ISCA Medal Talk

From Vocoders to Code-Excited Linear Prediction: Learning How We Hear What We Hear
Bishnu S. Atal

End-to-End Speech Recognition

Semi-Supervised End-to-End Speech Recognition
Shigeki Karita, Shinji Watanabe, Tomoharu Iwata, Atsunori Ogawa, Marc Delcroix

Improved Training of End-to-end Attention Models for Speech Recognition
Albert Zeyer, Kazuki Irie, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

End-to-end Speech Recognition Using Lattice-free MMI
Hossein Hadian, Hossein Sameti, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Multi-channel Attention for End-to-End Speech Recognition
Stefan Braun, Daniel Neil, Jithendar Anumula, Enea Ceolini, Shih-Chii Liu

Quaternion Convolutional Neural Networks for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition
Titouan Parcollet, Ying Zhang, Mohamed Morchid, Chiheb Trabelsi, Georges Linares, Renato de Mori, Yoshua Bengio

Compression of End-to-End Models
Ruoming Pang, Tara Sainath, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Suyog Gupta, Yonghui Wu, Shuyuan Zhang, Chung-Cheng Chiu

Prosody Modeling and Generation

Learning Interpretable Control Dimensions for Speech Synthesis by Using External Data
Zack Hodari, Oliver Watts, Srikanth Ronanki, Simon King

Investigating Accuracy of Pitch-accent Annotations in Neural Network-based Speech Synthesis and Denoising Effects
Hieu-Thi Luong, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Nobuyuki Nishizawa

An Exploration of Local Speaking Rate Variations in Mandarin Read Speech
Guan-Ting Liou, Chen-Yu Chiang, Yih-Ru Wang, Sin-Horng Chen

BLSTM-CRF Based End-to-End Prosodic Boundary Prediction with Context Sensitive Embeddings in a Text-to-Speech Front-End
Yibin Zheng, Jianhua Tao, Zhengqi Wen, Ya Li

Wavelet Analysis of Speaker Dependent and Independent Prosody for Voice Conversion
Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li

Improving Mongolian Phrase Break Prediction by Using Syllable and Morphological Embeddings with BiLSTM Model
Rui Liu, Feilong Bao, Guanglai Gao, Hui Zhang, Yonghe Wang

Speaker Verification I

Improved Supervised Locality Preserving Projection for I-vector Based Speaker Verification
Lanhua You, Wu Guo, Yan Song, Sheng Zhang

Double Joint Bayesian Modeling of DNN Local I-Vector for Text Dependent Speaker Verification with Random Digit Strings
Ziqiang Shi, Huibin Lin, Liu Liu, Rujie Liu

Fast Variational Bayes for Heavy-tailed PLDA Applied to i-vectors and x-vectors
Anna Silnova, Niko Brümmer, Daniel Garcia-Romero, David Snyder, Lukáš Burget

Integrated Presentation Attack Detection and Automatic Speaker Verification: Common Features and Gaussian Back-end Fusion
Massimiliano Todisco, Héctor Delgado, Kong Aik Lee, Md Sahidullah, Nicholas Evans, Tomi Kinnunen, Junichi Yamagishi

A Generalization of PLDA for Joint Modeling of Speaker Identity and Multiple Nuisance Conditions
Luciana Ferrer, Mitchell McLaren

An Investigation of Non-linear i-vectors for Speaker Verification
Nanxin Chen, Jesús Villalba, Najim Dehak

Spoken Term Detection

CNN Based Query by Example Spoken Term Detection
Dhananjay Ram, Lesly Miculicich, Hervé Bourlard

Learning Acoustic Word Embeddings with Temporal Context for Query-by-Example Speech Search
Yougen Yuan, Cheung-Chi Leung, Lei Xie, Hongjie Chen, Bin Ma, Haizhou Li

Siamese Recurrent Auto-Encoder Representation for Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection
Ziwei Zhu, Zhiyong Wu, Runnan Li, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai

Fast Derivation of Cross-lingual Document Vectors from Self-attentive Neural Machine Translation Model
Wei Li, Brian Mak

LSTM Based Attentive Fusion of Spectral and Prosodic Information for Keyword Spotting in Hindi Language
Laxmi Pandey, Karan Nathwani

Spoken Keyword Detection Using Joint DTW-CNN
Ravi Shankar, Vikram C M, S R Mahadeva Prasanna

The INTERSPEECH 2018 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE): Atypical & Self-Assessed Affect, Crying & Heart Beats 1

The INTERSPEECH 2018 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Atypical & Self-Assessed Affect, Crying & Heart Beats
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Peter B. Marschik, Harald Baumeister, Fengquan Dong, Simone Hantke, Florian B. Pokorny, Eva-Maria Rathner, Katrin D. Bartl-Pokorny, Christa Einspieler, Dajie Zhang, Alice Baird, Shahin Amiriparian, Kun Qian, Zhao Ren, Maximilian Schmitt, Panagiotis Tzirakis, Stefanos Zafeiriou

An Ensemble of Transfer, Semi-supervised and Supervised Learning Methods for Pathological Heart Sound Classification
Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun, Md. Tauhiduzzaman Khan, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, Zhe Feng, Taufiq Hasan

Monitoring Infant's Emotional Cry in Domestic Environments Using the Capsule Network Architecture
Mehmet Ali Tuğtekin Turan, Engin Erzin

Neural Network Architecture That Combines Temporal and Summative Features for Infant Cry Classification in the Interspeech 2018 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge
Mark Huckvale

Evolving Learning for Analysing Mood-Related Infant Vocalisation
Zixing Zhang, Jing Han, Kun Qian, Björn Schuller

Deep Learning in Paralinguistic Recognition Tasks: Are Hand-crafted Features Still Relevant?
Johannes Wagner, Dominik Schiller, Andreas Seiderer, Elisabeth André

Investigation on Joint Representation Learning for Robust Feature Extraction in Speech Emotion Recognition
Danqing Luo, Yuexian Zou, Dongyan Huang

Using Voice Quality Supervectors for Affect Identification
Soo Jin Park, Amber Afshan, Zhi Ming Chua, Abeer Alwan

An End-to-End Deep Learning Framework for Speech Emotion Recognition of Atypical Individuals
Dengke Tang, Junlin Zeng, Ming Li

Show and Tell 1

DialogOS: Simple and Extensible Dialogue Modeling
Alexander Koller, Timo Baumann, Arne Köhn

A Framework for Speech Recognition Benchmarking
Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Walter Chang

Flexible Tongue Housed in a Static Model of the Vocal Tract With Jaws, Lips and Teeth
Takayuki Arai

Voice Analysis Using Acoustic and Throat Microphones for Speech Therapy
Lani Mathew, Gopakumar K.

A Robust Context-Dependent Speech-to-Speech Phraselator Toolkit for Alexa
Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis, Jan Stanek

Speech Segments and Voice Quality

Discriminating Nasals and Approximants in English Language Using Zero Time Windowing
RaviShankar Prasad, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Suryakanth V Gangashetty, Bayya Yegnanarayana

Gestural Lenition of Rhotics Captures Variation in Brazilian Portuguese
Phil Howson, Alexei Kochetov

Identification and Classification of Fricatives in Speech Using Zero Time Windowing Method
RaviShankar Prasad, Bayya Yegnanarayana

GlobalTIMIT: Acoustic-Phonetic Datasets for the World’s Languages
Nattanun Chanchaochai, Christopher Cieri, Japhet Debrah, Hongwei Ding, Yue Jiang, Sishi Liao, Mark Liberman, Jonathan Wright, Jiahong Yuan, Juhong Zhan, Yuqing Zhan

Structural Effects on Properties of Consonantal Gestures in Tashlhiyt
Anne Hermes, Doris Mücke, Bastian Auris, Rachid Ridouane

The Retroflex-dental Contrast in Punjabi Stops and Nasals: A Principal Component Analysis of Ultrasound Images
Alexei Kochetov, Matthew Faytak, Kiranpreet Nara

Vowels and Diphthongs in Hangzhou Wu Chinese Dialect
Yang Yue, Fang Hu

Resyllabification in Indian Languages and Its Implications in Text-to-speech Systems
Mahesh M, Jeena J Prakash, Hema Murthy

Voice Source Contribution to Prominence Perception: Rd Implementation
Andy Murphy, Irena Yanushevskaya, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Christer Gobl

On the Relationship between Glottal Pulse Shape and Its Spectrum: Correlations of Open Quotient, Pulse Skew and Peak Flow with Source Harmonic Amplitudes
Christer Gobl, Andy Murphy, Irena Yanushevskaya, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

The Individual and the System: Assessing the Stability of the Output of a Semi-automatic Forensic Voice Comparison System
Vincent Hughes, Philip Harrison, Paul Foulkes, Peter French, Colleen Kavanagh, Eugenia San Segundo Fernández

Breathy to Tense Voice Discrimination using Zero-Time Windowing Cepstral Coefficients (ZTWCCs)
Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Bayya Yegnanarayana

Analysis of Breathiness in Contextual Vowel of Voiceless Nasals in Mizo
Pamir Gogoi, Sishir Kalita, Parismita Gogoi, Ratree Wayland, Priyankoo Sarmah, S R Mahadeva Prasanna

Speaker State and Trait

Infant Emotional Outbursts Detection in Infant-parent Spoken Interactions
Yijia Xu, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Nancy McElwain

Deep Neural Networks for Emotion Recognition Combining Audio and Transcripts
Jaejin Cho, Raghavendra Pappagari, Purva Kulkarni, Jesús Villalba, Yishay Carmiel, Najim Dehak

Preference-Learning with Qualitative Agreement for Sentence Level Emotional Annotations
Srinivas Parthasarathy, Carlos Busso

Transfer Learning for Improving Speech Emotion Classification Accuracy
Siddique Latif, Rajib Rana, Shahzad Younis, Junaid Qadir, Julien Epps

What Do Classifiers Actually Learn? a Case Study on Emotion Recognition Datasets
Patrick Meyer, Eric Buschermöhle, Tim Fingscheidt

State of Mind: Classification through Self-reported Affect and Word Use in Speech.
Eva-Maria Rathner, Yannik Terhorst, Nicholas Cummins, Björn Schuller, Harald Baumeister

Exploring Spatio-Temporal Representations by Integrating Attention-based Bidirectional-LSTM-RNNs and FCNs for Speech Emotion Recognition
Ziping Zhao, Yu Zheng, Zixing Zhang, Haishuai Wang, Yiqin Zhao, Chao Li

End-to-end Deep Neural Network Age Estimation
Pegah Ghahremani, Phani Sankar Nidadavolu, Nanxin Chen, Jesús Villalba, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Najim Dehak

Improving Gender Identification in Movie Audio Using Cross-Domain Data
Rajat Hebbar, Krishna Somandepalli, Shrikanth Narayanan

On Learning to Identify Genders from Raw Speech Signal Using CNNs
Selen Hande Kabil, Hannah Muckenhirn, Mathew Magimai.-Doss

Denoising and Raw-waveform Networks for Weakly-Supervised Gender Identification on Noisy Speech
Jilt Sebastian, Manoj Kumar, Pavan Kumar D. S., Mathew Magimai.-Doss, Hema Murthy, Shrikanth Narayanan

The Effect of Exposure to High Altitude and Heat on Speech Articulatory Coordination
James Williamson, Thomas Quatieri, Adam Lammert, Katherine Mitchell, Katherine Finkelstein, Nicole Ekon, Caitlin Dillon, Robert Kenefick, Kristin Heaton

Deep Learning for Source Separation and Pitch Tracking

Permutation Invariant Training of Generative Adversarial Network for Monaural Speech Separation
Lianwu Chen, Meng Yu, Yanmin Qian, Dan Su, Dong Yu

Deep Extractor Network for Target Speaker Recovery from Single Channel Speech Mixtures
Jun Wang, Jie Chen, Dan Su, Lianwu Chen, Meng Yu, Yanmin Qian, Dong Yu

Joint Localization and Classification of Multiple Sound Sources Using a Multi-task Neural Network
Weipeng He, Petr Motlicek, Jean-Marc Odobez

Detection of Glottal Closure Instants from Speech Signals: A Convolutional Neural Network Based Method
Shuai Yang, Zhiyong Wu, Binbin Shen, Helen Meng

Robust TDOA Estimation Based on Time-Frequency Masking and Deep Neural Networks
Zhong-Qiu Wang, Xueliang Zhang, DeLiang Wang

Waveform to Single Sinusoid Regression to Estimate the F0 Contour from Noisy Speech Using Recurrent Deep Neural Networks
Akihiro Kato, Tomi Kinnunen

Reducing Interference with Phase Recovery in DNN-based Monaural Singing Voice Separation
Paul Magron, Konstantinos Drossos, Stylianos Ioannis Mimilakis, Tuomas Virtanen

Nebula: F0 Estimation and Voicing Detection by Modeling the Statistical Properties of Feature Extractors
Kanru Hua

Real-time Single-channel Dereverberation and Separation with Time-domain Audio Separation Network
Yi Luo, Nima Mesgarani

Music Source Activity Detection and Separation Using Deep Attractor Network
Rajath Kumar, Yi Luo, Nima Mesgarani

Improving Mandarin Tone Recognition Using Convolutional Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory with Attention
Longfei Yang, Yanlu Xie, Jinsong Zhang

Acoustic Analysis-Synthesis of Speech Disorders

Vowel Space as a Tool to Evaluate Articulation Problems
Rob van Son, Catherine Middag, Kris Demuynck

Towards a Better Characterization of Parkinsonian Speech: A Multidimensional Acoustic Study
Veronique Delvaux, Kathy Huet, Myriam Piccaluga, Sophie van Malderen, Bernard Harmegnies

Self-similarity Matrix Based Intelligibility Assessment of Cleft Lip and Palate Speech
Sishir Kalita, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Samarendra Dandapat

Pitch-Adaptive Front-end Feature for Hypernasality Detection
Akhilesh Kumar Dubey, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, S Dandapat

Detection of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) via Acoustic Analysis
Raquel Norel, Mary Pietrowicz, Carla Agurto, Shay Rishoni, Guillermo Cecchi

Detection of Glottal Activity Errors in Production of Stop Consonants in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate
Vikram C M, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Ajish K Abraham, Pushpavathi M, Girish K S

ASR Systems and Technologies

Cold Fusion: Training Seq2Seq Models Together with Language Models
Anuroop Sriram, Heewoo Jun, Sanjeev Satheesh, Adam Coates

Investigation on Estimation of Sentence Probability by Combining Forward, Backward and Bi-directional LSTM-RNNs
Kazuki Irie, Zhihong Lei, Liuhui Deng, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Subword and Crossword Units for CTC Acoustic Models
Thomas Zenkel, Ramon Sanabria, Florian Metze, Alex Waibel

Neural Error Corrective Language Models for Automatic Speech Recognition
Tomohiro Tanaka, Ryo Masumura, Hirokazu Masataki, Yushi Aono

Entity-Aware Language Model as an Unsupervised Reranker
Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Sarangarajan Parthasarathy

Character-level Language Modeling with Gated Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks
Iksoo Choi, Jinhwan Park, Wonyong Sung

Deception, Personality, and Culture Attribute

Acoustic-Prosodic Indicators of Deception and Trust in Interview Dialogues
Sarah Ita Levitan, Angel Maredia, Julia Hirschberg

Deep Personality Recognition for Deception Detection
Guozhen An, Sarah Ita Levitan, Julia Hirschberg, Rivka Levitan

Cross-cultural (A)symmetries in Audio-visual Attitude Perception
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Albert Rilliard, Tan Lee, Matthew K. H. Ma, Angelika Hönemann

An Active Feature Transformation Method for Attitude Recognition of Video Bloggers
Fasih Haider, Fahim A. Salim, Owen Conlan, Saturnino Luz

Automatic Assessment of Individual Culture Attribute of Power Distance Using a Social Context-Enhanced Prosodic Network Representation
Fu-Sheng Tsai, Hao-Chun Yang, Wei-Wen Chang, Chi-Chun Lee

Analysis and Detection of Phonation Modes in Singing Voice using Excitation Source Features and Single Frequency Filtering Cepstral Coefficients (SFFCC)
Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Bayya Yegnanarayana

Automatic Detection and Recognition of Voice and Speech Disorders

A Deep Learning Method for Pathological Voice Detection Using Convolutional Deep Belief Networks
Huiyi Wu, John Soraghan, Anja Lowit, Gaetano Di-Caterina

Dysarthric Speech Recognition Using Time-delay Neural Network Based Denoising Autoencoder
Chitralekha Bhat, Biswajit Das, Bhavik Vachhani, Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

