Interspeech 2017

844 papers

Very Low Resource Radio Browsing for Agile Developmental and Humanitarian Monitoring

Armin Saeb, Raghav Menon, Hugh Cameron, William Kibira, John Quinn

The ABAIR Initiative: Bringing Spoken Irish into the Digital Space

Ailbhe Ni Chasaide, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Christoph Wendler, Harald Berthelsen, Andy Murphy

Which Acoustic and Phonological Factors Shape Infants’ Vowel Discrimination? Exploiting Natural Variation in InPhonDB

Sho Tsuji, Alejandrina Cristia

Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Theories of Phonological Acquisition: A Big Data Approach

Christina Bergmann, Sho Tsuji, Alejandrina Cristia

A New Workflow for Semi-Automatized Annotations: Tests with Long-Form Naturalistic Recordings of Childrens Language Environments

Marisa Casillas, Elika Bergelson, Anne S. Warlaumont, Alejandrina Cristia, Melanie Soderstrom

What do Babies Hear? Analyses of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech

Marisa Casillas, Andrei Amatuni, Amanda Seidl, Melanie Soderstrom, Anne S. Warlaumont

The LENA System Applied to Swedish: Reliability of the Adult Word Count Estimate

Iris-Corinna Schwarz, Noor Botros, Alekzandra Lord, Amelie Marcusson, Henrik Tidelius

SLPAnnotator: Tools for Implementing Sign Language Phonetic Annotation

Kathleen Currie Hall, Scott Mackie, Michael Fry, Oksana Tkachman

Areal and Phylogenetic Features for Multilingual Speech Synthesis

Alexander Gutkin, Richard Sproat

Deep Auto-Encoder Based Multi-Task Learning Using Probabilistic Transcriptions

Amit Das, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Karel Veselý

On the Linguistic Relevance of Speech Units Learned by Unsupervised Acoustic Modeling

Siyuan Feng, Tan Lee

The Motivation and Development of MPAi, a Māori Pronunciation Aid

C.I. Watson, P.J. Keegan, M.A. Maclagan, R. Harlow, J. King

First Results in Developing a Medieval Latin Language Charter Dictation System for the East-Central Europe Region

Peter Mihajlik, Lili Szabó, Balázs Tarján, András Balog, Krisztina Rábai

Team ELISA System for DARPA LORELEI Speech Evaluation 2016

Pavlos Papadopoulos, Ruchir Travadi, Colin Vaz, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Ulf Hermjakob

Conversing with Social Agents That Smile and Laugh

Catherine Pelachaud

Reading Validation for Pronunciation Evaluation in the Digitala Project

Aku Rouhe, Reima Karhila, Peter Smit, Mikko Kurimo

Real-Time Speech Enhancement with GCC-NMF: Demonstration on the Raspberry Pi and NVIDIA Jetson

Sean U.N. Wood, Jean Rouat

Low-Frequency Ultrasonic Communication for Speech Broadcasting in Public Transportation

Kwang Myung Jeon, Nam Kyun Kim, Chan Woong Kwak, Jung Min Moon, Hong Kook Kim

“Did you laugh enough today?” — Deep Neural Networks for Mobile and Wearable Laughter Trackers

Gerhard Hagerer, Nicholas Cummins, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller

Combining Gaussian Mixture Models and Segmental Feature Models for Speaker Recognition

Milana Milošević, Ulrike Glavitsch

Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks That Process and Classify Raw Audio in a Streaming Fashion

Adrien Daniel

MetaLab: A Repository for Meta-Analyses on Language Development, and More

Sho Tsuji, Christina Bergmann, Molly Lewis, Mika Braginsky, Page Piccinini

Speech Recognition and Understanding on Hardware-Accelerated DSP

Georg Stemmer, Munir Georges, Joachim Hofer, Piotr Rozen, Josef Bauer

A Signal Processing Approach for Speaker Separation Using SFF Analysis

Nivedita Chennupati, B.H.V.S. Narayana Murthy, B. Yegnanarayana

Real Time Pitch Shifting with Formant Structure Preservation Using the Phase Vocoder

