Speech and Computer : 19th International Conference, SPECOM 2017, Hatfield, UK, September 12-16, 2017, Proceedings

Front Matter ....Pages I-XV
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Low-Resource Speech Recognition and Keyword-Spotting  (Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill, Anton Ragni)....Pages 3-19
 Big Data, Deep Learning – At the Edge of X-Ray Speaker Analysis  (Björn W. Schuller)....Pages 20-34
Front Matter ....Pages 35-35
 A Comparison of Covariance Matrix and i-vector Based Speaker Recognition  (Nikša Jakovljević, Ivan Jokić, Slobodan Jošić, Vlado Delić)....Pages 37-45
 A Trainable Method for the Phonetic Similarity Search in German Proper Names  (Oliver Jokisch, Horst-Udo Hain)....Pages 46-55
 Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of Vowel Articulation in Parkinson’s Disease With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study  (Michaela Strinzel, Vasilisa Verkhodanova, Fedor Jalvingh, Roel Jonkers, Matt Coler)....Pages 56-64
 Acoustic Cues for the Perceptual Assessment of Surround Sound  (Ingo Siegert, Oliver Jokisch, Alicia Flores Lotz, Franziska Trojahn, Martin Meszaros, Michael Maruschke)....Pages 65-75
 Acoustic Modeling in the STC Keyword Search System for OpenKWS 2016 Evaluation  (Ivan Medennikov, Aleksei Romanenko, Alexey Prudnikov, Valentin Mendelev, Yuri Khokhlov, Maxim Korenevsky et al.)....Pages 76-86
 Adaptation Approaches for Pronunciation Scoring with Sparse Training Data  (Federico Landini, Luciana Ferrer, Horacio Franco)....Pages 87-97
 An Algorithm for Detection of Breath Sounds in Spontaneous Speech with Application to Speaker Recognition  (Sri Harsha Dumpala, K. N. R. K. Raju Alluri)....Pages 98-108
 An Alternative Approach to Exploring a Video  (Fahim A. Salim, Fasih Haider, Owen Conlan, Saturnino Luz)....Pages 109-118
 An Analysis of the RNN-Based Spoken Term Detection Training  (Jan Švec, Luboš Šmídl, Josef V. Psutka)....Pages 119-129
 Analysis of Interaction Parameter Levels in Interaction Quality Modelling for Human-Human Conversation  (Anastasiia Spirina, Olesia Vaskovskaia, Tatiana Karaseva, Alina Skorokhod, Iana Polonskaia, Maxim Sidorov)....Pages 130-140
 Annotation Error Detection: Anomaly Detection vs. Classification  (Jindřich Matoušek, Daniel Tihelka)....Pages 141-151
 Are You Addressing Me? Multimodal Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Conversations  (Oleg Akhtiamov, Dmitrii Ubskii, Evgeniia Feldina, Aleksei Pugachev, Alexey Karpov, Wolfgang Minker)....Pages 152-161
 Assessing Spoken Dialog Services from the End-User Perspective: Usability and Experience  (Otilia Kocsis, Basilis Kladis, Anastasios Tsopanoglou, Nikos Fakotakis)....Pages 162-170
 Audio-Replay Attack Detection Countermeasures  (Galina Lavrentyeva, Sergey Novoselov, Egor Malykh, Alexander Kozlov, Oleg Kudashev, Vadim Shchemelinin)....Pages 171-181
 Automatic Estimation of Presentation Skills Using Speech, Slides and Gestures  (Abualsoud Hanani, Mohammad Al-Amleh, Waseem Bazbus, Saleem Salameh)....Pages 182-191
 Automatic Phonetic Transcription for Russian: Speech Variability Modeling  (Vera Evdokimova, Pavel Skrelin, Tatiana Chukaeva)....Pages 192-199
 Automatic Smoker Detection from Telephone Speech Signals  (Amir Hossein Poorjam, Soheila Hesaraki, Saeid Safavi, Hugo van Hamme, Mohamad Hasan Bahari)....Pages 200-210
 Bimodal Anti-Spoofing System for Mobile Security  (Eugene Luckyanets, Aleksandr Melnikov, Oleg Kudashev, Sergey Novoselov, Galina Lavrentyeva)....Pages 211-220
 Canadian English Word Stress: A Corpora-Based Study of National Identity in a Multilingual Community  (Tatiana Shevchenko, Daria Pozdeeva)....Pages 221-232
 Classification of Formal and Informal Dialogues Based on Turn-Taking and Intonation Using Deep Neural Networks  (István Szekrényes, György Kovács)....Pages 233-243
 Clustering Target Speaker on a Set of Telephone Dialogs  (Andrey Shulipa, Aleksey Sholohov, Yuri Matveev)....Pages 244-252
 Cognitive Entropy in the Perceptual-Auditory Evaluation of Emotional Modal States of Foreign Language Communication Partner  (Rodmonga Potapova, Vsevolod Potapov)....Pages 253-261
 Correlation Normalization of Syllables and Comparative Evaluation of Pronunciation Quality in Speech Rehabilitation  (Evgeny Kostyuchenko, Roman Meshcheryakov, Dariya Ignatieva, Alexander Pyatkov, Evgeny Choynzonov, Lidiya Balatskaya)....Pages 262-271
