Chinese Spoken Language Processing: 5th International Symposium, Iscslp 2006, Singapore, December 13-16, 2006, Proceedings (Paperback, 2006)

Plenary.- Interactive Computer Aids for Acquiring Proficiency in Mandarin.- The Affective and Pragmatic Coding of Prosody.- Challenges in Machine Translation.- Automatic Indexing and Retrieval of Large Broadcast News Video Collections - The TRECVID Experience.- Tutorial.- An HMM-Based Approach to Flexible Speech Synthesis.- Text Information Extraction and Retrieval.- Topics in Speech Science.- Mechanisms of Question Intonation in Mandarin.- Comparison of Perceived Prosodic Boundaries and Global Characteristics of Voice Fundamental Frequency Contours in Mandarin Speech.- Linguistic Markings of Units in Spontaneous Mandarin.- Phonetic and Phonological Analysis of Focal Accents of Disyllabic Words in Standard Chinese.- Focus, Lexical Stress and Boundary Tone: Interaction of Three Prosodic Features.- Speech Analysis.- A Robust Voice Activity Detection Based on Noise Eigenspace Projection.- Pitch Mean Based Frequency Warping.- A Study of Knowledge-Based Features for Obstruent Detection and Classification in Continuous Mandarin Speech.- Speaker-and-Environment Change Detection in Broadcast News Using Maximum Divergence Common Component GMM.- UBM Based Speaker Segmentation and Clustering for 2-Speaker Detection.- Design of Cubic Spline Wavelet for Open Set Speaker Classification in Marathi.- Speech Synthesis and Generation.- Rhythmic Organization of Mandarin Utterances - A Two-Stage Process.- Prosodic Boundary Prediction Based on Maximum Entropy Model with Error-Driven Modification.- Prosodic Words Prediction from Lexicon Words with CRF and TBL Joint Method.- Prosodic Word Prediction Using a Maximum Entropy Approach.- Predicting Prosody from Text.- Nonlinear Emotional Prosody Generation and Annotation.- A Unified Framework for Text Analysis in Chinese TTS.- Speech Synthesis Based on a Physiological Articulatory Model.- An HMM-Based Mandarin Chinese Text-To-Speech System.- HMM-Based Emotional Speech Synthesis Using Average Emotion Model.- A Hakka Text-To-Speech System.- Speech Enhancement.- Adaptive Null-Forming Algorithm with Auditory Sub-bands.- Multi-channel Noise Reduction in Noisy Environments.- Acoustic Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition.- Minimum Phone Error (MPE) Model and Feature Training on Mandarin Broadcast News Task.- State-Dependent Phoneme-Based Model Merging for Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition.- Non-uniform Kernel Allocation Based Parsimonious HMM.- Consistent Modeling of the Static and Time-Derivative Cepstrums for Speech Recognition Using HSPTM.- Robust Speech Recognition.- Vector Autoregressive Model for Missing Feature Reconstruction.- Auditory Contrast Spectrum for Robust Speech Recognition.- Signal Trajectory Based Noise Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition.- An HMM Compensation Approach Using Unscented Transformation for Noisy Speech Recognition.- Noisy Speech Recognition Performance of Discriminative HMMs.- Distributed Speech Recognition of Mandarin Digits String.- Speech Adaptation/Normalization.- Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Using Reference Speaker Weighting.- Automatic Construction of Regression Class Tree for MLLR Via Model-Based Hierarchical Clustering.- General Topics in Speech Recognition.- A Minimum Boundary Error Framework for Automatic Phonetic Segmentation.- Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition.- Advances in Mandarin Broadcast Speech Transcription at IBM Under the DARPA GALE Program.- Improved Large Vocabulary Continuous Chinese Speech Recognition by Character-Based Consensus Networks.- All-Path Decoding Algorithm for Segmental Based Speech Recognition.- Improved Mandarin Speech Recognition by Lattice Rescoring with Enhanced Tone Models.- On Using Entropy Information to Improve Posterior Probability-Based Confidence Measures.- Vietnamese Automatic Speech Recognition: The FLaVoR Approach.- Multilingual Recognition and Identification.- Language Identification by Using Syllable-Based Duration Classification on Code-Switching Speech.- Speaker Recognition and Characteriz