Interspeech 2018

791 papers

Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion with Global Character Vectors

Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

Joint Discriminative Embedding Learning, Speech Activity and Overlap Detection for the DIHARD Speaker Diarization Challenge

Valter Akira Miasato Filho, Diego Augusto Silva, Luis Gustavo Depra Cuozzo

The EURECOM Submission to the First DIHARD Challenge

Jose Patino, Héctor Delgado, Nicholas Evans

Diarization is Hard: Some Experiences and Lessons Learned for the JHU Team in the Inaugural DIHARD Challenge

Gregory Sell, David Snyder, Alan McCree, Daniel Garcia-Romero, Jesus Villalba

Estimation of the Number of Speakers with Variational Bayesian PLDA in the DIHARD Diarization Challenge.

Ignacio Viñals, Pablo Gimeno, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel, Eduardo Lleida

BUT System for DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge 2018

Mireia Diez, Federico Landini, Lukas Burget, Johan Rohdin, Anna Silnova

Speaker Diarization with Enhancing Speech for the First DIHARD Challenge

Lei Sun, Jun Du, Chao Jiang, Xueyang Zhang, Shan He

ZCU-NTIS Speaker Diarization System for the DIHARD 2018 Challenge

Zbyněk Zajíc, Marie Kunešová, Jan Zelinka, Marek Hrúz

L2-ARCTIC: A Non-native English Speech Corpus

Guanlong Zhao, Sinem Sonsaat, Alif Silpachai, Ivana Lucic, Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen

A French-Spanish Multimodal Speech Communication Corpus Incorporating Acoustic Data, Facial, Hands and Arms Gestures Information

Lucas D. Terissi, Gonzalo Sad, Mauricio Cerda, Slim Ouni, Rodrigo Galvez

Speech Database and Protocol Validation Using Waveform Entropy

Itshak Lapidot, Héctor Delgado, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans, Jean-Francois Bonastre

An Open Source Emotional Speech Corpus for Human Robot Interaction Applications

Jesin James, Li Tian, Catherine Inez Watson

A Knowledge Driven Structural Segmentation Approach for Play-Talk Classification During Autism Assessment

Manoj Kumar, Pooja Chebolu, So Hyun Kim, Kassandra Martinez, Catherine Lord

Fearless Steps: Apollo-11 Corpus Advancements for Speech Technologies from Earth to the Moon

John H.L. Hansen, Abhijeet Sangwan, Aditya Joglekar, Ahmet E. Bulut, Lakshmish Kaushik

Studying Vowel Variation in French-Algerian Arabic Code-switched Speech

Jane Wottawa, Amazouz Djegdjiga, Martine Adda-Decker, Lori Lamel

The ‘West Yorkshire Regional English Database’: Investigations into the Generalizability of Reference Populations for Forensic Speaker Comparison Casework

Erica Gold, Sula Ross, Kate Earnshaw

Variation in the FACE Vowel across West Yorkshire: Implications for Forensic Speaker Comparisons

Kate Earnshaw, Erica Gold

Regional Variation of /r/ in Swiss German Dialects

Adrian Leemann, Stephan Schmid, Dieter Studer-Joho, Marie-José Kolly

Dialect-geographical Acoustic-Tonetics: Five Disyllabic Tone Sandhi Patterns in Cognate Words from the Wu Dialects of ZhèJiāNg Province

Phil Rose

Exploring Temporal Reduction in Dialectal Spanish: A Large-scale Study of Lenition of Voiced Stops and Coda-s

Ioana Vasilescu, Nidia Hernandez, Bianca Vieru, Lori Lamel

DNN Driven Speaker Independent Audio-Visual Mask Estimation for Speech Separation

Mandar Gogate, Ahsan Adeel, Ricard Marxer, Jon Barker, Amir Hussain

Integrating Spectral and Spatial Features for Multi-Channel Speaker Separation

Zhong-Qiu Wang, Deliang Wang

PhaseNet: Discretized Phase Modeling with Deep Neural Networks for Audio Source Separation

