ICSLP 1998: Sydney, Australia

• Graeme M. Clark:
  Cochlear implants in the second and third millennia.
  
• Stephanie Seneff:
  The use of linguistic hierarchies in speech understanding.
  

Text-To-Speech Synthesis 1-6

• Paul C. Bagshaw:
  Unsupervised training of phone duration and energy models for text-to-speech synthesis.
  
• Jerome R. Bellegarda, Kim E. A. Silverman:
  Improved duration modeling of English phonemes using a root sinusoidal transformation.
  
• Chilin Shih, Wentao Gu, Jan P. H. van Santen:
  Efficient adaptation of TTS duration model to new speakers.
  
• Takayoshi Yoshimura, Keiichi Tokuda, Takashi Masuko, Takao Kobayashi, Tadashi Kitamura:
  Duration modeling for HMM-based speech synthesis.
  
• Cameron S. Fordyce, Mari Ostendorf:
  Prosody prediction for speech synthesis using transformational rule-based learning.
  
• Susan Fitt, Stephen Isard:
  Representing the environments for phonological processes in an accent-independent lexicon for synthesis of English.
  
• Daniel Faulkner, Charles Bryant:
  Efficient lexical retrieval for English text-to-speech synthesis.
  
• Robert E. Donovan, Ellen Eide:
  The IBM trainable speech synthesis system.
  
• Sarah Hawkins, Jill House, Mark Huckvale, John Local, Richard Ogden:
  Prosynth: an integrated prosodic approach to device-independent, natural-sounding speech synthesis.
  
• Jialu Zhang, Shiwei Dong, Ge Yu:
  Total quality evaluation of speech synthesis systems.
  
• Gerit P. Sonntag, Thomas Portele:
  Comparative evaluation of synthetic prosody with the PURR method.
  
• Richard Sproat, Andrew Hunt, Mari Ostendorf, Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo, Mike Eddington:
  SABLE: a standard for TTS markup.
  
• H. Timothy Bunnell, Steve R. Hoskins, Debra Yarrington:
  Prosodic vs. segmental contributions to naturalness in a diphone synthesizer.
  
• Alex Acero:
  A mixed-excitation frequency domain model for time-scale pitch-scale modification of speech.
  
• Masami Akamine, Takehiko Kagoshima:
  Analytic generation of synthesis units by closed loop training for totally speaker driven text to speech system (TOS drive TTS).
  
• Martti Vainio, Toomas Altosaar:
  Modeling the microprosody of pitch and loudness for speech synthesis with neural networks.
  
• David T. Chappell, John H. L. Hansen:
  Spectral smoothing for concatenative speech synthesis.
  
• Aimin Chen, Saeed Vaseghi, Charles Ho:
  MIMIC : a voice-adaptive phonetic-tree speech synthesiser.
  
• Je Hun Jeon, Sunhwa Cha, Minhwa Chung, Jun Park, Kyuwoong Hwang:
  Automatic generation of Korean pronunciation variants by multistage applications of phonological rules.
  
• Stephen Cox, Richard Brady, Peter Jackson:
  Techniques for accurate automatic annotation of speech waveforms.
  
• Andrew Cronk, Michael W. Macon:
  Optimized stopping criteria for tree-based unit selection in concatenative synthesis.
  
• Stéphanie de Tournemire:
  Automatic transcription of intonation using an identified prosodic alphabet.
  
• Ignasi Esquerra, Albert Febrer, Climent Nadeu:
  Frequency analysis of phonetic units for concatenative synthesis in catalan.
  
• Alex Chengyu Fang, Jill House, Mark Huckvale:
  Investigating the syntactic characteristics of English tone units.
  
• Antonio Bonafonte, Ignasi Esquerra, Albert Febrer, José A. R. Fonollosa, Francesc Vallverdú:
  The UPC text-to-speech system for Spanish and catalan.
  
• Attila Ferencz, István Nagy, Tunde-Csilla Kovács, Maria Ferencz, Teodora Ratiu:
  The new version of the ROMVOX text-to-speech synthesis system based on a hybrid time domain-LPC synthesis technique.
  
• Takehiko Kagoshima, Masahiro Morita, Shigenobu Seto, Masami Akamine:
  An F0 contour control model for totally speaker driven text to speech system.
  
• Keikichi Hirose, Hiromichi Kawanami:
  On the relationship of speech rates with prosodic units in dialogue speech.
  
• Esther Klabbers, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis:
  On the reduction of concatenation artefacts in diphone synthesis.
  
• Chih-Chung Kuo, Kun-Yuan Ma:
  Error analysis and confidence measure of Chinese word segmentation.
  
• Jungchul Lee, Donggyu Kang, Sanghoon Kim, Koengmo Sung:
  Energy contour generation for a sentence using a neural network learning method.
  
• Yong-Ju Lee, Sook-Hyang Lee, Jong-Jin Kim, Hyun-Ju Ko, Young-Il Kim, Sanghun Kim, Jung-Cheol Lee:
  A computational algorithm for F0 contour generation in Korean developed with prosodically labeled databases using k-toBI system.
  
• Kevin A. Lenzo, Christopher Hogan, Jeffrey Allen:
  Rapid-deployment text-to-speech in the DIPLOMAT system.
  
• Robert H. Mannell:
  Formant diphone parameter extraction utilising a labelled single-speaker database.
  
• Osamu Mizuno, Shin'ya Nakajima:
  A new synthetic speech/sound control language.
  
• Ryo Mochizuki, Yasuhiko Arai, Takashi Honda:
  A study on the natural-sounding Japanese phonetic word synthesis by using the VCV-balanced word database that consists of the words uttered forcibly in two types of pitch accent.
  
• Vincent Pagel, Kevin A. Lenzo, Alan W. Black:
  Letter to sound rules for accented lexicon compression.
  
• Ze'ev Roth, Judith Rosenhouse:
  A name announcement algorithm with memory size and computational power constraints.
  
• Frédérique Sannier, Rabia Belrhali, Véronique Aubergé:
  How a French TTS system can describe loanwords.
  
• Tomaz Sef, Ales Dobnikar, Matjaz Gams:
  Improvements in slovene text-to-speech synthesis.
  
• Shigenobu Seto, Masahiro Morita, Takehiko Kagoshima, Masami Akamine:
  Automatic rule generation for linguistic features analysis using inductive learning technique: linguistic features analysis in TOS drive TTS system.
  
• Yoshinori Shiga, Hiroshi Matsuura, Tsuneo Nitta:
  Segmental duration control based on an articulatory model.
  
• Evelyne Tzoukermann:
  Text analysis for the bell labs French text-to-speech system.
  
• Jennifer J. Venditti, Jan P. H. van Santen:
  Modeling vowel duration for Japanese text-to-speech synthesis.
  
• Ren-Hua Wang, Qingfeng Liu, Yongsheng Teng, Deyu Xia:
  Towards a Chinese text-to-speech system with higher naturalness.
  
• Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson:
  A phonologically motivated method of selecting non-uniform units.
  
• Steve Pearson, Nick Kibre, Nancy Niedzielski:
  A synthesis method based on concatenation of demisyllables and a residual excited vocal tract model.
  
• Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou:
  Exploration of acoustic correlates in speaker selection for concatenative synthesis.
  
• Johan Wouters, Michael W. Macon:
  A perceptual evaluation of distance measures for concatenative speech synthesis.
  
• Mike Plumpe, Alex Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Xuedong Huang:
  HMM-based smoothing for concatenative speech synthesis.
  
• Martin Holzapfel, Nick Campbell:
  A nonlinear unit selection strategy for concatenative speech synthesis based on syllable level features.
  
• Robert Eklund, Anders Lindström:
  How to handle "foreign" sounds in Swedish text-to-speech conversion: approaching the 'xenophone' problem.
  
• Nick Campbell:
  Multi-lingual concatenative speech synthesis.
  
• Takashi Saito:
  On the use of F0 features in automatic segmentation for speech synthesis.
  
• Atsuhiro Sakurai, Takashi Natsume, Keikichi Hirose:
  A linguistic and prosodic database for data-driven Japanese TTS synthesis.
  
• Alexander Kain, Michael W. Macon:
  Text-to-speech voice adaptation from sparse training data.
  
• Gregor Möhler:
  Describing intonation with a parametric model.
  

Spoken Language Models and Dialog 1-5

• Joakim Gustafson, Patrik Elmberg, Rolf Carlson, Arne Jönsson:
  An educational dialogue system with a user controllable dialogue manager.
  
• Klaus Failenschmid, J. H. Simon Thornton:
  End-user driven dialogue system design: the reward experience.
  
• Yi-Chung Lin, Tung-Hui Chiang, Huei-Ming Wang, Chung-Ming Peng, Chao-Huang Chang:
  The design of a multi-domain Mandarin Chinese spoken dialogue system.
  
• Kallirroi Georgila, Anastasios Tsopanoglou, Nikos Fakotakis, George Kokkinakis:
  An integrated dialogue system for the automation of call centre services.
  
• Kuansan Wang:
  An event driven model for dialogue systems.
  
• Cosmin Popovici, Paolo Baggia, Pietro Laface, Loreta Moisa:
  Automatic classification of dialogue contexts for dialogue predictions.
  
• Ganesh N. Ramaswamy, Jan Kleindienst:
  Automatic identification of command boundaries in a conversational natural language user interface.
  
• Massimo Poesio, Andrei Mikheev:
  The predictive power of game structure in dialogue act recognition: experimental results using maximum entropy estimation.
  
• Paul C. Constantinides, Scott Hansma, Chris Tchou, Alexander I. Rudnicky:
  A schema based approach to dialog control.
  
• Gregory Aist:
  Expanding a time-sensitive conversational architecture for turn-taking to handle content-driven interruption.
  
• Marc Swerts, Hanae Koiso, Atsushi Shimojima, Yasuhiro Katagiri:
  On different functions of repetitive utterances.
  
• Hiroaki Noguchi, Yasuharu Den:
  Prosody-based detection of the context of backchannel responses.
  
• Lena Strömbäck, Arne Jönsson:
  Robust interpretation for spoken dialogue systems.
  
• Yohei Okato, Keiji Kato, Mikio Yamamoto, Shuichi Itahashi:
  System-user interaction and response strategy in spoken dialogue system.
  
• Noriko Suzuki, Kazuo Ishii, Michio Okada:
  Organizing self-motivated dialogue with autonomous creatures.
  
• Gerhard Hanrieder, Paul Heisterkamp, Thomas Brey:
  Fly with the EAGLES: evaluation of the "ACCeSS" spoken language dialogue system.
  
• Maria Aretoulaki, Stefan Harbeck, Florian Gallwitz, Elmar Nöth, Heinrich Niemann, Jozef Ivanecký, Ivo Ipsic, Nikola Pavesic, Václav Matousek:
  SQEL: a multilingual and multifunctional dialogue system.
  
• Stefan Kaspar, Achim G. Hoffmann:
  Semi-automated incremental prototyping of spoken dialog systems.
  
• Peter A. Heeman, Michael Johnston, Justin Denney, Edward C. Kaiser:
  Beyond structured dialogues: factoring out grounding.
  
• Masahiro Araki, Shuji Doshita:
  A robust dialogue model for spoken dialogue processing.
  
• Tom Brøndsted, Bo Nygaard Bai, Jesper Østergaard Olsen:
  The REWARD service creation environment. an overview.
  
• Matthew Bull, Matthew P. Aylett:
  An analysis of the timing of turn-taking in a corpus of goal-oriented dialogue.
  
• Sarah Davies, Massimo Poesio:
  The provision of corrective feedback in a spoken dialogue CALL system.
  
• Laurence Devillers, Hélène Bonneau-Maynard:
  Evaluation of dialog strategies for a tourist information retrieval system.
  
• Sadaoki Furui, Koh'ichiro Yamaguchi:
  Designing a multimodal dialogue system for information retrieval.
  
• Dinghua Guan, Min Chu, Quan Zhang, Jian Liu, Xiangdong Zhang:
  The research project of man-computer dialogue system in Chinese.
  
• Kate S. Hone, David Golightly:
  Interfaces for speech recognition systems: the impact of vocabulary constraints and syntax on performance.
  
• Tatsuya Iwase, Nigel Ward:
  Pacing spoken directions to suit the listener.
  
• Annika Flycht-Eriksson, Arne Jönsson:
  A spoken dialogue system utilizing spatial information.
  
• Candace A. Kamm, Diane J. Litman, Marilyn A. Walker:
  From novice to expert: the effect of tutorials on user expertise with spoken dialogue systems.
  
• Takeshi Kawabata:
  Emergent computational dialogue management architecture for task-oriented spoken dialogue systems.
  
• Tadahiko Kumamoto, Akira Ito:
  An analysis of dialogues with our dialogue system through a WWW page.
  
• Michael F. McTear:
  Modelling spoken dialogues with state transition diagrams: experiences with the CSLU toolkit.
  
• Michio Okada, Noriko Suzuki, Jacques M. B. Terken:
  Situated dialogue coordination for spoken dialogue systems.
  
• Xavier Pouteau, Luis Arévalo:
  Robust spoken dialogue systems for consumer products: a concrete application.
  
• Daniel Willett, Arno Romer, Jörg Rottland, Gerhard Rigoll:
  A German dialogue system for scheduling dates and meetings by naturally spoken continuous speech.
  
• Chung-Hsien Wu, Gwo-Lang Yan, Chien-Liang Lin:
  Spoken dialogue system using corpus-based hidden Markov model.
  
• Peter J. Wyard, Gavin E. Churcher:
  A realistic wizard of oz simulation of a multimodal spoken language system.
  
• Yen-Ju Yang, Lin-Shan Lee:
  A syllable-based Chinese spoken dialogue system for telephone directory services primarily trained with a corpus.
  
• Hiroyuki Yano, Akira Ito:
  How disagreement expressions are used in cooperative tasks.
  

Prosody and Emotion 1-6

• Phil Rose:
  Tones of a tridialectal: acoustic and perceptual data on ten linguistic tonetic contrasts between lao, nyo and standard Thai.
  
• Napier Guy Ian Thompson:
  Tone sandhi between complex tones in a seven-tone southern Thai dialect.
  
• Alexander Robertson Coupe:
  The acoustic and perceptual features of tone in the tibeto-burman language ao naga.
  
• Phil Rose:
  The differential status of semivowels in the acoustic phonetic realisation of tone.
  
• Kai Alter, Karsten Steinhauer, Angela D. Friederici:
  De-accentuation: linguistic environments and prosodic realizations.
  
• N. Amir, S. Ron:
  Towards an automatic classification of emotions in speech.
  
• Marc Schröder, Véronique Aubergé, Marie-Agnès Cathiard:
  Can we hear smile?
  
• Matthew P. Aylett, Matthew Bull:
  The automatic marking of prominence in spontaneous speech using duration and part of speech information.
  
• JongDeuk Kim, SeongJoon Baek, MyungJin Bae:
  On a pitch alteration technique in excited cepstral spectrum for high quality TTS.
  
• Jan Buckow, Anton Batliner, Richard Huber, Elmar Nöth, Volker Warnke, Heinrich Niemann:
  Dovetailing of acoustics and prosody in spontaneous speech recognition.
  
• Janet E. Cahn:
  A computational memory and processing model for prosody.
  
• Belinda Collins:
  Convergence of fundamental frequencies in conversation: if it happens, does it matter?
  
