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==Landmark-Based and Prosody-Dependent Speech Recognition, 2009-2010==
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==Fall 2010==
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===September===
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Meetings Fall 2010 will be held in 2169 Beckman, 12:30-2:00PM on Tuesdays.
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; Tuesday September 30, 2009, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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===October 2010===
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: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
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: presents Tokuda & Zen tutorial, [http://interspeech2009.org/tutorials/t-7.php HMM-Based Speech Synthesis], from Interspeech
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===October===
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; October 5
 +
:12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
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:Arthur Kantor, defense practice
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; Tuesday October 6, 2009, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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===September 2010===
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: Jennifer Cole
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: presents Daniel Hirst's tutorial, [http://interspeech2009.org/tutorials/t-1.php Prosody Modeling and Synthesis], from Interspeech
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; Tuesday October 13, 2009, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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; September 28
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: Alina Khasanova
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: No meeting - Interspeech
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: Stop Consonant Reduction Phenomena
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; Tuesday October 20, 2009, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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; September 21, 12:00-2:00
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: Chi Hu
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:12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
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: Finite State ASR Dictionary using Gesture Pattern Vectors as Units
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: Interspeech practice talks
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===November===
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; September 14
 +
:12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
 +
:Tim Mahrt progress report
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; Tuesday November 11, 2009, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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; September 7
-
: Jui-Ting Huang and Po-Sen Huang
+
:12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
-
: Variable-parameter HMM indexed by P-score (prominence score)
+
:Discussion of competing definitions of the word "category."  Papers include
 +
:[http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume8/li07a/li07a.pdf A Nonparametric Statistical Approach...], Li, Ray and Lindsay
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:[http://www.isle.illinois.edu/papers/rosch1976.pdf Rosch 1976]
 +
:[http://www.isle.illinois.edu/papers/holt-2004.pdf Holt 2004]
 +
:[http://www.isle.illinois.edu/papers/Labov-vases.pdf Labov Vases]
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:[http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v12/n2/full/nn.2246.html#Results Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication] nature neuoroscience, Jan 2009
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===December===
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===August 2010===
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; Tuesday December 1, 2009, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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; Tuesday, August 31
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: Yoonsook Mo
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:12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
-
: Speaker-dependent vs. speaker-independent models of prosody
+
-
: Boundary detection with vs without pause
+
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; Tuesday December 8, 2009, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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; Tuesday, August 24, Beckman 2169
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: Tim Mahrt
+
:12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
-
: Automatic P-score and B-score labeling using HMMs
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:Jui-Ting presents
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===January===
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==Spring and Summer 2010==
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; Tuesday January 19, 2010, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 
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: Planning meeting for spring semester
 
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; Tuesday January 26, 2010, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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===August 2010===
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: Open discussion
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; Tuesday August 17;
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: What are the [http://macserver.haskins.yale.edu/tada_download/index.html TADA] gestures?  Gestural scores
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:12:30 - 2:00
 +
Alina's presentation
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===February===
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; Tuesday August 3;
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:12:30 - 2:00
 +
 
 +
===July 2010===
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday July 27;
 +
:12:30 - 2:00
 +
 