Michał Lenarczyk

Bob Speaks Kaldi

Milos Cernak, Alain Komaty, Amir Mohammadi, André Anjos, Sébastien Marcel

Applications of the BBN Sage Speech Processing Platform

Ralf Meermeier, Sean Colbath

On the Quality and Intelligibility of Noisy Speech Processed for Near-End Listening Enhancement

Tudor-catalin Zorila, Yannis Stylianou

Binaural Reverberant Speech Separation Based on Deep Neural Networks

Xueliang Zhang, Deliang Wang

Speech Enhancement Using Bayesian Wavenet

Kaizhi Qian, Yang Zhang, Shiyu Chang, Xuesong Yang, Dinei Florencio

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Speech Enhancement and Noise-Robust Speaker Verification

Daniel Michelsanti, Zheng-Hua Tan

A Comparison of Perceptually Motivated Loss Functions for Binary Mask Estimation in Speech Separation

Danny Websdale, Ben Milner

Speech Enhancement Using Non-Negative Spectrogram Models with Mel-Generalized Cepstral Regularization

Li Li, Hirokazu Kameoka, Tomoki Toda, Shoji Makino

A Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Speech Enhancement

Se Rim Park, Jin Won Lee

Binary Mask Estimation Strategies for Constrained Imputation-Based Speech Enhancement

Ricard Marxer, Jon Barker

MixMax Approximation as a Super-Gaussian Log-Spectral Amplitude Estimator for Speech Enhancement

Robert Rehr, Timo Gerkmann

On the Influence of Modifying Magnitude and Phase Spectrum to Enhance Noisy Speech Signals

Hans-Günter Hirsch, Michael Gref

Real-Time Modulation Enhancement of Temporal Envelopes for Increasing Speech Intelligibility

Maria Koutsogiannaki, Holly Francois, Kihyun Choo, Eunmi Oh

Subjective Intelligibility of Deep Neural Network-Based Speech Enhancement

Femke B. Gelderblom, Tron V. Tronstad, Erlend Magnus Viggen

Improved Example-Based Speech Enhancement by Using Deep Neural Network Acoustic Model for Noise Robust Example Search

Atsunori Ogawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix, Tomohiro Nakatani

Multi-Target Ensemble Learning for Monaural Speech Separation

Hui Zhang, Xueliang Zhang, Guanglai Gao

A Post-Filtering Approach Based on Locally Linear Embedding Difference Compensation for Speech Enhancement

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

Speech Detection and Enhancement Using Single Microphone for Distant Speech Applications in Reverberant Environments

Vinay Kothapally, John H.L. Hansen

Domain-Specific Utterance End-Point Detection for Speech Recognition

Roland Maas, Ariya Rastrow, Kyle Goehner, Gautam Tiwari, Shaun Joseph

Bimodal Recurrent Neural Network for Audiovisual Voice Activity Detection

Fei Tao, Carlos Busso

Unmixing Convolutive Mixtures by Exploiting Amplitude Co-Modulation: Methods and Evaluation on Mandarin Speech Recordings

Bo-Rui Chen, Huang-Yi Lee, Yi-Wen Liu

Subband Selection for Binaural Speech Source Localization

Girija Ramesan Karthik, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Multiple Sound Source Counting and Localization Based on Spatial Principal Eigenvector

Bing Yang, Hong Liu, Cheng Pang

Improving Source Separation via Multi-Speaker Representations

Jeroen Zegers, Hugo Van hamme

Using Approximated Auditory Roughness as a Pre-Filtering Feature for Human Screaming and Affective Speech AED

Di He, Zuofu Cheng, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Deming Chen

Improved End-of-Query Detection for Streaming Speech Recognition

Matt Shannon, Gabor Simko, Shuo-Yiin Chang, Carolina Parada

A Mask Estimation Method Integrating Data Field Model for Speech Enhancement

Xianyun Wang, Changchun Bao, Feng Bao

Speaker Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Based on Frequency-Independent Beampattern