• Hiroya Fujisaki, Sumio Ohno, Takashi Yagi, Takeshi Ono:
  Analysis and interpretation of fundamental frequency contours of british English in terms of a command-response model.
  
• Frode Holm, Kazue Hata:
  Common patterns in word level prosody.
  
• Yasuo Horiuchi, Akira Ichikawa:
  Prosodic structure in Japanese spontaneous speech.
  
• Shunichi Ishihara:
  An acoustic-phonetic description of word tone in kagoshima Japanese.
  
• Koji Iwano, Keikichi Hirose:
  Representing prosodic words using statistical models of moraic transition of fundamental frequency contours of Japanese.
  
• Tae-Yeoub Jang, Minsuck Song, Kiyeong Lee:
  Disambiguation of Korean utterances using automatic intonation recognition.
  
• Oliver Jokisch, Diane Hirschfeld, Matthias Eichner, Rüdiger Hoffmann:
  Multi-level rhythm control for speech synthesis using hybrid data driven and rule-based approaches.
  
• Jiangping Kong:
  EGG model of ditoneme in Mandarin.
  
• Geetha Krishnan, Wayne Ward:
  Temporal organization of speech for normal and fast rates.
  
• Haruo Kubozono:
  A syllable-based generalization of Japanese accentuation.
  
• Hyuck-Joon Lee:
  Non-adjacent segmental effects in tonal realization of accentual phrase in seoul Korean.
  
• Eduardo López, Javier Caminero, Ismael Cortázar, Luis A. Hernández Gómez:
  Improvement on connected numbers recognition using prosodic information.
  
• Kazuaki Maeda, Jennifer J. Venditti:
  Phonetic investigation of boundary pitch movements in Japanese.
  
• Kikuo Maekawa:
  Phonetic and phonological characteristics of paralinguistic information in spoken Japanese.
  
• Arman Maghbouleh:
  ToBI accent type recognition.
  
• Hansjörg Mixdorff, Hiroya Fujisaki:
  The influence of syllable structure on the timing of intonational events in German.
  
• Osamu Mizuno, Shin'ya Nakajima:
  New prosodic control rules for expressive synthetic speech.
  
• Mitsuru Nakai, Hiroshi Shimodaira:
  The use of F0 reliability function for prosodic command analysis on F0 contour generation model.
  
• Sumio Ohno, Hiroya Fujisaki, Hideyuki Taguchi:
  Analysis of effects of lexical accent, syntax, and global speech rate upon the local speech rate.
  
• Sumio Ohno, Hiroya Fujisaki, Yoshikazu Hara:
  On the effects of speech rate upon parameters of the command-response model for the fundamental frequency contours of speech.
  
• Thomas Portele, Barbara Heuft:
  The maximum-based description of F0 contours and its application to English.
  
• Thomas Portele:
  Perceived prominence and acoustic parameters in american English.
  
• Erhard Rank, Hannes Pirker:
  Generating emotional speech with a concatenative synthesizer.
  
• Albert Rilliard, Véronique Aubergé:
  A perceptive measure of pure prosody linguistic functions with reiterant sentences.
  
• Kazuhito Koike, Hirotaka Suzuki, Hiroaki Saito:
  Prosodic parameters in emotional speech.
  
• Barbertje M. Streefkerk, Louis C. W. Pols, Louis ten Bosch:
  Automatic detection of prominence (as defined by listeners' judgements) in read aloud dutch sentences.
  
• Masafumi Tamoto, Takeshi Kawabata:
  A schema for illocutionary act identification with prosodic feature.
  
• Wataru Tsukahara:
  An algorithm for choosing Japanese acknowledgments using prosodic cues and context.
  
• Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff:
  A study of tones and tempo in continuous Mandarin digit strings and their application in telephone quality speech recognition.
  
• Sandra P. Whiteside:
  Simulated emotions: an acoustic study of voice and perturbation measures.
  
• Jin-Song Zhang, Keikichi Hirose:
  A robust tone recognition method of Chinese based on sub-syllabic F0 contours.
  
• Xiaonong Sean Zhu:
  The microprosodics of tone sandhi in shanghai disyllabic compounds.
  
• Natalija Bolfan-Stosic, Tatjana Prizl:
  Jitter and shimmer differences between pathological voices of school children.
  
• Xiaonong Sean Zhu:
  What spreads, and how? tonal rightward spreading on shanghai disyllabic compounds.
  
• Sean Zhu, Phil Rose:
  Tonal complexity as a dialectal feature: 25 different citation tones from four zhejiang wu dialects.
  
• Juan Manuel Montero, Juana M. Gutiérrez-Arriola, Sira E. Palazuelos, Emilia Enríquez, Santiago Aguilera, José Manuel Pardo:
  Emotional speech synthesis: from speech database to TTS.
  
• Cecile Pereira, Catherine I. Watson:
  Some acoustic characteristics of emotion.
  
• Marc Swerts:
  Intonative structure as a determinant of word order variation in dutch verbal endgroups.
  
• Johanneke Caspers:
  Experiments on the meaning of two pitch accent types: the 'pointed hat' versus the accent-lending fall in dutch.
  
• Sun-Ah Jun, Hyuck-Joon Lee:
  Phonetic and phonological markers of contrastive focus in Korean.
  
• Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts:
  Reconciling two competing views on contrastiveness.
  
• Paul Taylor:
  The tilt intonation model.
  
• Hiroya Fujisaki, Sumio Ohno, Seiji Yamada:
  Analysis of occurrence of pauses and their durations in Japanese text reading.
  
• Estelle Campione, Jean Véronis:
  A statistical study of pitch target points in five languages.
  
• Fabrice Malfrère, Thierry Dutoit, Piet Mertens:
  Fully automatic prosody generator for text-to-speech.
  
• Halewijn Vereecken, Jean-Pierre Martens, Cynthia Grover, Justin Fackrell, Bert Van Coile:
  Automatic prosodic labeling of 6 languages.
  
• Helen Wright:
  Automatic utterance type detection using suprasegmental features.
  
• Ee Ling Low, Esther Grabe:
  A contrastive study of lexical stress placement in singapore English and british English.
  
• Florian Gallwitz, Anton Batliner, Jan Buckow, Richard Huber, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth:
  Integrated recognition of words and phrase boundaries.
  
• Amalia Arvaniti:
  Phrase accents revisited: comparative evidence from standard and cypriot greek.
  
• Grzegorz Dogil, Gregor Möhler:
  Phonetic invariance and phonological stability: lithuanian pitch accents.
  
• Christel Brindöpke, Gernot A. Fink, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer:
  A HMM-based recognition system for perceptive relevant pitch movements of spontaneous German speech.
  
• Jean Véronis, Estelle Campione:
  Towards a reversible symbolic coding of intonation.
  

Hidden Markov Model Techniques 1-3

• Xiaoqiang Luo, Frederick Jelinek:
  Nonreciprocal data sharing in estimating HMM parameters.
  
• Jeff A. Bilmes:
  Data-driven extensions to HMM statistical dependencies.
  
• Jiping Sun, Li Deng:
  Use of high-level linguistic constraints for constructing feature-based phonological model in speech recognition.
  
• Steven C. Lee, James R. Glass:
  Real-time probabilistic segmentation for segment-based speech recognition.
  
• Guillaume Gravier, Marc Sigelle, Gérard Chollet:
  Toward Markov random field modeling of speech.
  
• Rukmini Iyer, Herbert Gish, Man-Hung Siu, George Zavaliagkos, Spyros Matsoukas:
  Hidden Markov models for trajectory modeling.
  
• Katsura Aizawa, Chieko Furuichi:
  A statistical phonemic segment model for speech recognition based on automatic phonemic segmentation.
  
