EUROSPEECH 1997: Rhodes, Greece

Keynotes

• Mario Rossi:
  Is syntactic structure prosodically recoverable?
  
• Victor W. Zue:
  Conversational interfaces: advances and challenges.
  
• Jan P. H. van Santen:
  Prosodic modelling in text-to-speech synthesis.
  
• Jean-Claude Junqua:
  Impact of the unknown communication channel on automatic speech recognition: a review KN-29.
  
• Jerome R. Bellegarda:
  Statistical techniques for robust ASR: review and perspectives.
  
• Richard P. Lippmann, Beth A. Carlson:
  Using missing feature theory to actively select features for robust speech recognition with interruptions, filtering and noise KN-37.
  

Acoustic Modelling

• Stéphane Dupont, Hervé Bourlard:
  Using multiple time scales in a multi-stream speech recognition system.
  
• Yumi Wakita, Harald Singer, Yoshinori Sagisaka:
  Speech recognition using HMM-state confusion characteristics.
  
• Cristina Chesta, Pietro Laface, Franco Ravera:
  Bottom-up and top-down state clustering for robust acoustic modeling.
  
• Ralf Schlüter, Wolfgang Macherey, Stephan Kanthak, Hermann Ney, Lutz Welling:
  Comparison of optimization methods for discriminative training criteria.
  
• Clark Z. Lee, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Clustering beyond phoneme contexts for speech recognition.
  
• Rathinavelu Chengalvarayan:
  Influence of outliers in training the parametric trajectory models for speech recognition.
  
• Trym Holter, Torbjørn Svendsen:
  Incorporating linguistic knowledge and automatic baseform generation in acoustic subword unit based speech recognition.
  
• Peter Beyerlein, Meinhard Ullrich, Patricia Wilcox:
  Modelling and decoding of crossword context dependent phones in the Philips large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system.
  
• Philip Hanna, Ji Ming, Peter O'Boyle, F. Jack Smith:
  Modelling inter-frame dependence with preceeding and succeeding frames.
  
• Rhys James Jones, Simon Downey, John S. Mason:
  Continuous speech recognition using syllables.
  
• Daniel Willett, Gerhard Rigoll:
  A new approach to generalized mixture tying for continuous HMM-based speech recognition.
  
• Klaus Beulen, Elmar Bransch, Hermann Ney:
  State tying for context dependent phoneme models.
  
• Jacques Duchateau, Kris Demuynck, Dirk Van Compernolle:
  A novel node splitting criterion in decision tree construction for semi-continuous HMMs.
  
• Mats Blomberg:
  Creating unseen triphones by phone concatenation in the spectral, cepstral and formant domains.
  
• Thilo Pfau, Manfred Beham, Wolfgang Reichl, Günther Ruske:
  Creating large subword units for speech recognition.
  
• Jacob Goldberger, David Burshtein, Horacio Franco:
  Segmental modeling using a continuous mixture of non-parametric models.
  
• Jane W. Chang, James R. Glass:
  Segmentation and modeling in segment-based recognition.
  
• Alfred Hauenstein:
  Using syllables in a hybrid HMM-ANN recognition system.
  
• Ramalingam Hariharan, Juha Häkkinen, Kari Laurila, Janne Suontausta:
  Noise robust segment-based word recognition using vector quantisation.
  
• Luis Javier Rodríguez, M. Inés Torres:
  Viterbi based splitting of phoneme HMM's.
  
• José B. Mariño, Albino Nogueiras, Antonio Bonafonte:
  The demiphone: an efficient subword unit for continuous speech recognition.
  
• Hiroaki Kojima, Kazuyo Tanaka:
  Organizing phone models based on piecewise linear segment lattices of speech samples.
  
• Ivica Rogina:
  Automatic architecture design by likelihood-based context clustering with crossvalidation.
  
• Sam T. Roweis, Abeer Alwan:
  Towards articulatory speech recognition: learning smooth maps to recover articulator information.
  
• Anastasios Tsopanoglou, Nikos Fakotakis:
  Selection of the most effective set of subword units for an HMM-based speech recognition system.
  
• Christophe Cerisara, Jean Paul Haton, Jean-François Mari, Dominique Fohr:
  Multi-band continuous speech recognition.
  
• Nabil N. Bitar, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson:
  The design of acoustic parameters for speaker-independent speech recognition.
  

Dynamic Articulatory Measurements

• Laurence Candille, Henri Meloni:
  Adaptation of natural articulatory movements to the control of the command parameters of a production model.
  
• Maureen C. Stone, Andrew J. Lundberg, Edward P. Davis, Rao P. Gullapalli, Moriel NessAiver:
  Three-dimensional coarticulatory strategies of tongue movement.
  
• Nathalie Parlangeau, Régine André-Obrecht:
  From laryngographic and acoustic signals to voicing gestures.
  
• Erkki Vilkman, Raija Takalo, Taisto Maatta, Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Jaana Nummenranta, Tero Lipponen:
  Ultrasonographic measurement of cricothyroid space in speech.
  
• Didier Demolin, Martine George, Véronique Lecuit, Thierry Metens, Alain Soquet, H. Raeymaekers:
  Coarticulation and articulatory compensations studied by dynamic MRI.
  
• Pierre Badin, Enrico Baricchi, Anne Vilain:
  Determining tongue articulation: from discrete fleshpoints to continuous shadow.
  

Language Identification

• Marc A. Zissman:
  Predicting, diagnosing and improving automatic language identification performance.
  
• Cristobal Corredor-Ardoy, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Martine Adda-Decker, Lori Lamel:
  Language identification with language-independent acoustic models.
  
• Eluned S. Parris, Harvey Lloyd-Thomas, Michael J. Carey, Jerry H. Wright:
  Bayesian methods for language verification.
  
• HingKeung Kwan, Keikichi Hirose:
  Use of recurrent network for unknown language rejection in language identification system.
  
• Ove Andersen, Paul Dalsgaard:
  Language-identification based on cross-language acoustic models and optimised information combination.
  
• Jiri Navratil, Werner Zhlke:
  Phonetic-context mapping in language identification.
  

Neural Networks for Speech and Language Processing

• Mazin Rahim, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun:
  Discriminative feature and model design for automatic speech recognition.
  
• Jörg Rottland, Christoph Neukirchen, Daniel Willett, Gerhard Rigoll:
  Large vocabulary speech recognition with context dependent MMI-connectionist / HMM systems using the WSJ database.
  
• Thierry Moudenc, Guy Mercier:
  Automatic selection of segmental acoustic parameters by means of neural-fuzzy networks for reordering the n-best HMM hypotheses.
  
• Mikko Kurimo:
  Comparison results for segmental training algorithms for mixture density HMMs.
  
• M. Asunción Castaño, Francisco Casacuberta:
  A connectionist approach to machine translation.
  
• Nicolas Pican, Jean-François Mari, Dominique Fohr:
  Continuous speech recognition using a context sensitive ANN and HMM2s.
  

Training Techniques; Efficient Decoding in ASR

• Koichi Shinoda, Takao Watanabe:
  Acoustic modeling based on the MDL principle for speech recognition.
  
• Piyush Modi, Mazin Rahim:
  Discriminative utterance verification using multiple confidence measures.
  
• Enrico Bocchieri, Brian Mak:
  Subspace distribution clustering for continuous observation density hidden Markov models.
  
