Speech Reading Group

This is the wiki page for topics to be discussed in the Speech Reading Group, starting Winter 2013.

The group is meant to offer an opportunity for people working on or interested in speech technology to interact and share ideas, with the goals of fostering a larger sense of community amongst speech researchers at UW, and allowing participants to become familiar with the breadth of research going on here and in the speech community at large.

We will cover any topics with some relation to speech research, including but not limited to:

• Speech Recognition
• Speech Production
• Feature Extraction
• Speech Enhancement/Separation
• Auditory scene analysis
• Speech Perception
• Cognitive Psychology of Speech

Email list

You can subscribe here: https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/speech-rg

Meeting Schedule

First official meeting

When: Thursday, January 17, 12:00 noon

Where: CSE 303

The paper for our first meeting should be sent out to the listserve by no later than Sunday, and will be about HCI and dialogue systems.

There will be an initial administrative meeting as follows:

When: Thursday, January 10, 4:00 pm

Where: CSE 303

This meeting will be to gauge interest and size of the group, as well as to discuss some administrative matters, such as organization of the group, meeting times, location, and paper schedule.

For questions, or other, please contact either:

• Gabe Schubiner - gabeos [at] cs.wash....edu
• Scott Wisdom - swisdom [at] uw.edu

Potential Papers

• Miranda, J., Neto, J. and Black A. Parallel combination of speech streams for improved ASR Interspeech 2012, Portland, OR.

• Anumanchipalli, G., Oliveira, L., and Black, A., A Statistical Phrase/Accent Model for Intonation Modeling, Interspeech 2011 , Florence, Italy

• Al-Haj, H., Hsiao, R., Lane, I., Black, A., and Waibel, A. "Pronunciation Modeling for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition" ASRU 2009, Merano, Italy.

• Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, "Using Prosody and Phonotactics in Arabic Dialect Identification," In Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK.

• Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg, "Detecting Pitch Accents at the Word, Syllable, and Vowel Level," NAACL/HLT 2009, Boulder, CO.

• Luciana Lucente, Julia Hirschberg and Plınio Barbosa, “Intonation, Discourse Structure and Information Status in Spontaneous Speech,” ETAP 2, Montreal. 2011

• Agustın Gravano, Rivka Levitan, Laura Willson, Stefan Benus, Julia Hirschberg, and Ani Nenkova, “Acoustic and prosodic correlates of social behavior,” Interspeech 2011, Florence.

• Sourish Chaudhuri, Bhiksha Raj. "Unsupervised Structure Discovery for Semantic Analysis of Audio", to appear in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012

• Kenichi Kumatani, John McDonough, Bhiksha Raj. "Microphone Array Processing for Distant Speech Recognition: From Close-Talking Microphones to Far-field Sensors", To appear in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2012

• Manas Pathak, José Portelo, Bhiksha Raj, Isabel Trancoso. "Privacy-preserving speaker authentication", Information Security Conference, Passau, 2012.

• Kamal Sahni, Pranay Dighe, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj. "Language identification using spectro-temporal patch features". Proc. 5th ISCA workshop on statistical and perceptual audition (SAPA2012). 2012.

• Gahgene Gweon, Mahaveer Jain, John McDonough, Carolyn Rosé, Bhiksha Raj "Predicting Idea Co-Construction in Speech Data using Insights from Sociolinguistics", International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2012.

• Kenichi Kumatani, John McDonough, Bhiksha Raj, "Maximum kurtosis beamforming with a subspace filter for distant speech recognition", Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2011

• Evandro Gouvea. "Hybrid speech recognition for voice search; a comparative studey", Interspeech 2011. Florence, 2011

• Kshitiz Kumar, Bhiksha Raj, Rita Singh, Richard Stern. "An iterative least-squares technique for dereverberation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing. Prague, 2011

More coming soon, and feel free to add your own.