• Kris Demuynck, Jacques Duchateau, Dirk Van Compernolle, Patrick Wambacq:
  Improved feature decorrelation for HMM-based speech recognition.
  
• Johan A. du Preez, D. M. Weber:
  Efficient high-order hidden Markov modelling.
  
• Ellen Eide, Lalit R. Bahl:
  A time-synchronous, tree-based search strategy in the acoustic fast match of an asynchronous speech recognition system.
  
• Jürgen Fritsch, Michael Finke, Alex Waibel:
  Effective structural adaptation of LVCSR systems to unseen domains using hierarchical connectionist acoustic models.
  
• Aravind Ganapathiraju, Jonathan Hamaker, Joseph Picone:
  Support vector machines for speech recognition.
  
• Malan B. Gandhi:
  Natural number recognition using discriminatively trained inter-word context dependent hidden Markov models.
  
• Jonathan Hamaker, Aravind Ganapathiraju, Joseph Picone:
  Information theoretic approaches to model selection.
  
• Kengo Hanai, Kazumasa Yamamoto, Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa:
  Continuous speech recognition using segmental unit input HMMs with a mixture of probability density functions and context dependency.
  
• Jacques Simonin, Lionel Delphin-Poulat, Géraldine Damnati:
  Gaussian density tree structure in a multi-Gaussian HMM-based speech recognition system.
  
• Hiroaki Kojima, Kazuyo Tanaka:
  Generalized phone modeling based on piecewise linear segment lattice.
  
• Ryosuke Koshiba, Mitsuyoshi Tachimori, Hiroshi Kanazawa:
  A flexible method of creating HMM using block-diagonalization of covariance matrices.
  
• Cristina Chesta, Pietro Laface, Franco Ravera:
  HMM topology selection for accurate acoustic and duration modeling.
  
• Tan Lee, Rolf Carlson, Björn Granström:
  Context-dependent duration modelling for continuous speech recognition.
  
• Brian Mak, Enrico Bocchieri:
  Training of context-dependent subspace distribution clustering hidden Markov model.
  
• Cesar Martín del Alamo, Luis Villarrubia, Francisco Javier Gonzalez, Luis A. Hernández Gómez:
  Unsupervised training of HMMs with variable number of mixture components per state.
  
• Mate Szarvas, Shoichi Matsunaga:
  Acoustic observation context modeling in segment based speech recognition.
  
• Ji Ming, Philip Hanna, Darryl Stewart, Saeed Vaseghi, F. Jack Smith:
  Capturing discriminative information using multiple modeling techniques.
  
• Laurence Molloy, Stephen Isard:
  Suprasegmental duration modelling with elastic constraints in automatic speech recognition.
  
• Albino Nogueiras Rodriguez, José B. Mariño, Enric Monte:
  An adaptive gradient-search based algorithm for discriminative training of HMM's.
  
• Albino Nogueiras Rodriguez, José B. Mariño:
  Task adaptation of sub-lexical unit models using the minimum confusibility criterion on task independent databases.
  
• Gordon Ramsay:
  Stochastic calculus, non-linear filtering, and the internal model principle: implications for articulatory speech recognition.
  
• Christian Wellekens, Jussi Kangasharju, Cedric Milesi:
  The use of meta-HMM in multistream HMM training for automatic speech recognition.
  
• Christian Wellekens:
  Enhanced ASR by acoustic feature filtering.
  
• Christoph Neukirchen, Daniel Willett, Gerhard Rigoll:
  Soft state-tying for HMM-based speech recognition.
  
• Silke M. Witt, Steve J. Young:
  Estimation of models for non-native speech in computer-assisted language learning based on linear model combination.
  
• Tae-Young Yang, Ji-Sung Kim, Chungyong Lee, Dae Hee Youn, Il-Whan Cha:
  Duration modeling using cumulative duration probability and speaking rate compensation.
  
• Geoffrey Zweig, Stuart J. Russell:
  Probabilistic modeling with Bayesian networks for automatic speech recognition.
  

Speaker and Language Recognition 1-4

• Perasiriyan Sivakumaran, Aladdin M. Ariyaeeinia, Jill A. Hewitt:
  Sub-band based speaker verification using dynamic recombination weights.
  
• Michael Barlow, Michael Wagner:
  Measuring the dynamic encoding of speaker identity and dialect in prosodic parameters.
  
• Nicole Beringer, Florian Schiel, Peter Regel-Brietzmann:
  German regional variants - a problem for automatic speech recognition?
  
• Kay Berkling, Marc A. Zissman, Julie Vonwiller, Christopher Cleirigh:
  Improving accent identification through knowledge of English syllable structure.
  
• Zinny S. Bond, Donald Fucci, Verna Stockmal, Douglas McColl:
  Multi-dimensional scaling of listener responses to complex auditory stimuli.
  
• Verna Stockmal, Danny R. Moates, Zinny S. Bond:
  Same talker, different language.
  
• Susanne Burger, Daniela Oppermann:
  The impact of regional variety upon specific word categories in spontaneous German.
  
• Dominique Genoud, Gérard Chollet:
  Speech pre-processing against intentional imposture in speaker recognition.
  
• Mike Lincoln, Stephen Cox, Simon Ringland:
  A comparison of two unsupervised approaches to accent identification.
  
• Dominik R. Dersch, Christopher Cleirigh, Julie Vonwiller:
  The influence of accents in australian English vowels and their relation to articulatory tract parameters.
  
• Johan A. du Preez, D. M. Weber:
  Automatic language recognition using high-order HMMs.
  
• Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Daniel Rodriguez-Porcheron:
  Speaker recognition using residual signal of linear and nonlinear prediction models.
  
• Yong Gu, Trevor Thomas:
  An implementation and evaluation of an on-line speaker verification system for field trials.
  
• Javier Hernando, Climent Nadeu:
  Speaker verification on the polycost database using frequency filtered spectral energies.
  
• Qin Jin, Luo Si, Qixiu Hu:
  A high-performance text-independent speaker identification system based on BCDM.
  
• Hiroshi Kido, Hideki Kasuya:
  Representation of voice quality features associated with talker individuality.
  
• Ji-Hwan Kim, Gil-Jin Jang, Seong-Jin Yun, Yung-Hwan Oh:
  Candidate selection based on significance testing and its use in normalisation and scoring.
  
• Yuko Kinoshita:
  Japanese forensic phonetics: non-contemporaneous within-speaker variation in natural and read-out speech.
  
• Filipp Korkmazskiy, Biing-Hwang Juang:
  Statistical modeling of pronunciation and production variations for speech recognition.
  
• Arne Kjell Foldvik, Knut Kvale:
  Dialect maps and dialect research; useful tools for automatic speech recognition?
  
• Youn-Jeong Kyung, Hwang-Soo Lee:
  Text independent speaker recognition using micro-prosody.
  
• Yoik Cheng, Hong C. Leung:
  Speaker verification using fundamental frequency.
  
• Weijie Liu, Toshihiro Isobe, Naoki Mukawa:
  On optimum normalization method used for speaker verification.
  
• Harvey Lloyd-Thomas, Eluned S. Parris, Jeremy H. Wright:
  Recurrent substrings and data fusion for language recognition.
  
• Konstantin P. Markov, Seiichi Nakagawa:
  Text-independent speaker recognition using multiple information sources.
  
• Konstantin P. Markov, Seiichi Nakagawa:
  Discriminative training of GMM using a modified EM algorithm for speaker recognition.
  
• Driss Matrouf, Martine Adda-Decker, Lori Lamel, Jean-Luc Gauvain:
  Language identification incorporating lexical information.
  
• Enric Monte, Ramon Arqué, Xavier Miró:
  A VQ based speaker recognition system based in histogram distances. text independent and for noisy environments.
  
