ICSLP 1996: Philadelphia, PA, USA

Plenary Lectures

• Anne Cutler:
  The comparative study of spoken-language processing.
  
• James L. Flanagan:
  Natural communication with machines - progress and challenge.
  

Large Vocabulary

• Z. Li, Michel Héon, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  New developments in the INRS continuous speech recognition system.
  
• Lori Lamel, Gilles Adda:
  On designing pronunciation lexicons for large vocabulary, continuous speech recognition.
  
• Pablo Fetter, Frédéric Dandurand, Peter Regel-Brietzmann:
  Word graph rescoring using confidence measures.
  
• Xavier L. Aubert, Peter Beyerlein, Meinhard Ullrich:
  A bottom-up approach for handling unseen triphones in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition.
  
• V. Valtchev, Philip C. Woodland, Steve J. Young:
  Discriminative optimisation of large vocabulary recognition systems.
  
• Tatsuo Matsuoka, Katsutoshi Ohtsuki, Takeshi Mori, Sadaoki Furui, Katsuhiko Shirai:
  Japanese large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition using a business-newspaper corpus.
  
• David M. Carter, Jaan Kaja, Leonardo Neumeyer, Manny Rayner, Fuliang Weng, Mats Wirén:
  Handling compound nouns in a Swedish speech-understanding system.
  
• Javier Macías Guarasa, Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín, Javier Ferreiros, José Manuel Pardo, Luis Villarrubia Grande:
  Initial evaluation of a preselection module for a flexible large vocabulary speech recognition system in.
  

Multimodal ASR (Face and Lips)

• Mamoun Alissali, Paul Deléglise, Alexandrina Rogozan:
  Asynchronous integration of visual information in an automatic speech recognition system.
  
• Iain A. Matthews, J. Andrew Bangham, S. J. Cox:
  Audiovisual speech recognition using multiscale nonlinear image decomposition.
  
• Qin Su, Peter L. Silsbee:
  Robust audiovisual integration using semicontinuous hidden Markov models.
  
• Richard P. Schumeyer, Kenneth E. Barner:
  The effect of visual information on word initial consonant perception of dysarthric speech.
  
• Devi Chandramohan, Peter L. Silsbee:
  A multiple deformable template approach for visual speech recognition.
  
• Piero Cosi, Emanuela Magno Caldognetto, Franco Ferrero, M. Dugatto, Kyriaki Vagges:
  Speaker independent bimodal phonetic recognition experiments.
  
• Juergen Luettin, Neil A. Thacker, Steve W. Beet:
  Speechreading using shape and intensity information.
  
• Juergen Luettin, Neil A. Thacker, Steve W. Beet:
  Speaker identification by lipreading.
  

Perception of Words

• David W. Gow Jr., Janis Melvold, Sharon Manuel:
  How word onsets drive lexical access and segmentation: evidence from acoustics, phonology and processing.
  
• David van Kuijk, Peter Wittenburg, Ton Dijkstra:
  RAW: a real-speech model for human word recognition.
  
• Mehdi Meftah, Sami Boudelaa:
  How facilitatory can lexical information be during word recognition? evidence from moroccan arabic.
  
• Alette P. Haveman:
  Effects of frequency on the auditory perception of open- versus closed-class words.
  
• Michael S. Vitevitch, Paul A. Luce, Jan Charles-Luce, David Kemmerer:
  Phonotactic and metrical influences on adult ratings of spoken nonsense words.
  
• Edward T. Auer, Lynne E. Bernstein:
  Lipreading supplemented by voice fundamental frequency: to what extent does the addition of voicing increase lexical uniqueness for the lipreader?
  
• Saskia te Riele, Sieb G. Nooteboom, Hugo Quené:
  Strategies used in rhyme-monitoring.
  
• Wilma van Donselaar, Cecile T. L. Kuijpers, Anne Cutler:
  How do dutch listeners process words with epenthetic schwa?
  

Phonetics, Transcription, and Analysis

• Patrick Juola, Philip Zimmermann:
  Whole-word phonetic distances and the PGPfone alphabet.
  
• Shuping Ran, J. Bruce Millar, Phil Rose:
  Automatic vowel quality description using a variable mapping to an eight cardinal vowel reference set.
  
• Andreas Kipp, Maria-Barbara Wesenick, Florian Schiel:
  Automatic detection and segmentation of pronunciation variants in German speech corpora.
  
• Stephanie Seneff, Raymond Lau, Helen M. Meng:
  ANGIE: a new framework for speech analysis based on morpho-phonological modelling.
  
• Byunggon Yang:
  Perceptual contrast in the Korean and English vowel system normalized.
  
• Yong-Ju Lee, Sook-Hyang Lee:
  On phonetic characteristics of pause in the Korean read speech.
  
• Sami Boudelaa, Mehdi Meftah:
  Cross-language effects of lexical stress in word recognition: the case of Arabic English bilinguals.
  
• Maria-Barbara Wesenick:
  Automatic generation of German pronunciation variants.
  
• Maria-Barbara Wesenick, Andreas Kipp:
  Estimating the quality of phonetic transcriptions and segmentations of speech signals.
  
• Bojan Petek, Rastislav Sustarsic, Smiljana Komar:
  An acoustic analysis of contemporary vowels of the standard slovenian language.
  
• Sandrine Robbe, Anne Bonneau, Sylvie Coste, Yves Laprie:
  Using decision trees to construct optimal acoustic cues.
  
• Donna Erickson, Osamu Fujimura:
  Maximum jaw displacement in contrastive emphasis.
  
• Rebecca Herman, Mary E. Beckman, Kiyoshi Honda:
  Subglottal pressure and final lowering in English.
  
• Cecile T. L. Kuijpers, Wilma van Donselaar, Anne Cutler:
  Phonological variation: epenthesis and deletion of schwa in Dutch.
  

Spoken Language Processing for Special Populations

• James J. Mahshie:
  Feedback considerations for speech training systems.
  
• Anne-Marie Öster:
  Clinical applications of computer-based speech training for children with hearing impairment.
  
• Valérie Hazan, Andrew Simpson:
  Enhancing information-rich regions of natural VCV and sentence materials presented in noise.
  
• Valérie Hazan, Alan Adlard:
  Speech perceptual abilities of children with specific reading difficulty (dyslexia).
  
• Larry D. Paarmann, Michael K. Wynne:
  Bimodal perception of spectrum compressed speech.
  
• Dragana Barac-Cikoja, Sally Revoile:
  Effect of sentential context on syllabic stress perception by hearing-impaired listeners.
  
• Martin Russell, Catherine Brown, Adrian Skilling, Robert W. Series, Julie L. Wallace, Bill Bohnam, Paul Barker:
  Applications of automatic speech recognition to speech and language development in young children.
  
• D. R. Campbell:
  Sub-band adaptive speech enhancement for hearing aids.
  
• Thomas Portele, Jürgen Krämer:
  Adapting a TTS system to a reading machine for the blind.
  

Dialogue Special Sessions

• Katsuhiko Shirai:
  Modeling of spoken dialogue with and without visual information.
  
• Stephanie Seneff, David Goddeau, Christine Pao, Joseph Polifroni:
  Multimodal discourse modelling in a multi-user multi-domain environment.
  
• Kenji Kita, Yoshikazu Fukui, Masaaki Nagata, Tsuyoshi Morimoto:
  Automatic acquisition of probabilistic dialogue models.
  