A Multitask Learning Approach to Assess the Dysarthria Severity in Patients with Parkinson's Disease
Juan Camilo Vásquez Correa, Tomas Arias, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Elmar Nöth

The Use of Machine Learning and Phonetic Endophenotypes to Discover Genetic Variants Associated with Speech Sound Disorder
Jason Lilley, Erin Crowgey, H Timothy Bunnell

Whistle-blowing ASRs: Evaluating the Need for More Inclusive Speech Recognition Systems
Meredith Moore, Hemanth Venkateswara, Sethuraman Panchanathan

Data Augmentation Using Healthy Speech for Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Bhavik Vachhani, Chitralekha Bhat, Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Voice Conversion

Improving Sparse Representations in Exemplar-Based Voice Conversion with a Phoneme-Selective Objective Function
Shaojin Ding, Guanlong Zhao, Christopher Liberatore, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Learning Structured Dictionaries for Exemplar-based Voice Conversion
Shaojin Ding, Christopher Liberatore, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

Exemplar-Based Spectral Detail Compensation for Voice Conversion
Yu-Huai Peng, Hsin-Te Hwang, Yichiao Wu, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang

Whispered Speech to Neutral Speech Conversion Using Bidirectional LSTMs
G. Nisha Meenakshi, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Voice Conversion Across Arbitrary Speakers Based on a Single Target-Speaker Utterance
Songxiang Liu, Jinghua Zhong, Lifa Sun, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng

Multi-target Voice Conversion without Parallel Data by Adversarially Learning Disentangled Audio Representations
Ju-chieh Chou, Cheng-chieh Yeh, Hung-yi Lee, Lin-shan Lee

The INTERSPEECH 2018 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE): Atypical & Self-Assessed Affect, Crying & Heart Beats 2

Attention-based Sequence Classification for Affect Detection
Cristina Gorrostieta, Richard Brutti, Kye Taylor, Avi Shapiro, Joseph Moran, Ali Azarbayejani, John Kane

Computational Paralinguistics: Automatic Assessment of Emotions, Mood and Behavioural State from Acoustics of Speech
Zafi Sherhan Syed, Julien Schroeter, Kirill Sidorov, David Marshall

Investigating Utterance Level Representations for Detecting Intent from Acoustics
SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Bhavya Karki, Carla Viegas, Eric Nyberg, Alan W Black

LSTM Based Cross-corpus and Cross-task Acoustic Emotion Recognition
Heysem Kaya, Dmitrii Fedotov, Ali Yeşilkanat, Oxana Verkholyak, Yang Zhang, Alexey Karpov

Implementing Fusion Techniques for the Classification of Paralinguistic Information
Bogdan Vlasenko, Jilt Sebastian, Pavan Kumar D. S., Mathew Magimai.-Doss

General Utterance-Level Feature Extraction for Classifying Crying Sounds, Atypical & Self-Assessed Affect and Heart Beats
Gábor Gosztolya, Tamás Grósz, László Tóth

Self-Assessed Affect Recognition Using Fusion of Attentional BLSTM and Static Acoustic Features
Bo-Hao Su, Sung-Lin Yeh, Ming-Ya Ko, Huan-Yu Chen, Shun-Chang Zhong, Jeng-Lin Li, Chi-Chun Lee

Vocalic, Lexical and Prosodic Cues for the INTERSPEECH 2018 Self-Assessed Affect Challenge
Claude Montacié, Marie-José Caraty

Show and Tell 2

Intonation tutor by SPIRE (In-SPIRE): An Online Tool for an Automatic Feedback to the Second Language Learners in Learning Intonation
Anand P A, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Kausthubha N K, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Game-based Spoken Dialog Language Learning Applications for Young Students
Keelan Evanini, Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Eugene Tsuprun, Ian Blood, Jeremy Lee, James Bruno, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Patrick Lange, David Suendermann-Oeft

The IBM Virtual Voice Creator
Alexander Sorin, Slava Shechtman, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory, Shay Ben-David, Joe Pavitt, Shai Rozenberg, Carmel Rabinovitz, Tal Drory

Mobile Application for Learning Languages for the Unlettered
Gayathri G, Mohana N, Radhika Pal, Hema Murthy

Mandarin-English Code-switching Speech Recognition
Haihua Xu, Van Tung Pham, Zin Tun Kyaw, Zhi Hao Lim, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Spoken Dialogue Systems and Conversational Analysis

Joint Learning of Domain Classification and Out-of-Domain Detection with Dynamic Class Weighting for Satisficing False Acceptance Rates
Joo-Kyung Kim, Young-Bum Kim

Analyzing Vocal Tract Movements During Speech Accommodation
Sankar Mukherjee, Thierry Legou, Leonardo Lancia, Pauline Hilt, Alice Tomassini, Luciano Fadiga, Alessandro D'Ausilio, Leonardo Badino, Noël Nguyen

Cross-Lingual Multi-Task Neural Architecture for Spoken Language Understanding
Yujiang Li, Xuemin Zhao, Weiqun Xu, Yonghong Yan

Statistical Model Compression for Small-Footprint Natural Language Understanding
Grant P. Strimel, Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra, Stanislav Peshterliev

Comparison of an End-to-end Trainable Dialogue System with a Modular Statistical Dialogue System
Norbert Braunschweiler, Alexandros Papangelis

A Discriminative Acoustic-Prosodic Approach for Measuring Local Entrainment
Megan Willi, Stephanie A. Borrie, Tyson S. Barrett, Ming Tu, Visar Berisha

Investigating Speech Features for Continuous Turn-Taking Prediction Using LSTMs
Matthew Roddy, Gabriel Skantze, Naomi Harte

Classification of Correction Turns in Multilingual Dialogue Corpus
Ivan Kraljevski, Diane Hirschfeld

Contextual Slot Carryover for Disparate Schemas
Chetan Naik, Arpit Gupta, Hancheng Ge, Mathias Lambert, Ruhi Sarikaya

Capsule Networks for Low Resource Spoken Language Understanding
Vincent Renkens, Hugo van Hamme

Intent Discovery Through Unsupervised Semantic Text Clustering
Padmasundari, Srinivas Bangalore

Multimodal Polynomial Fusion for Detecting Driver Distraction
Yulun Du, Alan W Black, Louis-Philippe Morency, Maxine Eskenazi

Engagement Recognition in Spoken Dialogue via Neural Network by Aggregating Different Annotators' Models
Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara

A First Investigation of the Timing of Turn-taking in Ruuli
Tuarik Buanzur, Margaret Zellers, Saudah Namyalo, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich

Spoofing Detection

Spoofing Detection Using Adaptive Weighting Framework and Clustering Analysis
Yuanjun Zhao, Roberto Togneri, Victor Sreeram

Exploration of Compressed ILPR Features for Replay Attack Detection
Sarfaraz Jelil, Sishir Kalita, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Rohit Sinha

Detection of Replay-Spoofing Attacks Using Frequency Modulation Features
Tharshini Gunendradasan, Buddhi Wickramasinghe, Ngoc Phu Le, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Julien Epps

Effectiveness of Speech Demodulation-Based Features for Replay Detection
Madhu Kamble, Hemlata Tak, Hemant Patil

Novel Variable Length Energy Separation Algorithm Using Instantaneous Amplitude Features for Replay Detection
Madhu Kamble, Hemant Patil

Feature with Complementarity of Statistics and Principal Information for Spoofing Detection
Jichen Yang, Changhuai You, Qianhua He

Multiple Phase Information Combination for Replay Attacks Detection
Dongbo Li, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang, Meng Liu, Zeyan Oo, Seiichi Nakagawa, Haotian Guan, Xiangang Li

Frequency Domain Linear Prediction Features for Replay Spoofing Attack Detection
Buddhi Wickramasinghe, Saad Irtza, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Julien Epps

Auditory Filterbank Learning for Temporal Modulation Features in Replay Spoof Speech Detection
Hardik Sailor, Madhu Kamble, Hemant Patil

Deep Siamese Architecture Based Replay Detection for Secure Voice Biometric
Kaavya Sriskandaraja, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

A Deep Identity Representation for Noise Robust Spoofing Detection
Alejandro Gómez Alanís, Antonio M. Peinado, Jose A. Gonzalez, Angel Gomez

End-To-End Audio Replay Attack Detection Using Deep Convolutional Networks with Attention
Francis Tom, Mohit Jain, Prasenjit Dey

Decision-level Feature Switching as a Paradigm for Replay Attack Detection
Saranya M S, Hema Murthy

Modulation Dynamic Features for the Detection of Replay Attacks
Gajan Suthokumar, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Chamith Wijenayake, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Speech Analysis and Representation

On the Usefulness of the Speech Phase Spectrum for Pitch Extraction
Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Thomas Hain

Time-regularized Linear Prediction for Noise-robust Extraction of the Spectral Envelope of Speech
Manu Airaksinen, Lauri Juvela, Okko Räsänen, Paavo Alku

Auditory Filterbank Learning Using ConvRBM for Infant Cry Classification
Hardik B. Sailor, Hemant Patil

Effectiveness of Dynamic Features in INCA and Temporal Context-INCA
Nirmesh Shah, Hemant Patil

Singing Voice Phoneme Segmentation by Hierarchically Inferring Syllable and Phoneme Onset Positions
Rong Gong, Xavier Serra

Novel Empirical Mode Decomposition Cepstral Features for Replay Spoof Detection
Prasad Tapkir, Hemant Patil

Novel Linear Frequency Residual Cepstral Features for Replay Attack Detection
Hemlata Tak, Hemant Patil

Analysis of sparse representation based feature on speech mode classification
Kumud Tripathi, K. Sreenivasa Rao

Multicomponent 2-D AM-FM Modeling of Speech Spectrograms
Jitendra Kumar Dhiman, Neeraj Sharma, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

An Optimization Framework for Recovery of Speech from Phase-Encoded Spectrograms
Abhilash Sainathan, Sunil Rudresh, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Speaker Recognition with Nonlinear Distortion: Clipping Analysis and Impact
Wei Xia, John H.L. Hansen

Linear Prediction Residual based Short-term Cepstral Features for Replay Attacks Detection
Madhusudan Singh, Debadatta Pati

Analysis of Variational Mode Functions for Robust Detection of Vowels
Surbhi Sakshi, Avinash Kumar, Gayadhar Pradhan

Sequence Models for ASR

Improving Attention Based Sequence-to-Sequence Models for End-to-End English Conversational Speech Recognition
Chao Weng, Jia Cui, Guangsen Wang, Jun Wang, Chengzhu Yu, Dan Su, Dong Yu

Segmental Encoder-Decoder Models for Large Vocabulary Automatic Speech Recognition
Eugen Beck, Mirko Hannemann, Patrick Dötsch, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Acoustic Modeling with DFSMN-CTC and Joint CTC-CE Learning
ShiLiang Zhang, Ming Lei

End-to-End Speech Command Recognition with Capsule Network
Jaesung Bae, Dae-Shik Kim

End-to-End Speech Recognition from the Raw Waveform
Neil Zeghidour, Nicolas Usunier, Gabriel Synnaeve, Ronan Collobert, Emmanuel Dupoux

A Multistage Training Framework for Acoustic-to-Word Model
Chengzhu Yu, Chunlei Zhang, Chao Weng, Jia Cui, Dong Yu

Syllable-Based Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition with the Transformer in Mandarin Chinese
Shiyu Zhou, Linhao Dong, Shuang Xu, Bo Xu

Densely Connected Networks for Conversational Speech Recognition
Kyu Han, Akshay Chandrashekaran, Jungsuk Kim, Ian Lane

Multi-Head Decoder for End-to-End Speech Recognition
Tomoki Hayashi, Shinji Watanabe, Tomoki Toda, Kazuya Takeda

Compressing End-to-end ASR Networks by Tensor-Train Decomposition
Takuma Mori, Andros Tjandra, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Speech2Vec: A Sequence-to-Sequence Framework for Learning Word Embeddings from Speech
Yu-An Chung, James Glass

Extending Recurrent Neural Aligner for Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition in Mandarin
Linhao Dong, Shiyu Zhou, Wei Chen, Bo Xu

Source Separation and Spatial Analysis

Joint Noise and Reverberation Adaptive Learning for Robust Speaker DOA Estimation with an Acoustic Vector Sensor
Disong Wang, Yuexian Zou

Multiple Concurrent Sound Source Tracking Based on Observation-Guided Adaptive Particle Filter
Hong Liu, Haipeng Lan, Bing Yang, Cheng Pang

Harmonic-Percussive Source Separation of Polyphonic Music by Suppressing Impulsive Noise Events
Gurunath Reddy M, K. Sreenivasa Rao, Partha Pratim Das

Speaker Activity Detection and Minimum Variance Beamforming for Source Separation
Enea Ceolini, Jithendar Anumula, Adrian Huber, Ilya Kiselev, Shih-Chii Liu

Sparsity-Constrained Weight Mapping for Head-Related Transfer Functions Individualization from Anthropometric Features
Xiaoke Qi, Jianhua Tao

Speech Source Separation Using ICA in Constant Q Transform Domain
Dheeraj Sai D.V.L.N, Kishor K.S, Sri Rama Murty Kodukula

Multi-talker Speech Separation Based on Permutation Invariant Training and Beamforming
Lu Yin, Ziteng Wang, Risheng Xia, Junfeng Li, Yonghong Yan

Expectation-Maximization Algorithms for Itakura-Saito Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Paul Magron, Tuomas Virtanen

Subband Weighting for Binaural Speech Source Localization
Karthik Girija Ramesan, Parth Suresh, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Plenary Talk-1

Universal Tendencies for Cross-Linguistic Prosodic Tendencies: A Review and Some New Proposals
Jacqueline Vaissière

Acoustic Model Adaptation

Learning to Adapt: A Meta-learning Approach for Speaker Adaptation
Ondřej Klejch, Joachim Fainberg, Peter Bell

Speaker Adaptation and Adaptive Training for Jointly Optimised Tandem Systems
Yu Wang, Chao Zhang, Mark Gales, Philip Woodland

Comparison of BLSTM-Layer-Specific Affine Transformations for Speaker Adaptation
Markus Kitza, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Correlational Networks for Speaker Normalization in Automatic Speech Recognition
Rini A Sharon, Sandeep Reddy Kothinti, Umesh Srinivasan

Machine Speech Chain with One-shot Speaker Adaptation
Andros Tjandra, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Domain Adaptation Using Factorized Hidden Layer for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
Khe Chai Sim, Arun Narayanan, Ananya Misra, Anshuman Tripathi, Golan Pundak, Tara Sainath, Parisa Haghani, Bo Li, Michiel Bacchiani

Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Waveform-Based Speaker Representations for Speech Synthesis
Moquan Wan, Gilles Degottex, Mark J.F. Gales

Incremental TTS for Japanese Language
Tomoya Yanagita, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura

Transfer Learning Based Progressive Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao, Yibin Zheng, Zhengqi Wen

A Unified Framework for the Generation of Glottal Signals in Deep Learning-based Parametric Speech Synthesis Systems
Min-Jae Hwang, Eunwoo Song, Jin-Seob Kim, Hong-Goo Kang

Acoustic Modeling Using Adversarially Trained Variational Recurrent Neural Network for Speech Synthesis
Joun Yeop Lee, Sung Jun Cheon, Byoung Jin Choi, Nam Soo Kim, Eunwoo Song

On the Application and Compression of Deep Time Delay Neural Network for Embedded Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis
Yibin Zheng, Jianhua Tao, Zhengqi Wen, Ruibo Fu

Emotion Modeling

Integrating Recurrence Dynamics for Speech Emotion Recognition
Efthymios Tzinis, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Christos Baziotis, Alexandros Potamianos

Towards Temporal Modelling of Categorical Speech Emotion Recognition
Wenjing Han, Huabin Ruan, Xiaomin Chen, Zhixiang Wang, Haifeng Li, Björn Schuller

Emotion Recognition from Human Speech Using Temporal Information and Deep Learning
John Kim, Rif A. Saurous

Role of Regularization in the Prediction of Valence from Speech
Kusha Sridhar, Srinivas Parthasarathy, Carlos Busso

Learning Spontaneity to Improve Emotion Recognition in Speech
Karttikeya Mangalam, Tanaya Guha

Predicting Categorical Emotions by Jointly Learning Primary and Secondary Emotions through Multitask Learning
Reza Lotfian, Carlos Busso

