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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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Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS, volume 328)

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Speaker Characterization and Recognition

    1. 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
    2. Cepstral Trajectories in Linguistic Units for Text-Independent Speaker Recognition

      • Javier Franco-Pedroso, Fernando Espinoza-Cuadros, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez
      Pages 20-29
    3. 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

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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