• Harriet J. Nock, Mark J. F. Gales, Steve J. Young:
  A comparative study of methods for phonetic decision-tree state clustering.
  
• Alfred Kaltenmeier, Jürgen Franke:
  Comparing Gaussian and polynomial classification in SCHMM-based recognition systems.
  
• Alexandre Girardi, Harald Singer, Kiyohiro Shikano, Satoshi Nakamura:
  Maximum likelihood successive state splitting algorithm for tied-mixture HMNET.
  
• Erik McDermott, Shigeru Katagiri:
  String-level MCE for continuous phoneme recognition.
  
• Ze'ev Rivlin, Ananth Sankar, Harry Bratt:
  HMM state clustering across allophone class boundaries.
  
• Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley:
  Weighted determinization and minimization for large vocabulary speech recognition.
  
• Steven Phillips, Anne Rogers:
  Parallel speech recognition.
  
• Stefan Ortmanns, Thorsten Firzlaff, Hermann Ney:
  Fast likelihood computation methods for continuous mixture densities in large vocabulary speech recognition.
  
• Kris Demuynck, Jacques Duchateau, Dirk Van Compernolle:
  A static lexicon network representation for cross-word context dependent phones.
  
• Mukund Padmanabhan, Lalit R. Bahl, David Nahamoo, Pieter de Souza:
  Decision-tree based quantization of the feature space of a speech recognizer.
  
• Mosur Ravishankar, Roberto Bisiani, Eric H. Thayer:
  Sub-vector clustering to improve memory and speed performance of acoustic likelihood computation.
  
• Simon Hovell:
  The incorporation of path merging in a dynamic network recogniser.
  
• Miroslav Novak:
  Improvement on connected digits recognition using duration constraints in the asynchronous decoding scheme.
  
• Andreas Stolcke, Yochai Konig, Mitchel Weintraub:
  Explicit word error minimization in n-best list rescoring.
  
• Long Nguyen, Richard M. Schwartz:
  Efficient 2-pass n-best decoder.
  
• Tomohiro Iwasaki, Yoshiharu Abe:
  A memory management method for a large word network.
  

Prosody

• Antonio Romano:
  Persistence of prosodic features between dialectal and standard Italian utterances in six sub-varieties of a region of southern Italy (salento): first assessments of the results of a recognition test and an instrumental analysis.
  
• Halewijn Vereecken, Annemie Vorstermans, Jean-Pierre Martens, Bert Van Coile:
  Improving the phonetic annotation by means of prosodic phrasing.
  
• Cecilia Odé:
  A descriptive study of prosodic phenomena in Mpur (west Papuan Phylum).
  
• Hansjörg Mixdorff, Hiroya Fujisaki:
  Automated quantitative analysis of F0 contours of utterances from a German ToBI-labeled speech database.
  
• Stéphanie de Tournemire:
  Identification and automatic generation of prosodic contours for a text-to-speech synthesis system in French.
  
• Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang, Keikichi Hirose:
  Quantitative analysis and formulation of tone concatenation in Chinese F0 contours.
  
• Christel Brindöpke, Arno Pahde, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer:
  An environment for the labelling and testing of melodic aspects of speech.
  
• David Casacuberta, Lourdes Aguilar, Rafael Marín:
  PROPAUSE: a syntactico-prosodic system designed to assign pauses.
  
• Volker Warnke, Ralf Kompe, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth:
  Integrated dialog act segmentation and classification using prosodic features and language models.
  
• Monique E. van Donzel, Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum:
  Evaluation of prosodic characteristics in retold stories in Dutch by means of semantic scales.
  
• Gösta Bruce, Marcus Filipsson, Johan Frid, Björn Granström, Kjell Gustafson, Merle Horne, David House:
  Text-to-intonation in spontaneous Swedish.
  
• Yann Morlec, Gérard Bailly, Véronique Aubergé:
  Synthesising attitudes with global rhythmic and intonation contours.
  
• Dafydd Gibbon, Claudia Sassen:
  Prosody-particle pairs as discourse control signs.
  
• Anja Elsner:
  Focus detection with additional information of phrase boundaries and sentence mode.
  
• Laura Bosch, Núria Sebastián-Gallés:
  The role of prosody in infants' native-language discrimination abilities: the case of two phonologically close languages.
  
• Eugene H. Buder, Anders Eriksson:
  Prosodic cycles and interpersonal synchrony in American English and Swedish.
  
• Eva Strangert:
  Relating prosody to syntax: boundary signalling in Swedish.
  
• Mitsuru Nakai, Hiroshi Shimodaira:
  On representation of fundamental frequency of speech for prosody analysis using reliability function.
  
• Seong-Hwan Kim, Jin-Young Kim:
  Efficient method of establishing words tone dictionary for Korean TTS system.
  
• Mariapaola D'Imperio, David House:
  Perception of questions and statements in Neapolitan Italian.
  

Keyword and Topic Spotting

• Qiguang Lin, David Lubensky, Michael Picheny, P. Srinivasa Rao:
  Key-phrase spotting using an integrated language model of n-grams and finite-state grammar.
  
• Jochen Junkawitsch, Günther Ruske, Harald Höge:
  Efficient methods for detecting keywords in continuous speech.
  
• Raymond Lau, Stephanie Seneff:
  Providing sublexical constraints for word spotting within the ANGIE framework.
  
• Katarina Bartkova, Denis Jouvet:
  Usefulness of phonetic parameters in a rejection procedure of an HMM-based speech recognition system.
  
• Yoichi Yamashita, Riichiro Mizoguchi:
  Keyword spotting using F0 contour matching.
  
• Elmar Nöth, Stefan Harbeck, Heinrich Niemann, Volker Warnke:
  A frame and segment based approach for topic spotting.
  

Robustness in Recognition and Signal Processing

• Kuldip K. Paliwal, Yoshinori Sagisaka:
  Cyclic autocorrelation-based linear prediction analysis of speech.
  
• Ilija Zeljkovic, Shrikanth Narayanan:
  Novel filler acoustic models for connected digit recognition.
  
• Makoto Shozakai, Satoshi Nakamura, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  A non-iterative model-adaptive e-CMN/PMC approach for speech recognition in car environments.
  
• Ángel de la Torre, Antonio M. Peinado, Antonio J. Rubio, Pedro García:
  Discriminative feature extraction for speech recognition in noise.
  
• Michael K. Brendborg, Børge Lindberg:
  Noise robust recognition using feature selective modeling.
  
• Victor Abrash:
  Mixture input transformations for adaptation of hybrid connectionist speech recognizers.
  
• Tai-Hwei Hwang, Lee-Min Lee, Hsiao-Chuan Wang:
  Adaptation of time differentiated cepstrum for noisy speech recognition.
  
• Noboru Kanedera, Takayuki Arai, Hynek Hermansky, Misha Pavel:
  On the importance of various modulation frequencies for speech recognition.
  
• Wei-Tyng Hong, Sin-Horng Chen:
  A robust RNN-based pre-classification for noisy Mandarin speech recognition.
  
• Mazin Rahim:
  A parallel environment model (PEM) for speech recognition and adaptation.
  
• Volker Schless, Fritz Class:
  Adaptive model combination for robust speech recognition in car environments.
  
• Stefaan Van Gerven, Fei Xie:
  A comparative study of speech detection methods.
  
• Nikos Doukas, Patrick A. Naylor, Tania Stathaki:
  Voice activity detection using source separation techniques.
  