• Asunción Moreno, José B. Mariño:
  Spanish dialects: phonetic transcription.
  
• Mieko Muramatsu:
  Acoustic analysis of Japanese English prosody: comparison between fukushima dialect speakers and tokyo dialect speakers in declarative sentences and yes-no questions.
  
• Hideki Noda, Katsuya Harada, Eiji Kawaguchi, Hidefumi Sawai:
  A context-dependent approach for speaker verification using sequential decision.
  
• Javier Ortega-Garcia, Santiago Cruz-Llanas, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez:
  Quantitative influence of speech variability factors for automatic speaker verification in forensic tasks.
  
• Thilo Pfau, Günther Ruske:
  Creating hidden Markov models for fast speech.
  
• Tuan D. Pham, Michael Wagner:
  Speaker identification using relaxation labeling.
  
• Leandro Rodríguez Liñares, Carmen García-Mateo:
  A novel technique for the combination of utterance and speaker verification systems in a text-dependent speaker verification task.
  
• Phil Rose:
  A forensic phonetic investigation into non-contemporaneous variation in the f-pattern of similar-sounding speakers.
  
• Astrid Schmidt-Nielsen, Thomas H. Crystal:
  Human vs. machine speaker identification with telephone speech.
  
• Stefan Slomka, Sridha Sridharan, Vinod Chandran:
  A comparison of fusion techniques in mel-cepstral based speaker identification.
  
• Hagen Soltau, Alex Waibel:
  On the influence of hyperarticulated speech on recognition performance.
  
• Nuala C. Ward, Dominik R. Dersch:
  Text-independent speaker identification and verification using the TIMIT database.
  
• Lisa Yanguas, Gerald C. O'Leary, Marc A. Zissman:
  Incorporating linguistic knowledge into automatic dialect identification of Spanish.
  
• Yiying Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu:
  A novel text-independent speaker verification method using the global speaker model.
  
• Aaron E. Rosenberg, Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau, S. Parthasarathy, Qian Huang:
  Speaker detection in broadcast speech databases.
  
• Eluned S. Parris, Michael J. Carey:
  Multilateral techniques for speaker recognition.
  
• Masafumi Nishida, Yasuo Ariki:
  Real time speaker indexing based on subspace method - application to TV news articles and debate.
  
• George R. Doddington, Walter Liggett, Alvin F. Martin, Mark A. Przybocki, Douglas A. Reynolds:
  SHEEP, GOATS, LAMBS and WOLVES: a statistical analysis of speaker performance in the NIST 1998 speaker recognition evaluation.
  
• Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, Michael Newman, Barbara Peskin, Larry Gillick, Robert Roth:
  Progress in speaker recognition at dragon systems.
  
• Tomas Nordström, Håkan Melin, Johan Lindberg:
  A comparative study of speaker verification systems using the polycost database.
  
• Tomoko Matsui, Kiyoaki Aikawa:
  Robust speaker verification insensitive to session-dependent utterance variation and handset-dependent distortion.
  
• Håkan Melin, Johan Koolwaaij, Johan Lindberg, Frédéric Bimbot:
  A comparative evaluation of variance flooring techniques in HMM-based speaker verification.
  
• Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz, Jan Cernocký, Jean Hennebert, Gérard Chollet:
  Text-independent speaker verification using automatically labelled acoustic segments.
  
• Qi Li:
  A fast decoding algorithm based on sequential detection of the changes in distribution.
  
• Jesper Østergaard Olsen:
  Speaker verification with ensemble classifiers based on linear speech transforms.
  
• Jesper Østergaard Olsen:
  Speaker recognition based on discriminative projection models.
  
• James Moody, Stefan Slomka, Jason W. Pelecanos, Sridha Sridharan:
  On the convergence of Gaussian mixture models: improvements through vector quantization.
  
• M. Kemal Sönmez, Elizabeth Shriberg, Larry P. Heck, Mitchel Weintraub:
  Modeling dynamic prosodic variation for speaker verification.
  
• Douglas A. Reynolds, Elliot Singer, Beth A. Carlson, Gerald C. O'Leary, Jack McLaughlin, Marc A. Zissman:
  Blind clustering of speech utterances based on speaker and language characteristics.
  
• Diamantino Caseiro, Isabel Trancoso:
  Spoken language identification using the speechdat corpus.
  
• Jerome Braun, Haim Levkowitz:
  Automatic language identification with perceptually guided training and recurrent neural networks.
  
• Sarel van Vuuren, Hynek Hermansky:
  On the importance of components of the modulation spectrum for speaker verification.
  

Multimodal Spoken Language Processing 1-3

• Andrew P. Breen, O. Gloaguen, P. Stern:
  A fast method of producing talking head mouth shapes from real speech.
  
• Philip R. Cohen, Michael Johnston, David McGee, Sharon L. Oviatt, Josh Clow, Ira A. Smith:
  The efficiency of multimodal interaction: a case study.
  
• László Czap:
  Audio and audio-visual perception of consonants disturbed by white noise and 'cocktail party'.
  
• Simon Downey, Andrew P. Breen, Maria Fernández, Edward Kaneen:
  Overview of the maya spoken language system.
  
• Mauro Cettolo, Daniele Falavigna:
  Automatic recognition of spontaneous speech dialogues.
  
• Georg Fries, Stefan Feldes, Alfred Corbet:
  Using an animated talking character in a web-based city guide demonstrator.
  
• Rika Kanzaki, Takashi Kato:
  Influence of facial views on the mcgurk effect in auditory noise.
  
• Tom Brøndsted, Lars Bo Larsen, Michael Manthey, Paul McKevitt, Thomas B. Moeslund, Kristian G. Olesen:
  The intellimedia workbench - a generic environment for multimodal systems.
  
• Josh Clow, Sharon L. Oviatt:
  STAMP: a suite of tools for analyzing multimodal system processing.
  
• Sumi Shigeno:
  Cultural similarities and differences in the recognition of audio-visual speech stimuli.
  
• Toshiyuki Takezawa, Tsuyoshi Morimoto:
  A multimodal-input multimedia-output guidance system: MMGS.
  
• Oscar Vanegas, Akiji Tanaka, Keiichi Tokuda, Tadashi Kitamura:
  HMM-based visual speech recognition using intensity and location normalization.
  
• Yanjun Xu, Limin Du, Guoqiang Li, Ziqiang Hou:
  A hierarchy probability-based visual features extraction method for speechreading.
  
• Jörn Ostermann, Mark C. Beutnagel, Ariel Fischer, Yao Wang:
  Integration of talking heads and text-to-speech synthesizers for visual TTS.
  
• Levent M. Arslan, David Talkin:
  Speech driven 3-d face point trajectory synthesis algorithm.
  
• Eli Yamamoto, Satoshi Nakamura, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  Speech-to-lip movement synthesis based on the EM algorithm using audio-visual HMMs.
  
• Deb Roy, Alex Pentland:
  Learning words from natural audio-visual input.
  
• Stéphane Dupont, Juergen Luettin:
  Using the multi-stream approach for continuous audio-visual speech recognition: experiments on the M2VTS database.
  
• Sharon L. Oviatt, Karen Kuhn:
  Referential features and linguistic indirection in multimodal language.
  
• Michael Johnston:
  Multimodal language processing.
  
• Jun-ichi Hirasawa, Noboru Miyazaki, Mikio Nakano, Takeshi Kawabata:
  Implementation of coordinative nodding behavior on spoken dialogue systems.
  
• Masao Yokoyama, Kazumi Aoyama, Hideaki Kikuchi, Katsuhiko Shirai:
  Use of non-verbal information in communication between human and robot.
  
• Steve Whittaker, John Choi, Julia Hirschberg, Christine H. Nakatani:
  What you see is (almost) what you hear: design principles for user interfaces for accessing speech archives.
  

