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Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages

Second International Conference, IberSPEECH 2014, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, November 19-21, 2014. Proceedings

  • Juan Luis Navarro Mesa
  • Alfonso Ortega
  • António Teixeira
  • Eduardo Hernández Pérez
  • Pedro Quintana Morales
  • Antonio Ravelo García
  • Iván Guerra Moreno
  • Doroteo T. Toledano
Conference proceedings

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8854)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 8854)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Speech Production, Analysis, Coding and Synthesis

    1. Analysis and Synthesis of Emotional Speech in Spanish for the Chat Domain
      Yesika Laplaza, Juan María Garrido
      Pages 1-10
    2. Developing a Basque TTS for the Navarro-Lapurdian Dialect
      Eva Navas, Inma Hernaez, Daniel Erro, Jasone Salaberria, Beñat Oyharçabal, Manuel Padilla
      Pages 11-20
    3. Fine Vocoder Tuning for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis: Effect of the Analysis Window Length
      Agustin Alonso, Daniel Erro, Eva Navas, Inma Hernaez
      Pages 21-29
    4. Quantitative Analysis of /l/ Production from RT-MRI: First Results
      Samuel Silva, Paula Martins, Catarina Oliveira, António Teixeira
      Pages 30-39
    5. Statistical Text-to-Speech Synthesis of Spanish Subtitles
      S. Piqueras, M. A. del-Agua, A. Giménez, J. Civera, A. Juan
      Pages 40-48

  3. Speaker and Language Characterization

    1. Unsupervised Accent Modeling for Language Identification
      David Martínez González, Jesús Villalba López, Eduardo Lleida Solano, Alfonso Ortega Gimenez
      Pages 49-58
    2. Global Speaker Clustering towards Optimal Stopping Criterion in Binary Key Speaker Diarization
      Héctor Delgado, Xavier Anguera, Corinne Fredouille, Javier Serrano
      Pages 59-68
    3. Unsupervised Training of PLDA with Variational Bayes
      Jesús Villalba, Eduardo Lleida
      Pages 69-78
    4. On the Use of Convolutional Neural Networks in Pairwise Language Recognition
      Alicia Lozano-Diez, Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez, Ruben Zazo, Daniel Ramos, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez
      Pages 79-88
    5. Global Impostor Selection for DBNs in Multi-session i-Vector Speaker Recognition
      Omid Ghahabi, Javier Hernando
      Pages 89-98

  4. Automatic Speech Recognition

    1. Phoneme-Lattice to Phoneme-Sequence Matching Algorithm Based on Dynamic Programming
      Ciro Gracia, Xavier Anguera, Jordi Luque, Ittai Artzi
      Pages 99-108
    2. Deep Maxout Networks Applied to Noise-Robust Speech Recognition
      F. de-la-Calle-Silos, A. Gallardo-Antolín, C. Peláez-Moreno
      Pages 109-118
    3. A Deep Neural Network Approach for Missing-Data Mask Estimation on Dual-Microphone Smartphones: Application to Noise-Robust Speech Recognition
      Iván López-Espejo, José A. González, Ángel M. Gómez, Antonio M. Peinado
      Pages 119-128
    4. Language Model Adaptation for Lecture Transcription by Document Retrieval
      A Martínez-Villaronga, M. A del Agua, J. A Silvestre-Cerdà, J Andrés-Ferrer, A Juan
      Pages 129-137
    5. Articulatory Feature Extraction from Voice and Their Impact on Hybrid Acoustic Models
      Jorge Lombart, Antonio Miguel, Eduardo Lleida
      Pages 138-147
    6. CVX-Optimized Beamforming and Vector Taylor Series Compensation with German ASR Employing Star-Shaped Microphone Array
      Juan A. Morales-Cordovilla, Hannes Pessentheiner, Martin Hagmüller, José A. González, Gernot Kubin
      Pages 148-157
    7. Flexible Stand-Alone Keyword Recognition Application Using Dynamic Time Warping
      Miquel Ferrarons, Xavier Anguera, Jordi Luque
      Pages 158-167
    8. Confidence Measures in Automatic Speech Recognition Systems for Error Detection in Restricted Domains
      Julia Olcoz, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel, Eduardo Lleida
      Pages 168-177
    9. Recognition of Distant Voice Commands for Home Applications in Portuguese
      Miguel Matos, Alberto Abad, Ramón Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso
      Pages 178-188

