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INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Voice attributes affecting likability perception
Ratings of voices' likability were collected in two successive studies. A single scale seems to be sufficient for assessing such ratings. Based on limited but controlled data...
Benjamin Weiss, Felix Burkhardt
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Korean lenis, fortis, and aspirated stops: effect of place of articulation on acoustic realization
Unlike most of the world's languages, Korean distinguishes three types of voiceless stops, namely lenis, fortis, and aspirated stops. All occur at three places of articulatio...
Mirjam Broersma
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Prosody and voice quality of vocal social signals: the case of dominance in scenario meetings
In this paper we investigate the prosody and voice quality of dominance in scenario meetings. We have found that in these scenarios the most dominant person tends to speak with a ...
Marcela Charfuelan, Marc Schröder, Ingmar Ste...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Approaching human listener accuracy with modern speaker verification
Being able to recognize people from their voice is a natural ability that we take for granted. Recent advances have shown significant improvement in automatic speaker recognition ...
Ville Hautamäki, Tomi Kinnunen, Mohaddeseh No...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Voice quality evaluation of recent open source codecs
This paper introduces Silk, CELT, and BroadVoice that are available in the internet as open source voice codecs. Their voice quality is evaluated with a subjective listening test....
Anssi Rämö, Henri Toukomaa
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Domain adaptation and compensation for emotion detection
Inspired by the recent improvements in domain adaptation and session variability compensation techniques used for speech and speaker processing, we study their effect for emotion ...
Michelle Hewlett Sanchez, Gökhan Tür, Lu...
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Active word learning under uncertain input conditions
In this paper we investigate a computational model of word learning that is cognitively plausible. The model is partly trained on incorrect form-referent pairings, modelling the i...
Maarten Versteegh, Louis ten Bosch, Lou Boves
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Redescribing intonational categories with functional data analysis
Intonational research is often dependent upon hand-labeling by trained listeners, which can be prone to bias or error. We apply tools from Functional Data Analysis (FDA) to a set ...
Margaret Zellers, Michele Gubian, Brechtje Post
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Verifying pronunciation dictionaries using conflict analysis
We describe a new language-independent technique for automatically identifying errors in an electronic pronunciation dictionary by analyzing the source of conflicting patterns dir...
Marelie H. Davel, Febe de Wet
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 6 months ago
FSM-based pronunciation modeling using articulatory phonological code
According to articulatory phonology, the gestural score is an invariant speech representation. Though the timing schemes, i.e., the onsets and offsets, of the gestural activations...
Chi Hu, Xiaodan Zhuang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson