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INTERSPEECH
2010
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Phrase-medial vowel devoicing in spontaneous French
This study investigates phrase-medial vowel devoicing in European French (e.g. /ty p
Francisco Torreira, Mirjam Ernestus
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Audio-visual anticipatory coarticulation modeling by human and machine
The phenomenon of anticipatory coarticulation provides a basis for the observed asynchrony between the acoustic and visual onsets of phones in certain linguistic contexts. This ty...
Louis H. Terry, Karen Livescu, Janet B. Pierrehumb...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Improved language recognition using mixture components statistics
One successful approach to language recognition is to focus on the most discriminative high level features of languages, such as phones and words. In this paper, we applied a simi...
Abualsoud Hanani, Michael J. Carey 0002, Martin J....
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Articulatory-functional modeling of speech prosody: a review
Natural prosody is produced by an articulatory system to convey communicative meanings. It is therefore desirable for prosody modeling to represent both articulatory mechanisms an...
Yi Xu, Santitham Prom-on
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Detecting Politeness and efficiency in a cooperative social interaction
We developed a cooperative time-sensitive task to study vocal expression of politeness and efficiency. Sixteen dyads completed 20 trials of the `Maze Task', where one partici...
Paul M. Brunet, Marcela Charfuelan, Roderick Cowie...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Extending the punctuation module for european portuguese
This paper describes our recent work on extending the punctuation module of automatic subtitles for Portuguese Broadcast News. The main improvement was achieved by the use of pros...
Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, H...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
A spectral LF model based approach to voice source parameterisation
This paper presents a new method of extracting LF model based parameters using a spectral model matching approach. Strategies are described for overcoming some of the known diffic...
John Kane, Mark Kane, Christer Gobl
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Analyzing user utterances in barge-in-able spoken dialogue system for improving identification accuracy
In our barge-in-able spoken dialogue system, the user's behaviors such as barge-in timing and utterance expressions vary according to his/her characteristics and situations. ...
Kyoko Matsuyama, Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda, To...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
SAFE: a statistical algorithm for F0 estimation for both clean and noisy speech
A novel Statistical Approach for F0 Estimation, SAFE, is proposed to improve the accuracy of F0 tracking under both clean and additive noise conditions. Prominent Signal-to-Noise ...
Wei Chu, Abeer Alwan
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Relying on critical articulators to estimate vocal tract spectra in an articulatory-acoustic database
We present a new phone-dependent feature weighting scheme that can be used to map articulatory configurations (e.g. EMA) onto vocal tract spectra (e.g. MFCC) through table lookup....
Daniel Felps, Christian Geng, Michael Berger, Kori...