INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Last year, we showed that the computation of a GMM-UBMbased speaker verification (SV) system may be sped up by 30 times by using a high-density discrete model (HDDM) on the NIST 2...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Information retrieval methods are frequently used for indexing and retrieving spoken documents, and more recently have been proposed for voice-search amongst a pre-defined set of ...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
We present a method for assessing categorical perception from continuous discrimination data. Until recently, categorical perception of speech has exclusively been measured by dis...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Previous studies have recently agreed that second occurrence focus is phonetically realized as prosodic prominence. What has been missing in the previous studies, however, is a co...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Previous work on formant targets has assumed that these targets are independent of the speaking style. In this paper, we estimate consonant and vowel targets in a database of &quo...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
This paper presents an improved distance measure for speaker clustering in speaker diarization systems. The proposed phonetic subspace mixture (PSM) model introduces phonetic info...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
We propose an HMM Trajectory Tiling (HTT) approach to high quality TTS, which is our entry to Blizzard Challenge 2010. In HTT, first refined HMM is trained with the Minimum Genera...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
It is well known that the lowest tone in Mandarin, a language without contrastive phonation, often co-occurs with laryngealization/creaky voice quality, and we provide evidence th...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
MLP based front-ends have shown significant complementary properties to conventional spectral features. As part of the DARPA GALE program, different MLP features were developed fo...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
This paper investigates how rising intonation affects the interpretation of cue words in dialogue. Both cue words and rising intonation express a range of speaker attitudes like u...