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-	==Landmark-Based and Prosody-Dependent Speech Recognition, 2009-2010==	+	==Fall 2010==
-	===September===	+	Meetings Fall 2010 will be held in 2169 Beckman, 12:30-2:00PM on Tuesdays.
-	; Tuesday September 30, 2009,	+	===October 2010===
-	: 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	+
-	===October===	+	; October 5
		+	:12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
		+	:Arthur Kantor, defense practice
-	; Tuesday October 6, 2009,	+	===September 2010===
-	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI	+
-	: Jennifer Cole	+
-	: presents Daniel Hirst's tutorial, [http://interspeech2009.org/tutorials/t-1.php Prosody Modeling and Synthesis], from Interspeech	+
-	; Tuesday October 13, 2009,	+	; September 28
-	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI	+	: No meeting - Interspeech
-	: Alina Khasanova	+
-	: Stop Consonant Reduction Phenomena	+
-	; Tuesday October 20, 2009,	+	; 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
		+	:[http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume8/li07a/li07a.pdf A Nonparametric Statistical Approach...], Li, Ray and Lindsay
		+	:[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]
		+	:[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
		+
		+	===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
		+	:* [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)]
		+
		+	; 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:
		+	:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100580.pdf  A Novel Feature Extraction for Neural-based Modes in Acoustic-Articulatory Inversion Mapping]
		+	:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100582.pdf A New Bidirectional Neural Network Model for the Acoustic-Articulatory Inversion Mapping For Speech Recognition]
		+	:* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1024.pdf Cheap, Fast and Good Enough: Automatic Speech Recognition with Non-Expert Transcription]
		+	:* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1025.pdf Contextual Information Improves OOV Detection in Speech]
		+	:* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1023.pdf Formatting Time-Aligned ASR Transcripts for Readability]
		+	:* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1005.pdf Appropriately Handled Prosodic Breaks Help PCFG Parsing]
		+	:* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N10/N10-1109.pdf Classification of Prosodic Events using Quantized Contour Modeling]
		+	:* Subword Variation in Text Message Classification
		+	:* [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100113.pdf Cross-genre training for automatic prosody classification (Speech Prosody)]
		+	:* [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)]
		+	:* [[Media:Munro-Manning NAACL10.pdf|Subword Variation in Text Message Classification]]
		+	:* [http://www.magic.ubc.ca/artisynth artisynth]
		+	:* [http://course.sol.lu.se/FON218/Steinhauer_et_al_1999.pdf Brain potentials indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing]
		+
		+	===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		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Chi Hu	+	: Jui-Ting Huang, Jennifer Cole
-	: [[Media:GMword_FSM_score_OCT.pdf|Finite State ASR Dictionary using Gesture Pattern Vectors as Units]]	+	: Speech Prosody Practice Talks
-	===November===	+	===April 2010===
-	; Tuesday November 11, 2009,	+	; Tuesday April 27,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Jui-Ting Huang and Po-Sen Huang	+	: Yoonsook Mo, David Harwath
-	: Variable-parameter HMM indexed by P-score (prominence score)	+	: Speech Prosody Practice Talks
-	===December===	+	; Tuesday April 20,
		+	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
		+	: Skip meeting because of [http://asa.aip.org/baltimore/baltimore.html ASA]?
-	; Tuesday December 1, 2009,	+	; Tuesday April 13,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Yoonsook Mo	+	: open
-	: Speaker-dependent vs. speaker-independent models of prosody	+
-	: Boundary detection with vs without pause	+
-	; Tuesday December 8, 2009,	+	; Tuesday April 6,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Tim Mahrt	+	: open
-	: Automatic P-score and B-score labeling using HMMs	+
-	===January===	+	===March 2010===
-	; Tuesday January 19, 2010,	+	; Tuesday March 30,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Planning meeting for spring semester	+	: open
-	; Tuesday January 26, 2010,	+	; Tuesday March 23,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Open discussion	+	: Spring Break
-	: 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"]],	+
-	===February===	+	; Tuesday March 16,
-		+
-	; Tuesday February 2,	+
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Dayna	+	: Skip meeting because of [http://www.icassp2010.com ICASSP]?
-	: Phonetic correlates of focus scope	+
-	; Tuesday February 9,	+	; Tuesday March 9,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Xiaodan Zhuang	+	: Arthur presents
-	: Audiovisual speech synthesis	+	: (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 February 16, 2010,	+	; Tuesday March 2,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
	: open		: open
		+
		+	===February 2010===
	; Tuesday February 23,		; Tuesday February 23,
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	: Gesture-based lexicon for speech recognition		: Gesture-based lexicon for speech recognition
-	===March===	+	; Tuesday February 16, 2010,
-		+
-	; Tuesday March 2,	+
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: open	+	: Tim Mahrt and Jui-Ting Huang
		+	: Automatic prosody detection
-	; Tuesday March 9,	+	; Tuesday February 9,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: open	+	: Xiaodan Zhuang
		+	: Audiovisual speech synthesis
-	; Tuesday March 16,	+	; Tuesday February 2,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Skip meeting because of [http://www.icassp2010.com ICASSP]?	+	: Dayna
		+	: Phonetic correlates of focus scope
-	; Tuesday March 23,	+	===January 2010===
		+
		+	; Tuesday January 26, 2010,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Spring Break	+	: 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"]],
-	; Tuesday March 30,	+	; Tuesday January 19, 2010,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: open	+	: Planning meeting for spring semester
-	===April===	+	==Fall 2009==
-	; Tuesday April 6,	+	; Tuesday December 8, 2009,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: open	+	: Tim Mahrt
		+	: Automatic P-score and B-score labeling using HMMs
-	; Tuesday April 13,	+	; Tuesday December 1, 2009,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: open	+	: Yoonsook Mo
		+	: Speaker-dependent vs. speaker-independent models of prosody
		+	: Boundary detection with vs without pause
-	; Tuesday April 20,	+	; Tuesday November 11, 2009,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Skip meeting because of [http://asa.aip.org/baltimore/baltimore.html ASA]?	+	: Jui-Ting Huang and Po-Sen Huang
		+	: Variable-parameter HMM indexed by P-score (prominence score)
-	; Tuesday April 27,	+	; Tuesday October 20, 2009,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Yoonsook Mo, David Harwath	+	: Chi Hu
-	: Speech Prosody Practice Talks	+	: 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,	+	; Tuesday October 6, 2009,
	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI		: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: Jui-Ting Huang, Jennifer Cole	+	: Jennifer Cole
-	: Speech Prosody Practice Talks	+	: presents Daniel Hirst's tutorial, [http://interspeech2009.org/tutorials/t-1.php Prosody Modeling and Synthesis], from Interspeech
-	; Tuesday May 11,	+	; Tuesday September 30, 2009,
-	: 8:00-6:30, 2169 BI	+	: 12:30-2:00, 2169 BI
-	: [http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu Speech Prosody]	+	: 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]]
		+	; 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]]