• Paul Heisterkamp, Scott McGlashan:
  Units of dialogue management: an example.
  
• Sharon L. Oviatt, Robert VanGent:
  Error resolution during multimodal human-computer interaction.
  
• Ramesh R. Sarukkai, Dana H. Ballard:
  Improved spontaneous dialogue recognition using dialogue and utterance triggers by adaptive probability boosting.
  
• Kai Hbener, Uwe Jost, Henrik Heine:
  Speech recognition for spontaneously spoken German dialogues.
  
• Paul Taylor, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Stephen Isard, Simon King, Jacqueline C. Kowtko:
  Using prosodic information to constrain language models for spoken dialogue.
  
• Peter A. Heeman, Kyung-ho Loken-Kim, James F. Allen:
  Combining the detection and correction of speech repairs.
  
• Yuji Sagawa, Wataru Sugimoto, Noboru Ohnishi:
  Generating spontaneous elliptical utterance.
  
• Gösta Bruce, Marcus Filipsson, Johan Frid, Björn Granström, Kjell Gustafson, Merle Horne, David House, Birgitta Lastow, Paul Touati:
  Developing the modelling of Swedish prosody in spontaneous dialogue.
  
• Shimei Pan, Kathleen McKeown:
  Spoken language generation in a multimedia system.
  
• Keikichi Hirose, Mayumi Sakata, Hiromichi Kawanami:
  Synthesizing dialogue speech of Japanese based on the quantitative analysis of prosodic features.
  
• Shuichi Tanaka, Shu Nakazato, Keiichiro Hoashi, Katsuhiko Shirai:
  Spoken dialogue interface in a dual task situation.
  
• Yasuhisa Niimi, Yutaka Kobayashi:
  A dialogue control strategy based on the reliability of speech recognition.
  
• Alexander I. Rudnicky, Stephen Reed, Eric H. Thayer:
  Speechwear: a mobile speech system.
  
• Helen M. Meng, Senis Busayapongchai, James R. Glass, David Goddeau, I. Lee Hetherington, Edward Hurley, Christine Pao, Joseph Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff, Victor Zue:
  WHEELS: a conversational system in the automobile classifieds domain.
  
• M. David Sadek, A. Ferrieux, A. Cozannet, Philippe Bretier, Franck Panaget, J. Simonin:
  Effective human-computer cooperative spoken dialogue: the AGS demonstrator.
  
• Samir Bennacef, Laurence Devillers, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel:
  Dialog in the RAILTEL telephone-based system.
  
• Alon Lavie, Lori S. Levin, Yan Qu, Alex Waibel, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavaldà, Laura Mayfield, Maite Taboada:
  Dialogue processing in a conversational speech translation system.
  

Language Modeling

• Thomas Niesler, Philip C. Woodland:
  Combination of word-based and category-based language models.
  
• Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete, José Manuel Pardo:
  A multi-level lexical-semantics based language model design for guided integrated continuous speech recognition.
  
• Florian Gallwitz, Elmar Nöth, Heinrich Niemann:
  A category based approach for recognition of out-of-vocabulary words.
  
• Kristie Seymore, Ronald Rosenfeld:
  Scalable backoff language models.
  
• Rukmini Iyer, Mari Ostendorf:
  Modeling long distance dependence in language: topic mixtures vs. dynamic cache models.
  
• Marcello Federico:
  Bayesian estimation methods for n-gram language model adaptation.
  
• Man-Hung Siu, Mari Ostendorf:
  Modeling disfluencies in conversational speech.
  
• John Miller, Fil Alleva:
  Evaluation of a language model using a clustered model backoff.
  
• Antonio Bonafonte, José B. Mariño:
  Language modeling using x-grams.
  
• Klaus Ries, Finn Dag Buø, Alex Waibel:
  Class phrase models for language modelling.
  
• Petra Geutner:
  Introducing linguistic constraints into statistical language modeling.
  
• Jianying Hu, William Turin, Michael K. Brown:
  Language modeling with stochastic automata.
  

Feature Extraction for Speech Recognition

• Don X. Sun:
  Feature dimension reduction using reduced-rank maximum likelihood estimation for hidden Markov models.
  
• Kai Hbener:
  Using multi-level segmentation coefficients to improve HMM speech recognition.
  
• Thomas Eisele, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Detlev Langmann:
  A comparative study of linear feature transformation techniques for automatic speech recognition.
  
• Ben Milner:
  Inclusion of temporal information into features for speech recognition.
  
• Hubert Wassner, Gérard Chollet:
  New cepstral representation using wavelet analysis and spectral transformation for robust speech recognition.
  
• Christopher John Long, Sekharajit Datta:
  Wavelet based feature extraction for phoneme recognition.
  
• Andrzej Drygajlo:
  New fast wavelet packet transform algorithms for frame synchronized speech processing.
  
• Srinivasan Umesh, Leon Cohen, Nenad Marinovic, Douglas J. Nelson:
  Frequency-warping in speech.
  
• Daisuke Kobayashi, Shoji Kajita, Kazuya Takeda, Fumitada Itakura:
  Extracting speech features from human speech-like noise.
  
• Shoji Kajita, Kazuya Takeda, Fumitada Itakura:
  Subband-crosscorrelation analysis for robust speech recognition.
  
• Hervé Bourlard, Stéphane Dupont:
  A new ASR approach based on independent processing and recombination of partial frequency bands.
  
• Climent Nadeu, José B. Mariño, Javier Hernando, Albino Nogueiras:
  Frequency and time filtering of filter-bank energies for HMM speech recognition.
  

Speech Production - Measurement and Modeling

• Yves Laprie, Marie-Odile Berger:
  Extraction of tongue contours in x-ray images with minimal user interaction.
  
• Didier Demolin, Thierry Metens, Alain Soquet:
  Three-dimensional measurement of the vocal tract by MRI.
  
• Philip Gleason, Betty Tuller, J. A. Scott Kelso:
  Syllable affiliation of final consonant clusters undergoes a phase transition over speaking rates.
  
• Arthur Lobo, Michael H. O'Malley:
  Towards a biomechanical model of the larynx.
  
• Yann Morlec, Gérard Bailly, Véronique Aubergé:
  Generating intonation by superposing gestures.
  
• Hideki Kawahara, Hiroko Kato, J. C. Williams:
  Effects of auditory feedback on F0 trajectory generation.
  

Speech Coding / HMMs and NNs in ASR

• Ian S. Burnett, John J. Parry:
  On the effects of accent and language on low rate speech coders.
  
• Jeng-Shyang Pan, Fergus R. McInnes, Mervyn A. Jack:
  VQ codevector index assignment using genetic algorithms for noisy channels.
  
• Gavin C. Cawley:
  An improved vector quantization algorithm for speech transmission over noisy channels.
  
• C. Murgia, Gang Feng, Alain Le Guyader, Catherine Quinquis:
  Very low delay and high quality coding of 20 hz-15 khz speech signals at 64 kbit/s.
  
• Carlos M. Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso:
  Application of speaker modification techniques to phonetic vocoding.
  
• Tadashi Yonezaki, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  Entropy coded vector quantization with hidden Markov models.
  
• Minoru Kohata:
  An application of recurrent neural networks to low bit rate speech coding.
  
• Kazuhito Koishida, Keiichi Tokuda, Takao Kobayashi, Satoshi Imai:
  CELP coding system based on mel-generalized cepstral analysis.
  
