Asian Workshop on Speech Science and Technology

Tokyo, Japan

Mar 20, 2008

http://www.ieice.org/iss/sp/eng/workshop/sp-h-asian-program.htm

*NOTE TO POSTER SESSION AUTHORS

- Poster size: ISO paper size A0, landscape

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9:55 OPENING REMARKS

10:00-11:00 [Invited Talk] Voice-based Information Retrieval -- how far are we from the text-based retrieval? --

Lin-shan Lee (National Taiwan Univ.)

11:00-12:00 [Invited Talk] Robust Speech Recognition Based on Structured Modeling, Irrelevant Variability Normalization and Unsupervised Online Adaptation

Qiang Huo (Microsoft Research Asia)

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13:00-14:00 [Invited Talk] Feature Vector Classification based on Likelihood Ratio

Yung-Hwan Oh (KAIST)

14:00-15:00 [Invited Talk] Remaking Speech Revisited -- STRAIGHT and TANDEM-STRAIGHT and Their Implications

Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama Univ.)

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15:15-16:45 POSTER SESSION (15 posters)

16:45 CLOSING REMARKS

17:30 RECEPTION PARTY

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1. A Study on the LP-based Blind Model in Restoring Bone-conducted Speech Bone-conducted Speech

Thang tat Vu, Masashi Unoki, Masato Akagi (JAIST)

2. Investigation of Usual and Unusual Articulation based on Simulations and Observations

Akikazu Nishikido, Jianwu Dang (JAIST)

3. Perception of Speaker Identity and Its Relation to the Phonological Features

Kanae Amino, Takayuki Arai (Sophia Univ.)

4. Effects of Repetition Priming and Word Familiarity on Perception of Spectrally Degraded Spoken Words

Mika Murao, Yasunari Sasaki, Hiroshi Riquimaroux (Doshisha Univ.)

5. Prosody Reconstruction by Rescaling Fundamental Frequency Contours in order to Synthesize Communicative Speech

Jinfu Ni, Shinsuke Sakai, Satoshi Nakamura (NICT/ATR)

6. A Context Clustering Technique for Improvement of Tone Intelligibility of Average-voice-based Thai Speech Synthesis

Suphattharachai Chomphan, Takao Kobayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

7. Robust Noise Suppression Algorithm using the Only Kalman Filter Theory for White and Colored Noises

Nari Tanabe (Tokyo Univ. of Science, Suwa), Toshihiro Furukawa (Tokyo Univ. of Science), Shigeo Tsujii (Institute of Information Security)

8. Improvement of Robustness using the Selective Sound Segregation for Automatic Speech Recognition Systems in Noisy Environments

Atsushi Haniu, Masashi Unoki, Masato Akagi (JAIST)

9. Robust Distant Speech Recognition by Combining Variable-term Spectrum based Position-Dependent CMN with Conventional CMN

Longbiao Wang, Seiichi Nakagawa (Toyohashi Univ. of Technology), Norihide Kitaoka (Nagoya Univ.)

10. Unsupervised Phoneme Segmentation Using Mahalanobis Distance

Yu Qiao, Nobuaki Minematsu (Univ. of Tokyo)

11. A Fast Sequence Kernel for Sequential Data Classification

Makoto Yamada (Graduate School for Advanced Studies/Yamaha Corp.), Tomoko Matsui (Institute for Statistical Mathematics)

12. LVCSR based on Context Dependent Syllable Acoustic Models

Jian Zhang, Longbiao Wang, Seiichi Nakagawa (Toyohashi Univ. of Technology)

13. Accent Analysis for Mandarin Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition

Dong Yang, Koji Iwano, Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

14. Initial Evaluation of the Drivers' Japanese Speech Corpus in a Car Environment

Kousuke Hiraki, Takahiro Shinozaki, Koji Iwano, Agnieszka Betkowska, Koichi Shinoda, Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

15. Efficient Discriminative Training of Error Corrective Models using High-WER Competitors

Takanobu Oba, Takaaki Hori, Atsushi Nakamura (NTT Labs)