EUROSPEECH 1989: Paris, France
First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1989, Paris, France, September 27-29, 1989. ISCA 1989
Please note that the pages were renumbered with respect to the printed proceedings. The printed proceedings appeared in two volumes with separate page numberings. These numberings were converted in this archive. So, page 1043 means volume 1, page 43, and page 2423 means volume 2, page 423
Plenary
Loll N. Rolling: Speech ninety-two - new horizons for the european community. 1001-1002
Gunnar Fant: Speech research in perspective. 1003-1004
Speech Recognition: Subword Units in ASR
Mei-Yuh Hwang, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Kai-Fu Lee: Modeling between-word coarticulation in continuous speech recognition. 1005-1008
Kari Torkkola, Kimmo Raivio: Comparison of symbolic and connectionist approaches to eliminate coarticulation effects in phonemic speech recognition. 1009-1012
Alessandro Falaschi: A functional based phonetic units definition for statistical speech recognizers. 1013-1016
Walter Weigel, Günther Ruske: Continuous speech recognition using syllabic segmentation and demisyllable hidden Markov models. 1017-1020
Alain J. Vigier, Harvey F. Silverman: Disambiguation of the e-set for connected-alphadigit recognition. 1021-1024
Language Processing: Semantic Oriented Language Analysis
S. R. Young: Use of dialogue, pragmatics and semantics to enhance speech recognition: applicability and limitations of dynamically reducing perplexity. 1025
Gerhard Th. Niedermair: The use of a semantic network in speech dialogue. 1026-1029
Herbert S. Tropf: Syntax in the spoken dialogue system spicos-II. 1030-1033
Brigitte Biebow, Pascal Coupey, Sylvie Szulman: Using exceptions in a semantic network for a natural language application. 1034-1037
Speech Analysis: Prosody
René Collier: Intonation analysis: the perception of speech melody in relation to acoustics and production. 1038-1044
Cinzia Avesani: Towards a model of Italian intonation. 1045
P. Mertens: Automatic recognition of intonation in French and dutch. 1046-1050
Ingo Hertrich, R. D. Gartenberg: A new method in intonation research using partly controlled, simulated dialogues. 1051-1054
Perception: Segmental
Willem J. M. Peeters, William J. Barry: Diphthong dynamics: production and perception in southern british English. 1055-1058
W. Datscheweit: Quantitative measurement of the influence of acoustic cues on the perception of voiced plosives. 1059-1062
Jean-Luc Schwartz, Louis-Jean Boë, Pascal Perrier, Bernard Guérin, Pierre Escudier: Perceptual contract and stability in vowel systems: a 3-d simulation study. 1063-1066
Ian M. C. Watson, Marianne McCormick, Franz Seitz, Anthony Bladon, Rosalind Temple: The use of perceptually scaled spectra in across-talker algorithmic classification of british English stop consonants. 1067-1070
Ton Broeders, Toni C. M. Rietveld: Segmental marking as a cue in auditory voice identification of telephone speech. 1071-1074
Speech Recognition: Systems
Peter Fesseler, Heidi Hackbarth, Marianne Kugler, Arnd Boehm: Automatic vocabulary extension for a speaker-adaptive speech recognition system based on CVC units. 1075-1078
Carlo Scagliola, Cesare Vicenzi, Angelo Carossino, Donatella Sciarra: Iterative optimization of sub-word templates for speech recognition. 1079-1082
F. Monnet, S. Jousset, A. Demour, P. Richard: The IKAROS continuous speech understanding system: first demonstrator. 1083
Evangelos Dermatas, Nikos Fakotakis, George K. Kokkinakis: Improved speaker independent IWRS for small vocabularies. 1088-1090
P. Buttafava, Roberto Billi, W. Digiampietro, G. Massia, V. Vittorelli: Architecture and implementation of the olivetti PC-based very large vocabulary isolated word speech recognition system. 1091-1093
Martine Adda-Decker: Continuous speech recognition using phone-based anchor point detection and diphone-based dp-matching. 1094-1097