Feng Guo, Yuhang Cao, Zheng Liu, Jiaen Liang, Baoqing Li

Weighted Spatial Covariance Matrix Estimation for MUSIC Based TDOA Estimation of Speech Source

Chenglin Xu, Xiong Xiao, Sining Sun, Wei Rao, Eng Siong Chng

A Contrast Function and Algorithm for Blind Separation of Audio Signals

Wei Gao, Roberto Togneri, Victor Sreeram

Excitation Source Features for Improving the Detection of Vowel Onset and Offset Points in a Speech Sequence

Gayadhar Pradhan, Avinash Kumar, S. Shahnawazuddin

Time Delay Histogram Based Speech Source Separation Using a Planar Array

Zhaoqiong Huang, Zhanzhong Cao, Dongwen Ying, Jielin Pan, Yonghong Yan

Audio Content Based Geotagging in Multimedia

Anurag Kumar, Benjamin Elizalde, Bhiksha Raj

Production of Sustained Vowels and Categorical Perception of Tones in Mandarin Among Cochlear-Implanted Children

Wentao Gu, Jiao Yin, James Mahshie

The Frequency Range of “The Ling Six Sounds” in Standard Chinese

Aijun Li, Hua Zhang, Wen Sun

Prediction of Speech Delay from Acoustic Measurements

Jason Lilley, Madhavi Ratnagiri, H. Timothy Bunnell

Deep Autoencoder Based Speech Features for Improved Dysarthric Speech Recognition

Bhavik Vachhani, Chitralekha Bhat, Biswajit Das, Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Interpretable Objective Assessment of Dysarthric Speech Based on Deep Neural Networks

Ming Tu, Visar Berisha, Julie Liss

Dysprosody Differentiate Between Parkinson’s Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and Multiple System Atrophy

Jan Hlavnička, Tereza Tykalová, Roman Čmejla, Jiří Klempíř, Evžen Růžička

Apkinson — A Mobile Monitoring Solution for Parkinson’s Disease

Philipp Klumpp, Thomas Janu, Tomás Arias-Vergara, J.C. Vasquez-Correa, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave

Automatic Prediction of Speech Evaluation Metrics for Dysarthric Speech

Imed Laaridh, Waad Ben Kheder, Corinne Fredouille, Christine Meunier

Hypernasality Severity Analysis in Cleft Lip and Palate Speech Using Vowel Space Area

Nikitha K., Sishir Kalita, C.M. Vikram, M. Pushpavathi, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Zero Frequency Filter Based Analysis of Voice Disorders

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

Classification of Bulbar ALS from Kinematic Features of the Jaw and Lips: Towards Computer-Mediated Assessment

Andrea Bandini, Jordan R. Green, Lorne Zinman, Yana Yunusova

Cepstral and Entropy Analyses in Vowels Excerpted from Continuous Speech of Dysphonic and Control Speakers

Antonella Castellana, Andreas Selamtzis, Giampiero Salvi, Alessio Carullo, Arianna Astolfi

Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like a Bee: Changes in Speech Preceded Parkinsonism Diagnosis for Muhammad Ali

Visar Berisha, Julie Liss, Timothy Huston, Alan Wisler, Yishan Jiao

MMN Responses in Adults After Exposure to Bimodal and Unimodal Frequency Distributions of Rotated Speech

Ellen Marklund, Elísabet Eir Cortes, Johan Sjons

The Relationship Between the Perception and Production of Non-Native Tones

Kaile Zhang, Gang Peng

Articulation Rate in Swedish Child-Directed Speech Increases as a Function of the Age of the Child Even When Surprisal is Controlled for

Johan Sjons, Thomas Hörberg, Robert Östling, Johannes Bjerva

Qualitative Differences in L3 Learners’ Neurophysiological Response to L1 versus L2 Transfer

