Interspeech 2017

844 papers

Humans do not Maximize the Probability of Correct Decision When Recognizing DANTALE Words in Noise

Mohsen Zareian Jahromi, Jan Østergaard, Jesper Jensen

The Recognition of Compounds: A Computational Account

L. ten Bosch, L. Boves, M. Ernestus

An Auditory Model of Speaker Size Perception for Voiced Speech Sounds

Toshio Irino, Eri Takimoto, Toshie Matsui, Roy D. Patterson

A Comparison of Sentence-Level Speech Intelligibility Metrics

Alexander Kain, Max Del Giudice, Kris Tjaden

Google’s Next-Generation Real-Time Unit-Selection Synthesizer Using Sequence-to-Sequence LSTM-Based Autoencoders

Vincent Wan, Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Hanna Silen, Jakub Vit

Statistical Voice Conversion with WaveNet-Based Waveform Generation

Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Hayashi, Akira Tamamori, Tomoki Toda

A Hierarchical Encoder-Decoder Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Simon King

Direct Modeling of Frequency Spectra and Waveform Generation Based on Phase Recovery for DNN-Based Speech Synthesis

Shinji Takaki, Hirokazu Kameoka, Junichi Yamagishi

Waveform Modeling Using Stacked Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks for Speech Bandwidth Extension

Yu Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling

Speaker-Dependent WaveNet Vocoder

Akira Tamamori, Tomoki Hayashi, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Kazuya Takeda, Tomoki Toda

Towards Speech Emotion Recognition “in the Wild” Using Aggregated Corpora and Deep Multi-Task Learning

Jaebok Kim, Gwenn Englebienne, Khiet P. Truong, Vanessa Evers

Discretized Continuous Speech Emotion Recognition with Multi-Task Deep Recurrent Neural Network

Duc Le, Zakaria Aldeneh, Emily Mower Provost

Jointly Predicting Arousal, Valence and Dominance with Multi-Task Learning

Srinivas Parthasarathy, Carlos Busso

Progressive Neural Networks for Transfer Learning in Emotion Recognition

John Gideon, Soheil Khorram, Zakaria Aldeneh, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Emily Mower Provost

Interaction and Transition Model for Speech Emotion Recognition in Dialogue

Ruo Zhang, Ando Atsushi, Satoshi Kobashikawa, Yushi Aono

Efficient Emotion Recognition from Speech Using Deep Learning on Spectrograms

Aharon Satt, Shai Rozenberg, Ron Hoory

Increasing Recall of Lengthening Detection via Semi-Automatic Classification

Simon Betz, Jana Voße, Sina Zarrieß, Petra Wagner

Controlling Prominence Realisation in Parametric DNN-Based Speech Synthesis

Zofia Malisz, Harald Berthelsen, Jonas Beskow, Joakim Gustafson

DNN-SPACE: DNN-HMM-Based Generative Model of Voice F0Contours for Statistical Phrase/Accent Command Estimation

Nobukatsu Hojo, Yasuhito Ohsugi, Yusuke Ijima, Hirokazu Kameoka

Physically Constrained Statistical F0Prediction for Electrolaryngeal Speech Enhancement

Kou Tanaka, Hirokazu Kameoka, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

Phrase Break Prediction for Long-Form Reading TTS: Exploiting Text Structure Information

Viacheslav Klimkov, Adam Nadolski, Alexis Moinet, Bartosz Putrycz, Roberto Barra-Chicote

An RNN-Based Quantized F0 Model with Multi-Tier Feedback Links for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi

Acoustic and Electroglottographic Study of Breathy and Modal Vowels as Produced by Heritage and Native Gujarati Speakers

Kiranpreet Nara

Automatic Measurement of Pre-Aspiration

Yaniv Sheena, Míša Hejná, Yossi Adi, Joseph Keshet

Iterative Optimal Preemphasis for Improved Glottal-Flow Estimation by Iterative Adaptive Inverse Filtering

Parham Mokhtari, Hiroshi Ando

Acoustic Characterization of Word-Final Glottal Stops in Mizo and Assam Sora

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

Cross-Speaker Variation in Voice Source Correlates of Focus and Deaccentuation

Irena Yanushevskaya, Ailbhe Ni Chasaide, Christer Gobl

Creak as a Feature of Lexical Stress in Estonian

Kätlin Aare, Pärtel Lippus, Juraj Simko

DNN Bottleneck Features for Speaker Clustering

Jesús Jorrín, Paola García, Luis Buera

Nonparametrically Trained Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for i-Vector Speaker Verification

Abbas Khosravani, Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour

Autoencoder Based Domain Adaptation for Speaker Recognition Under Insufficient Channel Information

Suwon Shon, Seongkyu Mun, Wooil Kim, Hanseok Ko

Improved Gender Independent Speaker Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network Based Bottleneck Features

