Landmark-Based and Prosody-Dependent Speech Recognition

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Fall 2010

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

September 2010

September 28
No meeting - Interspeech
September 21
No meeting
September 14
12:30 - 2:00, Beckman 2169
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

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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