Alejandra Keidel Fernández, Thomas Hörberg

Lexical Adaptation to a Novel Accent in German: A Comparison Between German, Swedish, and Finnish Listeners

Adriana Hanulíková, Jenny Ekström

Measuring Encoding Efficiency in Swedish and English Language Learner Speech Production

Gintarė Grigonytė, Gerold Schneider

Prosody Analysis of L2 English for Naturalness Evaluation Through Speech Modification

Dean Luo, Ruxin Luo, Lixin Wang

Directing Attention During Perceptual Training: A Preliminary Study of Phonetic Learning in Southern Min by Mandarin Speakers

Ying Chen, Eric Pederson

Changes in Early L2 Cue-Weighting of Non-Native Speech: Evidence from Learners of Mandarin Chinese

Seth Wiener

Mechanisms of Tone Sandhi Rule Application by Non-Native Speakers

Si Chen, Yunjuan He, Chun Wah Yuen, Bei Li, Yike Yang

Proficiency Assessment of ESL Learner’s Sentence Prosody with TTS Synthesized Voice as Reference

Yujia Xiao, Frank K. Soong

A Data-Driven Approach for Perceptually Validated Acoustic Features for Children’s Sibilant Fricative Productions

Patrick F. Reidy, Mary E. Beckman, Jan Edwards, Benjamin Munson

On the Role of Temporal Variability in the Acquisition of the German Vowel Length Contrast

Felicitas Kleber

A Comparison of Danish Listeners’ Processing Cost in Judging the Truth Value of Norwegian, Swedish, and English Sentences

Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Trine Askjær-Jørgensen

An Automatically Aligned Corpus of Child-Directed Speech

Micha Elsner, Kiwako Ito

Cross-Subject Continuous Emotion Recognition Using Speech and Body Motion in Dyadic Interactions

Syeda Narjis Fatima, Engin Erzin

Analysis of the Relationship Between Prosodic Features of Fillers and its Forms or Occurrence Positions

Shizuka Nakamura, Ryosuke Nakanishi, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara

Domain-Independent User Satisfaction Reward Estimation for Dialogue Policy Learning

Stefan Ultes, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrkšić, Lina Rojas-Barahona

Hierarchical LSTMs with Joint Learning for Estimating Customer Satisfaction from Contact Center Calls

Atsushi Ando, Ryo Masumura, Hosana Kamiyama, Satoshi Kobashikawa, Yushi Aono

Human and Automated Scoring of Fluency, Pronunciation and Intonation During Human–Machine Spoken Dialog Interactions

Vikram Ramanarayanan, Patrick L. Lange, Keelan Evanini, Hillary R. Molloy, David Suendermann-Oeft

Sequence to Sequence Modeling for User Simulation in Dialog Systems

Paul Crook, Alex Marin

Measuring Synchrony in Task-Based Dialogues

Justine Reverdy, Carl Vogel

Entrainment in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogues at Multiple Linguistic Levels

Zahra Rahimi, Anish Kumar, Diane Litman, Susannah Paletz, Mingzhi Yu

Social Signal Detection in Spontaneous Dialogue Using Bidirectional LSTM-CTC

Hirofumi Inaguma, Koji Inoue, Masato Mimura, Tatsuya Kawahara

Turn-Taking Estimation Model Based on Joint Embedding of Lexical and Prosodic Contents

Chaoran Liu, Carlos Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro

End-of-Utterance Prediction by Prosodic Features and Phrase-Dependency Structure in Spontaneous Japanese Speech

Yuichi Ishimoto, Takehiro Teraoka, Mika Enomoto

Towards Deep End-of-Turn Prediction for Situated Spoken Dialogue Systems

Angelika Maier, Julian Hough, David Schlangen

Turn-Taking Offsets and Dialogue Context

Peter A. Heeman, Rebecca Lunsford

Improving Prediction of Speech Activity Using Multi-Participant Respiratory State

Marcin Włodarczak, Kornel Laskowski, Mattias Heldner, Kätlin Aare