Interspeech 2017

844 papers

Multilingual Recurrent Neural Networks with Residual Learning for Low-Resource Speech Recognition

Shiyu Zhou, Yuanyuan Zhao, Shuang Xu, Bo Xu

The Acquisition of Focal Lengthening in Stockholm Swedish

Anna Sara H. Romøren, Aoju Chen

Accurate Synchronization of Speech and EGG Signal Using Phase Information

Sunil Kumar S.B., K. Sreenivasa Rao, Tanumay Mandal

Video-Based Tracking of Jaw Movements During Speech: Preliminary Results and Future Directions

Andrea Bandini, Aravind Namasivayam, Yana Yunusova

Wireless Neck-Surface Accelerometer and Microphone on Flex Circuit with Application to Noise-Robust Monitoring of Lombard Speech

Daryush D. Mehta, Patrick C. Chwalek, Thomas F. Quatieri, Laura J. Brattain

Cross-Modal Analysis Between Phonation Differences and Texture Images Based on Sentiment Correlations

Win Thuzar Kyaw, Yoshinori Sagisaka

When a Dog is a Cat and How it Changes Your Pupil Size: Pupil Dilation in Response to Information Mismatch

Lena F. Renner, Marcin Włodarczak

Takayuki Ito, Hiroki Ohashi, Eva Montas, Vincent L. Gracco

Auditory-Visual Integration of Talker Gender in Cantonese Tone Perception

Wei Lai

The Effect of Gesture on Persuasive Speech

Judith Peters, Marieke Hoetjes

Audiovisual Recalibration of Vowel Categories

Matthias K. Franken, Frank Eisner, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Daniel J. Acheson, Peter Hagoort

The Influence on Realization and Perception of Lexical Tones from Affricate’s Aspiration

Chong Cao, Yanlu Xie, Qi Zhang, Jinsong Zhang

Database of Volumetric and Real-Time Vocal Tract MRI for Speech Science

Tanner Sorensen, Zisis Skordilis, Asterios Toutios, Yoon-Chul Kim, Yinghua Zhu

An Objective Critical Distance Measure Based on the Relative Level of Spectral Valley

T.V. Ananthapadmanabha, A.G. Ramakrishnan, shubham sharma

Vocal Tract Airway Tissue Boundary Tracking for rtMRI Using Shape and Appearance Priors

Sasan Asadiabadi, Engin Erzin

Semantic Edge Detection for Tracking Vocal Tract Air-Tissue Boundaries in Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Images

Krishna Somandepalli, Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Critical Articulators Identification from RT-MRI of the Vocal Tract

Samuel Silva, António Teixeira

Sociophonetic Realizations Guide Subsequent Lexical Access

Jonny Kim, Katie Drager

Perception and Acoustics of Vowel Nasality in Brazilian Portuguese

Luciana Marques, Rebecca Scarborough

The Relative Cueing Power of F0 and Duration in German Prominence Perception

Oliver Niebuhr, Jana Winkler

Misperceptions of the Emotional Content of Natural and Vocoded Speech in a Car

Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Cassia Valentini Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter, Junichi Yamagishi

The Effect of Spectral Tilt on Size Discrimination of Voiced Speech Sounds

Toshie Matsui, Toshio Irino, Kodai Yamamoto, Hideki Kawahara, Roy D. Patterson

Predicting Epenthetic Vowel Quality from Acoustics

Adriana Guevara-Rukoz, Erika Parlato-Oliveira, Shi Yu, Yuki Hirose, Sharon Peperkamp

Emotional Thin-Slicing: A Proposal for a Short- and Long-Term Division of Emotional Speech

Daniel Oliveira Peres, Dominic Watt, Waldemar Ferreira Netto

Whether Long-Term Tracking of Speech Rate Affects Perception Depends on Who is Talking

Merel Maslowski, Antje S. Meyer, Hans Rutger Bosker

The Effect of Spectral Profile on the Intelligibility of Emotional Speech in Noise