• Tomohiko Taniguchi, Shoji Kajita, Kazuya Takeda, Fumitada Itakura:
  Voice activity detection using source separation techniques.
  
• Carlos Avendaño, Sangita Tibrewala, Hynek Hermansky:
  Multiresolution channel normalization for ASR in reverberant environments.
  
• Rafael Martínez, Agustín Álvarez Marquina, Pedro Gómez Vilda, Mercedes Pérez, Victor Nieto Lluis, Victoria Rodellar:
  A speech pre-processing technique for end-point detection in highly non-stationary environments.
  
• Laura Docío Fernández, Carmen García-Mateo:
  Application of several channel and noise compensation techiques for robust speaker recognition.
  
• Hany Agaiby, Thomas J. Moir:
  Knowing the wheat from the weeds in noisy speech.
  
• Do Yeong Kim, Nam Soo Kim, Chong Kwan Un:
  Model-based approach for robust speech recognition in noisy environements with multiple noise sources.
  
• Y. C. Chu, Charlie Jie, Vincent Tung, Ben Lin, Richard Lee:
  Normalization of speaker variability by spectrum warping for robust speech recognition.
  
• Stéphane H. Maes:
  LPC poles tracker for music/speech/noise segmentation and music cancellation.
  
• Doh-Suk Kim, Jae-Hoon Jeong, Soo-Young Lee, Rhee Man Kil:
  Comparative evaluations of several front-ends for robust speech recognition.
  
• Evandro B. Gouvêa, Richard M. Stern:
  Speaker normalization through formant-based warping of the frequency scale.
  
• Martin Westphal:
  The use of cepstral means in conversational speech recognition.
  
• Juan M. Huerta, Richard M. Stern:
  Compensation for environmental and speaker variability by normalization of pole locations.
  
• Jean-Baptiste Puel, Régine André-Obrecht:
  Cellular phone speech recognition: noise compensation vs. robust architectures.
  
• Tung-Hui Chiang:
  Speech recognition in noise using on-line HMM adaptation.
  

Modelling of Prosody

• Christos Malliopoulos, George K. Mikros:
  Metrical representations of demarcation and constituency in noun phrases.
  
• Hannes Pirker, Kai Alter, Erhard Rank, John Matiasek, Harald Trost, Gernot Kubin:
  A system of stylized intonation contours in German.
  
• Keikichi Hirose, Koji Iwano:
  A method of representing fundamental frequency contours of Japanese using statistical models of moraic transition.
  
• Evita F. Fotinea, Michael A. Vlahakis, George Carayannis:
  Modeling arbitrarily long sentence-Spanning F0 contours by parametric concatenation of word-Spanning patterns.
  
• R. J. J. H. van Son, Jan P. H. van Santen:
  Strong interaction between factors influencing consonant duration.
  
• Jerneja Gros, Nikola Pavesic, France Mihelic:
  Speech timing in Slovenian TTS.
  

Microphone Arrays for Speech Enhancement

• Matthias Dorbecker:
  Small microphone arrays with optimized directivity for speech enhancement.
  
• Masaaki Inoue, Satoshi Nakamura, Takeshi Yamada, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  Microphone array design measures for hands-free speech recognition.
  
• Masato Akagi, Mitsunori Mizumachi:
  Noise reduction by paired microphones.
  
• Djamila Mahmoudi:
  A microphone array for speech enhancement using multiresolution wavelet transform.
  
• Yoshifumi Nagata, Hiroyuki Tsuboi:
  A two-channel adaptive microphone array with target tracking.
  
• Diego Giuliani, Marco Matassoni, Maurizio Omologo, Piergiorgio Svaizer:
  Use of different microphone array configurations for hands-free speech recognition in noisy and reverberant environment.
  

Multilingual Recognition

• Chao Wang, James R. Glass, Helen M. Meng, Joseph Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff, Victor W. Zue:
  YINHE: a Mandarin Chinese version of the GALAXY system.
  
• Patrizia Bonaventura, Filippo Gallocchio, Giorgio Micca:
  Multilingual speech recognition for flexible vocabularies.
  
• Fuliang Weng, Harry Bratt, Leonardo Neumeyer, Andreas Stolcke:
  A study of multilingual speech recognition.
  
• Jayadev Billa, Kristine W. Ma, John W. McDonough, George Zavaliagkos, David R. Miller, Kenneth N. Ross, Amro El-Jaroudi:
  Multilingual speech recognition: the 1996 byblos callhome system.
  
• Tanja Schultz, Detlef Koll, Alex Waibel:
  Japanese LVCSR on the spontaneous scheduling task with JANUS-3.
  
• Tanja Schultz, Alex Waibel:
  Fast bootstrapping of LVCSR systems with multilingual phoneme sets.
  

Language Specific Speech Analysis

• Bernd Pompino-Marschall, Christine Mooshammer:
  Factors of variation in the production of the German dorsal fricative.
  
• Kimberly Thomas:
  EPG and aerodynamic evidence for the coproduction and coarticulation of clicks in Isizulu.
  
• Anja Geumann:
  Formant trajectory dynamics in Swabian diphthongs.
  
• Sidney A. J. Wood:
  The gestural organization of vowels and consonants: a cinefluorographic study of articulator gestures in Greenlandic.
  
• Victoria B. Anderson:
  The perception of coronals in Western Arrernte.
  
• Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Shrikanth Narayanan, Suzanne Boyce, Abeer Alwan:
  Acoustic modelling of American English /r/.
  

Feature Estimation, Pitch, and Prosody

• Anya Varnich Hansen:
  Acoustic parameters optimised for recognition of phonetic features.
  
• Andrew K. Halberstadt, James R. Glass:
  Heterogeneous acoustic measurements for phonetic classification 1.
  
• Ben P. Milner:
  Cepstral-time matrices and LDA for improved connected digit and sub-word recognition accuracy.
  
• Sarel van Vuuren, Hynek Hermansky:
  Data-driven design of RASTA-like filters.
  
• Simon Nicholson, Ben P. Milner, Stephen J. Cox:
  Evaluating feature set performance using the f-ratio and j-measures.
  
• Javier Hernando, Climent Nadeu:
  Robust speech parameters located in the frequency domain.
  
• François Gaillard, Frédéric Berthommier, Gang Feng, Jean-Luc Schwartz:
  A modified zero-crossing method for pitch detection in presence of interfering sources.
  
• Jacques Simonin, Chafic Mokbel:
  Using simulated annealing expectation maximization algorithm for hidden Markov model parameters estimation.
  
• Gunnar Fant, Stellan Hertegard, Anita Kruckenberg, Johan Liljencrants:
  Covariation of subglottal pressure, F0 and glottal parameters.
  
• Anastasios Delopoulos, Maria Rangoussi:
  The fractal behaviour of unvoiced plosives: a means for classification.
  
• Sumio Ohno, Hiroya Fujisaki, Hideyuki Taguchi:
  A method for analysis of the local speech rate using an inventory of reference units.
  
• Hiroya Fujisaki, Sumio Ohno, Takashi Yagi:
  Analysis and modeling of fundamental frequency contours of Greek utterances.
  
• Fernando Martinez, Daniel Tapias, Jorge Alvarez, Paloma Leon:
  Characteristics of slow, average and fast speech and their effects in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition.
  