Naoya Takahashi, Purvi Agrawal, Nabarun Goswami, Yuki Mitsufuji

End-to-End Speech Separation with Unfolded Iterative Phase Reconstruction

Zhong-Qiu Wang, Jonathan Le Roux, Deliang Wang, John Hershey

Keyword Based Speaker Localization: Localizing a Target Speaker in a Multi-speaker Environment

Sunit Sivasankaran, Emmanuel Vincent, Dominique Fohr

Impact of Aliasing on Deep CNN-Based End-to-End Acoustic Models

Yuan Gong, Christian Poellabauer

Unspeech: Unsupervised Speech Context Embeddings

Benjamin Milde, Chris Biemann

Full Bayesian Hidden Markov Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit Discovery

Thomas Glarner, Patrick Hanebrink, Janek Ebbers, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Learning Word Embeddings: Unsupervised Methods for Fixed-size Representations of Variable-length Speech Segments

Nils Holzenberger, Mingxing Du, Julien Karadayi, Rachid Riad, Emmanuel Dupoux

Unsupervised Word Segmentation from Speech with Attention

Pierre Godard, Marcely Zanon Boito, Lucas Ondel, Alexandre Berard, François Yvon

Exploiting Speaker and Phonetic Diversity of Mismatched Language Resources for Unsupervised Subword Modeling

Siyuan Feng, Tan Lee

Multilingual Bottleneck Features for Subword Modeling in Zero-resource Languages

Enno Hermann, Sharon Goldwater

Compact Feedforward Sequential Memory Networks for Small-footprint Keyword Spotting

Mengzhe Chen, Shiliang Zhang, Ming Lei, Yong Liu, Haitao Yao

Sampling Strategies in Siamese Networks for Unsupervised Speech Representation Learning

Rachid Riad, Corentin Dancette, Julien Karadayi, Neil Zeghidour, Thomas Schatz

CRIM's System for the MGB-3 English Multi-Genre Broadcast Media Transcription

Vishwa Gupta, Gilles Boulianne

Building Large-vocabulary Speaker-independent Lipreading Systems

Kwanchiva Thangthai, Richard Harvey

Visual Recognition of Continuous Cued Speech Using a Tandem CNN-HMM Approach

Li Liu, Thomas Hueber, Gang Feng, Denis Beautemps

BUT OpenSAT 2017 Speech Recognition System

Martin Karafiat, Murali Karthick Baskar, Igor Szőke, Vladimír Malenovský, Karel Veselý

Punctuation Prediction Model for Conversational Speech

Piotr Żelasko, Piotr Szymański, Jan Mizgajski, Adrian Szymczak, Yishay Carmiel

User-centric Evaluation of Automatic Punctuation in ASR Closed Captioning

Máté Ákos Tündik, György Szaszák, Gábor Gosztolya, András Beke

Cross-language Phoneme Mapping for Low-resource Languages: An Exploration of Benefits and Trade-offs

Nick K Chibuye, Todd Rosenstock, Brian DeRenzi

Improved ASR for Under-resourced Languages through Multi-task Learning with Acoustic Landmarks

Di He, Boon Pang Lim, Xuesong Yang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Deming Chen

Text-Dependent Speech Enhancement for Small-Footprint Robust Keyword Detection

Meng Yu, Xuan Ji, Yi Gao, Lianwu Chen, Jie Chen

Fast ASR-free and Almost Zero-resource Keyword Spotting Using DTW and CNNs for Humanitarian Monitoring

Raghav Menon, Herman Kamper, John Quinn, Thomas Niesler

Multilingual Neural Network Acoustic Modelling for ASR of Under-Resourced English-isiZulu Code-Switched Speech

Astik Biswas, Febe de Wet, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Emre Yılmaz, Thomas Niesler

Dual Language Models for Code Switched Speech Recognition

Saurabh Garg, Tanmay Parekh, Preethi Jyothi

Pitch Characteristics of L2 English Speech by Chinese Speakers: A Large-scale Study

Jiahong Yuan, Qiusi Dong, Fei Wu, Huan Luan, Xiaofei Yang

Automated Classification of Children’s Linguistic versus Non-Linguistic Vocalisations

Zixing Zhang, Alejandrina Cristia, Anne Warlaumont, Björn Schuller

Talker Diarization in the Wild: the Case of Child-centered Daylong Audio-recordings

Alejandrina Cristia, Shobhana Ganesh, Marisa Casillas, Sriram Ganapathy

Jacques Koreman

Analysis of Phone Errors Attributable to Phonological Effects Associated With Language Acquisition Through Bottleneck Feature Visualisations

Eva Fringi, Martin Russell

Characterizing Rhythm Differences between Strong and Weak Accented L2 Speech

Chris Davis, Jeesun Kim

The Diphthongs of Formal Nigerian English: A Preliminary Acoustic Analysis

Natalia Dyrenko, Robert Fuchs

Wuxi Speakers’ Production and Perception of Coda Nasals in Mandarin

Lei Wang, Jie Cui, Ying Chen

Unsupervised Discovery of Non-native Phonetic Patterns in L2 English Speech for Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis

Xu Li, Shaoguang Mao, Xixin Wu, Kun Li, Xunying Liu

Analysis of L2 Learners’ Progress of Distinguishing Mandarin Tone 2 and Tone 3

Yue Sun, Win Thuzar Kyaw, Jinsong Zhang, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Automatically Measuring L2 Speech Fluency without the Need of ASR: A Proof-of-concept Study with Japanese Learners of French

Lionel Fontan, Maxime Le Coz, Sylvain Detey

Cross-language Perception of Mandarin Lexical Tones by Mongolian-speaking Bilinguals in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Kimiko Tsukada, Yu Rong

Should Code-switching Models Be Asymmetric?

Barbara E. Bullock, Gualberto Guzmán, Jacqueline Serigos, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

LSTBM: A Novel Sequence Representation of Speech Spectra Using Restricted Boltzmann Machine with Long Short-Term Memory

Toru Nakashika

A Weighted Superposition of Functional Contours Model for Modelling Contextual Prominence of Elementary Prosodic Contours

Branislav Gerazov, Gérard Bailly, Yi Xu

DNN-based Speech Synthesis for Small Data Sets Considering Bidirectional Speech-Text Conversion

Kentaro Sone, Toru Nakashika

Deep Metric Learning for the Target Cost in Unit-Selection Speech Synthesizer

Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao, Yibin Zheng, Zhengqi Wen

Learning and Modeling Unit Embeddings for Improving HMM-based Unit Selection Speech Synthesis

Xiao Zhou, Zhen-Hua Ling, Zhi-Ping Zhou, Li-Rong Dai

Implementation of Respiration in Articulatory Synthesis Using a Pressure-Volume Lung Model

Keisuke Tanihara, Shogo Yonekura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Articulatory-to-speech Conversion Using Bi-directional Long Short-term Memory

Fumiaki Taguchi, Tokihiko Kaburagi

Multimodal Speech Synthesis Architecture for Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation

Hieu-Thi Luong, Junichi Yamagishi

Acoustic-dependent Phonemic Transcription for Text-to-speech Synthesis

Kévin Vythelingum, Yannick Estève, Olivier Rosec

Joint Learning of Facial Expression and Head Pose from Speech

David Greenwood, Iain Matthews, Stephen Laycock

The Effect of Real-Time Constraints on Automatic Speech Animation

Danny Websdale, Sarah Taylor, Ben Milner

An Investigation of Convolution Attention Based Models for Multilingual Speech Synthesis of Indian Languages

Pallavi Baljekar, SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Alan W Black

Audio-visual Voice Conversion Using Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis for Deep Bottleneck Features

Satoshi Tamura, Kento Horio, Hajime Endo, Satoru Hayamizu, Tomoki Toda

Naturalness Improvement Algorithm for Reconstructed Glossectomy Patient's Speech Using Spectral Differential Modification in Voice Conversion

Hiroki Murakami, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Masaaki Sato, Shogo Minagi

Fast Language Adaptation Using Phonological Information

Sibo Tong, Philip N. Garner, Hervé Bourlard

Improved Accented Speech Recognition Using Accent Embeddings and Multi-task Learning

Abhinav Jain, Minali Upreti, Preethi Jyothi

Leveraging Native Language Information for Improved Accented Speech Recognition

Shahram Ghorbani, John H.L. Hansen

Auxiliary Feature Based Adaptation of End-to-end ASR Systems

Marc Delcroix, Shinji Watanabe, Atsunori Ogawa, Shigeki Karita, Tomohiro Nakatani