Chris Davis, Chee Seng Chong, Jeesun Kim

Lexically Guided Perceptual Learning in Mandarin Chinese

L. Ann Burchfield, San-hei Kenny Luk, Mark Antoniou, Anne Cutler

Simultaneous Articulatory and Acoustic Distortion in L1 and L2 Listening: Locally Time-Reversed “Fast” Speech

Mako Ishida

Phonetic Restoration of Temporally Reversed Speech

Shi-yu Wang, Fei Chen

Factors Affecting the Intelligibility of Low-Pass Filtered Speech

Lei Wang, Fei Chen

A Phonological Phrase Sequence Modelling Approach for Resource Efficient and Robust Real-Time Punctuation Recovery

Anna Moró, György Szaszák

Estimation of Gap Between Current Language Models and Human Performance

Xiaoyu Shen, Youssef Oualil, Clayton Greenberg, Mittul Singh, Dietrich Klakow

Joint Learning of Correlated Sequence Labeling Tasks Using Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks

Vardaan Pahuja, Anirban Laha, Shachar Mirkin, Vikas Raykar, Lili Kotlerman

Use of Global and Acoustic Features Associated with Contextual Factors to Adapt Language Models for Spontaneous Speech Recognition

Shohei Toyama, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Hierarchical Constrained Bayesian Optimization for Feature, Acoustic Model and Decoder Parameter Optimization

Akshay Chandrashekaran, Ian Lane

Binary Deep Neural Networks for Speech Recognition

Xu Xiang, Yanmin Qian, Kai Yu

Empirical Evaluation of Parallel Training Algorithms on Acoustic Modeling

Wenpeng Li, Binbin Zhang, Lei Xie, Dong Yu

Towards Better Decoding and Language Model Integration in Sequence to Sequence Models

Jan Chorowski, Navdeep Jaitly

Phone Duration Modeling for LVCSR Using Neural Networks

Hossein Hadian, Daniel Povey, Hossein Sameti, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Comparison of Decoding Strategies for CTC Acoustic Models

Thomas Zenkel, Ramon Sanabria, Florian Metze, Jan Niehues, Matthias Sperber

Rescoring-Aware Beam Search for Reduced Search Errors in Contextual Automatic Speech Recognition

Ian Williams, Petar Aleksic

A Robust Voiced/Unvoiced Phoneme Classification from Whispered Speech Using the ‘Color’ of Whispered Phonemes and Deep Neural Network

G. Nisha Meenakshi, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Montreal Forced Aligner: Trainable Text-Speech Alignment Using Kaldi

Michael McAuliffe, Michaela Socolof, Sarah Mihuc, Michael Wagner, Morgan Sonderegger

Virtual Adversarial Training and Data Augmentation for Acoustic Event Detection with Gated Recurrent Neural Networks

Matthias Zöhrer, Franz Pernkopf

Hidden Markov Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit Discovery

Janek Ebbers, Jahn Heymann, Lukas Drude, Thomas Glarner, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Audio Classification Using Class-Specific Learned Descriptors

Sukanya Sonowal, Tushar Sandhan, Inkyu Choi, Nam Soo Kim

Enhanced Feature Extraction for Speech Detection in Media Audio

Inseon Jang, ChungHyun Ahn, Jeongil Seo, Younseon Jang

Frame-Wise Dynamic Threshold Based Polyphonic Acoustic Event Detection

Xianjun Xia, Roberto Togneri, Ferdous Sohel, David Huang

Attention Based CLDNNs for Short-Duration Acoustic Scene Classification

Jinxi Guo, Ning Xu, Li-jia Li, Abeer Alwan

Indoor/Outdoor Audio Classification Using Foreground Speech Segmentation

Banriskhem K. Khonglah, K.T. Deepak, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Multilingual i-Vector Based Statistical Modeling for Music Genre Classification

