan or not to Plan? Discourse Planning in Slot-Value Informed Sequence to Sequence Models for Language Generation

Neha Nayak, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Marilyn Walker, Larry Heck

Jointly Trained Sequential Labeling and Classification by Sparse Attention Neural Networks

Mingbo Ma, KAI ZHAO, Liang Huang, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou

ASR Error Management for Improving Spoken Language Understanding

Edwin Simonnet, Sahar Ghannay, Nathalie Camelin, Yannick Estève, Renato de Mori

Quaternion Denoising Encoder-Decoder for Theme Identification of Telephone Conversations

Titouan Parcollet, Mohamed Morchid, Georges Linarès

Character-Based Embedding Models and Reranking Strategies for Understanding Natural Language Meal Descriptions

Mandy Korpusik, Zachary Collins, James Glass

Internal Memory Gate for Recurrent Neural Networks with Application to Spoken Language Understanding

Mohamed Morchid

Parallel Hierarchical Attention Networks with Shared Memory Reader for Multi-Stream Conversational Document Classification

Naoki Sawada, Ryo Masumura, Hiromitsu Nishizaki

Zero-Shot Learning for Natural Language Understanding Using Domain-Independent Sequential Structure and Question Types

Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Yukinori Homma, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo

An Investigation of Emotion Dynamics and Kalman Filtering for Speech-Based Emotion Prediction

Zhaocheng Huang, Julien Epps

Complexity in Speech and its Relation to Emotional Bond in Therapist-Patient Interactions During Suicide Risk Assessment Interviews

Md. Nasir, Brian Baucom, Craig J. Bryan, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Panayiotis Georgiou

Approaching Human Performance in Behavior Estimation in Couples Therapy Using Deep Sentence Embeddings

Shao-Yen Tseng, Brian Baucom, Panayiotis Georgiou

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

Hayakawa Akira, Carl Vogel, Saturnino Luz, Nick Campbell

Big Five vs. Prosodic Features as Cues to Detect Abnormality in SSPNET-Personality Corpus

Cedric Fayet, Arnaud Delhay, Damien Lolive, Pierre-François Marteau

Emotion Category Mapping to Emotional Space by Cross-Corpus Emotion Labeling

Yoshiko Arimoto, Hiroki Mori

Bilingual Word Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Personality Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Nets

Farhad Bin Siddique, Pascale Fung

Implementing Gender-Dependent Vowel-Level Analysis for Boosting Speech-Based Depression Recognition

Bogdan Vlasenko, Hesam Sagha, Nicholas Cummins, Björn Schuller

Modeling Perceivers Neural-Responses Using Lobe-Dependent Convolutional Neural Network to Improve Speech Emotion Recognition

Ya-Tse Wu, Hsuan-Yu Chen, Yu-Hsien Liao, Li-Wei Kuo, Chi-Chun Lee

Computational Analysis of Acoustic Descriptors in Psychotic Patients

Torsten Wörtwein, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Eugene Laksana, Luciana Pennant, Elizabeth S. Liebson

Attention Networks for Modeling Behaviors in Addiction Counseling

James Gibson, Dogan Can, Panayiotis Georgiou, David C. Atkins, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

The Perception of Emotions in Noisified Nonsense Speech

Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Alice Baird, Anton Batliner, Nicholas Cummins, Simone Hantke

The Perception of English Intonation Patterns by German L2 Speakers of English

Karin Puga, Robert Fuchs, Jane Setter, Peggy Mok

Exploring Multidimensionality: Acoustic and Articulatory Correlates of Swedish Word Accents

Malin Svensson Lundmark, Gilbert Ambrazaitis, Otto Ewald

Focus Acoustics in Mandarin Nominals

Yu-Yin Hsu, Anqi Xu

What You See is What You Get Prosodically Less — Visibility Shapes Prosodic Prominence Production in Spontaneous Interaction

Petra Wagner, Nataliya Bryhadyr

The Acoustics of Word Stress in Czech as a Function of Speaking Style

Radek Skarnitzl, Anders Eriksson

Creaky Voice as a Function of Tonal Categories and Prosodic Boundaries

Jianjing Kuang

Evaluation of Spectral Tilt Measures for Sentence Prominence Under Different Noise Conditions

Sofoklis Kakouros, Okko Rasanen, Paavo Alku

Canonical Correlation Analysis and Prediction of Perceived Rhythmic Prominences and Pitch Tones in Speech

Elizabeth Godoy, James R. Williamson, Thomas F. Quatieri

Using Prosody to Classify Discourse Relations

Janine Kleinhans, Mireia Farrús, Agustín Gravano, Juan Manuel Pérez, Catherine Lai

Three Dimensions of Sentence Prosody and Their (Non-)Interactions

Michael Wagner, Michael McAuliffe

How Does the Absence of Shared Knowledge Between Interlocutors Affect the Production of French Prosodic Forms?

Amandine Michelas, Cecile Cau, Maud Champagne-Lavau

Reanalyze Fundamental Frequency Peak Delay in Mandarin

Lixia Hao, Wei Zhang, Yanlu Xie, Jinsong Zhang

Intonation of Contrastive Topic in Estonian

Heete Sahkai, Meelis Mihkla

Trisyllabic Tone 3 Sandhi Patterns in Mandarin Produced by Cantonese Speakers

Jung-Yueh Tu, Janice Wing-Sze Wong, Jih-Ho Cha

Rhythmic Characteristics of Parkinsonian Speech: A Study on Mandarin and Polish

Massimo Pettorino, Wentao Gu, Paweł Półrola, Ping Fan

Exploiting Intra-Annotator Rating Consistency Through Copeland’s Method for Estimation of Ground Truth Labels in Couples’ Therapy

Karel Mundnich, Md. Nasir, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

An N-Gram Based Approach to the Automatic Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease from Spoken Language

Sebastian Wankerl, Elmar Nöth, Stefan Evert

Depression Detection Using Automatic Transcriptions of De-Identified Speech

Paula Lopez-Otero, Laura Docio-Fernandez, Alberto Abad, Carmen Garcia-Mateo

Cross-Domain Classification of Drowsiness in Speech: The Case of Alcohol Intoxication and Sleep Deprivation

Yue Zhang, Felix Weninger, Björn Schuller

An Avatar-Based System for Identifying Individuals Likely to Develop Dementia

Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Kirsty Harkness, Traci Walker, Annalena Venneri

Phonological Markers of Oxytocin and MDMA Ingestion

Carla Agurto, Raquel Norel, Rachel Ostrand, Gillinder Bedi, Harriet de Wit

Emotional Speech of Mentally and Physically Disabled Individuals: Introducing the EmotAsS Database and First Findings

Simone Hantke, Hesam Sagha, Nicholas Cummins, Björn Schuller

Acoustic Evaluation of Nasality in Cerebellar Syndromes

M. Novotný, Jan Rusz, K. Spálenka, Jiří Klempíř, D. Horáková

Cross-Database Models for the Classification of Dysarthria Presence

Stephanie Gillespie, Yash-yee Logan, Elliot Moore, Jacqueline Laures-Gore, Scott Russell

An Affect Prediction Approach Through Depression Severity Parameter Incorporation in Neural Networks

Rahul Gupta, Saurabh Sahu, Carol Espy-Wilson, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Manual and Automatic Transcriptions in Dementia Detection from Speech

Jochen Weiner, Mathis Engelbart, Tanja Schultz