Models of Speech Perception

Picture Naming or Word Reading: Does the Modality Affect Speech Motor Adaptation and Its Transfer?
Tiphaine Caudrelier, Pascal Perrier, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Amélie Rochet-Capellan

Measuring the Band Importance Function for Mandarin Chinese with a Bayesian Adaptive Procedure
Yufan Du, Yi Shen, Hongying Yang, Xihong Wu, Jing Chen

Wide Learning for Auditory Comprehension
Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan, R. Harald Baayen

Analyzing Reaction Time Sequences from Human Participants in Auditory Experiments
Louis ten Bosch, Mirjam Ernestus, Lou Boves

Prediction of Perceived Speech Quality Using Deep Machine Listening
Jasper Ooster, Rainer Huber, Bernd T. Meyer

Prediction of Subjective Listening Effort from Acoustic Data with Non-Intrusive Deep Models
Paul Kranzusch, Rainer Huber, Melanie Krüger, Birger Kollmeier, Bernd T. Meyer

Multimodal Dialogue Systems

A Case Study on the Importance of Belief State Representation for Dialogue Policy Management
Margarita Kotti, Vassilios Diakoloukas, Alexandros Papangelis, Michail Lagoudakis, Yannis Stylianou

Prediction of Turn-taking Using Multitask Learning with Prediction of Backchannels and Fillers
Kohei Hara, Koji Inoue, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara

Conversational Analysis Using Utterance-level Attention-based Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks
Chandrakant Bothe, Sven Magg, Cornelius Weber, Stefan Wermter

A Comparative Study of Statistical Conversion of Face to Voice Based on Their Subjective Impressions
Yasuhito Ohsugi, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu

Follow-up Question Generation Using Pattern-based Seq2seq with a Small Corpus for Interview Coaching
Ming-Hsiang Su, Chung-Hsien Wu, Kun-Yi Huang, Qian-Bei Hong, Huai-Hung Huang

Coherence Models for Dialogue
Alessandra Cervone, Evgeny Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi

Speech Recognition for Indian Languages

Indian Languages ASR: A Multilingual Phone Recognition Framework with IPA Based Common Phone-set, Predicted Articulatory Features and Feature fusion
Manjunath K E, K. Sreenivasa Rao, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, V Ramasubramanian

Rapid Collection of Spontaneous Speech Corpora Using Telephonic Community Forums
Agha Ali Raza, Awais Athar, Shan Randhawa, Zain Tariq, Muhammad Bilal Saleem, Haris Bin Zia, Umar Saif, Roni Rosenfeld

Effect of TTS Generated Audio on OOV Detection and Word Error Rate in ASR for Low-resource Languages
Savitha Murthy, Dinkar Sitaram, Sunayana Sitaram

Development of Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System with Keyword Search for Manipuri
Tanvina Patel, Krishna D N, Noor Fathima, Nisar Shah, Mahima C, Deepak Kumar, Anuroop Iyengar

Robust Mizo Continuous Speech Recognition
Abhishek Dey, Biswajit Dev Sarma, Wendy Lalhminghlui, Lalnunsiami Ngente, Parismita Gogoi, Priyankoo Sarmah, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Rohit Sinha, Nirmala S.R.

Semi-supervised and Active-learning Scenarios: Efficient Acoustic Model Refinement for a Low Resource Indian Language
Maharajan Chellapriyadharshini, Anoop Toffy, Srinivasa Raghavan K. M., V Ramasubramanian

Automatic Speech Recognition with Articulatory Information and a Unified Dictionary for Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Oriya
Debadatta Dash, Myungjong Kim, Kristin Teplansky, Jun Wang

Show and Tell 3

Captaina: Integrated Pronunciation Practice and Data Collection Portal
Aku Rouhe, Reima Karhila, Aija Elg, Minnaleena Toivola, Peter Smit, Anna-Riikka Smolander, Mikko Kurimo

auMina™ - Enterprise Speech Analytics
Umesh Sachdev, Rajagopal Jayaraman, Zainab Millwala

HoloCompanion: An MR Friend for EveryOne
Annam Naresh, Rushabh Gandhi, Mallikarjuna Rao Bellamkonda, Mithun Das Gupta

akeira™ - Virtual Assistant
Umesh Sachdev, Rajagopal Jayaraman, Zainab Millwala

Brain-Computer Interface using Electroencephalogram Signatures of Eye Blinks
Srihari Maruthachalam, Sidharth Aggarwal, Mari Ganesh Kumar, Mriganka Sur, Hema Murthy

Speaker Verification II

Voice Comparison and Rhythm: Behavioral Differences between Target and Non-target Comparisons
Moez Ajili, Jean-François Bonastre, Solange Rossato

Co-whitening of I-vectors for Short and Long Duration Speaker Verification
Longting Xu, Kong Aik Lee, Haizhou Li, Zhen Yang

Compensation for Domain Mismatch in Text-independent Speaker Recognition
Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad, John H.L. Hansen

Joint Learning of J-Vector Extractor and Joint Bayesian Model for Text Dependent Speaker Verification
Ziqiang Shi, Liu Liu, Huibin Lin, Rujie Liu

Latent Factor Analysis of Deep Bottleneck Features for Speaker Verification with Random Digit Strings
Ziqiang Shi, Huibin Lin, Liu Liu, Rujie Liu

VoxCeleb2: Deep Speaker Recognition
Joon Son Chung, Arsha Nagrani, Andrew Zisserman

Supervised I-vector Modeling - Theory and Applications
Shreyas Ramoji, Sriram Ganapathy

LOCUST - Longitudinal Corpus and Toolset for Speaker Verification
Evgeny Dmitriev, Yulia Kim, Anastasia Matveeva, Claude Montacié, Yannick Boulard, Yadviga Sinyavskaya, Yulia Zhukova, Adam Zarazinski, Egor Akhanov, Ilya Viksnin, Andrei Shlykov, Maria Usova

Analysis of Language Dependent Front-End for Speaker Recognition
Srikanth Madikeri, Subhadeep Dey, Petr Motlicek

Robust Speaker Recognition from Distant Speech under Real Reverberant Environments Using Speaker Embeddings
Mahesh Kumar Nandwana, Julien van Hout, Mitchell McLaren, Allen Stauffer, Colleen Richey, Aaron Lawson, Martin Graciarena

Investigation on Bandwidth Extension for Speaker Recognition
Phani Sankar Nidadavolu, Cheng-I Lai, Jesús Villalba, Najim Dehak

On Learning Vocal Tract System Related Speaker Discriminative Information from Raw Signal Using CNNs
Hannah Muckenhirn, Mathew Magimai.-Doss, Sebastien Marcel

On Convolutional LSTM Modeling for Joint Wake-Word Detection and Text Dependent Speaker Verification
Rajath Kumar, Vaishnavi Yeruva, Sriram Ganapathy

Cosine Metric Learning for Speaker Verification in the I-vector Space
Zhongxin Bai, Xiao-Lei Zhang, Jingdong Chen

An Unsupervised Neural Prediction Framework for Learning Speaker Embeddings Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Arindam Jati, Panayiotis Georgiou

Novel Approaches to Enhancement

A New Framework for Supervised Speech Enhancement in the Time Domain
Ashutosh Pandey, DeLiang Wang

Speech Enhancement Using the Minimum-probability-of-error Criterion
Jishnu Sadasivan, Subhadip Mukherjee, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

Exploring the Relationship between Conic Affinity of NMF Dictionaries and Speech Enhancement Metrics
Pavlos Papadopoulos, Colin Vaz, Shrikanth Narayanan

Using Shifted Real Spectrum Mask as Training Target for Supervised Speech Separation
Yun Liu, Hui Zhang, Xueliang Zhang

Enhancement of Noisy Speech Signal by Non-Local Means Estimation of Variational Mode Functions
Nagapuri Srinivas, Gayadhar Pradhan, Syed Shahnawazuddin

Phase-locked Loop (PLL) Based Phase Estimation in Single Channel Speech Enhancement
Priya Pallavi, Ch V Rama Rao

Cycle-Consistent Speech Enhancement
Zhong Meng, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang

Visual Speech Enhancement
Aviv Gabbay, Asaph Shamir, Shmuel Peleg

Implementation of Digital Hearing Aid as a Smartphone Application
Saketh Sharma, Nitya Tiwari, Prem C. Pandey

Bone-Conduction Sensor Assisted Noise Estimation for Improved Speech Enhancement
Ching-Hua Lee, Bhaskar D. Rao, Harinath Garudadri

Artificial Bandwidth Extension with Memory Inclusion Using Semi-supervised Stacked Auto-encoders
Pramod Bachhav, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans

Large Vocabulary Concatenative Resynthesis
Soumi Maiti, Joey Ching, Michael Mandel

Concatenative Resynthesis with Improved Training Signals for Speech Enhancement
Ali Raza Syed, Viet Anh Trinh, Michael Mandel

Syllabification, Rhythm, and Voice Activity Detection

Comparison of Syllabification Algorithms and Training Strategies for Robust Word Count Estimation across Different Languages and Recording Conditions
Okko Räsänen, Seshadri Shreyas, Marisa Casillas

A Comparison of Input Types to a Deep Neural Network-based Forced Aligner
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

Joint Learning Using Denoising Variational Autoencoders for Voice Activity Detection
Youngmoon Jung, Younggwan Kim, Yeunju Choi, Hoirin Kim

Information Bottleneck Based Percussion Instrument Diarization System for Taniavartanam Segments of Carnatic Music Concerts
Nauman Dawalatabad, Jom Kuriakose, Chandra Sekhar Chellu, Hema Murthy

Robust Voice Activity Detection Using Frequency Domain Long-Term Differential Entropy
Debayan Ghosh, Muralishankar R, Sanjeev Gurugopinath

Device-directed Utterance Detection
Sri Harish Mallidi, Roland Maas, Kyle Goehner, Ariya Rastrow, Spyros Matsoukas, Björn Hoffmeister

Acoustic-Prosodic Features of Tabla Bol Recitation and Correspondence with the Tabla Imitation
Rohit M A, Preeti Rao

Who Said That? a Comparative Study of Non-negative Matrix Factorization Techniques
Teun Krikke, Frank Broz, David Lane

AVA-Speech: A Densely Labeled Dataset of Speech Activity in Movies
Sourish Chaudhuri, Joseph Roth, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Andrew Gallagher, Liat Kaver, Radhika Marvin, Caroline Pantofaru, Nathan Reale, Loretta Guarino Reid, Kevin Wilson, Zhonghua Xi

Audiovisual Speech Activity Detection with Advanced Long Short-Term Memory
Fei Tao, Carlos Busso

Towards Automatic Speech Identification from Vocal Tract Shape Dynamics in Real-time MRI
Pramit Saha, Praneeth Srungarapu, Sidney Fels

Selected Topics in Neural Speech Processing

Structured Word Embedding for Low Memory Neural Network Language Model
Kaiyu Shi, Kai Yu

Role Play Dialogue Aware Language Models Based on Conditional Hierarchical Recurrent Encoder-Decoder
Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka, Atsushi Ando, Hirokazu Masataki, Yushi Aono

Efficient Keyword Spotting Using Time Delay Neural Networks
Samuel Myer, Vikrant Singh Tomar

Automatic DNN Node Pruning Using Mixture Distribution-based Group Regularization
Tsukasa Yoshida, Takafumi Moriya, Kazuho Watanabe, Yusuke Shinohara, Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, Yushi Aono

Conditional-Computation-Based Recurrent Neural Networks for Computationally Efficient Acoustic Modelling
Raffaele Tavarone, Leonardo Badino

Leveraging Translations for Speech Transcription in Low-resource Settings
Antonios Anastasopoulos, David Chiang

Sequence-to-sequence Neural Network Model with 2D Attention for Learning Japanese Pitch Accents
Antoine Bruguier, Heiga Zen, Arkady Arkhangorodsky

Task Specific Sentence Embeddings for ASR Error Detection
Sahar Ghannay, Yannick Estève, Nathalie Camelin

Low-Latency Neural Speech Translation
Jan Niehues, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Thanh-Le Ha, Matthias Sperber, Alex Waibel

Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation
Sameer Bansal, Herman Kamper, Karen Livescu, Adam Lopez, Sharon Goldwater

VoiceGuard: Secure and Private Speech Processing
Ferdinand Brasser, Tommaso Frassetto, Korbinian Riedhammer, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Thomas Schneider, Christian Weinert

Perspective Talk-1

Deep Learning based Situated Goal-oriented Dialogue Systems
Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Dereverberation

Single-channel Speech Dereverberation via Generative Adversarial Training
Chenxing Li, Tieqiang Wang, Shuang Xu, Bo Xu

Single-Channel Dereverberation Using Direct MMSE Optimization and Bidirectional LSTM Networks
Wolfgang Mack, Soumitro Chakrabarty, Fabian-Robert Stöter, Sebastian Braun, Bernd Edler, Emanuël Habets

Single-channel Late Reverberation Power Spectral Density Estimation Using Denoising Autoencoders
Ina Kodrasi, Hervé Bourlard

A Non-convolutive NMF Model for Speech Dereverberation
Nikhil M, Rajbabu Velmurugan, Preeti Rao

Cross-Corpora Convolutional Deep Neural Network Dereverberation Preprocessing for Speaker Verification and Speech Enhancement
Peter Guzewich, Stephen Zahorian, Xiao Chen, Hao Zhang

Dereverberation and Beamforming in Robust Far-Field Speaker Recognition
Ladislav Mošner, Oldřich Plchot, Pavel Matějka, Ondřej Novotný, Jan Černocký

Audio Events and Acoustic Scenes

Comparing the Max and Noisy-Or Pooling Functions in Multiple Instance Learning for Weakly Supervised Sequence Learning Tasks
Yun Wang, Juncheng Li, Florian Metze

A Simple Model for Detection of Rare Sound Events
Weiran Wang, Chieh-Chi Kao, Chao Wang

Temporal Transformer Networks for Acoustic Scene Classification
Teng Zhang, Kailai Zhang, Ji Wu

Temporal Attentive Pooling for Acoustic Event Detection
Xugang Lu, Peng Shen, Sheng Li, Yu Tsao, Hisashi Kawai

R-CRNN: Region-based Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network for Audio Event Detection
Chieh-Chi Kao, Weiran Wang, Ming Sun, Chao Wang

Detecting Media Sound Presence in Acoustic Scenes
Constantinos Papayiannis, Justice Amoh, Viktor Rozgic, Shiva Sundaram, Chao Wang

Speaker Diarization

S4D: Speaker Diarization Toolkit in Python
Pierre-Alexandre Broux, Florent Desnous, Anthony Larcher, Simon Petitrenaud, Jean Carrive, Sylvain Meignier

Multimodal Speaker Segmentation and Diarization Using Lexical and Acoustic Cues via Sequence to Sequence Neural Networks
Tae Jin Park, Panayiotis Georgiou

Combined Speaker Clustering and Role Recognition in Conversational Speech
Nikolaos Flemotomos, Pavlos Papadopoulos, James Gibson, Shrikanth Narayanan

The ACLEW DiViMe: An Easy-to-use Diarization Tool
Adrien Le Franc, Eric Riebling, Julien Karadayi, Yun Wang, Camila Scaff, Florian Metze, Alejandrina Cristia

Automatic Detection of Multi-speaker Fragments with High Time Resolution
Evdokia Kazimirova, Andrey Belyaev

Neural Speech Turn Segmentation and Affinity Propagation for Speaker Diarization
Ruiqing Yin, Hervé Bredin, Claude Barras

Phonation

Pitch or Phonation: on the Glottalization in Tone Productions in the Ruokeng Hui Chinese Dialect
Minghui Zhang, Fang Hu

Speaker-specific Structure in German Voiceless Stop Voice Onset Times
Marc Antony Hullebus, Stephen Tobin, Adamantios Gafos

Creak in the Respiratory Cycle
Kätlin Aare, Pärtel Lippus, Marcin Wlodarczak, Mattias Heldner

Acoustic Analysis of Whispery Voice Disguise in Mandarin Chinese
Cuiling Zhang, Bin Li, Si Chen, Yike Yang

The Zurich Corpus of Vowel and Voice Quality, Version 1.0
Dieter Maurer, Christian d’Heureuse, Heidy Suter, Volker Dellwo, Daniel Friedrichs, Thayabaran Kathiresan

Weighting of Coda Voicing Cues: Glottalisation and Vowel Duration
Joshua Penney, Felicity Cox, Anita Szakay

Cognition and Brain Studies

Revealing Spatiotemporal Brain Dynamics of Speech Production Based on EEG and Eye Movement
Bin Zhao, Jinfeng Huang, Gaoyan Zhang, Jianwu Dang, Minbo Chen, YingjianFu, Longbiao Wang

Neural Response Development During Distributional Learning
Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, Jessie S. Nixon, Tomas O. Lentz, Liquan Liu, Sandrien van Ommen, Çağri Çöltekin, Jacolien van Rij

Learning Two Tone Languages Enhances the Brainstem Encoding of Lexical Tones
Akshay Raj Maggu, Wenqing Zong, Vina Law, Patrick C. M. Wong

Perceptual Sensitivity to Spectral Change in Australian English Close Front Vowels: An Electroencephalographic Investigation
Daniel Williams, Paola Escudero, Adamantios Gafos

Effective Acoustic Cue Learning Is Not Just Statistical, It Is Discriminative
Jessie S. Nixon

Analyzing EEG Signals in Auditory Speech Comprehension Using Temporal Response Functions and Generalized Additive Models
Kimberley Mulder, Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves

Deep Neural Networks: How Can We Interpret What They Learned?

Information Encoding by Deep Neural Networks: What Can We Learn?
Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves

Scalable Factorized Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder Training
Wei-Ning Hsu, James Glass

State Gradients for RNN Memory Analysis
Lyan Verwimp, Hugo van Hamme, Vincent Renkens, Patrick Wambacq

Exploring How Phone Classification Neural Networks Learn Phonetic Information by Visualising and Interpreting Bottleneck Features
Linxue Bai, Philip Weber, Peter Jančovič, Martin Russell

Memory Time Span in LSTMs for Multi-Speaker Source Separation
Jeroen Zegers, Hugo van Hamme

Visualizing Phoneme Category Adaptation in Deep Neural Networks
Odette Scharenborg, Sebastian Tiesmeyer, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Najim Dehak

Show and Tell 4

Early Vocabulary Development Through Picture-based Software Solutions
Kasthuri G, Prabha Ramanathan, Hema Murthy, Namita Jacob, Anil Prabhakar

Automatic Detection of Expressiveness in Oral Reading
Kamini Sabu, Kanhaiya Kumar, Preeti Rao

PannoMulloKathan: Voice Enabled Mobile App for Agricultural Commodity Price Dissemination in Bengali Language
Madhab Pal, Rajib Roy, Soma Khan, Milton S. Bepari, Joyanta Basu

Visualizing Punctuation Restoration in Speech Transcripts with Prosograph
Alp Öktem, Mireia Farrús, Antonio Bonafonte

CACTAS - Collaborative Audio Categorization and Transcription for ASR Systems
Mithul Mathivanan, Kinnera Saranu, Abhishek Pandey, Jithendra Vepa

Speech and Singing Production

FACTS: A Hierarchical Task-based Control Model of Speech Incorporating Sensory Feedback
Benjamin Parrell, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Srikantan Nagarajan, John Houde

Sensorimotor Response to Tongue Displacement Imagery by Talkers with Parkinson’s Disease
William Katz, Patrick Reidy, Divya Prabhakaran

Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation of Singing
Chitralekha Gupta, Haizhou Li, Ye Wang

Classification of Nonverbal Human Produced Audio Events: A Pilot Study
Rachel E. Bouserhal, Philippe Chabot, Milton Sarria-Paja, Patrick Cardinal, Jérémie Voix

UltraFit: A Speaker-friendly Headset for Ultrasound Recordings in Speech Science
Lorenzo Spreafico, Michael Pucher, Anna Matosova

Articulatory Consequences of Vocal Effort Elicitation Method
Elisabet Eir Cortes, Marcin Wlodarczak, Juraj Šimko

Age-related Effects on Sensorimotor Control of Speech Production
Anne Hermes, Jane Mertens, Doris Mücke

An Ultrasound Study of Gemination in Coronal Stops in Eastern Oromo
Maida Percival, Alexei Kochetov, Yoonjung Kang

Processing Transition Regions of Glottal Stop Substituted /S/ for Intelligibility Enhancement of Cleft Palate Speech
Protima Nomo Sudro, Sishir Kalita, S R Mahadeva Prasanna

Reconstructing Neutral Speech from Tracheoesophageal Speech
Abinay Reddy N, Achuth Rao MV, G. Nisha Meenakshi, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Automatic Evaluation of Soft Articulatory Contact for Stuttering Treatment
Keiko Ochi, Koichi Mori, Naomi Sakai

Korean Singing Voice Synthesis Based on an LSTM Recurrent Neural Network
Juntae Kim, Heejin Choi, Jinuk Park, Minsoo Hahn, Sangjin Kim, Jong-Jin Kim

The Trajectory of Voice Onset Time with Vocal Aging
Chen Xuanda, Xiong Ziyu, Hu Jian

Robust Speech Recognition

The Fifth 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Dataset, Task and Baselines
Jon Barker, Shinji Watanabe, Emmanuel Vincent, Jan Trmal

Voices Obscured in Complex Environmental Settings (VOiCES) Corpus
Colleen Richey, Maria A. Barrios, Zeb Armstrong, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena, Aaron Lawson, Mahesh Kumar Nandwana, Allen Stauffer, Julien van Hout, Paul Gamble, Jeffrey Hetherly, Cory Stephenson, Karl Ni

Building State-of-the-art Distant Speech Recognition Using the CHiME-4 Challenge with a Setup of Speech Enhancement Baseline
Szu-Jui Chen, Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, Hainan Xu, Shinji Watanabe

Unsupervised Adaptation with Interpretable Disentangled Representations for Distant Conversational Speech Recognition
Wei-Ning Hsu, Hao Tang, James Glass

Investigating Generative Adversarial Networks Based Speech Dereverberation for Robust Speech Recognition
Ke Wang, Junbo Zhang, Sining Sun, Yujun Wang, Fei Xiang, Lei Xie

Monaural Multi-Talker Speech Recognition with Attention Mechanism and Gated Convolutional Networks
Xuankai Chang, Yanmin Qian, Dong Yu

Weighting Time-Frequency Representation of Speech Using Auditory Saliency for Automatic Speech Recognition
Cong-Thanh Do, Yannis Stylianou

Acoustic Modeling from Frequency Domain Representations of Speech
Pegah Ghahremani, Hossein Hadian, Hang Lv, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Non-Uniform Spectral Smoothing for Robust Children's Speech Recognition
Ishwar Chandra Yadav, Avinash Kumar, Syed Shahnawazuddin, Gayadhar Pradhan

Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory Network-based Estimation of Reliable Spectral Component Locations
Aaron Nicolson, Kuldip K. Paliwal

Speech Emotion Recognition by Combining Amplitude and Phase Information Using Convolutional Neural Network
Lili Guo, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang, Linjuan Zhang, Haotian Guan, Xiangang Li

Bubble Cooperative Networks for Identifying Important Speech Cues
Viet Anh Trinh, Brian McFee, Michael I Mandel

Applications in Education and Learning

Real-Time Scoring of an Oral Reading Assessment on Mobile Devices
Jian Cheng

A Deep Learning Approach to Assessing Non-native Pronunciation of English Using Phone Distances
Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos, Kate Knill, Mark Gales

Paired Phone-Posteriors Approach to ESL Pronunciation Quality Assessment
Yujia Xiao, Frank Soong, Wenping Hu

Investigating the Role of L1 in Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation of L2 Speech
Ming Tu, Anna Grabek, Julie Liss, Visar Berisha

Impact of ASR Performance on Free Speaking Language Assessment
Kate Knill, Mark Gales, Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos, Andrey Malinin, Anton Ragni, Yu Wang, Andrew Caines

Automatic Miscue Detection Using RNN Based Models with Data Augmentation
Yoon Seok Hong, Kyung Seo Ki, Gahgene Gweon

A Study of Objective Measurement of Comprehensibility through Native Speakers' Shadowing of Learners' Utterances
Yusuke Inoue, Suguru Kabashima, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Kumi Kanamura, Yutaka Yamauchi

Factorized Deep Neural Network Adaptation for Automatic Scoring of L2 Speech in English Speaking Tests
Dean Luo, Chunxiao Zhang, Linzhong Xia, Lixin Wang

On the Difficulties of Automatic Speech Recognition for Kindergarten-Aged Children
Gary Yeung, Abeer Alwan

Improved Acoustic Modelling for Automatic Literacy Assessment of Children
Mauro Nicolao, Michiel Sanders, Thomas Hain

Integrating Speech Science and Technology for Clinical Applications

Anomaly Detection Approach for Pronunciation Verification of Disordered Speech Using Speech Attribute Features
Mostafa Shahin, Beena Ahmed, Jim X. Ji, Kirrie Ballard

Effectiveness of Voice Quality Features in Detecting Depression
Amber Afshan, Jinxi Guo, Soo Jin Park, Vijay Ravi, Jonathan Flint, Abeer Alwan

Fusing Text-dependent Word-level i-Vector Models to Screen ‘at Risk’ Child Speech
Prasanna Kothalkar, Johanna Rudolph, Christine Dollaghan, Jennifer McGlothlin, Thomas Campbell, John H.L. Hansen

Testing Paradigms for Assistive Hearing Devices in Diverse Acoustic Environments
Ram Charan Chandra Shekar, Hussnain Ali, John H.L. Hansen

Detection of Dementia from Responses to Atypical Questions Asked by Embodied Conversational Agents
Tsuyoki Ujiro, Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroyoshi Adachi, Hiroaki Kazui, Manabu Ikeda, Takashi Kudo, Satoshi Nakamura

Acoustic Features Associated with Sustained Vowel and Continuous Speech Productions by Chinese Children with Functional Articulation Disorders
Wang Zhang, Xiangquan Gui, Tianqi Wang, Manwa Ng, Feng Yang, Lan Wang, Nan Yan

Estimation of Hypernasality Scores from Cleft Lip and Palate Speech
Vikram C M, Ayush Tripathi, Sishir Kalita, S R Mahadeva Prasanna

Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease Using Gated Convolutional Neural Network from Audio Data
Tifani Warnita, Nakamasa Inoue, Koichi Shinoda

Automatic Detection of Orofacial Impairment in Stroke
Andrea Bandini, Jordan Green, Brian Richburg, Yana Yunusova

Detecting Depression with Audio/Text Sequence Modeling of Interviews
Tuka Al Hanai, Mohammad Ghassemi, James Glass

Speaker Characterization and Analysis

Discourse Marker Detection for Hesitation Events on Mandarin Conversation
Yu-Wun Wang, Hen-Hsen Huang, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Acoustic and Perceptual Characteristics of Mandarin Speech in Homosexual and Heterosexual Male Speakers
Puyang Geng, Wentao Gu, Hiroya Fujisaki

Automatic Question Detection from Acoustic and Phonetic Features Using Feature-wise Pre-training
Atsushi Ando, Reine Asakawa, Ryo Masumura, Hosana Kamiyama, Satoshi Kobashikawa, Yushi Aono

Improving Response Time of Active Speaker Detection Using Visual Prosody Information Prior to Articulation
Fasih Haider, Saturnino Luz, Carl Vogel, Nick Campbell

Audio-Visual Prediction of Head-Nod and Turn-Taking Events in Dyadic Interactions
Bekir Berker Türker, Engin Erzin, Yücel Yemez, Metin Sezgin

Analyzing Effect of Physical Expression on English Proficiency for Multimodal Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Haoran Wu, Yuya Chiba, Takashi Nose, Akinori Ito

Analysis of the Effect of Speech-Laugh on Speaker Recognition System
Sri Harsha Dumpala, Ashish Panda, Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Vocal Biomarkers for Cognitive Performance Estimation in a Working Memory Task
Jennifer Sloboda, Adam Lammert, James Williamson, Christopher Smalt, Daryush D. Mehta, COL Ian Curry, Kristin Heaton, Jeffrey Palmer, Thomas Quatieri

Lexical and Acoustic Deep Learning Model for Personality Recognition
Guozhen An, Rivka Levitan

Perspective Talk-2

Open Problems in Speech Recognition
Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Plenary Talk-2

Evolution of Neural Network Architectures for Speech Recognition
Hervé Bourlard

Novel Neural Network Architectures for Acoustic Modelling

Layer Trajectory LSTM
Jinyu Li, Changliang Liu, Yifan Gong

Semi-tied Units for Efficient Gating in LSTM and Highway Networks
Chao Zhang, Philip Woodland

Gaussian Process Neural Networks for Speech Recognition
Max W. Y. Lam, Shoukang Hu, Xurong Xie, Shansong Liu, Jianwei Yu, Rongfeng Su, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng

Acoustic Modeling with Densely Connected Residual Network for Multichannel Speech Recognition
Jian Tang, Yan Song, Lirong Dai, Ian McLoughlin

Gated Recurrent Unit Based Acoustic Modeling with Future Context
Jie Li, Xiaorui Wang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Yan Li

Output-Gate Projected Gated Recurrent Unit for Speech Recognition
Gaofeng Cheng, Daniel Povey, Lu Huang, Ji Xu, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Yonghong Yan

Language Identification

Performance Analysis of the 2017 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Timothee Kheyrkhah, Craig Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Douglas Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero

Using Deep Neural Networks for Identification of Slavic Languages from Acoustic Signal
Lukas Mateju, Petr Cerva, Jindrich Zdansky, Radek Safarik

Adding New Classes without Access to the Original Training Data with Applications to Language Identification
Hagai Taitelbaum, Ehud Ben-Reuven, Jacob Goldberger

Feature Representation of Short Utterances Based on Knowledge Distillation for Spoken Language Identification
Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Sheng Li, Hisashi Kawai

Sub-band Envelope Features Using Frequency Domain Linear Prediction for Short Duration Language Identification
Sarith Fernando, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Effectiveness of Single-Channel BLSTM Enhancement for Language Identification
Peter Sibbern Frederiksen, Jesús Villalba, Shinji Watanabe, Zheng-Hua Tan, Najim Dehak

Production of Prosody

Articulation Rate as a Speaker Discriminant in British English
Erica Gold

Truncation and Compression in Southern German and Australian English
Jenny Yu, Katharina Zahner

Prominence-based Evaluation of L2 Prosody
Heini Kallio, Antti Suni, Päivi Virkkunen, Juraj Šimko

Length Contrast and Covarying Features: Whistled Speech as a Case Study
Rachid Ridouane, Giuseppina Turco, Julien Meyer

Information Structure, Affect and Prenuclear Prominence in American English
Eleanor Chodroff, Jennifer Cole

Effects of User Controlled Speech Rate on Intelligibility in Noisy Environments
John S. Novak, III , Robert V. Kenyon

Speech Intelligibility and Quality

Binaural Speech Intelligibility Estimation Using Deep Neural Networks
Kazuhiro Kondo, Kazuya Taira, Yosuke Kobayashi

Multi-resolution Gammachirp Envelope Distortion Index for Intelligibility Prediction of Noisy Speech
Katsuhiko Yamamoto, Toshio Irino, Narumi Ohashi, Shoko Araki, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tomohiro Nakatani

Speech Intelligibility Enhancement Based on a Non-causal Wavenet-like Model
Muhammed Shifas PV, Vassilis Tsiaras, Yannis Stylianou

Quality-Net: An End-to-End Non-intrusive Speech Quality Assessment Model Based on BLSTM
Szu-wei Fu, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Te Hwang, Hsin-Min Wang

Global SNR Estimation of Speech Signals Using Entropy and Uncertainty Estimates from Dropout Networks
Rohith Aralikatti, Dilip Kumar Margam, Tanay Sharma, Abhinav Thanda, Shankar Venkatesan

Detecting Packet-Loss Concealment Using Formant Features and Decision Tree Learning
Gabriel Mittag, Sebastian Möller

Integrating Speech Science and Technology for Clinical Applications

UltraSuite: A Repository of Ultrasound and Acoustic Data from Child Speech Therapy Sessions
Aciel Eshky, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Joanne Cleland, Korin Richmond, Zoe Roxburgh, James M Scobbie, Alan Wrench

Detecting Signs of Dementia Using Word Vector Representations
Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Traci Walker, Annalena Venneri, Markus Reuber, Heidi Christensen

Classification of Huntington Disease Using Acoustic and Lexical Features
Matthew Perez, Wenyu Jin, Duc Le, Noelle Carlozzi, Praveen Dayalu, Angela Roberts, Emily Mower Provost

The PRIORI Emotion Dataset: Linking Mood to Emotion Detected In-the-Wild
Soheil Khorram, Mimansa Jaiswal, John Gideon, Melvin McInnis, Emily Mower Provost