 +
 
 +
===June 2010===
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday June 29;
 +
:12:30 - 2:00
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday June 22;
 +
:12:30 - 2:00
 +
: Jeniffer presents
 +
:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100067.pdf Automatic duration-related salience detection in Brazilian Portuguese read and spontaneous speech (Speech Prosody)]
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:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100445.pdf The effect of global F0 contour shape on the perception of tonal timing contrasts in American English intonation (Speech Prosody)]
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 +
; Tuesday June 15;
 +
:12:30 - 2:00
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:Third summer meeting
 +
: continue discussing papers from June 8th meeting
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday June 8;
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: 12:30 - 2:00
 +
: Second Summer Meeting
 +
: Paper(s) to be discussed:
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:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100580.pdf  A Novel Feature Extraction for Neural-based Modes in Acoustic-Articulatory Inversion Mapping]
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:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100582.pdf A New Bidirectional Neural Network Model for the Acoustic-Articulatory Inversion Mapping For Speech Recognition]
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:* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1024.pdf Cheap, Fast and Good Enough: Automatic Speech Recognition with Non-Expert Transcription]
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:* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1025.pdf Contextual Information Improves OOV Detection in Speech]
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:* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1023.pdf Formatting Time-Aligned ASR Transcripts for Readability]
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:* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1005.pdf Appropriately Handled Prosodic Breaks Help PCFG Parsing]
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:* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1109.pdf Classification of Prosodic Events using Quantized Contour Modeling]
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:* Subword Variation in Text Message Classification
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:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100113.pdf Cross-genre training for automatic prosody classification (Speech Prosody)]
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:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100892.pdf Automatic Prosodic Phrase Annotation in a Corpus for Speech Synthesis (Speech Prosody)]
 +
:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100067.pdf Automatic duration-related salience detection in Brazilian Portuguese read and spontaneous speech (Speech Prosody)]
 +
:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100445.pdf The effect of global F0 contour shape on the perception of tonal timing contrasts in American English intonation (Speech Prosody)]
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:* [[Media:Munro-Manning NAACL10.pdf|Subword Variation in Text Message Classification]]
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:* [http://www.magic.ubc.ca/artisynth artisynth]
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:* [http://course.sol.lu.se/FON218/Steinhauer_et_al_1999.pdf Brain potentials indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing]
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===May 2010===
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday May 25;
 +
: 12:30 - 2:00
 +
: First Summer Meeting
 +
: Paper(s) to be discussed:
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday May 11,
 +
: 8:00-6:30, 2169 BI
 +
: [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu Speech Prosody]
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday May 4,
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Jui-Ting Huang, Jennifer Cole
 +
: Speech Prosody Practice Talks
 +
 
 +
===April 2010===
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday April 27,
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Yoonsook Mo, David Harwath
 +
: Speech Prosody Practice Talks
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday April 20,
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Skip meeting because of [http://asa.aip.org/baltimore/baltimore.html ASA]?
-
; Tuesday February 2, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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; Tuesday April 13,  
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
: open
: open
-
; Tuesday February 9, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
; Tuesday April 6,  
-
: Xiaodan Zhuang
+
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-
: Audiovisual speech synthesis
+
: open
-
; Tuesday February 16, 2010, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
===March 2010===
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday March 30,  
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
: open
: open
-
; Tuesday February 23, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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; Tuesday March 23,
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Spring Break
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday March 16,
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Skip meeting because of [http://www.icassp2010.com ICASSP]?
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday March 9,
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Arthur presents
 +
: (moved to the waiting list) Discussion on two papars about unsupervised and supervised prosodic event detection. ([http://mickey.ifp.uiuc.edu/speechWiki/images/1/1d/Levow_IS09.pdf Levow's paper] and [http://mickey.ifp.uiuc.edu/speechWiki/images/e/ee/AnanthakrishnanTASLP2008.pdf Ananthakrishnan et al.])
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday March 2,
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: open
 +
 