• Cheung-Fat Chan, Wai-Kwong Hui:
  Wideband re-synthesis of narrowband CELP-coded speech using multiband excitation model.
  
• Takuya Koizumi, Mikio Mori, Shuji Taniguchi, Mitsutoshi Maruya:
  Recurrent neural networks for phoneme recognition.
  
• M. A. Mokhtar, A. Zein-el-Abddin:
  A model for the acoustic phonetic structure of arabic language using a single ergodic hidden Markov model.
  
• Yifan Gong, Irina Illina, Jean Paul Haton:
  Modelling long term variability information in mixture stochastic trajectory framework.
  
• Thierry Moudenc, Robert Sokol, Guy Mercier:
  Segmental phonetic features recognition by means of neural-fuzzy networks and integration in an n-best solutions post-processing.
  
• Irina Illina, Yifan Gong:
  Stochastic trajectory model with state-mixture for continuous speech recognition.
  
• Hermann Hild, Alex Waibel:
  Recognition of spelled names over the telephone.
  
• Gilles Boulianne, Patrick Kenny:
  Optimal tying of HMM mixture densities using decision trees.
  
• Hwan Jin Choi, Yung-Hwan Oh:
  Speech recognition using an enhanced FVQ based on a codeword dependent distribution normalization and codeword weighting by fuzzy objective function.
  
• Mikko Kurimo, Panu Somervuo:
  Using the self-organizing map to speed up the probability density estimation for speech recognition with mixture density HMMs.
  

Vowels

• Carrie E. Lang, John J. Ohala:
  Temporal cues for vowels and universals of vowel inventories.
  
• Ann K. Syrdal:
  Acoustic variability in spontaneous conversational speech of american English talkers.
  
• Raquel Willerman, Patricia K. Kuhl:
  Cross-language speech perception: Swedish, English, and Spanish speakers' perception of front rounded vowels.
  
• John C. L. Ingram, See-Gyoon Park:
  Inter-language vowel perception and production by Korean and Japanese listeners.
  
• Diane Kewley-Port, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Kiyoaki Aikawa:
  Intelligibility and acoustic correlates of Japanese accented English vowels.
  
• Kiyoko Yoneyama:
  Segmentation strategies for spoken language recognition: evidence from semi-bilingual Japanese speakers of English.
  

NNs and Stochastic Modeling

• Geunbae Lee, Jong-Hyeok Lee, Kyubong Park, Byung-Chang Kim:
  Integrating connectionist, statistical and symbolic approaches for continuous spoken Korean processing.
  
• Hynek Hermansky, Sangita Timberwala, Misha Pavel:
  Towards ASR on partially corrupted speech.
  
• Herbert Gish, Kenney Ng:
  Parametric trajectory models for speech recognition.
  
• Kate Knill, M. J. F. Gales, Steve J. Young:
  Use of Gaussian selection in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition using HMMs.
  
• J. Hogberg, Kåre Sjölander:
  Cross phone state clustering using lexical stress and context.
  
• Eduardo Lleida-Solano, Richard C. Rose:
  Likelihood ratio decoding and confidence measures for continuous speech recognition.
  
• Xiaohui Ma, Yifan Gong, Yuqing Fu, Jiren Lu, Jean Paul Haton:
  A study on continuous Chinese speech recognition based on stochastic trajectory models.
  
• Yoshiaki Itoh, Jiro Kiyama, Hiroshi Kojima, Susumu Seki, Ryuichi Oka:
  A proposal for a new algorithm of reference interval-free continuous DP for real-time speech or text retrieval.
  
• Akinori Ito, Masaki Kohda:
  Language modeling by string pattern n-gram for Japanese speech recognition.
  
• Reinhard Kneser:
  Statistical language modeling using a variable context length.
  
• Finn Tore Johansen:
  A comparison of hybrid HMM architectures using global discriminative training.
  
• Wei Wei, Etienne Barnard, Mark A. Fanty:
  Improved probability estimation with neural network models.
  
• Ha-Jin Yu, Yung-Hwan Oh:
  A neural network using acoustic sub-word units for continuous speech recognition.
  
• Louis ten Bosch, Roel Smits:
  On the error criteria in neural networks as a tool for human classification modelling.
  
• Gordon Ramsay:
  A non-linear filtering approach to stochastic training of the articulatory-acoustic mapping using the EM algorithm.
  
• Y. P. Yang, John R. Deller Jr.:
  A tool for automated design of language models.
  
• Felix Freitag, Enric Monte:
  Acoustic-phonetic decoding based on elman predictive neural networks.
  
• Tan Lee, P. C. Ching:
  On improving discrimination capability of an RNN based recognizer.
  
• Yumi Wakita, Jun Kawai, Hitoshi Iida:
  An evaluation of statistical language modeling for speech recognition using a mixed category of both words and parts-of-speech.
  

Neural Models of Speech Processing

• Boris Aleksandrovsky, James Whitson, Gretchen Andes, Gary Lynch, Richard Granger:
  Novel speech processing mechanism derived from auditory neocortical circuit analysis.
  
• Ping Tang, Jean Rouat:
  Modeling neurons in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus for amplitude modulation (AM) processing: application to speech sound.
  
• Halewijn Vereecken, Jean-Pierre Martens:
  Noise suppression and loudness normalization in an auditory model-based acoustic front-end.
  
• James J. Hant, Brian Strope, Abeer Alwan:
  A psychoacoustic model for the noise masking of voiceless plosive bursts.
  
• Martin Hunke, Thomas Holton:
  Training machine classifiers to match the performance of human listeners in a natural vowel classification task.
  
• Kiyoaki Aikawa, Hideki Kawahara, Minoru Tsuzaki:
  A neural matrix model for active tracking of frequency-modulated tones.
  

Utterance Verification and Word Spotting

• Richard C. Rose, Eduardo Lleida-Solano, G. W. Erhart, R. V. Grubbe:
  A user-configurable system for voice label recognition.
  
• Philippe Gelin, Christian Wellekens:
  Keyword spotting enhancement for video soundtrack indexing.
  
• Rachida El Méliani, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  New efficient fillers for unlimited word recognition and keyword spotting.
  
• Michelle S. Spina, Victor Zue:
  Automatic transcription of general audio data: preliminary analyses.
  
• Francis Kubala, Tasos Anastasakos, Hubert Jin, Long Nguyen, Richard M. Schwartz:
  Transcribing radio news.
  
• Anand R. Setlur, Rafid A. Sukkar, John Jacob:
  Correcting recognition errors via discriminative utterance verification.
  

Acquisition/Learning Training L2 Learners

• Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Yoh'ichi Tohkura, Ann R. Bradlow, David B. Pisoni:
  Does training in speech perception modify speech production?
  
• Motoko Ueyama:
  Phrase-final lengthening and stress-timed shortening in the speech of native speakers and Japanese learners of English.
  
• Nobuko Yamada:
  Japanese accentuations by foreign students and Japanese speakers of non-tokyo dialect.
  
• J. Kevin Varden, Tsutomu Sato:
  Devoicing of Japanese vowels by taiwanese learners of Japanese.
  
• Danièle Archambault, Catherine Foucher, Blagovesta Maneva:
  Fluency and use of segmental dialect features in the acquisition of a second language (French) by English speakers.
  
• P. Martland, Sandra P. Whiteside, Steve W. Beet, Ladan Baghai-Ravary:
  Estimating child and adolescent formant frequency values from adult data.
  

