Speech and Computer : 21st International Conference, SPECOM 2019, Istanbul, Turkey, August 20{u2013}25, 2019, Proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2019, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August 2019. The 57 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing including audio signal processing, automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition, computational paralinguistics, speech synthesis, sign language and multimodal processing, and speech and language resources. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii The Representation of Speech and Its Processing in the Human Brain and Deep Neural Networks (Odette Scharenborg)....Pages 1-8 A Detailed Analysis and Improvement of Feature-Based Named Entity Recognition for Turkish (Arda Akdemir, Tunga Güngör)....Pages 9-19 A Comparative Study of Classical and Deep Classifiers for Textual Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Machine Conversations (Oleg Akhtiamov, Dmitrii Fedotov, Wolfgang Minker)....Pages 20-30 Acoustic Event Mixing to Multichannel AMI Data for Distant Speech Recognition and Acoustic Event Classification Benchmarking (Sergei Astapov, Gleb Svirskiy, Aleksandr Lavrentyev, Tatyana Prisyach, Dmitriy Popov, Dmitriy Ubskiy et al.)....Pages 31-42 Speech-Based L2 Call System for English Foreign Speakers (Mohammad Ateeq, Abualsoud Hanani)....Pages 43-53 A Pattern Mining Approach in Feature Extraction for Emotion Recognition from Speech (Umut Avci, Gamze Akkurt, Devrim Unay)....Pages 54-63 Towards a Dialect Classification in German Speech Samples (Johanna Dobbriner, Oliver Jokisch)....Pages 64-74 Classification of Regional Accent Using Speech Rhythm Metrics (Ghania Droua-Hamdani)....Pages 75-81 PocketEAR: An Assistive Sound Classification System for Hearing-Impaired (Kamil Ekštein)....Pages 82-92 Time-Continuous Emotion Recognition Using Spectrogram Based CNN-RNN Modelling (Dmitrii Fedotov, Bobae Kim, Alexey Karpov, Wolfgang Minker)....Pages 93-102 Developmental Disorders Manifestation in the Characteristics of the Child’s Voice and Speech: Perceptual and Acoustic Study (Olga Frolova, Viktor Gorodnyi, Aleksandr Nikolaev, Aleksey Grigorev, Severin Grechanyi, Elena Lyakso)....Pages 103-112 RUSLAN: Russian Spoken Language Corpus for Speech Synthesis (Lenar Gabdrakhmanov, Rustem Garaev, Evgenii Razinkov)....Pages 113-121 Differentiating Laughter Types via HMM/DNN and Probabilistic Sampling (Gábor Gosztolya, András Beke, Tilda Neuberger)....Pages 122-132 Word Discovering in Low-Resources Languages Through Cross-Lingual Phonemes (Fernando García-Granada, Emilio Sanchis, Maria Jose Castro-Bleda, José Ángel González, Lluís-F. Hurtado)....Pages 133-141 Semantic Segmentation of Historical Documents via Fully-Convolutional Neural Network (Ivan Gruber, Miroslav Hlaváč, Marek Hrúz, Miloš Železný)....Pages 142-149 A New Approach of Adaptive Filtering Updating for Acoustic Echo Cancellation (Mahfoud Hamidia, Abderrahmane Amrouche)....Pages 150-159 Code-Switching Language Modeling with Bilingual Word Embeddings: A Case Study for Egyptian Arabic-English (Injy Hamed, Moritz Zhu, Mohamed Elmahdy, Slim Abdennadher, Ngoc Thang Vu)....Pages 160-170 Identity Extraction from Clusters of Multi-modal Observations (Marek Hrúz, Petr Salajka, Ivan Gruber, Miroslav Hlaváč)....Pages 171-179 Don’t Talk to Noisy Drones – Acoustic Interaction