Michael Bundgaard: Statistical analysis of large-scale lexical corpuses in the context of continuous speech recognition systems (CSR systems). 1098-1101
José B. Mariño, Climent Nadeu, Asunción Moreno, Eduardo Lleida, Enric Monte: Recognition of numbers and strings of numbers by using demisyllables: one speaker experiment. 1102-1105
Giulio Colangeli, Filippo Ardito: A transputer based system for parallel dynamic time warping. 1106-1109
Speech Synthesis: Techniques and Applications
Rolf Carlson, Björn Granström, Anders Lindström: Predicting name pronunciation for a reverse directory service. 1113-1116
Murray F. Spiegel, Marian J. Macchi, Kurt D. Gollhardt: Synthesis of names by a demisyllable-based speech synthesizer (SPOKESMAN). 1117-1120
Robin W. King: Layout processing, user control and prosody insertion in an on-line synthetic speech system. 1121-1124
Louis ten Bosch, René Collier, Louis Boves: From diphones to allophones: from data to rules. 1129-1131
H. Loman, Renée van Bezooijen, Joop Kerkhoff, Louis Boves: A working environment and procedure for the development of speech synthesis rules. 1132-1135
Tomohisa Hirokawa: Speech synthesis using a waveform dictionary. 1140-1143
Marina Bäckström, Ken Ceder, Bertil Lyberg: PROPHON - an interactive environment for text-to-speech conversion. 1144-1147
Speech Recognition: HMM
Kai-Fu Lee: Hidden Markov models: past, present, and future. 1148-1155
Lalit R. Bahl, Steven V. De Gennaro, P. S. Gopalakrishnan, Robert L. Mercer: A fast approximate acoustic match for large vocabulary speech recognition. 1156-1158
António Joaquim Serralheiro, Yariv Ephraim, Lawrence R. Rabiner: On nonstationary hidden Markov modeling of speech signals. 1159-1162
X. D. Huang, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Kai-Fu Lee: Large-vocabulary speaker-independent continuous speech recognition with semi-continuous hidden Markov models. 1163-1166
Andrew Varga, Keith Ponting: Control experiments on noise compensation in hidden Markov model based continuous word recognition. 1167-1170
Akihiro Imamura, Hiroshi Hamada, Ryohei Nakatsu: Speaker-independent word recognition through telephone networks using hidden Markov models. 1171-1174
Language Processing: Semantic Oriented Language Analysis
Michael Streit: Presuppositions and anaphora in a question answering speech system. 1175-1178
Patti Price, Robert C. Moore, Hy Murveit, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Jared Bernstein, Mary Dalrymple: The integration of speech and natural language in interactive spoken language systems. 1179-1182
P. Mousel, Jean-Marie Pierrel, A. Roussanaly: Cooperation and representation of syntactic-semantic and pragmatic knowledge in a natural language task oriented spoken dialogue system. 1183-1186
K. Matrouf, Francoise Neel, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Joseph Mariani: Adaptive syntax representation in an oral task-oriented dialogue for air-traffic controller training. 1187-1190
Sheri Hunnicutt: Using syntactic and semantic information in a word prediction aid. 1191-1193
Naomi Inoue, Tsuyoshi Morimoto, Kentaro Ogura: A linguistic knowledge base for applying semantic information to a speech understanding system. 1194-1197
Hiroaki Kitano, Hideto Tomabechi, Teruko Mitamura, Hitoshi Iida: A massively parallel model of speech-to-speech dialog translation: a step toward interpreting telephony. 1198-1201
Speech Analysis: Prosody
Jacqueline Vaissière: On automatic extraction of prosodic information for automatic speech recognition system. 1202-1205
Ian S. Howard, J. R. Walliker: The implementation of a portable real-time multilayer-perceptron speech fundamental period estimator. 1206-1209
Hugo Quené, Rene Kager: Automatic accentuation and prosodic phrasing for dutch text-to-speech conversion. 1214-1218
Renée van Bezooijen, Louis C. W. Pols: Evaluation of a sentence accentuation algorithm for a dutch text-to-speech system. 1218-1221
Philippe Martin: Automatic assignment of lexical stress in Italian. 1222-1225