Focus, Stress and Accent

• Agaath M. C. Sluijter, Vincent J. van Heuven:
  Acoustic correlates of linguistic stress and accent in dutch and american English.
  
• Hiroya Fujisaki, Sumio Ohno, Osamu Tomita:
  On the levels of accentuation in spoken Japanese.
  
• Linda Thibault, Marise Ouellet:
  Tonal distinctions between emphatic stress and pretonic lengthening in quebec French.
  
• Anja (Petzold) Elsner:
  Distinction between 'normal' focus and 'contrastive/emphatic' focus.
  
• Yukihiro Nishinuma, Masako Arai, Takako Ayusawa:
  Perception of tonal accent by americans learning Japanese.
  
• Elizabeth Shriberg, D. Robert Ladd, Jacques M. B. Terken:
  Modeling intra-speaker pitch range variation: predicting F0 targets when "speaking up".
  

Spoken Language Dialogue and Conversation

• Norbert Reithinger, Ralf Engel, Michael Kipp, Martin Klesen:
  Predicting dialogue acts for a speech-to-speech translation system.
  
• Johannes Müller, Holger Stahl, Manfred Lang:
  Automatic speech translation based on the semantic structure.
  
• Lewis M. Norton, Carl Weir, K. W. Scholz, Deborah A. Dahl, Ahmed Bouzid:
  A methodology for application development for spoken language systems.
  
• Stephanie Seneff, Joseph Polifroni:
  A new restaurant guide conversational system: issues in rapid prototyping for specialized domains.
  
• Tadahiko Kumamoto, Akira Ito:
  Semantic interpretation of a Japanese complex sentence in an advisory dialogue - focused on the postpositional word "KEDO, " which works as a conjunction between clauses.
  
• Youngkuk Hong, Myoung-Wan Koo, Gijoo Yang:
  A Korean morphological analyzer for speech translation system.
  
• Rolf Carlson, Sheri Hunnicutt:
  Generic and domain-specific aspects of the waxholm NLP and dialog modules.
  
• Megumi Kameyama, Goh Kawai, Isao Arima:
  A real-time system for summarizing human-human spontaneous spoken dialogues.
  
• Bernd Hildebrandt, Heike Rautenstrauch, Gerhard Sagerer:
  Evaluation of spoken language understanding and dialogue systems.
  
• Kuniko Kakita:
  Inter-speaker interaction of F0 in dialogs.
  
• Hans Brandt-Pook, Gernot A. Fink, Bernd Hildebrandt, Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer:
  A robust dialogue system for making an appointment.
  
• Kazuyuki Takagi, Shuichi Itahashi:
  Segmentation of spoken dialogue by interjections, disfluent utterances and pauses.
  
• David Goddeau, Helen M. Meng, Joseph Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff, Senis Busayapongchai:
  A form-based dialogue manager for spoken language applications.
  
• Steve Whittaker, David Attwater:
  The design of complex telephony applications using large vocabulary speech technology.
  
• Stephen Sutton, David G. Novick, Ronald A. Cole, Pieter J. E. Vermeulen, Jacques de Villiers, Johan Schalkwyk, Mark A. Fanty:
  Building 10, 000 spoken dialogue systems.
  
• Yen-Ju Yang, Lee-Feng Chien, Lin-Shan Lee:
  Speaker intention modeling for large vocabulary Mandarin spoken dialogues.
  
• P. E. Kenne, Mary O'Kane:
  Hybrid language models and spontaneous legal discourse.
  
• P. E. Kenne, Mary O'Kane:
  Topic change and local perplexity in spoken legal dialogue.
  
• Jennifer J. Venditti, Marc Swerts:
  Intonational cues to discourse structure in Japanese.
  
• Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkjær, Laila Dybkjær:
  Principles for the design of cooperative spoken human-machine dialogue.
  
• Karen L. Jenkin, Michael S. Scordilis:
  Development and comparison of three syllable stress classifiers.
  

Speech Disorders

• Donald G. Jamieson, Li Deng, M. Price, Vijay Parsa, J. Till:
  Interaction of speech disorders with speech coders: effects on speech intelligibility.
  
• Maurílio Nunes Vieira, Arnold G. D. Maran, Fergus R. McInnes, Mervyn A. Jack:
  Detecting arytenoid cartilage misplacement through acoustic and electroglottographic jitter analysis.
  
• Maurílio Nunes Vieira, Fergus R. McInnes, Mervyn A. Jack:
  Robust F0 and jitter estimation in pathological voices.
  
• F. Plante, H. Kessler, Barry M. G. Cheetham, J. Earis:
  Speech monitoring of infective laryngitis.
  
• Jean Schoentgen, Raoul De Guchteneere:
  Searching for nonlinear relations in whitened jitter time series.
  
• Liliana Gavidia-Ceballos, John H. L. Hansen, James F. Kaiser:
  Vocal fold pathology assessment using AM autocorrelation analysis of the teager energy operator.
  
• David P. Kuehn:
  Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in the treatment of hypernasality.
  
• Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Venkatesh R. Chari, Caroline B. Huang:
  Enhancement of alaryngeal speech by adaptive filtering.
  
• Li Deng, Xuemin Shen, Donald G. Jamieson, J. Till:
  Simulation of disordered speech using a frequency-domain vocal tract model.
  
• Yasuo Endo, Hideki Kasuya:
  A stochastic model of fundamental period perturbation and its application to perception of pathological voice quality.
  
• Eric J. Wallen, John H. L. Hansen:
  A screening test for speech pathology assessment using objective quality measures.
  
• Douglas A. Cairns, John H. L. Hansen, James F. Kaiser:
  Recent advances in hypernasal speech detection using the nonlinear teager energy operator.
  

Vocal Tract Geometry

• Kiyoshi Honda, Shinji Maeda, Michiko Hashi, Jim Dembowski, John R. Westbury:
  Human palate and related structures: their articulatory consequences.
  
• Edward P. Davis, Andrew Douglas, Maureen C. Stone:
  A continuum mechanics representation of tongue deformation.
  
• Philbert Bangayan, Abeer Alwan, Shrikanth Narayanan:
  From MRI and acoustic data to articulatory synthesis: a case study of the lateral approximants in american English.
  
• Shrikanth Narayanan, Abigail Kaun, Dani Byrd, Peter Ladefoged, Abeer Alwan:
  Liquids in tamil.
  
• Chang-Sheng Yang, Hideki Kasuya:
  Speaker individualities of vocal tract shapes of Japanese vowels measured by magnetic resonance images.
  
• S. El-Masri, Xavier Pelorson, P. Saguet, Pierre Badin:
  Vocal tract acoustics using the transmission line matrix (TLM) method.
  
• Gérard Bailly:
  Building sensori-motor prototypes from audiovisual exemplars.
  
• Mats Båvegård, Gunnar Fant:
  Parameterized VT area function inversion.
  
• Jianwu Dang, Kiyoshi Honda:
  An improved vocal tract model of vowel production implementing piriform resonance and transvelar nasal coupling.
  
• C. S. Blackburn, Steve J. Young:
  Pseudo-articulatory speech synthesis for recognition using automatic feature extraction from x-ray data.
  

Prosody in ASR and Segmentation

• Sharon L. Oviatt, Gina-Anne Levow, Margaret MacEachern, Karen Kuhn:
  Modeling hyperarticulate speech during human-computer error resolution.
  
• Siripong Potisuk, Mary P. Harper, Jackson T. Gandour:
  Using stress to disambiguate spoken Thai sentences containing syntactic ambiguity.
  