• Sungbok Lee, Alexandros Potamianos, Shrikanth Narayanan:
  Analysis of children's speech: duration, pitch and formants.
  
• Hartmut Traunmller, Anders Eriksson:
  A method of measuring formant frequencies at high fundamental frequencies.
  
• Tom Brøndsted, Jens Printz Madsen:
  Analysis of speaking rate variations in stress-timed languages.
  
• Paul Micallef, Ted Chilton:
  Automatic identification of phoneme boundaries using a mixed parameter model.
  
• Serguei Koval, Veronika Bekasova, Mikhail Khitrov, Andrey N. Raev:
  Pitch detection reliability assessment for forensic applications.
  
• Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard:
  Efficient estimation of perceptual features for speech recognition.
  
• Narendranath Malayath, Hynek Hermansky, Alexander Kain:
  Towards decomposing the sources of variability in speech.
  
• Rathinavelu Chengalvarayan:
  Use of vector-valued dynamic weighting coefficients for speech recognition: maximum likelihood approach.
  
• Steve W. Beet, Ladan Baghai-Ravary:
  Automatic segmentation: data-driven units of speech.
  
• Dejan Bajic:
  On robust time-varying AR speech analysis based on t-distribution.
  
• Dimitris Tambakas, Iliana Tzima, Nikos Fakotakis, George Kokkinakis:
  A simple phoneme energy model for the Greek language and its application to speech recognition.
  
• James E. H. Noad, Sandra P. Whiteside, Phil Green:
  A macroscopic analysis of an emotional speech corpus.
  
• Hiroshi Shimodaira, Mitsuru Nakai, Akihiro Kumata:
  Restoration of pitch pattern of speech based on a pitch generation model.
  
• A. V. Agranovski, O. Y. Berg, D. A. Lednov:
  The research of correlation between pitch and skin galvanic reaction at change of human emotional state.
  
• Claude Montacié, Marie-José Caraty, Fabrice Lefèvre:
  K-NN versus Gaussian in HMM-based recognition system.
  
• Boris Doval, Christophe d'Alessandro, Benoit Diard:
  Spectral methods for voice source parameters estimation.
  

Speech Coding

• Olivier van der Vrecken, Nicolas Pierret, Thierry Dutoit, Vincent Pagel, Fabrice Malfrère:
  A simple and efficient algorithm for the compression of MBROLA segment databases.
  
• Parham Zolfaghari, Tony Robinson:
  A segmental formant vocoder based on linearly varying mixture of Gaussians.
  
• Samir Chennoukh, Daniel J. Sinder, Gaël Richard, James L. Flanagan:
  Voice mimic system using an articulatory codebook for estimation of vocal tract shape.
  
• Damith J. Mudugamuwa, Alan B. Bradley:
  Adaptive transform coding for linear predictive residual.
  
• Akira Takahashi, Nobuhiko Kitawaki, Paolino Usai, David Atkinson:
  Performance evaluation of objective quality measures for coded speech.
  
• Mohamed Ismail, Keith Ponting:
  Between recognition and synthesis - 300 bits/second speech coding.
  
• Stephane Villette, Milos Stefanovic, Ian A. Atkinson, Ahmet M. Kondoz:
  High quality split-band LPC vocoder and its fixed point real time implementation.
  
• Wen-Whei Chang, Hwai-Tsu Chang, Wan-Yu Meng:
  Missing packet recovery techniques for DM coded speech.
  
• Hai Le Vu, László Lois:
  Spectral sensitivity of LSP parameters and their transformed coefficients.
  
• V. Ramasubramanian, Kuldip K. Paliwal:
  Reducing the complexity of the LPC vector quantizer using the k-d tree search algorithm.
  
• Aweke N. Lemma, W. Bastiaan Kleijn, Ed F. Deprettere:
  Quantization using wavelet based temporal decomposition of the LSF.
  
• Costas S. Xydeas, Gokhan H. Ilk:
  A novel 1.7/2.4 kb/s DCT based prototype interpolation speech coding system.
  
• Yong-Soo Choi, Hong-Goo Kang, Sang-Wook Park, Jae-Ha Yoo, Dae Hee Youn:
  Improved regular pulse VSELP coding of speech at low bit-rates.
  
• Yong Duk Cho, Hong Kook Kim, Moo Young Kim, Sang Ryong Kim:
  Joint estimation of pitch, band magnitudes, and v\UV decisions for MBE vocoder.
  
• Balázs Kövesi, Samir Saoudi, Jean-Marc Boucher, Gábor Horváth:
  A new distance measure in LPC coding: application for real time situations.
  
• Peter Veprek, Alan B. Bradley:
  Consideration of processing strategies for very-low-rate compression of wideband speech signals with known text transcription.
  
• Norbert Görtz:
  Zero-redundancy error protection for CELP speech codecs.
  
• Ridha Matmti, Milan Jelinek, Jean-Pierre Adoul:
  Low bit rate speech coding using an improved HSX model.
  
• Carlos M. Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso:
  Phonetic vocoding with speaker adaptation.
  
• Geneviève Baudoin, Jan Cernocký, Gérard Chollet:
  Quantization of spectral sequences using variable length spectral segments for speech coding at very low bit rate.
  
• Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami, Mohamed Deriche, Boualem Boashash:
  On modeling event functions in temporal decomposition based speech coding.
  
• Soledad Torres, F. Javier Casajs-Quirós:
  Phase quantization by pitch-cycle waveform coding in low bit rate sinusoidal coders.
  
• Antonis Botinis, Marios Fourakis, John W. Hawks:
  A perceptual study of the greek vowel space using synthetic stimuli.
  
• Woo-Jin Han, Sung-Joo Kim, Yung-Hwan Oh:
  Mixed multi-band excitation coder using frequency domain mixture function (FDMF) for a low-bit rate speech coding.
  
• Tim Fingscheidt, Olaf Scheufen:
  Robust GSM speech decoding using the channel decoder's soft output.
  
• Carl W. Seymour, Tony A. Robinson:
  A low-bit-rate speech coder using adaptive line spectral frequency prediction 1319.
  

Speech Synthesis Techniques

• Wen Ding, Nick Campbell:
  Optimising unit selection with voice source and formants in the CHATR speech synthesis system.
  
• Masanobu Abe, Hideyuki Mizuno, Satoshi Takahashi, Shin'ya Nakajima:
  A new framework to provide high-controllability speech signal and the development of a workbench for it.
  
• Eduardo Rodríguez Banga, Carmen García-Mateo, Xavier Fernández Salgado:
  Shape-invariant prosodic modification algorithm for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis.
  
• Shaw-Hwa Hwang, Sin-Horng Chen, Saga Chang:
  An RNN-based spectral information generation for Mandarin text-to-speech.
  
• Jan P. H. van Santen, Adam L. Buchsbaum:
  Methods for optimal text selection.
  
• Francisco M. Gimenez de los Galanes, David Talkin:
  High resolution prosody modification for speech synthesis.
  
• Orhan Karaali, Gerald Corrigan, Ira A. Gerson, Noel Massey:
  Text-to-speech conversion with neural networks: a recurrent TDNN approach.
  
• Jesper Högberg:
  Data driven formant synthesis.
  
• Simon King, Thomas Portele, Florian Höfer:
  Speech synthesis using non-uniform units in the Verbmobil project.
  
• Isabel Trancoso, Céu Viana:
  On the pronunciation mode of acronyms in several European languages.
  
