Interspeech 2018

791 papers

Multi-resolution Gammachirp Envelope Distortion Index for Intelligibility Prediction of Noisy Speech

Katsuhiko Yamamoto, Toshio Irino, Narumi Ohashi, Shoko Araki, Keisuke Kinoshita

Binaural Speech Intelligibility Estimation Using Deep Neural Networks

Kazuhiro Kondo, Kazuya Taira, Yosuke Kobayashi

Effects of User Controlled Speech Rate on Intelligibility in Noisy Environments

John S. Novak III, Robert V. Kenyon

Information Structure, Affect and Prenuclear Prominence in American English

Eleanor Chodroff, Jennifer Cole

Length Contrast and Covarying Features: Whistled Speech as a Case Study

Rachid Ridouane, Giuseppina Turco, Julien Meyer

Prominence-based Evaluation of L2 Prosody

Heini Kallio, Antti Suni, Päivi Virkkunen, Juraj Simko

Truncation and Compression in Southern German and Australian English

Jenny Yu, Katharina Zahner

Articulation Rate as a Speaker Discriminant in British English

Erica Gold

Effectiveness of Single-Channel BLSTM Enhancement for Language Identification

Peter Sibbern Frederiksen, Jesus Villalba, Shinji Watanabe, Zheng-Hua Tan, Najim Dehak

Sub-band Envelope Features Using Frequency Domain Linear Prediction for Short Duration Language Identification

Sarith Fernando, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Feature Representation of Short Utterances Based on Knowledge Distillation for Spoken Language Identification

Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai

Adding New Classes without Access to the Original Training Data with Applications to Language Identification

Hagai Taitelbaum, Ehud Ben-Reuven, Jacob Goldberger

Using Deep Neural Networks for Identification of Slavic Languages from Acoustic Signal

Lukas Mateju, Petr Cerva, Jindrich Zdansky, Radek Safarik

Performance Analysis of the 2017 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Timothée Kheyrkhah, Craig Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Douglas Reynolds

Output-Gate Projected Gated Recurrent Unit for Speech Recognition

Gaofeng Cheng, Daniel Povey, Lu Huang, Ji Xu, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Gated Recurrent Unit Based Acoustic Modeling with Future Context

Jie Li, Xiaorui Wang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Yan Li

Acoustic Modeling with Densely Connected Residual Network for Multichannel Speech Recognition

Jian Tang, Yan Song, Lirong Dai, Ian McLoughlin

Gaussian Process Neural Networks for Speech Recognition

Max W. Y. Lam, Shoukang Hu, Xurong Xie, Shansong Liu, Jianwei Yu

Semi-tied Units for Efficient Gating in LSTM and Highway Networks

Chao Zhang, Philip Woodland

Layer Trajectory LSTM

Jinyu Li, Changliang Liu, Yifan Gong

Evolution of Neural Network Architectures for Speech Recognition

Hervé Bourlard

Open Problems in Speech Recognition

Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Lexical and Acoustic Deep Learning Model for Personality Recognition

Guozhen An, Rivka Levitan

Vocal Biomarkers for Cognitive Performance Estimation in a Working Memory Task

Jennifer Sloboda, Adam Lammert, James Williamson, Christopher Smalt, Daryush D. Mehta

Analysis of the Effect of Speech-Laugh on Speaker Recognition System

Sri Harsha Dumpala, Ashish Panda, Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Analyzing Effect of Physical Expression on English Proficiency for Multimodal Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Haoran Wu, Yuya Chiba, Takashi Nose, Akinori Ito

Audio-Visual Prediction of Head-Nod and Turn-Taking Events in Dyadic Interactions

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

Improving Response Time of Active Speaker Detection Using Visual Prosody Information Prior to Articulation

Fasih Haider, Saturnino Luz, Carl Vogel, Nick Campbell

Automatic Question Detection from Acoustic and Phonetic Features Using Feature-wise Pre-training

Atsushi Ando, Reine Asakawa, Ryo Masumura, Hosana Kamiyama, Satoshi Kobashikawa

Acoustic and Perceptual Characteristics of Mandarin Speech in Homosexual and Heterosexual Male Speakers

Puyang Geng, Wentao Gu, Hiroya Fujisaki

Discourse Marker Detection for Hesitation Events on Mandarin Conversation

Yu-Wun Wang, Hen-Hsen Huang, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Detecting Depression with Audio/Text Sequence Modeling of Interviews

Tuka Al Hanai, Mohammad Ghassemi, James Glass

Automatic Detection of Orofacial Impairment in Stroke

Andrea Bandini, Jordan Green, Brian Richburg, Yana Yunusova

Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease Using Gated Convolutional Neural Network from Audio Data

Tifani Warnita, Nakamasa Inoue, Koichi Shinoda

Estimation of Hypernasality Scores from Cleft Lip and Palate Speech

C M Vikram, Ayush Tripathi, Sishir Kalita, S R Mahadeva Prasanna

Acoustic Features Associated with Sustained Vowel and Continuous Speech Productions by Chinese Children with Functional Articulation Disorders

