Proceedings
October 3-6, 1996Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel
Philadelphia, PA, USA
ICSLP 96
y,xSponsored by
University of DelawareAlfred I. duPont Institute
in conjunction withAcoustical Society of America
Acoustical Society of JapanAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Australian Speech Science and Technology AssociationEuropean Speech Communication Association
IEEE Signal Processing SocietyIncorporated Canadian Acoustical Association
International Phonetic AssociationLinguistic Society of America
UB/TIB Hannover116 238 925
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Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
502 Improved Probability Estimation with Neural NetworkModelsWei Wei, Erienne Barnard, Mark Fanty
506 A Neural Network Using Acoustic Sub-word Units forContinuous Speech RecognitionHa-Jin Yu, Yung-Hwan Oh
510 On the Error Criteria in Neural Networks as a Tool forHuman Classification ModellingLouis F. M. ten Bosch, Roel Smits
514 A Non-linear Hltering Approach to Stochastic Trainingof the Articulatory-acoustic Mapping Using the EMAlgorithmGordon Ramsay
518 A Tool for Automated Design of Language ModelsY.P. Yang, J.R. Deller Jr.
522 Acoustic-phonetic Decoding Based on Elman PredictiveNeural NetworksF. Freitag, E. Monte
526 On Improving Discrimination Capability of an RNNBased RecognizerTan Lee, P.C. Ching
530 An Evaluation of Statistical Language Modeling forSpeech Recognition using a Mixed Category of BothWords and Parts-of-speechYumi Wakita, Jun Kawai, Hitoshi lida
554 Dialogue Processing in a Conversational SpeechTranslation SystemAlon Lavie, Lori Levin, Yan Qu, Alex Waibel, DonnaGates, Marsal Gavalda, Laura Mayfield, Maite Taboada
534 A Dialogue Control Strategy Based on the Reliability ofSpeech RecognitionYasuhisa Niimi, Yutaka Kobayashi
538 Speech Wear: A Mobile Speech SystemAlexander I. Rudnicky, Stephen Reed, Eric H. Thayer
542 WHEELS: A Conversational System in the AutomobileClassifieds DomainHelen Meng, Senis Busayapongchai, James Glass,David Goddeau, Lee Hetherington, Edward Hurley,Christine Pao, Joseph Polifroni, Stephanie Seneff,Victor Zue
546 Effective Human-computer Cooperative SpokenDialogue: The AGS DemonstratorM.D. Sadek, A. Ferrieux, A. Cozannet, P. Bretier, F.Panaget, J. Simonin
550 Dialog in the RAILTEL Telephone-based SystemS.K. Bennacef, L. Devillers, 5. Rosset, Lori Lame I
558 Novel Speech Processing Mechanism Denved fromAuditory Neocortical Circuit AnalysisBoris Aleksandrovsky, James Whitson, Gretchen Andes,Gary Lynch, Richard Granger
562 Modeling Neurons in the Anteroventral CochlearNucleus for Amplitude Modulation (AM) Processing:Application to Speech SoundPing Tang, Jean Rouat
566 Noise Suppression and Loudness Normalization in anAuditory Model-based Acoustic Front-endHalewijn Vereecken, Jean-Pierre Martens
570 A Psychoacousnc Model for the Noise Masking ofVoiceless Plosive BurstsJim Hant, Brian Strope, AbeerAlwan
574 Training Machine Classifiers to Match the Performanceof Human Listeners in a Natural Vowel ClassificationTaskMartin Hunke, Thomas Holton
578 A Neural Matrix Model for Active Tracking ofFrequency-modulated TonesKiyoaki Aikawa, Hideki Kawahara, Minoru Tsuzaki
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FrAlLl - Utterance Verification and Word Spotting
