INTERSPEECH 2007: Antwerp, Belgium

Keynotes 1-4

• Victor Zue:
  On organic interfaces. 1-8
  
• Sophie K. Scott:
  The neural basis of speech perception - a view from functional imaging. 9-13
  
• Alex Waibel, Keni Bernardin, Matthias Wölfel:
  Computer-supported human-human multilingual communication. 14-21
  
• Pierre-Yves Oudeyer:
  Self-organization in the evolution of shared systems of speech sounds: a computational study. 22-29
  

Discriminative and Large Margin Techniques in Acoustic Modeling

• Jinyu Li, Chin-Hui Lee:
  Soft margin feature extraction for automatic speech recognition. 30-33
  
• Yan Yin, Hui Jiang:
  A fast optimization method for large margin estimation of HMMs based on second order cone programming. 34-37
  
• Hao-Zheng Li, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Frame margin probability discriminative training algorithm for noisy speech recognition. 38-41
  
• Fabio Valente, Jithendra Vepa, Christian Plahl, Christian Gollan, Hynek Hermansky, Ralf Schlüter:
  Hierarchical neural networks feature extraction for LVCSR system. 42-45
  
• Peder A. Olsen, John R. Hershey:
  Bhattacharyya error and divergence using variational importance sampling. 46-49
  
• Tingyao Wu, Jacques Duchateau, Dirk Van Compernolle:
  Phoneme dependent frame selection preference. 50-53
  

Speech Production I, II

• Xinhui Zhou, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Mark Tiede, Suzanne Boyce:
  An articulatory and acoustic study of "retroflex" and "bunched" american English rhotic sound based on MRI. 54-57
  
• Paula Martins, Inês Carbone, Augusto Silva, António J. S. Teixeira:
  An MRI study of european portuguese nasals. 58-61
  
• Sayoko Takano, Hiroki Matsuzaki, Kunitoshi Motoki:
  A four-cube FEM model of the extrinsic and intrinsic tongue muscles to simulate the production of vowel /i/. 62-65
  
• Juan F. Torres, Elliot Moore:
  Performance evaluation of glottal quality measures from the perspective of vocal tract filter consistency. 66-69
  
• Veena D. Singampalli, Philip J. B. Jackson:
  Statistical identification of critical, dependent and redundant articulators. 70-73
  
• Chao Qin, Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán:
  An empirical investigation of the nonuniqueness in the acoustic-to-articulatory mapping. 74-77
  

Phonetic Segmentation and Classification I, II

• Peter Karsmakers, Kristiaan Pelckmans, Johan A. K. Suykens, Hugo Van hamme:
  Fixed-size kernel logistic regression for phoneme classification. 78-81
  
• Seung Seop Park, Jong Won Shin, Jong Kyu Kim, Nam Soo Kim:
  A multiple-model based framework for automatic speech segmentation. 82-85
  
• Aren Jansen, Partha Niyogi:
  Semi-supervised learning of speech sounds. 86-89
  
• Abhinav Parate, Ashish Verma, Jayanta Basak:
  Evaluation of syllable stress using single class classifier. 90-93
  
• Mohammad Nurul Huda, Muhammad Ghulam, Junsei Horikawa, Tsuneo Nitta:
  Distinctive phonetic feature (DPF) based phone segmentation using hybrid neural networks. 94-97
  
• Jean Philippe Goldman, Mathieu Avanzi, Anne-Catherine Simon, Anne Lacheret, Antoine Auchlin:
  A methodology for the automatic detection of perceived prominent syllables in spoken French. 98-101
  

Discourse, Dialog and Conversation

• Hiroki Mori, Hideki Kasuya:
  Voice source and vocal tract variations as cues to emotional states perceived from expressive conversational speech. 102-105
  
• Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman:
  Exploring initiative strategies using computer simulation. 106-109
  
• Chiu-yu Tseng, Zhao-yu Su:
  From one base form to multiple output styles - predicting stylistic dynamics of discourse prosody. 110-113
  
• Claudia Crocco, Renata Savy:
  Topic in dialogue: prosodic and syntactic features. 114-117
  
• Michiko Watanabe, Yasuharu Den, Keikichi Hirose, Shusaku Miwa, Nobuaki Minematsu:
  Features of pauses and conjunctions at syntactic and discourse boundaries in Japanese monologues. 118-121
  

Spoken Dialog Systems I, II

• Craig Wootton, Michael F. McTear, Terry Anderson:
  Utilizing online content as domain knowledge in a multi-domain dynamic dialogue system. 122-125
  
• Boris W. van Schooten, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Galibert, Aurélien Max, Rieks op den Akker, Gabriel Illouz:
  Handling speech input in the ritel QA dialogue system. 126-129
  
• Woosung Kim:
  Online call quality monitoring for automating agent-based call centers. 130-133
  
• Sebastian Möller, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Antti Oulasvirta:
  Analysis of communication failures for spoken dialogue systems. 134-137
  
• Sandra Mann, André Berton, Ute Ehrlich:
  How to access audio files of large data bases using in-car speech dialogue systems. 138-141
  
• Kazunori Komatani, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Analyzing temporal transition of real user's behaviors in a spoken dialogue system. 142-145
  
• J. Sherwani, Dong Yu, Tim Paek, Mary Czerwinski, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero:
  Voicepedia: towards speech-based access to unstructured information. 146-149
  
• Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, Shrikanth S. Narayanan:
  Exploiting prosodic features for dialog act tagging in a discriminative modeling framework. 150-153
  
• Hua Ai, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, David R. Traum:
  Using information state to improve dialogue move identification in a spoken dialogue system. 154-157
  
• Shiu-Wah Chu, Ian M. O'Neill, Philip Hanna:
  Using multiple strategies to manage spoken dialogue. 158-161
  
• Marcelo Quinderé, Luís Seabra Lopes, António J. S. Teixeira:
  An information state based dialogue manager for a mobile robot. 162-165
  

Accent and Language Identification I, II

• Josef G. Bauer, Bernt Andrassy, Ekaterina Timoshenko:
  Discriminative optimization of language adapted HMMs for a language identification system based on parallel phoneme recognizers. 166-169
  
• Khe Chai Sim, Haizhou Li:
  Fusion of contrastive acoustic models for parallel phonotactic spoken language identification. 170-173
  
• Liang Wang, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Eric H. C. Choi:
  Multi-layer kohonen self-organizing feature map for language identification. 174-177
  
• Bo Yin, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Fang Chen:
  Hierarchical language identification based on automatic language clustering. 178-181
  
• Ekaterina Timoshenko, Harald Höge:
  Using speech rhythm for acoustic language identification. 182-185
  
• Kakeung Wong, Man-Hung Siu, Brian Mak:
  A model-based estimation of phonotactic language verification performance. 186-189
  
• Mike Rosner, Paulseph-John Farrugia:
  A tagging algorithm for mixed language identification in a noisy domain. 190-193
  
• Doroteo Torre Toledano, Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez, Alejandro Abejón-Gonzalez, Danilo Spada, Ismael Mateos-Garcia, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez:
  Improved language recognition using better phonetic decoders and fusion with MFCC and SDC features. 194-197
  

Education and Training

• Daniel Bolaños, Wayne Ward, Sarel van Vuuren, Javier Garrido:
  Syllable lattices as a basis for a children's speech reading tracker. 198-201
  
• Fuping Pan, Qingwei Zhao, Yonghong Yan:
  Mandarin vowel pronunciation quality evaluation by using formant pattern recognition. 202-205
  
• Matthew Black, Joseph Tepperman, Sungbok Lee, Patti Price, Shrikanth S. Narayanan:
  Automatic detection and classification of disfluent reading miscues in young children's speech for the purpose of assessment. 206-209
  
• Nobuaki Minematsu, K. Kamata, Satoshi Asakawa, T. Makino, Tazuko Nishimura, Keikichi Hirose:
  Structural assessment of language learners' pronunciation. 210-213
  
• Abdurrahman Samir, Sherif Mahdy Abdou, Ahmed Husien Khalil, Mohsen Rashwan:
  Enhancing usability of CAPL system for qur'an recitation learning. 214-217
  
• Febe de Wet, Christa van der Walt, Thomas Niesler:
  Automatic large-scale oral language proficiency assessment. 218-221
  

Robust ASR I, II

• Yuki Denda, Takamasa Tanaka, Masato Nakayama, Takanobu Nishiura, Yoichi Yamashita:
  Noise-robust hands-free voice activity detection with adaptive zero crossing detection using talker direction estimation. 222-225
  