Wang Zhang, Xiangquan Gui, Tianqi Wang, Manwa Ng, Feng Yang

Detection of Dementia from Responses to Atypical Questions Asked by Embodied Conversational Agents

Tsuyoki Ujiro, Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroyoshi Adachi, Hiroaki Kazui, Manabu Ikeda

Testing Paradigms for Assistive Hearing Devices in Diverse Acoustic Environments

Ram Charan Chandra Shekar, Hussnain Ali, John H.L. Hansen

Fusing Text-dependent Word-level i-Vector Models to Screen ‘at Risk’ Child Speech

Prasanna Kothalkar, Johanna Rudolph, Christine Dollaghan, Jennifer McGlothlin, Thomas Campbell

Effectiveness of Voice Quality Features in Detecting Depression

Amber Afshan, Jinxi Guo, Soo Jin Park, Vijay Ravi, Jonathan Flint

Anomaly Detection Approach for Pronunciation Verification of Disordered Speech Using Speech Attribute Features

Mostafa Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Jim X. Ji, Kirrie Ballard

Improved Acoustic Modelling for Automatic Literacy Assessment of Children

Mauro Nicolao, Michiel Sanders, Thomas Hain

On the Difficulties of Automatic Speech Recognition for Kindergarten-Aged Children

Gary Yeung, Abeer Alwan

Factorized Deep Neural Network Adaptation for Automatic Scoring of L2 Speech in English Speaking Tests

Dean Luo, Chunxiao Zhang, Linzhong Xia, Lixin Wang

A Study of Objective Measurement of Comprehensibility through Native Speakers' Shadowing of Learners' Utterances

Yusuke Inoue, Suguru Kabashima, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Kumi Kanamura

Automatic Miscue Detection Using RNN Based Models with Data Augmentation

Yoon Seok Hong, Kyung Seo Ki, Gahgene Gweon

Impact of ASR Performance on Free Speaking Language Assessment

Kate Knill, Mark Gales, Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos, Andrey Malinin, Anton Ragni

Investigating the Role of L1 in Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation of L2 Speech

Ming Tu, Anna Grabek, Julie Liss, Visar Berisha

Paired Phone-Posteriors Approach to ESL Pronunciation Quality Assessment

Yujia Xiao, Frank Soong, Wenping Hu

A Deep Learning Approach to Assessing Non-native Pronunciation of English Using Phone Distances

Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos, Kate Knill, Mark Gales

Real-Time Scoring of an Oral Reading Assessment on Mobile Devices

Jian Cheng

Bubble Cooperative Networks for Identifying Important Speech Cues

Viet Anh Trinh, Brian McFee, Michael I Mandel

Speech Emotion Recognition by Combining Amplitude and Phase Information Using Convolutional Neural Network

Lili Guo, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang, Linjuan Zhang, Haotian Guan

Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory Network-based Estimation of Reliable Spectral Component Locations

Aaron Nicolson, Kuldip K. Paliwal

Non-Uniform Spectral Smoothing for Robust Children's Speech Recognition

Ishwar Chandra Yadav, Avinash Kumar, Syed Shahnawazuddin, Gayadhar Pradhan

Acoustic Modeling from Frequency Domain Representations of Speech

Pegah Ghahremani, Hossein Hadian, Hang Lv, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Weighting Time-Frequency Representation of Speech Using Auditory Saliency for Automatic Speech Recognition

Cong-Thanh Do, Yannis Stylianou

Monaural Multi-Talker Speech Recognition with Attention Mechanism and Gated Convolutional Networks

Xuankai Chang, Yanmin Qian, Dong Yu

Investigating Generative Adversarial Networks Based Speech Dereverberation for Robust Speech Recognition

Ke Wang, Junbo Zhang, Sining Sun, Yujun Wang, Fei Xiang

Unsupervised Adaptation with Interpretable Disentangled Representations for Distant Conversational Speech Recognition

Wei-Ning Hsu, Hao Tang, James Glass

Building State-of-the-art Distant Speech Recognition Using the CHiME-4 Challenge with a Setup of Speech Enhancement Baseline

Szu-Jui Chen, Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, Hainan Xu, Shinji Watanabe

Voices Obscured in Complex Environmental Settings (VOiCES) Corpus

Colleen Richey, Maria A. Barrios, Zeb Armstrong, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco

The Fifth 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Dataset, Task and Baselines

Jon Barker, Shinji Watanabe, Emmanuel Vincent, Jan Trmal

The Trajectory of Voice Onset Time with Vocal Aging

Chen Xuanda, Xiong Ziyu, Hu Jian

Korean Singing Voice Synthesis Based on an LSTM Recurrent Neural Network

Juntae Kim, Heejin Choi, Jinuk Park, Minsoo Hahn, Sangjin Kim

Automatic Evaluation of Soft Articulatory Contact for Stuttering Treatment

Keiko Ochi, Koichi Mori, Naomi Sakai

Reconstructing Neutral Speech from Tracheoesophageal Speech

Abinay Reddy N, Achuth Rao MV, G. Nisha Meenakshi, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Processing Transition Regions of Glottal Stop Substituted /S/ for Intelligibility Enhancement of Cleft Palate Speech