582 A User-Configurable System for Voice LabelRecognitionRichard C. Rose, Eduardo Ueida, G.W. Erhart, R.V.Grubbe
586 Keyword Spotting Enhancement for Video SoundtrackIndexingPhilippe Gelin, Chris. J. Wellekens
590 New Efficient Fillers for Unlimited Word Recognitionand Keyword SpottingRachida El Meliani, Douglas O'Shaughnessy
594 Automatic Transcription of General Audio Data:Preliminary AnalysesMichelle S. Spina, Victor Zue
598 Transcribing Radio NewsFrancis Kubala, Tasos Anastasakos, Hubert Jin, LongNguyen, Richard Schwartz
602 Correcting Recognition Errors via DiscriminativeUtterance VerificationAnand R. Setiur, Rafid A. Sukkar, John Jacob
650 Modeling Intra-Speaker Pitch Range Variation:Predicting F0 Targets when "Speaking Up"Elizabeth Shriberg, D. Robert Ladd, Jacques Terken
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606 Does Training in Speech Perception Modify SpeechProduction?Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Yoh'ichi Tohkura, Ann R.Bradlow, David B. Pisoni
610 Phrase-Final Lengthening and Stress-Timed Shorteningin the Speech of Native Speakers and Japanese Learnersof EnglishMotoko Ueyama
614 Japanese Accentuations by Foreign Students andJapanese Speakers of Non-Tokyo DialectNobuko Yamada
618 Devoicing of Japanese Vowels by Taiwanese Learners ofJapaneseJ. Kevin Varden, Tsutomu Sato
622 Fluency and Use of Segmental Dialect Features in theAcquisition of a Second Language (French) by EnglishSpeakersDaniele Archambault, Catherine Foucher, BlagovestaManeva
626 Estimating Child and Adolescent Formant FrequencyValues From Adult DataP. Martland, S.P. Whiteside, Steve W. Beet, L Baghai-Ravary
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630 Acoustic Correlates of Linguistic Stress and Accent inDutch and American EnglishAgaath M.C. Sluijter, Vincent J. van Heuven
634 On the Levels of Accentuation in Spoken JapaneseHiroya FujisoM, Sumio Ohno, Osamu Tomita
638 Tonal Distinctions Between Emphatic Stress andPretonic Lengthening in Quebec FrenchLinda Thibault, Marise Ouellet
642 Distinction Between "Normal' Focus and'Contrastive/Emphatic' FocusAnja (Petzold) Eisner
646 Perception of Tonal Accent by Americans LearningJapaneseYuhhiro Nishinuma, Masako Arai, Takako Ayusawa
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654 Predicting Dialogue Acts for a Speech-To-SpeechTranslation SystemNorbert Reithinger, RalfEngel, Michael Kipp, MartinKlesen
658 Automatic Speech Translation Based on the SemanticStructureJohannes Midler, Holger Stahl, Manfred Lang
662 A Methodology for Application Development forSpoken Language SystemsLewisM. Norton, CarlE. Weir, K.W. Scholz, DeborahA. Dahl Ahmed Bound
665 A New Restaurant Guide Conversational System: Issuesin Rapid Prototyping for Specialized DomainsStephanie Seneff, Joseph Polifroni
669 Semantic Interpretation of a Japanese Complex Sentencein an Advisory Dialogue - Focused on the PostpositionalWord "KEDO," Which Works as a Conjunction BetweenClausesTadahiko Kumamoto, Akira ho
673 A Korean Morphological Analyzer for SpeechTranslation SystemYoungkuk Hong, Myoung-Wan Koo, Gijoo Yang
GTT Generic and Domain-specific Aspects of the WaxholmNLP and Dialog ModulesRolf Carlson, Sheri Hunnicutt
681 A Real-Time System for Summarizing Human-HumanSpontaneous Spoken DialoguesMegumi Kameyama, Goh Kawai, Isao Arima
