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Welcome Message from Conference Chair On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am pleased to welcome you to the City of Roses — Portland, Oregon — and InterSpeech 2012. Unlike Florence, the venue for last year’s conference, Portland is a very young city. Prior to the coming of Europeans, the area around the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers was home to villages inhabited by people speaking Chinookan languages. The first European settlement in an area of solid ground called “The Clearing”, dated only to the early 19 th century. The name “Portland” was decided in 1845 by a series of coin tosses between the two stakeholders, Asa Lovejoy and Francis Pettygrove, each wishing to name the settlement after his own home town. Pettygrove won: he was from Portland, Maine — itself named after the Isle of Portland off the Dorset coast in England. Had Lovejoy won, the venue for InterSpeech 2012 would have been named Boston. As the birthplace of the Renaissance, Florence is central to the history of Western civilization and ultimately to world civilization over the last 700 years. In contrast, modern Portland is in many ways a model of how one may hope civilization will shape itself over the next 700 years and beyond. Portland tops the list of eco-friendly cities in the United States. It has America’s first modern streetcar system, an extensive light rail system, and it is widely considered to be one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world. Forest Park, in the West Hills, is the largest urban wilderness park in the United States. It is a testament to Portland’s attention to green spaces that, from the conference venue in Downtown Portland, one can reach Forest Park in less than one hour on foot. I am hard pressed to think of other cities where such a thing would be possible. Portland’s food and beverage scene is almost certainly unparalleled for a city its size. The New York Times frequently praises Portland’s restaurants, but beyond the fine restaurants there are many food carts scattered throughout the city offering a wide range of foods from all over the world. There is a vibrant cafe culture, with some of the finest coffees available anywhere. The Willamette Valley has evolved in the past few decades into a premier wine-growing region: the pinot noirs are particularly excellent. Portland has over sixty craft brewers, making it the largest craft brewing market in the United States, and one of the world’s great beer destinations. Indeed, beer in Portland dates all the way back to 1856, when German immigrant Henry Weinhard opened the first brewery here. Less well known, but still noteworthy, are Oregon’s boutique distilleries. One cannot, of course, discuss Portland without mentioning Oregon and the Northwest, home to some of the most spectacular scenery on the planet. From a good vantage point near downtown and on a clear day, one can see the volcanoes of Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount Saint Helens. Saint Helens, which famously erupted in 1980, is reachable in about a half day’s drive from Portland, and makes for a compelling demonstration of nature’s capacity for both destruction and rebirth. Closer is the Columbia River, full of sweeping vistas and beautiful waterfalls. A couple of hours’ drive to the west is the scenic Oregon coast. A seven-hour drive away, in Southern Oregon, is the famous Crater Lake, formed from another volcano that collapsed about 7,000 years ago. Portland is thus a city with a high quality of life, and one that is at the same time at the forefront of what must become all of humanity’s quest to be better stewards of our planet. I hope you will all have ample opportunity during your stay here to sample the finer things that Portland and the Northwest have to offer. Turning now to the Conference itself, I will leave it to Jerome Bellegarda to talk at length about the technical program. I will merely point out that the theme for this year’s conference is “Spoken Language Processing and Biomedicine”. This is appropriate in many ways. Portland, as the largest city in Oregon, is also home to a large number of medical institutions. Several of the members of the Organizing Committee, myself included, are affiliated with the Oregon Health & Science University. We, as well as some other members of the Organizing Committee, have research interests in applications of spoken language technology in biomedicine, e. g., to assessment and remediation of communications disorders. It is an area in which we are seeing a growing amount of interest. Two of our special sessions and events are devoted to areas related to this theme, as is one of the satellite workshops (WOCCI, appropriately enough held on the OHSU campus), and two of the tutorials. I would like to close this welcome with a round of thanks for everyone who has made InterSpeech 2012 possible. I would like to start by thanking my fellow members of the Organizing Committee, in particular Esther Klabbers who, as the Local Organizing Chair, took on many of the responsibilities associated with the selection of the venues and the budget; Jerome Bellegarda, who took on the central role of Technical Program Chair — and that right after acting as a technical chair for ASRU 2011; the Technical Program Area Chairs for their hard work in managing the reviewing process; and the many individual reviewers for helping us select the papers to be presented. Thanks also to Isabel Trancoso and others at ISCA for advice. The staff at Conference Solutions made what initially seemed like the daunting task of organizing a major international conference appear simple. And I would like to thank our invited speakers for agreeing to take time out of their busy schedules to give us their perspectives on a broad-ranging set of topics. I would particularly like to extend our gratitude to our many sponsors for supporting many of the events associated with InterSpeech 2012 and for making this the InterSpeech with the highest level of sponsorship to date. Finally, I would like to end with a special thanks to graphic designer Lucy Roark for designing the conference logo, a view of beautiful Mount Hood, which graces all of our conference materials. Once again, welcome to Portland. Richard Sproat General Chair, InterSpeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA INTERSPEECH 2012 - Intro 1

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Welcome Message from Conference Chair

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am pleased to welcome you to the City of Roses — Portland, Oregon — and InterSpeech 2012. Unlike Florence, the venue for last year’s conference, Portland is a very young city. Prior to the coming of Europeans, the area around the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers was home to villages inhabited by people speaking Chinookan languages. The first European settlement in an area of solid ground called “The Clearing”, dated only to the early 19th century. The name “Portland” was decided in 1845 by a series of coin tosses between the two stakeholders, Asa Lovejoy and Francis Pettygrove, each wishing to name the settlement after his own home town. Pettygrove won: he was from Portland, Maine — itself named after the Isle of Portland off the Dorset coast in England. Had Lovejoy won, the venue for InterSpeech 2012 would have been named Boston.

As the birthplace of the Renaissance, Florence is central to the history of Western civilization and ultimately to world civilization over the last 700 years. In contrast, modern Portland is in many ways a model of how one may hope civilization will shape itself over the next 700 years and beyond. Portland tops the list of eco-friendly cities in the United States. It has America’s first modern streetcar system, an extensive light rail system, and it is widely considered to be one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world. Forest Park, in the West Hills, is the largest urban wilderness park in the United States. It is a testament to Portland’s attention to green spaces that, from the conference venue in Downtown Portland, one can reach Forest Park in less than one hour on foot. I am hard pressed to think of other cities where such a thing would be possible.