• Hung-yun Hsieh, Ren-Yuan Lyu, Lin-Shan Lee:
  Use of prosodic information to integrate acoustic and linguistic knowledge in continuous Mandarin speech recognition with very large vocabulary.
  
• G. V. Ramana Rao, J. Srichand:
  Word boundary detection using pitch variations.
  
• Atsuhiro Sakurai, Keikichi Hirose:
  Detection of phrase boundaries in Japanese by low-pass filtering of fundamental frequency contours.
  
• Vincent Pagel, Noelle Carbonell, Yves Laprie:
  A new method for speech delexicalization, and its application to the perception of French prosody.
  

Acquisition and Learning by Machine

• Udo Bub:
  Task adaptation for dialogues via telephone lines.
  
• Ronald A. Cole, Yonghong Yan, Troy Bailey:
  The influence of bigram constraints on word recognition by humans: implications for computer speech recognition.
  
• Tetsunori Kobayashi:
  ALICE: acquisition of language in conversational environment - an approach to weakly supervised training of spoken language system for language porting.
  
• Takashi Yoshimura, Satoru Hayamizu, Hiroshi Ohmura, Kazuyo Tanaka:
  Pitch pattern clustering of user utterances in human-machine dialogue.
  
• Juan-Carlos Amengual, Enrique Vidal, José-Miguel Benedí:
  Simplifying language through error-correcting decoding.
  
• Mauro Cettolo, Anna Corazza, Renato de Mori:
  A mixed approach to speech understanding.
  

Dialogue Systems

• Jean-Luc Gauvain, J. J. Gangolf, Lori Lamel:
  Speech recognition for an information kiosk.
  
• Helmer Strik, Albert Russel, Henk van den Heuvel, Catia Cucchiarini, Lou Boves:
  Localizing an automatic inquiry system for public transport information.
  
• Stephen M. Marcus, Deborah W. Brown, Randy G. Goldberg, Max S. Schoeffler, William R. Wetzel, Richard R. Rosinski:
  Prompt constrained natural language - evolving the next generation of telephony services.
  
• Tatsuya Kawahara, Chin-Hui Lee, Biing-Hwang Juang:
  Key-phrase detection and verification for flexible speech understanding.
  
• Bernhard Suhm, Brad A. Myers, Alex Waibel:
  Interactive recovery from speech recognition errors in speech user interfaces.
  
• Sunil Issar:
  Estimation of language models for new spoken language applications.
  

Speech Enhancement and Robust Processing

• Xuemin Shen, Li Deng, Anisa Yasmin:
  H-infinity filtering for speech enhancement.
  
• Saeed Vaseghi, Ben P. Milner:
  A comparitive analysis of channel-robust features and channel equalization methods for speech recognition.
  
• Jia-Lin Shen, Wen-Liang Hwang, Lin-Shan Lee:
  Robust speech recognition features based on temporal trajectory filtering of frequency band spectrum.
  
• Kevin Power:
  Durational modelling for improved connected digit recognition.
  
• Carlos Avendaño, Hynek Hermansky:
  Study on the dereverberation of speech based on temporal envelope filtering.
  
• Thorsten Brants:
  Estimating Markov model structures.
  
• Eric K. Ringger, James F. Allen:
  A fertility channel model for post-correction of continuous speech recognition.
  
• Hiroshi Yasukawa:
  Restoration of wide band signal from telephone speech using linear prediction error processing.
  
• Hiroshi Matsumoto, Noboru Naitoh:
  Smoothed spectral subtraction for a frequency-weighted HMM in noisy speech recognition.
  
• William S. Woods, Martin Hansen, Thomas Wittkop, Birger Kollmeier:
  A simple architecture for using multiple cues in sound separation.
  
• Bojan Petek, Ove Andersen, Paul Dalsgaard:
  On the robust automatic segmentation of spontaneous speech.
  
• C. G. Miglietta, Chafic Mokbel, Denis Jouvet, Jean Monné:
  Bayesian adaptation of speech recognizers to field speech data.
  
• A. J. Darlington, D. J. Campbell:
  Sub-band adaptive filtering applied to speech enhancement.
  
• J. P. Openshaw, John S. Mason:
  Noise robust estimate of speech dynamics for speaker recognition.
  
• Javier Ortega-Garcia, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez:
  Overview of speech enhancement techniques for automatic speaker recognition.
  
• Naomi Harte, Saeed Vaseghi, Ben P. Milner:
  Dynamic features for segmental speech recognition.
  
• Takuya Koizumi, Mikio Mori, Shuji Taniguchi:
  Speech recognition based on a model of human auditory system.
  
• Josep M. Salavedra, Enrique Masgrau:
  APVQ encoder applied to wideband speech coding.
  
• Jin Zhou, Yair Shoham, Ali N. Akansu:
  Simple fast vector quantization of the line spectral frequencies.
  

Speaker Adaptation and Normalization I

• Tomoko Matsui, Sadaoki Furui:
  N-best-based instantaneous speaker adaptation method for speech recognition.
  
• Claude Montacié, Marie-José Caraty, Claude Barras:
  Mixture splitting technic and temporal control in a HMM-based recognition system.
  
• Lei Yao, Dong Yu, Taiyi Huang:
  A unified spectral transformation adaptation approach for robust speech recognition.
  
• Qiang Huo, Chin-Hui Lee:
  On-line adaptive learning of the correlated continuous density hidden Markov models for speech recognition.
  
• Nikko Ström:
  Speaker adaptation by modeling the speaker variation in a continuous speech recognition system.
  
• Yasuo Ariki, Shigeaki Tagashira:
  An enquiring system of unknown words in TV news by spontaneous repetition (application of speaker normalization by speaker subspace projection).
  
• Jin-Song Zhang, Beiqian Dai, Changfu Wang, HingKeung Kwan, Keikichi Hirose:
  Adaptive recognition method based on posterior use of distribution pattern of output probabilities.
  
• Philip C. Woodland, D. Pye, M. J. F. Gales:
  Iterative unsupervised adaptation using maximum likelihood linear regression.
  
• Tasos Anastasakos, John W. McDonough, Richard M. Schwartz, John Makhoul:
  A compact model for speaker-adaptive training.
  
• Shigeru Homma, Jun-ichi Takahashi, Shigeki Sagayama:
  Iterative unsupervised speaker adaptation for batch dictation.
  
• Daniel C. Burnett, Mark A. Fanty:
  Rapid unsupervised adaptation to children's speech on a connected-digit task.
  
• Jun Ishii, Masahiro Tonomura, Shoichi Matsunaga:
  Speaker adaptation using tree structured shared-state HMMs.
  

Spoken Language and NLP

• Richard M. Schwartz, Scott Miller, David Stallard, John Makhoul:
  Language understanding using hidden understanding models.
  
• Allen L. Gorin:
  Processing of semantic information in fluently spoken language.
  
• Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg:
  Automatic linguistic segmentation of conversational speech.
  
• Manuela Boros, Wieland Eckert, Florian Gallwitz, Günther Görz, Gerhard Hanrieder, Heinrich Niemann:
  Towards understanding spontaneous speech: word accuracy vs. concept accuracy.
  
• Wolfgang Minker, Samir Bennacef, Jean-Luc Gauvain:
  A stochastic case frame approach for natural language understanding.
  