685 Evaluation of Spoken Language Understanding andDialogue SystemsBemd Hildebrandt, Heike Rautenstrauch, GerhardSagerer
689 Inter-Speaker Interaction of F0 in DialogsKunikoKakita
693 A Robust Dialogue System for Making an AppointmentHans Brandt-Pook, GemotA. Fink, Bemd Hildebrandt,Franz Kummert, Gerhard Sagerer
697 Segmentation of Spoken Dialogue by Interjections,Disfluent Utterances and PausesKazuyuki Takagi, Shuichi hahashi
701 A Form-Based Dialogue Manager for Spoken LanguageApplicationsDavid Goddeau, Helen Meng, Joe Polifroni, StephanieSeneff, Senis Busayapongchai
705 The Design of Complex Telephony Applications UsingLarge Vocabulary Speech TechnologyS.J. Whittaker, D.J. Attwater
709 Building 10,000 Spoken Dialogue SystemsStephen Sutton, David G. Novick, Ronald A. Cole, PieterVermeulen, Jacques de Villiers, Johan Schalkwyk, MarkFanty
713 Speaker Intention Modeling for Large VocabularyMandarin Spoken DialoguesYen-Ju Yang, Lee-Feng Chien, Lin-Shan Lee
717 Hybrid Language Models and Spontaneous LegalDiscourseP.E. Kenne, Mary O'Kane
721 Topic Change and Local Perplexity in Spoken LegalDialogueP.E. Kenne, Mary O'Kane
725 Intonational Cues to Discourse Structure in JapaneseJennifer J. Venditti, Marc Swerts
729 Principles for the Design of Cooperative Spoken Human-Machine DialogueNiels Ole Bemsen, Hans Dybkjcer, Laila Dybkjcer
733 Development and Comparison of Three Syllable StressClassifiersKaren L Jenkin, Michael S. Scordilis
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737 Interaction of Speech Disorders with Speech Coders-Effects on Speech IntelligibilityD.G. Jamieson, Li Deng, M. Price^Vijay Parsa, J. Till
741 Detecting Arytenoid Cartilage Misplacement throughAcoustic and Electroglottographic Jitter AnalysisMaurilio N. Vieira, Arnold G. D. Maran, Fergus R.Mclnnes, Mervyn A. Jack
745 Robust FO and Jitter Estimation in Pathological VoicesMaurilio N. Vieira, Fergus R. Mclnnes, Mervyn A. Jack
749 Speech Monitoring of Infective LaryngitisF. Plante, H. Kessler, B.M.G. Cheetham, J. Earis
753 Searching for Nonlinear Relations in Whitened JitterTime Series/. Schoentgen, R. De Guchteneere
757 Vocal Fold Pathology Assessment using AMAutocorrelation Analysis of the Teager Energy OperatorLiliana Gavidia-Ceballos, John H.L. Hansen, James F.Kaiser
761 Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) in theTreatment of HypemasalityDavid P. Kuehn
764 Enhancement of Alaryngeal Speech by Adaptive FilteringCarol Y. Espy-Wilson, Venkatesh R. Chari, Caroline B.Huang
768 Simulation of Disordered Speech Using a Frequency-Domain Vocal Tract ModelLi Deng, Xuemin Shen, D.G. Jamieson, J. Till
772 A Stochastic Model of Fundamental Period Perturbationand Its Application to Perception of Pathological VoiceQualityYasuo Endo, Hideki Kasuya
776 A Screening Test for Speech Pathology AssessmentUsing Objective Quality MeasuresEric J. Wallen, John H.L Hansen
780 Recent Advances in Hypemasal Speech Detection usingthe Nonlinear Teager Energy OperatorDouglas A. Cairns, John H.L. Hansen, James F. Kaiser
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784 Human Palate and Related Structures: Their ArticulatoryConsequencesKiyoshi Honda, Shinji Maeda, Michiko Hashi, JimDembowski, John R. Westbury
788 A Continuum Mechanics Representation of TongueDeformationEdward P. Davis, Andrew Douglas, Maureen Stone
793 From MRI and Acoustic Data to Articulatory Synthesis:A Case Study of the Lateral Approximants in AmericanEnglishPhilbert Bangayan, Abeer Alwan, Shrikanth Narayanan
797 Liquids in TamilShrikanth Narayanan, Abigail Kaun, Dani Byrd, PeterLadefoged, Abeer Alwan
FrA2Ll - Prosody in ASR and Segmentation
801 Modeling Hyperarticulate Speech during Human-computer Error ResolutionSharon Oviatt, Gina-Anne Levow, MargaretMacEachem, Karen Kuhn
805 Using Stress to Disambiguate Spoken Thai SentencesContaining Syntactic AmbiguitySiripong Potisuk, Mary P. Harper, Jackson T. Gandour
809 Use of Prosodic Information to Integrate Acoustic andLinguistic Knowledge in Continuous Mandarin SpeechRecognition with Very Large VocabularyHung-yun Hsieh, Ren-yuan Lyu, Lin-shan Lee
813 Word Boundary Detection using Pitch VariationsG. V. Ramana Rao, J. Srichand
817 Detection of Phrase Boundaries in Japanese by Low-Pass Filtering of Fundamental Frequency ContoursAtsuhiro Sakurai, Keikichi Hirose
821 A New Method for Speech Delexicalization, and itsApplication to the Perception of French ProsodyV. PageU N. Carbonell, Yves Laprie
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829 The Influence of Bigram Constraints on WordRecognition by Humans: Implications for ComputerSpeech RecognitionRonald A. Cole, Yonghong Yon, Troy Bailey
833 ALICE: Acquisition of Language In ConversationalEnvironment - An Approach to Weakly SupervisedTraining of Spoken Language System for LanguagePortingTetsunori Kobayashi
837 Pitch Pattern Clustering of User Utterances in Human-Machine DialogueTakashi Yoshimura, Satoru Hayamizu, Hiroshi Ohmura,Kazuyo Tanaka
841 Simplifying Language through Error-correctingDecodingJ.C. AmenguaL E. Vidal, J.M. Benedi
845 A Mixed Approach to Speech UnderstandingMauro Cettolo, Anna Corazza, Renato De Mori
FrA2L3 -^Dialogue Systems
849 Speech Recognition for an Information KioskJ.L Gauvain, J.J. Gangolf, L. Lamel
853 Localizing an Automatic Inquiry System for PublicTransport InformationHelmer Strik, Albert Russel, Henk van den Heuvel, CatiaCucchiarini, Louis Boves
857 Prompt Constrained Natural Language - Evolving theNext Generation of Telephony ServicesStephen M. Marcus, Deborah W. Brown, Randy G.Goldberg, Max S. Schoeffler, William R. Wetzel,Richard R. Rosinski
861 Key-Phrase Detection and Verification for FlexibleSpeech UnderstandingTatsuya Kawahara, Chin-Hui Lee, Biing-Hwang Juang
865 Interactive Recovery from Speech Recognition Errors inSpeech User InterfacesBemhard Suhm, Brad Myers, Alex Waibel
869 Estimation of Language Models for New SpokenLanguage ApplicationsSunil Issar
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873 H-infinity Filtering for Speech EnhancementXuemin Shen, Li Deng, Anisa Yasmin
877 A Comparitive Analysis of Channel-Robust Features andChannel Equalization Methods for Speech RecognitionSaeed V. Vaseghi, Ben Milner
881 Robust Speech Recognition Features Based on TemporalTrajectory Filtering of Frequency Band SpectrumJia-lin Shen, Wen-liang Hwang, Lin-shan Lee
885 Durational Modelling for Improved Connected DigitRecognitionKevin Power
889 Study on the Dereverberation of Speech Based onTemporal Envelope FilteringCarlos Avendano, Hynek Hermansky
893 Estimating Markov Model StructuresThorsten Brants
897 A Fertility Channel Model for Post-Correction ofContinuous Speech RecognitionEric K. Ringger, James F. Allen