Shivesh Ranjan, John H.L. Hansen

Tied Variational Autoencoder Backends for i-Vector Speaker Recognition

Jesus Villalba, Niko Brümmer, Najim Dehak

Deep Neural Network Embeddings for Text-Independent Speaker Verification

David Snyder, Daniel Garcia-Romero, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Test-Retest Repeatability of Articulatory Strategies Using Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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

Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping Based on Mixture of Probabilistic Canonical Correlation Analysis

Hidetsugu Uchida, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

A Speaker Adaptive DNN Training Approach for Speaker-Independent Acoustic Inversion

Leonardo Badino, Luca Franceschi, Raman Arora, Michele Donini, Massimiliano Pontil

Integrated Mechanical Model of [r]-[l] and [b]-[m]-[w] Producing Consonant Cluster [br]

Takayuki Arai

Analysis of Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion Across Different Accents and Languages

Ganesh Sivaraman, Carol Espy-Wilson, Martijn Wieling

Functional Principal Component Analysis of Vocal Tract Area Functions

Jorge C. Lucero

Reducing the Computational Complexity of Two-Dimensional LSTMs

Bo Li, Tara N. Sainath

Direct Acoustics-to-Word Models for English Conversational Speech Recognition

Kartik Audhkhasi, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, George Saon, Michael Picheny, David Nahamoo

Multitask Learning with CTC and Segmental CRF for Speech Recognition

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

Advances in Joint CTC-Attention Based End-to-End Speech Recognition with a Deep CNN Encoder and RNN-LM

Takaaki Hori, Shinji Watanabe, Yu Zhang, William Chan

CTC in the Context of Generalized Full-Sum HMM Training

Albert Zeyer, Eugen Beck, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

A Comparison of Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Speech Recognition

Rohit Prabhavalkar, Kanishka Rao, Tara N. Sainath, Bo Li, Leif Johnson

Effects of Talker Dialect, Gender & Race on Accuracy of Bing Speech and YouTube Automatic Captions

Rachael Tatman, Conner Kasten

A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for Acoustic-Prosodic Personality Perception in Under-Resourced Domains

Rubén Solera-Ureña, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Vera Cabarrão, Anna Pompili

Acoustic Correlates of Parental Role and Gender Identity in the Speech of Expecting Parents

Melanie Weirich, Adrian P. Simpson

To See or not to See: Interlocutor Visibility and Likeability Influence Convergence in Intonation

Katrin Schweitzer, Michael Walsh, Antje Schweitzer

Perceptual and Acoustic CorreLates of Gender in the Prepubertal Voice

Adrian P. Simpson, Riccarda Funk, Frederik Palmer

Prosodic Analysis of Attention-Drawing Speech

Carlos Ishi, Jun Arai, Norihiro Hagita

Towards Speaker Characterization: Identifying and Predicting Dimensions of Person Attribution

Laura Fernández Gallardo, Benjamin Weiss

Relationships Between Speech Timing and Perceived Hostility in a French Corpus of Political Debates

Charlotte Kouklia, Nicolas Audibert

Clear Speech — Mere Speech? How Segmental and Prosodic Speech Reduction Shape the Impression That Speakers Create on Listeners

Oliver Niebuhr

Incremental Dialogue Act Recognition: Token- vs Chunk-Based Classification

Eustace Ebhotemhen, Volha Petukhova, Dietrich Klakow

A Computational Model for Phonetically Responsive Spoken Dialogue Systems

Eran Raveh, Ingmar Steiner, Bernd Möbius

Enhancing Backchannel Prediction Using Word Embeddings

Robin Ruede, Markus Müller, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel

Motion Analysis in Vocalized Surprise Expressions

Carlos Ishi, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Attentional Factors in Listeners’ Uptake of Gesture Cues During Speech Processing

Raheleh Saryazdi, Craig G. Chambers

Adjusting the Frame: Biphasic Performative Control of Speech Rhythm

Samuel Delalez, Christophe d’Alessandro

Studying the Link Between Inter-Speaker Coordination and Speech Imitation Through Human-Machine Interactions

Leonardo Lancia, Thierry Chaminade, Noël Nguyen, Laurent Prevot

Crowd-Sourced Design of Artificial Attentive Listeners

Catharine Oertel, Patrik Jonell, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Joseph Mendelson, Jonas Beskow

Automatic Classification of Autistic Child Vocalisations: A Novel Database and Results

Alice Baird, Shahin Amiriparian, Nicholas Cummins, Alyssa M. Alcorn, Anton Batliner

Analysis of Engagement and User Experience with a Laughter Responsive Social Robot

Bekir Berker Türker, Zana Buçinca, Engin Erzin, Yucel Yemez, Metin Sezgin

Robustness Over Time-Varying Channels in DNN-HMM ASR Based Human-Robot Interaction

José Novoa, Jorge Wuth, Juan Pablo Escudero, Josué Fredes, Rodrigo Mahu

Elicitation Design for Acoustic Depression Classification: An Investigation of Articulation Effort, Linguistic Complexity, and Word Affect

