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One-day meeting for young speech researchers, 16 July 2008, U. Surrey, Guildford

Programme overview

The printed version of the proceedings, which includes abstracts, is also available for download (pdf, bib).

10:00-10:30	Coffee and badges available
10:30-11:55	Posters 1
11:55-12:00	Welcome to Surrey and introduction
12:00-13:00	Talks 1: Korin Richmond, Chandra Raut, Catherine Breslin
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:15-15:15	Talks 2: Abeer Alwan, Eng-Jon Ong, Gregor Hofer
15:15-15:20	Closing remarks and announcements
15:20-17:00	Demos and tea
15:30-17:00	Posters 2

Programme in detail

	Posters 1	10:30am - 11:55am
A1	Application of Weighted Finite-State Transducers to Improve Recognition Accuracy for Dysarthric Speech	Omar Caballero, Stephen Cox	University of East Anglia
A2	Covariance Modelling for Noise-Robust Speech Recognition	RC van Dalen, MJF Gales	Cambridge University Engineering Department
A3	A Shrinkage Estimator for Speech Recognition with Full Covariance HMMs	Peter Bell, Simon King	Edinburgh University
A4	Longitudinal study of ASR performance on ageing Voices	Ravichander Vipperla, Steve Renals, Joe Frankel	CSTR, Edinburgh University
A5	3D video analysis of emotional speech	Nataliya Nadtoka, James Edge, Adrian Hilton, Philip Jackson	CVSSP, University of Surrey
A6	Audiovisual Emotion Recognition in an English Database	Sanaul Haq, Philip JB Jackson, James Edge	CVSSP, University of Surrey
A8	Joint Quantization Strategies for Low Bit-Rate Sinusoidal Coding	Emre Unver, Stephane Villette, Ahmet Kondoz	CCSR, University of Surrey
A9	Non-acoustic Speech Interface	Sertan Kaymak, Stephane Villette, Ahmet Kondoz	CCSR, University of Surrey
A10	Unsupervised Feature Vector Normalization with Combined Standard and Throat Microphones for Robust ASR	Luis Buera, Antonio Miguel, Oscar Saz, Alfonso Ortega, Eduardo Lleida	Toshiba Research Europe
A11	Audio-based alignment of pre-production video	Siripinyo Chantamunee, Yoshihiko Gotoh	University of Sheffield
A12	Tense and lax vowels as a consequence of speech embodiment	Piers Messum
A13	The speech of our cousins and our ancestors	Antoine Serrurier, Anna Barney	ISVR, University of Southampton
A14	Speech recognition using non-linear trajectories in a formant-based articulatory layer of a multiple-level segmental HMM	Hongwei Hu, Martin J Russell	University of Birmingham
	Talks 1	12:00pm - 1:00pm	Mark Huckvale, chair
B1	Exploiting articulation in speech technology	Korin Richmond	CSTR, Edinburgh University
B2	Instantaneous Unsupervised Adaptation using Discriminative Mapping Transforms	Chandra Raut, Kai Yu, Mark JF Gales	Cambridge University Engineering Department
B3	Improving Automatic Phone Alignments for Speech Synthesis	Catherine Breslin	Toshiba Research Europe
	Talks 2	2:15pm - 3:15pm	Stephen Cox, chair
C1	Rapid Speaker Adaptation with Limited Data	Abeer Alwan	University of California, Los Angeles
C2	Robust Lip-Tracking using Rigid Flocks of Selected Linear Predictors	Eng-Jon Ong, Richard Bowden	CVSSP, University of Surrey
C3	Speech-driven Lip Motion Generation with a Trajectory HMM	Gregor Hofer, Junichi Yamagishi, Hiroshi Shimodaira	CSTR, Edinburgh University
	Demos	3:20pm - 5:00pm
D1	Sound Source Localisation, Acoustic Source Separation and Binaural Audio Processing	Banu Gunel	CCSR, University of Surrey
D2	Quality Evaluation of Spatial Transmission and Reproduction by an Artificial Listener	Martin Dewhirst, Rob Conetta	CVSSP/IoSR, University of Surrey
D3	3D Capture of Dynamic Speech Movements	James Edge	CVSSP, University of Surrey
	Posters 2	3:30pm - 5:00pm
E1	Automatic Video Language Identification	Jacob L Newman, Stephen J Cox	University of East Anglia
E2	A Generalised Derivative Kernel for Speaker Verification	C Longworth, MJF Gales	Cambridge University Engineering Department
E3	Direct Posterior-Based Confidence Measurement for Spoken Term Detection	Dong Wang, Joe Frankel, Simon King	CSTR, Edinburgh University
E4	HMM-based synthesis of child speech	Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Kay Berkling, Simon King	CSTR, Edinburgh University
E5	Articulatory resynthesis of EMA data	Ingmar Steiner, Korin Richmond	CSTR, Edinburgh University
E6	A Novel Multi stage Approach For Blind Separation of Convolutive Speech Mixtures	Tariqullah Jan, Wenwu Wang, DeLiang Wang	CVSSP, University of Surrey; Ohio State University
E7	Towards deriving compact and meaningful articulatory representations: an analysis of feature extraction techniques	Veena D Singampalli, Philip JB Jackson	CVSSP, University of Surrey
E8	Parallel model combination and digit recognition with soccer audio	J Longton, Philip JB Jackson	CVSSP, University of Surrey
E9	Voice Impersonation and Speaker Recognition	Zargham Haider,Stephane Villette, Ahmet Kondoz	CCSR, University of Surrey
E10	Index assignment based channel coding for speech/audio communications	Huseyin Oztoprak, Stephane Villette, Ahmet Kondoz	CCSR, University of Surrey
E11	Synthesising personalised voices for individuals with progressive speech loss	Sarah Creer, Phil Green, Stuart Cunningham	University of Sheffield
E12	Cross-language Voice Conversion: Analysis from a Phonetic Perspective	Kayoko Yanagisawa, Mark Huckvale	UCL
E13	The Development of the "TalkMaths" Speech Interface at Kingston University	Angela Wigmore, Gordon Hunter, Eckhard Pflügel, James Denholm-Price	Kingston University

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