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Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages

IberSPEECH 2012 Conference, Madrid, Spain, November 21-23, 2012. Proceedings

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  1. Doroteo Torre Toledano

    1. Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. C/ Francisco, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Alfonso Ortega Giménez

    1. Centro Politécnico Superior, Edificio Ada Byron, Zaragoza, Spain

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  3. António Teixeira

    1. Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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  4. Joaquín González Rodríguez

    1. Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, C/ Francisco, Madrid, Spain

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  5. Luis Hernández Gómez

    1. E.T.S.I.Telecomunicacion, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  6. Rubén San Segundo Hernández

    1. E.T.S.I.Telecomunicacion, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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    1. Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Speaker Characterization and Recognition

    1. Reliability Estimation of the Speaker Verification Decisions Using Bayesian Networks to Combine Information from Multiple Speech Quality Measures

      • Jesús Villalba, Eduardo Lleida, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel
      Pages 1-10

    2. On the use of Total Variability and Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Speaker Verification on Short Utterances

      • Javier González Domínguez, Rubén Zazo, Joaquin González-Rodríguez
      Pages 11-19

    3. Cepstral Trajectories in Linguistic Units for Text-Independent Speaker Recognition

      • Javier Franco-Pedroso, Fernando Espinoza-Cuadros, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez
      Pages 20-29

    4. Improving the Quality of Standard GMM-Based Voice Conversion Systems by Considering Physically Motivated Linear Transformations

      • Tudor-Cătălin Zorilă, Daniel Erro, Inma Hernaez
      Pages 30-39

    5. Evaluation of a New Beam-Search Formant Tracking Algorithm in Noisy Environments

      • Dayana Ribas González, José Enrique García Laínez, Antonio Miguel, Alfonso Ortega Gimenez, Eduardo Lleida, José Ramón Calvo de Lara
      Pages 40-48

  3. Audio and Speech Segmentation

    1. On the Influence of Automatic Segmentation and Clustering in Automatic Speech Recognition

      • Paula Lopez-Otero, Laura Docio-Fernandez, Carmen Garcia-Mateo, Antonio Cardenal-Lopez
      Pages 49-58

    2. Preliminary Results of Alignment of Text and Audio in News and Songs

      • Darwin Patricio Córdova Lucero, Doroteo Torre Toledano
      Pages 59-68

    3. Aligning Very Long Speech Signals to Bilingual Transcriptions of Parliamentary Sessions

      • Germán Bordel, Mikel Penagarikano, Luis Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes, María Amparo Varona Fernández
      Pages 69-78

    4. Factor Analysis Segmentation and Classification in Broadcast News Domain

      • Diego Castán, Alfonso Ortega Giménez, Eduardo Lleida
      Pages 79-88

    5. Prosodic and Phonetic Features for Speaking Styles Classification and Detection

      • Arlindo Veiga, Dirce Celorico, Jorge Proença, Sara Candeias, Fernando Perdigão
      Pages 89-98

  4. Pathology Detection and Speech Characterization

    1. Voice Pathology Detection on the Saarbrücken Voice Database with Calibration and Fusion of Scores Using MultiFocal Toolkit

      • David Martínez, Eduardo Lleida, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel, Jesús Villalba
      Pages 99-109

    2. Score Level versus Audio Level Fusion for Voice Pathology Detection on the Saarbrücken Voice Database

      • David Martínez, Eduardo Lleida, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel
      Pages 110-120

    3. Using HMM to Detect Speakers with Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome

      • Ana Montero Benavides, José Luis Blanco, Alejandra Fernández, Rubén Fernandez Pozo, Doroteo Torre Toledano, Luis Hernández Gómez
      Pages 121-128

    4. Acoustic Analysis of European Portuguese Oral Vowels Produced by Children

      • Catarina Oliveira, Maria Manuel Cunha, Samuel Silva, António Teixeira, Pedro Sá-Couto
      Pages 129-138

    5. Impact of Age in ASR for the Elderly: Preliminary Experiments in European Portuguese

      • Thomas Pellegrini, Isabel Trancoso, Annika Hämäläinen, António Calado, Miguel Sales Dias, Daniela Braga
      Pages 139-147

  5. Dialogue and Multimodal Systems

    1. Mutual Information and Perplexity Based Clustering of Dialogue Information for Dynamic Adaptation of Language Models

      • Juan Manuel Lucas-Cuesta, Fernando Fernández-Martínez, Tirso Moreno, Javier Ferreiros
      Pages 148-157

    2. A Multilingual SLU System Based on Semantic Decoding of Graphs of Words

      • Marcos Calvo, Lluís-F. Hurtado, Fernando García, Emilio Sanchís
      Pages 158-167

    3. Merging Intention and Emotion to Develop Adaptive Dialogue Systems

      • Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, Ramón López-Cózar Delgado
      Pages 168-177

    4. Language Technology for Handwritten Text Recognition

      • Alejandro H. Toselli, Nicolás Serrano, Adrià Giménez-Pastor, Ihab Khoury, Alfons Juan, Enrique Vidal
      Pages 178-186
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About this book

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Spanish Conference, IberSPEECH 2012: Joint VII “Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla” and III Iberian SLTech Workshop, held in Madrid, Spain, in November 21-23, 2012. The 29 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speaker characterization and recognition; audio and speech segmentation; pathology detection and speech characterization; dialogue and multimodal systems; robustness in automatic speech recognition; applications of speech and language technologies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. C/ Francisco, Madrid, Spain

    Doroteo Torre Toledano

  • Centro Politécnico Superior, Edificio Ada Byron, Zaragoza, Spain

    Alfonso Ortega Giménez

  • Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    António Teixeira

  • Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, C/ Francisco, Madrid, Spain

    Joaquín González Rodríguez

  • E.T.S.I.Telecomunicacion, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Luis Hernández Gómez, Rubén San Segundo Hernández

  • Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Daniel Ramos Castro

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