Language Features for Automated Evaluation of Cognitive Behavior Psychotherapy Sessions
Nikolaos Flemotomos, Victor Martinez, James Gibson, David Atkins, Torrey Creed, Shrikanth Narayanan

Automatic Early Detection of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis from Intelligible Speech Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Kwanghoon An, Myungjong Kim, Kristin Teplansky, Jordan Green, Thomas Campbell, Yana Yunusova, Daragh Heitzman, Jun Wang

Speech Technologies for Code-Switching in Multilingual Communities

A Study of Lexical and Prosodic Cues to Segmentation in a Hindi-English Code-switched Discourse
Preeti Rao, Mugdha Pandya, Kamini Sabu, Kanhaiya Kumar, Nandini Bondale

Building a Unified Code-Switching ASR System for South African Languages
Emre Yılmaz, Astik Biswas, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Febe de Wet, Thomas Niesler

Study of Semi-supervised Approaches to Improving English-Mandarin Code-Switching Speech Recognition
Pengcheng Guo, Haihua Xu, Lei Xie, Eng Siong Chng

Acoustic and Textual Data Augmentation for Improved ASR of Code-Switching Speech
Emre Yılmaz, Henk van den Heuvel, David van Leeuwen

The Role of Cognate Words, POS Tags and Entrainment in Code-Switching
Victor Soto, Nishmar Cestero, Julia Hirschberg

Homophone Identification and Merging for Code-switched Speech Recognition
Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Sunayana Sitaram

Code-switching in Indic Speech Synthesisers
Anju Leela Thomas, Anusha Prakash, Arun Baby, Hema Murthy

A Novel Approach for Effective Recognition of the Code-Switched Data on Monolingual Language Model
Sreeram Ganji, Rohit Sinha

Show and Tell 5

Hierarchical Accent Determination and Application in a Large Scale ASR System
Ramya Viswanathan, Periyasamy Paramasivam, Jithendra Vepa

Toward Scalable Dialog Technology for Conversational Language Learning: Case Study of the TOEFL® MOOC
Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Pautler, Patrick Lange, Eugene Tsuprun, Rutuja Ubale, Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft

Machine Learning Powered Data Platform for High-Quality Speech and NLP Workflows
João Freitas, Jorge Ribeiro, Daan Baldwijns, Sara Oliveira, Daniela Braga

Fully Automatic Speaker Separation System, with Automatic Enrolling of Recurrent Speakers
Raphael Cohen, Orgad Keller, Jason Levy, Russell Levy, Micha Breakstone, Amit Ashkenazi

Online Speech Translation System for Tamil
Madhavaraj Ayyavu, Shiva Kumar H R, Ramakrishnan A G

Voice Conversion and Speech Synthesis

Unsupervised Vocal Tract Length Warped Posterior Features for Non-Parallel Voice Conversion
Nirmesh Shah, Maulik C. Madhavi, Hemant Patil

Voice Conversion with Conditional SampleRNN
Cong Zhou, Michael Horgan, Vivek Kumar, Cristina Vasco, Dan Darcy

A Voice Conversion Framework with Tandem Feature Sparse Representation and Speaker-Adapted WaveNet Vocoder
Berrak Sisman, Mingyang Zhang, Haizhou Li

WaveNet Vocoder with Limited Training Data for Voice Conversion
Li-Juan Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yuan Jiang, Ming Zhou, Li-Rong Dai

Collapsed Speech Segment Detection and Suppression for WaveNet Vocoder
Yi-Chiao Wu, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Tomoki Hayashi, Patrick Lumban Tobing, Tomoki Toda

High-quality Voice Conversion Using Spectrogram-Based WaveNet Vocoder
Kuan Chen, Bo Chen, Jiahao Lai, Kai Yu

Spanish Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Using a Neural Vocoder
Antonio Bonafonte, Santiago Pascual, Georgina Dorca

Experiments with Training Corpora for Statistical Text-to-speech Systems.
Monika Podsiadło, Victor Ungureanu

Multi-task WaveNet: A Multi-task Generative Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis without Fundamental Frequency Conditions
Yu Gu, Yongguo Kang

Speaker-independent Raw Waveform Model for Glottal Excitation
Lauri Juvela, Vassilis Tsiaras, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Manu Airaksinen, Junichi Yamagishi, Paavo Alku

A New Glottal Neural Vocoder for Speech Synthesis
Yang Cui, Xi Wang, Lei He, Frank K. Soong

Exemplar-based Speech Waveform Generation
Oliver Watts, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Felipe Espic, Simon King

Frequency Domain Variants of Velvet Noise and Their Application to Speech Processing and Synthesis
Hideki Kawahara, Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Masanori Morise, Hideki Banno, Tomoki Toda, Toshio Irino

Extracting Information from Audio

Joint Learning of Interactive Spoken Content Retrieval and Trainable User Simulator
Pei-Hung Chung, Kuan Tung, Ching-Lun Tai, Hung-yi Lee

Attention-based End-to-End Models for Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting
Changhao Shan, Junbo Zhang, Yujun Wang, Lei Xie

Prediction of Aesthetic Elements in Karnatic Music: A Machine Learning Approach
Ragesh Rajan M, Ashwin Vijayakumar, Deepu Vijayasenan

Topic and Keyword Identification for Low-resourced Speech Using Cross-Language Transfer Learning
Wenda Chen, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Nancy F. Chen

Automatic Speech Recognition and Topic Identification from Speech for Almost-Zero-Resource Languages
Matthew Wiesner, Chunxi Liu, Lucas Ondel, Craig Harman, Vimal Manohar, Jan Trmal, Zhongqiang Huang, Najim Dehak, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Play Duration Based User-Entity Affinity Modeling in Spoken Dialog System
Bo Xiao, Nicholas Monath, Shankar Ananthakrishnan, Abishek Ravi

Empirical Analysis of Score Fusion Application to Combined Neural Networks for Open Vocabulary Spoken Term Detection
Shi-wook Lee, Kazuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Itoh

Phonological Posterior Hashing for Query by Example Spoken Term Detection
Afsaneh Asaei, Dhananjay Ram, Hervé Bourlard

Term Extraction via Neural Sequence Labeling a Comparative Evaluation of Strategies Using Recurrent Neural Networks
Maren Kucza, Jan Niehues, Thomas Zenkel, Alex Waibel, Sebastian Stüker

Semi-supervised Learning for Information Extraction from Dialogue
Anjuli Kannan, Kai Chen, Diana Jaunzeikare, Alvin Rajkomar

Slot Filling with Delexicalized Sentence Generation
Youhyun Shin, Kang Min Yoo, Sang-goo Lee

Music Genre Recognition Using Deep Neural Networks and Transfer Learning
Deepanway Ghosal, Maheshkumar H. Kolekar

Efficient Voice Trigger Detection for Low Resource Hardware
Siddharth Sigtia, Rob Haynes, Hywel Richards, Erik Marchi, John Bridle

Signal Analysis for the Natural, Biological and Social Sciences

A Novel Normalization Method for Autocorrelation Function for Pitch Detection and for Speech Activity Detection
Qiguang Lin, Yiwen Shao

Estimation of the Vocal Tract Length of Vowel Sounds Based on the Frequency of the Significant Spectral Valley
TV Ananthapadmanabha, Ramakrishnan A G

Deep Learning Techniques for Koala Activity Detection
Ivan Himawan, Michael Towsey, Bradley Law, Paul Roe

Glottal Closure Instant Detection from Speech Signal Using Voting Classifier and Recursive Feature Elimination
Jindřich Matoušek, Daniel Tihelka

Assessing Speaker Engagement in 2-Person Debates: Overlap Detection in United States Presidential Debates
Midia Yousefi, Navid Shokouhi, John H.L. Hansen

All-Conv Net for Bird Activity Detection: Significance of Learned Pooling
Arjun Pankajakshan, Anshul Thakur, Daksh Thapar, Padmanabhan Rajan, Aditya Nigam

Deep Convex Representations: Feature Representations for Bioacoustics Classification
Anshul Thakur, Vinayak Abrol, Pulkit Sharma, Padmanabhan Rajan

Detection of Glottal Excitation Epochs in Speech Signal Using Hilbert Envelope
Hirak Dasgupta, Prem C. Pandey, K S Nataraj

Analyzing Thai Tone Distribution through Functional Data Analysis
Hong Zhang

Articulatory Feature Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Danny Merkx, Odette Scharenborg

A New Frequency Coverage Metric and a New Subband Encoding Model, with an Application in Pitch Estimation
Shoufeng Lin

Improved Epoch Extraction from Telephonic Speech Using Chebfun and Zero Frequency Filtering
Ganga Gowri B, Soman K.P, Govind D

Speech Prosody

An Empirical Analysis of the Correlation of Syntax and Prosody
Arne Köhn, Timo Baumann, Oskar Dörfler

Analysing the Focus of a Hierarchical Attention Network: the Importance of Enjambments When Classifying Post-modern Poetry
Timo Baumann, Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek

Language-Dependent Melody Embeddings
Daniil Kocharov, Alla Menshikova

Stress Distribution of Given Information in Chinese Reading Texts
Yuan Jia, Xiaoxiao Ma

Acoustic-prosodic Entrainment in Structural Metadata Events
Vera Cabarrão, Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata

Formant Measures of Vowels Adjacent to Alveolar and Retroflex Consonants in Arrernte: Stressed and Unstressed Position
Marija Tabain, Richard Beare, Andrew Butcher

Automatic Assessment of L2 English Word Prosody Using Weighted Distances of F0 and Intensity Contours
Quy-Thao Truong, Tsuneo Kato, Seiichi Yamamoto

Homogeneity vs Heterogeneity in Indian English: Investigating Influences of L1 on f0 Range
Olga Maxwell, Elinor Payne, Rosey Billington

Emotional Prosody Perception in Mandarin-speaking Congenital Amusics
Yixin Zhang, Tianzhu Geng, Jinsong Zhang

Cultural Differences in Pattern Matching: Multisensory Recognition of Socio-affective Prosody
Takaaki Shochi, Jean-Luc Rouas, Marine Guerry, Donna Erickson

Perspective Talk-3

Speech Processing in the Human Brain Meets Deep Learning
Nima Mesgarani

Recurrent Neural Models for ASR

ESPnet: End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit
Shinji Watanabe, Takaaki Hori, Shigeki Karita, Tomoki Hayashi, Jiro Nishitoba, Yuya Unno, Nelson Enrique Yalta Soplin, Jahn Heymann, Matthew Wiesner, Nanxin Chen, Adithya Renduchintala, Tsubasa Ochiai

A GPU-based WFST Decoder with Exact Lattice Generation
Zhehuai Chen, Justin Luitjens, Hainan Xu, Yiming Wang, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Automatic Speech Recognition System Development in the "Wild"
Anton Ragni, Mark Gales

Semantic Lattice Processing in Contextual Automatic Speech Recognition for Google Assistant
Leonid Velikovich, Ian Williams, Justin Scheiner, Petar Aleksic, Pedro Moreno, Michael Riley

Contextual Speech Recognition in End-to-end Neural Network Systems Using Beam Search
Ian Williams, Anjuli Kannan, Petar Aleksic, David Rybach, Tara Sainath

Forward-Backward Attention Decoder
Masato Mimura, Shinsuke Sakai, Tatsuya Kawahara

Speaker Verification Using Neural Network Methods I

Learning Discriminative Features for Speaker Identification and Verification
Sarthak Yadav, Atul Rai

Triplet Loss Based Cosine Similarity Metric Learning for Text-independent Speaker Recognition
Sergey Novoselov, Vadim Shchemelinin, Andrey Shulipa, Alexandr Kozlov, Ivan Kremnev

Speaker Embedding Extraction with Phonetic Information
Yi Liu, Liang He, Jia Liu, Michael T. Johnson

Attentive Statistics Pooling for Deep Speaker Embedding
Koji Okabe, Takafumi Koshinaka, Koichi Shinoda

Robust and Discriminative Speaker Embedding via Intra-Class Distance Variance Regularization
Nam Le, Jean-Marc Odobez

Deep Discriminative Embeddings for Duration Robust Speaker Verification
Na Li, Deyi Tuo, Dan Su, Zhifeng Li, Dong Yu

Speech Perception in Adverse Conditions

Impact of Different Speech Types on Listening Effort
Olympia Simantiraki, Martin Cooke, Simon King

Who Are You Listening to? Towards a Dynamic Measure of Auditory Attention to Speech-on-speech.
Moïra-Phoebé Huet, Christophe Micheyl, Etienne Gaudrain, Etienne Parizet

Investigating the Role of Familiar Face and Voice Cues in Speech Processing in Noise
Jeesun Kim, Sonya Karisma, Vincent Aubanel, Chris Davis

The Conversation Continues: the Effect of Lyrics and Music Complexity of Background Music on Spoken-Word Recognition
Odette Scharenborg, Martha Larson

Loud and Shouted Speech Perception at Variable Distances in a Forest
Julien Meyer, Fanny Meunier, Laure Dentel, Noelia Do Carmo Blanco, Frédéric Sèbe

Phoneme Resistance and Phoneme Confusion in Noise: Impact of Dyslexia
Noelia Do Carmo Blanco, Julien Meyer, Michel Hoen, Fanny Meunier

Measuring Pitch and Articulation

Conditional End-to-End Audio Transforms
Albert Haque, Michelle Guo, Prateek Verma

Detection of Glottal Closure Instants in Degraded Speech Using Single Frequency Filtering Analysis
Gunnam Aneeja, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Bayya Yegnanarayana

Tone Recognition Using Lifters and CTC
Loren Lugosch, Vikrant Singh Tomar

Epoch Extraction from Pathological Children Speech Using Single Pole Filtering Approach
Vikram C M, S R Mahadeva Prasanna

Automated Classification of Vowel-Gesture Parameters Using External Broadband Excitation
Balamurali B T, Jer-Ming Chen

Estimation of Fundamental Frequency from Singing Voice Using Harmonics of Impulse-like Excitation Source
Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Bayya Yegnanarayana

Speech and Language Analytics for Mental Health

Investigating the Effect of Audio Duration on Dementia Detection Using Acoustic Features
Jochen Weiner, Miguel Angrick, Srinivasan Umesh, Tanja Schultz

An Interlocutor-Modulated Attentional LSTM for Differentiating between Subgroups of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Yun-Shao Lin, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Chi-Chun Lee

Recognition of Echolalic Autistic Child Vocalisations Utilising Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks
Shahin Amiriparian, Alice Baird, Sahib Julka, Alyssa Alcorn, Sandra Ottl, Sunčica Petrović, Eloise Ainger, Nicholas Cummins, Björn Schuller

Modeling Interpersonal Influence of Verbal Behavior in Couples Therapy Dyadic Interactions
Sandeep Nallan Chakravarthula, Brian Baucom, Panayiotis Georgiou

Computational Modeling of Conversational Humor in Psychotherapy
Anil Ramakrishna, Timothy Greer, David Atkins, Shrikanth Narayanan

Multimodal I-vectors to Detect and Evaluate Parkinson's Disease
Nicanor Garcia, Juan Camilo Vásquez Correa, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Elmar Nöth

Spoken CALL Shared Task, Second Edition

Overview of the 2018 Spoken CALL Shared Task
Claudia Baur, Andrew Caines, Cathy Chua, Johanna Gerlach, Mengjie Qian, Manny Rayner, Martin Russell, Helmer Strik, Xizi Wei

The CSU-K Rule-Based System for the 2nd Edition Spoken CALL Shared Task
Dominik Jülg, Mario Kunstek, Cem Philipp Freimoser, Kay Berkling, Mengjie Qian

Liulishuo's System for the Spoken CALL Shared Task 2018
Huy Nguyen, Lei Chen, Ramon Prieto, Chuan Wang, Yang Liu

An Optimization Based Approach for Solving Spoken CALL Shared Task
Mohammad Ateeq, Abualsoud Hanani, Aziz Qaroush

The University of Birmingham 2018 Spoken CALL Shared Task Systems
Mengjie Qian, Xizi Wei, Peter Jančovič, Martin Russell

Improvements to an Automated Content Scoring System for Spoken CALL Responses: the ETS Submission to the Second Spoken CALL Shared Task
Keelan Evanini, Matthew Mulholland, Rutuja Ubale, Yao Qian, Robert Pugh, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Aoife Cahill

Show and Tell 6

Extracting Speaker’s Gender, Accent, Age and Emotional State from Speech
Nagendra Goel, Mousmita Sarma, Tejendra Kushwah, Dharmesh Agarwal, Zikra Iqbal, Surbhi Chauhan