• Toni C. M. Rietveld, Joop Kerkhoff, M. J. W. M. Emons, E. J. Meijer, Angelien Sanderman, Agaath M. C. Sluijter:
  Evaluation of speech synthesis systems for Dutch in tele-communication applications in GSM and PSTN networks.
  
• Bianca Angelini, Claudia Barolo, Daniele Falavigna, Maurizio Omologo, Stefano Sandri:
  Automatic diphone extraction for an Italian text-to-speech synthesis system.
  
• Eric Keller:
  Simplification of TTS architecture vs. operational quality.
  
• Georg Fries, Antje Wirth:
  Felix - a TTS system with improved pre-processing and source signal generation.
  
• Mike Edgington:
  Investigating the limitations of concatenative synthesis.
  
• Luis Miguel Teixeira de Jesus, Gavin C. Cawley:
  Speech coding and synthesis using parametric curves.
  
• Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor:
  Automatically clustering similar units for unit selection in speech synthesis.
  
• Li Jiang, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Xuedong Huang:
  Improvements on a trainable letter-to-sound converter.
  
• Myungjin Bae, Kyuhong Kim, Woncheol Lee:
  On a cepstral pitch alteration technique for prosody control in the speech synthesis system with high quality.
  
• Yannis Stylianou, Thierry Dutoit, Juergen Schroeter:
  Diphone concatenation using a harmonic plus noise model of speech.
  

Technology for S&L Acquisition, Speech Processing Tools

• Gérard Sabah:
  The "sketchboard": a dynamic interpretative memory and its use for spoken language understanding.
  
• Qiru Zhou, Chin-Hui Lee, Wu Chou, Andrew N. Pargellis:
  Speech technology integration and research platform: a system study.
  
• Dieter Geller, Markus Lieb, Wolfgang Budde, Oliver Muelhens, Manfred Zinke:
  Speech recognition on SPHERIC - an IC for command and control applications.
  
• Michael K. McCandless, James R. Glass:
  MUSE: a scripting language for the development of interactive speech analysis and recognition tools.
  
• Silke M. Witt, Steve J. Young:
  Language learning based on non-native speech recognition.
  
• Ute Kilian, Klaus Bader:
  Task modelling by sentence templates.
  
• Shigeyoshi Kitazawa, Hideya Ichikawa, Satoshi Kobayashi, Yukihiro Nishinuma:
  Extraction and representation rhythmic components of spontaneous speech.
  
• Yoon Kim, Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer:
  Automatic pronunciation scoring of specific phone segments for language instruction.
  
• Orith Ronen, Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco:
  Automatic detection of mispronunciation for language instruction.
  
• Agustín Álvarez Marquina, Rafael Martínez, Victor Nieto Lluis, Victoria Rodellar, Pedro Gómez Vilda:
  Continuous formant-tracking applied to visual representations of the speech and speech recognition.
  
• Goh Kawai, Keikichi Hirose:
  A CALL system using speech recognition to train the pronunciation of Japanese long vowels, the mora nasal and mora obstruents.
  
• Jan Nouza, Miroslav Holada, Daniel Hajek:
  An educational and experimental workbench for visual processing of speech data.
  
• Yong-Soo Choi, Hong-Goo Kang, Sung-Youn Kim, Young-Cheol Park, Dae Hee Youn:
  A 3 channel digital CVSD bit-rate conversion system using a general purpose DSP.
  
• Rodolfo Delmonte, Mirela Petrea, Ciprian Bacalu:
  SLIM prosodic module for learning activities in a foreign language.
  
• Bernhard Kaspar, Karlheinz Schuhmacher, Stefan Feldes:
  Barge-in revised.
  
• Mohammad Akbar:
  Waveedit, an interactive speech processing environment for microsoft windows platform.
  
• Farzad Ehsani, Jared Bernstein, Amir Najmi, Ognjen Todic:
  Subarashii: Japanese interactive spoken language education.
  
• David Goddeau, William Goldenthal, Chris Weikart:
  Deploying speech applications over the web.
  
• Johan Schalkwyk, Jacques de Villiers, Sarel van Vuuren, Pieter J. E. Vermeulen:
  CSLUsh: an extendible research environment.
  
• Tibor Ferenczi, Géza Németh, Gábor Olaszy, Zoltan Gaspar:
  A flexible client-server model for multilingual CTS/TTS development.
  
• Unto K. Laine:
  Critically sampled PR filterbanks of nonuniform resolution based on block recursive FAMlet transform.
  
• Nobuaki Minematsu, Nariaki Ohashi, Seiichi Nakagawa:
  Automatic detection of accent in English words spoken by Japanese students.
  
• Yasuhiro Taniguchi, Allan A. Reyes, Hideyuki Suzuki, Seiichi Nakagawa:
  An English conversation and pronunciation CAI system using speech recognition technology.
  
• Stephen Sutton, Edward C. Kaiser, A. Cronk, Ronald A. Cole:
  Bringing spoken language systems to the classroom.
  
• Catia Cucchiarini, Lou Boves:
  Automatic assessment of foreign speakers' pronunciation of dutch.
  
• John F. Holzrichter, Gregory C. Burnett:
  Use of low power EM radar sensors for speech articulator measurements.
  
• Julien Epps, Annette Dowd, John Smith, Joe Wolfe:
  Real time measurements of the vocal tract resonances during speech.
  

Phonetics and Phonology

• Eleonora Cavalcante Albano, Patrícia Aparecida Aquino:
  Linguistic criteria for building and recording units for concatenative speech synthesis in brazilian portuguese.
  
• Knut Kvale, Arne Kjell Foldvik:
  "four-and-twenty, twenty-four". what's in a number?
  
• Joao Antonio de Moraes:
  Vowel nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese: an articulatory investigation.
  
• Elena Steriopolo:
  Rhythmic organization pecularities of the spoken text.
  
• Bernhard Rueber:
  Obtaining confidence measures from sentence probabilities.
  
• Yiqing Zu:
  Sentence design for speech synthesis and speech recognition database by phonetic rules.
  
• Christoph Draxler, Susanne Burger:
  Identification of regional variants of high German from digit sequences in German telephone speech.
  
• Darya Kavitskaya:
  Aerodynamic constraints on the production of palatalized trills: the case of the Slavic trilled [r].
  
• Cheol-jae Seong, Sanghun Kim:
  An experimental phonetic study of the interrelationship between prosodic phrase and syntactic structure.
  
• Sebastian J. G. G. Heid:
  Individual differences between vowel systems of German speakers.
  
• Anton Batliner, Andreas Kießling, Ralf Kompe, Heinrich Niemann, Elmar Nöth:
  Tempo and its change in spontaneous speech.
  
• Bojan Petek, Rastislav Sustarsic:
  A corpus-based approach to diphthong analysis of standard Slovenian.
  
• Lourdes Aguilar, Julia A. Gimenez, Maria Machuca, Rafael Marín, Montse Riera:
  Catalan vowel duration.
  
• Maria Rosaria Caputo:
  The intonation of vocatives in spoken Neapolitan Italian.
  
• Emanuela Magno Caldognetto, Claudio Zmarich, Franco Ferrero:
  A comparative acoustic study of spontaneous and read Italian speech.
  
• Mario Refice, Michelina Savino, Martine Grice:
  A contribution to the estimation of naturalness in the intonation of Italian spontaneous speech.
  