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Contents 1 Fall 2010 1.1 October 2010 1.2 September 2010 1.3 August 2010 2 Spring and Summer 2010 2.1 August 2010 2.2 July 2010 2.3 June 2010 2.4 May 2010 2.5 April 2010 2.6 March 2010 2.7 February 2010 2.8 January 2010 3 Fall 2009 4 Summer 2009 5 Spring 2009 6 Fall 2008

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

• Automatic duration-related salience detection in Brazilian Portuguese read and spontaneous speech (Speech Prosody)
• The effect of global F0 contour shape on the perception of tonal timing contrasts in American English intonation (Speech Prosody)

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:

• A Novel Feature Extraction for Neural-based Modes in Acoustic-Articulatory Inversion Mapping
• A New Bidirectional Neural Network Model for the Acoustic-Articulatory Inversion Mapping For Speech Recognition
• Cheap, Fast and Good Enough: Automatic Speech Recognition with Non-Expert Transcription
• Contextual Information Improves OOV Detection in Speech
• Formatting Time-Aligned ASR Transcripts for Readability
• Appropriately Handled Prosodic Breaks Help PCFG Parsing
• Classification of Prosodic Events using Quantized Contour Modeling
• Subword Variation in Text Message Classification
• Cross-genre training for automatic prosody classification (Speech Prosody)
• Automatic Prosodic Phrase Annotation in a Corpus for Speech Synthesis (Speech Prosody)
• Automatic duration-related salience detection in Brazilian Portuguese read and spontaneous speech (Speech Prosody)
• The effect of global F0 contour shape on the perception of tonal timing contrasts in American English intonation (Speech Prosody)
• Subword Variation in Text Message Classification
• artisynth
• Brain potentials indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing

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