with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Oliver Jokisch, Ingo Siegert, Michael Maruschke, Tilo Strutz, Andrey Ronzhin)....Pages 180-190 Method for Multimodal Recognition of One-Handed Sign Language Gestures Through 3D Convolution and LSTM Neural Networks (Ildar Kagirov, Dmitry Ryumin, Alexandr Axyonov)....Pages 191-200 LSTM-Based Kazakh Speech Synthesis (Arman Kaliyev)....Pages 201-208 Combination of Positions and Angles for Hand Pose Estimation (Jakub Kanis, Zdeněk Krňoul, Marek Hrúz)....Pages 209-218 LSTM-Based Language Models for Very Large Vocabulary Continuous Russian Speech Recognition System (Irina Kipyatkova)....Pages 219-226 Svarabhakti Vowel Occurrence and Duration in Rhotic Clusters in French Lyric Singing (Uliana Kochetkova)....Pages 227-236 The Evaluation Process Automation of Phrase and Word Intelligibility Using Speech Recognition Systems (Evgeny Kostuchenko, Dariya Novokhrestova, Marina Tirskaya, Alexander Shelupanov, Mikhail Nemirovich-Danchenko, Evgeny Choynzonov et al.)....Pages 237-246 Detection of Overlapping Speech for the Purposes of Speaker Diarization (Marie Kunešová, Marek Hrúz, Zbyněk Zajíc, Vlasta Radová)....Pages 247-257 Exploring Hybrid CTC/Attention End-to-End Speech Recognition with Gaussian Processes (Ludwig Kürzinger, Tobias Watzel, Lujun Li, Robert Baumgartner, Gerhard Rigoll)....Pages 258-269 Estimating Aggressiveness of Russian Texts by Means of Machine Learning (Dmitriy Levonevskiy, Dmitrii Malov, Irina Vatamaniuk)....Pages 270-279 Software Subsystem Analysis of Prosodic Signs of Emotional Intonation (Boris Lobanov, Vladimir Zhitko)....Pages 280-288 Assessing Alzheimer’s Disease from Speech Using the i-vector Approach (José Vicente Egas López, László Tóth, Ildikó Hoffmann, János Kálmán, Magdolna Pákáski, Gábor Gosztolya)....Pages 289-298 AD-Child.Ru: Speech Corpus for Russian Children with Atypical Development (Elena Lyakso, Olga Frolova, Arman Kaliyev, Viktor Gorodnyi, Aleksey Grigorev, Yuri Matveev)....Pages 299-308 Building a Pronunciation Dictionary for the Kabyle Language (Demri Lyes, Falek Leila, Teffahi Hocine)....Pages 309-316 Speech-Based Automatic Assessment of Question Making Skill in L2 Language (Eman Mansour, Rand Sandouka, Dima Jaber, Abualsoud Hanani)....Pages 317-326 Automatic Recognition of Speaker Age and Gender Based on Deep Neural Networks (Maxim Markitantov, Oxana Verkholyak)....Pages 327-336 Investigating Joint CTC-Attention Models for End-to-End Russian Speech Recognition (Nikita Markovnikov, Irina Kipyatkova)....Pages 337-347 Author Clustering with and Without Topical Features (Polina Panicheva, Olga Litvinova, Tatiana Litvinova)....Pages 348-358 Assessment of Syllable Intelligibility Based on Convolutional Neural Networks for Speech Rehabilitation After Speech Organs Surgical Interventions (Evgeny Kostuchenko, Dariya Novokhrestova, Svetlana Pekarskikh, Alexander Shelupanov, Mikhail Nemirovich-Danchenko, Evgeny Choynzonov et al.)