 +
===February 2010===
 +
 
 +
; Tuesday February 23,  
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
: Chi Hu
: Chi Hu
: Gesture-based lexicon for speech recognition
: Gesture-based lexicon for speech recognition
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===March===
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; Tuesday February 16, 2010,
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Tim Mahrt and Jui-Ting Huang
 +
: Automatic prosody detection
-
; Tuesday March 2, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
; Tuesday February 9,  
-
: open
+
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Xiaodan Zhuang
 +
: Audiovisual speech synthesis
-
; Tuesday March 9, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
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; Tuesday February 2,  
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: Dinah
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: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Dayna
: Phonetic correlates of focus scope
: Phonetic correlates of focus scope
-
; Tuesday March 16, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
===January 2010===
-
: Skip meeting because of [http://www.icassp2010.com ICASSP]?
+
-
; Tuesday March 23, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
; Tuesday January 26, 2010,
-
: Spring Break
+
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Open discussion
 +
: What are the [http://macserver.haskins.yale.edu/tada_download/index.html TADA] gestures?  Gestural scores
 +
: Some sketch of Canonical Gesture Scores in TADA:  [[Media:before_gs.jpg|"before"]], [[Media:about_gs.jpg|"about"]], [[Media:brush_gs.jpg|"brush"]], [[Media:companions_gs.jpg|"companions"]],
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; Tuesday March 30, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
; Tuesday January 19, 2010,
-
: open
+
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Planning meeting for spring semester
-
===April===
+
==Fall 2009==
-
; Tuesday April 6, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
; Tuesday December 8, 2009,
-
: open
+
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Tim Mahrt
 +
: Automatic P-score and B-score labeling using HMMs
-
; Tuesday April 13, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
; Tuesday December 1, 2009,
-
: open
+
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Yoonsook Mo
 +
: Speaker-dependent vs. speaker-independent models of prosody
 +
: Boundary detection with vs without pause
-
; Tuesday April 20, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
; Tuesday November 11, 2009,
-
: Skip meeting because of [http://asa.aip.org/baltimore/baltimore.html ASA]?
+
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Jui-Ting Huang and Po-Sen Huang
 +
: Variable-parameter HMM indexed by P-score (prominence score)
-
; Tuesday April 27, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
; Tuesday October 20, 2009,
-
: Yoonsook Mo, David Harwath
+
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-
: Speech Prosody Practice Talks
+
: Chi Hu
 +
: Finite State ASR Dictionary using Gesture Pattern Vectors as Units
-
===May===
+
; Tuesday October 13, 2009,
 +
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Alina Khasanova
 +
: Stop Consonant Reduction Phenomena
-
; Tuesday May 4, 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
+
; Tuesday October 6, 2009,
-
: Jui-Ting Huang, Jennifer Cole
+
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-
: Speech Prosody Practice Talks
+
: Jennifer Cole
 +
: presents Daniel Hirst's tutorial, [http://interspeech2009.org/tutorials/t-1.php Prosody Modeling and Synthesis], from Interspeech
-
; Tuesday May 11, 8:00-6:30, 2169 BI
+
; Tuesday September 30, 2009,
-
: [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu Speech Prosody]
+
: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
 +
: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
 +
: presents Tokuda & Zen tutorial, [http://interspeech2009.org/tutorials/t-7.php HMM-Based Speech Synthesis], from Interspeech
 +
 
 +
==Summer 2009==
 +
 
 +
The landmark-based speech recognition group will meet during Summer 2009 on roughly alternate Thursdays, from 10:00-11:30 AM, in Beckman 2369.
 +
 
 +
; August 6, 2009
 +
: Sarah will present her work with auditory modeling.
 +
 
 +
; July 23, 2009
 +
: Chi will lead a discussion of three papers on finite state transducers to model pronunciation variation:
 +
: Timothy J. Hazen, I. Lee Hetherington, Han Shu, and Karen Livescu, 2002. PRONUNCIATION MODELING USING (Priority)
 +
: A FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCER REPRESENTATION. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls//publications/2002/hazen-pmla.pdf
 +
: Han Shu and I. Lee Hetherington, 2002. EM TRAINING OF FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS
 +
: AND ITS APPLICATION TO PRONUNCIATION MODELING. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls//publications/2002/shu-icslp.pdf
 +
: I. Lee Hetherington, 2001. An Efficient Implementation of Phonological Rules
 +
: using Finite-State Transducers. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2001/ilh-preprint.pdf
 +
: Chi will present her work with Xiaodan on word recognition from tract variables using Vikram's data(If time is enough)
 +
 
 +
; July 16, 2009
 +
: Alina will discuss her current work on the frequency of vowel co-occurrence patterns in the English CELEX lexicon.
 +
: Dave will lead the discussion of Tilsen & Johnson's JASA paper. The 2008 CLS paper covers the same material but is lighter on technical detail and directed to a linguistics reader. The 2009 CogSci paper will not be discussed but is shared here.
 +
 
 +
: Tilsen, S. & Johnson, K. (2008). Low-frequency Fourier analysis of speech rhythm.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124:2, pp. EL34-39.
 +
: Tilsen, S. (2008). Relations between speech rhythm and segmental deletion. Paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
 +
: Tilsen, S. (2009). Multitimescale dynamical interactions between speech rhythm and gesture. Cognitive Science, 33, 839-879.
 +
: These articles can be found at http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~stilsen/CV.html
 +
 
 +
; July 2, 2009
 +
: Alina discussed the design of her EMA study on plosive release
 +
 
 +
; June 18, 2009
 +
: Discuss plans for summer
 +
 
 +
==Spring 2009==
 +
 
 +
; May 7-8, 2009
 +
: Multi-University Landmark-Based Speech Recognition Group Meeting
 +
: University of Maryland
 +
 
 +
; April 30
 +
: Practice talks for Illinois Speech Day, ASA
 +
: Yoonsook Mo, Arthur Kantor, Chi Hu, Jui-Ting Huang, Sarah Borys
 +
 
 +
; April 23
 +
: A nice intro to kernel methods is [http://mickey.ifp.uiuc.edu/speech/akantor/ece513/papers/P%e9rez-Cruz2004Kernel%20methods%20and%20their%20potential%20use%20in%20signal%20processing.pdf Kernel Methods and their potential use in signal processing, F. Perez-Cruz, O. Bousquet, IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE MAY 2004] --[[User:Arthur|Arthur]]
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; April 16
 +
: Discussion of Interspeech Papers
 +
 
 +
; April 9
 +
 
 +
; April 2
 +
 
 +
; March 26
 +
: Spring break
 +
 
 +
; March 19
 +
: Five-minute presentations of student research; Bob McMurray will be here
 +
 
 +
; March 12
 +
: Practice of the Universal Access Open House demo
 +
: Heejin Kim, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Sarah Borys, Sujeeth Bhardwoy
 +
 
 +
; March 5, 2009
 +
: [http://www.isle.uiuc.edu/papers/Tanenhaus08.pdf Language Processing in the Natural World], Michael T. Tanenhaus and Sarah Brown-Schmidt
 +
 
 +
; February 26, 2009
 +
: [http://www.isle.uiuc.edu/slides/2009/MULTIIR-0226.pdf Cross-Lingual Recognition and Sound Pattern Retrieval], Jui-Ting Huang and Xiaodan Zhuang
 +
 
 +
; February 12, 2009
 +
: [http://www.isle.uiuc.edu/slides/2009/Khasanova2009Feb12.ppt Automatic Burst Location], Alina Khasanova
 +
 
 +
; February 19, 2009
 +
: Discussion of Kuperman et al. 2008 (JASA v. 124.6) and Margaret Fleck's attempts to replicate results with Buckeye
 +
 
 +
; February 5, 2009
 +
: [http://www.isle.uiuc.edu/slides/2009/Mo2009Feb05.pdf F0 Peak and Formant Values as Cues for Prominence], Yoonsook Mo
 +
 
 +
; January 29, 2009
 +
: [http://www.isle.uiuc.edu/slides/2009/Borys2009Jan29.pdf Landmark-Based Speech Recognition Using SVM/HMM Hybrids], Sarah Borys
 +
 
 +
; January 22, 2009: Planning meeting
 +
 
 +
==Fall 2008==
 +
 
 +
Faculty and students from the University of Maryland, Boston University, the University of Illinois, UCLA, and USC met in Urbana on September 12, 2008 to present new results in landmark-based speech recognition.
 +
 
 +
; [http://www.isle.uiuc.edu/slides/2008/Kantor2008Sep12.pdf Insights Into Pronunciation Modeling and ASR Using Mixed Unit Pronunciation Models]
 +
: Arthur Kantor
 +
 
 +
[[Category:Events]]

Latest revision as of 08:52, 7 September 2010

Contents

Fall 2010

Meetings Fall 2010 will be held in 2169 Beckman, 12:30-2:00PM on Tuesdays.

