Interspeech 2018

791 papers

Modeling Interpersonal Influence of Verbal Behavior in Couples Therapy Dyadic Interactions

Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula, Brian Baucom, Panayiotis Georgiou

Recognition of Echolalic Autistic Child Vocalisations Utilising Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks

Shahin Amiriparian, Alice Baird, Sahib Julka, Alyssa Alcorn, Sandra Ottl

An Interlocutor-Modulated Attentional LSTM for Differentiating between Subgroups of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Yun-Shao Lin, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Chi-Chun Lee

Investigating the Effect of Audio Duration on Dementia Detection Using Acoustic Features

Jochen Weiner, Miguel Angrick, Srinivasan Umesh, Tanja Schultz

Estimation of Fundamental Frequency from Singing Voice Using Harmonics of Impulse-like Excitation Source

Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Bayya Yegnanarayana

Automated Classification of Vowel-Gesture Parameters Using External Broadband Excitation

Balamurali B T, Jer-Ming Chen

Epoch Extraction from Pathological Children Speech Using Single Pole Filtering Approach

C M Vikram, S R Mahadeva Prasanna

Tone Recognition Using Lifters and CTC

Loren Lugosch, Vikrant Singh Tomar

Detection of Glottal Closure Instants in Degraded Speech Using Single Frequency Filtering Analysis

Gunnam Aneeja, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Bayya Yegnanarayana

Conditional End-to-End Audio Transforms

Albert Haque, Michelle Guo, Prateek Verma

Phoneme Resistance and Phoneme Confusion in Noise: Impact of Dyslexia

Noelia Do Carmo Blanco, Julien Meyer, Michel Hoen, Fanny Meunier

Loud and Shouted Speech Perception at Variable Distances in a Forest

Julien Meyer, Fanny Meunier, Laure Dentel, Noelia Do Carmo Blanco, Frédéric Sèbe

The Conversation Continues: the Effect of Lyrics and Music Complexity of Background Music on Spoken-Word Recognition

Odette Scharenborg, Martha Larson

Investigating the Role of Familiar Face and Voice Cues in Speech Processing in Noise

Jeesun Kim, Sonya Karisma, Vincent Aubanel, Chris Davis

Who Are You Listening to? Towards a Dynamic Measure of Auditory Attention to Speech-on-speech.

Moïra-Phoebé Huet, Christophe Micheyl, Etienne Gaudrain, Etienne Parizet

Impact of Different Speech Types on Listening Effort

Olympia Simantiraki, Martin Cooke, Simon King

Deep Discriminative Embeddings for Duration Robust Speaker Verification

Na Li, Deyi Tuo, Dan Su, Zhifeng Li, Dong Yu

Robust and Discriminative Speaker Embedding via Intra-Class Distance Variance Regularization

Nam Le, Jean-Marc Odobez

Attentive Statistics Pooling for Deep Speaker Embedding

Koji Okabe, Takafumi Koshinaka, Koichi Shinoda

Speaker Embedding Extraction with Phonetic Information

Yi Liu, Liang He, Jia Liu, Michael T. Johnson

Triplet Loss Based Cosine Similarity Metric Learning for Text-independent Speaker Recognition

Sergey Novoselov, Vadim Shchemelinin, Andrey Shulipa, Alexandr Kozlov, Ivan Kremnev

Learning Discriminative Features for Speaker Identification and Verification

Sarthak Yadav, Atul Rai

Forward-Backward Attention Decoder

Masato Mimura, Shinsuke Sakai, Tatsuya Kawahara

Contextual Speech Recognition in End-to-end Neural Network Systems Using Beam Search

Ian Williams, Anjuli Kannan, Petar Aleksic, David Rybach, Tara Sainath

Semantic Lattice Processing in Contextual Automatic Speech Recognition for Google Assistant

Leonid Velikovich, Ian Williams, Justin Scheiner, Petar Aleksic, Pedro Moreno

Automatic Speech Recognition System Development in the "Wild"

Anton Ragni, Mark Gales

A GPU-based WFST Decoder with Exact Lattice Generation

Zhehuai Chen, Justin Luitjens, Hainan Xu, Yiming Wang, Daniel Povey

ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit

Shinji Watanabe, Takaaki Hori, Shigeki Karita, Tomoki Hayashi, Jiro Nishitoba

Speech Processing in the Human Brain Meets Deep Learning

Nima Mesgarani

Cultural Differences in Pattern Matching: Multisensory Recognition of Socio-affective Prosody

Takaaki Shochi, Jean-Luc Rouas, Marine Guerry, Donna Erickson

Emotional Prosody Perception in Mandarin-speaking Congenital Amusics

Yixin Zhang, Tianzhu Geng, Jinsong Zhang

Homogeneity vs Heterogeneity in Indian English: Investigating Influences of L1 on f0 Range

Olga Maxwell, Elinor Payne, Rosey Billington

Automatic Assessment of L2 English Word Prosody Using Weighted Distances of F0 and Intensity Contours

Quy-Thao Truong, Tsuneo Kato, Seiichi Yamamoto

Formant Measures of Vowels Adjacent to Alveolar and Retroflex Consonants in Arrernte: Stressed and Unstressed Position