Determining Speaker Location from Speech in a Practical Environment
BHVS Narayanamurthy, JV Satyanarayana, Bayya Yegnanarayana

An Automatic Speech Transcription System for Manipuri Language
Tanvina Patel, Krishna D N, Noor Fathima, Nisar Shah, Mahima C, Deepak Kumar, Anuroop Iyengar

SPIRE-SST: An Automatic Web-based Self-learning Tool for Syllable Stress Tutoring (SST) to the Second Language Learners
Chiranjeevi Yarra, Anand P A, Kausthubha N K, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Glotto Vibrato Graph: A Device and Method for Recording, Analysis and Visualization of Glottal Activity
Kishalay Chakraborty, Senjam Shantirani Devi, Sanjeevan Devnath, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Priyankoo Sarmah

Adjusting to Speaker, Accent, and Domain

Multi-Modal Data Augmentation for End-to-end ASR
Adithya Renduchintala, Shuoyang Ding, Matthew Wiesner, Shinji Watanabe

Multi-task Learning with Augmentation Strategy for Acoustic-to-word Attention-based Encoder-decoder Speech Recognition
Takafumi Moriya, Sei Ueno, Yusuke Shinohara, Marc Delcroix, Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, Yushi Aono

Training Augmentation with Adversarial Examples for Robust Speech Recognition
Sining Sun, Ching-Feng Yeh, Mari Ostendorf, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Lei Xie

Data Augmentation Improves Recognition of Foreign Accented Speech
Takashi Fukuda, Raul Fernandez, Andrew Rosenberg, Samuel Thomas, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Alexander Sorin, Gakuto Kurata

Speaker Adaptive Training and Mixup Regularization for Neural Network Acoustic Models in Automatic Speech Recognition
Natalia Tomashenko, Yuri Khokhlov, Yannick Estève

Neural Language Codes for Multilingual Acoustic Models
Markus Müller, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel

Encoder Transfer for Attention-based Acoustic-to-word Speech Recognition
Sei Ueno, Takafumi Moriya, Masato Mimura, Shinsuke Sakai, Yusuke Shinohara, Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, Yushi Aono, Tatsuya Kawahara

Empirical Evaluation of Speaker Adaptation on DNN Based Acoustic Model
Ke Wang, Junbo Zhang, Yujun Wang, Lei Xie

Improving DNNs Trained with Non-Native Transcriptions Using Knowledge Distillation and Target Interpolation
Amit Das, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Improving Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transferability Using Multilingual TDNN-BLSTM with Language-Dependent Pre-Final Layer
Siyuan Feng, Tan Lee

Auxiliary Feature Based Adaptation of End-to-end ASR Systems
Marc Delcroix, Shinji Watanabe, Atsunori Ogawa, Shigeki Karita, Tomohiro Nakatani

Leveraging Native Language Information for Improved Accented Speech Recognition
Shahram Ghorbani, John H.L. Hansen

Improved Accented Speech Recognition Using Accent Embeddings and Multi-task Learning
Abhinav Jain, Minali Upreti, Preethi Jyothi

Fast Language Adaptation Using Phonological Information
Sibo Tong, Philip N. Garner, Hervé Bourlard

Speech Synthesis Paradigms and Methods

Naturalness Improvement Algorithm for Reconstructed Glossectomy Patient's Speech Using Spectral Differential Modification in Voice Conversion
Hiroki Murakami, Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Masaaki Sato, Shogo Minagi

Audio-visual Voice Conversion Using Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis for Deep Bottleneck Features
Satoshi Tamura, Kento Horio, Hajime Endo, Satoru Hayamizu, Tomoki Toda

An Investigation of Convolution Attention Based Models for Multilingual Speech Synthesis of Indian Languages
Pallavi Baljekar, SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Alan W Black

The Effect of Real-Time Constraints on Automatic Speech Animation
Danny Websdale, Sarah Taylor, Ben Milner

Joint Learning of Facial Expression and Head Pose from Speech
David Greenwood, Iain Matthews, Stephen Laycock

Acoustic-dependent Phonemic Transcription for Text-to-speech Synthesis
Kévin Vythelingum, Yannick Estève, Olivier Rosec

Multimodal Speech Synthesis Architecture for Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation
Hieu-Thi Luong, Junichi Yamagishi

Articulatory-to-speech Conversion Using Bi-directional Long Short-term Memory
Fumiaki Taguchi, Tokihiko Kaburagi

Implementation of Respiration in Articulatory Synthesis Using a Pressure-Volume Lung Model
Keisuke Tanihara, Shogo Yonekura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Learning and Modeling Unit Embeddings for Improving HMM-based Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
Xiao Zhou, Zhen-Hua Ling, Zhi-Ping Zhou, Li-Rong Dai

Deep Metric Learning for the Target Cost in Unit-Selection Speech Synthesizer
Ruibo Fu, Jianhua Tao, Yibin Zheng, Zhengqi Wen

DNN-based Speech Synthesis for Small Data Sets Considering Bidirectional Speech-Text Conversion
Kentaro Sone, Toru Nakashika

A Weighted Superposition of Functional Contours Model for Modelling Contextual Prominence of Elementary Prosodic Contours
Branislav Gerazov, Gérard Bailly, Yi Xu

LSTBM: A Novel Sequence Representation of Speech Spectra Using Restricted Boltzmann Machine with Long Short-Term Memory
Toru Nakashika

Second Language Acquisition and Code-switching

Should Code-switching Models Be Asymmetric?
Barbara E. Bullock, Gualberto Guzmán, Jacqueline Serigos, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Cross-language Perception of Mandarin Lexical Tones by Mongolian-speaking Bilinguals in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
Kimiko Tsukada, Yu Rong

Automatically Measuring L2 Speech Fluency without the Need of ASR: A Proof-of-concept Study with Japanese Learners of French
Lionel Fontan, Maxime Le Coz, Sylvain Detey

Analysis of L2 Learners’ Progress of Distinguishing Mandarin Tone 2 and Tone 3
Yue Sun, Win Thuzar Kyaw, Jinsong Zhang, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Unsupervised Discovery of Non-native Phonetic Patterns in L2 English Speech for Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis
Xu Li, Shaoguang Mao, Xixin Wu, Kun Li, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng

Wuxi Speakers’ Production and Perception of Coda Nasals in Mandarin
Lei Wang, Jie Cui, Ying Chen

The Diphthongs of Formal Nigerian English: A Preliminary Acoustic Analysis
Natalia Dyrenko, Robert Fuchs

Characterizing Rhythm Differences between Strong and Weak Accented L2 Speech
Chris Davis, Jeesun Kim

Analysis of Phone Errors Attributable to Phonological Effects Associated With Language Acquisition Through Bottleneck Feature Visualisations
Eva Fringi, Martin Russell

Category Similarity in Multilingual Pronunciation Training
Jacques Koreman

Talker Diarization in the Wild: the Case of Child-centered Daylong Audio-recordings
Alejandrina Cristia, Shobhana Ganesh, Marisa Casillas, Sriram Ganapathy

Automated Classification of Children’s Linguistic versus Non-Linguistic Vocalisations
Zixing Zhang, Alejandrina Cristia, Anne Warlaumont, Björn Schuller

Pitch Characteristics of L2 English Speech by Chinese Speakers: A Large-scale Study
Jiahong Yuan, Qiusi Dong, Fei Wu, Huan Luan, Xiaofei Yang, Hui Lin, Yang Liu

Topics in Speech Recognition

Dual Language Models for Code Switched Speech Recognition
Saurabh Garg, Tanmay Parekh, Preethi Jyothi

Multilingual Neural Network Acoustic Modelling for ASR of Under-Resourced English-isiZulu Code-Switched Speech
Astik Biswas, Febe de Wet, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Emre Yılmaz, Thomas Niesler

Fast ASR-free and Almost Zero-resource Keyword Spotting Using DTW and CNNs for Humanitarian Monitoring
Raghav Menon, Herman Kamper, John Quinn, Thomas Niesler

Text-Dependent Speech Enhancement for Small-Footprint Robust Keyword Detection
Meng Yu, Xuan Ji, Yi Gao, Lianwu Chen, Jie Chen, Jimeng Zheng, Dan Su, Dong Yu

Improved ASR for Under-resourced Languages through Multi-task Learning with Acoustic Landmarks
Di He, Boon Pang Lim, Xuesong Yang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Deming Chen

Cross-language Phoneme Mapping for Low-resource Languages: An Exploration of Benefits and Trade-offs
Nick K Chibuye, Todd Rosenstock, Brian DeRenzi

User-centric Evaluation of Automatic Punctuation in ASR Closed Captioning
Máté Ákos Tündik, György Szaszák, Gábor Gosztolya, András Beke

Punctuation Prediction Model for Conversational Speech
Piotr Żelasko, Piotr Szymański, Jan Mizgajski, Adrian Szymczak, Yishay Carmiel, Najim Dehak

BUT OpenSAT 2017 Speech Recognition System
Martin Karafiát, Murali Karthick Baskar, Igor Szöke, Vladimír Malenovský, Karel Veselý, František Grézl, Lukáš Burget, Jan Černocký

Visual Recognition of Continuous Cued Speech Using a Tandem CNN-HMM Approach
Li Liu, Thomas Hueber, Gang Feng, Denis Beautemps

Building Large-vocabulary Speaker-independent Lipreading Systems
Kwanchiva Thangthai, Richard Harvey

CRIM's System for the MGB-3 English Multi-Genre Broadcast Media Transcription
Vishwa Gupta, Gilles Boulianne

Sampling Strategies in Siamese Networks for Unsupervised Speech Representation Learning
Rachid Riad, Corentin Dancette, Julien Karadayi, Neil Zeghidour, Thomas Schatz, Emmanuel Dupoux

Compact Feedforward Sequential Memory Networks for Small-footprint Keyword Spotting
Mengzhe Chen, ShiLiang Zhang, Ming Lei, Yong Liu, Haitao Yao, Jie Gao

Zero-resource Speech Recognition

Multilingual Bottleneck Features for Subword Modeling in Zero-resource Languages
Enno Hermann, Sharon Goldwater

Exploiting Speaker and Phonetic Diversity of Mismatched Language Resources for Unsupervised Subword Modeling
Siyuan Feng, Tan Lee

Unsupervised Word Segmentation from Speech with Attention
Pierre Godard, Marcely Zanon Boito, Lucas Ondel, Alexandre Berard, François Yvon, Aline Villavicencio, Laurent Besacier

Learning Word Embeddings: Unsupervised Methods for Fixed-size Representations of Variable-length Speech Segments
Nils Holzenberger, Mingxing Du, Julien Karadayi, Rachid Riad, Emmanuel Dupoux

Full Bayesian Hidden Markov Model Variational Autoencoder for Acoustic Unit Discovery
Thomas Glarner, Patrick Hanebrink, Janek Ebbers, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Unspeech: Unsupervised Speech Context Embeddings
Benjamin Milde, Chris Biemann

Spatial and Phase Cues for Source Separation and Speech Recognition

Impact of Aliasing on Deep CNN-Based End-to-End Acoustic Models
Yuan Gong, Christian Poellabauer

Keyword Based Speaker Localization: Localizing a Target Speaker in a Multi-speaker Environment
Sunit Sivasankaran, Emmanuel Vincent, Dominique Fohr

End-to-End Speech Separation with Unfolded Iterative Phase Reconstruction
Zhong-Qiu Wang, Jonathan Le Roux, DeLiang Wang, John Hershey

PhaseNet: Discretized Phase Modeling with Deep Neural Networks for Audio Source Separation
Naoya Takahashi, Purvi Agrawal, Nabarun Goswami, Yuki Mitsufuji

Integrating Spectral and Spatial Features for Multi-Channel Speaker Separation
Zhong-Qiu Wang, DeLiang Wang

DNN Driven Speaker Independent Audio-Visual Mask Estimation for Speech Separation
Mandar Gogate, Ahsan Adeel, Ricard Marxer, Jon Barker, Amir Hussain

Dialectal Variation

Exploring Temporal Reduction in Dialectal Spanish: A Large-scale Study of Lenition of Voiced Stops and Coda-s
Ioana Vasilescu, Nidia Hernandez, Bianca Vieru, Lori Lamel

Dialect-geographical Acoustic-Tonetics: Five Disyllabic Tone Sandhi Patterns in Cognate Words from the Wu Dialects of ZhèJiāNg Province
Phil Rose

Regional Variation of /r/ in Swiss German Dialects
Adrian Leemann, Stephan Schmid, Dieter Studer-Joho, Marie-José Kolly

Variation in the FACE Vowel across West Yorkshire: Implications for Forensic Speaker Comparisons
Kate Earnshaw, Erica Gold

The ‘West Yorkshire Regional English Database’: Investigations into the Generalizability of Reference Populations for Forensic Speaker Comparison Casework
Erica Gold, Sula Ross, Kate Earnshaw

Studying Vowel Variation in French-Algerian Arabic Code-switched Speech
Jane Wottawa, Amazouz Djegdjiga, Martine Adda-Decker, Lori Lamel

Spoken Corpora and Annotation

Fearless Steps: Apollo-11 Corpus Advancements for Speech Technologies from Earth to the Moon
John H.L. Hansen, Abhijeet Sangwan, Aditya Joglekar, Ahmet E. Bulut, Lakshmish Kaushik, Chengzhu Yu

A Knowledge Driven Structural Segmentation Approach for Play-Talk Classification During Autism Assessment
Manoj Kumar, Pooja Chebolu, So Hyun Kim, Kassandra Martinez, Catherine Lord, Shrikanth Narayanan

An Open Source Emotional Speech Corpus for Human Robot Interaction Applications
Jesin James, Li Tian, Catherine Inez Watson

Speech Database and Protocol Validation Using Waveform Entropy
Itshak Lapidot, Héctor Delgado, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans, Jean-François Bonastre

A French-Spanish Multimodal Speech Communication Corpus Incorporating Acoustic Data, Facial, Hands and Arms Gestures Information
Lucas D. Terissi, Gonzalo Sad, Mauricio Cerda, Slim Ouni, Rodrigo Galvez, Juan C. Gómez, Bernard Girau, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler

L2-ARCTIC: A Non-native English Speech Corpus
Guanlong Zhao, Sinem Sonsaat, Alif Silpachai, Ivana Lucic, Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen, John Levis, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna

The First DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge

ZCU-NTIS Speaker Diarization System for the DIHARD 2018 Challenge
Zbyněk Zajíc, Marie Kunešová, Jan Zelinka, Marek Hrúz

Speaker Diarization with Enhancing Speech for the First DIHARD Challenge
Lei Sun, Jun Du, Chao Jiang, Xueyang Zhang, Shan He, Bing Yin, Chin-Hui Lee

BUT System for DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge 2018
Mireia Diez, Federico Landini, Lukáš Burget, Johan Rohdin, Anna Silnova, Kateřina Žmolíková, Ondřej Novotný, Karel Veselý, Ondřej Glembek, Oldřich Plchot, Ladislav Mošner, Pavel Matějka

Estimation of the Number of Speakers with Variational Bayesian PLDA in the DIHARD Diarization Challenge.
Ignacio Viñals, Pablo Gimeno, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel, Eduardo Lleida

Diarization is Hard: Some Experiences and Lessons Learned for the JHU Team in the Inaugural DIHARD Challenge
Gregory Sell, David Snyder, Alan McCree, Daniel Garcia-Romero, Jesús Villalba, Matthew Maciejewski, Vimal Manohar, Najim Dehak, Daniel Povey, Shinji Watanabe, Sanjeev Khudanpur

The EURECOM Submission to the First DIHARD Challenge
Jose Patino, Héctor Delgado, Nicholas Evans

Joint Discriminative Embedding Learning, Speech Activity and Overlap Detection for the DIHARD Speaker Diarization Challenge
Valter Akira Miasato Filho, Diego Augusto Silva, Luis Gustavo Depra Cuozzo

Text Analysis, Multilingual Issues and Evaluation in Speech Synthesis

Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion with Global Character Vectors
Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Hisashi Kawai

A Hybrid Approach to Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion in Assamese
Somnath Roy, Shakuntala Mahanta

Investigation of Using Disentangled and Interpretable Representations for One-shot Cross-lingual Voice Conversion
Seyed Hamidreza Mohammadi, Taehwan Kim

Using Pupillometry to Measure the Cognitive Load of Synthetic Speech
Avashna Govender, Simon King

Measuring the Cognitive Load of Synthetic Speech Using a Dual Task Paradigm
Avashna Govender, Simon King

Attentive Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Diacritic Restoration of YorùBá Language Text
Iroro Orife

