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Speech and Computer

20th International Conference, SPECOM 2018, Leipzig, Germany, September 18–22, 2018, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Alexey Karpov

    1. SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

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  2. Oliver Jokisch

    1. Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Leipzig, Germany

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  3. Rodmonga Potapova

    1. Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 11096)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (79 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Gaze, Prosody and Semantics: Relevance of Various Multimodal Signals to Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Conversations

    • Oleg Akhtiamov, Vasily Palkov
    Pages 1-10

  3. A Continuous Vocoder Using Sinusoidal Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

    • Mohammed Salah Al-Radhi, Tamás Gábor Csapó, Géza Németh
    Pages 11-20

  4. Far Field Speech Enhancement at Low SNR in Presence of Nonstationary Noise Based on Spectral Masking and MVDR Beamforming

    • Sergei Astapov, Aleksandr Lavrentyev, Evgeniy Shuranov
    Pages 21-31

  5. Exploring End-to-End Techniques for Low-Resource Speech Recognition

    • Vladimir Bataev, Maxim Korenevsky, Ivan Medennikov, Alexander Zatvornitskiy
    Pages 32-41

  6. Towards a Description of Pragmatic Markers in Russian Everyday Speech

    • Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian, Tatiana Sherstinova, Olga Blinova, Gregory Martynenko, Ekaterina Baeva
    Pages 42-48

  7. Adding Personality to Neutral Speech Synthesis Voices

    • Christopher G. Buchanan, Matthew P. Aylett, David A. Braude
    Pages 49-57

  8. Towards Network Simplification for Low-Cost Devices by Removing Synapses

    • Martin Bulín, Luboš Šmídl, Jan Švec
    Pages 58-67

  9. Generation of Synthetic Images of Full-Text Documents

    • Lukáš Bureš, Petr Neduchal, Miroslav Hlaváč, Marek Hrúz
    Pages 68-75

  10. Speech Synthesizing Simultaneous Emotion-Related States

    • Felix Burkhardt, Benjamin Weiss
    Pages 76-85

  11. An Approach to Automatic Summarization of Television Programs

    • Marco Canora, Fernando García-Granada, Emilio Sanchis, Encarna Segarra
    Pages 86-93

  12. The Prosody of Discourse Makers alors and et in French: A Corpus-Based Study on Multiple Speaking Styles

    • George Christodoulides
    Pages 94-102

  13. Choosing a Dialogue System’s Modality in Order to Minimize User’s Workload

    • Adam Chýlek, Luboš Šmídl, Jakub Nedvěd
    Pages 103-112

  14. A Free Synthetic Corpus for Speaker Diarization Research

    • Erik Edwards, Michael Brenndoerfer, Amanda Robinson, Najmeh Sadoughi, Greg P. Finley, Maxim Korenevsky et al.
    Pages 113-122

  15. Speaker Diarization: A Top-Down Approach Using Syllabic Phonology

    • Erik Edwards, Amanda Robinson, Najmeh Sadoughi, Greg P. Finley, Maxim Korenevsky, Michael Brenndoerfer et al.
    Pages 123-133

  16. Improving Emotion Recognition Performance by Random-Forest-Based Feature Selection

    • Olga Egorow, Ingo Siegert, Andreas Wendemuth
    Pages 134-144

  17. Coherence Understanding Through Cohesion Markers: The Case of Child Spoken Language

    • Polina Eismont, Vladislav Metelyagin, Elena Riekhakaynen
    Pages 145-154

  18. Context Modeling for Cross-Corpus Dimensional Acoustic Emotion Recognition: Challenges and Mixup

    • Dmitrii Fedotov, Heysem Kaya, Alexey Karpov
    Pages 155-165

  19. Functional Mapping of Inner Speech Areas: A Preliminary Study with Portuguese Speakers

    • Carlos Ferreira, Bruno Direito, Alexandre Sayal, Marco Simões, Inês Cadório, Paula Martins et al.
    Pages 166-176

  20. Semi-Supervised Acoustic Model Retraining for Medical ASR

    • Greg P. Finley, Erik Edwards, Wael Salloum, Amanda Robinson, Najmeh Sadoughi, Nico Axtmann et al.
    Pages 177-187
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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2018, held in Leipzig, Germany, in September 2018.


The 79 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing, including recognition, synthesis, understanding and related domains like signal processing, language and text processing, computational paralinguistics, multi-modal speech processing or human-computer interaction.





Editors and Affiliations

  • SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Alexey Karpov

  • Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Leipzig, Germany

    Oliver Jokisch

  • Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia

    Rodmonga Potapova

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Speech and Computer

  • Book Subtitle: 20th International Conference, SPECOM 2018, Leipzig, Germany, September 18–22, 2018, Proceedings

  • Editors: Alexey Karpov, Oliver Jokisch, Rodmonga Potapova

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99579-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99578-6Published: 25 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99579-3Published: 10 September 2018

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 791

  • Number of Illustrations: 224 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Communication Networks, Systems and Data Security

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