Brian Stasak, Julien Epps, Roland Goecke

Dialogue as Collaborative Problem Solving

James Allen

Visual Learning 2: Pronunciation App Using Ultrasound, Video, and MRI

Kyori Suzuki, Ian Wilson, Hayato Watanabe

Mylly — The Mill: A New Platform for Processing Speech and Text Corpora Easily and Efficiently

Mietta Lennes, Jussi Piitulainen, Martin Matthiesen

Emojive! Collecting Emotion Data from Speech and Facial Expression Using Mobile Game App

Ji Ho Park, Nayeon Lee, Dario Bertero, Anik Dey, Pascale Fung

System for Speech Transcription and Post-Editing in Microsoft Word

Askars Salimbajevs, Indra Ikauniece

PercyConfigurator — Perception Experiments as a Service

Christoph Draxler

An Apparatus to Investigate Western Opera Singing Skill Learning Using Performance and Result Biofeedback, and Measuring its Neural Correlates

Aurore Jaumard-Hakoun, Samy Chikhi, Takfarinas Medani, Angelika Nair, Gérard Dreyfus

MoPAReST — Mobile Phone Assisted Remote Speech Therapy Platform

Chitralekha Bhat, Anjali Kant, Bhavik Vachhani, Sarita Rautara, Ashok Kumar Sinha

A System for Real Time Collaborative Transcription Correction

Peter Bell, Joachim Fainberg, Catherine Lai, Mark Sinclair

HomeBank: A Repository for Long-Form Real-World Audio Recordings of Children

Anne S. Warlaumont, Mark VanDam, Elika Bergelson, Alejandrina Cristia

Extending the EMU Speech Database Management System: Cloud Hosting, Team Collaboration, Automatic Revision Control

Markus Jochim

ChunkitApp: Investigating the Relevant Units of Online Speech Processing

Svetlana Vetchinnikova, Anna Mauranen, Nina Mikušová

Prosograph: A Tool for Prosody Visualisation of Large Speech Corpora

Alp Öktem, Mireia Farrús, Leo Wanner

Synthesising Uncertainty: The Interplay of Vocal Effort and Hesitation Disfluencies

Eva Szekely, Joseph Mendelson, Joakim Gustafson

Learning Word Vector Representations Based on Acoustic Counts

M. Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi

Comparison of Modeling Target in LSTM-RNN Duration Model

Bo Chen, Jiahao Lai, Kai Yu

Discrete Duration Model for Speech Synthesis

Bo Chen, Tianling Bian, Kai Yu

Investigating Efficient Feature Representation Methods and Training Objective for BLSTM-Based Phone Duration Prediction

Yibin Zheng, Jianhua Tao, Zhengqi Wen, Ya Li, Bin Liu

Multi-Task Learning for Prosodic Structure Generation Using BLSTM RNN with Structured Output Layer

Yuchen Huang, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai

Prosody Control of Utterance Sequence for Information Delivering

Ishin Fukuoka, Kazuhiko Iwata, Tetsunori Kobayashi

Global Syllable Vectors for Building TTS Front-End with Deep Learning

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

Prosody Aware Word-Level Encoder Based on BLSTM-RNNs for DNN-Based Speech Synthesis

Yusuke Ijima, Nobukatsu Hojo, Ryo Masumura, Taichi Asami

Weakly-Supervised Phrase Assignment from Text in a Speech-Synthesis System Using Noisy Labels

Asaf Rendel, Raul Fernandez, Zvi Kons, Andrew Rosenberg, Ron Hoory

An RNN Model of Text Normalization

Richard Sproat, Navdeep Jaitly

Factorised Representations for Neural Network Adaptation to Diverse Acoustic Environments

Joachim Fainberg, Steve Renals, Peter Bell

Learning Factorized Transforms for Unsupervised Adaptation of LSTM-RNN Acoustic Models

Lahiru Samarakoon, Brian Mak, Khe Chai Sim

Generalized Distillation Framework for Speaker Normalization

Neethu Mariam Joy, Sandeep Reddy Kothinti, S. Umesh, Basil Abraham

Multi-Task Learning Using Mismatched Transcription for Under-Resourced Speech Recognition

Van Hai Do, Nancy F. Chen, Boon Pang Lim, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Deep Least Squares Regression for Speaker Adaptation

Younggwan Kim, Hyungjun Lim, Jahyun Goo, Hoirin Kim

Optimizing DNN Adaptation for Recognition of Enhanced Speech

Marco Matassoni, Alessio Brutti, Daniele Falavigna

2016 BUT Babel System: Multilingual BLSTM Acoustic Model with i-Vector Based Adaptation

Martin Karafiat, Murali Karthick Baskar, Pavel Matějka, Karel Veselý, František Grézl

An Investigation of Deep Neural Networks for Multilingual Speech Recognition Training and Adaptation

Sibo Tong, Philip N. Garner, Hervé Bourlard

CTC Training of Multi-Phone Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition

Olivier Siohan