Isolated Word Recognition

• Daniel Azzopardi, Shahram Semnani, Ben Milner, Richard Wiseman:
  Improving accuracy of telephony-based, speaker-independent speech recognition.
  
• Aruna Bayya:
  Rejection in speech recognition systems with limited training.
  
• Ruxin Chen, Miyuki Tanaka, Duanpei Wu, Lex Olorenshaw, Mariscela Amador:
  A four layer sharing HMM system for very large vocabulary isolated word recognition.
  
• Rathinavelu Chengalvarayan:
  A comparative study of hybrid modelling techniques for improved telephone speech recognition.
  
• Jae-Seung Choi, Jong-Seok Lee, Hee-Youn Lee:
  Smoothing and tying for Korean flexible vocabulary isolated word recognition.
  
• Javier Ferreiros, Javier Macías Guarasa, Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín, José Colás, Ricardo de Córdoba, José Manuel Pardo, Luis Villarrubia Grande:
  Recent work on a preselection module for a flexible large vocabulary speech recognition system in telephone environment.
  
• Masakatsu Hoshimi, Maki Yamada, Katsuyuki Niyada, Shozo Makino:
  A study of noise robustness for speaker independent speech recognition method using phoneme similarity vector.
  
• Fran H. L. Jian:
  Classification of taiwanese tones based on pitch and energy movements.
  
• Finn Tore Johansen:
  Phoneme-based recognition for the norwegian speechdat(II) database.
  
• Montri Karnjanadecha, Stephen A. Zahorian:
  Robust feature extraction for alphabet recognition.
  
• Hisashi Kawai, Norio Higuchi:
  Recognition of connected digit speech in Japanese collected over the telephone network.
  
• Takuya Koizumi, Shuji Taniguchi, Kazuhiro Kohtoh:
  Improving the speaker-dependency of subword-unit-based isolated word recognition.
  
• Tomohiro Konuma, Tetsu Suzuki, Maki Yamada, Yoshio Ono, Masakatsu Hoshimi, Katsuyuki Niyada:
  Speaker independent speech recognition method using constrained time alignment near phoneme discriminative frame.
  
• Ki Yong Lee, Joohun Lee:
  A nonstationary autoregressive HMM with gain adaptation for speech recognition.
  
• Ren-Yuan Lyu, Yuang-jin Chiang, Wen-ping Hsieh:
  A large-vocabulary taiwanese (MIN-NAN) multi-syllabic word recognition system based upon right-context-dependent phones with state clustering by acoustic decision tree.
  
• Kazuyo Tanaka, Hiroaki Kojima:
  Speech recognition based on the distance calculation between intermediate phonetic code sequences in symbolic domain.
  
• York Chung-Ho Yang, June-Jei Kuo:
  High accuracy Chinese speech recognition approach with Chinese input technology for telecommunication use.
  

Robust Speech Processing in Adverse Environments 1-5

• William J. J. Roberts, Yariv Ephraim:
  Robust speech recognition using HMM's with toeplitz state covariance matrices.
  
• David Thambiratnam, Sridha Sridharan:
  Modeling of output probability distribution to improve small vocabulary speech recognition in adverse environments.
  
• Philippe Morin, Ted H. Applebaum, Robert Boman, Yi Zhao, Jean-Claude Junqua:
  Robust and compact multilingual word recognizers using features extracted from a phoneme similarity front-end.
  
• Takeshi Yamada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  An effect of adaptive beamforming on hands-free speech recognition based on 3-d viterbi search.
  
• Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Santiago Cruz-Llanas, Javier Ortega-Garcia:
  Coherence-based subband decomposition for robust speech and speaker recognition in noisy and reverberant rooms.
  
• Hui Jiang, Keikichi Hirose, Qiang Huo:
  A minimax search algorithm for CDHMM based robust continuous speech recognition.
  
• Su-Lin Wu, Brian Kingsbury, Nelson Morgan, Steven Greenberg:
  Performance improvements through combining phone- and syllable-scale information in automatic speech recognition.
  
• Arun C. Surendran, Chin-Hui Lee:
  Predictive adaptation and compensation for robust speech recognition.
  
• Jean-Claude Junqua, Steven Fincke, Ken Field:
  Influence of the speaking style and the noise spectral tilt on the lombard reflex and automatic speech recognition.
  
• Stefano Crafa, Luciano Fissore, Claudio Vair:
  Data-driven PMC and Bayesian learning integration for fast model adaptation in noisy conditions.
  
• Martin Hunke, Meeran Hyun, Steve Love, Thomas Holton:
  Improving the noise and spectral robustness of an isolated-word recognizer using an auditory-model front end.
  
• Owen P. Kenny, Douglas J. Nelson:
  A model for speech reverberation and intelligibility restoring filters.
  
• Guojun Zhou, John H. L. Hansen, James F. Kaiser:
  Linear and nonlinear speech feature analysis for stress classification.
  
• Sahar E. Bou-Ghazale, John H. L. Hansen:
  Speech feature modeling for robust stressed speech recognition.
  
• Katrin Kirchhoff:
  Combining articulatory and acoustic information for speech recognition in noisy and reverberant environments.
  
• Tim Wark, Sridha Sridharan:
  Improving speaker identification performance in reverberant conditions using lip information.
  
• Masato Akagi, Mamoru Iwaki, Noriyoshi Sakaguchi:
  Spectral sequence compensation based on continuity of spectral sequence.
  
• Aruna Bayya, B. Yegnanarayana:
  Robust features for speech recognition systems.
  
• Frédéric Berthommier, Hervé Glotin, Emmanuel Tessier, Hervé Bourlard:
  Interfacing of CASA and partial recognition based on a multistream technique.
  
• Sen-Chia Chang, Shih-Chieh Chien, Chih-Chung Kuo:
  AN RNN-based compensation method for Mandarin telephone speech recognition.
  
• Stephen M. Chu, Yunxin Zhao:
  Robust speech recognition using discriminative stream weighting and parameter interpolation.
  
• Johan de Veth, Bert Cranen, Lou Boves:
  Acoustic backing-off in the local distance computation for robust automatic speech recognition.
  
• Laura Docío Fernández, Carmen García-Mateo:
  Noise model selection for robust speech recognition.
  
• Simon Doclo, Ioannis Dologlou, Marc Moonen:
  A novel iterative signal enhancement algorithm for noise reduction in speech.
  
• Stéphane Dupont:
  Missing data reconstruction for robust automatic speech recognition in the framework of hybrid HMM/ANN systems.
  
• Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín, Fernando Díaz-de-María, Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete:
  Recognition from GSM digital speech.
  
• Petra Geutner, Matthias Denecke, Uwe Meier, Martin Westphal, Alex Waibel:
  Conversational speech systems for on-board car navigation and assistance.
  
• Laurent Girin, Laurent Varin, Gang Feng, Jean-Luc Schwartz:
  A signal processing system for having the sound "pop-out" in noise thanks to the image of the speaker's lips: new advances using multi-layer perceptrons.
  
• Ruhi Sarikaya, John H. L. Hansen:
  Robust speech activity detection in the presence of noise.
  
• Michel Héon, Hesham Tolba, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Robust automatic speech recognition by the application of a temporal-correlation-based recurrent multilayer neural network to the mel-based cepstral coefficients.
  
• Juan M. Huerta, Richard M. Stern:
  Speech recognition from GSM codec parameters.
  
• Jeih-Weih Hung, Jia-Lin Shen, Lin-Shan Lee:
  Improved parallel model combination based on better domain transformation for speech recognition under noisy environments.
  
• Lamia Karray, Jean Monné:
  Robust speech/non-speech detection in adverse conditions based on noise and speech statistics.
  