• Sylvia Moosmller:
  Diphthongs and the process of monophthongization in Austrian German: a first approach.
  
• Steve Hoskins:
  The prosody of broad and narrow focus in English: two experiments.
  
• Alice Turk, Laurence White:
  The domain of accentual lengthening in Scottish English.
  
• Mariette Bessac, Geneviève Caelen-Haumont:
  Spontaneous dialogue: some results about the F0 predictions of a pragmatic model of information processing.
  
• Didier Demolin, Bernard Teston:
  Phonetic characteristics of double articulations in some Mangbutu-efe languages.
  
• Inmaculada Hernáez, Iñaki Gaminde, Borja Etxebarria, Pilartxo Etxebarria:
  Intonation modeling for the southern dialects of the Basque language 807.
  
• Peter O'Boyle, Ji Ming, Marie Owens, F. Jack Smith:
  From phone identification to phone clustering using mutual information.
  
• Ahmed-Reda Berrah, Rafael Laboissière:
  Phonetic code emergence in a society of speech robots: explaining vowel systems and the MUAF principle.
  
• Inger Moen, Hanne Gram Simonsen:
  Effects of voicing on /t, d/ tongue/palate contact in English and norwegian.
  
• Peter Ladefoged, Gunnar Fant:
  Fieldwork techniques for relating formant frequency, amplitude and bandwidth.
  
• Xue Wang, Louis C. W. Pols:
  Word juncture modelling based on the TIMIT database.
  
• Motoko Ueyama:
  The phonology and phonetics of second language intonation: the case of "Japanese English".
  

Confidence Measures in ASR

• Pablo Fetter, Udo Haiber, Peter Regel-Brietzmann:
  A low-cost phonetic transcription method.
  
• Lin Chase:
  Word and acoustic confidence annotation for large vocabulary speech recognition.
  
• Zachary Bergen, Wayne Ward:
  A senone based confidence measure for speech recognition.
  
• Erica G. Bernstein, Ward R. Evans:
  OOV utterance detection based on the recognizer response function.
  
• Thomas Kemp, Thomas Schaaf:
  Estimating confidence using word lattices.
  
• Man-Hung Siu, Herbert Gish, Fred Richardson:
  Improved estimation, evaluation and applications of confidence measures for speech recognition.
  

Speaker and Language Identification

• Salleh Hussain, Fergus R. McInnes, Mervyn A. Jack:
  Improved speaker verification system with limited training data on telephone quality speech.
  
• Qi Li, Biing-Hwang Juang, Qiru Zhou, Chin-Hui Lee:
  Verbal information verification.
  
• Sridevi V. Sarma, Victor W. Zue:
  A segment-based speaker verification system using SUMMIT.
  
• Michael Sokolov:
  Speaker verification on the world wide web.
  
• Johan Lindberg, Håkan Melin:
  Text-prompted versus sound-prompted passwords in speaker verification systems.
  
• Michael Schmidt, John Golden, Herbert Gish:
  GMM sample statistic log-likelihoods for text-independent speaker recognition.
  

Perception of Prosody

• Toni C. M. Rietveld, Carlos Gussenhoven:
  The influence of phrase boundaries on perceived prominence in two-peak intonation contours.
  
• Johanneke Caspers:
  Testing the meaning of four dutch pitch accent types.
  
• Joachim Mersdorf, Thomas Domhover:
  A perceptual study for modelling speaker-dependent intonation in TTS and dialog systems.
  
• Véronique Aubergé, Tuulikki Grepillat, Albert Rilliard:
  Can we perceive attitudes before the end of sentences? the gating paradigm for prosodic contours.
  
• Mattias Heldner, Eva Strangert:
  To what extent is perceived focus determined by F0-cues?
  
• David House, Dik J. Hermes, Frédéric Beaugendre:
  Temporal-alignment categories of accent-lending rises and falls.
  

Applications of Speech Technology

• Raymond Lau, Giovanni Flammia, Christine Pao, Victor W. Zue:
  Webgalaxy - integrating spoken language and hypertext navigation.
  
• Michael J. Carey, Eluned S. Parris, Graham Tattersall:
  Pitch estimation of singing for re-synthesis and musical transcription.
  
• Christian Martyn Jones, Satnam Singh Dlay:
  Automated lip synchronisation for human-computer interaction and special effect animation.
  
• Charles T. Hemphill, Yeshwant K. Muthusamy:
  Developing web-based speech applications.
  
• Werner Verhelst:
  Automatic post-synchronization of speech utterances.
  
• Jordi Robert-Ribes, Rami G. Mukhtar:
  Automatic generation of hyperlinks between audio and transcript.
  
• Sebastian Möller, Rainer Schönweiler:
  Analysis of infant cries for the early detection of hearing impairment.
  
• Athanassios Hatzis, Phil D. Green, S. J. Howard:
  Optical logo-therapy (OLT): a computer-based real time visual feedback application for speech training.
  
• Sung-Chien Lin, Lee-Feng Chien, Ming-Chiuan Chen, Lin-Shan Lee, Keh-Jiann Chen:
  Intelligent retrieval of very large Chinese dictionaries with speech queries.
  
• Fulvio Leonardi, Giorgio Micca, Sheyla Militello, Mario Nigra:
  Preliminary results of a multilingual interactive voice activated telephone service for people-on-the-move.
  
• Jean-Christophe Dubois, Yolande Anglade, Dominique Fohr:
  Assessment of an operational dialogue system used by a blind telephone switchboard operator.
  
• Antonio J. Rubio, Pedro García, Ángel de la Torre, José C. Segura, Jesús E. Díaz-Verdejo, Maria C. Benitez, Victoria E. Sánchez, Antonio M. Peinado, Juan M. López-Soler, José L. Pérez-Córdoba:
  STACC: an automatic service for information access using continuous speech recognition through telephone line.
  
• Ramón López-Cózar, Pedro García, Jesús E. Díaz-Verdejo, Antonio J. Rubio:
  A voice activated dialogue system for fast-food restaurant applications.
  
• Paul W. Shields, Douglas R. Campbell:
  Multi-microphone sub-band adaptive signal processing for improvement of hearing aid performance.
  
• Hans Georg Piroth, Thomas Arnhold:
  Tactile transmission of intonation and stress.
  
• Kerttu Huttunen, Pentti Korkko, Martti Sorri:
  Hearing impairment simulation: an interactive multimedia programme on the internet for students of speech therapy.
  
• Sorin Ciocea, Jean Schoentgen, Lise Crevier-Buchman:
  Analysis of dysarthric speech by means of formant-to-area mapping.
  
• Boris Lobanov, Simon V. Brickle, Andrey V. Kubashin, Tatiana V. Levkovskaja:
  An intelligent telephone answering system using speech recognition.
  
• Ulla Ackermann, Bianca Angelini, Fabio Brugnara, Marcello Federico, Diego Giuliani, Roberto Gretter, Heinrich Niemann:
  Speedata: a prototype for multilingual spoken data-entry.
  
• Matti Karjalainen, Péter Boda, Panu Somervuo, Toomas Altosaar:
  Applications for the hearing-impaired: evaluation of finnish phoneme recognition methods.
  
• Nina Alarotu, Mietta Lennes, Toomas Altosaar, Anja Malm, Matti Karjalainen:
  Applications for the hearing-impaired: comprehension of finnish text with phoneme errors.
  
• Ute Ehrlich, Gerhard Hanrieder, Ludwig Hitzenberger, Paul Heisterkamp, Klaus Mecklenburg, Peter Regel-Brietzmann:
  Access - automated call center through speech understanding system.
  
• E. Richard Anthony, Charles Bowen, Margot T. Peet, Susan G. Tammaro:
  Integrating a radio model with a spoken language interface for military simulations.
  
• Daniele Falavigna, Roberto Gretter:
  On field experiments of continuous digit recognition over the telephone network.
  
• Xavier Menéndez-Pidal, James B. Polikoff, H. Timothy Bunnell:
  An HMM-based phoneme recognizer applied to assessment of dysarthric speech.
  
• Celinda de la Torre, Gonzalo Alonso:
  Multiapplication platform based on technology for mobile telephone network services.
  
• Els den Os, Lou Boves, David James, Richard Winski, Kurt Fridh:
  Field test of a calling card service based on speaker verification and automatic speech recognition.
  
• Luc E. Julia, Adam Cheyer:
  Speech: a privileged modality.
  

Spontaneous Speech Recognition

• Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel, Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-Decker:
  Transcription of broadcast news.
  
• Fil Alleva, Xuedong Huang, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Li Jiang:
  Can continuous speech recognizers handle isolated speech?
  
• Tatsuo Matsuoka, Yuichi Taguchi, Katsutoshi Ohtsuki, Sadaoki Furui, Katsuhiko Shirai:
  Toward automatic transcription of Japanese broadcast news.
  
• Mauro Cettolo, Anna Corazza:
  Automatic detection of semantic boundaries.
  
• Etienne Bauche, Bojana Gajic, Yasuhiro Minami, Tatsuo Matsuoka, Sadaoki Furui:
  Connected digit recognition in spontaneous speech.
  
• Francis Kubala, Hubert Jin, Spyros Matsoukas, Long Nguyen, Richard M. Schwartz, John Makhoul:
  Advances in transcription of broadcast news.
  

Language Specific Segmental Features

• Tina Cambier-Langeveld, Marina Nespor, Vincent J. van Heuven:
  The domain of final lengthening in production and perception in Dutch.
  
• Christine Meunier:
  Voicing assimilation as a cue for cluster identification.
  
• Saskia te Riele, Manon Loef, Olga van Herwijnen:
  On the perceptual relevance of degemination in Dutch.
  
• Cécile Fougeron, Donca Steriade:
  Does deletion of French SCHWA lead to neutralization of lexical distinctions?
  
• Marielle Bruyninckx, Bernard Harmegnies:
  An approach of the catalan palatals discrimination based on durational patterns of spectral evolution.
  
• Jerneja Gros, Nikola Pavesic, France Mihelic:
  Syllable and segment duration at different speaking rates in the Slovenian language.
  

Speaker Recognition

• Wei-Ying Li, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Hybrid networks based on RBFN and GMM for speaker recognition.
  
• Jialong He, Li Liu, Günther Palm:
  A discriminative training algorithm for Gaussian mixture speaker models.
  
• Douglas A. Reynolds:
  Comparison of background normalization methods for text-independent speaker verification.
  
• Owen Kimball, Michael Schmidt, Herbert Gish, Jason Waterman:
  Speaker verification with limited enrollment data.
  
• Frédéric Bimbot, Hans-Peter Hutter, Cédric Jaboulet, Johan Koolwaaij, Johan Lindberg, Jean-Benoît Pierrot:
  Speaker verification in the telephone network: research activities in the cave project.
  
• Mark Kuitert, Lou Boves:
  Speaker verification with GSM coded telephone speech.
  
• Aaron E. Rosenberg, S. Parthasarathy:
  Speaker identification with user-selected password phrases.
  
• Jesper O. Olsen:
  Speaker verification based on phonetic decision making.
  
• Aladdin M. Ariyaeeinia, P. Sivakumaran:
  Analysis and comparison of score normalisation methods for text-dependent speaker verification.
  
• Frederic Jauquet, Patrick Verlinde, Claude Vloeberghs:
  Automatic speaker recognition on a vocoder link.
  
• Frédéric Bimbot, Dominique Genoud:
  Likelihood ratio adjustment for the compensation of model mismatch in speaker verification.
  
• M. Kemal Sönmez, Larry P. Heck, Mitchel Weintraub, Elizabeth Shriberg:
  A lognormal tied mixture model of pitch for prosody based speaker recognition.
  

Speech Synthesis: Linguistic Analysis

• Nick Campbell, Tony Hebert, Ezra Black:
  Parsers, prominence, and pauses.
  
• Frédéric Béchet, Marc El-Bèze:
  Automatic assignment of part-of-speech to out-of-vocabulary words for text-to-speech processing.
  
• Barbara Gili Fivela, Silvia Quazza:
  Text-to-prosody parsing in an Italian speech synthesizer. recent improvements.
  
• Brigitte Krenn:
  Tagging syllables.
  
• Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor:
  Assigning phrase breaks from part-of-speech sequences.
  
• Christina Widera, Thomas Portele, Maria Wolters:
  Prediction of word prominence.
  

Speech Analysis and Modelling

• Hisao Kuwabara:
  Acoustic and perceptual properties of phonemes in continuous speech as a function of speaking rate.
  
• Shrikanth Narayanan, Abeer Alwan, Yong Song:
  New results in vowel production: MRI, EPG, and acoustic data.
  
• Takayuki Arai, Steven Greenberg:
  The temporal properties of spoken Japanese are similar to those of English.
  
• Anna Esposito:
  The amplitudes of the peaks in the spectrum: data from /a/ context.
  
• Natalija Bolfan-Stosic, Mladen Hedjever:
  Acoustical characteristics of speech and voice in speech pathology.
  
• Andreas Kipp, Maria-Barbara Wesenick, Florian Schiel:
  Pronuncation modeling applied to automatic segmentation of spontaneous speech.
  
• Simon Downey, Richard Wiseman:
  Dynamic and static improvements to lexical baseforms.
  
• Andreas Hauenstein:
  Signal driven generation of word baseforms from few examples.
  
• Elizabeth C. Botha, Louis C. W. Pols:
  Modeling the acoustic differences between L1 and L2 speech: the short vowels of africaans and south-african English.
  
• Béatrice Vaxelaire, Rudolph Sock:
  Laryngeal movements and speech rate: an x-ray investigation.
  
• Anders Eriksson, Pär Wretling:
  How flexible is the human voice? - a case study of mimicry.
  
• Helmer Strik:
  The effect of low-pass filtering on estimated voice source parameters.
  
• Susan M. Fosnot:
  Vowel development of /i/ and /u/ in 15-36 month old children at risk and not at risk to stutter.
  
• Alan Wrench, Alan D. McIntosh, William J. Hardcastle:
  Optopalatograph: development of a device for measuring tongue movement in 3D.
  
• Juana M. Gutiérrez-Arriola, Francisco M. Gimenez de los Galanes, Mohammed H. Savoji, José Manuel Pardo:
  Speech synthesis and prosody modification using segmentation and modelling of the excitation signal.
  
• Christophe Savariaux, Louis-Jean Boë, Pascal Perrier:
  How can the control of the vocal tract limit the speaker's capability to produce the ultimate perceptive objectives of speech? 1063.
  
• Goran S. Jovanovic:
  A step toward general model for symbolic description of the speech signal 1067.
  