Portland’s food and beverage scene is almost certainly unparalleled for a city its size. The New York Times frequently praises Portland’s restaurants, but beyond the fine restaurants there are many food carts scattered throughout the city offering a wide range of foods from all over the world. There is a vibrant cafe culture, with some of the finest coffees available anywhere. The Willamette Valley has evolved in the past few decades into a premier wine-growing region: the pinot noirs are particularly excellent. Portland has over sixty craft brewers, making it the largest craft brewing market in the United States, and one of the world’s great beer destinations. Indeed, beer in Portland dates all the way back to 1856, when German immigrant Henry Weinhard opened the first brewery here. Less well known, but still noteworthy, are Oregon’s boutique distilleries.

One cannot, of course, discuss Portland without mentioning Oregon and the Northwest, home to some of the most spectacular scenery on the planet. From a good vantage point near downtown and on a clear day, one can see the volcanoes of Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount Saint Helens. Saint Helens, which famously erupted in 1980, is reachable in about a half day’s drive from Portland, and makes for a compelling demonstration of nature’s capacity for both destruction and rebirth. Closer is the Columbia River, full of sweeping vistas and beautiful waterfalls. A couple of hours’ drive to the west is the scenic Oregon coast. A seven-hour drive away, in Southern Oregon, is the famous Crater Lake, formed from another volcano that collapsed about 7,000 years ago.

Portland is thus a city with a high quality of life, and one that is at the same time at the forefront of what must become all of humanity’s quest to be better stewards of our planet. I hope you will all have ample opportunity during your stay here to sample the finer things that Portland and the Northwest have to offer.

Turning now to the Conference itself, I will leave it to Jerome Bellegarda to talk at length about the technical program. I will merely point out that the theme for this year’s conference is “Spoken Language Processing and Biomedicine”. This is appropriate in many ways. Portland, as the largest city in Oregon, is also home to a large number of medical institutions. Several of the members of the Organizing Committee, myself included, are affiliated with the Oregon Health & Science University. We, as well as some other members of the Organizing Committee, have research interests in applications of spoken language technology in biomedicine, e. g., to assessment and remediation of communications disorders. It is an area in which we are seeing a growing amount of interest. Two of our special sessions and events are devoted to areas related to this theme, as is one of the satellite workshops (WOCCI, appropriately enough held on the OHSU campus), and two of the tutorials.

I would like to close this welcome with a round of thanks for everyone who has made InterSpeech 2012 possible. I would like to start by thanking my fellow members of the Organizing Committee, in particular Esther Klabbers who, as the Local Organizing Chair, took on many of the responsibilities associated with the selection of the venues and the budget; Jerome Bellegarda, who took on the central role of Technical Program Chair — and that right after acting as a technical chair for ASRU 2011; the Technical Program Area Chairs for their hard work in managing the reviewing process; and the many individual reviewers for helping us select the papers to be presented. Thanks also to Isabel Trancoso and others at ISCA for advice. The staff at Conference Solutions made what initially seemed like the daunting task of organizing a major international conference appear simple. And I would like to thank our invited speakers for agreeing to take time out of their busy schedules to give us their perspectives on a broad-ranging set of topics.

I would particularly like to extend our gratitude to our many sponsors for supporting many of the events associated with InterSpeech 2012 and for making this the InterSpeech with the highest level of sponsorship to date. Finally, I would like to end with a special thanks to graphic designer Lucy Roark for designing the conference logo, a view of beautiful Mount Hood, which graces all of our conference materials.

Once again, welcome to Portland.

Richard SproatGeneral Chair, InterSpeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA

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Message from the ISCA President

On behalf of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), welcome to INTERSPEECH 2012 in Portland. This conference is the 13th in the long cycle that bears the INTERSPEECH label and that already includes conferences in the wonderful venues of Beijing, Aalborg, Denver, Geneva, Jeju, Lisbon, Pittsburgh, Antwerp, Brisbane, Brighton, Chiba and Florence. In this Conference, the community honors one of its unquestionable leaders, Prof. Chin-Hui Lee, as the ISCA Medalist for 2012. We shall also recognize several other ISCA members recently elected as ISCA Fellows. The new ISCA Fellows will be announced during the INTERSPEECH 2012 Welcome Ceremony. ISCA’s efforts to promote speech science and technology research all over the world would not be possible without the work of the many volunteers that I thank every year again and again, starting with our archive and ISCApad volunteers, Wolfgang Hess and Christian Wellekens, the Distinguished Lecturers for 2011–2012 (Prof. Jeff Bilmes and Prof. John Hansen) and for 2012–2013 (Prof. Sadaoki Furui and Prof. Hermann Ney), the Special Interest Group coordinators, the International Sub-Committee representatives, the many workshop organizers, the members of the IAC, and last but not least, our very active Student Advisory Committee. The Board could not have worked without your continuing help and support. Thank you all!

This year, ISCA worked hard, in collaboration with the INTERSPEECH Organizing Team, in order to reduce the registration fees. ISCA decided to take an additional part of the financial risk, up to 50K Euros. Thanks to all these efforts, INTERSPEECH 2012 registration fees decreased significantly compared to previous editions, particularly for students. This year, ISCA also announced a new program, the ISCA Training Schools. This action shows our interest towards young and/or future speech researchers all over the world. We hope that these ISCA actions can convey to all members the image of a bright, hardworking, and, despite ISCA’s long history, young Association. We are firmly committed to make it better and better. Please help us with your suggestions. This year, we will also save more time for discussion during our General Assembly on Tuesday evening. The main topic will be to discuss our vision of the future of ISCA. INTERSPEECH 2012 confirms the long tradition of quality and the interdisciplinary mixture of science and technology papers of previous conferences, with about thirteen hundred papers submitted and approximately 50% of the regular papers selected for presentation after the peer review process. The quality of the technical program is of course a major factor of success for a scientific conference like INTERSPEECH. It represents a huge amount of work by many colleagues from our speech community. I want, on behalf of ISCA, to thank the Technical Program Committee Chair, Jerome Bellegarda, the Area Chairs, and all the reviewers for the impressive work they have done. This quality was recently recognized by the inclusion of past proceedings in major citation indexes. However, tradition alone does not ensure a high quality conference. Nothing would be possible without the excellent work of a very hard working team led by Professors Richard Sproat and Esther Klabbers, respectively, General Chair and Local Chair of this conference. My profound thanks goes to the whole team. I am pleased to be able to announce today the locations of the three next INTERSPEECH conferences. Next year we shall meet in Lyon, France, the country of the first EUROSPEECH (in 1989). In 2014 we will go to Singapore and in 2015 to Dresden, Germany. We are all looking forward to a great Conference, with excellent keynotes and tutorials, interesting sessions, and a unique social program.

I wish you all a very successful Conference.

Jean-François BonastreISCA President

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Message from the Technical Chair

On behalf of the entire InterSpeech 2012 Scientific Committee, it is with great personal pleasure that I welcome you to the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). InterSpeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language processing, both in humans and in machines. Its Technical Program accordingly reflects a broad range of contributions spanning various and sundry aspects of our developing field.

Hosted by the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at Oregon Health & Science University (OSHU), this year’s edition of InterSpeech has for general theme: “Spoken Language Processing and Biomedicine”, which encompasses different elements in assistive communication, language markers for neurological disorders, and computational cross-fertilization between spoken language processing and computational biology.

The Technical Program opens on Sunday with 8 excellent tutorials. Tutorials have become a popular feature of InterSpeech conferences, and every year several hundred attendees take advantage of the opportunity to learn first-hand some of the core scientific principles underpinning different facets of our field. Izhak Shafran deserves credit for assembling this year’s very appealing line-up, covering a wide variety of problems in speech and language processing.

From Monday to Thursday, each day features a prestigious Keynote talk from a distinguished scientist of international standing. You can learn more about these invited speakers and their presentations on Page 14. Keynote presentations often lead to thought-provoking insights that can be applied to one’s research problems, so I am convinced that, like me, you are very much looking forward to such stimulating talks.

The main roster of oral and poster sessions starts after lunch on Monday and runs through Thursday afternoon. This year we received 1322 submissions, which were evaluated by a total of 811 reviewers. Each and every paper received 3 or more reviews, and the Technical Program Committee thoroughly analyzed the scores and comments of the reviewers to put together as compelling a program as possible. This careful selection process was organized along 9 major Technical Areas, each relying on 3 to 5 Area Coordinators to handle the challenging task of selecting submissions. The final accept/reject decisions were made at the Technical Program Committee meeting held in Portland at the beginning of June, which resulted in the acceptance of 678 papers (583 in regular sessions and 95 in special sessions). All Area Coordinators listed on Page 3 worked very hard to bring to fruition an outstanding program consisting of 39 oral sessions, 37 poster sessions and 8 special sessions and events.

It is worth noting that the selection process was more complex than usual this year, because of the way special sessions were handled. Instead of accepting a small number of special session proposals in January, on the basis of limited information, we opted to allow most proposals to go through, with the understanding that final acceptance would be made at the Technical Program Committee meeting given complete knowledge of the set of accepted papers. This new approach has a number of benefits, such as engaging special session organizers throughout the review process, and ultimately enhancing the quality of all sessions. But it also means that some sessions get cancelled (and associated accepted papers folded back into the regular program) at the last minute, which tends to delay finalization of the program. Shri Narayanan, Special Sessions Chair, and Diamantino Caseiro, Special Events Chair, deserve credit for managing this improved, albeit challenging, way of handling special sessions and events.

As alluded to above, putting together a Technical Program of InterSpeech caliber requires numerous contributions from a large number of individuals, many of whom give their services freely despite the many other calls on their time. I would therefore like to express my sincere gratitude to the many colleagues whose dedication and commitment to excellence made it happen:

• Jan van Santen, for his original vision of hosting InterSpeech in Portland, • Richard Sproat, for his unflinching support along the way, and for arranging Keynote invitations, • Esther Klabbers, for coordinating the different meeting room requirements and many other logistical details, • the Keynote Speakers, for sharing with us their expert view on unique topics of interest, • the Area Coordinators, for their hard work, informed judgements, and full commitment to a top-quality program, • Shri Narayanan and Diamantino Caseiro, for their deft coordination of special sessions and events, • Izhak Shafran, for organizing an impressive array of tutorials, • the Reviewers, for diligently evaluating all submissions, sometimes on very short notice, • the Session Chairs, for their forthcoming role in ensuring a smooth running of the conference itself, • Alexander Kain, for creating the Abstract Book and the Conference Proceedings, • Kate Porter and the team at Conference Solutions, for providing critical assistance throughout, • and, last but not least, everyone who submitted a paper to the Conference, whether they were successful or not.

I sincerely hope that you will enjoy the Technical Program about to unfold in the next few days, and that you will leave Portland with fond memories of InterSpeech 2012 through the scientific exchanges you engaged in while you attended.

With best wishes for a successful Conference,

Jerome BellegardaTechnical Chair, InterSpeech 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA

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Organizing Committee• Richard Sproat, Conference Chair, Sponsorship Chair, Financial Chair

Center for Spoken Language Understanding at OHSU • Esther Klabbers, Local Chair, Publicity Co-Chair

Center for Spoken Language Understanding at OHSU • Jan van Santen, Honorary Chair

Center for Spoken Language Understanding at OHSU • Jerome Bellegarda, Technical Program Chair

Apple Inc. • Izhak Shafran, Tutorials Chair

Center for Spoken Language Understanding at OHSU • Shri Narayanan, Special Sessions Chair

Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory at USC • Keelan Evanini, Satellite Workshops Co-Chair

Educational Testing Service • Su-Youn Yoon, Satellite Workshops Co-Chair

Educational Testing Service • Alexander Kain, Publications Chair

Center for Spoken Language Understanding at OHSU • Michael Deisher, Exhibitions Chair

Intel • Anthony Stark, Publicity Co-Chair

Center for Spoken Language Understanding at OHSU • Diamantino Caseiro, Show & Tell Chair

AT&T Labs Research

Conference OrganizersConference Solutions 2545 SW Spring Garden Street, Suite 150, Portland, OR 97219 www.ConferenceSolutionsInc.com, Email: [email protected]

Scientific Committee Area CoordinatorsHuman Speech Production and Perception

• Martine Adda-Decker, Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur, France• Abeer Alwan, University of California at Los Angeles, USA• Anne Cutler, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands

Linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics, Prosody, Para-/Non-linguistic Information • Mary Beckman, Ohio State University, USA• Caroline Henton, Talknowledgy, USA• Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA• Elizabeth Shriberg, Microsoft, USA

Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals • Jasha Droppo, Microsoft Research, USA• Patrick Naylor, Imperial College, UK• Michael Wagner, University of Canberra, Australia• Bayya Yegnanarayana, International Institute of Information Technology, India

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Scientific Committee Area Coordinators (continued)Speech Coding and Enhancement

• Nestor Becerra-Yoma, University of Chile, Chile• Walter Kellermann, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany• Bastiaan Kleijn, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation • Alistair Conkie, AT&T Labs Research, USA• Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Greece• Junichi Yamagishi, University of Edinburgh, UK

Speech Recognition — Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, Adaptation • Jen-Tzung Chien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan• Li Deng, Microsoft Research, USA• Hynek Hermansky, John Hopkins University, USA• Dirk Van Compernolle, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium• Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

Speech Recognition — Architecture, Search, Linguistic Components • Frédéric Béchet, Université de la Méditerranée, France• Ciprian Chelba, Google, USA• Kate Knill, Toshiba Research Europe, UK

Speaker and Language Identification • Jean-Pierre Martens, Ghent Universiteit, Belgium• Tomoko Matsui, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan• Florian Metze, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA• Isabel Trancoso, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Dialog Systems and Other Applications, Evaluation, Resources • Renato de Mori, McGill University, Canada and Université d’Avignon, France• Tanja Schultz, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany• Torbjørn Svendsen, Norges Teknisk Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Norway• Geoffrey Zweig, Microsoft Research, USA

Tutorial Authors • Fei Sha, University of Southern California, Dept. of Computer Science, USA• Brian Kingsbury, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA• Manas A. Pathak, Carnegie Mellon University, USA• Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University, USA• Ramon F. Astudillo, Spoken Language Laboratory, INESC-ID-Lisboa, Portugal• Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA Rennes, France• Li Deng, Microsoft Research, USA• Maria Schuster, University of Munich, Germany• Dr. Schindler, Oregon Health & Science University, USA

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Tutorial Authors (continued)• Izhak Shafran, Oregon Health & Science University, USA• Tatsuya Kawahara, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Japan• Nobuaki Minematsu, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Japan• Björn Schuller, TUM, Germany• Anton Batliner, FAU, Germany• Yannis Stylianou, Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece• Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute, USA• Paris Smaragdisis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Special Session Creators • Björn Schuller, TUM, Germany • Stefan Steidl, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany • Anton Batliner, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany• Elmar Nöth, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany• Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK• Felix Burkhardt, Deutsche Telekom, Germany• Rob van Son, Netherlands Cancer Institute / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands• Petra Wagner, Universität Bielefeld, Germany• Fabio Tamburini, Università di Bologna, Italy• Marina Nastasenko, Speech Technology Center, Russia• Thomas Drugman, University of Mons, Belgium• Paavo Alku, Aalto University, Finland• B. Yegnanarayana, IIIT-Hyderabad, India• Abeer Alwan, UCLA, USA• Maxine Eskenazi, CMU, USA• Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA• Martin Russell, U Birmingham, UK• Klaus Zechner, ETS, USA• Ryan Shosted, University of Illinois, USA• Christopher Carignan, University of Illinois USA, GIPSA-lab Grenoble INP, France• Christoph Draxler, LMU Munich, Germany• Nick Campbell, Trinity College, Ireland• Han Sloetjes, Max-Planck-Institute of Psycholinguistics, Netherlands• Martin Cooke, UPV-EHU, Spain• Joseph Tepperman, Rosseta Stone, USA• Emily Nava, Rosseta Stone, USA• Fernando Villavicencio, Yamaha Corporation, Japan• Alexander Kain, CSLU, Oregon Health & Science University, USA• Florian Metze, CMU, USA• Guillaume Gravier, CNRS-IRISA, France• Murat Akbacak, SRI, USA• Xavier Anguera, Telefonica, USA

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Special Session Creators (continued)• Dan Ellis, Columbia University, USA• Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland• Martha Larson, TU Delft, Netherlands• Rohit Prasad, BBN Raytheon, USA• Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan• Jort F. Gemmeke, KU Leuven, Belgium• Tara Sainath, IBM, USA• Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM, USA

Special Event Creators • Diamantino Caseiro • Christoph Draxler • Nick Campbell • Martin Cooke • Han Sloetjes

Scientific Review CommitteeAlberto AbadAlex AceroAndre AdamiGilles AddaMartine Adda-DeckerYannis AgiomyrgiannakisMasato AkagiMasami AkamineMurat AkbacakSamer Al MoubayedJan AlexanderssonPaavo AlkuToomas AltosaarAbeer AlwanEliathamby AmbikairajahAngelique AmelotKanae AminoNoam AmirShankar AnanthakrishnanOve AndersenErnesto AndradeElisabeth AndreRégine Andre-ObrechtWalter AndrewsPongtep AngkititrakulXavier AngueraMark AntoniouTakayuki AraiMasahiro ArakiYasuo ArikiEbru ArisoyAladdin AriyaeeiniaDenis ArnoldLevent ArslanAmalia ArvanitiMaria AstrinakiBishnu AtalMathieu AvanziMatthew AylettHarald Baayen

Pierre BadinKeunsung BaeYoukyung BaePaolo BaggiaGerard BaillyPlinio BarbosaJon BarkerEtienne BarnardDante BaroneRoberto Barra-ChicoteClaude BarrasAnton BatlinerNestor Becerra-YomaSteven BeckMary BeckmanPatrice Speeter BeddorSteve BeetHomayoon BeigiPeter BellJerome BellegardaJosé-Miguel BenedíCarmen Benítez OrtúzarJens BergerNicole BeringerKay BerklingJared BernsteinLaurent BesacierFadi BiadsyFrédéric BimbotSteven BirdPeter BirkholzJudith BishopAlan BlackLois M. BlackPeter BlameyMats BlombergEnrico BocchieriTobias BockletOlivier BoeffardTamas Bohm

Antonio BonafonteJean-Francois BonastreZinny BondBengt BorgstromHynek BorilPhilippe Boula de MareüilGilles BoulianneHerve BourlardAicha BouzidLou BovesDaniela BragaBettina BraunAndrew BreenJohn BridleMirjam BroersmaSteven BrownFabio BrugnaraNiko BrummerLuis BueraTim BunnellLukas BurgetFelix BurkhardtDenis BurnhamCarlos BussoTom BäckströmFrédéric BéchetJoao CabralPeter CahillLuis Caldas de OliveiraJose Ramon Calvo de LaraWilliam CampbellNick CampbellAntonio CardenalValentín Cardeñoso-PayoRolf CarlssonDiamantino CaseiroSasha CaskeySteve CassidyMaria Jose Castro-BledaLawrence Cavedon

Asli CelikyilmazJan Honza CernockyC. ChandrasekharDelphine CharletUpendra ChaudhariCiprian ChelbaBerlin ChenXin ChenGang ChenLangzhou ChenYan-Ming ChengRathinavelu ChengalvarayanJen-Tzung ChienGérard CholletKhalid ChoukriHeidi ChristensenWei ChuKenneth ChurchRobert ClarkJordan CohenLuísa CoheurJennifer ColeAlistair ConkieMartin CookeHugo CordeiroRicardo CordobaPiero CosiRobert CowanRichard CoxStephen CoxBert CranenXiaodong CuiFred CumminsAnne CutlerFrancesco CutugnoDeborah DahlPaul DalsgaardGeraldine DamnatiRobert DamperJianwu Dang