Jia Dai, Wei Xue, Wenju Liu

Learning the Mapping Function from Voltage Amplitudes to Sensor Positions in 3D-EMA Using Deep Neural Networks

Christian Kroos, Mark D. Plumbley

Analytic Filter Bank for Speech Analysis, Feature Extraction and Perceptual Studies

Unto K. Laine

Vowel Onset Point Detection Using Sonority Information

Bidisha Sharma, S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Wavelet Speech Enhancement Based on Robust Principal Component Analysis

Chia-Lung Wu, Hsiang-Ping Hsu, Syu-Siang Wang, Jeih-Weih Hung, Ying-Hui Lai

Time-Domain Envelope Modulating the Noise Component of Excitation in a Continuous Residual-Based Vocoder for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi, Tamás Gábor Csapó, Géza Németh

Non-Local Estimation of Speech Signal for Vowel Onset Point Detection in Varied Environments

Avinash Kumar, S. Shahnawazuddin, Gayadhar Pradhan

A Modulation Property of Time-Frequency Derivatives of Filtered Phase and its Application to Aperiodicity and foEstimation

Hideki Kawahara, Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Masanori Morise, Hideki Banno, Tomoki Toda

A Time-Warping Pitch Tracking Algorithm Considering Fast f0Changes

Simon Stone, Peter Steiner, Peter Birkholz

Robust Source-Filter Separation of Speech Signal in the Phase Domain

Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Oscar Saz Torralba, Thomas Hain

Low-Dimensional Representation of Spectral Envelope Without Deterioration for Full-Band Speech Analysis/Synthesis System

Masanori Morise, Genta Miyashita, Kenji Ozawa

On Multi-Domain Training and Adaptation of End-to-End RNN Acoustic Models for Distant Speech Recognition

Seyedmahdad Mirsamadi, John H.L. Hansen

Acoustic Modeling for Google Home

Bo Li, Tara N. Sainath, Arun Narayanan, Joe Caroselli, Michiel Bacchiani

On Design of Robust Deep Models for CHiME-4 Multi-Channel Speech Recognition with Multiple Configurations of Array Microphones

Yan-Hui Tu, Jun Du, Lei Sun, Feng Ma, Chin-Hui Lee

Factorial Modeling for Effective Suppression of Directional Noise

Osamu Ichikawa, Takashi Fukuda, Gakuto Kurata, Steven J. Rennie

Neural Network-Based Spectrum Estimation for Online WPE Dereverberation

Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix, Haeyong Kwon, Takuma Mori, Tomohiro Nakatani

Generation of Large-Scale Simulated Utterances in Virtual Rooms to Train Deep-Neural Networks for Far-Field Speech Recognition in Google Home

Chanwoo Kim, Ananya Misra, Kean Chin, Thad Hughes, Arun Narayanan

A Preliminary Study of Prosodic Disambiguation by Chinese EFL Learners

Yuanyuan Zhang, Hongwei Ding

Effects of Pitch Fall and L1 on Vowel Length Identification in L2 Japanese

Izumi Takiguchi

L1 Perceptions of L2 Prosody: The Interplay Between Intonation, Rhythm, and Speech Rate and Their Contribution to Accentedness and Comprehensibility

Lieke van Maastricht, Tim Zee, Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts

Perception of Non-Contrastive Variations in American English by Japanese Learners: Flaps are Less Favored Than Stops

Kiyoko Yoneyama, Mafuyu Kitahara, Keiichi Tajima

Dialect Perception by Older Children

Ewa Jacewicz, Robert A. Fox

End-to-End Acoustic Feedback in Language Learning for Correcting Devoiced French Final-Fricatives

Sucheta Ghosh, Camille Fauth, Yves Laprie, Aghilas Sini

Estimation of the Probability Distribution of Spectral Fine Structure in the Speech Source

Tom Bäckström

Estimation of Place of Articulation of Fricatives from Spectral Characteristics for Speech Training

