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INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
Similarity of effects of emotions on the speech organ configuration with and without speaking
In this work we propose and verify a hypothesis on emotional speech production: emotions induce physical and physiological changes in the whole body including changes in the confi...
Tatsuya Kitamura
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
Phone mismatch penalty matrices for two-stage keyword spotting via multi-pass phone recognizer
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to estimate three types of phone mismatch penalty matrices for two-state keyword spotting. When the output of a phone recognizer is give...
Chang Woo Han, Shin Jae Kang, Chul Min Lee, Nam So...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
Investigating articulatory setting - pauses, ready position, and rest - using real-time MRI
We present a novel automatic procedure to analyze articulatory setting (AS) or basis of articulation using realtime magnetic resonance images (rt-MRI) of the human vocal tract rec...
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, ...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
Combining user intention and error modeling for statistical dialog simulators
Statistical user simulation is an efficient and effective way to train and evaluate the performance of a (spoken) dialog system. In this paper, we design and evaluate a modular da...
Silvia Quarteroni, Meritxell González, Gius...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
Kinematic analysis of tongue movement control in spastic dysarthria
This study provided a quantitative analysis of the kinematic deviances in dysarthria associated with spastic cerebral palsy. Of particular interest were tongue tip movements durin...
Heejin Kim, Panying Rong, Torrey M. Loucks, Mark H...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
Augmented set of features for confidence estimation in spoken term detection
Discriminative confidence estimation along with confidence normalisation have been shown to construct robust decision maker modules in spoken term detection (STD) systems. Discrim...
Javier Tejedor, Doroteo Torre Toledano, Miguel Bau...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
A procedure for estimating gestural scores from natural speech
Hosung Nam, Vikramjit Mitra, Mark Tiede, Elliot Sa...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
Semi-automated update of automatic transcription system for the Japanese national congress
Update of acoustic and language models is vital to maintain performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To alleviate efforts for updating models, we propose a "...
Yuya Akita, Masato Mimura, Graham Neubig, Tatsuya ...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
Competition in the perception of spoken Japanese words
Japanese listeners detected Japanese words embedded at the end of nonsense sequences (e.g., kaba 'hippopotamus' in gyachikaba). When the final portion of the preceding c...
Takashi Otake, James M. McQueen, Anne Cutler
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 3 days ago
Exploring the mechanism of tonal contraction in taiwan Mandarin
This study investigates the mechanism of tonal contraction when a disyllabic unit is merged into a monosyllable at fast speech rate in Taiwan Mandarin. Various degrees of contract...
Chierh Cheng, Yi Xu, Michele Gubian