Speech and Computer: 16th International Conference, SPECOM 2014, Novi Sad, Serbia, October 5-9, 2014. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Creating Expressive TTS Voices for Conversation Agent Applications....Pages 1-14
Gaps to Bridge in Speech Technology....Pages 15-23
Instantaneous Harmonic Analysis: Techniques and Applications to Speech Signal Processing....Pages 24-33
A Comparison of Two Prosody Modelling Approaches for Sesotho and Serbian....Pages 34-41
A Dependency Treebank for Serbian: Initial Experiments....Pages 42-49
A Framework for Recording Audio-Visual Speech Corpora with a Microphone and a High-Speed Camera....Pages 50-57
A Neural Network Keyword Search System for Telephone Speech....Pages 58-65
A Note on Feature Extraction Based on Kanade-Shi-Tomasi Procedure and Kalman Filters....Pages 66-73
A Robust SVM/GMM Classifier for Speaker Verification....Pages 74-80
A Sequence Training Method for Deep Rectifier Neural Networks in Speech Recognition....Pages 81-88
Algorithms for Acceleration of Image Processing at Automatic Registration of Meeting Participants....Pages 89-96
Analysis and Synthesis of Glottalization Phenomena in German-Accented English....Pages 97-104
Annotation and Personality: Individual Differences in Sentence Boundary Detection....Pages 105-112
Associative Mechanism of Foreign Spoken Language Perception (Forensic Phonetic Aspect)....Pages 113-122
Automatic Alignment of Phonetic Transcriptions for Russian....Pages 123-128
Automatic Post-Editing Method Using Translation Knowledge Based on Intuitive Common Parts Continuum for Statistical Machine Translation....Pages 129-136
Automatic Stop List Generation for Clustering Recognition Results of Call Center Recordings....Pages 137-144
Blur Estimation Methods for System of Audiovisual Monitoring of Meeting Participants....Pages 145-152
Controlling the Uncertainty Area in the Real Time LVCSR Application....Pages 153-160
Convolutional Neural Network for Refinement of Speaker Adaptation Transformation....Pages 161-168
Corpus-Based Regiolect Studies: Kazan Region....Pages 169-175
Crowdsourcing Interactive Technology for Natural-Technical Objects Integrated Monitoring....Pages 176-183
Dramatic Piece Reader and It’s Evaluation by the Blind and Sighted Assessors....Pages 184-191
Estimating Stochasticity of Acoustic Signals....Pages 192-199
Exploiting Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Linear Constraints in Noise-Robust Speaker Identification....Pages 200-208
Extraction of Features for Lip-reading Using Autoencoders....Pages 209-216
F0 Declination Patterns in Russian....Pages 217-226
Filled Pauses and Lengthenings Detection Based on the Acoustic Features for the Spontaneous Russian Speech....Pages 227-234
First Experiments with Relevant Documents Selection for Blind Relevance Feedback in Spoken Document Retrieval....Pages 235-242
How Speech Technologies Can Help People with Disabilities....Pages 243-250
HTK-Based Recognition of Whispered Speech....Pages 251-258
Human Resources Management in Conditions of Operators’ Psychophysiological State Changes....Pages 259-267
Impact of Emotional Speech to Automatic Speaker Recognition - Experiments on GEES Speech Database....Pages 268-275
Improving Speech Synthesis Quality for Voices Created from an Audiobook Database....Pages 276-283
«INFANT.MAVS» - Multimedia Model for Infants Cognitive and Emotional Development Study....Pages 284-291
Influence of Agent Behaviour on Human-Virtual Agent Body Interaction....Pages 292-299
Modeling of Process Dynamics by Sequence of Homogenous Semantic Networks on the Base of Text Corpus Sequence Analysis....Pages 300-307
New Method of Speech Signals Adaptive Features Construction Based on the Wavelet-like Transform and Support Vector Machines....Pages 308-314
On a Hybrid NN/HMM Speech Recognition System with a RNN-Based Language Model....Pages 315-321
On Principles of Annotated Databases of the Semantic Field “Aggression”....Pages 322-328
On the Possibility of the Skype Channel Speaker Identification (on the Basis of Acoustic Parameters)....Pages 329-336
Parametrc Representation of Kazakh Gestural Speech....Pages 337-344
Personified Voice Interaction Software in Billing Systems....Pages 345-352
Phrase-Final Lengthening in Russian: Pre-boundary or Pre-pausal?....Pages 353-359
Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control of Automatic Speech Recognition Speed....Pages 360-367
Quality Assessment of HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Using Acoustical Vowel Analysis....Pages 368-375
Quality Improvements of Zero-Concatenation-Cost Chain Based Unit Selection....Pages 376-385
Robust Multi-Band ASR Using Deep Neural Nets and Spectro-temporal Features....Pages 386-393
Semantic Entity Detection in the Spoken Air Traffic Control Data....Pages 394-401
Simplified Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation for the Optimization of Free Decoding Parameters....Pages 402-409
Speaker Detection Using Phoneme Specific Hidden Markov Models....Pages 410-417
Speaking Rate Estimation Based on Deep Neural Networks....Pages 418-424
Speech Rhythmic Patterns of the Slavic Languages....Pages 425-434
State Level Control for Acoustic Model Training....Pages 435-442
Structural Model and Behavior Scenarios of Information Navigation Mobile Robot....Pages 443-450
Study of Morphological Factors of Factored Language Models for Russian ASR....Pages 451-458
The Use of Speech Technology in Computer Assisted Language Learning Systems....Pages 459-466
Using Random Forests for Prosodic Break Prediction Based on Automatic Speech Labeling....Pages 467-474
Vulnerability of Voice Verification Systems to Spoofing Attacks by TTS Voices Based on Automatically Labeled Telephone Speech....Pages 475-481
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