....Pages 359-369 Corpus Study of Early Bulgarian Onomatopoeias in the Terms of CHILDES (Velka Popova, Dimitar Popov)....Pages 370-380 EEG Investigation of Brain Bioelectrical Activity (Regarding Perception of Multimodal Polycode Internet Discourse) (Rodmonga Potapova, Vsevolod Potapov, Nataliya Lebedeva, Ekaterina Karimova, Nikolay Bobrov)....Pages 381-391 Some Peculiarities of Internet Multimodal Polycode Corpora Annotation (Rodmonga Potapova, Vsevolod Potapov, Liliya Komalova, Andrey Dzhunkovskiy)....Pages 392-400 New Perspectives on Canadian English Digital Identity Based on Word Stress Patterns in Lexicon and Spoken Corpus (Daria Pozdeeva, Tatiana Shevchenko, Alexey Abyzov)....Pages 401-413 Automatic Speech Recognition for Kreol Morisien: A Case Study for the Health Domain (Nuzhah Gooda Sahib-Kaudeer, Baby Gobin-Rahimbux, Bibi Saamiyah Bahsu, Maryam Farheen Aasiyah Maghoo)....Pages 414-422 Script Selection Using Convolutional Auto-encoder for TTS Speech Corpus (Meysam Shamsi, Damien Lolive, Nelly Barbot, Jonathan Chevelu)....Pages 423-432 Pragmatic Markers Distribution in Russian Everyday Speech: Frequency Lists and Other Statistics for Discourse Modeling (Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian, Tatiana Sherstinova, Olga Blinova, Gregory Martynenko)....Pages 433-443 Curriculum Learning in Sentiment Analysis (Jakub Sido, Miloslav Konopík)....Pages 444-450 First Minute Timing in American Telephone Talks: A Cognitive Approach (Tatiana Shevchenko, Tatiana Sokoreva)....Pages 451-458 Syntactic Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech: Psychological and Cognitive Aspects (Anton Stepikhov, Anastassia Loukina, Natella Stepikhova)....Pages 459-470 Dual-Microphone Speech Enhancement System Attenuating both Coherent and Diffuse Background Noise (Mikhail Stolbov, Quan Trong The)....Pages 471-480 Reducing the Inter-speaker Variance of CNN Acoustic Models Using Unsupervised Adversarial Multi-task Training (László Tóth, Gábor Gosztolya)....Pages 481-490 Estimates of Transmission Characteristics Related to Perception of Bone-Conducted Speech Using Real Utterances and Transcutaneous Vibration on Larynx (Teruki Toya, Peter Birkholz, Masashi Unoki)....Pages 491-500 Singing Voice Database (Liliya Tsirulnik, Shlomo Dubnov)....Pages 501-509 How Dysarthric Prosody Impacts Naïve Listeners’ Recognition (Vass Verkhodanova, Sanne Timmermans, Matt Coler, Roel Jonkers, Bauke de Jong, Wander Lowie)....Pages 510-519 Light CNN Architecture Enhancement for Different Types Spoofing Attack Detection (Marina Volkova, Tseren Andzhukaev, Galina Lavrentyeva, Sergey Novoselov, Alexander Kozlov)....Pages 520-529 Deep Neural Network Quantizers Outperforming Continuous Speech Recognition Systems (Tobias Watzel, Lujun Li, Ludwig Kürzinger, Gerhard Rigoll)....Pages 530-539 Speaking Style Based Apparent Personality Recognition (Jianguo Yu, Konstantin Markov, Alexey Karpov)....Pages 540-548 Diarization of the Language Consulting Center Telephone Calls (Zbyněk Zajíc, Josef V. Psutka, Lucie Zajícová, Luděk Müller, Petr Salajka)....Pages 549-558 NN-Based Czech Sign Language Synthesis (Jan Zelinka, Jakub Kanis, Petr Salajka)....Pages 559-568 Re-evaluation of Words Used in Speech Audiometry (Aleksandar Živanović, Vlado Delić, Siniša Suzić, Ivana Sokolovac, Maja Marković)....Pages 569-577 Back Matter ....Pages 579-580 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2014, held in Novi Sad, Serbia. The 56 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 initial submissions. It is a conference with long tradition that attracts researchers in the area of computer speech processing (recognition, synthesis, understanding etc.) and related domains (including signal processing, language and text processing, multi-modal speech processing or human-computer interaction for instance).