Technical Program

SP-P9: Pitch, Prosody, and Voice Quality

Session Type: Poster
Time: Thursday, March 29, 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Poster Area B
Session Chairs: Masami Akamine, Toshiba R+D center and Carlos Busso, University of Texas at Dallas
 
SP-P9.1: COMPLEX CEPSTRUM AS PHASE INFORMATION IN STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS
         Ranniery Maia; Toshiba Research Europe Limited
         Masami Akamine; Toshiba Corporation
         Mark J.F. Gales; Toshiba Research Europe Limited
 
SP-P9.2: EXEMPLAR-BASED PITCH CONTOUR GENERATION USING DOP FOR SYNTACTIC TREE DECOMPOSITION
         Mohamed Abou-Zleikha; University College Dublin
         Peter Cahill; University College Dublin
         Julie Carson-Berndsen; University College Dublin
 
SP-P9.3: AN F0 MODELING TECHNIQUE BASED ON PROSODIC EVENTS FOR SPONTANEOUS SPEECH SYNTHESIS
         Tomoki Koriyama; Tokyo Institute of Technology
         Takashi Nose; Tokyo Institute of Technology
         Takao Kobayashi; Tokyo Institute of Technology
 
SP-P9.4: DETECTING A TARGETED VOICE STYLE IN AN AUDIOBOOK USING VOICE QUALITY FEATURES
         Eva Szekely; University College Dublin
         John Kane; Trinity College Dublin
         Stefan Scherer; University of Southern California
         Christer Gobl; Trinity College Dublin
         Julie Carson-Berndsen; University College Dublin
 
SP-P9.5: PUNCTUATION GENERATION INSPIRED LINGUISTIC FEATURES FOR MANDARIN PROSODIC BOUNDARY PREDICTION
         Chen-Yu Chiang; National Chiao Tung University
         Yih-Ru Wang; National Chiao Tung University
         Sin-Horng Chen; National Chiao Tung University
 
SP-P9.6: SPARSITY-BASED CONFIDENCE MEASURE FOR PITCH ESTIMATION IN NOISY SPEECH
         Feng Huang; The Chinese University of Hong Kong
         Tan Lee; The Chinese University of Hong Kong
 
SP-P9.7: AN EXTENSION OF THE ADAPTIVE QUASI-HARMONIC MODEL
         George P. Kafentzis; Orange Labs, France Telecom
         Yannis Pantazis; University of Massachusetts
         Olivier Rosec; Orange Labs, France Telecom
         Yannis Stylianou; Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
 
SP-P9.8: PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VOCAL FOLDS DURING SPEECH UNDER STRESS
         Xiao Yao; Nagoya University
         Takatoshi Jitsuhiro; Nagoya University / Aichi University of Technology
         Chiyomi Miyajima; Nagoya University
         Norihide Kitaoka; Nagoya University
         Kazuya Takeda; Nagoya University
 
SP-P9.9: EARLY PREDICTION OF MAJOR DEPRESSION IN ADOLESCENTS USING GLOTTAL WAVE CHARACTERISTICS AND TEAGER ENERGY PARAMETERS
         Kuan Ee Brian Ooi; RMIT University
         Lu-Shih Alex Low; RMIT University
         Margaret Lech; RMIT University
         Nicholas Allen; Melbourne University
 
SP-P9.10: AN APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY ESTIMATOR
         Jesper Kjær Nielsen; Aalborg University
         Mads Græsbøll Christensen; Aalborg University
         Søren Holdt Jensen; Aalborg University
 
SP-P9.11: PREDICTION OF F0 CONTOURS FROM SYMBOLIC AND NUMERICAL VARIABLES USING CONTINUOUS CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS
         Raul Fernandez; IBM Research
         Steve Minnis; Nuance Communications
         Bhuvana Ramabhadran; IBM Research
 
SP-P9.12: FINE-TUNING HMMS FOR NONVERBAL VOCALIZATIONS IN SPONTANEOUS SPEECH: A MULTICORPUS PERSPECTIVE
         Dmytro Prylipko; Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
         Björn Schuller; Technische Universität München
         Andreas Wendemuth; Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg