Speech and Computer

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Invited Talks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Low-Resource Speech Recognition and Keyword-Spotting

      • Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill, Anton Ragni

      Pages 3-19

   3. Big Data, Deep Learning – At the Edge of X-Ray Speaker Analysis

      • Björn W. Schuller

      Pages 20-34

3. Conference Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. A Comparison of Covariance Matrix and i-vector Based Speaker Recognition

      • Nikša Jakovljević, Ivan Jokić, Slobodan Jošić, Vlado Delić

      Pages 37-45

   3. A Trainable Method for the Phonetic Similarity Search in German Proper Names

      • Oliver Jokisch, Horst-Udo Hain

      Pages 46-55

   4. Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of Vowel Articulation in Parkinson’s Disease With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study

      • Michaela Strinzel, Vasilisa Verkhodanova, Fedor Jalvingh, Roel Jonkers, Matt Coler

      Pages 56-64

   5. Acoustic Cues for the Perceptual Assessment of Surround Sound

      • Ingo Siegert, Oliver Jokisch, Alicia Flores Lotz, Franziska Trojahn, Martin Meszaros, Michael Maruschke

      Pages 65-75

   6. Acoustic Modeling in the STC Keyword Search System for OpenKWS 2016 Evaluation

      • Ivan Medennikov, Aleksei Romanenko, Alexey Prudnikov, Valentin Mendelev, Yuri Khokhlov, Maxim Korenevsky et al.

      Pages 76-86

   7. Adaptation Approaches for Pronunciation Scoring with Sparse Training Data

      • Federico Landini, Luciana Ferrer, Horacio Franco

      Pages 87-97

   8. An Algorithm for Detection of Breath Sounds in Spontaneous Speech with Application to Speaker Recognition

      • Sri Harsha Dumpala, K. N. R. K. Raju Alluri

      Pages 98-108

   9. An Alternative Approach to Exploring a Video

      • Fahim A. Salim, Fasih Haider, Owen Conlan, Saturnino Luz

      Pages 109-118

   10. An Analysis of the RNN-Based Spoken Term Detection Training

       • Jan Švec, Luboš Šmídl, Josef V. Psutka

       Pages 119-129

   11. Analysis of Interaction Parameter Levels in Interaction Quality Modelling for Human-Human Conversation

       • Anastasiia Spirina, Olesia Vaskovskaia, Tatiana Karaseva, Alina Skorokhod, Iana Polonskaia, Maxim Sidorov

       Pages 130-140

   12. Annotation Error Detection: Anomaly Detection vs. Classification

       • Jindřich Matoušek, Daniel Tihelka

       Pages 141-151

   13. Are You Addressing Me? Multimodal Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Conversations

       • Oleg Akhtiamov, Dmitrii Ubskii, Evgeniia Feldina, Aleksei Pugachev, Alexey Karpov, Wolfgang Minker

       Pages 152-161

   14. Assessing Spoken Dialog Services from the End-User Perspective: Usability and Experience

       • Otilia Kocsis, Basilis Kladis, Anastasios Tsopanoglou, Nikos Fakotakis

       Pages 162-170

   15. Audio-Replay Attack Detection Countermeasures

       • Galina Lavrentyeva, Sergey Novoselov, Egor Malykh, Alexander Kozlov, Oleg Kudashev, Vadim Shchemelinin

       Pages 171-181

   16. Automatic Estimation of Presentation Skills Using Speech, Slides and Gestures

       • Abualsoud Hanani, Mohammad Al-Amleh, Waseem Bazbus, Saleem Salameh

       Pages 182-191

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2017, held in Hatfield, UK, in September 2017.

The 80 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing (recognition, synthesis, understanding etc.) and related domains (including signal processing, language and text processing, computational paralinguistics, multi-modal speech processing, human-computer interaction).

• Artificial intelligence
• Natural language interfaces
• Natural language processing
• Cognitive science
• Speech recognition
• Discourse, dialogue and pragmatics
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• HCI theory, concepts and models
• Interactive systems and tools
• User interface management systems
• Web-based interaction
• Multimedia databases
• Accessibility technologies

• SPIIRAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia

  Alexey Karpov

• Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia

  Rodmonga Potapova

• University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

  Iosif Mporas

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