Marija Tabain, RIchard Beare, Andrew Butcher

Acoustic-prosodic Entrainment in Structural Metadata Events

Vera Cabarrão, Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata

Stress Distribution of Given Information in Chinese Reading Texts

Yuan Jia, Xiaoxiao Ma

Language-Dependent Melody Embeddings

Daniil Kocharov, Alla Menshikova

Analysing the Focus of a Hierarchical Attention Network: the Importance of Enjambments When Classifying Post-modern Poetry

Timo Baumann, Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek

An Empirical Analysis of the Correlation of Syntax and Prosody

Arne Köhn, Timo Baumann, Oskar Dörfler

Improved Epoch Extraction from Telephonic Speech Using Chebfun and Zero Frequency Filtering

B Ganga Gowri, K P Soman, D Govind

A New Frequency Coverage Metric and a New Subband Encoding Model, with an Application in Pitch Estimation

Shoufeng Lin

Articulatory Feature Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Danny Merkx, Odette Scharenborg

Analyzing Thai Tone Distribution through Functional Data Analysis

Hong Zhang

Detection of Glottal Excitation Epochs in Speech Signal Using Hilbert Envelope

Hirak Dasgupta, Prem C. Pandey, K S Nataraj

Deep Convex Representations: Feature Representations for Bioacoustics Classification

Anshul Thakur, Vinayak Abrol, Pulkit Sharma, Padmanabhan Rajan

All-Conv Net for Bird Activity Detection: Significance of Learned Pooling

Arjun Pankajakshan, Anshul Thakur, Daksh Thapar, Padmanabhan Rajan, Aditya Nigam

Assessing Speaker Engagement in 2-Person Debates: Overlap Detection in United States Presidential Debates

Midia Yousefi, Navid Shokouhi, John H.L. Hansen

Glottal Closure Instant Detection from Speech Signal Using Voting Classifier and Recursive Feature Elimination

Jindřich Matoušek, Daniel Tihelka

Deep Learning Techniques for Koala Activity Detection

Ivan Himawan, Michael Towsey, Bradley Law, Paul Roe

Estimation of the Vocal Tract Length of Vowel Sounds Based on the Frequency of the Significant Spectral Valley

TV Ananthapadmanabha, Ramakrishnan A G

A Novel Normalization Method for Autocorrelation Function for Pitch Detection and for Speech Activity Detection

Qiguang Lin, Yiwen Shao

Efficient Voice Trigger Detection for Low Resource Hardware

Siddharth Sigtia, Rob Haynes, Hywel Richards, Erik Marchi, John Bridle

Music Genre Recognition Using Deep Neural Networks and Transfer Learning

Deepanway Ghosal, Maheshkumar H. Kolekar

Slot Filling with Delexicalized Sentence Generation

Youhyun Shin, Kang Min Yoo, Sang-goo Lee

Semi-supervised Learning for Information Extraction from Dialogue

Anjuli Kannan, Kai Chen, Diana Jaunzeikare, Alvin Rajkomar

Term Extraction via Neural Sequence Labeling a Comparative Evaluation of Strategies Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Maren Kucza, Jan Niehues, Thomas Zenkel, Alex Waibel, Sebastian Stüker

Phonological Posterior Hashing for Query by Example Spoken Term Detection

Afsaneh Asaei, Dhananjay Ram, Hervé Bourlard

Empirical Analysis of Score Fusion Application to Combined Neural Networks for Open Vocabulary Spoken Term Detection

Shi-wook Lee, Kazuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Itoh

Play Duration Based User-Entity Affinity Modeling in Spoken Dialog System

Bo Xiao, Nicholas Monath, Shankar Ananthakrishnan, Abishek Ravi

Automatic Speech Recognition and Topic Identification from Speech for Almost-Zero-Resource Languages

Matthew Wiesner, Chunxi Liu, Lucas Ondel, Craig Harman, Vimal Manohar

Topic and Keyword Identification for Low-resourced Speech Using Cross-Language Transfer Learning

Wenda Chen, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Nancy F. Chen

Prediction of Aesthetic Elements in Karnatic Music: A Machine Learning Approach

Ragesh Rajan M, Ashwin Vijayakumar, Deepu Vijayasenan

Attention-based End-to-End Models for Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting

Changhao Shan, Junbo Zhang, Yujun Wang, Lei Xie

Joint Learning of Interactive Spoken Content Retrieval and Trainable User Simulator

Pei-Hung Chung, Kuan Tung, Ching-Lun Tai, Hung-yi Lee

Frequency Domain Variants of Velvet Noise and Their Application to Speech Processing and Synthesis

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

Exemplar-based Speech Waveform Generation

Oliver Watts, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Felipe Espic, Simon King

A New Glottal Neural Vocoder for Speech Synthesis

Yang Cui, Xi Wang, Lei He, Frank K. Soong

Speaker-independent Raw Waveform Model for Glottal Excitation

Lauri Juvela, Vassilis Tsiaras, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Manu Airaksinen, Junichi Yamagishi

Multi-task WaveNet: A Multi-task Generative Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis without Fundamental Frequency Conditions

Yu Gu, Yongguo Kang

Experiments with Training Corpora for Statistical Text-to-speech Systems.

