SST 2000 Proceedings
Keynote Papers
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2--18 | Mary E. Beckman & Janet Pierrehumbert | Positions, Probabilities, And Levels Of Categorisation | |
| 19--30 | Sadaoki Furui | Steps Toward Flexible Speech Recognition Recent Progress At Tokyo Institute Of Technology |
Dialogue Systems
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32--37 | Shinya Kiriyamai, Keikichi Hirosei, Nobuaki Minematsui | Development And Evaluation Of A Spoken Dialogue System For Academic Document Retrieval With A Focus On Reply Generation | |
| 38--42 | Xian Fang Wang, Li Min Du | The Design Of A Chinese Spoken Dialogue System Engine |
Language Acquisition
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44--49 | Peter E Czigler, Jan van Doorn, Kirk P.H. Sullivan | An Acoustic Study Of The Development Of Word-Initial /Sp/ Consonant Clusters In The Speech Of A Swedish Child Aged 1:11 - 2:5 Years | |
| 50--55 | Chong-Woon Kim and John C. L. Ingram | Perception Of Korean Back Vowels By Australian English And Japanese Speaking Adult Learners | |
| 56--61 | Kimiko Tsukada | Some Acoustic Characteristics Of Australian English /Ai/ And Japanese /Ai/ In Native And Non-Native Speech Production | |
| 62--67 | Chiharu Tsurutani and John Ingram | Perception Of Mora Timing By English Learners Of Japanese |
Language Identification
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 70--75 | Javad Sheikhzadegan, Mahmood Reza Roohani | Automatic Spoken Language Identification Based On Ann Using Fundamental Frequency And Relative Changes In Spectrum | |
| 74--77 | J.P Willmore, R.C. Price and W.J.J Roberts | Comparing Gaussian Mixture And Neural Network Modelling Approaches To Automatic Language Identification Of Speech. | |
| 78--83 | E. Wong, J. Pelecanos, S. Myers and S. Sridharan | Language Identification Using Efficient Gaussian Mixture Model Analysis |
Multimodal Speech
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 86--91 | Denis Burnham, Valter Ciocca, Cheryl Lauw, Susanna | Perception Of Visual Information For Cantonese Tones | |
| 92--97 | Roland Goeoke, Quynh Nho Tran, J Bruce Millar, Alexander Zelinsky and Jordi Robert-Ribes | Validation Of An Automatic Lip-Tracking Algorithm And Design Of A Database For Audio-Video Speech Processing | |
| 98--103 | Simon Lucey, Sridha Sridharan and Vinod Chandran | An Improvement Of Automatic Speech Reading Using An Intensity To Contour Stochastic Transformation | |
| 104--109 | Jacek C. Wojdel and Leon J. M. Rothkrantz | Silence Detection And Vowel/Consonant Discrimination In Video Sequences |
Phonetics - Acoustic
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 112--117 | Michael Barlow and Frantz Clermont | A Parametric Model Of Australian English Vowels In Formant Space | |
| 118--123 | Michael Barlow and Frantz Clermont | Seeing Is Believing: Beyond A Static 2d-View Of Formant Space For Speech Research And Education | |
| 124--129 | Josefina Carrera-Sabat Ana M. Fernandez-Planas, Josep Matas-Crespo and Alicia Ortega-Escandell | Differences In Vowel Quality In Two Catalan Dialects Data From Mds | |
| 130--133 | Jonathan Harrington, Sallyanne Palethorpe, and Catherine Watson | Vowel Change In Received Pronunciation: Evidence From The Queen'S English | |
| 134--139 | Akiko Onaka and Catherine I. Watson | Acoustic Comparison Of Child And Adult Fricatives | |
| 140--147 | Napier Guy Ian Thompson | Wuyi Citation Tone Acoustics: Problems For Tonological Representation |
Phonetics - Forensic
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 148--153 | Jennifer Elliott | Auditory And F-Pattern Variations In Australian Okay: A Forensic Investigation | |
| 154--159 | Jennifer Elliott | Comparing The Acoustic Properties Of Normal And Shouted Speech: A Study In Forensic Phonetics. | |
| 160--165 | Yuko Kinoshita | Effective F2 As A Parameter In Japanese Forensic Speaker Identification | |
| 166--171 | Yuko Kinoshita John Maindonald | Statistical Quantification Of Differential Vowel Comparability In Forensic Phonetic Samples | |
| 172--179 | Phil Rose and Frantz Clermont | Comparative Performance Of Cepstrum And Formant Based Analysis On Similar-Sounding Speakers For Forensic Speaker Identification |
Phonetics - Linguistic
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 180--185 | Helen Fraser | Phonetics, Phonology, And The Teaching Of Pronunciation -- A New Cd-Rom For Esl Learners, And Its Rationale | |
| 186--191 | D. Gharavian, H. Sheikhzadeh, and S. M. Ahadi | An Experimental Multi-Speaker Study On Farsi Phoneme Duration Rules Using Automatic Alignment | |
| 192--197 | Shunichi Ishihara | Linguistic-Tonetic Differences In Target-Tone Realisation: Standard Vs. Kagoshima Japanese | |
| 198--204 | Phil Rose | Hong Kong Cantonese Citation Tone Acoustics: A Linguistic Tonetic Study |
Prosody
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 206--211 | Mariapaola D'Imperio, Jacques Terken, and Michel Pitermann | Perceived Tone "Targets" And Pitch Accent Identification In Italian | |
| 212--217 | Petra Hansson | Focal Accentuation And Boundary Perception | |
| 218--223 | Shunichi Ishihara | Continuous Linguistic Tonetic Representation Using Polynomial Residuals | |
| 224--229 | Shunichi Ishihara | The Exponential Nature Of F0 Target Tone Interpolation | |
| 230--235 | Phil Rose | Wenzhou Dialect Disyllabic Lexical Tone Sandhi With First Syllable Entering Tones | |
| 236--242 | Hyung-Soon Yim | An Analysis Of Korean Intonation In Declarative And Propositive Sentence Types |
Signal Processing & Feature Analysis
Speaker Recognition
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 288--293 | Michael Barlow, Brett Watson, Ah Chung Tsoi & Tom Downs | A-Priori Selection Of Cohort Sets For A Speaker Verification System: Issues And Insights | |
| 294--299 | Grazyna Demenko, Adam Mickiewicz | Analysis Of Suprasegmental Features For Speaker Verification | |
| 300--304 | S. Myers, J. Pelecanos and S. Sridharan | Two Speaker Detection By Dual Gaussian Mixture Modelling | |
| 306--311 | J. Pelecanos, S. Myers and S. Sridharan | Rapid Channel Compensation For One And Two Speaker Detection In The Nist 2000 Speaker Recognition Evaluation | |
| 312--317 | Conrad Sanderson and Kuldip K. Paliwal | Training Method Of A Piecewise Linear Classifier For A Multi-Modal Person Verification System | |
| 318--323 | Timothy Wark Sridha Sridharan Vinod Chandran | A Comparison Of Static And Dynamic Classifier Performance For Multi-Modal Speaker Verification | |
| 324--329 | Brett R. Wildermoth and Kuldip K. Paliwal | Use Of Voicing And Pitch Information For Speaker Recognition |
Speaker Characteristics
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 330--335 | Michael Barlow & Michael Wagner | Perceptions Of Identity, Gender And Idiolect In Prosodically Altered Speech Using A Composite Model Approach | |
| 336--341 | Kirk P.H. Sullivan, Donn Bayard, Ann Weatherall, Cindy Gallois, Frank Schlichting & Jeffery Pittam | Does Media Exposure To An Accent Impact Upon The Estimation Of The Age Of Speakers? | |
| 342--347 | Elisabeth Zetterholm | The Significance Of Phonetics In Voice Imitation |
Speech Aids &Amp; Disorders: Speech Databases
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 350--355 | Jan van Doorn | Does Artificially Increased Speech Rate Help? | |
| 356--361 | David B. Grayden and Graeme M. Clark | The Effect Of Rate Of Stimulation Of The Auditory Nerve On Phoneme Recognition | |
| 362--366 | Simone Griffin, Linda Wilson, Elizabeth Clark | Speech Pathology Applications Of Automatic Speech Recognition Technology | |
| 367--372 | Cheolwoo Jo, Daehyun Kim, Moojin Baek, Sugeon Wang | On Predicting Patient’S Voice After Surgical Operation | |
| 373--378 | Lois F.A. Martin, Peter J. Blamey, Christopher J. James, Karyn L. Galvin, & David Macfarlane | Adaptive Dynamic Range Optimisation For Hearing Aids | |
| 428--433 | Steve Cassidy Pauline Welby, Julie McGory, Mary Beckman | Testing The Adequacy Of Query Languages Against Annotated Spoken Dialog | |
| 434--439 | J Bruce Millar | Prospects For Speech Technology In The Oceania Region | |
| 440--445 | Li Ming, Jochen Junkawitsch, Tiecheng Yu | An Incremental Approach To Selection Of Well Balanced Corpus |
Speech Coding
Speech Perception
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 446--451 | Dawn Behne, Peter Czigler and Kirk Sullivan | Perception Of Swedish Vowel Quantity: Tracing Stages Of Development | |
| 452--457 | Peter J. Blamey, Christopher J. James & Lois F.A. Martin | Sound Separation With A Cochlear Implant And A Hearing Aid In Opposite Ears | |
| 458--463 | Michael D. Tyler and Denis K. Burnham | Orthographic Influences On Initial Phoneme Deletion Tasks |
Speech Physiology
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 466--471 | Michael Barlow, Frantz Clermont & Parham Mokhtari | From Acoustics Of Speech To A 3d Vocal-Tract: Toward A Plausible Model, With Real-Time Constraints | |
| 472--477 | Julie Carson-Berndsen and Michael Walsh | Interpreting Multilinear Representations In Speech | |
| 478--483 | Parham Mokhtari and Frantz Clermont | New Perspectives On Linear-Prediction Modelling Of The Vocal-Tract: Uniqueness, Formant-Dependence And Shape Parameterisation | |
| 484--489 | R. E. E. ROBINSON | Articulograph Interface |
Speech Recognition
| Pages | Authors | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 492--497 | S.M. Ahadi | Reduced Context Sensitivity In Persian Speech Recognition Via Syllable Modeling | |
| 498--503 | Keith Bain and Di Paez | Speech Recognition In Lecture Theatres - Liberated Learning Project An Innovation To Improve Access To Higher Education Using Speech Recognition Technology | |
| 504--509 | JunLan Feng and LiMin Du | An Improved Architecture For Word Verification | |
| 510--515 | Ho-Hyun Jeon, Chang-Sun Ryu, Jae-In Kim and Myoung-Wan Koo | A Speech-Operated Railroad Information &Amp; Reservation Service With Multi-Stage Dialogue |