ISCSLP 2006: Singapore

Plenary

• Stephanie Seneff:
  Interactive Computer Aids for Acquiring Proficiency in Mandarin. 1-12
  
• Klaus R. Scherer:
  The Affective and Pragmatic Coding of Prosody. 13-14
  
• Franz Josef Och:
  Challenges in Machine Translation. 15
  
• Tat-Seng Chua:
  Automatic Indexing and Retrieval of Large Broadcast News Video Collections - The TRECVID Experience. 16
  

Tutorial

• Keiichi Tokuda:
  An HMM-Based Approach to Flexible Speech Synthesis. 17
  
• Hang Li:
  Text Information Extraction and Retrieval. 18
  

Topics in Speech Science

• Jiahong Yuan:
  Mechanisms of Question Intonation in Mandarin. 19-30
  
• Wentao Gu, Keikichi Hirose, Hiroya Fujisaki:
  Comparison of Perceived Prosodic Boundaries and Global Characteristics of Voice Fundamental Frequency Contours in Mandarin Speech. 31-42
  
• Shu-Chuan Tseng:
  Linguistic Markings of Units in Spontaneous Mandarin. 43-54
  
• Yuan Jia, Ziyu Xiong, Aijun Li:
  Phonetic and Phonological Analysis of Focal Accents of Disyllabic Words in Standard Chinese. 55-66
  
• Lu Zhang, Yi-Qing Zu, Run-Qiang Yan:
  Focus, Lexical Stress and Boundary Tone: Interaction of Three Prosodic Features. 67-75
  

Speech Analysis

• Dongwen Ying, Yu Shi, Frank K. Soong, Jianwu Dang, Xugang Lu:
  A Robust Voice Activity Detection Based on Noise Eigenspace Projection. 76-86
  
• Jian Liu, Thomas Fang Zheng, Wenhu Wu:
  Pitch Mean Based Frequency Warping. 87-94
  
• Kuang-Ting Sung, Hsiao-Chuan Wang:
  A Study of Knowledge-Based Features for Obstruent Detection and Classification in Continuous Mandarin Speech. 95-105
  
• Yih-Ru Wang:
  Speaker-and-Environment Change Detection in Broadcast News Using Maximum Divergence Common Component GMM. 106-115
  
• Jing Deng, Thomas Fang Zheng, Wenhu Wu:
  UBM Based Speaker Segmentation and Clustering for 2-Speaker Detection. 116-125
  
• Hemant A. Patil, T. K. Basu:
  Design of Cubic Spline Wavelet for Open Set Speaker Classification in Marathi. 126-137
  

Speech Synthesis and Generation

• Min Chu, Yunjia Wang:
  Rhythmic Organization of Mandarin Utterances - A Two-Stage Process. 138-148
  
• Xiaonan Zhang, Jun Xu, Lianhong Cai:
  Prosodic Boundary Prediction Based on Maximum Entropy Model with Error-Driven Modification. 149-160
  
• Heng Kang, Wenju Liu:
  Prosodic Words Prediction from Lexicon Words with CRF and TBL Joint Method. 161-168
  
• Honghui Dong, Jianhua Tao, Bo Xu:
  Prosodic Word Prediction Using a Maximum Entropy Approach. 169-178
  
• Keh-Jiann Chen, Chiu-yu Tseng, Chia-hung Tai:
  Predicting Prosody from Text. 179-188
  
• Jianhua Tao, Jian Yu, Yongguo Kang:
  Nonlinear Emotional Prosody Generation and Annotation. 189-199
  
• Guohong Fu, Min Zhang, Guodong Zhou, Kang-Kwong Luke:
  A Unified Framework for Text Analysis in Chinese TTS. 200-210
  
• Qiang Fang, Jianwu Dang:
  Speech Synthesis Based on a Physiological Articulatory Model. 211-222
  
• Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Yining Chen, Min Chu:
  An HMM-Based Mandarin Chinese Text-To-Speech System. 223-232
  
• Long Qin, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yi-Jian Wu, Bu-Fan Zhang, Ren-Hua Wang:
  HMM-Based Emotional Speech Synthesis Using Average Emotion Model. 233-240
  
• Hsiu-Min Yu, Hsin-Te Hwang, Dong-Yi Lin, Sin-Horng Chen:
  A Hakka Text-To-Speech System. 241-247
  

Speech Enhancement

• Heng Zhang, Qiang Fu, Yonghong Yan:
  Adaptive Null-Forming Algorithm with Auditory Sub-bands. 248-257
  
• Junfeng Li, Masato Akagi, Yôiti Suzuki:
  Multi-channel Noise Reduction in Noisy Environments. 258-269
  

Acoustic Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition

• Jia-Yu Chen, Chia-Yu Wan, Yi Chen, Berlin Chen, Lin-Shan Lee:
  Minimum Phone Error (MPE) Model and Feature Training on Mandarin Broadcast News Task. 270-281
  
• Linquan Liu, Thomas Fang Zheng, Wenhu Wu:
  State-Dependent Phoneme-Based Model Merging for Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition. 282-293
  
• Peng Liu, Jian-Lai Zhou, Frank K. Soong:
  Non-uniform Kernel Allocation Based Parsimonious HMM. 294-302
  
• Yiu-Pong Lai, Man-Hung Siu:
  Consistent Modeling of the Static and Time-Derivative Cepstrums for Speech Recognition Using HSPTM. 303-314
  

Robust Speech Recognition

• Xiong Xiao, Haizhou Li, Engsiong Chng:
  Vector Autoregressive Model for Missing Feature Reconstruction. 315-324
  
• Xugang Lu, Jianwu Dang:
  Auditory Contrast Spectrum for Robust Speech Recognition. 325-334
  
• Zhi-Jie Yan, Jian-Lai Zhou, Frank K. Soong, Ren-Hua Wang:
  Signal Trajectory Based Noise Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition. 335-345
  
• Yu Hu, Qiang Huo:
  An HMM Compensation Approach Using Unscented Transformation for Noisy Speech Recognition. 346-357
  
• Jun Du, Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou, Ren-Hua Wang:
  Noisy Speech Recognition Performance of Discriminative HMMs. 358-369
  
• Yih-Ru Wang, Bo-Xuan Lu, Yuan-Fu Liao, Sin-Horng Chen:
  Distributed Speech Recognition of Mandarin Digits String. 370-379
  

Speech Adaptation/Normalization

• Tsz-Chung Lai, Brian Mak:
  Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Using Reference Speaker Weighting. 380-389
  
• Shih-Sian Cheng, Yeong-Yuh Xu, Hsin-Min Wang, Hsin-Chia Fu:
  Automatic Construction of Regression Class Tree for MLLR Via Model-Based Hierarchical Clustering. 390-398
  

General Topics in Speech Recognition

• Jen-Wei Kuo, Hsin-Min Wang:
  A Minimum Boundary Error Framework for Automatic Phonetic Segmentation. 399-409
  

Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition

• Yong Qin, Qin Shi, Yi Y. Liu, Hagai Aronowitz, Stephen M. Chu, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Geoffrey Zweig:
  Advances in Mandarin Broadcast Speech Transcription at IBM Under the DARPA GALE Program. 410-421
  
• Yi-Sheng Fu, Yi-Cheng Pan, Lin-shan Lee:
  Improved Large Vocabulary Continuous Chinese Speech Recognition by Character-Based Consensus Networks. 422-434
  
• Yun Tang, Wenju Liu, Bo Xu:
  All-Path Decoding Algorithm for Segmental Based Speech Recognition. 435-444
  
• Huanliang Wang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou, Jiqing Han:
  Improved Mandarin Speech Recognition by Lattice Rescoring with Enhanced Tone Models. 445-453
  
• Tzan-Hwei Chen, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang:
  On Using Entropy Information to Improve Posterior Probability-Based Confidence Measures. 454-463
  
• Quan Vu, Kris Demuynck, Dirk Van Compernolle:
  Vietnamese Automatic Speech Recognition: The FLaVoR Approach. 464-474
  

Multilingual Recognition and Identification

• Dau-Cheng Lyu, Ren-Yuan Lyu, Yuang-Chin Chiang, Chun-Nan Hsu:
  Language Identification by Using Syllable-Based Duration Classification on Code-Switching Speech. 475-484
  

Speaker Recognition and Characterization

• Thomas Fang Zheng, Zhanjiang Song, Lihong Zhang, Michael Brasser, Wei Wu, Jing Deng:
  CCC Speaker Recognition Evaluation 2006: Overview, Methods, Data, Results and Perspective. 485-493
  
• Kong-Aik Lee, Hanwu Sun, Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Minghui Dong, Changhuai You, Donglai Zhu, Chin-Wei Eugene Koh, Lei Wang, Tomi Kinnunen, Chng Eng Siong, Haizhou Li:
  The IIR Submission to CSLP 2006 Speaker Recognition Evaluation. 494-505
  
• Yi-Hsiang Chao, Hsin-Min Wang, Ruei-Chuan Chang:
  A Novel Alternative Hypothesis Characterization Using Kernel Classifiers for LLR-Based Speaker Verification. 506-517
  
• Nengheng Zheng, Ning Wang, Tan Lee, P. C. Ching:
  Speaker Verification Using Complementary Information from Vocal Source and Vocal Tract. 518-528
  
• Carlos E. Vivaracho:
  ISCSLP SR Evaluation, UVA-CS_es System Description. A System Based on ANNs. 529-538
  