October 2010

October 5
12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
Arthur Kantor, defense practice

September 2010

September 28
No meeting - Interspeech
September 21, 12
00-2:00
12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
Interspeech practice talks
September 14
12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
Tim Mahrt progress report
September 7
12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
Discussion of competing definitions of the word "category." Papers include
A Nonparametric Statistical Approach..., Li, Ray and Lindsay
Rosch 1976
Holt 2004
Labov Vases
Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication nature neuoroscience, Jan 2009

August 2010

Tuesday, August 31
12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
Tuesday, August 24, Beckman 2169
12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
Jui-Ting presents

Spring and Summer 2010

August 2010

Tuesday August 17;
12:30 - 2:00

Alina's presentation

Tuesday August 3;
12:30 - 2:00

July 2010

Tuesday July 27;
12:30 - 2:00


June 2010

Tuesday June 29;
12:30 - 2:00
Tuesday June 22;
12:30 - 2:00
Jeniffer presents
Tuesday June 15;
12:30 - 2:00
Third summer meeting
continue discussing papers from June 8th meeting
Tuesday June 8;
12:30 - 2:00
Second Summer Meeting
Paper(s) to be discussed:

May 2010

Tuesday May 25;
12:30 - 2:00
First Summer Meeting
Paper(s) to be discussed:
Tuesday May 11,
8:00-6:30, 2169 BI
Speech Prosody
Tuesday May 4,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Jui-Ting Huang, Jennifer Cole
Speech Prosody Practice Talks

April 2010

Tuesday April 27,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Yoonsook Mo, David Harwath
Speech Prosody Practice Talks
Tuesday April 20,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Skip meeting because of ASA?
Tuesday April 13,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
open
Tuesday April 6,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
open

March 2010

Tuesday March 30,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
open
Tuesday March 23,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Spring Break
Tuesday March 16,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Skip meeting because of ICASSP?
Tuesday March 9,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Arthur presents
(moved to the waiting list) Discussion on two papars about unsupervised and supervised prosodic event detection. (Levow's paper and Ananthakrishnan et al.)
Tuesday March 2,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
open

February 2010

Tuesday February 23,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Chi Hu
Gesture-based lexicon for speech recognition
Tuesday February 16, 2010,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Tim Mahrt and Jui-Ting Huang
Automatic prosody detection
Tuesday February 9,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Xiaodan Zhuang
Audiovisual speech synthesis
Tuesday February 2,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Dayna
Phonetic correlates of focus scope

January 2010

Tuesday January 26, 2010,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Open discussion
What are the TADA gestures? Gestural scores
Some sketch of Canonical Gesture Scores in TADA: "before", "about", "brush", "companions",
Tuesday January 19, 2010,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Planning meeting for spring semester

Fall 2009

Tuesday December 8, 2009,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Tim Mahrt
Automatic P-score and B-score labeling using HMMs
Tuesday December 1, 2009,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Yoonsook Mo
Speaker-dependent vs. speaker-independent models of prosody
Boundary detection with vs without pause
Tuesday November 11, 2009,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Jui-Ting Huang and Po-Sen Huang
Variable-parameter HMM indexed by P-score (prominence score)
Tuesday October 20, 2009,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Chi Hu
Finite State ASR Dictionary using Gesture Pattern Vectors as Units
Tuesday October 13, 2009,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Alina Khasanova
Stop Consonant Reduction Phenomena
Tuesday October 6, 2009,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Jennifer Cole
presents Daniel Hirst's tutorial, Prosody Modeling and Synthesis, from Interspeech
Tuesday September 30, 2009,
12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
presents Tokuda & Zen tutorial, HMM-Based Speech Synthesis, from Interspeech

Summer 2009

The landmark-based speech recognition group will meet during Summer 2009 on roughly alternate Thursdays, from 10:00-11:30 AM, in Beckman 2369.