• Agustín Álvarez Marquina, Rafael Martínez, Pedro Gómez Vilda, Victor Nieto Lluis, V. Rodellar:
  A robust mel-scale subband voice activity detector for a car platform. 226-229
  
• Kentaro Ishizuka, Tomohiro Nakatani, Masakiyo Fujimoto, Noboru Miyazaki:
  Noise robust front-end processing with voice activity detection based on periodic to aperiodic component ratio. 230-233
  
• A. M. Toh, Roberto Togneri, Sven Nordholm:
  Feature and distribution normalization schemes for statistical mismatch reduction in reverberant speech recognition. 234-237
  
• Matthew Gibson, Thomas Hain:
  Temporal masking for unsupervised minimum Bayes risk speaker adaptation. 238-241
  
• Tsung-hsueh Hsieh, Jeih-Weih Hung:
  Speech feature compensation based on pseudo stereo codebooks for robust speech recognition in additive noise environments. 242-245
  
• Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Petros Maragos, Stamatios Lefkimmiatis:
  Multiband, multisensor robust features for noisy speech recognition. 246-249
  
• Akira Sasou, Hiroaki Kojima:
  Noise robust speech recognition for voice driven wheelchair. 250-253
  

Adaptation in ASR I, II

• Yun Tang, Richard C. Rose:
  Clustered maximum likelihood linear basis for rapid speaker adaptation. 254-257
  
• Wen Xuan Teng, Guillaume Gravier, Frédéric Bimbot, Frédéric Soufflet:
  Rapid speaker adaptation by reference model interpolation. 258-261
  
• Randy Gomez, Tomoki Toda, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  Rapid unsupervised speaker adaptation using single utterance based on MLLR and speaker selection. 262-265
  
• Brian Kan-Wing Mak, Roger Wend-Huu Hsiao:
  Robustness of several kernel-based fast adaptation methods on noisy LVCSR. 266-269
  
• Janne Pylkkönen:
  Estimating VTLN warping factors by distribution matching. 270-273
  
• Ming Liu, Xi Zhou, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Thomas S. Huang, Zhengyou Zhang:
  Frequency domain correspondence for speaker normalization. 274-277
  
• Masafumi Nishida, Yasuo Horiuchi, Akira Ichikawa:
  Unsupervised training of adaptation rate using q-learning in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. 278-281
  
• Martin Karafiát, Lukás Burget, Jan Cernocký, Thomas Hain:
  Application of CMLLR in narrow band wide band adapted systems. 282-285
  
• Christophe Lévy, Georges Linarès, Jean-François Bonastre:
  Fast adaptation of GMM-based compact models. 286-289
  

Speaker Verification & Identification I-IV

• Zahi N. Karam, William M. Campbell:
  A new kernel for SVM MLLR based speaker recognition. 290-293
  
• Kong-Aik Lee, Changhuai You, Haizhou Li, Tomi Kinnunen:
  A GMM-based probabilistic sequence kernel for speaker verification. 294-297
  
• Hagai Aronowitz:
  Speaker recognition using kernel-PCA and intersession variability modeling. 298-301
  
• Réda Dehak, Najim Dehak, Patrick Kenny, Pierre Dumouchel:
  Linear and non linear kernel GMM supervector machines for speaker verification. 302-305
  
• Ignacio Lopez-Moreno, Ismael Mateos-Garcia, Daniel Ramos, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez:
  Support vector regression for speaker verification. 306-309
  
• Chris Longworth, Mark J. F. Gales:
  Derivative and parametric kernels for speaker verification. 310-313
  

Spoken Data Retrieval I, II

• David R. H. Miller, Michael Kleber, Chia-Lin Kao, Owen Kimball, Thomas Colthurst, Stephen A. Lowe, Richard M. Schwartz, Herbert Gish:
  Rapid and accurate spoken term detection. 314-317
  
• Yi-Cheng Pan, Hung-lin Chang, Berlin Chen, Lin-Shan Lee:
  Subword-based position specific posterior lattices (s-PSPL) for indexing speech information. 318-321
  
• Andreas Merkel, Dietrich Klakow:
  Improved methods for language model based question classification. 322-325
  
• Tomoyosi Akiba, Hirofumi Tsujimura:
  Error-tolerant question answering for spoken documents. 326-329
  
• Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tür, Gökhan Tür, Michael Levit:
  Exploiting information extraction annotations for document retrieval in distillation tasks. 330-333
  
• Kishan Thambiratnam, Frank Seide:
  Learning spoken document similarity and recommendation using supervised probabilistic latent semantic analysis. 334-337
  

Accent and Language Identification I, II

• David A. van Leeuwen, Khiet P. Truong:
  An open-set detection evaluation methodology applied to language and emotion recognition. 338-341
  
• Xi Yang, Man-Hung Siu, Herbert Gish, Brian Mak:
  Boosting with anti-models for automatic language identification. 342-345
  
• Fabio Castaldo, Daniele Colibro, Emanuele Dalmasso, Pietro Laface, Claudio Vair:
  Acoustic language identification using fast discriminative training. 346-349
  
• Ming Li, Hongbin Suo, Xiao Wu, Ping Lu, Yonghong Yan:
  Spoken language identification using score vector modeling and support vector machine. 350-353
  
• Ricardo de Córdoba, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Fernando Fernández-Martínez, Javier Macías Guarasa, Javier Ferreiros:
  Language identification based on n-gram frequency ranking. 354-357
  
• Wade Shen, Douglas A. Reynolds:
  Improving phonotactic language recognition with acoustic adaptation. 358-361
  

Speech Perception I, II

• Michael C. W. Yip:
  Spoken word recognition of Chinese homophones: a further investigation. 362-365
  
• Maria Wolters, Pauline Campbell, Christine DePlacido, Amy Liddell, David Owens:
  The role of outer hair cell function in the perception of synthetic versus natural speech. 366-369
  
• Akiko Kusumoto, Alexander Kain, John-Paul Hosom, Jan P. H. van Santen:
  Hybridizing conversational and clear speech. 370-373
  
• Sophie Dufour, Ulrich H. Frauenfelder:
  Neighborhood density and neighborhood frequency effects in French spoken word recognition. 374-377
  
• Toshio Irino, Yoshie Aoki, Yoshie Hayashi, Hideki Kawahara, Roy D. Patterson:
  Discrimination and recognition of scaled word sounds. 378-381
  
• László Tóth:
  Benchmarking human performance on the acoustic and linguistic subtasks of ASR systems. 382-385
  
• Lin Yang, Jianping Zhang, Yonghong Yan:
  Contributions of temporal fine structure cues to Chinese speech recognition in cochlear implant simulation. 386-389
  
• Xihong Wu, Jing Chen, Zhigang Yang, Qiang Huang, Mengyuan Wang, Liang Li:
  Effect of number of masking talkers on speech-on-speech masking in Chinese. 390-393
  
• Odile Bagou, Sophie Dufour, Cécile Fougeron, Alain Content, Ulrich H. Frauenfelder:
  Do different boundary types induce subtle acoustic cues to which French listeners are sensitive? 394-397
  
• Svante Stadler, Arne Leijon, Björn Hagerman:
  An information theoretic approach to predict speech intelligibility for listeners with normal and impaired hearing. 398-401
  
• Travis Wade, Bernd Möbius:
  Speaking rate effects in a landmark-based phonetic exemplar model. 402-405
  
• Kazumi Maniwa, Allard Jongman, Travis Wade:
  Acoustic correlates of intelligibility enhancements in clearly produced fricatives. 406-409
  
• Tim Jürgens, Thomas Brand, Birger Kollmeier:
  Modelling the human-machine gap in speech reception: microscopic speech intelligibility prediction for normal-hearing subjects with an auditory model. 410-413
  
• Ayako Ikeno, John H. L. Hansen:
  Lombard speech impact on perceptual speaker recognition. 414-417
  
• Huiwen Goy, Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Pascal van Lieshout, Gurjit Singh, Bruce Schneider:
  Effect of within- and between-talker variability on word identification in noise by younger and older adults. 418-421
  
• H. Timothy Bunnell, N. Carolyn Schanen, Linda D. Vallino, Thierry G. Morlet, James B. Polikoff, Jennette D. Driscoll, James T. Mantell:
  Speech perception in children with speech sound disorder. 422-425
  
• Huan Wang, Werner Hemmert:
  Speech coding and information processing by auditory neurons. 426-429
  
• Annie C. Gilbert, Victor J. Boucher:
  What do listeners attend to in hearing prosodic structures? investigating the human speech-parser using short-term recall. 430-433
  

