Speech and Computer: 17th International Conference, SPECOM 2015, Athens, Greece, September 20-24, 2015, Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction from the Perspective of a Speech Scientist....Pages 3-10
A Decade of Discriminative Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 11-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
A Bilingual Kazakh-Russian System for Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis....Pages 25-33
A Comparative Study of Speech Processing in Microphone Arrays with Multichannel Alignment and Zelinski Post-Filtering....Pages 34-41
A Comparison of RNN LM and FLM for Russian Speech Recognition....Pages 42-50
A Frequency Domain Adaptive Decorrelating Algorithm for Speech Enhancement....Pages 51-54
Acoustic Markers of Emotional State “Aggression”....Pages 55-64
Algorithms for Low Bit-Rate Coding with Adaptation to Statistical Characteristics of Speech Signal....Pages 65-72
Analysing Human-Human Negotiations with the Aim to Develop a Dialogue System....Pages 73-80
Analysis of Facial Motion Capture Data for Visual Speech Synthesis....Pages 81-88
Auditory-Perceptual Recognition of the Emotional State of Aggression....Pages 89-95
Automatic Classification and Prediction of Attitudes: Audio - Visual Analysis of Video Blogs....Pages 96-104
Automatic Close Captioning for Live Hungarian Television Broadcast Speech: A Fast and Resource-Efficient Approach....Pages 105-112
Automatic Estimation of Web Bloggers’ Age Using Regression Models ....Pages 113-120
Automatic Preprocessing Technique for Detection of Corrupted Speech Signal Fragments for the Purpose of Speaker Recognition....Pages 121-128
Automatic Sound Recognition of Urban Environment Events....Pages 129-136
Automatically Trained TTS for Effective Attacks to Anti-spoofing System....Pages 137-143
EmoChildRu: Emotional Child Russian Speech Corpus....Pages 144-152
Cognitive Mechanism of Semantic Content Decoding of Spoken Discourse in Noise....Pages 153-160
Combining Prosodic and Lexical Classifiers for Two-Pass Punctuation Detection in a Russian ASR System....Pages 161-169
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Construction of a Modern Greek Grammar Checker Through Mnemosyne Formalism....Pages 170-177
Contribution to the Design of an Expressive Speech Synthesis System for the Arabic Language....Pages 178-185
Deep Neural Network Based Continuous Speech Recognition for Serbian Using the Kaldi Toolkit....Pages 186-192
DNN-Based Speech Synthesis: Importance of Input Features and Training Data....Pages 193-200
Emotion State Manifestation in Voice Features: Chimpanzees, Human Infants, Children, Adults....Pages 201-208
Estimation of Vowel Spectra Near Vocal Chords with Restoration of a Clipped Speech Signal....Pages 209-216
Fast Algorithm for Precise Estimation of Fundamental Frequency on Short Time Intervals....Pages 217-225
Gender Classification of Web Authors Using Feature Selection and Language Models....Pages 226-233
Improving Acoustic Models for Russian Spontaneous Speech Recognition....Pages 234-242
Information Sources of Word Semantics Methods....Pages 243-250
Invariant Components of Speech Signals: Analysis and Visualization....Pages 251-258
Language Model Speaker Adaptation for Transcription of Slovak Parliament Proceedings....Pages 259-267
Macro Episodes of Russian Everyday Oral Communication: Towards Pragmatic Annotation of the ORD Speech Corpus....Pages 268-276
Missing Feature Kernel and Nonparametric Window Subband Power Distribution for Robust Sound Event Classification....Pages 277-284
Multi-factor Method for Detection of Filled Pauses and Lengthenings in Russian Spontaneous Speech....Pages 285-292
Multimodal Presentation of Bulgarian Child Language....Pages 293-300
On Deep and Shallow Neural Networks in Speech Recognition from Speech Spectrum....Pages 301-308
Opinion Recognition on Movie Reviews by Combining Classifiers....Pages 309-316
Optimization of Pitch Tracking and Quantization....Pages 317-324
PLDA Speaker Verification with Limited Speech Data....Pages 325-332
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Real-Time Context Aware Audio Augmented Reality....Pages 333-340
Recurrent Neural Networks for Hypotheses Re-Scoring....Pages 341-347
Review of the Opus Codec in a WebRTC Scenario for Audio and Speech Communication....Pages 348-355
Semantic Multilingual Differences of Terminological Definitions Regarding the Concept “Artificial Intelligence”....Pages 356-363
SNR Estimation Based on Adaptive Signal Decomposition for Quality Evaluation of Speech Enhancement Algorithms....Pages 364-371
Sociolinguistic Factors in Text-Based Sentence Boundary Detection....Pages 372-380
Sparsity Analysis and Compensation for i-Vector Based Speaker Verification....Pages 381-388
Speaker Identification Using Semi-supervised Learning....Pages 389-396
Speaker Verification Using Spectral and Durational Segmental Characteristics....Pages 397-404
Speech Enhancement in Quasi-Periodic Noises Using Improved Spectral Subtraction Based on Adaptive Sampling....Pages 405-412
Sub-word Language Modeling for Russian LVCSR....Pages 413-421
Temporal Organization of Phrase-final Words as a Function of Pitch Movement Type....Pages 422-428
The “One Day of Speech” Corpus: Phonetic and Syntactic Studies of Everyday Spoken Russian....Pages 429-437
The Multi-level Approach to Speech Corpora Annotation for Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 438-445
The Role of Prosody in the Perception of Synthesized and Natural Speech....Pages 446-453
The Singular Estimation Pitch Tracker....Pages 454-462
Voice Conversion Between Synthesized Bilingual Voices Using Line Spectral Frequencies....Pages 463-471
Voicing-Based Classified Split Vector Quantizer for Efficient Coding of AMR-WB ISF Parameters....Pages 472-479
Vulnerability of Voice Verification System with STC Anti-spoofing Detector to Different Methods of Spoofing Attacks....Pages 480-486
WebTransc — A WWW Interface for Speech Corpora Production and Processing....Pages 487-494
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Word-External Reduction in Spontaneous Russian....Pages 495-503
Back Matter....Pages 505-506