  5. Speech and Language Technologies in Different Application Fields

    1. Assessing the Applicability of Surface EMG to Tongue Gesture Detection
      João Freitas, Samuel Silva, António Teixeira, Miguel Sales Dias
      Pages 189-198
    2. Towards Cross-Lingual Emotion Transplantation
      Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Juan M. Montero
      Pages 199-208
    3. A Preliminary Study of Acoustic Events Classification with Factor Analysis in Meeting Rooms
      Diego Castán, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel, Eduardo Lleida
      Pages 209-218
    4. A Spoken Language Database for Research on Moderate Cognitive Impairment: Design and Preliminary Analysis
      Fernando Espinoza-Cuadros, Marlene A. Garcia-Zamora, Dania Torres-Boza, Carlos A. Ferrer-Riesgo, Ana Montero-Benavides, Eduardo Gonzalez-Moreira et al.
      Pages 219-228
    5. Towards Customized Automatic Segmentation of Subtitles
      Aitor Álvarez, Haritz Arzelus, Thierry Etchegoyhen
      Pages 229-238
    6. Bootstrapping a Portuguese WordNet from Galician, Spanish and English Wordnets
      Alberto Simões, Xavier Gómez Guinovart
      Pages 239-248
    7. ATVS-CSLT-HCTLab System for NIST 2013 Open Keyword Search Evaluation
      Javier Tejedor, Doroteo T. Toledano, Dong Wang
      Pages 249-258
    8. Speech Watermarking Based on Coding of the Harmonic Phase
      Inma Hernaez, Ibon Saratxaga, Jianpei Ye, Jon Sanchez, Daniel Erro, Eva Navas
      Pages 259-268
    9. The Translectures-UPV Toolkit
      M. A. del-Agua, A. Giménez, N. Serrano, J. Andrés-Ferrer, J. Civera, A. Sanchis et al.
      Pages 269-278
    10. The AhoSR Automatic Speech Recognition System
      Igor Odriozola, Luis Serrano, Inma Hernaez, Eva Navas
      Pages 279-288
  6. Back Matter
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About these proceedings

Introduction

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IberSPEECH 2014 Conference, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in November 19-21, 2014. The 29 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speech production, analysis, coding and synthesis; speaker and language characterization; automatic speech recognition; speech of language technologies in different application fields.

Keywords

Automatic speech recognition Speaker and language characterization data hiding deep learning document retrieval hybrid models information retrieval knowledge acquisition language model adaption machine learning moderate cognitive impairment neural networks noise robustness speech analysis speech and language technologies speech coding speech production speech synthesis text-to-speech synthesis video lectures

Editors and affiliations

  • Juan Luis Navarro Mesa
    • 1
  • Alfonso Ortega
    • 2
  • António Teixeira
    • 3
  • Eduardo Hernández Pérez
    • 1
  • Pedro Quintana Morales
    • 1
  • Antonio Ravelo García
    • 1
  • Iván Guerra Moreno
    • 1
  • Doroteo T. Toledano
    • 4
  1. 1.ETSITLas Palmas de Gran CanariaSpain
  2. 2.University of ZaragozaSpain
  3. 3.Dep. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics EngineeringUniversity of AveiroPortugal
  4. 4.ATVS Biometric Recognition Group,Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13623-3
  • Copyright Information Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
  • Publisher Name Springer, Cham
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-319-13622-6
  • Online ISBN 978-3-319-13623-3
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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