Interspeech 2020

1,035 papers

Are you Wearing a Mask? Improving Mask Detection from Speech Using Augmentation by Cycle-Consistent GANs

Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea, Radu Tudor Ionescu

Is Everything Fine, Grandma? Acoustic and Linguistic Modeling for Robust Elderly Speech Emotion Recognition

Gizem Soğancıoğlu, Oxana Verkholyak, Heysem Kaya, Dmitrii Fedotov, Tobias Cadée

Exploration of Acoustic and Lexical Cues for the INTERSPEECH 2020 Computational Paralinguistic Challenge

Ziqing Yang, Zifan An, Zehao Fan, Chengye Jing, Houwei Cao

Paralinguistic Classification of Mask Wearing by Image Classifiers and Fusion

Jeno Szep, Salim Hariri

Deep Attentive End-to-End Continuous Breath Sensing from Speech

Alexis Deighton MacIntyre, Georgios Rizos, Anton Batliner, Alice Baird, Shahin Amiriparian

Analyzing Breath Signals for the Interspeech 2020 ComParE Challenge

John Mendonça, Francisco Teixeira, Isabel Trancoso, Alberto Abad

Ensembling End-to-End Deep Models for Computational Paralinguistics Tasks: ComParE 2020 Mask and Breathing Sub-Challenges

Maxim Markitantov, Denis Dresvyanskiy, Danila Mamontov, Heysem Kaya, Wolfgang Minker

Exploring Text and Audio Embeddings for Multi-Dimension Elderly Emotion Recognition

Mariana Julião, Alberto Abad, Helena Moniz

Phonetic, Frame Clustering and Intelligibility Analyses for the INTERSPEECH 2020 ComParE Challenge

Claude Montacié, Marie-José Caraty

Surgical Mask Detection with Deep Recurrent Phonetic Models

Philipp Klumpp, Tomás Arias-Vergara, Juan Camilo Vásquez-Correa, Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro, Florian Hönig

Surgical Mask Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentations on Spectrograms

Steffen Illium, Robert Müller, Andreas Sedlmeier, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Learning Higher Representations from Pre-Trained Deep Models with Data Augmentation for the COMPARE 2020 Challenge Mask Task

Tomoya Koike, Kun Qian, Bjorn W. Schuller, Yoshiharu Yamamoto

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Elderly Emotion, Breathing & Masks

Bjorn W. Schuller, Anton Batliner, Christian Bergler, Eva-Maria Messner, Antonia Hamilton

A Hybrid HMM-Waveglow Based Text-to-Speech Synthesizer Using Histogram Equalization for Low Resource Indian Languages

Mano Ranjith Kumar M., Sudhanshu Srivastava, Anusha Prakash, Hema A. Murthy

Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Deep Gaussian Processes

Kentaro Mitsui, Tomoki Koriyama, Hiroshi Saruwatari

DurIAN: Duration Informed Attention Network for Speech Synthesis

Chengzhu Yu, Heng Lu, Na Hu, Meng Yu, Chao Weng

High Quality Streaming Speech Synthesis with Low, Sentence-Length-Independent Latency

Nikolaos Ellinas, Georgios Vamvoukakis, Konstantinos Markopoulos, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Georgia Maniati

CycleGAN-VC3: Examining and Improving CycleGAN-VCs for Mel-Spectrogram Conversion

Takuhiro Kaneko, Hirokazu Kameoka, Kou Tanaka, Nobukatsu Hojo

Reformer-TTS: Neural Speech Synthesis with Reformer Network

Hyeong Rae Ihm, Joun Yeop Lee, Byoung Jin Choi, Sung Jun Cheon, Nam Soo Kim

Attentron: Few-Shot Text-to-Speech Utilizing Attention-Based Variable-Length Embedding

Seungwoo Choi, Seungju Han, Dongyoung Kim, Sungjoo Ha

Complex-Valued Variational Autoencoder: A Novel Deep Generative Model for Direct Representation of Complex Spectra

Toru Nakashika

Unconditional Audio Generation with Generative Adversarial Networks and Cycle Regularization