August 6, 2009
Sarah will present her work with auditory modeling.
July 23, 2009
Chi will lead a discussion of three papers on finite state transducers to model pronunciation variation:
Timothy J. Hazen, I. Lee Hetherington, Han Shu, and Karen Livescu, 2002. PRONUNCIATION MODELING USING (Priority)
A FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCER REPRESENTATION. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls//publications/2002/hazen-pmla.pdf
Han Shu and I. Lee Hetherington, 2002. EM TRAINING OF FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS
AND ITS APPLICATION TO PRONUNCIATION MODELING. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls//publications/2002/shu-icslp.pdf
I. Lee Hetherington, 2001. An Efficient Implementation of Phonological Rules
using Finite-State Transducers. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2001/ilh-preprint.pdf
Chi will present her work with Xiaodan on word recognition from tract variables using Vikram's data(If time is enough)
July 16, 2009
Alina will discuss her current work on the frequency of vowel co-occurrence patterns in the English CELEX lexicon.
Dave will lead the discussion of Tilsen & Johnson's JASA paper. The 2008 CLS paper covers the same material but is lighter on technical detail and directed to a linguistics reader. The 2009 CogSci paper will not be discussed but is shared here.
Tilsen, S. & Johnson, K. (2008). Low-frequency Fourier analysis of speech rhythm. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124:2, pp. EL34-39.
Tilsen, S. (2008). Relations between speech rhythm and segmental deletion. Paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
Tilsen, S. (2009). Multitimescale dynamical interactions between speech rhythm and gesture. Cognitive Science, 33, 839-879.
These articles can be found at http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~stilsen/CV.html
July 2, 2009
Alina discussed the design of her EMA study on plosive release
June 18, 2009
Discuss plans for summer

Spring 2009

May 7-8, 2009
Multi-University Landmark-Based Speech Recognition Group Meeting
University of Maryland
April 30
Practice talks for Illinois Speech Day, ASA
Yoonsook Mo, Arthur Kantor, Chi Hu, Jui-Ting Huang, Sarah Borys
April 23
A nice intro to kernel methods is Kernel Methods and their potential use in signal processing, F. Perez-Cruz, O. Bousquet, IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE MAY 2004 --Arthur
April 16
Discussion of Interspeech Papers
April 9
April 2
March 26
Spring break
March 19
Five-minute presentations of student research; Bob McMurray will be here
March 12
Practice of the Universal Access Open House demo
Heejin Kim, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Sarah Borys, Sujeeth Bhardwoy
March 5, 2009
Language Processing in the Natural World, Michael T. Tanenhaus and Sarah Brown-Schmidt
February 26, 2009
Cross-Lingual Recognition and Sound Pattern Retrieval, Jui-Ting Huang and Xiaodan Zhuang
February 12, 2009
Automatic Burst Location, Alina Khasanova
February 19, 2009
Discussion of Kuperman et al. 2008 (JASA v. 124.6) and Margaret Fleck's attempts to replicate results with Buckeye
February 5, 2009
F0 Peak and Formant Values as Cues for Prominence, Yoonsook Mo
January 29, 2009
Landmark-Based Speech Recognition Using SVM/HMM Hybrids, Sarah Borys
January 22, 2009
Planning meeting

Fall 2008

Faculty and students from the University of Maryland, Boston University, the University of Illinois, UCLA, and USC met in Urbana on September 12, 2008 to present new results in landmark-based speech recognition.

Insights Into Pronunciation Modeling and ASR Using Mixed Unit Pronunciation Models
Arthur Kantor
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