Prosody: Prosodic Structure

• Yosuke Igarashi:
  Pitch pattern alternation in goshogawara Japanese: evidence for a prosodic phrase above the domain for downstep. 434-437
  
• Irina Nesterenko, Pavel A. Skrelin:
  Some evidence on the phonetics and phonology of prosodic phrasing in Russian. 438-441
  
• Jan Volín, Radek Skarnitzl:
  Temporal downtrends in Czech read speech. 442-445
  
• Hyongsil Cho, Daniel Hirst:
  Empirical evidence for prosodic phrasing: pauses as linguistic annotation in Korean read speech. 446-449
  
• Markus Dreyer, Izhak Shafran:
  Exploiting prosody for PCFGs with latent annotations. 450-453
  
• Qin Shi, Danning Jiang, Fanping Meng, Yong Qin:
  Combining length distribution model with decision tree in prosodic phrase prediction. 454-457
  
• Li-chiung Yang:
  Duration and pauses as boundary-markers in speech: a cross-linguistic study. 458-461
  

Prosodic Modeling I, II

• Jian Yu, Lixing Huang, Jianhua Tao, Xia Wang:
  Modeling incompletion phenomenon in Mandarin dialog prosody. 462-465
  
• Anne Tamm, Kálmán Abari, Gábor Olaszy:
  Accent assignment algorithm in Hungarian, based on syntactic analysis. 466-469
  
• Cheng-Yuan Lin, Pei-Chi Jao, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang:
  An effective initial/final duration prediction method for corpus-based singing voice synthesis of Mandarin Chinese. 470-473
  
• Géza Németh, Márk Fék, Tamás Gábor Csapó:
  Increasing prosodic variability of text-to-speech synthesizers. 474-477
  
• Damien Lolive, Nelly Barbot, Olivier Boëffard:
  Unsupervised HMM classification of F0 curves. 478-481
  
• Ian Read, Stephen Cox:
  Automatic pitch accent prediction for text-to-speech synthesis. 482-485
  
• Xinqiang Ni, Yining Chen, Frank K. Soong, Min Chu, Ping Zhang:
  An unsupervised approach to automatic prosodic annotation. 486-489
  
• Zeynep Inanoglu, Steve Young:
  A system for transforming the emotion in speech: combining data-driven conversion techniques for prosody and voice quality. 490-493
  
• Chen-Yu Chiang, Hsiu-Min Yu, Yih-Ru Wang, Sin-Horng Chen:
  An automatic prosody labeling method for Mandarin speech. 494-497
  

Speech Analysis

• Koby Crammer:
  A conservative aggressive subspace tracker. 498-501
  
• Mattias Nilsson, W. Bastiaan Kleijn:
  Mutual information and the speech signal. 502-505
  
• Tony Ezzat, Jake V. Bouvrie, Tomaso Poggio:
  Spectro-temporal analysis of speech using 2-d Gabor filters. 506-509
  
• Tomas Dekens, Mike Demol, Werner Verhelst, Piet Verhoeve:
  A comparative study of speech rate estimation techniques. 510-513
  
• Tiago H. Falk, Hua Yuan, Wai-Yip Chan:
  Spectro-temporal processing for blind estimation of reverberation time and single-ended quality measurement of reverberant speech. 514-517
  

Spectral Analysis, Formants and Vocal Tract Models

• Toon van Waterschoot, Marc Moonen:
  Linear prediction of audio signals. 518-521
  
• Carlo Magi, Tomas Bäckström, Paavo Alku:
  Stabilised weighted linear prediction - a robust all-pole method for speech processing. 522-525
  
• Daniel Rudoy, Daniel N. Spendley, Patrick J. Wolfe:
  Conditionally linear Gaussian models for estimating vocal tract resonances. 526-529
  
• Karl Schnell, Arild Lacroix:
  Time-varying pre-emphasis and inverse filtering of speech. 530-533
  
• Joachim Thiemann, Peter Kabal:
  Reconstructing audio signals from modified non-coherent hilbert envelopes. 534-537
  
• Binh Phu Nguyen, Masato Akagi:
  A flexible spectral modification method based on temporal decomposition and Gaussian mixture model. 538-541
  
• Jonathan Darch, Ben Milner:
  A comparison of estimated and MAP-predicted formants and fundamental frequencies with a speech reconstruction application. 542-545
  
• Huiqun Deng, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Effect of incomplete glottal closures on estimates of glottal waves via inverse filtering of vowel sounds. 546-549
  
• Kaustubh Kalgaonkar, Mark A. Clements:
  Vocal tract and area function estimation with both lip and glottal losses. 550-553
  
• S. Guruprasad, B. Yegnanarayana, K. Sri Rama Murty:
  Detection of instants of glottal closure using characteristics of excitation source. 554-557
  
• Nicolas Sturmel, Christophe d'Alessandro, Boris Doval:
  A comparative evaluation of the zeros of z transform representation for voice source estimation. 558-561
  

Speech and Audio Processing for Intelligent Environments

• Aki Härmä:
  Ambient telephony: scenarios and research challenges. 562-565
  
• Yasunari Obuchi, Akio Amano:
  Always listening to you: creating exhaustive audio database in home environments. 566-569
  
• Joerg Schmalenstroeer, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach:
  Joint speaker segmentation, localization and identification for streaming audio. 570-573
  
• Yan-Chen Lu, Martin Cooke, Heidi Christensen:
  Active binaural distance estimation for dynamic sources. 574-577
  
• Bengt J. Borgström, Abeer Alwan:
  A packetization and variable bitrate interframe compression scheme for vector quantizer-based distributed speech recognition. 578-581
  
• Matthias Wölfel:
  Channel selection by class separability measures for automatic transcriptions on distant microphones. 582-585
  
• Danny Wyatt, Tanzeem Choudhury, Jeff Bilmes:
  Conversation detection and speaker segmentation in privacy-sensitive situated speech data. 586-589
  
• Alberto Abad, Carlos Segura, Climent Nadeu, Javier Hernando:
  Audio-based approaches to head orientation estimation in a smart-room. 590-593
  
• Valentin Ion, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach:
  Multi-resolution soft features for channel-robust distributed speech recognition. 594-597
  

Language Modeling I, II

• Yi Su, Frederick Jelinek, Sanjeev Khudanpur:
  Large-scale random forest language models for speech recognition. 598-601
  
• Yuya Akita, Yusuke Nemoto, Tatsuya Kawahara:
  PLSA-based topic detection in meetings for adaptation of lexicon and language model. 602-605
  
• Atsushi Sako, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki:
  Language modeling using PLSA-based topic HMM. 606-609
  
• Yi-Cheng Pan, Lin-Shan Lee:
  Lexicon adaptation with reduced character error (LARCE) - a new direction in Chinese language modeling. 610-613
  
• Meng-Sung Wu, Jen-Tzung Chien:
  Minimum rank error training for language modeling. 614-617
  
• Wen Wang, Andreas Stolcke:
  Integrating MAP, marginals, and unsupervised language model adaptation. 618-621
  

Prosody Production and Perception

• Sasha Calhoun:
  Predicting focus through prominence structure. 622-625
  
• Murtaza Bulut, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth S. Narayanan:
  Analysis of emotional speech prosody in terms of part of speech tags. 626-629
  
• Fang Liu, Yi Xu:
  The neutral tone in question intonation in Mandarin. 630-633
  
• Amélie Rochet-Capellan, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Rafael Laboissière, Arturo Galvàn:
  Pointing to a target while naming it with /pata/ or /tapa/: the effect of consonants and stress position on jaw-finger coordination. 634-637
  
• Øydis Hide, Steven Gillis, Paul Govaerts:
  Suprasegmental aspects of pre-lexical speech in cochlear implanted children. 638-641
  
• Oliver Niebuhr:
  Categorical perception in intonation: a matter of signal dynamics? 642-645
  

Multimodal Speech Recognition

• Noureddine Aboutabit, Denis Beautemps, Jeanne Clarke, Laurent Besacier:
  A HMM recognition of consonant-vowel syllables from lip contours: the cued speech case. 646-649
  
• Patrick Lucey, Gerasimos Potamianos, Sridha Sridharan:
  A unified approach to multi-pose audio-visual ASR. 650-653
  
• Rowan Seymour, Darryl Stewart, Ji Ming:
  Audio-visual integration for robust speech recognition using maximum weighted stream posteriors. 654-657
  