• Frank Seide, Bernhard Rueber, Andreas Kellner:
  Improving speech understanding by incorporating database constraints and dialogue history.
  
• Finn Dag Buø, Alex Waibel:
  Learning to parse spontaneous speech.
  
• Jean-Yves Antoine:
  Spontaneous speech and natural language processing ALPES: a robust semantic-led parser.
  
• J. Alvarez-Cercadillo, F. Javier Caminero-Gil, C. Crespo-Casas, Daniel Tapias Merino:
  The natural language processing module for a voice assisted operator at telef nica i+D.
  
• André Berton, Pablo Fetter, Peter Regel-Brietzmann:
  Compound words in large-vocabulary German speech recognition systems.
  
• Anton Batliner, Anke Feldhaus, Stefan Geißler, Tibor Kiss, Ralf Kompe, Elmar Nöth:
  Prosody, empty categories and parsing - a success story.
  
• B. Srinivas:
  "almost parsing" technique for language modeling.
  

Spoken Discourse Analysis/Synthesis

• Tetsuro Chino, Hiroyuki Tsuboi:
  A new discourse structure model for spontaneous spoken dialogue.
  
• David Duff, Barbara Gates, Susann LuperFoy:
  An architecture for spoken dialogue management.
  
• Monique E. van Donzel, Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum:
  Pausing strategies in discourse in dutch.
  
• Marc Swerts, Anne Wichmann, Robbert-Jan Beun:
  Filled pauses as markers of discourse structure.
  
• Cheol-jae Seong, Minsoo Hahn:
  The prosodic analysis of Korean dialogue speech - through a comparative study with read speech.
  
• Mary O'Kane, P. E. Kenne:
  Changing the topic: how long does it take?
  

Acoustic Modeling

• Christian-Michael Westendorf, Jens Jelitto:
  Learning pronunciation dictionary from speech data.
  
• C. Rathinavelu, Li Deng:
  The trended HMM with discriminative training for phonetic classification.
  
• Ariane Lazaridès, Yves Normandin, Roland Kuhn:
  Improving decision trees for acoustic modeling.
  
• Gongjun Li, Taiyi Huang:
  An improved training algorithm in HMM-based speech recognition.
  
• Ji Ming, Peter O'Boyle, John G. McMahon, F. Jack Smith:
  Speech recognition using a strong correlation assumption for the instantaneous spectra.
  
• Pau Pachès-Leal, Climent Nadeu:
  On parameter filtering in continuous subword-unit-based speech recognition.
  
• Shigeki Okawa, Katsuhiko Shirai:
  Estimation of statistical phoneme center considering phonemic environments.
  
• Xue Wang, Louis ten Bosch, Louis C. W. Pols:
  Integration of context-dependent durational knowledge into HMM-based speech recognition.
  
• Toshiaki Fukada, Michiel Bacchiani, Kuldip K. Paliwal, Yoshinori Sagisaka:
  Speech recognition based on acoustically derived segment units.
  
• Rivarol Vergin, Azarshid Farhat, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy:
  Robust gender-dependent acoustic-phonetic modelling in continuous speech recognition based on a new automatic male/female classification.
  
• Tae-Young Yang, Won-Ho Shin, Weon-Goo Kim, Dae Hee Youn:
  A codebook adaptation algorithm for SCHMM using formant distribution.
  
• Jacques Simonin, S. Bodin, Denis Jouvet, Katarina Bartkova:
  Parameter tying for flexible speech recognition.
  
• Tsuneo Nitta, Shin'ichi Tanaka, Yasuyuki Masai, Hiroshi Matsuura:
  Word-spotting based on inter-word and intra-word diphone models.
  
• Antonio Bonafonte, Josep Vidal, Albino Nogueiras:
  Duration modeling with expanded HMM applied to speech recognition.
  
• Ricardo de Córdoba, José Manuel Pardo:
  Different strategies for distribution clustering using discrete, semicontinuous and continuous HMMs in CSR.
  
• Ilija Zeljkovic, Shrikanth Narayanan:
  Improved HMM phone and triphone models for realtime ASR telephony applications.
  
• Yasuhiro Minami, Sadaoki Furui:
  Improved extended HMM composition by incorporating power variance.
  
• Gordon Ramsay, Li Deng:
  Optimal filtering and smoothing for speech recognition using a stochastic target model.
  
• Zhihong Hu, Johan Schalkwyk, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole:
  Speech recognition using syllable-like units.
  
• Jean-Claude Junqua, Lorenzo Vassallo:
  Context modeling and clustering in continuous speech recognition.
  
• Li Deng, Jim Jian-Xiong Wu:
  Hierarchical partition of the articulatory state space for overlapping-feature based speech recognition.
  
• Olivier Oppizzi, David Fournier, Philippe Gilles, Henri Meloni:
  A fuzzy acoustic-phonetic decoder for speech recognition.
  
• Katrin Kirchhoff:
  Syllable-level desynchronisation of phonetic features for speech recognition.
  
• James R. Glass, Jane W. Chang, Michael K. McCandless:
  A probabilistic framework for feature-based speech recognition.
  
• Jim Jian-Xiong Wu, Li Deng, Jacky Chan:
  Modeling context-dependent phonetic units in a continuous speech recognition system for Mandarin Chinese.
  

Physics and Simulation of the Vocal Tract

• Cecil H. Coker, M. H. Krane, B. Y. Reis, R. A. Kubli:
  Search for unexplored effects in speech production.
  
• Pierre Badin, Christian Abry:
  Articulatory synthesis from x-rays and inversion for an adaptive speech robot.
  
• Hisayoshi Suzuki, Takayoshi Nakai, Hiroshi Sakakibara:
  Analysis of acoustic properties of the nasal tract using 3-d FEM.
  
• Johan Liljencrants:
  Experiments with analysis by synthesis of glottal airflow.
  

Duration and Rhythm

• Marise Ouellet, Benoît Tardif:
  From segmental duration properties to rhythmic structure: a study of interactions between high and low level.
  
• Xue Wang, Louis C. W. Pols, Louis ten Bosch:
  Analysis of context-dependent segmental duration for automatic speech recognition.
  
• Delphine Dahan:
  The role of the rhythmic groups in the segmentation of continuous French speech.
  
• Zita McRobbie-Utasi:
  The implications of temporal patterns for the prosody of boundary signaling in connected speech.
  
• Hyunbok Lee, Cheol-jae Seong:
  Experimental phonetic study of the syllable duration of Korean with respect to the positional effect.
  
• Dik J. Hermes:
  Timing of pitch movements and accentuation of syllables.
  

Acoustic Analysis

• Goangshiuan S. Ying, Leah H. Jamieson, Carl D. Mitchell:
  A probabilistic approach to AMDF pitch detection.
  
• Alain Soquet, Véronique Lecuit, Thierry Metens, Didier Demolin:
  From sagittal cut to area function: an RMI investigation.
  
• Léonard Janer, Juan José Bonet, Eduardo Lleida-Solano:
  Pitch detection and voiced/unvoiced decision algorithm based on wavelet transforms.
  
• Yannis Stylianou:
  Decomposition of speech signals into a deterministic and a stochastic part.
  
• Cheol-Woo Jo, Ho-Gyun Bang, William A. Ainsworth:
  Improved glottal closure instant detector based on linear prediction and standard pitch concept.
  
• Xihong Wang, Stephen A. Zahorian, Stefan Auberg:
  Analysis of speech segments using variable spectral/temporal resolution.
  