• Shingo Kuroiwa, Satoru Tsuge, Masahiko Kita, Fuji Ren:
  Evaluation of EMD-Based Speaker Recognition Using ISCSLP2006 Chinese Speaker Recognition Evaluation Corpus. 539-548
  
• Nengheng Zheng, P. C. Ching, Ning Wang, Tan Lee:
  Integrating Complementary Features with a Confidence Measure for Speaker Identification. 549-557
  
• Hao Yang, Yuan Dong, Xianyu Zhao, Jian Zhao, Haila Wang:
  Discriminative Transformation for Sufficient Adaptation in Text-Independent Speaker Verification. 558-565
  
• Rong Tong, Bin Ma, Kong-Aik Lee, Changhuai You, Donglai Zhu, Tomi Kinnunen, Hanwu Sun, Minghui Dong, Chng Eng Siong, Haizhou Li:
  Fusion of Acoustic and Tokenization Features for Speaker Recognition. 566-577
  

Spoken Language Understanding

• Jui-Feng Yeh, Chung-Hsien Wu, Wei-Yen Wu:
  Contextual Maximum Entropy Model for Edit Disfluency Detection of Spontaneous Speech. 578-589
  

Human Language Acquisition, Development and Learning

• Li Zhang, Chao Huang, Min Chu, Frank K. Soong, Xianda Zhang, Yudong Chen:
  Automatic Detection of Tone Mispronunciation in Mandarin. 590-601
  
• Mitchell Peabody, Stephanie Seneff:
  Towards Automatic Tone Correction in Non-native Mandarin. 602-613
  

Spoken and Multimodal Dialog Systems

• Zhiyong Wu, Helen M. Meng, Hui Ning, Sam C. Tse:
  A Corpus-Based Approach for Cooperative Response Generation in a Dialog System. 614-626
  
• Lei Xie, Helen Meng, Zhi-Qiang Liu:
  A Cantonese Speech-Driven Talking Face Using Translingual Audio-to-Visual Conversion. 627-639
  
• Sen Zhang, Yves Laprie:
  The Implementation of Service Enabling with Spoken Language of a Multi-modal System Ozone. 640-647
  
• Bo-June Paul Hsu, James R. Glass:
  Spoken Correction for Chinese Text Entry. 648-659
  

Speech Data Mining and Document Retrieval

• Yi-Ting Chen, Suhan Yu, Hsin-Min Wang, Berlin Chen:
  Extractive Chinese Spoken Document Summarization Using Probabilistic Ranking Models. 660-671
  
• Manuel Giuliani, Tin Lay Nwe, Haizhou Li:
  Meeting Segmentation Using Two-Layer Cascaded Subband Filters. 672-682
  
• Lin-shan Lee, Sheng-yi Kong, Yi-Cheng Pan, Yi-Sheng Fu, Yu-tsun Huang, Chien-Chih Wang:
  A Multi-layered Summarization System for Multi-media Archives by Understanding and Structuring of Chinese Spoken Documents. 683-692
  
• Devon Li, Wai Kit Lo, Helen M. Meng:
  Initial Experiments on Automatic Story Segmentation in Chinese Spoken Documents Using Lexical Cohesion of Extracted Named Entities. 693-703
  

Machine Translation of Speech

• Zhendong Yang, Wei Pang, Jinhua Du, Wei Wei, Bo Xu:
  Some Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. 704-711
  
• Rile Hu, Xia Wang:
  Automatic Spoken Language Translation Template Acquisition Based on Boosting Structure Extraction and Alignment. 712-723
  

Spoken Language Resources and Annotation

• Yi Liu, Pascale Fung, Yongsheng Yang, Christopher Cieri, Shudong Huang, David Graff:
  HKUST/MTS: A Very Large Scale Mandarin Telephone Speech Corpus. 724-735
  
• Min Chu, Yong Zhao, Yining Chen, Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong:
  The Paradigm for Creating Multi-lingual Text-To-Speech Voice Databases. 736-747
  
• Hsi-Chun Hsiao, Hsiu-Min Yu, Yih-Ru Wang, Sin-Horng Chen:
  Multilingual Speech Corpora for TTS System Development. 748-759
  
• Muyun Yang, Hongfei Jiang, Tiejun Zhao, Sheng Li:
  Construct Trilingual Parallel Corpus on Demand. 760-767
  
• Jack Halpern:
  The Contribution of Lexical Resources to Natural Language Processing of CJK Languages. 768-780
  
• Toshiyuki Takezawa:
  Multilingual Spoken Language Corpus Development for Communication Research. 781-791
  
• K. Samudravijaya:
  Development of Multi-lingual Spoken Corpora of Indian Languages. 792-801