Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages: IberSPEECH 2012 Conference, Madrid, Spain, November 21-23, 2012. Proceedings

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Reliability Estimation of the Speaker Verification Decisions Using Bayesian Networks to Combine Information from Multiple Speech Quality Measures....Pages 1-10
On the use of Total Variability and Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Speaker Verification on Short Utterances....Pages 11-19
Cepstral Trajectories in Linguistic Units for Text-Independent Speaker Recognition....Pages 20-29
Improving the Quality of Standard GMM-Based Voice Conversion Systems by Considering Physically Motivated Linear Transformations....Pages 30-39
Evaluation of a New Beam-Search Formant Tracking Algorithm in Noisy Environments....Pages 40-48
On the Influence of Automatic Segmentation and Clustering in Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 49-58
Preliminary Results of Alignment of Text and Audio in News and Songs....Pages 59-68
Aligning Very Long Speech Signals to Bilingual Transcriptions of Parliamentary Sessions....Pages 69-78
Factor Analysis Segmentation and Classification in Broadcast News Domain....Pages 79-88
Prosodic and Phonetic Features for Speaking Styles Classification and Detection....Pages 89-98
Voice Pathology Detection on the Saarbrücken Voice Database with Calibration and Fusion of Scores Using MultiFocal Toolkit....Pages 99-109
Score Level versus Audio Level Fusion for Voice Pathology Detection on the Saarbrücken Voice Database....Pages 110-120
Using HMM to Detect Speakers with Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome....Pages 121-128
Acoustic Analysis of European Portuguese Oral Vowels Produced by Children....Pages 129-138
Impact of Age in ASR for the Elderly: Preliminary Experiments in European Portuguese....Pages 139-147
Mutual Information and Perplexity Based Clustering of Dialogue Information for Dynamic Adaptation of Language Models....Pages 148-157
A Multilingual SLU System Based on Semantic Decoding of Graphs of Words....Pages 158-167
Merging Intention and Emotion to Develop Adaptive Dialogue Systems....Pages 168-177
Language Technology for Handwritten Text Recognition....Pages 178-186
Character-Based Handwritten Text Recognition of Multilingual Documents....Pages 187-196
A Robust Pitch Extractor Based on DTW Lines and CASA with Application in Noisy Speech Recognition....Pages 197-206
Speech Denoising Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Kullback-Leibler Divergence and Sparseness Constraints....Pages 207-216
MMSE Feature Reconstruction Based on an Occlusion Model for Robust ASR....Pages 217-226
Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Ultrasonic Doppler Sensing for European Portuguese....Pages 227-236
Integrating a State-of-the-Art ASR System into the Opencast Matterhorn Platform....Pages 237-246
Speech Reconstruction by Sparse Linear Prediction....Pages 247-256
Steganographic Pulse-Based Recovery for Robust ACELP Transmission over Erasure Channels....Pages 257-266
A Proposal for a Visual Speech Animation System for European Portuguese....Pages 267-276
Online Learning of Log-Linear Weights in Interactive Machine Translation....Pages 277-286
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