James Hieronymus: Automatic sentential vowel stress labelling. 1226-1229
Perception: Auditory Processing
C. J. Darwin: Speech perception seen through the ear. 1230-1234
Zong Liang Wu, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Pierre Escudier: A theoretical study of neural mechanisms specialized in the detection of articulatory-acoustic events. 1235-1238
M. J. Pont, Robert I. Damper: A possible neural basis for the categorical perception of the English voiced/voiceless contrast. 1239-1242
Frédéric Berthommier, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Pierre Escudier: Auditory processing in a post-cochlear neural network vowel spectrum processing based on spike synchrony. 1247-1250
Mariken ter Keurs, Reinier Plomp, Joost M. Festen: Effects of spectral smearing on speech reception. 1251-1253
Speech Recognition: Robust Recognition and Speaker Recognition

Gu Yong, John S. Mason: Speaker normalization via a linear transformation on a perceptual feature space and its benefits in ASR adaptation. 1258-1261
Hans-Wilhelm Rühl, Stefan Dobler, J. Weith, Peter Meyer, Andreas Noll, Hans-Hermann Hamer, H. Piotrowski: Speech recognition in the noisy car environment. 1262-1265
Michael Carey, Amanda Howe, Roger Tucker: On the recognition of key words in unconstrained conversation. 1266
L. Xu, John S. Mason: Instantaneous and transitional perceptually-based features in speaker identification. 1271-1274
Claudio Rocchi, Enzo Mumolo: A new method for performing weighted distances for speaker authentication. 1275-1278
A. Federico, G. Ibba, Andrea Paoloni, N. De Sario, B. Saverione: Comparison between automatic methods and human listeners in speaker recognition tasks. 1279-1282
Janusz Zalewski: Text dependent speaker recognition in noise. 1287-1289
Speech Coding: Coders Design and Evaluation
Yoshimitsu Hirata, Seiichi Nakagawa: A lOObit/s speech coding using a speech recognition technique. 1290-1293
Jean-Paul Lefèvre, Roberto Viola: Real-time multirate speech codec for manned spacecraft communications. 1294-1297
R. Soheili, Ahmet M. Kondoz, Barry G. Evans: New innovations in multi-pulse speech coding for bit rates below 8 kb/s. 1298-1301
I. Boyd, C. B. Southcott, P. J. Bolingbroke: A speech coder for aeronautical telecommunications. 1302-1305
Kazunori Ozawa: A 4.8 kb/s high-quality speech coding using various types of excitation signals. 1306-1309
M. Delprat, M. Lever, C. Gruet: Efficient excitation model and fast selection in CELP coding of speech. 1310-1313
S. A. Atungsiri, Ahmet M. Kondoz, Barry G. Evans: A low bit rate speech coder optimized for forward error control. 1314-1317
Kazumi Satoh, Hideaki Kurihara, Shigeyuki Unagami, Masanori Kajihara, Yoshihiro Tomita: 8- and 16-kb/s APC-AB voice codec using a single chip DSP. 1318-1321
Bruno Wery, Andre Leroux, Henry-Philippe Delbrouck, J. Leclerc: A new parametric speech analysis and synthesis technique in the frequency domain. 1326-1328
Speech Recognition: Connectionist Network
Pascal Blanchet: Multilayer perceptron architectures for data compression tasks. 1329-1332
Stefano Patarnello, Stefano Scarei: Self-organizing boolean networks for speech recognition. 1337-1340
Enric Monte, Eduardo Lleida, José B. Mariño: New backpropagation algorithm using quadratic potential functions, and an experiment on isolated word recognition. 1341-1344
Speech Synthesis: Voice Source and Prosody
Inger Karlsson: A female voice for a text-to-speech system. 1349-1352
William J. Barry, Martine Grice, Valérie Hazan, Adrian Fourcin: Excitation distributions for synthesised speech. 1353-1356
Jacques M. B. Terken, René Collier: Automatic synthesis of natural-sounding intonation for text-to-speech conversion in dutch. 1357-1359
P. J. Moreno, M. Martinez, José Manuel Pardo, José A. Vallejo: Improving naturalness in a text-to-speech system with a new fundamental frequency algorithm. 1360-1363
Speech Recognition: Tools for Feature-Based Phonetic Recognition

Noel Nguyen-Trong: A recent advance in factorial analysis, related to phonetic feature extraction. 1369
Katsuhiko Shirai, Noriyuki Aoki, Naoki Hosaka: Phoneme recognition in continuous speech using feature selection based on mutual information. 1370-1373
Franck Poirier: Automatic labelling of continuous speech based on hierarchical representation of the energy. 1374-1377
Henry S. Thompson: A chart parsing realisation of dynamic programming, with best-first enumeration of paths in a lattice. 1378-1381
Language Processing: Written Language Analysis

D. Cericola, Morena Danieli, M. J. Mollo, D. Voltolini: Morpho-syntactic tools for speech processing. 1386-1389
Christophe Fouqueré: Is nonmonotonic grammar a solution to natural language processing? 1394-1397
Applications: Designing an Application
K. E. P. Carter, S. Gookson, Alan F. Newell, John L. Arnott, Richard Dye: The effect of feedback on composition rate using a simulated listening typewriter. 1402-1404
Benjamin Chigier, Erik Urdang, Judith Spitz: Analysis of two algorithms for telephone speech recognition. 1405-1407
Trevor Thomas, Jeremy Peckham, E. Frangoulis, J. Cove: The sensitivity of speech recognisers to speaker variability and speaker variation. 1408-1411
V. V. Vu, R. A. King: Automatic diagnostic and assessment procedures for the comparison and optimisation of time encoded speech (TES) DVI systems. 1412-1416
R. D. Hughes, R. A. King: A comparison of the performance of "normal" and "whispered" speech with simple time encoded digital speech (TES) direct voice input (DVI) systems in a tactical military environment. 1417-1420
Hiroshi Hamada, Satoshi Miki, Ryohei Nakatsu: Automatic evaluation of English pronunciation based on speech recognition techniques. 1421-1424
Mark J. Bakkum, Reinier Plomp, Louis C. W. Pols: Objective evaluation of word pronunciation by filter-band analysis. 1425-1428
Klaus Fellbaum, Rainer Heinstein, Helmut Loebner: Speech dialogue systems - state of the art and selected applications. 1433-1436
Alberto Ciaramella, Davide Clementino, Roberto Pacifici: Characterization of a large vocabulary isolated words and continuous speech recognizer. 1437-1440
Thomas B. Schalk: Automating operator-assisted calls using speech recognition. 1441-1444
G. Murillo, Gérard Benbassat, Y. Masse: The texas-instruments PC-based speech vocabulary development system makes it even easier to put speech into applications. 1445
Yutaka Kobayashi, Yasuhisa Niimi: An efficient VQ code search algorithm using signal continuity. 1446-1449
Speech Analysis: Miscellaneous
Matti Karjalainen, Toomas Altosaar, Paavo Alku, Lauri Lehtinen, Seppo Helle: Speech processing in the object-oriented DSP environment quicksig. 1450-1453
Dominique Béroule: Management of time distortions through rough coincidence detection. 1454-1457
Rolf Carlson, Lennart Nord: Positional variants of Swedish sonorants in an analysis-synthesis scheme. 1458-1461
Chorkin Chan, Jun Bao, Jian-Xiong Wu: A preliminary study on the static representation of short-timed speech dynamics. 1462-1465
Milan Stamenkovic, Juraj Bakran: An intelligent pitch tracker based on formal language theory and phonetic knowledge. 1470-1473
Massimo Giustiniani: A new algorithm for fundamental frequency estimation. 1474-1475
Henning Reetz: A fast expert program for pitch extraction. 1476-1479
Speech Recognition: HMM
Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Kai-Fu Lee, Robert Weide: Towards speech recognition without vocabulary-specific training. 1481-1484
Peter Davies: Hidden Markov modelling of modern standard Chinese tones in connected speech. 1485
Jeremy H. Wright, E. N. Wrigley, Michael J. Carey: Probabilistic multilevel language analysis for speech recognition. 1486-1489
Kai-Fu Lee, Sanjoy Mahajan: Corrective and reinforcement learning for speaker-independent continuous speech recognition. 1490-1493
Gerhard Rigoll: An information theory approach to speaker adaptation. 1494-1497
Speech Synthesis: Voice Source and Prosody
