IberSPEECH 2012: Madrid, Spain
Doroteo Torre Toledano, Alfonso Ortega Giménez, António J. S. Teixeira, Joaquín González Rodríguez, Luis A. Hernández Gómez, Rubén San-Segundo-Hernández, Daniel Ramos-Castro (Eds.): Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages - IberSPEECH 2012 Conference, Madrid, Spain, November 21-23, 2012. Proceedings. Springer 2012 Communications in Computer and Information Science 328 ISBN 978-3-642-35291-1
Speaker Characterization and Recognition
Jesús A. Villalba, Eduardo Lleida, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel: Reliability Estimation of the Speaker Verification Decisions Using Bayesian Networks to Combine Information from Multiple Speech Quality Measures. 1-10
Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez, Rubén Zazo, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez: On the use of Total Variability and Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Speaker Verification on Short Utterances. 11-19
Javier Franco-Pedroso, Fernando Espinoza-Cuadros, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez: Cepstral Trajectories in Linguistic Units for Text-Independent Speaker Recognition. 20-29
Tudor-Catalin Zorila, Daniel Erro, Inma Hernáez: Improving the Quality of Standard GMM-Based Voice Conversion Systems by Considering Physically Motivated Linear Transformations. 30-39
Dayana Ribas González, José Enrique García Laínez, Antonio Miguel, Alfonso Ortega Giménez, Eduardo Lleida, José Ramón Calvo de Lara: Evaluation of a New Beam-Search Formant Tracking Algorithm in Noisy Environments. 40-48
Audio and Speech Segmentation
Paula Lopez-Otero, Laura Docío Fernández, Carmen García-Mateo, Antonio Cardenal López: On the Influence of Automatic Segmentation and Clustering in Automatic Speech Recognition. 49-58
Darwin Patricio Córdova Lucero, Doroteo Torre Toledano: Preliminary Results of Alignment of Text and Audio in News and Songs. 59-68
Germán Bordel, Mikel Peñagarikano, Luis Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes, María Amparo Varona Fernández: Aligning Very Long Speech Signals to Bilingual Transcriptions of Parliamentary Sessions. 69-78
Diego Castán, Alfonso Ortega Giménez, Eduardo Lleida: Factor Analysis Segmentation and Classification in Broadcast News Domain. 79-88
Arlindo Veiga, Dirce Celorico, Jorge Proença, Sara Candeias, Fernando Perdigão: Prosodic and Phonetic Features for Speaking Styles Classification and Detection. 89-98
Pathology Detection and Speech Characterization
David Martínez González, Eduardo Lleida, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel, Jesús A. Villalba: Voice Pathology Detection on the Saarbrücken Voice Database with Calibration and Fusion of Scores Using MultiFocal Toolkit. 99-109
David Martínez González, Eduardo Lleida, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel: Score Level versus Audio Level Fusion for Voice Pathology Detection on the Saarbrücken Voice Database. 110-120
Catarina Oliveira, Maria Manuel Cunha, Samuel S. Silva, António J. S. Teixeira, Pedro Sá-Couto: Acoustic Analysis of European Portuguese Oral Vowels Produced by Children. 129-138
Thomas Pellegrini, Isabel Trancoso, Annika Hämäläinen, António Calado, Miguel Sales Dias, Daniela Braga: Impact of Age in ASR for the Elderly: Preliminary Experiments in European Portuguese. 139-147
Dialogue and Multimodal Systems
Juan Manuel Lucas-Cuesta, Fernando Fernández-Martínez, Tirso Moreno, Javier Ferreiros: Mutual Information and Perplexity Based Clustering of Dialogue Information for Dynamic Adaptation of Language Models. 148-157
Marcos Calvo, Lluís F. Hurtado, Fernando García, Emilio Sanchis: A Multilingual SLU System Based on Semantic Decoding of Graphs of Words. 158-167
Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, Ramón López-Cózar: Merging Intention and Emotion to Develop Adaptive Dialogue Systems. 168-177
Alejandro Hector Toselli, Nicolás Serrano, Adrià Giménez-Pastor, Ihab Khoury, Alfons Juan, Enrique Vidal: Language Technology for Handwritten Text Recognition. 178-186
Miguel A. del Agua, Nicolás Serrano, Jorge Civera, Alfons Juan: Character-Based Handwritten Text Recognition of Multilingual Documents. 187-196
Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition
Juan Andres Morales-Cordovilla, Pablo Cabañas Molero, Antonio M. Peinado, Victoria E. Sánchez: A Robust Pitch Extractor Based on DTW Lines and CASA with Application in Noisy Speech Recognition. 197-206
Jimmy Ludeña-Choez, Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín: Speech Denoising Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Kullback-Leibler Divergence and Sparseness Constraints. 207-216
José A. González, Antonio M. Peinado, Angel M. Gomez: MMSE Feature Reconstruction Based on an Occlusion Model for Robust ASR. 217-226
João Freitas, António J. S. Teixeira, Francisco A. C. Vaz, Miguel Sales Dias: Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Ultrasonic Doppler Sensing for European Portuguese. 227-236
Applications of Speech and Language Technologies
Juan Daniel Valor Miró, Alejandro Pérez González de Martos, Jorge Civera, Alfons Juan: Integrating a State-of-the-Art ASR System into the Opencast Matterhorn Platform. 237-246
Ján Koloda, Antonio M. Peinado, Victoria E. Sánchez: Speech Reconstruction by Sparse Linear Prediction. 247-256
Domingo López-Oller, Angel M. Gomez, José L. Pérez-Córdoba, Bernd Geiser, Peter Vary: Steganographic Pulse-Based Recovery for Robust ACELP Transmission over Erasure Channels. 257-266
José Serra, Manuel Ribeiro, João Freitas, Verónica Orvalho, Miguel Sales Dias: A Proposal for a Visual Speech Animation System for European Portuguese. 267-276
Francisco-Javier López-Salcedo, Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Francisco Casacuberta: Online Learning of Log-Linear Weights in Interactive Machine Translation. 277-286