Protima Nomo Sudro, Sishir Kalita, S R Mahadeva Prasanna

An Ultrasound Study of Gemination in Coronal Stops in Eastern Oromo

Maida Percival, Alexei Kochetov, Yoonjung Kang

Anne Hermes, Jane Mertens, Doris Mücke

Articulatory Consequences of Vocal Effort Elicitation Method

Elísabet Eir Cortes, Marcin Wlodarczak, Juraj Simko

UltraFit: A Speaker-friendly Headset for Ultrasound Recordings in Speech Science

Lorenzo Spreafico, Michael Pucher, Anna Matosova

Classification of Nonverbal Human Produced Audio Events: A Pilot Study

Rachel E. Bouserhal, Philippe Chabot, Milton Sarria-Paja, Patrick Cardinal, Jérémie Voix

Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation of Singing

Chitralekha Gupta, Haizhou Li, Ye Wang

Sensorimotor Response to Tongue Displacement Imagery by Talkers with Parkinson’s Disease

William Katz, Patrick Reidy, Divya Prabhakaran

FACTS: A Hierarchical Task-based Control Model of Speech Incorporating Sensory Feedback

Benjamin Parrell, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Srikantan Nagarajan, John Houde

CACTAS - Collaborative Audio Categorization and Transcription for ASR Systems

Mithul Mathivanan, Kinnera Saranu, Abhishek Pandey, Jithendra Vepa

Visualizing Punctuation Restoration in Speech Transcripts with Prosograph

Alp Öktem, Mireia Farrús, Antonio Bonafonte

PannoMulloKathan: Voice Enabled Mobile App for Agricultural Commodity Price Dissemination in Bengali Language

Madhab Pal, Rajib Roy, Soma Khan, Milton S. Bepari, Joyanta Basu

Automatic Detection of Expressiveness in Oral Reading

Kamini Sabu, Kanhaiya Kumar, Preeti Rao

Early Vocabulary Development Through Picture-based Software Solutions

G Kasthuri, Prabha Ramanathan, Hema Murthy, Namita Jacob, Anil Prabhakar

Visualizing Phoneme Category Adaptation in Deep Neural Networks

Odette Scharenborg, Sebastian Tiesmeyer, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Najim Dehak

Memory Time Span in LSTMs for Multi-Speaker Source Separation

Jeroen Zegers, Hugo Van hamme

Exploring How Phone Classification Neural Networks Learn Phonetic Information by Visualising and Interpreting Bottleneck Features

Linxue Bai, Philip Weber, Peter Jančovič, Martin Russell

State Gradients for RNN Memory Analysis

Lyan Verwimp, Hugo Van hamme, Vincent Renkens, Patrick Wambacq

Scalable Factorized Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder Training

Wei-Ning Hsu, James Glass

Information Encoding by Deep Neural Networks: What Can We Learn?

Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves

Analyzing EEG Signals in Auditory Speech Comprehension Using Temporal Response Functions and Generalized Additive Models

Kimberley Mulder, Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves

Effective Acoustic Cue Learning Is Not Just Statistical, It Is Discriminative

Jessie S. Nixon

Perceptual Sensitivity to Spectral Change in Australian English Close Front Vowels: An Electroencephalographic Investigation

Daniel Williams, Paola Escudero, Adamantios Gafos

Learning Two Tone Languages Enhances the Brainstem Encoding of Lexical Tones

Akshay Raj Maggu, Wenqing Zong, Vina Law, Patrick C. M. Wong

Neural Response Development During Distributional Learning

Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, Jessie S. Nixon, Tomas O. Lentz, Liquan Liu, Sandrien van Ommen

Revealing Spatiotemporal Brain Dynamics of Speech Production Based on EEG and Eye Movement

Bin Zhao, Jinfeng Huang, Gaoyan Zhang, Jianwu Dang, Minbo Chen

Weighting of Coda Voicing Cues: Glottalisation and Vowel Duration

Joshua Penney, Felicity Cox, Anita Szakay

The Zurich Corpus of Vowel and Voice Quality, Version 1.0

Dieter Maurer, Christian d’Heureuse, Heidy Suter, Volker Dellwo, Daniel Friedrichs

Acoustic Analysis of Whispery Voice Disguise in Mandarin Chinese

Cuiling Zhang, Bin Li, Si Chen, Yike Yang

Creak in the Respiratory Cycle

Kätlin Aare, Pärtel Lippus, Marcin Wlodarczak, Mattias Heldner

Speaker-specific Structure in German Voiceless Stop Voice Onset Times

Marc Antony Hullebus, Stephen Tobin, Adamantios Gafos

Pitch or Phonation: on the Glottalization in Tone Productions in the Ruokeng Hui Chinese Dialect

Minghui Zhang, Fang Hu

Neural Speech Turn Segmentation and Affinity Propagation for Speaker Diarization

Ruiqing Yin, Hervé Bredin, Claude Barras