Gunnar Fant, Anita Kruckenberg, Lennart Nord: Rhythmical structures in text reading - a language contrasting study. 1498-1501
Alex I. C. Monaghan: Phonological domains for intonation in speech synthesis. 1502-1505
Silvia Quazza, G. Varese, E. Vivalda: Syntactic pre-processing for high quality text-to-speech. 1506-1509
Danielle Larreur, Françoise Emerard, F. Marty: Linguistic and prosodic processing for a text-to-speech synthesis system. 1510-1513
Nick J. Youd, Frank Fallside: Driving a speech synthesizer from conceptual input in the context of a voice dialogue system. 1514-1517
Speech Recognition: Prosody and Lexical Access in Knowledge-Based Recognition
M. K. Nasri, Geneviève Caelen-Haumont, Jean Caelen: Comparative study between uniform and variable coding used for inferring prosodic rules in automatic speech recognition expert systems. 1518-1521
Noëlle Carbonell: On the use of prosodic knowledge for continuous speech recognition and understanding. 1522-1525
Michael Bundgaard: An algorithm for recognition of stress in danish and its application in an ASR system. 1526
A. Di Carlo, Andrea Paoloni: An experiment in word hypothesization performed in the context of a continuous speech recognition system. 1527-1529
Bernhard Kaspar, Bernd Lochschmidt: SPEECHLEX - phonological word modelling component of an experimental speech recognition system. 1530-1533
Language Processing: Written Language Analysis
Kjell Elenius, Rolf Carlson: Assigning parts-of-speech to words from their orthography using a connectionist model. 1534-1537
Mike McAllister: The problems of punctuation ambiguity in fully automatic text-to-speech conversion. 1538-1541
M. Prakash, G. V. Ramana Rao, C. Chandra Sekhar, B. Yegnanarayana: Parsing spoken utterances in an inflectional language. 1546-1549
Jean-Baptiste Berthelin, Jean Pierre Fournier, Brigitte Grau: Processing non-expected language. 1550-1552
Applications: Applications and Specialized Devices
T. A. Moore, R. A. King: A voice to data convertor for use in a hostile tactical military environment. 1553-1556
D. Boillon, R. Breitschaedel, Y. Corvellec, D. Bergmann: Speech interface for an experimental office system. 1557-1560
Riccardo Cecinati, Alberto Ciaramella, Luigi Licciardi, Giovanni Venuti: Implementation of a dynamic time warp integrated circuit for large vocabulary isolated and connected speech recognition. 1565-1568
Rolf Haberbeck: The communication interface - a management system for advanced user interfaces. 1573-1576
H. Bther, Rolf Haberbeck, C. Volmary: Strategies for the use of multi-media and multi-modal input facilities at office workstations. 1577-1580
J. C. Ventura: Multiband digital gain controller. 1582-1585
Abdulmesih Aktas, Harald Höge: Multi-DSP and VQ-ASIC based acoustic front-end for real-time speech processing tasks. 1586-1589
Bert Van Coile, Jean-Pierre Martens: Dutch text-to-speech aids for the vocally handicapped. 1590-1593
Signal Processing: Acoustics, Noise, and Enhancement


M. R. Varley, R. J. Simpson, T. J. Terrell: Pitch determination algorithms for speech and their implementation using a high performance single chip digital signal processor. 1600-1603
B. Yegnanarayana, K. V. Madhu Murthy: Analysis of short time speech segments based on linear prediction. 1604
Josef Psutka: The use of the LPC residual error autocorrelation to pitch period extraction. 1609-1612
M. Fikri, M. F. Aou-El-Yazid, M. R. El-Ghonemy: Improving formant bandwidth estimation by selective lag windowing. 1617-1620
Paul van Alphen, Louis C. W. Pols: A real-time FIR-based felterbank, as the acoustic front end of a speech recognizer. 1621-1624
Kari-Pekka Estola: Multirate Gaussian scale-space filtering. 1625-1628
A. Farassopoulos, A. Farassopoulos-Gerber: Speech enhancement for hearing aids in noisy environment. 1629-1632
Kazuo Nakata, Akihiko Sugiura: Noise reduction of speech by neural networks and vector quantization. 1633-1636
Speech Recognition: Large Vocabulary and Multilingual Aspects