Monika Podsiadło, Victor Ungureanu

Spanish Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Using a Neural Vocoder

Antonio Bonafonte, Santiago Pascual, Georgina Dorca

High-quality Voice Conversion Using Spectrogram-Based WaveNet Vocoder

Kuan Chen, Bo Chen, Jiahao Lai, Kai Yu

Collapsed Speech Segment Detection and Suppression for WaveNet Vocoder

YI-CHIAO WU, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Hayashi, Patrick Lumban Tobing, Tomoki Toda

WaveNet Vocoder with Limited Training Data for Voice Conversion

Li-Juan Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yuan Jiang, Ming Zhou, Li-Rong Dai

A Voice Conversion Framework with Tandem Feature Sparse Representation and Speaker-Adapted WaveNet Vocoder

Berrak Sisman, Mingyang Zhang, Haizhou Li

Voice Conversion with Conditional SampleRNN

Cong Zhou, Michael Horgan, Vivek Kumar, Cristina Vasco, Dan Darcy

Unsupervised Vocal Tract Length Warped Posterior Features for Non-Parallel Voice Conversion

Nirmesh Shah, Maulik C. Madhavi, Hemant Patil

Online Speech Translation System for Tamil

Madhavaraj Ayyavu, Shiva Kumar H R, Ramakrishnan A G

Fully Automatic Speaker Separation System, with Automatic Enrolling of Recurrent Speakers

Raphael Cohen, Orgad Keller, Jason Levy, Russell Levy, Micha Breakstone

Machine Learning Powered Data Platform for High-Quality Speech and NLP Workflows

João Freitas, Jorge Ribeiro, Daan Baldwijns, Sara Oliveira, Daniela Braga

Toward Scalable Dialog Technology for Conversational Language Learning: Case Study of the TOEFL® MOOC

Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Pautler, Patrick Lange, Eugene Tsuprun, Rutuja Ubale

Hierarchical Accent Determination and Application in a Large Scale ASR System

Ramya Viswanathan, Periyasamy Paramasivam, Jithendra Vepa

A Novel Approach for Effective Recognition of the Code-Switched Data on Monolingual Language Model

Sreeram Ganji, Rohit Sinha

Code-switching in Indic Speech Synthesisers

Anju Leela Thomas, Anusha Prakash, Arun Baby, Hema Murthy

Homophone Identification and Merging for Code-switched Speech Recognition

Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Sunayana Sitaram

The Role of Cognate Words, POS Tags and Entrainment in Code-Switching

Victor Soto, Nishmar Cestero, Julia Hirschberg

Acoustic and Textual Data Augmentation for Improved ASR of Code-Switching Speech

Emre Yılmaz, Henk van den Heuvel, David Van Leeuwen

Study of Semi-supervised Approaches to Improving English-Mandarin Code-Switching Speech Recognition

Pengcheng Guo, Haihua Xu, Lei Xie, Eng Siong Chng

Building a Unified Code-Switching ASR System for South African Languages

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

A Study of Lexical and Prosodic Cues to Segmentation in a Hindi-English Code-switched Discourse

Preeti Rao, Mugdha Pandya, Kamini Sabu, Kanhaiya Kumar, Nandini Bondale

Automatic Early Detection of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis from Intelligible Speech Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Kwanghoon An, Myungjong Kim, Kristin Teplansky, Jordan Green, Thomas Campbell

Language Features for Automated Evaluation of Cognitive Behavior Psychotherapy Sessions

Nikolaos Flemotomos, Victor Martinez, James Gibson, David Atkins, Torrey Creed

The PRIORI Emotion Dataset: Linking Mood to Emotion Detected In-the-Wild

Soheil Khorram, Mimansa Jaiswal, John Gideon, Melvin McInnis, Emily Mower Provost

Classification of Huntington Disease Using Acoustic and Lexical Features

Matthew Perez, Wenyu Jin, Duc Le, Noelle Carlozzi, Praveen Dayalu

Detecting Signs of Dementia Using Word Vector Representations

Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Traci Walker, Annalena Venneri, Markus Reuber

UltraSuite: A Repository of Ultrasound and Acoustic Data from Child Speech Therapy Sessions

Aciel Eshky, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Joanne Cleland, Korin Richmond, Zoe Roxburgh

Detecting Packet-Loss Concealment Using Formant Features and Decision Tree Learning

Gabriel Mittag, Sebastian Möller

Global SNR Estimation of Speech Signals Using Entropy and Uncertainty Estimates from Dropout Networks

Rohith Aralikatti, Dilip Kumar Margam, Tanay Sharma, Abhinav Thanda, Shankar Venkatesan

Quality-Net: An End-to-End Non-intrusive Speech Quality Assessment Model Based on BLSTM

Szu-Wei Fu, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Te Hwang, Hsin-Min Wang

Speech Intelligibility Enhancement Based on a Non-causal Wavenet-like Model

Muhammed Shifas PV, Vassilis Tsiaras, Yannis Stylianou