• Myung Gyu Song, Hoi In Jung, Kab-Jong Shim, Hyung Soon Kim:
  Speech recognition in car noise environments using multiple models according to noise masking levels.
  
• Klaus Linhard, Tim Haulick:
  Spectral noise subtraction with recursive gain curves.
  
• Shengxi Pan, Jia Liu, Jintao Jiang, Zuoying Wang, Dajin Lu:
  A novel robust speech recognition algorithm based on multi-models and integrated decision method.
  
• Dusan Macho, Climent Nadeu:
  On the interaction between time and frequency filtering of speech parameters for robust speech recognition.
  
• Bhiksha Raj, Rita Singh, Richard M. Stern:
  Inference of missing spectrographic features for robust speech recognition.
  
• Volker Schless, Fritz Class:
  SNR-dependent flooring and noise overestimation for joint application of spectral subtraction and model combination.
  
• Jia-Lin Shen, Jeih-Weih Hung, Lin-Shan Lee:
  Improved robust speech recognition considering signal correlation approximated by taylor series.
  
• Won-Ho Shin, Weon-Goo Kim, Chungyong Lee, Il-Whan Cha:
  Speech recognition in noisy environment using weighted projection-based likelihood measure.
  
• Tetsuya Takiguchi, Satoshi Nakamura, Kiyohiro Shikano, Masatoshi Morishima, Toshihiro Isobe:
  Evaluation of model adaptation by HMM decomposition on telephone speech recognition.
  
• Hesham Tolba, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Comparative experiments to evaluate a voiced-unvoiced-based pre-processing approach to robust automatic speech recognition in low-SNR environments.
  
• Masashi Unoki, Masato Akagi:
  Signal extraction from noisy signal based on auditory scene analysis.
  
• Tsuyoshi Usagawa, Kenji Sakai, Masanao Ebata:
  Frequency domain binaural model as the front end of speech recognition system.
  
• An-Tzyh Yu, Hsiao-Chuan Wang:
  A study on the recognition of low bit-rate encoded speech.
  
• Tai-Hwei Hwang, Hsiao-Chuan Wang:
  Weighted parallel model combination for noisy speech recognition.
  
• Daniel Woo:
  Favourable and unfavourable short duration segments of speech in noise.
  
• Piero Cosi, Stefano Pasquin, Enrico Zovato:
  Auditory modeling techniques for robust pitch extraction and noise reduction.
  
• Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Graham Tattersall, Andrew Davis:
  Wavelet transform-based speech enhancement.
  
• Beth Logan, Tony Robinson:
  A practical perceptual frequency autoregressive HMM enhancement system.
  
• John H. L. Hansen, Bryan L. Pellom:
  An effective quality evaluation protocol for speech enhancement algorithms.
  
• Jin-Nam Park, Tsuyoshi Usagawa, Masanao Ebata:
  An adaptive beamforming microphone array system using a blind deconvolution.
  
• Latchman Singh, Sridha Sridharan:
  Speech enhancement using critical band spectral subtraction.
  

Articulatory Modelling 1-2

• Pierre Badin, Gérard Bailly, Monica Raybaudi, Christoph Segebarth:
  A three-dimensional linear articulatory model based on MRI data.
  
• Pascal Perrier, Yohan Payan, Joseph S. Perkell, Frédéric Jolly, Majid Zandipour, Melanie Matthies:
  On loops and articulatory biomechanics.
  
• Didier Demolin, Véronique Lecuit, Thierry Metens, Bruno Nazarian, Alain Soquet:
  Magnetic resonance measurements of the velum port opening.
  
• Masafumi Matsumura, Takuya Niikawa, Takao Tanabe, Takashi Tachimura, Takeshi Wada:
  Cantilever-type force-sensor-mounted palatal plate for measuring palatolingual contact stress and pattern during speech phonation.
  
• Tokihiko Kaburagi, Masaaki Honda:
  Determination of the vocal tract spectrum from the articulatory movements based on the search of an articulatory-acoustic database.
  
• Kiyoshi Honda, Mark Tiede:
  An MRI study on the relationship between oral cavity shape and larynx position.
  
• Frantz Clermont, Parham Mokhtari:
  Acoustic-articulatory evaluation of the upper vowel-formant region and its presumed speaker-specific potency.
  
• Philip Hoole, Christian Kroos:
  Control of larynx height in vowel production.
  
• Paavo Alku, Juha Vintturi, Erkki Vilkman:
  Analyzing the effect of secondary excitations of the vocal tract on vocal intensity in different loudness conditions.
  
• Gordon Ramsay:
  An analysis of modal coupling effects during the glottal cycle: formant synthesizers from time-domain finite-difference simulations.
  
• John H. Esling:
  Laryngoscopic analysis of pharyngeal articulations and larynx-height voice quality settings.
  
• Hiroki Matsuzaki, Kunitoshi Motoki, Nobuhiro Miki:
  Effects of shapes of radiational aperture on radiation characteristics.
  
• Jonathan Harrington, Mary E. Beckman, Janet Fletcher, Sallyanne Palethorpe:
  An electropalatographic, kinematic, and acoustic analysis of supralaryngeal correlates of word-level prominence contrasts in English.
  
• Marija Tabain:
  Consistencies and inconsistencies between EPG and locus equation data on coarticulation.
  
• Gérard Bailly, Pierre Badin, Anne Vilain:
  Synergy between jaw and lips/tongue movements : consequences in articulatory modelling.
  
• Philip Hoole:
  Modelling tongue configuration in German vowel production.
  
• Alan Wrench, Alan D. McIntosh, Colin Watson, William J. Hardcastle:
  Optopalatograph: real-time feedback of tongue movement in 3D.
  
• Yohann Meynadier, Michel Pitermann, Alain Marchal:
  Effects of contrastive focal accent on linguopalatal articulation and coarticulation in the French [kskl] cluster.
  

Talking to Infants, Pets and Lovers

• Christine Kitamura, Denis Burnham:
  Acoustic and affective qualities of IDS in English.
  
• Chayada Thanavisuth, Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin:
  Acoustic qualities of IDS and ADS in Thai.
  
• Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin, Chayada Thanavisuth, Suthasinee Sittigasorn, Onwadee Rukkarangsarit:
  Pragmatic characteristics of infant directed speech.
  
• Denis Burnham, Elizabeth Francis, Ute Vollmer-Conna, Christine Kitamura, Vicky Averkiou, Amanda Olley, Mary Nguyen, Cal Paterson:
  Are you my little pussy-cat? acoustic, phonetic and affective qualities of infant- and pet-directed speech.
  
• Denis Burnham:
  Special speech registers: talking to australian and Thai infants, and to pets.
  

Speech Coding 1-3

• Takashi Masuko, Keiichi Tokuda, Takao Kobayashi:
  A very low bit rate speech coder using HMM with speaker adaptation.
  
• E. Ekudden, R. Hagen, B. Johansson, Shinji Hayashi, Akitoshi Kataoka, Sachiko Kurihara:
  ITU-t g.729 extension at 6.4 kbps.
  
• Damith J. Mudugamuwa, Alan B. Bradley:
  Adaptive transformation for segmented parametric speech coding.
  
• Julien Epps, W. Harvey Holmes:
  Speech enhancement using STC-based bandwidth extension.
  
• Weihua Zhang, W. Harvey Holmes:
  Performance and optimization of the SEEVOC algorithm.
  
• Wendy J. Holmes:
  Towards a unified model for low bit-rate speech coding using a recognition-synthesis approach.
  
• Jan Skoglund, W. Bastiaan Kleijn:
  On the significance of temporal masking in speech coding.
  
• W. Bastiaan Kleijn, Huimin Yang, Ed F. Deprettere:
  Waveform interpolation coding with pitch-spaced subbands.
  
• Nicola R. Chong, Ian S. Burnett, Joe F. Chicharo:
  An improved decomposition method for WI using IIR wavelet filter banks.
  