Kyung-ho Loken-Kim, Yasuhiro Nara: A postprocessor for a large vocabulary Japanese speech recognition system. 2001-2004
O. S. Emam, M. A. Hashish: Large-vocabulary isolated Arabic word recognition system: preliminary results. 2005-2008
Klaus Wothke, U. Bandara, J. Kempf, E. Keppel, K. Mohr, Georg Walch: The SPRING speech recognition system for German. 2009-2012
Speech Synthesis: Methods
Francis Charpentier, Eric Moulines: Pitch-synchronous waveform processing techniques for text-to-speech synthesis using diphones. 2013-2019
Georg Heike, Reinhold Greisbach, Stefan Hilger, Bernd J. Kröger: Speech synthesis by acoustic control. 2020-2022
Signal Processing: Miscellaneous

Paavo Alku, Unto K. Laine: A new glottal LPC method of low complexity for speech analysis and coding. 2031-2034
R. Di Francesco, E. Moulines: Detection of the glottal closure by jumps in the statistical properties of the signal. 2039-2042
Johan de Veth, W. van Golstein Brouwers, Louis Boves: Robust ARMA analysis for accurate determination of system parameters of the voice source and vocal tract. 2043-2046
Language Processing: Speech-Oriented Language Analysis
Yifan Gong, Anne Boyer, Jean Paul Haton: Parallel construction of syntactic structure for continuous speech recognition. 2047-2050
Volker Steinbiss: Sentence-hypotheses generation in a continuous-speech recognition system. 2051-2054
David McKelvie, Fergus R. McInnes: Using entropy as a measure of phoneme lattice quality and to evaluate lexical access mechanisms. 2055-2058
Henry S. Thompson, David McKelvie, Fergus R. McInnes: Robust lexical access for continuous speech using dynamic time warping and finite-state transducers. 2059-2062
Walther Senders, Marianne Kugler, Louis Boves: Simultaneous optimisation of several variables in a probabilistic language model. 2063-2066
Speech Analysis: Segmentation and Labelling
Anastasios Tsopanoglou, J. Mourjopoulos, George K. Kokkinakis: Continuous speech phoneme segmentation method based on the instantaneous frequency. 2067-2070
E. J. M. van Mierlo, E. Blaauw, Gerrit Bloothooft: Phoneme segmentation of speech, based on temporal decomposition using band filter spectra and phonetic rules. 2071-2074
Asunción Moreno, P. Armas, José B. Mariño, Enrique Masgrau: Automatic segmentation of Spanish speech into syllables. 2075-2078
Helge B. D. Sørensen, Paul Dalsgaard: Multi-level segmentation of natural continuous speech using different auditory front-ends. 2079-2082
C. Dours, Martine de Calmès, Harouna Kabré, J. M. Pecatte, Guy Perennou, Nadine Vigouroux: A multi-level automatic segmentation system: SAPHO and VERIPHONE. 2083-2086
Guy Perennou, Nadine Vigouroux, Louis-Jean Boë, Geneviève Caelen-Haumont, Denis Autesserre, Dominique Fohr: Comparison of temporal and frequential methods of speech data base labelling. 2087
A. van Erp, C. G. J. Houben, William J. Barry, Martine Grice, Louis-Jean Boë, G. Braun, Piero Cosi, N. Dyhr, Guy Perennou, Nadine Vigouroux, Denis Autesserre: A unified approach to the labelling of speech: first multilingual results. 2088-2091
Henry S. Thompson: Hill climbing to improve the performance of rule-based segmentation and labelling. 2092-2095
S. Seidl, R. Poirier: An approach for automatic determination of break points in the speech waveform. 2096-2099
A. K. Datta: Manner-based labelling of speech signal using total energy profile. 2100-2103
C. G. J. Houben: Automatic labelling of speech using an acoustic-phonetic knowledge base. 2104-2107
Perceptual Aspects of Prosody and Voice Quality
René Collier, A. de Zitter, Jacques M. B. Terken: On the perceptual salience of melodical variations and its consequences for intonation synthesis. 2108-2111
R. D. Gartenberg, Ingo Hertrich: Speaker responses to F0 manipulations in partly controlled simulated dialogues. 2112
Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum, Dick R. van Bergem: The role of 'given' and 'new in the production and perception of vowel contrasts in read text and in spontaneous speech. 2113-2116