Jen-Yu Liu, Yu-Hua Chen, Yin-Cheng Yeh, Yi-Hsuan Yang

Using Cyclic Noise as the Source Signal for Neural Source-Filter-Based Speech Waveform Model

Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi

Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting with Multi-Scale Temporal Convolution

Ximin Li, Xiaodong Wei, Xiaowei Qin

Neural Architecture Search for Keyword Spotting

Tong Mo, Yakun Yu, Mohammad Salameh, Di Niu, Shangling Jui

A Transformer-Based Audio Captioning Model with Keyword Estimation

Yuma Koizumi, Ryo Masumura, Kyosuke Nishida, Masahiro Yasuda, Shoichiro Saito

Building a Robust Word-Level Wakeword Verification Network

Rajath Kumar, Mike Rodehorst, Joe Wang, Jiacheng Gu, Brian Kulis

AutoSpeech 2020: The Second Automated Machine Learning Challenge for Speech Classification

Jingsong Wang, Tom Ko, Zhen Xu, Xiawei Guo, Souxiang Liu

Low Latency Speech Recognition Using End-to-End Prefetching

Shuo-Yiin Chang, Bo Li, David Rybach, Yanzhang He, Wei Li

Learnable Spectro-Temporal Receptive Fields for Robust Voice Type Discrimination

Tyler Vuong, Yangyang Xia, Richard M. Stern

An Audio-Based Wakeword-Independent Verification System

Joe Wang, Rajath Kumar, Mike Rodehorst, Brian Kulis, Shiv Naga Prasad Vitaladevuni

A Low Latency ASR-Free End to End Spoken Language Understanding System

Mohamed Mhiri, Samuel Myer, Vikrant Singh Tomar

Do Face Masks Introduce Bias in Speech Technologies? The Case of Automated Scoring of Speaking Proficiency

Anastassia Loukina, Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland, Ian Blood, Klaus Zechner

The Acoustic Realization of Mandarin Tones in Fast Speech

Ping Tang, Shanpeng Li

Variation in Spectral Slope and Interharmonic Noise in Cantonese Tones

Phil Rose

Pitch Declination and Final Lowering in Northeastern Mandarin

Ping Cui, Jianjing Kuang

Neutral Tone in Changde Mandarin

Zhenrui Zhang, Fang Hu

Integrating the Application and Realization of Mandarin 3rd Tone Sandhi in the Resolution of Sentence Ambiguity

Wei Lai, Aini Li

An Investigation of the Target Approximation Model for Tone Modeling and Recognition in Continuous Mandarin Speech

Yingming Gao, Xinyu Zhang, Yi Xu, Jinsong Zhang, Peter Birkholz

Mandarin Lexical Tones: A Corpus-Based Study of Word Length, Syllable Position and Prosodic Position on Duration

Yaru Wu, Martine Adda-Decker, Lori Lamel

Interaction of Tone and Voicing in Mizo

Wendy Lalhminghlui, Priyankoo Sarmah

Doing Something we Never could with Spoken Language Technologies-from early days to the era of deep learning

Lin-shan Lee

How Rhythm and Timbre Encode Mooré Language in Bendré Drummed Speech

Laure Dentel, Julien Meyer

Vocal Markers from Sustained Phonation in Huntington’s Disease

Rachid Riad, Hadrien Titeux, Laurie Lemoine, Justine Montillot, Jennifer Hamet Bagnou

Lexical Stress in Urdu

Benazir Mumtaz, Tina Bögel, Miriam Butt

An Analysis of Prosodic Prominence Cues to Information Structure in Egyptian Arabic

Dina El Zarka, Anneliese Kelterer, Barbara Schuppler

Correlation Between Prosody and Pragmatics: Case Study of Discourse Markers in French and English

Lou Lee, Denis Jouvet, Katarina Bartkova, Yvon Keromnes, Mathilde Dargnat

Neutralization of Voicing Distinction of Stops in Tohoku Dialects of Japanese: Field Work and Acoustic Measurements

Ai Mizoguchi, Ayako Hashimoto, Sanae Matsui, Setsuko Imatomi, Ryunosuke Kobayashi

Scaling Processes of Clause Chains in Pitjantjatjara

Rebecca Defina, Catalina Torres, Hywel Stoakes

Prosody and Breathing: A Comparison Between Rhetorical and Information-Seeking Questions in German and Brazilian Portuguese

Jana Neitsch, Plínio A. Barbosa, Oliver Niebuhr

Correlating Cepstra with Formant Frequencies: Implications for Phonetically-Informed Forensic Voice Comparison

Vincent Hughes, Frantz Clermont, Philip Harrison

How Ordinal Are Your Data?

Sadari Jayawardena, Julien Epps, Zhaocheng Huang

An Objective Voice Gender Scoring System and Identification of the Salient Acoustic Measures

Fuling Chen, Roberto Togneri, Murray Maybery, Diana Tan

Are Germans Better Haters Than Danes? Language-Specific Implicit Prosodies of Types of Hate Speech and How They Relate to Perceived Severity and Societal Rules

Jana Neitsch, Oliver Niebuhr

Pardon the Interruption: An Analysis of Gender and Turn-Taking in U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments

Haley Lepp, Gina-Anne Levow

Speech Sentiment and Customer Satisfaction Estimation in Socialbot Conversations

Yelin Kim, Joshua Levy, Yang Liu

Spotting the Traces of Depression in Read Speech: An Approach Based on Computational Paralinguistics and Social Signal Processing

Fuxiang Tao, Anna Esposito, Alessandro Vinciarelli

The MSP-Conversation Corpus

Luz Martinez-Lucas, Mohammed Abdelwahab, Carlos Busso

Differences in Gradient Emotion Perception: Human vs. Alexa Voices

Michelle Cohn, Eran Raveh, Kristin Predeck, Iona Gessinger, Bernd Möbius

Individual Variation in Language Attitudes Toward Voice-AI: The Role of Listeners’ Autistic-Like Traits

Michelle Cohn, Melina Sarian, Kristin Predeck, Georgia Zellou

Uncertainty-Aware Machine Support for Paper Reviewing on the Interspeech 2019 Submission Corpus

Lukas Stappen, Georgios Rizos, Madina Hasan, Thomas Hain, Bjorn W. Schuller

DARTS-ASR: Differentiable Architecture Search for Multilingual Speech Recognition and Adaptation

Yi-Chen Chen, Jui-Yang Hsu, Cheng-Kuang Lee, Hung-yi Lee

LVCSR with Transformer Language Models

Eugen Beck, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Hierarchical Multi-Stage Word-to-Grapheme Named Entity Corrector for Automatic Speech Recognition

Abhinav Garg, Ashutosh Gupta, Dhananjaya Gowda, Shatrughan Singh, Chanwoo Kim

Evolved Speech-Transformer: Applying Neural Architecture Search to End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition

Jihwan Kim, Jisung Wang, Sangki Kim, Yeha Lee

Combination of End-to-End and Hybrid Models for Speech Recognition

Jeremy H.M. Wong, Yashesh Gaur, Rui Zhao, Liang Lu, Eric Sun

An Investigation of Phone-Based Subword Units for End-to-End Speech Recognition

Weiran Wang, Guangsen Wang, Aadyot Bhatnagar, Yingbo Zhou, Caiming Xiong

Transformer with Bidirectional Decoder for Speech Recognition

Xi Chen, Songyang Zhang, Dandan Song, Peng Ouyang, Shouyi Yin

Robust Beam Search for Encoder-Decoder Attention Based Speech Recognition Without Length Bias

Wei Zhou, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Understanding the Effect of Voice Quality and Accent on Talker Similarity

Anurag Das, Guanlong Zhao, John Levis, Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

An Unsupervised Method to Select a Speaker Subset from Large Multi-Speaker Speech Synthesis Datasets