• Kiyoshi Furukawa, Masayuki Nakazawa, Takashi Endo, Ryuichi Oka:
  Referring in long term speech by using orientation patterns obtained from vector field of spectrum pattern.
  

Dialogue Systems: Design and Applications

• J. Barnett, S. Anderson, J. Broglio, M. Singh, R. Hudson, S. W. Kuo:
  Experiments in spoken queries for document retrieval.
  
• Frank Seide, Andreas Kellner:
  Towards an automated directory information system.
  
• Lars Bo Larsen:
  A strategy for mixed-initiative dialogue control.
  
• Jim Hugunin, Victor W. Zue:
  On the design of effective speech-based interfaces for desktop applications.
  
• Matthias Denecke, Alex Waibel:
  Dialogue strategies guiding users to their communicative goals.
  
• Sunil Issar:
  A speech interface for forms on WWW.
  
• Giovanni Flammia, Victor W. Zue:
  Learning the structure of mixed initiative dialogues using a corpus of annotated conversations 1.
  
• Roberto Pieraccini, Esther Levin, Wieland Eckert:
  AMICA: the AT&t mixed initiative conversational architecture.
  
• Alicia Abella, Allen L. Gorin:
  Generating semantically consistent inputs to a dialog manager.
  
• Esther Levin, Roberto Pieraccini:
  A stochastic model of computer-human interaction for learning dialogue strategies.
  
• Manuela Boros, Maria Aretoulaki, Florian Gallwitz, Elmar Nöth, Heinrich Niemann:
  Semantic processing of out-of-vocabulary words in a spoken dialogue system.
  
• Elisabeth Maier:
  Clarification dialogues in VERBMOBIL.
  

Speech Production Modelling

• Levent M. Arslan, David Talkin:
  Voice conversion by codebook mapping of line spectral frequencies and excitation spectrum.
  
• Chafic Mokbel, Guillaume Gravier, Gérard Chollet:
  Optimal state dependent spectral representation for HMM modeling : a new theoretical framework.
  
• Alexandros Potamianos, Petros Maragos:
  Speech analysis and synthesis using an AM-FM modulation model.
  
• Khaled Mawass, Pierre Badin, Gérard Bailly:
  Synthesis of fricative consonants by audiovisual-to-articulatory inversion.
  
• Tom Claes, Ioannis Dologlou, Louis ten Bosch, Dirk Van Compernolle:
  New transformations of cepstral parameters for automatic vocal tract length normalization in speech recognition.
  
• Simon Dobrisek, France Mihelic, Nikola Pavesic:
  A multiresolutionally oriented approach for determination of cepstral features in speech recognition.
  

Speech Enhancement and Noise Mitigation

• Tim Haulick, Klaus Linhard, Peter Schrogmeier:
  Residual noise suppression using psychoacoustic criteria.
  
• B. Yegnanarayana, Carlos Avendaño, Hynek Hermansky, P. Satyanarayana Murthy:
  Processing linear prediction residual for speech enhancement.
  
• Stefan Gustafsson, Rainer Martin:
  Combined acoustic echo control and noise reduction for mobile communications.
  
• Ki Yong Lee, JaeYeol Rheem:
  A nonstationary autoregressive HMM and its application to speech enhancement.
  
• Néstor Becerra Yoma, Fergus R. McInnes, Mervyn A. Jack:
  Spectral subtraction and mean normalization in the context of weighted matching algorithms.
  
• Dionysis E. Tsoukalas, J. Mourjopoulos, George Kokkinakis:
  Improving the intelligibility of noisy speech using an audible noise suppression technique.
  
• Laurent Girin, Gang Feng, Jean-Luc Schwartz:
  Noisy speech enhancement by fusion of auditory and visual information: a study of vowel transitions.
  
• Andreas Engelsberg, Thomas Gülzow:
  Spectral subtraction using a non-critically decimated discrete wavelet transform.
  
• Jen-Tzung Chien, Hsiao-Chuan Wang, Chin-Hui Lee:
  Bayesian affine transformation of HMM parameters for instantaneous and supervised adaptation in telephone speech recognition.
  
• Craig Lawrence, Mazin G. Rahim:
  Integrated bias removal techniques for robust speech recognition \lambda.
  
• Detlev Langmann, Alexander Fischer, Friedhelm Wuppermann, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Thomas Eisele:
  Acoustic front ends for speaker-independent digit recognition in car environments.
  
• Lionel Delphin-Poulat, Chafic Mokbel:
  Signal bias removal using the multi-path stochastic equalization technique.
  
• Andrej Miksic, Bogomir Horvat:
  Subband echo cancellation in automatic speech dialog systems.
  
• Hesham Tolba, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Speech enhancement via energy separation.
  
• Masashi Unoki, Masato Akagi:
  A method of signal extraction from noisy signal.
  
• Jiri Sika, Vratislav Davidek:
  Multi-channel noise reduction using wavelet filter bank.
  
• Imad Abdallah, Silvio Montrésor, Marc Baudry:
  Speech signal detection in noisy environement using a local entropic criterion.
  
• Pedro J. Moreno, Brian S. Eberman:
  A new algorithm for robust speech recognition: the delta vector taylor series approach.
  
• David Cole, Miles Moody, Sridha Sridharan:
  Robust enhancement of reverberant speech using iterative noise removal.
  
• D. J. Jones, Scott D. Watson, K. G. Evans, Barry M. G. Cheetham, R. A. Reeve:
  A network speech echo canceller with comfort noise.
  
• Amir Hussain, Douglas R. Campbell, Thomas J. Moir:
  A new metric for selecting sub-band processing in adaptive speech enhancement systems.
  
• Hidefumi Kobatake, Hideta Suzuki:
  Estimation of LPC cepstrum vector of speech contaminated by additive noise and its application to speech enhancement.
  
• Sangita Tibrewala, Hynek Hermansky:
  Multi-band and adaptation approaches to robust speech recognition.
  
• Enrique Masgrau, Eduardo Lleida, Luis Vicente:
  Non-quadratic criterion algorithms for speech enhancement.
  

Spoken Language Understanding

• Jeremy H. Wright, Allen L. Gorin, Giuseppe Riccardi:
  Automatic acquisition of salient grammar fragments for call-type classification.
  
• Wolfgang Minker:
  Stochastically-based natural language understanding across tasks and languages.
  
• Michael Riley, Fernando Pereira, Mehryar Mohri:
  Transducer composition for context-dependent network expansion.
  
• Christian Lieske, Johan Bos, Martin Emele, Björn Gambäck, C. J. Rupp:
  Giving prosody a meaning.
  
• Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward:
  Feature-based language understanding.
  
• Juan-Carlos Amengual, José-Miguel Benedí, Klaus Beulen, Francisco Casacuberta, M. Asunción Castaño, Antonio Castellanos, Víctor M. Jiménez, David Llorens, Andrés Marzal, Hermann Ney, Federico Prat, Enrique Vidal, Juan Miguel Vilar:
  Speech translation based on automatically trainable finite-state models.
  

Language Model Adaptation

• Yoshihiko Gotoh, Steve Renals:
  Document space models using latent semantic analysis.
  
• Sven C. Martin, Jörg Liermann, Hermann Ney:
  Adaptive topic - dependent language modelling using word - based varigrams.
  
• Jerome R. Bellegarda:
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