Rodmonga Potapova: Some aspects of intonation in modern standard Russian (analysis-synthesis-analysis). 2117-2120
E. Nushikyan: Analysis, synthesis and perception of emotional speech. 2121-2122
Mirjam T. J. Tielen: Intelligibility of male and female voices under a few noise conditions. 2127-2130
T. Shevchenko: What's in a voice: a system of regional and social acoustic characteristics based on the analysis of 100 british English voices. 2131-2134
Christian Cavé, Thami Benkirane: A perceptual study of vowel-duration as a cue to word-boundaries in moroccan Arabic. 2135
Hans Grassegger: Perceptual investigations on consonantal segments of a German text-to-speech system. 2136-2138
Bernard Harmegnies, John H. Esling, Veronique Delplancq: Quantitative study of the effects of settings changes on the LTAS. 2139-2142
Deborah Gnzburger, Marianne de Vries: How do minor acoustical cues affect male and female voice quality? 2143-2145
Speech Recognition: Miscellaneous
José M. Pardo, H. Hasan: Large vocabulary speaker-independent isolated-word speech recognition using hidden Markov models: status report and planned research. 2146-2149
Helene Cerf-Danon, Anne-Marie Derouault, M. Elbeze, Bernard Mérialdo: Speech recognition in French with a very large dictionary. 2150-2153
Marco Ferretti, Stefano Scarci: Large-vocabulary speech recognition with speaker-adapted codebook and HMM parameters. 2154-2156
Roberto Billi, G. Arman, D. Cericola, G. Massia, M. J. Mollo, F. Tafini, G. Varese, V. Vittorelli: A pc-based very large vocabulary isolated word speech recognition system. 2157-2160
Janet M. Baker: Dragondictate (TM)-30k: natural language speech recognition with 30, 000 words. 2161-2163
Donatella Sciarra, Carlo Scagliola: Two-step recognition of large vocabulary isolated words based on diphone spotting. 2164-2167
Louis Boves: A multi-lingual language model for large vocabulary speech recognition. 2168-2171
Speech Synthesis: Methods

F. J. Owens, G. T. H. Wright, N. W. Ramsey: A time-domain articulatory speech synthesiser. 2176-2179
Lauri Lehtinen, Matti Karjalainen: Individual sounding speech synthesis by rule using the microphonemic method. 2180-2182
Frédéric Bimbot, Gérard Chollet, Paul Deléglise: Speech synthesis by structured segments, using temporal decomposition and a glottal excitation. 2183-2186
Alessandro Falaschi, Massimo Giustiniani, Massimo Verola: A hidden Markov model approach to speech synthesis. 2187-2190
Reinhard Posmyk: Time-domain synthesizer for preserving microprosody. 2191-2194
Kazuya Takeda, Katsuo Abe, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Hisao Kuwabara: Adaptive manipulation of non-uniform synthesis units using multi-level unit transcription. 2195-2198
Signal Processing: Miscellaneous
Dominic S. F. Chan, D. M. Brookes: Variability of excitation parameters derived from robust closed phase glottal inverse filtering. 2199-2202
Shuichi Itahashi, Kazuyuki Takagi: Automatic formant frequency extraction by moment calculation of speech spectrum. 2207-2210
Christophe d'Alessandro: Time-frequency modifications using an elementary waveform speech model. 2211-2214
Climent Nadeu, Eduardo Lleida, Javier Hernando: Modeling of the analytic spectrum for speech recognition. 2215-2218
Language Processing: Speech-Oriented Language Analysis
Akira Kurematsu: Relationship between speech processing and language processing - speech translation from Japanese to English. 2219
Peter Henrich: Language identification for the automatic grapheme-to-phoneme conversion of foreign words in a German text-to-speech system. 2220-2223
Seiichi Nakagawa, Yoshihisa Ohguro, Yasuhide Hashimoto: The syntax-oriented speech understanding system - SPOJUS-SYNO. 2224-2227
Hitoshi Iida, Kiyoshi Kogure, Kei Yoshimoto, Teruaki Aizawa: An experimental spoken natural dialogue translation system using a lexicon-driven grammar. 2228-2231
Lars Bo Larsen, Anders Baekgaard, Michael Bundgaard: Constructing a large size lexicon for a continuous speech recognition system. 2232-2235