• Thomas Hueber, Gérard Chollet, Bruce Denby, Gérard Dreyfus, Maureen Stone:
  Continuous-speech phone recognition from ultrasound and optical images of the tongue and lips. 658-661
  
• Bo Zhu, Timothy J. Hazen, James R. Glass:
  Multimodal speech recognition with ultrasonic sensors. 662-665
  
• David Dean, Patrick Lucey, Sridha Sridharan, Tim Wark:
  Fused HMM-adaptation of multi-stream HMMs for audio-visual speech recognition. 666-669
  

Speech and Other Modalities

• Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita:
  Analysis of head motions and speech in spoken dialogue. 670-673
  
• Lars Bo Larsen, Kasper Løvborg Jensen, Søren Larsen, Morten H. Rasmussen:
  A paradigm for mobile speech-centric services. 674-677
  
• Pavel Campr, Marek Hrúz, Milos Zelezný:
  Design and recording of Czech sign language corpus for automatic sign language recognition. 678-681
  
• Jens Edlund, Jonas Beskow:
  Pushy versus meek - using avatars to influence turn-taking behaviour. 682-685
  
• Michael Wand, Szu-Chen Stan Jou, Tanja Schultz:
  Wavelet-based front-end for electromyographic speech recognition. 686-689
  
• Gaëlle Ferré, Roxane Bertrand, Philippe Blache, Robert Espesser, Stéphane Rauzy:
  Intensive gestures in French and their multimodal correlates. 690-693
  
• Slim Ouni, Kaïs Ouni:
  Aspects of visual speech in Arabic. 694-697
  
• Denis Burnham, Jessica Reynolds, Guillaume Vignali, Sandra Bollwerk, Caroline Jones:
  Rigid vs non-rigid face and head motion in phone and tone perception. 698-701
  

Multimodal/Multimedia Signal Processing

• Hedvig Kjellström, Olov Engwall, Sherif Mahdy Abdou, Olle Bälter:
  Audio-visual phoneme classification for pronunciation training applications. 702-705
  
• Katja Grauwinkel, Britta Dewitt, Sascha Fagel:
  Visual information and redundancy conveyed by internal articulator dynamics in synthetic audiovisual speech. 706-709
  
• Wei Zhou, Zengfu Wang:
  A speech rate related lip movement model for speech animation. 710-713
  
• Guanyong Wu, Jie Zhu:
  An extension 2DPCA based visual feature extraction method for audio-visual speech recognition. 714-717
  
• Soo-jong Lee, Jun Park, Eung-kyeu Kim:
  Preventing an external acoustic noise from being misrecognized as a speech recognition object by confirming the lip movement image signal. 718-721
  
• Gregor Hofer, Hiroshi Shimodaira:
  Automatic head motion prediction from speech data. 722-725
  
• Yuki Denda, Takanobu Nishiura, Yoichi Yamashita:
  Omnidirectional audio-visual talker localizer with dynamic feature fusion based on validity and reliability criteria. 726-729
  
• Nick Campbell, Damien Douxchamps:
  Processing image and audio information for recognising discourse participation status through features of face and voice. 730-733
  

Speaker Verification & Identification I-IV

• José R. Calvo, Rafael Fernández, Gabriel Hernández:
  Application of shifted delta cepstral features in speaker verification. 734-737
  
• Luciana Ferrer, M. Kemal Sönmez, Elizabeth Shriberg:
  A smoothing kernel for spatially related features and its application to speaker verification. 738-741
  
• Delphine Charlet, Mikaël Collet, Frédéric Bimbot:
  VZ-norm: an extension of z-norm to the multivariate case for anchor model based speaker verification. 742-745
  
• Howard Lei, Nikki Mirghafori:
  Word-conditioned HMM supervectors for speaker recognition. 746-749
  
• Wei-Ho Tsai:
  Speaker clustering using direct maximization of a BIC-based score. 750-753
  
• Alexandre Preti, Jean-François Bonastre, Driss Matrouf, François Capman, Bertrand Ravera:
  Confidence measure based unsupervised target model adaptation for speaker verification. 754-757
  
• Huanjun Bao, Ming-Xing Xu, Thomas Fang Zheng:
  Emotion attribute projection for speaker recognition on emotional speech. 758-761
  
• Shi-Xiong Zhang, Man-Wai Mak, Helen M. Meng:
  High-level feature-based speaker verification via articulatory phonetic-class pronunciation modeling. 762-765
  
• T. Yingthawornsuk, H. Kaymaz Keskinpala, D. Mitchell Wilkes, Richard G. Shiavi, R. M. Salomon:
  Direct acoustic feature using iterative EM algorithm and spectral energy for classifying suicidal speech. 766-769
  
• Claudio Garretón, Néstor Becerra Yoma, Fernando Huenupán, Carlos Molina:
  On comparing and combining intra-speaker variability compensation and unsupervised model adaptation in speaker verification. 770-773
  
• Xianyu Zhao, Yuan Dong, Hao Yang, Jian Zhao, Liang Lu, Haila Wang:
  Comparison of two kinds of speaker location representation for SVM-based speaker verification. 774-777
  
• Mireia Farrús, Javier Hernando, Pascual Ejarque:
  Jitter and shimmer measurements for speaker recognition. 778-781
  
• Zhenyu Shan, Yingchun Yang, Ruizhi Ye:
  Natural-emotion GMM transformation algorithm for emotional speaker recognition. 782-785
  
• Ivy H. Tseng, Olivier Verscheure, Deepak S. Turaga, Upendra V. Chaudhari:
  Optimized one-bit quantization for adapted GMM-based speaker verification. 786-789
  
• Mitchell McLaren, Robbie Vogt, Brendan Baker, Sridha Sridharan:
  A comparison of session variability compensation techniques for SVM-based speaker recognition. 790-793
  
• Benoit G. B. Fauve, Nicholas W. D. Evans, Neil Pearson, Jean-François Bonastre, John S. D. Mason:
  Influence of task duration in text-independent speaker verification. 794-797
  

Speech Enhancement

• Kamil K. Wójcicki, Stephen So, Kuldip K. Paliwal:
  The effect of the additivity assumption on time and frequency domain wiener filtering for speech enhancement. 798-801
  
• Junfeng Li, Shuichi Sakamoto, Satoshi Hongo, Masato Akagi, Yôiti Suzuki:
  Noise reduction based on adaptive β-order generalized spectral subtraction for speech enhancement. 802-805
  
• Amit Das, John H. L. Hansen:
  Class constrained ROVER based speech enhancement. 806-809
  
• Erhan Deger, Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Kamrul Hasan:
  EMD based soft-thresholding for speech enhancement. 810-813
  
• Adam Borowicz, Alexander A. Petrovsky:
  An approximate solution for perceptually constrained signal subspace speech enhancement method. 814-817
  
• Tim Fingscheidt, Suhadi Suhadi:
  Quality assessment of speech enhancement systems by separation of enhanced speech, noise, and echo. 818-821
  
• Anis Ben Aicha, Sofia Ben Jebara:
  Perceptual musical noise reduction using critical bands tonality coefficients and masking thresholds. 822-825
  
• Dirk Mauler, Anil M. Nagathil, Rainer Martin:
  On optimal estimation of compressed speech for hearing aids. 826-829
  
• Richard C. Hendriks, Jesper Jensen, Richard Heusdens:
  DFT domain subspace based noise tracking for speech enhancement. 830-833
  
• Nitish Krishnamurthy, John H. L. Hansen:
  Noise tracking for speech systems in adverse environments. 834-837
  
• Abderrahman Essebbar, Tristan Poinsard:
  Speech enhancement using multi-reference noise reduction in a vehicle environment. 838-841
  
• Ernst Warsitz, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Dang Hai Tran Vu:
  Blind adaptive principal eigenvector beamforming for acoustical source separation. 842-845
  
• Zbynek Koldovský, Petr Tichavský:
  Time-domain blind audio source separation using advanced ICA methods. 846-849
  
• Siu Wa Lee, Frank K. Soong, Pak-Chung Ching:
  Model-based speech separation with single-microphone input. 850-853
  
• Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix, Tomohiro Nakatani, Masato Miyoshi:
  Multi-step linear prediction based speech dereverberation in noisy reverberant environment. 854-857
  
• Seung Yeol Lee, Jong Won Shin, Hwan Sik Yun, Nam Soo Kim:
  A statistical model based post-filtering algorithm for residual echo suppression. 858-861
  
• Xiaoshan Huang, Xiaoqun Zhao:
  An optimal speech enhancement under speech uncertainty probability and masking property of auditory system. 862-865
  