Gated Convolutional Neural Network for Sentence Matching
Peixin Chen, Wu Guo, Zhi Chen, Jian Sun, Lanhua You

On Training and Evaluation of Grapheme-to-Phoneme Mappings with Limited Data
Dravyansh Sharma

The Perception and Analysis of the Likeability and Human Likeness of Synthesized Speech
Alice Baird, Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Simone Hantke, Felix Burkhardt, Nicholas Cummins, Björn Schuller

Word Emphasis Prediction for Expressive Text to Speech
Yosi Mass, Slava Shechtman, Moran Mordechay, Ron Hoory, Oren Sar Shalom, Guy Lev, David Konopnicki

A Comparison of Speaker-based and Utterance-based Data Selection for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Kai-Zhan Lee, Erica Cooper, Julia Hirschberg

Data Requirements, Selection and Augmentation for DNN-based Speech Synthesis from Crowdsourced Data
Markus Toman, Geoffrey S. Meltzner, Rupal Patel

Neural Network Training Strategies for ASR

Lightly Supervised vs. Semi-supervised Training of Acoustic Model on Luxembourgish for Low-resource Automatic Speech Recognition
Karel Veselý, Carlos Segura, Igor Szöke, Jordi Luque, Jan Černocký

Investigation on the Combination of Batch Normalization and Dropout in BLSTM-based Acoustic Modeling for ASR
Li Wenjie, Gaofeng Cheng, Fengpei Ge, Pengyuan Zhang, Yonghong Yan

Inference-Invariant Transformation of Batch Normalization for Domain Adaptation of Acoustic Models
Masayuki Suzuki, Tohru Nagano, Gakuto Kurata, Samuel Thomas

Active Learning for LF-MMI Trained Neural Networks in ASR
Yanhua Long, Hong Ye, Yijie Li, Jiaen Liang

An Investigation of Mixup Training Strategies for Acoustic Models in ASR
Ivan Medennikov, Yuri Khokhlov, Aleksei Romanenko, Dmitry Popov, Natalia Tomashenko, Ivan Sorokin, Alexander Zatvornitskiy

Comparison of Unsupervised Modulation Filter Learning Methods for ASR
Purvi Agrawal, Sriram Ganapathy

Improved Training for Online End-to-end Speech Recognition Systems
Suyoun Kim, Michael Seltzer, Jinyu Li, Rui Zhao

Combining Natural Gradient with Hessian Free Methods for Sequence Training
Adnan Haider, Philip Woodland

Lattice-free State-level Minimum Bayes Risk Training of Acoustic Models
Naoyuki Kanda, Yusuke Fujita, Kenji Nagamatsu

A Study of Enhancement, Augmentation and Autoencoder Methods for Domain Adaptation in Distant Speech Recognition
Hao Tang, Wei-Ning Hsu, François Grondin, James Glass

Multilingual Deep Neural Network Training Using Cyclical Learning Rate
Andreas Søeborg Kirkedal, Yeon-Jun Kim

Application of ASR in Medical Practice

Development of the CUHK Dysarthric Speech Recognition System for the UA Speech Corpus
Jianwei Yu, Xurong Xie, Shansong Liu, Shoukang Hu, Max W. Y. Lam, Xixin Wu, Ka Ho Wong, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng

Automatic Evaluation of Speech Intelligibility Based on I-vectors in the Context of Head and Neck Cancers
Imed Laaridh, Corinne Fredouille, Alain Ghio, Muriel Lalain, Virginie Woisard

Dysarthric Speech Recognition Using Convolutional LSTM Neural Network
Myungjong Kim, Beiming Cao, Kwanghoon An, Jun Wang

Perceptual and Automatic Evaluations of the Intelligibility of Speech Degraded by Noise Induced Hearing Loss Simulation
Imed Laaridh, Julien Tardieu, Cynthia Magnen, Pascal Gaillard, Jérôme Farinas, Julien Pinquier

Articulatory Features for ASR of Pathological Speech
Emre Yılmaz, Vikramjit Mitra, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco

Mining Multimodal Repositories for Speech Affecting Diseases
Joana Correia, Bhiksha Raj, Isabel Trancoso, Francisco Teixeira

Long Distance Voice Channel Diagnosis Using Deep Neural Networks
Zhen Qin, Tom Ko, Guangjian Tian

Speech Recognition for Medical Conversations
Chung-Cheng Chiu, Anshuman Tripathi, Katherine Chou, Chris Co, Navdeep Jaitly, Diana Jaunzeikare, Anjuli Kannan, Patrick Nguyen, Hasim Sak, Ananth Sankar, Justin Tansuwan, Nathan Wan, Yonghui Wu, Xuedong Zhang

Source and Supra-segmentals

Prosodic Focus Acquisition in French Early Cochlear Implanted Children
Chadi Farah, Stephane Roman, Mariapaola D'Imperio

The Role of Temporal Variation in Narrative Organization
Nassima Fezza

Interaction Mechanisms between Glottal Source and Vocal Tract in Pitch Glides
Tiina Murtola, Jarmo Malinen

Relating Articulatory Motions in Different Speaking Rates
Astha Singh, G. Nisha Meenakshi, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Estimation of the Asymmetry Parameter of the Glottal Flow Waveform Using the Electroglottographic Signal
João Cabral

Classification of Disorders in Vocal Folds Using Electroglottographic Signal
Tanumay Mandal, K. Sreenivasa Rao, Sanjay Kumar Gupta

Automatic Glottis Localization and Segmentation in Stroboscopic Videos Using Deep Neural Network
Achuth Rao MV, Rahul Krishnamurthy, Pebbili Gopikishore, Veeramani Priyadharshini, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Respiratory and Respiratory Muscular Control in JL1’s and JL2’s Text Reading Utilizing 4-RSTs and a Soft Respiratory Mask with a Two-Way Bulb
Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola, Keiko Ochi, Keikichi Hirose

A Preliminary Study on Tonal Coarticulation in Continuous Speech
Lixia Hao, Wei Zhang, Yanlu Xie, Jinsong Zhang

Plenary Talk-3

Speech and Language Processing for Learning and Wellbeing
Helen Meng

Distant ASR

Far-Field Speech Recognition Using Multivariate Autoregressive Models
Sriram Ganapathy, Madhumita Harish

Efficient Implementation of the Room Simulator for Training Deep Neural Network Acoustic Models
Chanwoo Kim, Ehsan Variani, Arun Narayanan, Michiel Bacchiani

Stream Attention for Distributed Multi-Microphone Speech Recognition
Xiaofei Wang, Ruizhi Li, Hynek Hermansky

Recognizing Overlapped Speech in Meetings: A Multichannel Separation Approach Using Neural Networks
Takuya Yoshioka, Hakan Erdogan, Zhuo Chen, Xiong Xiao, Fil Alleva

Integrating Neural Network Based Beamforming and Weighted Prediction Error Dereverberation
Lukas Drude, Christoph Boeddeker, Jahn Heymann, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Keisuke Kinoshita, Marc Delcroix, Tomohiro Nakatani

A Probability Weighted Beamformer for Noise Robust ASR
Suliang Bu, Yunxin Zhao, Meiyuh Hwang, Sining Sun

Expressive Speech Synthesis

Effects of Dimensional Input on Paralinguistic Information Perceived from Synthesized Dialogue Speech with Neural Network
Masaki Yokoyama, Tomohiro Nagata, Hiroki Mori

Neural MultiVoice Models for Expressing Novel Personalities in Dialog
Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Sharath T.S., Shubhangi Tandon, Marilyn Walker

Expressive Speech Synthesis Using Sentiment Embeddings
Igor Jauk, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Junichi Yamagishi, Antonio Bonafonte

Expressive Speech Synthesis via Modeling Expressions with Variational Autoencoder
Kei Akuzawa, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo

Rapid Style Adaptation Using Residual Error Embedding for Expressive Speech Synthesis
Xixin Wu, Yuewen Cao, Mu Wang, Songxiang Liu, Shiyin Kang, Zhiyong Wu, Xunying Liu, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Helen Meng

EMPHASIS: An Emotional Phoneme-based Acoustic Model for Speech Synthesis System
Hao Li, Yongguo Kang, Zhenyu Wang

Representation Learning for Emotion

Bags in Bag: Generating Context-Aware Bags for Tracking Emotions from Speech
Jing Han, Zixing Zhang, Maximilian Schmitt, Zhao Ren, Fabien Ringeval, Björn Schuller

An Attention Pooling Based Representation Learning Method for Speech Emotion Recognition
Pengcheng Li, Yan Song, Ian McLoughlin, Wu Guo, Lirong Dai

Predicting Arousal and Valence from Waveforms and Spectrograms Using Deep Neural Networks
Zixiaofan Yang, Julia Hirschberg

Emotion Identification from Raw Speech Signals Using DNNs
Mousmita Sarma, Pegah Ghahremani, Daniel Povey, Nagendra Kumar Goel, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Najim Dehak

Encoding Individual Acoustic Features Using Dyad-Augmented Deep Variational Representations for Dialog-level Emotion Recognition
Jeng-Lin Li, Chi-Chun Lee

Variational Autoencoders for Learning Latent Representations of Speech Emotion: A Preliminary Study
Siddique Latif, Rajib Rana, Junaid Qadir, Julien Epps

Articulatory Information, Modeling and Inversion

Phoneme-to-Articulatory Mapping Using Bidirectional Gated RNN
Théo Biasutto-Lervat, Slim Ouni

Tongue Segmentation with Geometrically Constrained Snake Model
Zhihua Su, Jianguo Wei, Qiang Fang, Jianrong Wang, Kiyoshi Honda

Low Resource Acoustic-to-articulatory Inversion Using Bi-directional Long Short Term Memory
Aravind Illa, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Automatic Visual Augmentation for Concatenation Based Synthesized Articulatory Videos from Real-time MRI Data for Spoken Language Training
Chandana S, Chiranjeevi Yarra, Ritu Aggarwal, Sanjeev Kumar Mittal, Kausthubha N K, Raseena K T, Astha Singh, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Air-Tissue Boundary Segmentation in Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Video Using Semantic Segmentation with Fully Convolutional Networks
Valliappan CA, Renuka Mannem, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Noise Robust Acoustic to Articulatory Speech Inversion
Nadee Seneviratne, Ganesh Sivaraman, Vikramjit Mitra, Carol Espy-Wilson

Novel Paradigms for Direct Synthesis Based on Speech-Related Biosignals

Designing a Pneumatic Bionic Voice Prosthesis - A Statistical Approach for Source Excitation Generation
Farzaneh Ahmadi, Tomoki Toda

A Neural Model to Predict Parameters for a Generalized Command Response Model of Intonation
Bastian Schnell, Philip N. Garner

Articulation-to-Speech Synthesis Using Articulatory Flesh Point Sensors’ Orientation Information
Beiming Cao, Myungjong Kim, Jun R. Wang, Jan van Santen, Ted Mau, Jun Wang

Effectiveness of Generative Adversarial Network for Non-Audible Murmur-to-Whisper Speech Conversion
Neil Shah, Nirmesh Shah, Hemant Patil

Investigating Objective Intelligibility in Real-Time EMG-to-Speech Conversion
Lorenz Diener, Tanja Schultz

Domain-Adversarial Training for Session Independent EMG-based Speech Recognition
Michael Wand, Tanja Schultz, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Multi-Task Learning of Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis Parameters for Ultrasound-based Silent Speech Interfaces
László Tóth, Gábor Gosztolya, Tamás Grósz, Alexandra Markó, Tamás Gábor Csapó

Low Resource Speech Recognition Challenge for Indian Languages

Transcription Correction for Indian Languages Using Acoustic Signatures
Jeena JPrakash, Golda Brunet Rajan, Hema Murthy

BUT System for Low Resource Indian Language ASR
Bhargav Pulugundla, Murali Karthick Baskar, Santosh Kesiraju, Ekaterina Egorova, Martin Karafiát, Lukáš Burget, Jan Černocký

DA-IICT/IIITV System for Low Resource Speech Recognition Challenge 2018
Hardik B. Sailor, Maddala Venkata Siva Krishna, Diksha Chhabra, Ankur T. Patil, Madhu Kamble, Hemant Patil

An Exploration towards Joint Acoustic Modeling for Indian Languages: IIIT-H Submission for Low Resource Speech Recognition Challenge for Indian Languages, INTERSPEECH 2018
Hari Krishna, Krishna Gurugubelli, Vishnu Vidyadhara Raju V, Anil Kumar Vuppala

TDNN-based Multilingual Speech Recognition System for Low Resource Indian Languages
Noor Fathima, Tanvina Patel, Mahima C, Anuroop Iyengar

Articulatory and Stacked Bottleneck Features for Low Resource Speech Recognition
Vishwas M. Shetty, Rini A Sharon, Basil Abraham, Tejaswi Seeram, Anusha Prakash, Nithya Ravi, S. Umesh

ISI ASR System for the Low Resource Speech Recognition Challenge for Indian Languages
Jayadev Billa

Show and Tell 7

An Automated Assistant for Medical Scribes
Gregory Finley, Erik Edwards, Amanda Robinson, Najmeh Sadoughi, James Fone, Mark Miller, David Suendermann-Oeft, Michael Brenndoerfer, Nico Axtmann

AGROASSAM: A Web Based Assamese Speech Recognition Application for Retrieving Agricultural Commodity Price and Weather Information
Abhishek Dey, Abhash Deka, Siddika Imani, Barsha Deka, Rohit Sinha, S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Priyankoo Sarmah, K Samudravijaya, Nirmala S.R.

Voice-powered Solutions with Cloud AI
Dan Aharon

Speech Synthesis in the Wild
Ganesh Sivaraman, Parav Nagarsheth, Elie Khoury

Deep Enhancement

Deep Noise Tracking Network: A Hybrid Signal Processing/Deep Learning Approach to Speech Enhancement
Shuai Nie, Shan Liang, Bin Liu, Yaping Zhang, Wenju Liu, Jianhua Tao

A Deep Neural Network Based Harmonic Noise Model for Speech Enhancement
Zhiheng Ouyang, Hongjiang Yu, Wei-Ping Zhu, Benoit Champagne

A Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network for Real-Time Speech Enhancement
Ke Tan, DeLiang Wang

All-Neural Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement
Zhong-Qiu Wang, DeLiang Wang

Deep Learning for Acoustic Echo Cancellation in Noisy and Double-Talk Scenarios
Hao Zhang, DeLiang Wang

The Conversation: Deep Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement
Triantafyllos Afouras, Joon Son Chung, Andrew Zisserman

Student-Teacher Learning for BLSTM Mask-based Speech Enhancement
Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, Szu-Jui Chen, Shinji Watanabe

Speech Enhancement Using Deep Mixture of Experts Based on Hard Expectation Maximization
Pavan Karjol, Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

Adversarial Feature-Mapping for Speech Enhancement
Zhong Meng, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang

Biophysically-inspired Features Improve the Generalizability of Neural Network-based Speech Enhancement Systems
Deepak Baby, Sarah Verhulst

Error Modeling via Asymmetric Laplace Distribution for Deep Neural Network Based Single-Channel Speech Enhancement
Li Chai, Jun Du, Chin-Hui Lee

A Priori SNR Estimation Based on a Recurrent Neural Network for Robust Speech Enhancement
Yangyang Xia, Richard Stern

Acoustic Scenes and Rare Events

Multiple Instance Deep Learning for Weakly Supervised Small-Footprint Audio Event Detection
Shao-Yen Tseng, Juncheng Li, Yun Wang, Florian Metze, Joseph Szurley, Samarjit Das

Unsupervised Temporal Feature Learning Based on Sparse Coding Embedded BoAW for Acoustic Event Recognition
Liwen Zhang, Jiqing Han, Shiwen Deng

Data Independent Sequence Augmentation Method for Acoustic Scene Classification
Zhang Teng, Kailai Zhang, Ji Wu

A Compact and Discriminative Feature Based on Auditory Summary Statistics for Acoustic Scene Classification
Hongwei Song, Jiqing Han, Shiwen Deng

ASe: Acoustic Scene Embedding Using Deep Archetypal Analysis and GMM
Pulkit Sharma, Vinayak Abrol, Anshul Thakur

Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Scalogram for Audio Scene Modeling
Hangting Chen, Pengyuan Zhang, Haichuan Bai, Qingsheng Yuan, Xiuguo Bao, Yonghong Yan

Time Aggregation Operators for Multi-label Audio Event Detection
Pankaj Joshi, Digvijaysingh Gautam, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Preethi Jyothi