901 Restoration of Wide Band Signal from TelephoneSpeech using Linear Prediction Error ProcessingHiroshi Yasukawa
905 Smoothed Spectral Subtraction for a Frequency-Weighted HMM in Noisy Speech RecognitionHiroshi Matsumoto, Noboru Naitoh
909 A Simple Architecture for using Multiple Cues in SoundSeparationWilliam S. Woods, Martin Hansen, Thomas Wittkop,Birger Kollmeier
913 On the Robust Automatic Segmentation of SpontaneousSpeechBojan Petek, Ove Andersen, Paul Dalsgaard
917 Bayesian Adaptation of Speech Recognizers to FieldSpeech DataC.G. Miglietta, C. Mokbel, D. Jouvet, J. Monne
921 Sub-band Adaptive Filtering Applied to SpeechEnhancementA. J. Darlington, D. J. Campbell
925 Noise Robust Estimate of Speech Dynamics for SpeakerRecognitionJ. P. Openshaw, John S. Mason
929 Overview of Speech Enhancement Techniques forAutomatic Speaker RecognitionJavier Ortega-Garcia, Joaquin Gonzdlez-Rodriguez
933 Dynamic Features for Segmental Speech RecognitionNaomi Hone, Saeed V. Vaseghi, Ben Milner
937 Speech Recognition Based on a Model of HumanAuditory SystemTakuya Koizumi, Mikio Mori, Shuji Taniguchi
941 APVQ Encoder Applied to Wideband Speech CodingJ.M. Salavedra, E. Masgrau
945 Simple Fast Vector Quantization of the line SpectralFrequenciesJin Zhou, Yair Shoham, Ali Akansu
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949 Speaker Individualities of Vocal Tract Shapes ofJapanese Vowels Measured by Magnetic ResonanceImagesChang-Shehg Yang, Hideki Kasuya
953 Vocal Tract Acoustics Using the Transmission LineMatrix (TLM) MethodS. El-Masri, X. Pelorson, P. Saguet, P. Badin
957 Building Sensori-motor Prototypes from AudiovisualExemplarsGerard Badly
961 Parameterized VT Area Function InversionMats B&veg&rd, Gunnar Font
965 An Improved Vocal Tract Model of Vowel ProductionImplementing Piriform Resonance and Transvelar NasalCouplingJianwu Dang, Kiyoshi Honda
969 Pseudo-articulatory Speech Synthesis for Recognitionusing Automatic Feature Extraction from X-Ray DataC. 5. Blackburn, S. J. Young
FrPlLl - Speaker Adaptation and ISIormallzation I
973 N-best-based Instantaneous Speaker Adaptation Methodfor Speech RecognitionTomoko Matsui, Sadaoki Furui
977 Mixture Splitting Technic and Temporal Control in aHMM-based Recognition SystemC. Montacie, M.-J. Carary, C. Barras
981 An Unified Spectral Transformation AdaptationApproach for Robust Speech RecognitionLei Yao, Dong Yu, Taiyi Huang
985 On-line Adaptive Learning of the Correlated ContinuousDensity Hidden Markov Models for Speech RecognitionQiang Huo, Chin-Hui Lee
989 Speaker Adaptation by Modeling the Speaker Variationin a Continuous Speech Recognition SystemNikko Strom
993 An Enquiring System of Unknown Words in TV Newsby Spontaneous Repetition (Application of SpeakerNormalization by Speaker Subspace Projection)Yasuo Ariki, Shigeaki Tagashira
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997 Language Understanding using Hidden UnderstandingModelsRichard Schwartz, Scott Miller, David Stallard, JohnMakhoul
1001 Processing of Semantic Information in Fluently SpokenLanguageAllen L Gorin
1005 Automatic Linguistic Segmentation of ConversationalSpeechAndreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg
1009 Towards Understanding Spontaneous Speech: WordAccuracy vs. Concept AccuracyM. Boros, W. Eckert, Florian Gallwitz, G. Gorz. G.Hanrieder, Heinrich Niemann