Structure-based and Template-based Automatic Speech Recognition

• Viktoria Maier, Roger K. Moore:
  Temporal episodic memory model: an evolution of minerva2. 866-869
  
• Gianpaolo Coro, Francesco Cutugno, Fulvio Caropreso:
  Speech recognition with factorial-HMM syllabic acoustic models. 870-873
  
• Mathias De Wachter, Kris Demuynck, Patrick Wambacq, Dirk Van Compernolle:
  Evaluating acoustic distance measures for template based recognition. 874-877
  
• Yan Han, Lou Boves:
  Hierarchical acoustic modeling based on random-effects regression for automatic speech recognition. 878-881
  
• Annika Hämäläinen, Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves:
  Construction and analysis of multiple paths in syllable models. 882-885
  
• Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Tarun Pruthi, Amit Juneja, Om Deshmukh:
  Landmark-based approach to speech recognition: an alternative to HMMs. 886-889
  
• Satoshi Asakawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Keikichi Hirose:
  Automatic recognition of connected vowels only using speaker-invariant representation of speech dynamics. 890-893
  
• Roberto Togneri, Li Deng:
  A structured speech model parameterized by recursive dynamics and neural networks. 894-897
  
• Li Deng, Helmer Strik:
  Structure-based and template-based automatic speech recognition - comparing parametric and non-parametric approaches. 898-901
  
• David Grangier, Samy Bengio:
  Learning the inter-frame distance for discriminative template-based keyword detection. 902-905
  
• Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex Acero:
  Handling phonetic context and speaker variation in a structure-based speech recognizer. 906-909
  

Robust ASR Against Noise and Reverberation

• Maarten Van Segbroeck, Hugo Van hamme:
  Vector-quantization based mask estimation for missing data automatic speech recognition. 910-913
  
• Sébastien Demange, Christophe Cerisara, Jean Paul Haton:
  Accurate marginalization range for missing data recognition. 914-917
  
• Marco Kühne, Roberto Togneri, Sven Nordholm:
  Smooth soft mel-spectrographic masks based on blind sparse source separation. 918-921
  
• Jonathan Laidler, Martin Cooke, Neil D. Lawrence:
  Model-driven detection of clean speech patches in noise. 922-925
  
• Richard M. Stern, Evandro B. Gouvêa, Govindarajan Thattai:
  "polyaural" array processing for automatic speech recognition in degraded environments. 926-929
  
• Nicolás Morales, Liang Gu, Yuqing Gao:
  Adding noise to improve noise robustness in speech recognition. 930-933
  

Language Resources and Tools

• Eric Fosler-Lussier, Laura Dilley, Na'im Tyson, Mark Pitt:
  The buckeye corpus of speech: updates and enhancements. 934-937
  
• Nora Barroso, Aitzol Ezeiza, N. Gilisagasti, Karmele López de Ipiña, A. López, Juan Miguel López:
  Development of multimodal resources for multilingual information retrieval in the basque context. 938-941
  
• Reva Schwartz, Wade Shen, Joseph P. Campbell, Shelley Paget, Julie Vonwiller, Dominique Estival, Christopher Cieri:
  Construction of a phonotactic dialect corpus using semiautomatic annotation. 942-945
  
• Slim Abdennadher, Mohamed Aly, Dirk Bühler, Wolfgang Minker, Johannes Pittermann:
  BECAM tool - a semi-automatic tool for bootstrapping emotion corpus annotation and management. 946-949
  
• Christopher Cieri, Linda Corson, David Graff, Kevin Walker:
  Resources for new research directions in speaker recognition: the mixer 3, 4 and 5 corpora. 950-953
  
• Peter A. Heeman, Andy McMillin, J. Scott Yaruss:
  Intercoder reliability in annotating complex disfluencies. 954-957
  

Single-channel Speech Enhancement

• Mohammad H. Radfar, Richard M. Dansereau:
  Single channel speech separation using maximum a posteriori estimation. 958-961
  
• Suhadi Suhadi, Tim Fingscheidt:
  Speech enhancement with improved a posteriori SNR computation. 962-965
  
• Thang Vu Tat, Germine Seide, Masashi Unoki, Masato Akagi:
  Method of LP-based blind restoration for improving intelligibility of bone-conducted speech. 966-969
  
• Tiago H. Falk, Svante Stadler, W. Bastiaan Kleijn, Wai-Yip Chan:
  Noise suppression based on extending a speech-dominated modulation band. 970-973
  
• Amin Haji Abolhassani, Sid-Ahmed Selouani, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy, Mohamed-Faouzi Harkat:
  Speech enhancement using PCA and variance of the reconstruction error model identification. 974-977
  
• Jong Won Shin, Woohyung Lim, June Sig Sung, Nam Soo Kim:
  Speech reinforcement based on partial specific loudness. 978-981
  

Phonetics and Phonology

• Tamara Rathcke, Jonathan Harrington:
  The phonetics and phonology of high and low tones in two falling f0-contours in standard German. 982-985
  
• Tina John, Jonathan Harrington:
  Temporal alignment of creaky voice in neutralised realisations of an underlying, post-nasal voicing contrast in German. 986-989
  
• Mike Demol, Werner Verhelst, Piet Verhoeve:
  The duration of speech pauses in a multilingual environment. 990-993
  
• Dafydd Gibbon, Jolanta Bachan, Grazyna Demenko:
  Syllable timing patterns in Polish: results from annotation mining. 994-997
  
• Constandinos Kalimeris, Stelios Bakamidis:
  Minimal pairs and functional loads of sound contrasts obtained from a list of modern greek words. 998-1001
  
• Daan Wissing:
  More on acoustic correlates of stress. 1002-1005
  
• Cécile Woehrling, Philippe Boula de Mareüil:
  Comparing praat and snack formant measurements on two large corpora of northern and southern French. 1006-1009
  
• William J. Barry, Bistra Andreeva, Ingmar Steiner:
  The phonetic exponency of phrasal accentuation in French and German. 1010-1013
  
• Christiana Christodoulou:
  Phonetic geminates in cypriot greek: the case of voiceless plosives. 1014-1017
  
• Darcie Williams, François Poiré:
  Predicting vowel duration in spontaneous canadian French speech. 1018-1021
  
• Ivan Chow, François Poiré:
  Rhotic variation and schwa epenthesis in windsor French. 1022-1025
  
• Audrey Bürki, Cécile Fougeron, Cédric Gendrot:
  On the categorical nature of the process involved in schwa elision in French. 1026-1029
  
• Yue-Ning Hu, Min Chu, Chao Huang, Yan-Ning Zhang:
  Exploring tonal variations via context-dependent tone models. 1030-1033
  
• Philippe Martin, Jun Li:
  Acoustic analysis of the neutral tone in Mandarin. 1034-1037
  
• Rerrario Shui-Ching Ho, Yoshinori Sagisaka:
  F₀ analysis of perceptual distance among Cantonese level tones. 1038-1041
  

Robust ASR I, II

• Yu Hu, Qiang Huo:
  Irrelevant variability normalization based HMM training using VTS approximation of an explicit model of environmental distortions. 1042-1045
  
• Luis Buera, Antonio Miguel, Eduardo Lleida, Oscar Saz, Alfonso Ortega:
  On the jointly unsupervised feature vector normalization and acoustic model compensation for robust speech recognition. 1046-1049
  
• Yu Tsao, Chin-Hui Lee:
  An ensemble modeling approach to joint characterization of speaker and speaking environments. 1050-1053
  
• Shih-Hsiang Lin, Yao-Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen:
  Cluster-based polynomial-fit histogram equalization (CPHEQ) for robust speech recognition. 1054-1057
  
• Pedro M. Martinez, José C. Segura, Luz García:
  Robust distributed speech recognition using histogram equalization and correlation information. 1058-1061
  
• Jen-Tzung Chien, Koichi Shinoda, Sadaoki Furui:
  Predictive minimum Bayes risk classification for robust speech recognition. 1062-1065
  
• Ning Ma, Jon Barker, Phil Green:
  Applying word duration constraints by using unrolled HMMs. 1066-1069
  
• Xiong Xiao, Engsiong Chng, Haizhou Li:
  Evaluating the temporal structure normalisation technique on the Aurora-4 task. 1070-1073
  
• Hynek Boril, Petr Fousek, Harald Höge:
  Two-stage system for robust neutral/lombard speech recognition. 1074-1077
  
• Takatoshi Jitsuhiro, Tomoji Toriyama, Kiyoshi Kogure:
  Noise suppression using search strategy with multi-model compositions. 1078-1081
  