• Brian Eberman, William Goldenthal:
  Time-based clustering for phonetic segmentation.
  
• Parham Zolfaghari, Tony Robinson:
  Formant analysis using mixtures of Gaussians.
  
• Hywel B. Richards, John S. Mason, Melvyn J. Hunt, John S. Bridle:
  Deriving articulatory representations from speech with various excitation modes.
  
• Manish Sharma, Richard J. Mammone:
  "blind" speech segmentation: automatic segmentation of speech without linguistic knowledge.
  
• Hiroshi Ohmura, Kazuyo Tanaka:
  Speech synthesis using a nonlinear energy damping model for the vocal folds vibration effect.
  
• Munehiro Namba, Hiroyuki Kamata, Yoshihisa Ishida:
  Neural networks learning with L1 criteria and its efficiency in linear prediction of speech signals.
  
• Anna Esposito, Eugène C. Ezin, M. Ceccarelli:
  Preprocessing and neural classification of English stop consonants [b, d, g, p, t, k].
  
• K. S. Ananthakrishnan:
  A comparison of modified k-means(MKM) and NN based real time adaptive clustering algorithms for articulatory space codebook formation.
  
• Wen Ding, Hideki Kasuya:
  A novel approach to the estimation of voice source and vocal tract parameters from speech signals.
  
• Hartmut R. Pfitzinger, Susanne Burger, Sebastian Heid:
  Syllable detection in read and spontaneous speech.
  
• Kuansan Wang, Chin-Hui Lee, Biing-Hwang Juang:
  Maximum likelihood learning of auditory feature maps for stationary vowels.
  
• Antonio Bonafonte, Albino Nogueiras, Antonio Rodriguez-Garrido:
  Explicit segmentation of speech using Gaussian models.
  
• E. Mousset, William A. Ainsworth, José A. R. Fonollosa:
  A comparison of several recent methods of fundamental frequency and voicing decision estimation.
  
• Toshihiko Abe, Takao Kobayashi, Satoshi Imai:
  Robust pitch estimation with harmonics enhancement in noisy environments based on instantaneous frequency.
  
• Asunción Moreno, Miquel Rutllán:
  Integrated polispectrum on speech recognition.
  

Speech Recognition Using HMMs and NNs

• Joao P. Neto, Ciro Martins, Luís B. Almeida:
  An incremental speaker-adaptation technique for hybrid HMM-MLP recognizer.
  
• Youngjoo Suh, Youngjik Lee:
  Phoneme segmentation of continuous speech using multi-layer perceptron.
  
• Jeff Bilmes, Nelson Morgan, Su-Lin Wu, Hervé Bourlard:
  Stochastic perceptual speech models with durational dependence.
  
• G. D. Cook, Anthony J. Robinson:
  Boosting the performance of connectionist large vocabulary speech recognition.
  
• Nicolas Pican, Dominique Fohr, Jean-François Mari:
  HMMs and OWE neural network for continuous speech recognition.
  
• Steve Waterhouse, Dan J. Kershaw, Tony Robinson:
  Smoothed local adaptation of connectionist systems.
  

Adverse Environments and Multiple Microphones

• Takeshi Yamada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kiyohiro Shikano:
  Robust speech recognition with speaker localization by a microphone array.
  
• Ea-Ee Jan, James L. Flanagan:
  Sound source localization in reverberant environments using an outlier elimination algorithm.
  
• Dan J. Kershaw, Tony Robinson, Steve Renals:
  The 1995 abbot LVCSR system for multiple unknown microphones.
  
• Diego Giuliani, Maurizio Omologo, Piergiorgio Svaizer:
  Experiments of speech recognition in a noisy and reverberant environment using a microphone array and HMM.
  
• Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Javier Ortega-Garcia, César Martin, Luis Hernández:
  Increasing robustness in GMM speaker recognition systems for noisy and reverberant speech with low complexity microphone arrays.
  
• Kuan-Chieh Yen, Yunxin Zhao:
  Robust automatic speech recognition using a multi-channel signal separation front-end.
  

Prosodic Synthesis in Dialogue

• Anders Lindström, Ivan Bretan, Mats Ljungqvist:
  Prosody generation in text-to-speech conversion using dependency graphs.
  
• Hisako Asano, Hisashi Ohara, Yoshifumi Ooyama:
  Extraction method of non-restrictive modification in Japanese as a marked factor of prosody.
  
• Scott Prevost:
  Modeling contrast in the generation and synthesis of spoken language.
  
• Hajime Tsukada:
  A left-to-right processing model of pausing in Japanese based on limited syntactic information.
  
• Dimitrios Galanis, Vassilios Darsinos, George Kokkinakis:
  Modeling of intonation bearing emphasis for TTS-synthesis of greek dialogues.
  
• Barbara Heuft, Thomas Portele:
  Synthesizing prosody: a prominence-based approach.
  

Speech Synthesis

• Richard Sproat:
  Multilingual text analysis for text-to-speech synthesis.
  
• Yoshifumi Ooyama, Hisako Asano, Koji Matsuoka:
  Spoken-style explanation generator for Japanese kanji using a text-to-speech system.
  
• Ken-ichi Magata, Tomoki Hamagami, Mitsuo Komura:
  A method for estimating prosodic symbol from text for Japanese text-to-speech synthesis.
  
• Eduardo López Gonzalo, Jose M. Rodriguez-Garcia:
  Statistical methods in data-driven modeling of Spanish prosody for text to speech.
  
• Jung-Chul Lee, Youngjik Lee, Sanghun Kim, Minsoo Hahn:
  Intonation processing for TTS using stylization and neural network learning method.
  
• Alan W. Black, Andrew Hunt:
  Generating F0 contours from toBI labels using linear regression.
  
• Wern-Jun Wang, Shaw-Hwa Hwang, Sin-Horng Chen:
  The broad study of homograph disambiguity for Mandarin speech synthesis.
  
• Thierry Dutoit, Vincent Pagel, Nicolas Pierret, F. Bataille, Olivier van der Vrecken:
  The MBROLA project: towards a set of high quality speech synthesizers free of use for non commercial purposes.
  
• Makoto Hashimoto, Norio Higuchi:
  Training data selection for voice conversion using speaker selection and vector field smoothing.
  
• Ki-Seung Lee, Dae Hee Youn, Il-Whan Cha:
  A new voice transformation method based on both linear and nonlinear prediction analysis.
  
• Geneviève Baudoin, Yannis Stylianou:
  On the transformation of the speech spectrum for voice conversion.
  
• Cristina Delogu, Andrea Paoloni, Susanna Ragazzini, Paola Ridolfi:
  Spectral analysis of synthetic speech and natural speech with noise over the telephone line.
  
• Weizhong Zhu, Hideki Kasuya:
  A new speech synthesis system based on the ARX speech production model.
  
• Geraldo Lino de Campos, Evandro B. Gouvêa:
  Speech synthesis using the CELP algorithm.
  
• Shaw-Hwa Hwang, Sin-Horng Chen, Yih-Ru Wang:
  A Mandarin text-to-speech system.
  
• Mike D. Edgington, A. Lowry:
  Residual-based speech modification algorithms for text-to-speech synthesis.
  
• Per Olav Heggtveit:
  A generalized LR parser for text-to-speech synthesis.
  
• M. P. Pollard, Barry M. G. Cheetham, C. C. Goodyear, Mike D. Edgington, A. Lowry:
  Enhanced shape-invariant pitch and time-scale modification for concatenative speech synthesis.
  