 CRF-Based Phrase Boundary Detection Trained on Large-Scale TTS Speech Corpora  (Markéta Jůzová)....Pages 272-281
 Deep Recurrent Neural Networks in Speech Synthesis Using a Continuous Vocoder  (Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi, Tamás Gábor Csapó, Géza Németh)....Pages 282-291
 Design of Online Echo Canceller in Duplex Mode  (Andrey Barabanov, Evgenij Vikulov)....Pages 292-301
 Detection of Stance and Sentiment Modifiers in Political Blogs  (Maria Skeppstedt, Vasiliki Simaki, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren)....Pages 302-311
 Digits to Words Converter for Slavic Languages in Systems of Automatic Speech Recognition  (Josef Chaloupka)....Pages 312-321
 Discriminating Speakers by Their Voices — A Fusion Based Approach  (Halim Sayoud, Siham Ouamour, Zohra Hamadache)....Pages 322-331
 Emotional Poetry Generation  (Aitzol Astigarraga, José María Martínez-Otzeta, Igor Rodriguez, Basilio Sierra, Elena Lazkano)....Pages 332-342
 End-to-End Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition for the Serbian Language  (Branislav Popović, Edvin Pakoci, Darko Pekar)....Pages 343-352
 Examining the Impact of Feature Selection on Sentiment Analysis for the Greek Language  (Nikolaos Spatiotis, Michael Paraskevas, Isidoros Perikos, Iosif Mporas)....Pages 353-361
 Experimenting with Hybrid TDNN/HMM Acoustic Models for Russian Speech Recognition  (Irina Kipyatkova)....Pages 362-369
 Exploring Multiparty Casual Talk for Social Human-Machine Dialogue  (Emer Gilmartin, Benjamin R. Cowan, Carl Vogel, Nick Campbell)....Pages 370-378
 First Experiments to Detect Anomaly Using Personality Traits vs. Prosodic Features  (Cedric Fayet, Arnaud Delhay, Damien Lolive, Pierre-François Marteau)....Pages 379-388
 Fusion of a Novel Volterra-Wiener Filter Based Nonlinear Residual Phase and MFCC for Speaker Verification  (Purvi Agrawal, Hemant A. Patil)....Pages 389-397
 Hesitations in Spontaneous Speech: Acoustic Analysis and Detection  (Vasilisa Verkhodanova, Vladimir Shapranov, Irina Kipyatkova)....Pages 398-406
 Human as Acmeologic Entity in Social Network Discourse (Multidimensional Approach)  (Rodmonga Potapova, Vsevolod Potapov)....Pages 407-416
 Improved Speaker Adaptation by Combining I-vector and fMLLR with Deep Bottleneck Networks  (Thai Son Nguyen, Kevin Kilgour, Matthias Sperber, Alex Waibel)....Pages 417-426
 Improving of LVCSR for Causal Czech Using Publicly Available Language Resources  (Petr Mizera, Petr Pollak)....Pages 427-437
 Improving Performance of Speaker Identification Systems Using Score Level Fusion of Two Modes of Operation  (Saeid Safavi, Iosif Mporas)....Pages 438-444
 Improving Speech-Based Emotion Recognition by Using Psychoacoustic Modeling and Analysis-by-Synthesis  (Ingo Siegert, Alicia Flores Lotz, Olga Egorow, Andreas Wendemuth)....Pages 445-455
 In Search of Sentence Boundaries in Spontaneous Speech  (Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian)....Pages 456-463
 Investigating Acoustic Correlates of Broad and Narrow Focus Perception by Japanese Learners of English  (Gábor Pintér, Oliver Jokisch, Shinobu Mizuguchi)....Pages 464-472
 Language Adaptive Multilingual CTC Speech Recognition  (Markus Müller, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel)....Pages 473-482
 Language Model Optimization for a Deep Neural Network Based Speech Recognition System for Serbian  (Edvin Pakoci, Branislav Popović, Darko Pekar)....Pages 483-492
 Lexico-Semantical Indices of “Deprivation – Aggression” Modality Correlation in Social Network Discourse  (Rodmonga Potapova, Liliya Komalova)....Pages 493-502
 Linguistic Features and Sociolinguistic Variability in Everyday Spoken Russian  (Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian, Tatiana Sherstinova, Olga Blinova, Gregory Martynenko)....Pages 503-511
 Medical Speech Recognition: Reaching Parity with Humans  (Erik Edwards, Wael Salloum, Greg P. Finley, James Fone, Greg Cardiff, Mark Miller et al.)....Pages 512-524
 Microphone Array Post-filter in Frequency Domain for Speech Recognition Using Short-Time Log-Spectral Amplitude Estimator and Spectral Harmonic/Noise Classifier  (Sergey Salishev, Ilya Klotchkov, Andrey Barabanov)....Pages 525-534