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Scientific Review Committee (continued)Falavigna DanieleKhalid DaoudiMarelie DavelChris DavisAngel de la TorreAmaro de LimaJosé Mario De MartinoRenato de MoriBert de VriesCarme de-la-MotaDavid DeanGilles DegottexNajim DehakMichael DeisherPaul DeleglisePhillip DeLeonGrazyna DemenkoDidier DemolinKatherine DemuthKris DemuynckBruce DenbyLi DengAnoop DeorasLaurence DevillersGiuseppe Di FabbrizioMona DiabChristian DiCanioVassilis DigalakisDimitrios DimitriadisPaul DixonGerry DochertyLaura Docio-FernandezPierre DogninHans DolfingMinghui DongChristoph DraxlerCarlo DrioliMatrouf DrissJasha DroppoThomas DrugmanAndrzej DrygajloThomas DubuissonJacques DuchateauStéphane DupontThierry DutoitMyroslava DzikovskaChristophe d’AlessandroNicolas d’AlessandroNicolas d’AlessandroMariapaola D’ImperioJens EdlundMarc ElBezeDaniel EllisOlov EngwallJulien EppsHakan ErdoganMirjam ErnestusDaniel ErroEngin ErzinDavid EscuderoMaxine EskenaziCarol Espy-WilsonNicholas EvansGunnar EvermannFlorian EybenSascha FagelZsuzsanna FagyalMauro FalconeTiago FalkIsabel Falé

Kevin FarrellDavid FarrisMarcos Faundez-ZanuyBenoit FavreJunlan FengRaul FernandezEmmanuel FerragnePla FerranAnibal FerreiraJavier FerreirosMiguel A. FerrerCarlos FerrerJosé A. R. FonollosaKate Forbes-RileyEric Fosler-LussierCecile FougeronCecile FougeronHoracio FrancoGerald FriedlandSónia FrotaMark FuhsTakashi FukudaPascale FungSadaoki FuruiKen’ichi FuruyaAnanthakrishnan GMark GalesAscension Gallardo-AntolinCarmen Garcia-MateoFernando García GranadaMaeva GarnierJort GemmekeCédric GendrotPanayiotis GeorgiouDafydd GibbonMazin GilbertDiego GiulianiJim GlassOndrej GlembekJuan Ignacio Godino LlorenteSimon GodsillVaibhava GoelLadan GolipourChristian GollanYifan GongJavier GonzalezJoaquin Gonzalez-RodriguezJavier GonzalvoMartijn GoudbeekPhilippe GournayEvandro GouveaJohn GowdyMartin GraciarenaBjörn GranströmAgustin GravanoGuillaume GravierDavid GraydenPhil GreenFrancis GrenezRoberto GretterFrantisek GrezlJon GudnasonRodrigo GuidoJoakim GustafsonUlrike GutPedro Gómez-VildaMária GósyEllen HaasNizar HabashKadri Hacioglu

Reinhold Haeb-UmbachStefan HahnThomas HainJohn HajekEva HajicovaDilek Hakkani-TurJohn H.L. HansenJonathan HarringtonNaomi HarteMark Hasegawa-JohnsonJean-Paul HatonTimothy HazenMartin HeckmannIlana HeintzPaul HeisterkampJohn HendersonRichard HendriksGustav Eje HenterCaroline HentonHynek HermanskyInma HernaezLuis Hernandez-GomezJavier HernandoWolfgang HessUlrich HeuteDirk HeylenJim HieronymusRyuichiro HigashinakaYusuke HiokaKeikichi HiroseHans-Guenter HirschJulia HirschbergDaniel HirstYuji HisaminatoYusuke HiwasakiVolker HohmannWendy HolmesMasaaki HondaTakaaki HoriChiori HoriDavid HouseYi HuJose Ignacio HualdeJing HuangQiang HuangMark HuckvaleDavid Huggins DainesQiang HuoLluÍs-F. HurtadoYosuke IgarashiH. Gokhan IlkIrina IllinaToru ImaiSatoshi ImaizumiToshio IrinoShunichi IshiharaMasato IshizakiKen-ichi IsoAkinori ItoYoshiaki ItohAlexei IvanovNaoto IwahashiKoji IwanoRukmini IyerSrinivasan JanarthanamDavid JaniszekStefanie JannedyEsther JanseAren JansenJesper Jensen

Christian JensenAlexandra JesseLuis JesusMing JiQin JinCheolwoo JoMagne JohnsenMichael JohnsonMichael JohnstonKristiina JokinenCaroline JonesGareth JonesSzu-Chen Stan JouDenis JouvetPinquier JulienSun-Ah JunFilip JurcicekArne JönssonSamudravijaya KTokihiko KaburagiZdravko KacicTakehiko KagoshimaAlexander KainOzlem KalinliTakeki KamiyamaJohn KaneHong-Goo KangStephan KanthakYasuhiro KatagiriHiroaki KatoAthanasios KatsamanisHideki KawaharaTatsuya KawaharaHisashi KawaiWalter KellermannPatrick KennyGenichiro KikuiHoi Rin KimWooil KimByeongchang KimDoh-Suk KimNam Soo KimSunhee KimSanghun KimHong Kook KimJeesun KImHyung Soon KimKee-Ho KimYeon-Jun KimJong-mi KimSimon KingBrian KingsburyTomi KinnunenPeter KipkaKatrin KirchhoffTatsuya KitamuraChristine KitamuraNorihide KitaokaBastiaan KleijnKate KnillHanseok KoTakao KobayashiKazunori KomataniMariko KondoMyoung-Wan KooSunil Kumar KopparapuTakafumi KoshinakaNir KrauseJody KreimanGernot Kubin

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Scientific Review Committee (continued)Jeff KuoMikko KurimoHyuk-Chul KwonOh-Wook KwonChul Hong KwonFrancisco LacerdaAnne LacheretPietro LafaceClaude LamblinLori LamelPierre LanchantinBrian LangnerYves LaprieAnthony LarcherKornel LaskowskiJavier LatorreSungbok LeeChin-Hui LeeKong Aik LeeTan LeeGary Geunbae LeeLin-shan LeeFabrice LefevreMilan LegátKevin LenzoQi LiXiang LiJinyu LiHaizhou LiNing LiJunfeng LiAijun LIHank LiaoJason LilleyCarlos LimaGeorges LinaresBørge LindbergAnders LindströmZhenhua LingBritta LintfertDiane LitmanYang LiuJingjing LiuJian LiuYi LiuXunying LiuKaren LivescuAndrej LjoljeEduardo LleidaJoaquim LlisterriDeborah LoakesAnders LofqvistRamon Lopez-Cozar DelgadoTeresa Lopez-SotoTorrey LoucksAnastassia LoukinaSiow Yong LowEe Ling LowHeng LuPatrick LuceySteven LulichChengyuan MaJeff MaBin MaChangxue MaNing MaJavier Macias-GuarasaAndreas MadsackKikuo MaekawaHari Krishna Maganti

Mathew Magimai DossRanniery MaiaAndreas MaierBrian MakZofia MaliszRobert MalkinNuno MamedeArindam MandalLidia ManguRobert MannellKazunori ManoPhilippe MareuilDavid MarksJean-Pierre MartensRainer MartinCarlos-D. Martínez-HinarejosSameer MaskeyJohn MasonDom MassaroTakashi MasukoAna Isabel MataMarco MatassoniPavel MatejkaSpyros MatsoukasTomoko MatsuiKaren MattockSven MattysCatherine MayoAlan McCreeJohn McKennaMitchell McLarenMichael McTearDaryush MehtaSylvain MeignierHugo MeinedoAlexsandro MeirelesHelen MengPiet MertensTimo MertensFlorian MetzeBen MilnerYasuhiro MinamiNobuaki MinematsuWolfgang MinkerTaniya MishraHansjörg MixdorffTakemi MochidaShajith Ikbal MohamedAlexis MoinetParham MokhtariGarrett MolholtJulie MontaguJuan M MonteroSeung-Jae MoonElliot MooreRoger MoorePedro MorenoAsuncion MorenoLidia Ana Moreno BoronatAntonio Moreno-DanielAlessandro MoschittiJack MostowAthanasios MouchtarisDoris MueckeBenjamin MunsonSri Rama MurtyBernd MöbiusSebastian MöllerCliment NadeuDevang Naik

Seiichi NakagawaSatoshi NakamuraAtsushi NakamuraTomoyasu NakanoMikio NakanoTomohiro NakataniHiroaki NanjoShri NarayananMarina NastasenkoEmily NavaEva NavasPatrick NaylorAni NenkovaJoão NetoHermann NeyPatrick NguyenOliver NiebuhrKuniko NielsenMasayuki NishiguchiMasafumi NishimuraTakanobu NishiuraAlbino NogueirasHadis NosratiMirek NovakTin Lay NweElmar NöthYasunari ObuchiJun OgataJohn OhalaKiyonori OhtakeHiroshi G. OkunoMohamed OmarNobutaka OnoRosemary OrrAlfonso OrtegaSlim OuniKeiichiro OuraAlan O’CinneideDouglas O’ShaughnessyTim PaekVincent PagelSira Palazuelos-CagigasKalle PalomäkiHo-Hsien PanYue PanPrem C. PandeyJosé PardoPatrick ParoubekSarangarajan ParthasarathyPerrot PatrickMatthias PaulikSteffen PauwsAntonio M. PeinadoJason PelecanosThomas PellegriniFrançois PellegrinoBryan PellomCarmen Peláez-MorenoMikel PenagarikanoFernando PerdigãoPascal PerrierJamie PerryAlan PetronioMike PhelanMichael PichenyRoberto PieracciniOlivier PietquinJohn PitrelliLouis C.W. PolsAlexandros Potamianos

Gerasimos PotamianosKishore PrahalladS R Mahadeva PrasannaKristin PrecodaPatti PricePilar PrietoMichael ProctorEmily ProvostTarun PruthiJosé Pérez-CórdobaYao QianSilvia QuarteroniThomas QuatieriAlexander RaakeTuomo RaitioNitendra RajputBhuvana RamabhadranDaniel RamosVivek Kumar Rangarajan SridharKrothapalli Sreenivasa RaoAndreia RauberChristian RaymondHenning ReetzMario ReficeKlaus ReindlNorbert ReithingerSteve RenalsSteven RennieFernando Gil Vianna Resende Jr.Douglas ReynoldsGiuseppe RiccardiKorin RichmondLuca RigazioMichael RileyFabien RingevalChristian RitzBrian RoarkTony RobinsonEduardo Rodriguez BangaLuis Javier Rodriguez-FuentesRichard RoseOlivier RosecAndrew RosenbergSolange RossatoAntti-Veikko RostiJean-Luc RouasAntonio RubioAlexander RudnickyMartin RussellDavid RybachAxel RöbelYoshinori SagisakaTara SainathDaisuke SaitoSakriani SaktiRubén San-SegundoVictoria SanchezEmilio SanchisEric SandersAbhijeet SangwanFernando Santana PachecoGeorge SaonShimon SapirMurat SaraclarHiroshi SaruwatariAkira SasouAntonio Satue VillarMichelina SavinoThomas SchaafOdette Scharenborg

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Scientific Review Committee (continued)Nicolas SchefferFlorian SchielRalf SchlüterJoerg SchmalenstroeerJean SchoentgenBill ScholzBjörn SchullerTanja SchultzMike SchusterReva SchwartzPetr SchwarzAntje SchweitzerEncarna SegarraJose SeguraFrank SeideMichael SeltzerCheol Jae SeongWilly SerniclaesAntónio SerralheiroGuruprasad SeshadriAbhinav SethyDushyant SharmaJason ShawSlava ShechtmanWade ShenChilin ShihKiyohiro ShikanoTetsuya ShimamuraJiyoung ShinKoichi ShinodaTakahiro ShinozakiRyan ShostedElizabeth ShribergYen-Liang ShueHanna SilenCarlos SilvaKim SilvermanAdrian SimpsonElliot SingerRita SinghOlivier SiohanMan-hung SiuGabriel SkantzeJan SkoglundJaclyn SkrivsethMalcolm SlaneyHan SloetjesRaymond SlyhKamel SmailiParis SmaragdisCaroline SmithConnie SoHagen Soltau

