E-grāmata: Speech and Computer: 16th International Conference, SPECOM 2014, Novi Sad, Serbia, October 5-9, 2014. Proceedings

Invited Talks.- Creating Expressive TTS Voices for Conversation Agent
Applications.- Gaps to Bridge in Speech Technology.- Instantaneous Harmonic
Analysis: Techniques and Applications to Speech Signal Processing.-
Conference Papers.- A Comparison of Two Prosody Modelling Approaches for
Sesotho and Serbian.- A Dependency Treebank for Serbian: Initial
Experiments.- A Framework for Recording Audio-Visual Speech Corpora with a
Microphone and a High-Speed Camera.- A Neural Network Keyword Search System
for Telephone Speech.- A Note on Feature Extraction Based on
Kanade-Shi-Tomasi Procedure and Kalman Filters.- A Robust SVM/GMM Classifier
for Speaker Verification.- A Sequence Training Method for Deep Rectifier
Neural Networks in Speech Recognition.- Algorithms for Acceleration of Image
Processing at Automatic Registration of Meeting Participants.- Analysis and
Synthesis of Glottalization Phenomena in German Accented English.-
Annotation and Personality: Individual Differences in Sentence Boundary
Detection.- Associative Mechanism of Foreign Spoken Language Perception
(Forensic Phonetic Aspect).- Automatic Alignment of Phonetic Transcriptions
for Russian.- Automatic Post-Editing Method Using Translation Knowledge Based
on Intuitive Common Parts Continuum for Statistical Machine Translation.-
Automatic Stop List Generation for Clustering Recognition Results of Call
Center Recordings.- Blur Estimation Methods for System of Audiovisual
Monitoring of Meeting Participants.- Controlling the Uncertainty Area in the
Real Time LVCSR Application.- Convolutional Neural Network for Refinement of
Speaker Adaptation Transformation.- Corpus-Based Regiolect Studies: Kazan
Region.- Crowdsourcing Interactive Technology for Natural-Technical Objects
Integrated Monitoring.- Dramatic Piece Reader and its Evaluation by the
Blind and Sighted Assessors.- Estimating Stochasticity of Acoustic Signals.-
Exploiting Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Linear Constraints in
Noise-RobustSpeaker Identification.- Extraction of Features for Lip-reading
Using Autoencoders.- F0 Declination Patterns in Russian.- Filled Pauses and
Lengthenings Detection Based on the Acoustic Features for the Spontaneous
Russian Speech.- First Experiments with Relevant Documents Selection for
Blind Relevance Feedback in Spoken Document Retrieval.- How Speech
Technologies Can Help People with Disabilities.- HTK-Based Recognition of
Whispered Speech.- Human Resources Management in Conditions of Operators
Psychophysiological State Changes.- Impact of Emotional Speech to Automatic
Speaker Recognition - Experiments on GEES Speech Database.- Improving Speech
Synthesis Quality for Voices Created from an Audiobook Database.-
«INFANT.MAVS» - Multimedia Model for Infants Cognitive and Emotional
Development Study.- Influence of Agent Behaviour on Human-Virtual Agent Body
Interaction.- Modeling of Process Dynamics by Sequence of Homogenous Semantic
Networks on the Base of Text Corpus Sequence Analysis.- New Method of Speech
Signals Adaptive Features Construction Based on the Wavelet-like Transform
and Support Vector Machines.- On a Hybrid NN/HMM Speech Recognition System
with a RNN-Based Language Model.- On Principles of Annotated Databases of the
Semantic Field Aggression.- On the Possibility of the Skype Channel Speaker
Identification (on the Basis of Acoustic Parameters).- Parametric
Representation of Kazakh Gestural Speech.- Personified Voice Interaction
Software in Billing Systems.- Phrase-Final Lengthening in Russian:
Pre-boundary or Pre-pausal?.- Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control of
Automatic Speech Recognition Speed.- Quality Assessment of HMM-Based Speech
Synthesis Using Acoustical Vowel Analysis.- Quality Improvements of
Zero-Concatenation-Cost Chain Based Unit Selection.- Robust Multi-Band ASR
Using Deep Neural Nets and Spectro-temporal Features.- Semantic Entity
Detection in the Spoken Air Traffic Control Data.- Simplified Simultaneous
PerturbationStochastic Approximation for the Optimization of Free Decoding
Parameters.- Speaker Detection Using Phoneme Specific Hidden Markov Models.-
Speaking Rate Estimation Based on Deep Neural Networks.- Speech Rhythmic
Patterns of the Slavic Languages.- State Level Control for Acoustic Model
Training.- Structural Model and Behavior Scenarios of Information Navigation
Mobile Robot .- Study of Morphological Factors of Factored Language Models
for Russian ASR.- The Use of Speech Technology in Computer Assisted Language
Learning Systems.- Using Random Forests for Prosodic Break Prediction Based
on Automatic Speech Labeling.- Vulnerability of Voice Verification Systems to
Spoofing Attacks by TTS Voices Based on Automatically Labeled Telephone
Speech.