Improving Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transferability Using Multilingual TDNN-BLSTM with Language-Dependent Pre-Final Layer

Siyuan Feng, Tan Lee

Improving DNNs Trained with Non-Native Transcriptions Using Knowledge Distillation and Target Interpolation

Amit Das, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Empirical Evaluation of Speaker Adaptation on DNN Based Acoustic Model

Ke Wang, Junbo Zhang, Yujun Wang, Lei Xie

Encoder Transfer for Attention-based Acoustic-to-word Speech Recognition

Sei Ueno, Takafumi Moriya, Masato Mimura, Shinsuke Sakai, Yusuke Shinohara

Neural Language Codes for Multilingual Acoustic Models

Markus Müller, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel

Speaker Adaptive Training and Mixup Regularization for Neural Network Acoustic Models in Automatic Speech Recognition

Natalia Tomashenko, Yuri Khokhlov, Yannick Estève

Data Augmentation Improves Recognition of Foreign Accented Speech

Takashi Fukuda, Raul Fernandez, Andrew Rosenberg, Samuel Thomas, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Training Augmentation with Adversarial Examples for Robust Speech Recognition

Sining Sun, Ching-Feng Yeh, Mari Ostendorf, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Lei Xie

Multi-task Learning with Augmentation Strategy for Acoustic-to-word Attention-based Encoder-decoder Speech Recognition

Takafumi Moriya, Sei Ueno, Yusuke Shinohara, Marc Delcroix, Yoshikazu Yamaguchi

Multi-Modal Data Augmentation for End-to-end ASR

Adithya Renduchintala, Shuoyang Ding, Matthew Wiesner, Shinji Watanabe

Glotto Vibrato Graph: A Device and Method for Recording, Analysis and Visualization of Glottal Activity

Kishalay Chakraborty, Senjam Shantirani Devi, Sanjeevan Devnath, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Priyankoo Sarmah

SPIRE-SST: An Automatic Web-based Self-learning Tool for Syllable Stress Tutoring (SST) to the Second Language Learners

Chiranjeevi Yarra, Anand P A, Kausthubha N K, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

An Automatic Speech Transcription System for Manipuri Language

Tanvina Patel, Krishna DN, Noor Fathima, Nisar Shah, Mahima C

Determining Speaker Location from Speech in a Practical Environment

BHVS Narayanamurthy, JV Satyanarayana, Bayya Yegnanarayana

Extracting Speaker’s Gender, Accent, Age and Emotional State from Speech

Nagendra Goel, Mousmita Sarma, Tejendra Kushwah, Dharmesh Agarwal, Zikra Iqbal

Improvements to an Automated Content Scoring System for Spoken CALL Responses: the ETS Submission to the Second Spoken CALL Shared Task

Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland, Rutuja Ubale, Yao Qian, Robert Pugh

The University of Birmingham 2018 Spoken CALL Shared Task Systems

Mengjie Qian, Xizi Wei, Peter Jančovič, Martin Russell

An Optimization Based Approach for Solving Spoken CALL Shared Task

Mohammad Ateeq, Abualsoud Hanani, Aziz Qaroush

Liulishuo's System for the Spoken CALL Shared Task 2018

Huy Nguyen, Lei Chen, Ramon Prieto, Chuan Wang, Yang Liu

The CSU-K Rule-Based System for the 2nd Edition Spoken CALL Shared Task

Dominik Jülg, Mario Kunstek, Cem Philipp Freimoser, Kay Berkling, Mengjie Qian

Overview of the 2018 Spoken CALL Shared Task

Claudia Baur, Andrew Caines, Cathy Chua, Johanna Gerlach, Mengjie Qian

Multimodal I-vectors to Detect and Evaluate Parkinson's Disease

Nicanor Garcia, Juan Camilo Vásquez Correa, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Elmar Nöth

Computational Modeling of Conversational Humor in Psychotherapy

Anil Ramakrishna, Timothy Greer, David Atkins, Shrikanth Narayanan