• Paavo Alku, Susanna Varho:
  A new linear predictive method for compression of speech signals.
  
• Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami, Mohamed Deriche, Sridha Sridharan:
  Hierarchical temporal decomposition: a novel approach to efficient compression of spectral characteristics of speech.
  
• Susan L. Hura:
  Speech intelligibility testing for new technologies.
  
• Sung-Joo Kim, Sangho Lee, Woo-Jin Han, Yung-Hwan Oh:
  Efficient quantization of LSF parameters based on temporal decomposition.
  
• Minoru Kohata:
  A sinusoidal harmonic vocoder at 1.2 kbps using auditory perceptual characteristics.
  
• Kazuhito Koishida, Gou Hirabayashi, Keiichi Tokuda, Takao Kobayashi:
  A 16 kbit/s wideband CELP coder using MEL-generalized cepstral analysis and its subjective evaluation.
  
• Derek J. Molyneux, C. I. Parris, X. Q. Sun, Barry M. G. Cheetham:
  Comparison of spectral estimation techniques for low bit-rate speech coding.
  
• Yoshihisa Nakatoh, Takeshi Norimatsu, Ah Heng Low, Hiroshi Matsumoto:
  Low bit rate coding for speech and audio using mel linear predictive coding (MLPC) analysis.
  
• Jeng-Shyang Pan, Chin-Shiuh Shieh, Shu-Chuan Chu:
  Comparison study on VQ codevector index assignment.
  
• John J. Parry, Ian S. Burnett, Joe F. Chicharo:
  Using linguistic knowledge to improve the design of low-bit rate LSF quantisation.
  
• Davor Petrinovic:
  Transform coding of LSF parameters using wavelets.
  
• F. Plante, Barry M. G. Cheetham, D. Marston, P. A. Barrett:
  Source controlled variable bit-rate speech coder based on waveform interpolation.
  
• Carlos M. Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso:
  Improving speaker recognisability in phonetic vocoders.
  

Neural Networks, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Methods 1

• Visarut Ahkuputra, Somchai Jitapunkul, Nutthacha Jittiwarangkul, Ekkarit Maneenoi, Sawit Kasuriya:
  A comparison of Thai speech recognition systems using hidden Markov model, neural network, and fuzzy-neural network.
  
• Felix Freitag, Enric Monte:
  Phoneme recognition with statistical modeling of the prediction error of neural networks.
  
• Toshiaki Fukada, Takayoshi Yoshimura, Yoshinori Sagisaka:
  Neural network based pronunciation modeling with applications to speech recognition.
  
• Stephen J. Haskey, Sekharajit Datta:
  A comparative study of OCON and MLP architectures for phoneme recognition.
  
• John-Paul Hosom, Ronald A. Cole, Piero Cosi:
  Evaluation and integration of neural-network training techniques for continuous digit recognition.
  
• Ying Jia, Limin Du, Ziqiang Hou:
  Hierarchical neural networks (HNN) for Chinese continuous speech recognition.
  
• Eric Keller:
  Neural network motivation for segmental distribution.
  
• Nikki Mirghafori, Nelson Morgan:
  Combining connectionist multi-band and full-band probability streams for speech recognition of natural numbers.
  
• Ednaldo Brigante Pizzolato, T. Jeff Reynolds:
  Initial speech recognition results using the multinet architecture.
  
• Tomio Takara, Yasushi Iha, Itaru Nagayama:
  Selection of the optimal structure of the continuous HMM using the genetic algorithm.
  
• Dat Tran, Michael Wagner, Tu Van Le:
  A proposed decision rule for speaker recognition based on fuzzy c-means clustering.
  
• Dat Tran, Tu Van Le, Michael Wagner:
  Fuzzy Gaussian mixture models for speaker recognition.
  
• Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Somchai Jitapunkul, Visarut Ahkuputra, Ekkarit Maneenoi, Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin:
  A new strategy of fuzzy-neural network for Thai numeral speech recognition.
  
• Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Somchai Jitapunkul, Visarut Ahkuputra, Ekkarit Maneenoi, Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin:
  Thai polysyllabic word recognition using fuzzy-neural network.
  
• Axel Glaeser:
  Modular neural networks for low-complex phoneme recognition.
  
• João F. G. de Freitas, Sue E. Johnson, Mahesan Niranjan, Andrew H. Gee:
  Global optimisation of neural network models via sequential sampling-importance resampling.
  
• Jörg Rottland, Andre Ludecke, Gerhard Rigoll:
  Efficient computation of MMI neural networks for large vocabulary speech recognition systems.
  
• Sid-Ahmed Selouani, Jean Caelen:
  Modular connectionist systems for identifying complex arabic phonetic features.
  
• Tuan Pham, Michael Wagner:
  Fuzzy-integration based normalization for speaker verification.
  
• Hiroshi Shimodaira, Jun Rokui, Mitsuru Nakai:
  Improving the generalization performance of the MCE/GPD learning.
  
• Tetsuro Kitazoe, Tomoyuki Ichiki, Sung-Ill Kim:
  Acoustic speech recognition model by neural net equation with competition and cooperation.
  
• Julie Ngan, Aravind Ganapathiraju, Joseph Picone:
  Improved surname pronunciations using decision trees.
  

Utterance Verification and Word Spotting 1 / Speaker Adaptation 1

• M. Carmen Benítez, Antonio J. Rubio, Pedro García, Jesús E. Díaz-Verdejo:
  Word verification using confidence measures in speech recognition.
  
• Giulia Bernardis, Hervé Bourlard:
  Improving posterior based confidence measures in hybrid HMM/ANN speech recognition systems.
  
• Javier Caminero, Eduardo López, Luis A. Hernández Gómez:
  Two-pass utterance verification algorithm for long natural numbers recognition.
  
• Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Lee-Feng Chien, Lin-Shan Lee:
  A*-admissible key-phrase spotting with sub-syllable level utterance verification.
  
• Volker Fischer, Yuqing Gao, Eric Janke:
  Speaker-independent upfront dialect adaptation in a large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer.
  
• Asela Gunawardana, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Li Jiang:
  Word-based acoustic confidence measures for large-vocabulary speech recognition.
  
• Sunil K. Gupta, Frank K. Soong:
  Improved utterance rejection using length dependent thresholds.
  
• Ching-Hsiang Ho, Saeed Vaseghi, Aimin Chen:
  Bayesian constrained frequency warping HMMS for speaker normalisation.
  
• Masaki Ida, Ryuji Yamasaki:
  An evaluation of keyword spotting performance utilizing false alarm rejection based on prosodic information.
  
• Dieu Tran, Ken-ichi Iso:
  Predictive speaker adaptation and its prior training.
  
• Rachida El Méliani, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Powerful syllabic fillers for general-task keyword-spotting and unlimited-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition.
  
• Christine Pao, Philipp Schmid, James R. Glass:
  Confidence scoring for speech understanding systems.
  
• Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Abraham Ittycheriah:
  Phonological rules for enhancing acoustic enrollment of unknown words.
  
• Anand R. Setlur, Rafid A. Sukkar:
  Recognition-based word counting for reliable barge-in and early endpoint detection in continuous speech recognition.
  
• Martin Westphal, Tanja Schultz, Alex Waibel:
  Linear discriminant - a new criterion for speaker normalization.
  
• Gethin Williams, Steve Renals:
  Confidence measures derived from an acceptor HMM.
  
• Chung-Hsien Wu, Yeou-Jiunn Chen, Yu-Chun Hung:
  Telephone speech multi-keyword spotting using fuzzy search algorithm and prosodic verification.
  
• Yoichi Yamashita, Toshikatsu Tsunekawa, Riichiro Mizoguchi:
  Topic recognition for news speech based on keyword spotting.