• Takanobu Nishiura, Yoshiki Hirano, Yuki Denda, Masato Nakayama:
  Investigations into early and late reflections on distant-talking speech recognition toward suitable reverberation criteria. 1082-1085
  
• Stefan Windmann, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach:
  An approach to iterative speech feature enhancement and recognition. 1086-1089
  
• Jeih-Weih Hung:
  Optimization of temporal filters in the modulation frequency domain for constructing robust features in speech recognition. 1090-1093
  
• Rico Petrick, Kevin Lohde, Matthias Wolff, Rüdiger Hoffmann:
  The harming part of room acoustics in automatic speech recognition. 1094-1097
  
• Yuan-Fu Liao, Yh-Her Yang, Chi-Hui Hsu, Cheng-Chang Lee, Jing-Teng Zeng:
  A reference model weighting-based method for robust speech recognition. 1098-1101
  
• Babak Nasersharif, Ahmad Akbari, Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour:
  Mel sub-band filtering and compression for robust speech recognition. 1102-1105
  

Features for ASR

• Chang-Wen Hsu, Lin-Shan Lee:
  Extended powered cepstral normalization (p-CN) with range equalization for robust features in speech recognition. 1106-1109
  
• Makoto Sakai, Norihide Kitaoka, Seiichi Nakagawa:
  Selection of optimal dimensionality reduction method using chernoff bound for segmental unit input HMM. 1110-1113
  
• Vivek Tyagi:
  Fepstrum: an improved modulation spectrum for ASR. 1114-1117
  
• Dusan Macho:
  Narrowband to wideband feature expansion for robust multilingual ASR. 1118-1121
  
• Weifeng Li, Hervé Bourlard:
  Non-linear spectral contrast stretching for in-car speech recognition. 1122-1125
  
• Xiao-Bing Li, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Clustering-based two-dimensional linear discriminant analysis for speech recognition. 1126-1129
  
• Yotaro Kubo, Shigeki Okawa, Akira Kurematsu, Katsuhiko Shirai:
  A study on temporal features derived by analytic signal. 1130-1133
  
• Stephen A. Zahorian, Tara Singh, Hongbing Hu:
  Dimensionality reduction of speech features using nonlinear principal components analysis. 1134-1137
  
• D. Rama Sanand, D. Dinesh Kumar, Srinivasan Umesh:
  Linear transformation approach to VTLN using dynamic frequency warping. 1138-1141
  
• Vladimir Fabregas Surigué de Alencar, Abraham Alcaim:
  Features interpolation domain for distributed speech recognition and performance for ITU-t g.723.1 CODEC. 1142-1145
  
• Shoei Sato, Kazuo Onoe, Akio Kobayashi, Shinichi Homma, Toru Imai, Tohru Takagi, Tetsunori Kobayashi:
  Dynamic integration of multiple feature streams for robust real-time LVCSR. 1146-1149
  
• Hironori Matsumasa, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki, Ichao Li, Toshitaka Nakabayashi:
  PCA-based feature extraction for fluctuation in speaking style of articulation disorders. 1150-1153
  
• Fabio Valente, Jithendra Vepa, Hynek Hermansky:
  Multi-stream features combination based on dempster-shafer rule for LVCSR system. 1154-1157
  
• Natasha Singh-Miller, Michael Collins, Timothy J. Hazen:
  Dimensionality reduction for speech recognition using neighborhood components analysis. 1158-1161
  
• Dan Su, Xihong Wu, Huisheng Chi:
  Probabilistic latent speaker analysis for large vocabulary speech recognition. 1162-1165
  
• S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna, Hynek Hermansky:
  MRASTA and PLP in automatic speech recognition. 1166-1169
  

Objective Assessment of Voice and Speech Quality

• Markus Brckl:
  Women's vocal aging: a longitudinal approach. 1170-1173
  
• Laurence Cnockaert, Jean Schoentgen, Canan Ozsancak, Pascal Auzou, Francis Grenez:
  Effect of intensive voice therapy on vocal tremor for parkinson speakers. 1174-1177
  
• Ali Alpan, Abdellah Kacha, Francis Grenez, Jean Schoentgen:
  Assessment of vocal dysperiodicities in connected disordered speech. 1178-1181
  
• Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Jaromír Horácek, Pavel Svancara, Elina Lehtinen:
  Effects of FE modelled consequences of tonsillectomy on perceptual evaluation of voice. 1182-1185
  
• Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw, Louis ten Bosch, Li Ying Chao, Rico N. P. M. Rinkel, Pepijn A. Borggreven, Lou Boves, C. René Leemans:
  Speech quality after major surgery of the oral cavity and oropharynx with microvascular soft tissue reconstruction. 1186-1189
  
• Christel G. de Bruijn, Sandra P. Whiteside:
  Voice fatigue and use of speech recognition: a study of voice quality ratings. 1190-1193
  
• Jean-François Bonastre, Corinne Fredouille, Alain Ghio, Antoine Giovanni, Gilles Pouchoulin, Joana Revis, Bernard Teston, P. Yu:
  Complementary approaches for voice disorder assessment. 1194-1197
  
• Gilles Pouchoulin, Corinne Fredouille, Jean-François Bonastre, Alain Ghio, Antoine Giovanni:
  Frequency study for the characterization of the dysphonic voices. 1198-1201
  
• Victor J. Boucher:
  Acoustic correlates of laryngeal-muscle fatigue: findings for a phonometric prevention of acquired voice pathologies. 1202-1205
  
• Andreas Maier, Maria Schuster, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth, Emeka Nkenke:
  Automatic scoring of the intelligibility in patients with cancer of the oral cavity. 1206-1209
  
• Jacques Duchateau, Leen Cleuren, Hugo Van hamme, Pol Ghesquière:
  Automatic assessment of children's reading level. 1210-1213
  
• Carlos A. Ferrer, María Esperanza Hernández-Díaz, Eduardo González:
  Using waveform matching techniques in the measurement of shimmer in voiced signals. 1214-1217
  
• Rubén Fraile, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón, Víctor Osma-Ruiz, Pedro Gómez Vilda:
  Analysis of the impact of analogue telephone channel on MFCC parameters for voice pathology detection. 1218-1221
  
• Claudia Manfredi, Leonardo Bocchi, G. Cantarella, Giorgio Peretti, G. Guidi, V. Mezzatesta:
  Objective parameters from videokymographic images: a user-friendly interface. 1222-1225
  

Speaker Verification & Identification I-IV

• Elizabeth Shriberg, Luciana Ferrer:
  A text-constrained prosodic system for speaker verification. 1226-1229
  
• Asmaa El Hannani, Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz:
  Fusing acoustic, phonetic and data-driven systems for text-independent speaker verification. 1230-1233
  
• Najim Dehak, Patrick Kenny, Pierre Dumouchel:
  Continuous prosodic features and formant modeling with joint factor analysis for speaker verification. 1234-1237
  
• Claudio Vair, Daniele Colibro, Fabio Castaldo, Emanuele Dalmasso, Pietro Laface:
  Loquendo - Politecnico di torino's 2006 NIST speaker recognition evaluation system. 1238-1241
  
• Driss Matrouf, Nicolas Scheffer, Benoit G. B. Fauve, Jean-François Bonastre:
  A straightforward and efficient implementation of the factor analysis model for speaker verification. 1242-1245
  
• Timothy J. Hazen, Daniel Schultz:
  Multi-modal user authentication from video for mobile or variable-environment applications. 1246-1249
  

Discourse, Dialog and Emotion Expression

• David House:
  Integrating audio and visual cues for speaker friendliness in multimodal speech synthesis. 1250-1253
  
• Wieneke Wesseling, R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols:
  The influence of masking words on the prediction of TRPs in a shadowed dialog. 1254-1257
  
• Kornel Laskowski, Susanne Burger:
  Analysis of the occurrence of laughter in meetings. 1258-1261
  
• Pashiera Barkhuysen, Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts:
  Incremental perception of acted and real emotional speech. 1262-1265
  
• David Schlangen, Raquel Fernández:
  Speaking through a noisy channel - experiments on inducing clarification behaviour in human-human dialogue. 1266-1269
  
• Christophe d'Alessandro, Albert Rilliard, Sylvain Le Beux:
  Computerized chironomy: evaluation of hand-controlled intonation reiteration. 1270-1273
  

Prosodic Modeling I, II

• Keikichi Hirose, Keiko Ochi, Nobuaki Minematsu:
  Corpus-based generation of prosodic features from text based on generation process model. 1274-1277
  