Pilar Oplustil Gallegos, Jennifer Williams, Joanna Rownicka, Simon King

Distant Supervision for Polyphone Disambiguation in Mandarin Chinese

Jiawen Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Jiaqi Zhu, Jinba Xiao

Deep Learning Based Assessment of Synthetic Speech Naturalness

Gabriel Mittag, Sebastian Möller

Deep MOS Predictor for Synthetic Speech Using Cluster-Based Modeling

Yeunju Choi, Youngmoon Jung, Hoirin Kim

Enhancing Sequence-to-Sequence Text-to-Speech with Morphology

Jason Taylor, Korin Richmond

Perception of Concatenative vs. Neural Text-To-Speech (TTS): Differences in Intelligibility in Noise and Language Attitudes

Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou

A Mask-Based Model for Mandarin Chinese Polyphone Disambiguation

Haiteng Zhang, Huashan Pan, Xiulin Li

g2pM: A Neural Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Package for Mandarin Chinese Based on a New Open Benchmark Dataset

Kyubyong Park, Seanie Lee

Speech Pseudonymisation Assessment Using Voice Similarity Matrices

Paul-Gauthier Noé, Jean-Francois Bonastre, Driss Matrouf, N. Tomashenko, Andreas Nautsch

Design Choices for X-Vector Based Speaker Anonymization

Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, N. Tomashenko, Xin Wang, Emmanuel Vincent, Junichi Yamagishi

A Comparative Study of Speech Anonymization Metrics

Mohamed Maouche, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Nathalie Vauquier, Aurélien Bellet, Marc Tommasi

X-Vector Singular Value Modification and Statistical-Based Decomposition with Ensemble Regression Modeling for Speaker Anonymization System

Candy Olivia Mawalim, Kasorn Galajit, Jessada Karnjana, Masashi Unoki

The Privacy ZEBRA: Zero Evidence Biometric Recognition Assessment

Andreas Nautsch, Jose Patino, N. Tomashenko, Junichi Yamagishi, Paul-Gauthier Noé

Introducing the VoicePrivacy Initiative

N. Tomashenko, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Xin Wang, Emmanuel Vincent, Andreas Nautsch

Deep Learning Based Dereverberation of Temporal Envelopes for Robust Speech Recognition

Anurenjan Purushothaman, Anirudh Sreeram, Rohit Kumar, Sriram Ganapathy

Bandpass Noise Generation and Augmentation for Unified ASR

Kshitiz Kumar, Bo Ren, Yifan Gong, Jian Wu

FusionRNN: Shared Neural Parameters for Multi-Channel Distant Speech Recognition

Titouan Parcollet, Xinchi Qiu, Nicholas D. Lane

Deep Scattering Power Spectrum Features for Robust Speech Recognition

Neethu M. Joy, Dino Oglic, Zoran Cvetkovic, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Phase Based Spectro-Temporal Features for Building a Robust ASR System

Anirban Dutta, G. Ashishkumar, Ch.V. Rama Rao

An Alternative to MFCCs for ASR

Pegah Ghahramani, Hossein Hadian, Daniel Povey, Hynek Hermansky, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Lightweight End-to-End Speech Recognition from Raw Audio Data Using Sinc-Convolutions

Ludwig Kürzinger, Nicolas Lindae, Palle Klewitz, Gerhard Rigoll

A Deep 2D Convolutional Network for Waveform-Based Speech Recognition

Dino Oglic, Zoran Cvetkovic, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Robust Raw Waveform Speech Recognition Using Relevance Weighted Representations

Purvi Agrawal, Sriram Ganapathy

Raw Sign and Magnitude Spectra for Multi-Head Acoustic Modelling

Erfan Loweimi, Peter Bell, Steve Renals

Identifying Important Time-Frequency Locations in Continuous Speech Utterances

Hassan Salami Kavaki, Michael I. Mandel

Social and Functional Pressures in Vocal Alignment: Differences for Human and Voice-AI Interlocutors

Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn

Yan Feng, Gang Peng, William Shi-Yuan Wang

Mandarin and English Adults’ Cue-Weighting of Lexical Stress

Zhen Zeng, Karen Mattock, Liquan Liu, Varghese Peter, Alba Tuninetti

A Perceptual Study of the Five Level Tones in Hmu (Xinzhai Variety)

Wen Liu

Does French Listeners’ Ability to Use Accentual Information at the Word Level Depend on the Ear of Presentation?

Amandine Michelas, Sophie Dufour