 Multimodal Keyword Search for Multilingual and Mixlingual Speech Corpus  (Abhimanyu Popli, Arun Kumar)....Pages 535-545
 Neural Network Doc2vec in Automated Sentiment Analysis for Short Informal Texts  (Natalia Maslova, Vsevolod Potapov)....Pages 546-554
 Neural Network Speaker Descriptor in Speaker Diarization of Telephone Speech  (Zbyněk Zajíc, Jan Zelinka, Luděk Müller)....Pages 555-563
 Novel Linear Prediction Temporal Phase Based Features for Speaker Recognition  (Ami Gandhi, Hemant A. Patil)....Pages 564-571
 Novel Phase Encoded Mel Cepstral Features for Speaker Verification  (Apeksha J. Naik, Rishabh Tak, Hemant A. Patil)....Pages 572-581
 On a Way to the Computer Aided Speech Intonation Training  (Boris Lobanov, Yelena Karnevskaya, Vladimir Zhitko)....Pages 582-592
 Perception and Acoustic Features of Speech of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders  (Elena Lyakso, Olga Frolova, Aleksey Grigorev)....Pages 602-612
 Phase Analysis and Labeling Strategies in a CNN-Based Speaker Change Detection System  (Marek Hrúz, Petr Salajka)....Pages 613-622
 Preparing Audio Recordings of Everyday Speech for Prosody Research: The Case of the ORD Corpus  (Tatiana Sherstinova)....Pages 623-631
 Recognizing Emotionally Coloured Dialogue Speech Using Speaker-Adapted DNN-CNN Bottleneck Features  (Kohei Mukaihara, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura)....Pages 632-641
 Relationship Between Perception of Cuteness in Female Voices and Their Durations  (Ryohei Ohno, Masanori Morise, Tetsuro Kitahara)....Pages 642-650
 Retaining Expression on De-identified Faces  (Li Meng, Aruna Shenoy)....Pages 651-661
 Semi-automatic Facial Key-Point Dataset Creation  (Miroslav Hlaváč, Ivan Gruber, Miloš Železný, Alexey Karpov)....Pages 662-668
 Song Emotion Recognition Using Music Genre Information  (Athanasios Koutras)....Pages 669-679
 Spanish Corpus for Sentiment Analysis Towards Brands  (María Navas-Loro, Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel, Idafen Santana-Perez, Alberto Sánchez)....Pages 680-689
 Speech Enhancement for Speaker Recognition Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks  (Maxim Tkachenko, Alexander Yamshinin, Nikolay Lyubimov, Mikhail Kotov, Marina Nastasenko)....Pages 690-699
 Stance Classification in Texts from Blogs on the 2016 British Referendum  (Vasiliki Simaki, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren)....Pages 700-709
 The “Retrospective Commenting” Method for Longitudinal Recordings of Everyday Speech  (Arto Mustajoki, Tatiana Sherstinova)....Pages 710-718
 The 2016 RWTH Keyword Search System for Low-Resource Languages  (Pavel Golik, Zoltán Tüske, Kazuki Irie, Eugen Beck, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney)....Pages 719-730
 The Effect of Morphological Factors on Sentence Boundaries in Russian Spontaneous Speech  (Anton Stepikhov, Anastassia Loukina)....Pages 731-740
 The Pausing Method Based on Brown Clustering and Word Embedding  (Arman Kaliyev, Sergey V. Rybin, Yuri Matveev)....Pages 741-747
 Unsupervised Document Classification and Topic Detection  (Jaromír Novotný, Pavel Ircing)....Pages 748-756
 Using a High-Speed Video Camera for Robust Audio-Visual Speech Recognition in Acoustically Noisy Conditions  (Denis Ivanko, Alexey Karpov, Dmitry Ryumin, Irina Kipyatkova, Anton Saveliev, Victor Budkov et al.)....Pages 757-766
 Utilizing Lipreading in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition  (Karel Paleček)....Pages 767-776
 Vocal Emotion Conversion Using WSOLA and Linear Prediction  (Susmitha Vekkot, Shikha Tripathi)....Pages 777-787
 Voice Conversion for TTS Systems with Tuning on the Target Speaker Based on GMM  (Vadim Zahariev, Elias Azarov, Alexander Petrovsky)....Pages 788-798
 VoiScan: Telephone Voice Analysis for Health and Biometric Applications  (Ladan Baghai-Ravary, Steve W. Beet)....Pages 799-808
 Web Queries Classification Based on the Syntactical Patterns of Search Types  (Alaa Mohasseb, Mohamed Bader-El-Den, Andreas Kanavos, Mihaela Cocea)....Pages 809-819
 What Speech Recognition Accuracy is Needed for Video Transcripts to be a Useful Search Interface?  (Yang Chao, Marie-Luce Bourguet)....Pages 820-828
Back Matter ....Pages 829-831