Mitch SommersM SommersAlain SoquetVictor SorokinT.V. SreenivasJacek StachurskiAdriana StanMark SteedmanStefan SteidlIngmar SteinerAmanda StentRichard SternMary StevensAndreas StolckeHelmer StrikBrian StropeDouglas SturimNicolas SturmelMatt StuttleYannis StylianouSebastian StükerDavid SuendermannRafid SukkarMing SunShiva SundaramBradley P. SuttonTorbjørn SvendsenAnn SyrdalIgor SzokeJoan Andreu SánchezMarija TabainKeiichi TajimaKazuya TakedaTetsuya TakiguchiYik-Cheung TamFabio TamburiniZheng-Hua TanYun TangJianhua TaoCarlos TeixeiraJoão Paulo TeixeiraAntónio TeixeiraLouis ten BoschJoseph TeppermanFabio TesserBarry-John TheobaldMark ThomasDavid ThomsonWilliam ThorpeSam TilsenMichael TjalveTomoki TodaRoberto Togneri

Shinichi TokumaLaura TomokiyoRong TongPedro Torres-CarrasquilloDat TranIsabel TrancosoDavid TraumCarlos Travieso-GonzálezKhiet TruongChiu-yu TsengKimiko TsukadaMinoru TsuzakiRoger TuckerGokhan TurOytun TurkMichael TylerMasashi UnokiMartti VainioClaudio VairJacqueline VaissiereDirk Van CompernolleRogier van DalenHugo Van hammeDavid van LeeuwenJan van SantenRob van SonAmparo VaronaIoana VasilescuChristophe VeauxDimitra VergyriWerner VerhelstMarina VigarioJesus VillalbaFernando VillavicencioAlessandro VinciarelliFábio ViolaroTuomas VirtanenRamasubramanian ViswanathanCarlos Vivaracho-PascualCarl VogelStephen VoranAnil Kumar VuppalaPetra WagnerMichael WagnerAlexander WaibelMichael WalshPatrick WambacqHsiao-Chuan WangHsin-Min WangLijuan WangNigel WardCatherine WatsonOliver Watts

James WaymanEugene WeinsteinChao WengFelix WeningerStanley WenndtStefan WernerRobert WhitmanLorin WildeGeoffrey WilfartDaniel WillettJason WilliamsMartin WoellmerCharles WootersMonika WoszczynaZhiyong WuYi-Jian WuChai WutiwiwatchaiBing XiangZhou XinhuiJunichi YamagishiSibel YamanYoichi YamashitaZhi-Jie YanYonghong YanKaisheng YaoBayya YegnanarayanaHani Camille YehiaKiyoko YoneyamaChang YooDongsuk YookDong YuPeng YuKai YuYoung-Sun YunStephen ZahorianMaider ZamalloaKlaus ZechnerMilos ZeleznyIlija ZeljkovicHeiga ZenChakir ZeroualAndrej ZgankRong ZhangYunxin ZhaoYong ZhaoThomas Fang ZhengJing ZhengBowen ZhouImed ZitouniUdo ZoelzerEnrico ZovatoGeoffrey Zweig

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Future InterSpeech Conferences

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Social Programs

Welcome ReceptionMonday, 19:30–21:00, Grand Ballroom, Hilton Portland & Executive TowerEverybody is invited to the first social gathering of the Conference. Relax and unwind while enjoying delicious hors d’oeuvres and some of the regional wines and beers that the Pacific Northwest has become known for.

Students Meet Experts Roundtable Lunch Tuesday, 12:00–13:30, Governor Hotel (Advanced registration required.)Following the success of the Student Lunch Event at InterSpeech 2011, the ISCA Student Advisory Committee (ISCA SAC) has organized a Student Lunch Event at InterSpeech 2012, where students will be given the possibility to discuss their research themes, issues and educational topics with experts in the scientific community and with other students sharing their interests. This meeting will take place in an informal setup during one buffet lunch session to help people bonding and easily experience a constructive discussion. Small groups of students will talk about common issues with a senior reference member for the research are they are interested in while having a meal with the goal of making available to the new members of the scientific community the experience of the researchers attending InterSpeech: the most important international conference concerning speech technology. Students were asked to register for one of the tables before the time of the Conference on the ISCA SAC website, and the research areas covered will follow those established for the main conference program.

Reviewer Appreciation ReceptionTuesday, 19:30–21:00, The Vault at the Treasury Ballroom As a special “Thank You” for contributing their time and expertise in determining the content for this important Conference, Reviewers are invited to the Reviewers’ Reception. Join us before you head out to dinner for light hors d’oeuvres, mingling and a private look at this unique venue.

Student ReceptionTuesday, 21:00–23:00, McMenamins’ Crystal Ballroom All students are invited to the Student Reception for music, dancing and drinks. This ballroom is the only one of its kind in Portland with a fun “floating” dance floor that we hope will be put to good use! A popular local DJ will get the party started at 21:00.

Students Discover Industrial Career ChallengesWednesday, 13:30–15:30, Pavilion West, Hilton Portland & Executive Tower This event is aiming to promote communication between students and professionals from industry. We expect the representatives from several companies to share their idea of the future in the field. Students attending the event can get a perspective of the work and challenges in the field from the industry point of view. Students were asked to register before the time of the conference on the ISCA SAC website.

Conference BanquetWednesday, 19:00–22:00, Portland Art Museum (Advanced registration required.)This year’s final night Banquet will be hosted at the Portland Art Museum, just a few blocks away from the Hilton in Portland’s downtown park blocks. Exhibits will be open for viewing — exclusively for InterSpeech 2012 attendees. Enjoy a festive atmosphere with old and new friends. The night will be complete with heavy hors d’oeuvres, drinks and live music set against an artistic museum backdrop.

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Satellite Workshops

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Feedback Behaviors in DialogDates: Friday, September 7 – Saturday, September 8, 2012Website: http://www.cs.utep.edu/feedbackLocation: Skamania Lodge, Columbia River Gorge, 1131 SW Skamania Lodge Way, Stevenson, WA 98648

Feedback skills are important for people (or machines) wishing to be able to function as supportive, cooperative listeners. The production and comprehension of back-channels and related phenomena, including response tokens, reactive tokens, minimal responses, continuers and acknowledgments, are also of scientific interest, as possibly the most accessible example of the real-time responsiveness that underpins many successful interpersonal interactions. This workshop will provide a venue for an interdisciplinary examination of these phenomena and feedback behaviors in dialog.

SAPA-SCALEDates: Friday, September 7 – Saturday, September 8, 2012Website: http://www.sapaworkshops.org/2012Location: Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, 921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204

The SAPA-SCALE conference is an ISCA-supported event being held as a satellite to InterSpeech 2012. Following the successful Workshops on Statistical and Perceptual Audition (SAPA 2004, 06, 08, 10), the event this year is organized jointly with the Speech Communication with Adaptive Learning (SCALE) consortium. The principal objective of the conference is to bring together researchers addressing perceptually motivated speech and audio processing tasks with the tools of statistical signal processing and machine learning. The themes of the conference are: (1) Statistical models for speech and audio processing motivated by human perception, (2) Developing the commonalities between speech recognition and synthesis to provide richer and more sophisticated models for speech, and (3) Adaptive learning approaches to speech and audio signal processing and their incorporation into statistical models. This will be a two-day, single-track conference with an informal atmosphere structured to promote discussion. There will be keynotes from leading researchers in addition to a limited number of oral presentations chosen for breadth and provocation. All participants will be actively engaged in the effort to broaden perspectives and foster novel research directions and interesting variants on current approaches.