• Jilei Tian, Jani Nurminen, Imre Kiss:
  Novel eigenpitch-based prosody model for text-to-speech synthesis. 1278-1281
  
• Volker Strom, Ani Nenkova, Robert A. J. Clark, Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, Jason M. Brenier, Simon King, Dan Jurafsky:
  Modelling prominence and emphasis improves unit-selection synthesis. 1282-1285
  
• Seiya Takada, Yuji Yagi, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu:
  A framework of reply speech generation for concept-to-speech conversion in spoken dialogue systems. 1286-1289
  
• Thorsten Stocksmeier, Stefan Kopp, Dafydd Gibbon:
  Synthesis of prosodic attitudinal variants in German backchannel ja. 1290-1293
  
• Ke Li, Yoko Greenberg, Yoshinori Sagisaka:
  Inter-language prosodic style modification experiment using word impression vector for communicative speech generation. 1294-1297
  

Resource Acquisition and Preparation; Resource and System Evaluation

• Ivan Habernal, Miloslav Konopík:
  JAAE: the java abstract annotation editor. 1298-1301
  
• Goshu Nagino, Makoto Shozakai, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  How to judge reusability of existing speech corpora for target task by utilizing statistical multidimensional scaling. 1302-1305
  
• Peter Rutten:
  Feasibility of constructing an expressive speech corpus from television soap opera dialogue. 1306-1309
  
• Rosemary Orr, Bernat González i Llinares, Françoise Petersen, Helge Hüttenrauch, Martin Böcker, Michael Tate:
  Collection of empirical data for standardization of generic vocabularies in speech driven ICT devices and services. 1310-1313
  
• Antonio Marcos Selmini, Fábio Violaro:
  Acoustic-phonetic features for refining the explicit speech segmentation. 1314-1317
  
• Benjamin Lecouteux, Georges Linarès, Frédéric Beaugendre, Pascal Nocera:
  Text island spotting in large speech databases. 1318-1321
  
• Tim Paek, Yun-Cheng Ju, Christopher Meek:
  People watcher: a game for eliciting human-transcribed data for automated directory assistance. 1322-1325
  
• Andrew L. Kun, Tim Paek, Zeljko Medenica:
  The effect of speech interface accuracy on driving performance. 1326-1329
  
• Hua Zhang, Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong, Wenju Liu:
  Context constrained-generalized posterior probability for verifying phone transcriptions. 1330-1333
  
• Pongtep Angkititrakul, DongGu Kwak, SangJo Choi, JeongHee Kim, Anh PhucPhan, Amardeep Sathyanarayana, John H. L. Hansen:
  Getting start with UTDrive: driver-behavior modeling and assessment of distraction for in-vehicle speech systems. 1334-1337
  
• BalaKrishna Kolluru, Yoshihiko Gotoh:
  Relative evaluation of informativeness in machine generated summaries. 1338-1341
  
• Toshiyuki Takezawa, Masahide Mizushima, Tohru Shimizu, Gen-ichiro Kikui:
  A method for evaluating task-oriented spoken dialog translation systems based on communication efficiency. 1342-1345
  
• Charlotte van Hooijdonk, Edwin Commandeur, Reinier Cozijn, Emiel Krahmer, Erwin Marsi:
  Using eye movements for online evaluation of speech synthesis. 1346-1349
  
• Jian Li, Dmitry Sityaev, Jie Hao:
  Sentence level intelligibility evaluation for Mandarin text-to-speech systems using semantically unpredictable sentences. 1350-1353
  
• Judith M. Kessens, David A. van Leeuwen:
  N-best: the northern- and southern-dutch benchmark evaluation of speech recognition technology. 1354-1357
  
• Trym Holter, Svein Srsdal:
  A MAP based approach to adaptive speech intelligibility measurements. 1358-1361
  
• Sirinoot Boonsuk, Proadpran Punyabukkana, Atiwong Suchato:
  Phone boundary detection using selective refinements and context-dependent acoustic features. 1362-1365
  

Speech Production I, II

• Sorin Dusan:
  Vocal tract length during speech production. 1366-1369
  
• Nobuhiro Miki, Kyohei Hayashi:
  Approximation method of subglottal system using ARMA filter. 1370-1373
  
• Asterios Toutios, Konstantinos G. Margaritis:
  Enhancing acoustic-to-EPG mapping with lip position information. 1374-1377
  
• Tokihiko Kaburagi, Yosuke Tanabe:
  A model of glottal flow incorporating viscous-inviscid interaction. 1378-1381
  
• Kilian G. Seeber:
  Thinking outside the cube: modeling language processing tasks in a multiple resource paradigm. 1382-1385
  
• Julien Cisonni, Annemie Van Hirtum, Jan Willems, Xavier Pelorson:
  Experimental validation of direct and inverse glottal flow models for unsteady flow conditions. 1386-1389
  
• Hideyuki Nomura, Tetsuo Funada:
  Effect of unsteady glottal flow on the speech production process. 1390-1393
  
• Katrin Schneider, Bernd Möbius:
  Word stress correlates in spontaneous child-directed speech in German. 1394-1397
  
• Michael Aron, Nicolas Ferveur, Erwan Kerrien, Marie-Odile Berger, Yves Laprie:
  Acquisition and synchronization of multimodal articulatory data. 1398-1401
  
• Vincent Robert, Yves Laprie, Anne Bonneau:
  A phonetic concatenative approach of labial coarticulation. 1402-1405
  
• Aseel Turkmani, Adrian Hilton, Philip J. B. Jackson, James D. Edge:
  Visual analysis of lip coarticulation in VCV utterances. 1406-1409
  
• Matti Airas, Paavo Alku:
  Comparison of multiple voice source parameters in different phonation types. 1410-1413
  
• Monja A. Knoll, Lisa Scharrer:
  Acoustic and affective comparisons of natural and imaginary infant-, foreigner- and adult-directed speech. 1414-1417
  
• André Arajo, Luis M. T. Jesus, Isabel M. Costa:
  Vowel production in two occlusal classes. 1418-1421
  
• Rajesh Khatiwada:
  Nepalese retroflex stops: a static palatography study of inter- and intra-speaker variability. 1422-1425
  
• Charles A. Lamoureux, Victor J. Boucher:
  Effects of testosterone levels on temporal and intonational aspects of speech: more exploratory data. 1426-1428
  

ASR: New Paradigms

• Tien Ping Tan, Laurent Besacier:
  Modeling context and language variation for non-native speech recognition. 1429-1432
  
• Xufang Zhao, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  An evaluation of cross-language adaptation and native speech training for rapid HMM construction based on very limited training data. 1433-1436
  
• Konstantin Markov, Satoshi Nakamura:
  Never-ending learning with dynamic hidden Markov network. 1437-1440
  
• Catherine Breslin, Mark J. F. Gales:
  Building multiple complementary systems using directed decision trees. 1441-1444
  
• Hiroaki Nanjo, Yuichi Oku, Takehiko Yoshimi:
  Automatic speech recognition framework for multilingual audio contents. 1445-1448
  
• Ghazi Bouselmi, Dominique Fohr, Irina Illina:
  Combined acoustic and pronunciation modelling for non-native speech recognition. 1449-1452
  
• Tadashi Emori, Yoshifumi Onishi, Koichi Shinoda:
  Automatic estimation of scaling factors among probabilistic models in speech recognition. 1453-1456
  
• Emilian Stoimenov, John W. McDonough:
  Memory efficient modeling of polyphone context with weighted finite-state transducers. 1457-1460
  
• Valeriy Pylypenko:
  Extra large vocabulary continuous speech recognition algorithm based on information retrieval. 1461-1464
  
• I. Lee Hetherington:
  PocketSUMMIT: small-footprint continuous speech recognition. 1465-1468
  
• Tobias Cincarek, Izumi Shindo, Tomoki Toda, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  Development of preschool children subsystem for ASR and q&a in a real-environment speech-oriented guidance task. 1469-1472
  
• Chengyuan Ma, Chin-Hui Lee:
  A study on word detector design and knowledge-based pruning and rescoring. 1473-1476
  
• Thomas Colthurst, Tresi Arvizo, Chia-Lin Kao, Owen Kimball, Stephen A. Lowe, David R. H. Miller, Jim Van Sciver:
  Parameter tuning for fast speech recognition. 1477-1480
  
• Louis ten Bosch, Bert Cranen:
  A computational model for unsupervised word discovery. 1481-1484
  
• Bernd T. Meyer, Matthias Wächter, Thomas Brand, Birger Kollmeier:
  Phoneme confusions in human and automatic speech recognition. 1485-1488
  