Early Detection of Continuous and Partial Audio Events Using CNN
Ian McLoughlin, Yan Song, Lam Dang Pham, Ramaswamy Palaniappan, Huy Phan, Yue Lang

Robust Acoustic Event Classification Using Bag-of-Visual-Words
Manjunath Mulimani, Shashidhar G Koolagudi

Wavelet Transform Based Mel-scaled Features for Acoustic Scene Classification
Shefali Waldekar, Goutam Saha

Multi-modal Attention Mechanisms in LSTM and Its Application to Acoustic Scene Classification
Teng Zhang, Kailai Zhang, Ji Wu

Language Modeling

Contextual Language Model Adaptation for Conversational Agents
Anirudh Raju, Behnam Hedayatnia, Linda Liu, Ankur Gandhe, Chandra Khatri, Angeliki Metallinou, Anu Venkatesh, Ariya Rastrow

Active Memory Networks for Language Modeling
Oscar Chen, Anton Ragni, Mark Gales, Xie Chen

Unsupervised and Efficient Vocabulary Expansion for Recurrent Neural Network Language Models in ASR
Yerbolat Khassanov, Eng Siong Chng

Improving Language Modeling with an Adversarial Critic for Automatic Speech Recognition
Yike Zhang, Pengyuan Zhang, Yonghong Yan

Training Recurrent Neural Network through Moment Matching for NLP Applications
Yue Deng, Yilin Shen, KaWai Chen, Hongxia Jin

Investigation on LSTM Recurrent N-gram Language Models for Speech Recognition
Zoltán Tüske, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Online Incremental Learning for Speaker-Adaptive Language Models
Chih Chi Hu, Bing Liu, John Shen, Ian Lane

Efficient Language Model Adaptation with Noise Contrastive Estimation and Kullback-Leibler Regularization
Jesús Andrés-Ferrer, Nathan Bodenstab, Paul Vozila

Recurrent Neural Network Language Model Adaptation for Conversational Speech Recognition
Ke Li, Hainan Xu, Yiming Wang, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur

What to Expect from Expected Kneser-Ney Smoothing
Michael Levit, Sarangarajan Parthasarathy, Shuangyu Chang

i-Vectors in Language Modeling: An Efficient Way of Domain Adaptation for Feed-Forward Models
Karel Beneš, Santosh Kesiraju, Lukáš Burget

Speech Pathology, Depression, and Medical Applications

How Did You like 2017? Detection of Language Markers of Depression and Narcissism in Personal Narratives
Eva-Maria Rathner, Julia Djamali, Yannik Terhorst, Björn Schuller, Nicholas Cummins, Gudrun Salamon, Christina Hunger-Schoppe, Harald Baumeister

Depression Detection from Short Utterances via Diverse Smartphones in Natural Environmental Conditions
Zhaocheng Huang, Julien Epps, Dale Joachim, Michael Chen

Multi-Lingual Depression-Level Assessment from Conversational Speech Using Acoustic and Text Features
Yasin Özkanca, Cenk Demiroglu, Aslı Besirli, Selime Celik

Dysarthric Speech Classification Using Glottal Features Computed from Non-words, Words and Sentences
Narendra N P, Paavo Alku

Identifying Schizophrenia Based on Temporal Parameters in Spontaneous Speech
Gábor Gosztolya, Anita Bagi, Szilvia Szalóki, István Szendi, Ildikó Hoffmann

Using Prosodic and Lexical Information for Learning Utterance-level Behaviors in Psychotherapy
Karan Singla, Zhuohao Chen, Nikolaos Flemotomos, James Gibson, Dogan Can, David Atkins, Shrikanth Narayanan

Automatic Speech Assessment for People with Aphasia Using TDNN-BLSTM with Multi-Task Learning
Ying Qin, Tan Lee, Siyuan Feng, Anthony Pak Hin Kong

Towards an Unsupervised Entrainment Distance in Conversational Speech Using Deep Neural Networks
Md Nasir, Brian Baucom, Shrikanth Narayanan, Panayiotis Georgiou

Patient Privacy in Paralinguistic Tasks
Francisco Teixeira, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso

A Lightly Supervised Approach to Detect Stuttering in Children's Speech
Sadeen Alharbi, Madina Hasan, Anthony J H Simons, Shelagh Brumfitt, Phil Green

Learning Conditional Acoustic Latent Representation with Gender and Age Attributes for Automatic Pain Level Recognition
Jeng-Lin Li, Yi-Ming Weng, Chip-Jin Ng, Chi-Chun Lee

Perspective Talk-4

Speaker and Language Recognition -- From Laboratory Technologies to the Wild
Sriram Ganapathy

Spoken Language Understanding

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Multimodal Coaching Model (DCM) for Slot Filling in Spoken Language Understanding(SLU)
Yu Wang, Abhishek Patel, Yilin Shen, Hongxia Jin

Is ATIS Too Shallow to Go Deeper for Benchmarking Spoken Language Understanding Models?
Frédéric Béchet, Christian Raymond

Robust Spoken Language Understanding via Paraphrasing
Avik Ray, Yilin Shen, Hongxia Jin

Spoken SQuAD: A Study of Mitigating the Impact of Speech Recognition Errors on Listening Comprehension
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Szu-Lin Wu, Chi-Liang Liu, Hung-yi Lee

User Information Augmented Semantic Frame Parsing Using Progressive Neural Networks
Yilin Shen, Xiangyu Zeng, Yu Wang, Hongxia Jin

An Efficient Approach to Encoding Context for Spoken Language Understanding
Raghav Gupta, Abhinav Rastogi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Source Separation from Monaural Input

Deep Speech Denoising with Vector Space Projections
Jeffrey Hetherly, Paul Gamble, Maria Alejandra Barrios, Cory Stephenson, Karl Ni

A Shifted Delta Coefficient Objective for Monaural Speech Separation Using Multi-task Learning
Chenglin Xu, Wei Rao, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

A Two-Stage Approach to Noisy Cochannel Speech Separation with Gated Residual Networks
Ke Tan, DeLiang Wang

Monoaural Audio Source Separation Using Variational Autoencoders
Laxmi Pandey, Anurendra Kumar, Vinay Namboodiri

Towards Automated Single Channel Source Separation Using Neural Networks
Arpita Gang, Pravesh Biyani, Akshay Soni

Investigations on Data Augmentation and Loss Functions for Deep Learning Based Speech-Background Separation
Hakan Erdogan, Takuya Yoshioka

Multimodal Systems

Annotator Trustability-based Cooperative Learning Solutions for Intelligent Audio Analysis
Simone Hantke, Christoph Stemp, Björn Schuller

Semi-supervised Cross-domain Visual Feature Learning for Audio-Visual Broadcast Speech Transcription
Rongfeng Su, Xunying Liu, Lan Wang

Deep Lip Reading: A Comparison of Models and an Online Application
Triantafyllos Afouras, Joon Son Chung, Andrew Zisserman

Iterative Learning of Speech Recognition Models for Air Traffic Control
Ajay Srinivasamurthy, Petr Motlicek, Mittul Singh, Youssef Oualil, Matthias Kleinert, Heiko Ehr, Hartmut Helmke

Speaker Adaptive Audio-Visual Fusion for the Open-Vocabulary Section of AVICAR
Leda Sari, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Kumaran S, Georg Stemmer, Krishnakumar N Nair

Multimodal Name Recognition in Live TV Subtitling
Marek Hrúz, Aleš Pražák, Michal Bušta

Coding

Dithered Quantization for Frequency-Domain Speech and Audio Coding
Tom Bäckström, Johannes Fischer, Sneha Das

Postfiltering with Complex Spectral Correlations for Speech and Audio Coding
Sneha Das, Tom Bäckström

Postfiltering Using Log-Magnitude Spectrum for Speech and Audio Coding
Sneha Das, Tom Bäckström

Temporal Noise Shaping with Companding
Arijit Biswas, Per Hedelin, Lars Villemoes, Vinay Melkote

Multi-frame Quantization of LSF Parameters Using a Deep Autoencoder and Pyramid Vector Quantizer
Yaxing Li, Eshete Derb Emiru, Shengwu Xiong, Anna Zhu, Pengfei Duan, Yichang Li

Multi-frame Coding of LSF Parameters Using Block-Constrained Trellis Coded Vector Quantization
Yaxing Li, Shan Xu, Shengwu Xiong, Anna Zhu, Pengfei Duan, Yueming Ding

Speaker Verification Using Neural Network Methods II

Training Utterance-level Embedding Networks for Speaker Identification and Verification
Heewoong Park, Sukhyun Cho, Kyubyong Park, Namju Kim, Jonghun Park

Analysis of Complementary Information Sources in the Speaker Embeddings Framework
Mahesh Kumar Nandwana, Mitchell McLaren, Diego Castan, Julien van Hout, Aaron Lawson

Self-Attentive Speaker Embeddings for Text-Independent Speaker Verification
Yingke Zhu, Tom Ko, David Snyder, Brian Mak, Daniel Povey

An Improved Deep Embedding Learning Method for Short Duration Speaker Verification
Zhifu Gao, Yan Song, Ian McLoughlin, Wu Guo, Lirong Dai

Avoiding Speaker Overfitting in End-to-End DNNs Using Raw Waveform for Text-Independent Speaker Verification
Jee-weon Jung, Hee-soo Heo, IL-ho Yang, Hye-jin Shim, Ha-jin Yu

Deeply Fused Speaker Embeddings for Text-Independent Speaker Verification
Gautam Bhattacharya, Md Jahangir Alam, Vishwa Gupta, Patrick Kenny

Employing Phonetic Information in DNN Speaker Embeddings to Improve Speaker Recognition Performance
Md Hafizur Rahman, Ivan Himawan, Mitchell McLaren, Clinton Fookes, Sridha Sridharan

End-to-end Text-dependent Speaker Verification Using Novel Distance Measures
Subhadeep Dey, Srikanth Madikeri, Petr Motlicek

Robust Speaker Clustering using Mixtures of von Mises-Fisher Distributions for Naturalistic Audio Streams
Harishchandra Dubey, Abhijeet Sangwan, John H.L. Hansen

Triplet Network with Attention for Speaker Diarization
Huan Song, Megan Willi, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Visar Berisha, Andreas Spanias

I-vector Transformation Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Short Utterance Speaker Verification
Jiacen Zhang, Nakamasa Inoue, Koichi Shinoda

Analysis of Length Normalization in End-to-End Speaker Verification System
Weicheng Cai, Jinkun Chen, Ming Li

Angular Softmax for Short-Duration Text-independent Speaker Verification
Zili Huang, Shuai Wang, Kai Yu

An End-to-End Text-Independent Speaker Identification System on Short Utterances
Ruifang Ji, Xinyuan Cai, Xu Bo

MTGAN: Speaker Verification through Multitasking Triplet Generative Adversarial Networks
Wenhao Ding, Liang He

Emotion Recognition and Analysis

Categorical vs Dimensional Perception of Italian Emotional Speech
Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Giovanni Costantini, Anton Batliner, Alice Baird, Björn Schuller

A Three-Layer Emotion Perception Model for Valence and Arousal-Based Detection from Multilingual Speech
Xingfeng Li, Masato Akagi

Cross-lingual Speech Emotion Recognition through Factor Analysis
Brecht Desplanques, Kris Demuynck

Modeling Self-Reported and Observed Affect from Speech
Jian Cheng, Jared Bernstein, Elizabeth Rosenfeld, Peter W. Foltz, Alex S. Cohen, Terje B. Holmlund, Brita Elvevåg

Stochastic Shake-Shake Regularization for Affective Learning from Speech
Che-Wei Huang, Shrikanth Narayanan

Investigating Speech Enhancement and Perceptual Quality for Speech Emotion Recognition
Anderson R. Avila, Md Jahangir Alam, Douglas O'Shaughnessy, Tiago Falk

Demonstrating and Modelling Systematic Time-varying Annotator Disagreement in Continuous Emotion Annotation
Mia Atcheson, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Julien Epps

Speech Emotion Recognition from Variable-Length Inputs with Triplet Loss Function
Jian Huang, Ya Li, Jianhua Tao, Zhen Lian

Imbalance Learning-based Framework for Fear Recognition in the MediaEval Emotional Impact of Movies Task
Xiaotong Zhang, Xingliang Cheng, Mingxing Xu, Thomas Fang Zheng

Emotion Recognition from Variable-Length Speech Segments Using Deep Learning on Spectrograms
Xi Ma, Zhiyong Wu, Jia Jia, Mingxing Xu, Helen Meng, Lianhong Cai

Speech Emotion Recognition Using Spectrogram & Phoneme Embedding
Promod Yenigalla, Abhay Kumar, Suraj Tripathi, Chirag Singh, Sibsambhu Kar, Jithendra Vepa

On Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition Using Generative Adversarial Networks
Saurabh Sahu, Rahul Gupta, Carol Espy-Wilson

Ladder Networks for Emotion Recognition: Using Unsupervised Auxiliary Tasks to Improve Predictions of Emotional Attributes
Srinivas Parthasarathy, Carlos Busso

Acoustic Modelling

Knowledge Distillation for Sequence Model
Mingkun Huang, Yongbin You, Zhehuai Chen, Yanmin Qian, Kai Yu

Improving CTC-based Acoustic Model with Very Deep Residual Time-delay Neural Networks
Sheng Li, Xugang Lu, Ryoichi Takashima, Peng Shen, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hisashi Kawai

Filter Sampling and Combination CNN (FSC-CNN): A Compact CNN Model for Small-footprint ASR Acoustic Modeling Using Raw Waveforms
Jinxi Guo, Ning Xu, Xin Chen, Yang Shi, Kaiyuan Xu, Abeer Alwan

Twin Regularization for Online Speech Recognition
Mirco Ravanelli, Dmitriy Serdyuk, Yoshua Bengio

Self-Attentional Acoustic Models
Matthias Sperber, Jan Niehues, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel

Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling
Jinhwan Park, Iksoo Choi, Yoonho Boo, Wonyong Sung

Dictionary Augmented Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Network for Grapheme to Phoneme Prediction
Antoine Bruguier, Anton Bakhtin, Dravyansh Sharma

Leveraging Second-Order Log-Linear Model for Improved Deep Learning Based ASR Performance
Ankit Raj, Shakti P Rath, Jithendra Vepa

Semi-Orthogonal Low-Rank Matrix Factorization for Deep Neural Networks
Daniel Povey, Gaofeng Cheng, Yiming Wang, Ke Li, Hainan Xu, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Sanjeev Khudanpur

Completely Unsupervised Phoneme Recognition by Adversarially Learning Mapping Relationships from Audio Embeddings
Da-Rong Liu, Kuan-Yu Chen, Hung-yi Lee, Lin-shan Lee

Phone Recognition Using a Non-Linear Manifold with Broad Phone Class Dependent DNNs
Mengjie Qian, Linxue Bai, Peter Jančovič, Martin Russell

A Multi-Discriminator CycleGAN for Unsupervised Non-Parallel Speech Domain Adaptation
Ehsan Hosseini-Asl, Yingbo Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher

Speech and Speaker Perception

Interactions between Vowels and Nasal Codas in Mandarin Speakers’ Perception of Nasal Finals
Chong Cao, Wei Wei, Wei Wang, Yanlu Xie, Jinsong Zhang

Weighting Pitch Contour and Loudness Contour in Mandarin Tone Perception in Cochlear Implant Listeners
Qinglin Meng, Nengheng Zheng, Ambika Prasad Mishra, Jacinta Dan Luo, Jan W. H. Schnupp

Implementing DIANA to Model Isolated Auditory Word Recognition in English
Filip Nenadić, Louis ten Bosch, Benjamin V. Tucker

Effects of Homophone Density on Spoken Word Recognition in Mandarin Chinese
Bhamini Sharma

Visual Timing Information in Audiovisual Speech Perception: Evidence from Lexical Tone Contour
Hui Xie, Biao Zeng, Rui Wang

COSMO SylPhon: A Bayesian Perceptuo-motor Model to Assess Phonological Learning
Marie-Lou Barnaud, Juien Diard, Pierre Bessière, Jean-Luc Schwartz

Experience-dependent Influence of Music and Language on Lexical Pitch Learning Is Not Additive
Akshay Raj Maggu, Patrick C. M. Wong, Hanjun Liu, Francis C. K. Wong

Influences of Fundamental Oscillation on Speaker Identification in Vocalic Utterances by Humans and Computers
Volker Dellwo, Thayabaran Kathiresan, Elisa Pellegrino, Lei He, Sandra Schwab, Dieter Maurer