简单可依赖

Simple and Reliable

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Satellite Workshops

Blizzard ChallengeDate: Friday, September 14, 2012Website: http://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2012Location: Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, 921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204

In order to better understand and compare research techniques in building corpus-based speech synthesizers on the same data, the Blizzard Challenge 2012 will be held. The basic challenge is to take the released speech data, build synthetic voices, and synthesize a prescribed set of test sentences. The sentences from each synthesizer are then evaluated through extensive listening tests. The results will be presented at Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2012 in Portland.

WOCCI — 3rd Workshop on Child, Computer and InteractionDates: Friday, September 14 – Saturday, September 15, 2012Website: http://www.wocci.orgLocation: Vey Auditorium, OHSU Marquam Hill Campus, Portland, OR 97239

The WOCCI Workshop, the third one so far, aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in all aspects of child-machine interaction including computer, robotics and multi-modal interfaces. Human-machine interaction poses significantly unique challenges and problems in the case of children, both in modeling the acoustic/linguistic components as well as the interactivity. The Workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers from disparate communities such as cognitive science, robotics, speech processing, linguistics and application areas to discuss common solutions and frameworks child-machine interaction. These may include current state-of-the-art components as well as specifications of next generation interface. We expect the Workshop will help address societal needs such as the delivery of health and education through computer interactions. For example, to deliver personalized remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities. The Workshop will encompass recent advancements in core technologies as well as experimental systems and prototypes.

MLSLP2012 — The Second Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing Date: Friday, September 14, 2012Website: http://www.ttic.edu/sigml/symposium2012/Location: Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, 921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204

The goal of the symposium is to foster communication and collaboration between researchers in machine learning and speech and language processing. It is the second annual meeting of the ISCA Machine Learning Special Interest Group (SIGML). The workshop will feature both invited talks and general submissions. We solicit a broad array of submissions, including novel research and, especially, position and review papers addressing topics that are relevant to the speech, machine learning, and natural language processing research communities. These areas include, but are not limited to, applications to speech/NLP of log-linear models, support vector machines, neural networks, kernel methods, discriminative transforms, large-margin training, discriminative training, active/semi-supervised/unsupervised learning, structured prediction, Bayesian modeling, deep learning, and sparse representations.

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Best Student Paper Nominations

Google Best Student Papers Sponsored by:

Google is pleased to offer two Google Best Student Paper awards. The winning students will be selected by the Technical Program Committee and two senior members of the field, based on the written paper as well as the conference presentation. Winners will be recognized at the Conference with a prize of $500 each. One of the two awards will be awarded to a promising female student. The winners will be announced during the closing plenary session of the Conference on Thursday.

ISCA Best Student PaperSponsored by:

In keeping with tradition, ISCA is pleased to offer three Best Student Paper awards. Each of the winning students will be selected by the Technical Program Committee and approved by ISCA, and recognized at the Conference with a monetary prize. The winners will be announced during the closing plenary session of the Conference on Thursday.

• Hidden Markov Convolutive Mixture Model for Pitch Contour Analysis of Speech Kota Yoshizato, Hirokazu Kameoka, Daisuke Saito and Shigeki Sagayama Mon.O2d.06: Pitch and Harmonic Analysis, Monday, 17:40–18:00

• Interactive Spoken Content Retrieval with Different Types of Actions Optimized By a Markov Decision Process Tsung Hsien Wen, Hung Yi Lee and Lin Shan Lee Thu.O10b.02: Voice Search and Spoken Document Retrieval II, Thursday, 13:50–14:10

• Integrating Intra-Speaker Topic Modeling and Temporal-Based Inter-Speaker Topic Modeling in Random Walk for Improved Multi-Party Meeting Summarization Yun-Nung Chen and Florian Metze Thu.P9d.02: Spoken Language Applications, Thursday, 10:00–12:00

• Effects of visual speech information on native listener judgments of L2 consonant intelligibility Saya Kawase and Yue Wang Wed.O7c.03: Speech Intelligibility in Quiet and in Noise, Wednesday, 14:10–14:30

• Phonetic Foreignization of Mandarin for Dubbing in Imported Western Movies Luying Hou, Yuan Jia and Aijun Li Wed.O8c.04: Prosody II, Wednesday, 17:00–17:20

• Age Estimation from Telephone Speech using i-vectors Mohamad Hasan Bahari, Mitchell McLaren, Hugo Van hamme and David Van Leeuwen Mon.P2c.08: Speaker Diarization and Age Recognition, Monday, 16:00–18:00

• Mel cepstral coefficient modification based on the Glimpse Proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-generated synthetic speech in noise Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi and Simon King Tue.O3d.03: Speech Synthesis: Intelligibility, Tuesday, 10:40–11:00

• Modulation domain blind source separation for noisy speech mixture Yi Zhang and Yunxin Zhao Wed.P6c.07: Source Separation and Computational Auditory Scene Analysis, Wednesday, 10:00–12:00

• Discriminatively learning factorized finite state pronunciation models from dynamic Bayesian networks Preethi Jyothi, Eric Fosler-Lussier and Karen Livescu Tue.O5a.01: Dynamic Decoding, Tuesday, 16:00–16:20

• MAP Estimation of Whole-Word Acoustic Models with Dictionary Priors Keith Kintzley, Aren Jansen and Hynek Hermansky Tue.O4a.01: ASR: Bayesian Modeling, Tuesday, 13:30–13:50

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Sponsors / Exhibitors

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ExhibitorsAppen ButlerHillBaidu BBN Cisco ETS Google

Intel Interspeech 2013ISCALENA Research FoundationM*Modal Microsoft Research

Next IT Nuance Pearson SDI Media Sensory Speech Ocean

www.nuance.com

www.research.google.com www.baidu.com

www.mmodal.com www.microsoft.com

www.ets.org

www.speechocean.com

www.bbn.com/technology/speech

www.pearson.com

www.cisco.com

www.nextit.com

www.biospeech.com

www.intel.com

www.research.ibm.comwww.att.comwww.elra.info www.avios.org

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