• Kengo Ohta, Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Seiichi Nakagawa:
  Construction of spoken language model including fillers using filler prediction model. 1489-1492
  
• Raghunandan Kumaran, Jeff Bilmes, Katrin Kirchhoff:
  Attention shift decoding for conversational speech recognition. 1493-1496
  

Speech and Language Technology for Less-resourced Languages

• Péter Mihajlik, Tibor Fegyó, Zoltán Tüske, Pavel Ircing:
  A morpho-graphemic approach for the recognition of spontaneous speech in agglutinative languages - like Hungarian. 1497-1500
  
• Mei Yang, Jing Zheng, Andreas Kathol:
  A semi-supervised learning approach for morpheme segmentation for an Arabic dialect. 1501-1504
  
• Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen, Martin J. Puttkammer:
  Accelerating the annotation of lexical data for less-resourced languages. 1505-1508
  
• Christoph Draxler:
  On web-based creation of speech resources for less-resourced languages. 1509-1512
  
• Miroslav Martinovic, Srdjdan Vesic, Goran Rakic:
  Building an information retrieval system for serbian - challenges and solutions. 1513-1516
  
• Guy De Pauw, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha:
  Bootstrapping morphological analysis of gĩkũyũ using unsupervised maximum entropy learning. 1517-1520
  
• Jerneja Zganec-Gros, Stanislav Gruden:
  The voiceTRAN machine translation system. 1521-1524
  
• Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira:
  MuLAS: a framework for automatically building multi-tier corpora. 1525-1528
  
• Jacquelijn Ringersma, Marc Kemps-Snijders:
  Creating multimedia dictionaries of endangered languages using LEXUS. 1529-1532
  
• Hrafn Loftsson, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson:
  IceNLP: a natural language processing toolkit for icelandic. 1533-1536
  
• Marius Peche, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
  Phonotactic spoken language identification with limited training data. 1537-1540
  
• Solomon Teferra Abate, Wolfgang Menzel:
  Automatic speech recognition for an under-resourced language - amharic. 1541-1544
  
• Abdillahi Nimaan, Pascal Nocera, Frédéric Béchet, Jean-François Bonastre:
  Information retrieval strategies for accessing african audio corpora. 1545-1548
  
• Vesa Siivola, Mathias Creutz, Mikko Kurimo:
  Morfessor and variKN machine learning tools for speech and language technology. 1549-1552
  
• Markpong Jongtaveesataporn, Issara Thienlikit, Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Sadaoki Furui:
  Towards better language modeling for Thai LVCSR. 1553-1556
  

Adaptation in ASR I, II

• Jonas Lööf, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney:
  Efficient estimation of speaker-specific projecting feature transforms. 1557-1560
  
• Mohamed Kamal Omar:
  Regularized feature-based maximum likelihood linear regression for speech recognition. 1561-1564
  
• Santiago Omar Caballero Morales, Stephen J. Cox:
  Modelling confusion matrices to improve speech recognition accuracy, with an application to dysarthric speech. 1565-1568
  
• Qiang Huo, Wei Li:
  An active approach to speaker and task adaptation based on automatic analysis of vocabulary confusability. 1569-1572
  
• Jing Zheng, Andreas Stolcke:
  fMPE-MAP: improved discriminative adaptation for modeling new domains. 1573-1576
  
• Timothy J. Hazen, Erik McDermott:
  Discriminative MCE-based speaker adaptation of acoustic models for a spoken lecture processing task. 1577-1580
  

Speech Perception I, II

• Douglas Brungart, Nandini Iyer:
  Time-compressed speech perception with speech and noise maskers. 1581-1584
  
• Anne Cutler, Martin Cooke, Maria Luisa Garcia Lecumberri, Dennis Pasveer:
  L2 consonant identification in noise: cross-language comparisons. 1585-1588
  
• Jennifer T. Le, Catherine T. Best, Michael D. Tyler, Christian Kroos:
  Effects of non-native dialects on spoken word recognition. 1589-1592
  
• Julien Meyer, Fanny Meunier, Laure Dentel:
  Identification of natural whistled vowels by non-whistlers. 1593-1596
  
• Alexandra Jesse, James M. McQueen:
  Prelexical adjustments to speaker idiosyncrasies: are they position-specific? 1597-1600
  
• Holger Mitterer:
  Top-down effects on compensation for coarticulation are not replicable. 1601-1604
  

Spoken Language Understanding

• Christian Raymond, Giuseppe Riccardi:
  Generative and discriminative algorithms for spoken language understanding. 1605-1608
  
• Elias Iosif, Alexandros Potamianos:
  A soft-clustering algorithm for automatic induction of semantic classes. 1609-1612
  
• Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Julia Hirschberg, Shira Mitchell, Ilia Vovsha:
  Classification of discourse functions of affirmative words in spoken dialogue. 1613-1616
  
• Bogdan Minescu, Géraldine Damnati, Frédéric Béchet, Renato de Mori:
  Conditional use of word lattices, confusion networks and 1-best string hypotheses in a sequential interpretation strategy. 1617-1620
  
• Jáchym Kolár, Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg:
  Speaker adaptation of language models for automatic dialog act segmentation of meetings. 1621-1624
  
• Amparo Albalate, Dimitar Dimitrov, Roberto Pieraccini:
  Unsupervised categorisation approaches for technical support automated agents. 1625-1628
  

Pitch Extraction I, II

• Michael Wohlmayr, Marián Képesi:
  Joint position-pitch extraction from multichannel audio. 1629-1632
  
• Hyun Soo Kim:
  Morphological pre-processing technique and its applications on speech signal. 1633-1636
  
• Patricia A. Pelle, Claudio Estienne:
  A pitch extraction system based on phase locked loops and consensus decision. 1637-1640
  
• Milan Legát, Jindrich Matousek, Daniel Tihelka:
  A robust multi-phase pitch-mark detection algorithm. 1641-1644
  
• Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Md. Kamrul Hasan:
  Pitch estimation of noisy speech signals using empirical mode decomposition. 1645-1648
  
• Daniel Hirst, Hyongsil Cho, Sunhee Kim, Hyunji Yu:
  Evaluating two versions of the momel pitch modelling algorithm on a corpus of read speech in Korean. 1649-1652
  
• Hussein Hussein, Oliver Jokisch:
  Hybrid electroglottograph and speech signal based algorithm for pitch marking. 1653-1656
  

Speech Coding and Transmission

• Saikat Chatterjee, Thippur V. Sreenivas:
  Normalized two stage SVQ for minimum complexity wide-band LSF quantization. 1657-1660
  
• Peng Zhang, Changchun Bao:
  A novel 2kb/s waveform interpolation speech coder based on non-negative matrix factorization. 1661-1664
  
• Ahmed Ismail, Yasser Dakroury, Hazem Abbas:
  A novel energy distribution comparison approach for robust speech spectrum vector quantization. 1665-1668
  
• Ahmed Ismail, Yasser Dakroury, Hazem Abbas:
  Novel low-band phase representation for low bit-rate speech coding. 1669-1672
  
• Chun-Feng Wu, Cheng-Lung Lee, Wen-Whei Chang:
  Perceptual-based playout mechanisms for multi-stream voice over IP networks. 1673-1676
  
• Robert Zopf, Jes Thyssen, Juin-Hwey Chen:
  Time-warping and re-phasing in packet loss concealment. 1677-1680
  
• Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Yannis Stylianou:
  The harmonic model codec (HMC) framework for voIP. 1681-1684
  
• Yannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Yannis Stylianou:
  Bit-erasure channel decoding for GMM-based multiple description coding. 1685-1688
  
• Hua Yuan, Tiago H. Falk, Wai-Yip Chan:
  Degradation-classification assisted single-ended quality measurement of speech. 1689-1692
  
• Alexander Raake, Sascha Spors, Jens Ahrens, Jitendra Ajmera:
  Concept and evaluation of a downward-compatible system for spatial teleconferencing using automatic speaker clustering. 1693-1696
  
• Min-Ki Lee, Kyung-Tae Kim, Hong-Goo Kang, Dae Hee Youn:
  Speech quality estimation using packet loss effects in CELP-type speech coders. 1697-1700
  
• Masahiro Oshikiri, Hiroyuki Ehara, Toshiyuki Morii, Tomofumi Yamanashi, Kaoru Satoh, Koji Yoshida:
  An 8-32 kbit/s scalable wideband coder extended with MDCT-based bandwidth extension on top of a 6.8 kbit/s narrowband CELP coder. 1701-1704