• Yasuhiko Arai, Ryo Mochizuki, Hirofumi Nishimura, Takashi Honda:
  An excitation synchronous pitch waveform extraction method and its application to the VCV-concatenation synthesis of Japanese spoken words.
  
• Ren-Hua Wang, Qingfeng Liu, Difei Tang:
  A new Chinese text-to-speech system with high naturalness.
  
• Ansgar Rinscheid:
  Voice conversion based on topological feature maps and time-variant filtering.
  

Instructional Technology for Spoken Language

• Yoram Meron, Keikichi Hirose:
  Language training system utilizing speech modification.
  
• Donald G. Jamieson, K. Yu:
  Perception of English /r/ and /l/ speech contrasts by native Korean listeners with extensive English-language experience.
  
• Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Mitchel Weintraub, Patti Price:
  Automatic text-independent pronunciation scoring of foreign language student speech.
  
• Antônio Simoes:
  Assessing the contribution of instructional technology in the teaching of pronunciation.
  
• Maxine Eskenazi:
  Detection of foreign speakers' pronunciation errors for second language training - preliminary results.
  
• Hansjörg Mixdorff:
  Foreign accent in intonation patterns - a contrastive study applying a quantitative model of the F0 contour.
  
• Duncan J. Markham, Yasuko Nagano-Madsen:
  Input modality effects in foreign accent.
  

Multimodal Spoken Language Processing

• Lynne E. Bernstein, Christian Benoît:
  For speech perception by humans or machines, three senses are better than one.
  
• Kaoru Sekiyama, Yoh'ichi Tohkura, Michio Umeda:
  A few factors which affect the degree of incorporating lip-read information into speech perception.
  
• Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, Kevin G. Munhall, Y. Kasahara, Frederique Garcia, Hani Yehia:
  Characterizing audiovisual information during speech.
  
• Charlotte M. Reed:
  The implications of the tadoma method of speechreading for spoken language processing.
  
• Ruth Campbell:
  Seeing speech in space and time: psychological and neurological findings.
  
• Kerry P. Green:
  Studies of the mcgurk effect: implications for theories of speech perception.
  
• N. M. Brooke:
  Using the visual component in automatic speech recognition.
  
• Robert E. Remez:
  Perceptual organization of speech in one and several modalities: common functions, common resources.
  
• David B. Pisoni, Helena M. Saldaña, Sonya M. Sheffert:
  Multi-modal encoding of speech in memory: a first report.
  

Prosody - Phonological/Phonetic Measures

• Volker Strom, Christina Widera:
  What's in the "pure" prosody?
  
• Marc Swerts, Eva Strangert, Mattias Heldner:
  F0 declination in read-aloud and spontaneous speech.
  
• Yeon-Jun Kim, Yung-Hwan Oh:
  Prediction of prosodic phrase boundaries considering variable speaking rate.
  
• Yoichi Yamashita, Riichiro Mizoguchi:
  Prediction of F0 parameter of contextualized utterances in dialogue.
  
• Veronika Makarova, J. Matsui:
  The production and perception of potentially ambiguous intonation contours by speakers of Russian and Japanese.
  
• Robert Eklund:
  What is invariant and what is optional in the realization of a FOCUSED word? a cross-dialectal study of Swedish sentences with moving focus.
  

Phonetics and Perception

• Christine H. Shadle, Sheila J. Mair:
  Quantifying spectral characteristics of fricatives.
  
• Natasha Warner:
  Acoustic characteristics of ejectives in ingush.
  
• R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols:
  An acoustic profile of consonant reduction.
  
• Danièle Archambault, Blagovesta Maneva:
  Devoicing in post-vocalic canadian-French obstruants.
  
• Alexander L. Francis, Howard C. Nusbaum:
  Paying attention to speaking rate.
  
• Irene Appelbaum:
  The lack of invariance problem and the goal of speech perception.
  

Language Acquisition

• Jean E. Andruski, Patricia K. Kuhl:
  The acoustic structure of vowels in mothers' speech to infants and adults.
  
• Chris J. Clement, Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum, Louis C. W. Pols:
  Acoustical characteristics of sound production of deaf and normally hearing infants.
  
• John Kingston, Christine Bartels, José Benkí, Deanna Moore, Jeremy Rice, Rachel Thorburn, Neil Macmillan:
  Learning non-native vowel categories.
  
• Pierre A. Hallé, Toshisada Deguchi, Yuji Tamekawa, Benedicte de Boysson-Bardies, Shigeru Kiritani:
  Word recognition by Japanese infants.
  
• Peter W. Jusczyk:
  Investigations of the word segmentation abilities of infants.
  
• Akiko Hayashi, Yuji Tamekawa, Toshisada Deguchi, Shigeru Kiritani:
  Developmental change in perception of clause boundaries by 6- and 10-month-old Japanese infants.
  

Production and Prosody Posters

• Paavo Alku, Erkki Vilkman:
  A frequency domain method for parametrization of the voice source.
  
• Krzysztof Marasek:
  Glottal correlates of the word stress and the tense/lax opposition in German.
  
• Suzanne Boyce, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson:
  Coarticulatory stability in american English /r/.
  
• Shinobu Masaki, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Mark K. Tiede, Yasuhiro Shimada, Ichiro Fujimoto:
  An MRI-based analysis of the English /r/ and /l/ articulations.
  
• David van Kuijk:
  Does lexical stress or metrical stress better predict word boundaries in Dutch?
  
• Alan Wrench, Alan D. McIntosh, William J. Hardcastle:
  Optopalatograph (OPG): a new apparatus for speech production analysis.
  
• René Carré:
  Prediction of vowel systems using a deductive approach.
  
• Sheila J. Mair, Celia Scully, Christine H. Shadle:
  Distinctions between [t] and [tch] using electropalatography data.
  
• Michiko Hashi, Raymond D. Kent, John R. Westbury, Mary J. Lindstrom:
  Relating formants and articulation in intelligibility test words.
  
• Imad Znagui, Mohamed Yeou:
  The role of coarticulation in the perception of vowel quality in modern standard Arabic.
  
• Simon Arnfield, Wilf Jones:
  Updating the reading EPG.
  
• Goangshiuan S. Ying, Leah H. Jamieson, Ruxin Chen, Carl D. Mitchell:
  Lexical stress detection on stress-minimal word pairs.
  
• Jing Wang:
  An acoustic study of the interaction between stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken Mandarin.
  
• Nobuaki Minematsu, Seiichi Nakagawa:
  Automatic detection of accent nuclei at the head of words for speech recognition.
  
• Fu-Chiang Chou, Chiu-yu Tseng, Lin-Shan Lee:
  Automatic generation of prosodic structure for high quality Mandarin speech synthesis.
  
• Tomoki Hamagami, Ken-ichi Magata, Mitsuo Komura:
  A study on Japanese prosodic pattern and its modeling in restricted speech.
  
• Steve Hoskins:
  A phonetic study of focus in intransitive verb sentences.
  
• Stefan Rapp:
  Goethe for prosody.
  
• K. A. Straub:
  Prosodic cues in syntactically ambiguous strings; an interactive speech planning mechanism.
  
• Jinfu Ni, Ren-Hua Wang, Deyu Xia:
  A functional model for generation of the local components of F0 contours in Chinese.
  
• Marie Fellbaum:
  The acquisition of voiceless stops in the interlanguage of second language learners of English and Spanish.