1013 A Stochastic Case Frame Approach for NaturalLanguage UnderstandingWolfgang Minker, S.K. Bennacef, J.L Cauvain
1017 Improving Speech Understanding by IncorporatingDatabase Constraints and Dialogue HistoryFrank Seide, Bemhard Ruber, Andreas Kellner
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s*y ^ : c ,-a>x . ^ ~ . . - J •„ , , ,?.-, , : ,,. ^ _1021 A New Discourse Structure Model for Spontaneous
Spoken DialogueTetsuro Chino, Hiroyuki Tsuboi
1025 An Architecture for Spoken Dialogue Management
David Duff, Barbara Gates, Susann LuperFoy
1029 Pausing Strategies in Discourse in Dutch
Monique E. van Donzel, Florien J. Koopmans-vanBeinum
1033 Filled Pauses as Markers of Discourse StructureMarc Swerts, Anne Wichmann, Robbert-Jan Beun
1037 The Prosodic Analysis of Korean Dialogue Speech -Through a Comparative Study with Read SpeechCheol-jae Seong, Minsoo Hahn
1041 Changing the Topic: How Long Does it Take?Mary O'Kane, P.E. Kenne
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1045 Learning Pronunciation Dictionary from Speech DataChristian-Michael Westendorf, Jens J ditto
1049 The Trended HMM with Discriminative Training forPhonetic ClassificationC. Rathinavelu, Li Deng
1053 Improving Decision Trees for Acoustic ModelingAriane Lazarides, Yves Normandin, Roland Kuhn
1057 An Improved Training Algorithm in HMM-basedSpeech RecognitionGongjun Li, Taiyi Huang
1061 Speech Recognition Using a Strong CorrelationAssumption for the Instantaneous SpectraJ. Ming, P. O'Boyle, J. McMahon, F. J. Smith
1065 On Parameter Filtering in Continuous Subword-unit-based Speech RecognitionPau Paches-Leal Climent Nadeu
1069 Estimation of Statistical Phoneme Center ConsideringPhonemic EnvironmentsShigeki Okawa, Katsuhiko Shirai
1073 Integration of Context-dependent Durational Knowledgeinto HMM-based Speech RecognitionXue Wang, Louis F. M. ten Bosch, Louis C. W. Pols
1077 Speech Recognition Based on Acoustically DerivedSegment UnitsT. Fukada, M. Bacchiani, K.K. Paliwal, YoshinoriSagisaka
1081 Robust Gender-dependent Acoustic-phonetic Modellingin Continuous Speech Recognition Based on a NewAutomatic Male/Female ClassificationRivarol Vergin, Azarshid Farhat, DouglasO 'Shaughnessy
1085 A Codebook Adaptation Algorithm for SCHMM UsingFormant DistributionToe Young Yang, Won Ho Shin, Weon Goo Kim, DaeHee Youn
1089 Parameter Tying for Flexible Speech RecognitionJ. Simonin, S. Bodin, D. Jouvet, K. Bartkova
1093 Word-spotting Based on Inter-word and Intra-wordDiphone ModelsTsuneo Nitta, Shin'ichi Tanaka, Yasuyula Masai,Hiroshi Matsu'ura
1097 Duration Modeling with Expanded HMM Applied toSpeech RecognitionAntonio Bonafonte, Josep Vidal, Albino Nogueiras
1101 Different Strategies for Distribution Clustering usingDiscrete, Semicontinuous and Continuous HMMs inCSRRicardo de Cdrdoba, Jose M. Pardo
1105 Improved HMM Phone and Triphone Models forRealtime ASR Telephony Applicationsllija Zeljkovic, Shrikanth Narayanan
1109 Improved Extended HMM Composition byIncorporating Power VarianceYasuhiro Minami, Sadaoki Furui
1113 Optimal Filtering and Smoothing for SpeechRecognition using a Stochastic Target ModelGordon Ramsay, Li Deng
1117 Speech Recognition Using Syllable-like UnitsZhihong Hu, Johan Schalkwyk, Etienne Barnard,Ronald A. Cole
FrPlSl - Physks and Simulation of the Vocal Tract I