K.S. Nataraj, Prem C. Pandey, Hirak Dasgupta

Musical Speech: A New Methodology for Transcribing Speech Prosody

Alexsandro R. Meireles, Antônio R.M. Simões, Antonio Celso Ribeiro, Beatriz Raposo de Medeiros

Time-Frequency Coherence for Periodic-Aperiodic Decomposition of Speech Signals

Karthika Vijayan, Jitendra Kumar Dhiman, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

An Investigation of Crowd Speech for Room Occupancy Estimation

Siyuan Chen, Julien Epps, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Phu Ngoc Le

Phone Classification Using a Non-Linear Manifold with Broad Phone Class Dependent DNNs

Linxue Bai, Peter Jančovič, Martin Russell, Philip Weber, Steve Houghton

Convolutional Neural Network to Model Articulation Impairments in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

J.C. Vasquez-Correa, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Elmar Nöth

Earlier Identification of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Automatic Vocalisation-Based Approach

Florian B. Pokorny, Björn Schuller, Peter B. Marschik, Raymond Brueckner, Pär Nyström

Objective Severity Assessment from Disordered Voice Using Estimated Glottal Airflow

Yu-Ren Chien, Michal Borsky, Jón Guðnason

Evaluation of the Neurological State of People with Parkinson’s Disease Using i-Vectors

N. Garcia, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, L.F. D’Haro, Najim Dehak, Elmar Nöth

Automatic Paraphasia Detection from Aphasic Speech: A Preliminary Study

Duc Le, Keli Licata, Emily Mower Provost

Dominant Distortion Classification for Pre-Processing of Vowels in Remote Biomedical Voice Analysis

Amir Hossein Poorjam, Jesper Rindom Jensen, Max A. Little, Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Residual Memory Networks in Language Modeling: Improving the Reputation of Feed-Forward Networks

Karel Beneš, Murali Karthick Baskar, Lukas Burget

Empirical Exploration of Novel Architectures and Objectives for Language Models

Gakuto Kurata, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, George Saon

Fast Neural Network Language Model Lookups at N-Gram Speeds

Yinghui Huang, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Investigating Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network Language Models for Speech Recognition

X. Chen, A. Ragni, X. Liu, Mark J.F. Gales

A Batch Noise Contrastive Estimation Approach for Training Large Vocabulary Language Models

Youssef Oualil, Dietrich Klakow

Approaches for Neural-Network Language Model Adaptation

Min Ma, Michael Nirschl, Fadi Biadsy, Shankar Kumar

Integrating Articulatory Information in Deep Learning-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Beiming Cao, Myungjong Kim, Jan van Santen, Ted Mau, Jun Wang

Beyond the Listening Test: An Interactive Approach to TTS Evaluation

Joseph Mendelson, Matthew P. Aylett

VCV Synthesis Using Task Dynamics to Animate a Factor-Based Articulatory Model

Rachel Alexander, Tanner Sorensen, Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth S. Narayanan

An HMM/DNN Comparison for Synchronized Text-to-Speech and Tongue Motion Synthesis

Sébastien Le Maguer, Ingmar Steiner, Alexander Hewer

Articulatory Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using the Digital Waveguide Mesh Driven by a Deep Neural Network

Amelia J. Gully, Takenori Yoshimura, Damian T. Murphy, Kei Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Nankaku

The Influence of Synthetic Voice on the Evaluation of a Virtual Character

João Paulo Cabral, Benjamin R. Cowan, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell

Nature of Contrast and Coarticulation: Evidence from Mizo Tones and Assamese Vowel Harmony

Indranil Dutta, Irfan S., Pamir Gogoi, Priyankoo Sarmah

Vowels in the Barunga Variety of North Australian Kriol

Caroline Jones, Katherine Demuth, Weicong Li, Andre Almeida

How are Four-Level Length Distinctions Produced? Evidence from Moroccan Arabic

Giuseppina Turco, Karim Shoul, Rachid Ridouane