1121 Search for Unexplored Effects in Speech ProductionC.H. Coker, M.H. Krone, B.Y. Reis, RA. Kubli
* Computational Models for Speech GenerationS. Levinson
1125 Articulatory Synthesis from X-rays and Inversion for anAdaptive Speech RobotP. Badin, C. Abry
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1129 Adaptive Recognition Method Based on Posterior Useof Distribution Pattern of Output ProbabilitiesJin-Song Zhang, Beiqian Dai, Changfu Wang,Hingkeung Kwan, Keikichi Hirose
1133 Iterative Unsupervised Adaptation Using Maximumlikelihood Linear RegressionP.C. Woodland, D. Pye, M.J.F. Gales
Vt37 A Compact Model for Speaker-Adaptive TrainingTasos Anastasakos, John McDonough, RichardSchwartz, John Makhoul
1141 Iterative Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation for BatchDictationShigeru Homma, Jun-ichi Takahashi, Shigeki Sagayama
1145 Rapid Unsupervised Adaptation to Children's Speech ona Connected-Digit TaskDaniel C. Burnett, Mark Fanty
1149 Speaker Adaptation Using Tree Structured Shared-StateHMMsJun Ishii, Masahiro Tonomura, Shoichi Matsunaga
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1153 Learning to Parse Spontaneous SpeechFinn Dag Buo, Alex Waibel
1157 Spontaneous Speech and Natural Language ProcessingALPES: A Robust Semantic-led ParserJean-Yves Antoine
1161 The Natural Language Processing Module for a VoiceAssisted Operator at Telef6nica I-t-D/. Alvarez-Cercadillo, J. Caminero-Gil, C. Crespo-Casas, D. Tapias-Merino
1165 Compound Words in Large-Vocabulary German SpeechRecognition SystemsAndre Berton, Pablo Fetter, Peter Regel-Brietzmann
1169 Prosody, Empty Categories and Parsing - A SuccessStoryAnton Batliner, A. Feldhaus, S. Geissler, T. Kiss, RalfKompe, Elmar Noth
1173 "Almost Parsing" Technique for Language ModelingB. Srinivas
1177 From Segmental Duration Properties to RhythmicStructure: A Study of Interactions Between High andLow Level ConstraintsMarise Ouellet, Benoit Tardif
1181 Analysis of Context-dependent Segmental Duration forAutomatic Speech RecognitionXue Wang, Louis C. W. Pols, Louis F. M. ten Bosch
1185 The Role of the Rhythmic Groups in the Segmentationof Continuous French SpeechDelphine Dahan
1189 The Implications of Temporal Patterns for the Prosodyof Boundary Signaling in Connected SpeechZita McRobbie-Utasi
1193 Experimental Phonetic Study of the Syllable Duration ofKorean with Respect to the Positional EffectHyunbok Lee, Cheol-jae Seong
1197 Timing of Pitch Movements and Accentuation ofSyllablesDik J. Hermes
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1201 A Probabilistic Approach to AMDF Pitch DetectionGoangshiuan S. Ying, Leah H. Jamieson, Carl D.Michell
1205 From Sagittal Cut to Area Function: An RMIInvestigationAlain Soquet, Vironique Lecuit, Thierry Metens, DidierDemolin
1209 Pitch Detection and Voiced/Unvoiced DecisionAlgorithm Based on Wavelet TransformsLeonard Janer, Juan Jose Bonet, Eduardo Lleida-Solano
1213 Decomposition of Speech Signals into a Deterministicand a Stochastic PartYannis Stylianou
1217 Improved Glottal Closure Instant Detector based onLinear Prediction and Standard Pitch ConceptCheol-Woo Jo, Ho-Gyun Bang, WA. Ainsworth
1221 Analysis of Speech Segments using VariableSpectral/Temporal ResolutionXihong Wang, Stephen A. Zahorian, Stefan Auberg
1225 Time-based Clustering for Phonetic SegmentationBrian Eberman, William Goldenthal
1229 Formant Analysis Using Mixtures of Gaussians
Parham Zolfaghari, Tony Robinson
1233 Deriving Articulatory Representations from Speech withVarious Excitation ModesHywel B. Richards, John S. Mason, Melvyn J. Hunt,John S. Bridle
1237 "Blind" Speech Segmentation: Automatic Segmentationof Speech Without Linguistic KnowledgeManish Sharma, Richard J. Mammone
1241 Speech Synthesis Using a Nonlinear Energy DampingModel for the Vocal Folds Vibration EffectHiroshi Ohmura, Kazuyo Tanaka
1245 Neural Networks Learning with LI Criteria and ItsEfficiency in Linear Prediction of Speech SignalsMunehiro Namba, Hiroyuki Kamata, Yoshihisa Ishida
1249 Preprocessing and Neural Classification of English StopConsonants [b,d,g,p,t,k]A. Esposito, C. E. Ezin, M. Ceccarelli
1253 A Comparison of Modified k-means(MKM) and NNbased Real Time Adaptive Clustering Algorithms forArticulatory Space Codebook FormationK.S. Ananthakrishnan
1257 A Novel Approach to the Estimation of Voice Sourceand Vocal Tract Parameters from Speech SignalsWen Ding, Hideki Kasuya
1261 Syllable Detection in Read and Spontaneous Speech
Hartmut R. Pfitzinger, Susanne Burger, Sebastian Held
1265 Maximum likelihood Learning of Auditory FeatureMaps for Stationary VowelsKuansan Wang, Chin-Hui Lee, Biing-Hwang Juang
1269 Explicit Segmentation of Speech using Gaussian ModelsAntonio Bonafonte, Albino Nogueiras, AntonioRodriguez-Garrido
1273 A Comparison of Several Recent Methods ofFundamental Frequency and Voicing DecisionEstimationE. Mousset, WA. Ainsworth, Jose A. R. Fonollosa
1277 Robust Pitch Estimation with Harmonics Enhancementin Noisy Environments Based on InstantaneousFrequency
Toshihiko Abe, Takao Kobayashi, Satoshi Imai
1281 Integrated Polispectrum on Speech Recognition
Asuncidn Moreno, Miquel Rutlldn
FrP2Sl - Physics and Simulation of the Vocal Tract
1285 Analysis of Acoustic Properties of the Nasal Tract Using3-DFEMHisayoshi Suzuki, Takayoshi Nakai, Hirosi Sakakibara
1289 Experiments with Analysis By Synthesis of GlottalAirflow
Johan Liljencrants
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1293 An Incremental Speaker-Adaptation Technique forHybrid HMM-MLP RecognizerJoao P. Neto, Ciro A. Martins, Luis B. Almeida
1297 Phoneme Segmentation of Continuous Speech usingMulti-layer PerceptronYoungjoo Sun, Youngjik Lee
1301 Stochastic Perceptual Speech Models with DurationalDependenceJeff Bilmes, Nelson Morgan, Su-Lin Wu, Herve Bowlard
1305 Boosting the Performance of Connectionist LargeVocabulary Speech RecognitionG.D. Cook, A.J. Robinson
1309 HMMs and OWE Neural Network for ContinuousSpeech RecognitionNicolas Pican, Dominique Fohr, Jean-Francois Man
1313 Smoothed Local Adaptation of Connectionist SystemsSteve Waterhoust, Dan Kershaw, Tony Robinson
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1317 Robust Speech Recognition with Speaker Localizationby a Microphone ArrayTakeshi Yamada, Satoshi Nakamura, Kiyohiro Shikano
1321 Sound Source Localization in Reverberant Environmentsusing an Outlier Elimination AlgorithmEa-Ee Jan, James L Flanagan
1325 The 1995 Abbot LVCSR System for Multiple UnknownMicrophonesDan Kershaw, Tony Robinson, Steve Renals
1329 Experiments of Speech Recognition in a Noisy andReverberant Environment using a Microphone Arrayand HMM AdaptationD. Giuliani, M. Omologo, P. Svaizer