Dominique Delomier, Andre Meunier, Mary-Annick Morel: Linguistic features of human-machine oral dialogue. 2236-2239
Speech Recognition0: Recognition of Phonetic Units
Jean Rouat, Renato de Mori, Jean-Pierre Adoul: Speaker and mother tongue independent analysis and recognition of some nasals, liquids and fricatives for integration in an automatic speech recognition system. 2240-2243
Jonathan Dalby, Alan Crowe, Andrew M. Sutherland: Formantbased vowel classification in continuous speech. 2244-2247
Marc Van Diest, Dirk Van Compernolle, André Oosterlinck: A rule based system for speech verification. 2248-2251
B. Williams, S. M. Hiller, Fergus R. McInnes, Jonathan Dalby: A knowledge-based nasal classifier for use in continuous speech recognition. 2252-2255
Helene Tattegrain, Jean Caelen: Phonetic unit localization in a multi-expert recognition system. 2256-2259
Yukihiro Nishinuma, Danielle Duez, Chantal Paboudjian: Duration of consonant clusters in French: automatic detection rules. 2260-2263
T. S. El-Sheikh, M. R. El-Ghonemy, O. M. Mansour: Toward a phoneme-based word recognition system. 2264-2267
M. Djoudi, Dominique Fohr, Jean Paul Haton: Phonetic study for automatic recognition of Arabic. 2268-2271
Marie-José Caraty, J. C. Richard, Xavier Rodet: Vowel recognition in a data base of continuous speech: experiments with local and global identification principles. 2272
Martin S. Glassman, Mary Beth Starkey: Minimal consonant pair discrimination for speech therapy using an expanded feature set and pattern element selection in time and frequency. 2273-2276
Phonetics
Tetsunori Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Matsuda, Kazuhiro Watanabe: Contextual factor analysis of vowel distribution. 2277-2280

Antti Iivonen, Raima Toivonen: Simulation of the psycho-acoustical vowel space for linguistic applications. 2289-2292
Mária Gósy: Identification of synthesized Hungarian vowels with two vs. five formants. 2293-2295
N. R. Ganguli: Acoustic phonetic study of bengali nasals. 2296-2299
Gordon S. Watson: APS: an environment for acoustic phonetic research. 2300-2303
Michel Chafcouloff, Alain Marchal, Thami Benkirane: Coarticulatory patterns in stop sequences. 2304-2307
Assessment: Speech Recognition
Adrian Fourcin: Progress overview for the SAM project. 2308
John S. Garofolo, David S. Pallett: Use of CD-ROM for speech database storage and exchange. 2309-2312
L. O. Kingham: Criteria in the design of experiments for speech recognition performance assessment. 2313-2315
Herman J. M. Steeneken, Jeroen G. van Velden: RAMOS - recognizer assessment by means of manipulation of speech. 2316-2319
D. P. Crowe: Selection of voice codec for the aeronautical satellite service. 2320-2323
Speech Analysis: Duration
John F. Pitrelli, Victor W. Zue: A hierarchical model for phoneme duration in american English. 2324-2327
Edda Farnetani: Acoustic correlates of linguistic boundaries in Italian: a study on duration and fundamental frequency. 2332-2335
M. I. Al-Anani: Durational differences between emphatic and non emphatic syllables. 2336-2339
Speech Coding: LPC Parameters Evaluation
D. J. Zarkadis, Barry G. Evans: Coding of the LPC spectral parameters using vector predictive quantization. 2340-2343
W. T. K. Wong, I. Boyd: Optimal quantization performance of LPC parameters for speech coding. 2344-2347
Melvyn J. Hunt, Dariusz A. Zwierzyriski, Raymond C. Can: Issues in high quality LPC analysis and synthesis. 2348-2351
Maurizio Omologo: The computation and some spectral considerations on line spectrum pairs (LSP). 2352-2355
T. M. Liu, Harald Hoege: Phonetically-based LPC vector quantization of high quality speech. 2356-2359
Phonological Variants
G. V. Ramana Rao, M. Prakash, B. Yegnanarayana: Word boundary hypothesisation in hindi speech. 2360-2363
Guy Perennou, Martine de Calmès, I. Ferrane, J. Tihoni: Automated phonotypical transcription through the GEPH phonology expert-system. 2364-2367
B. Williams, H. Thompson: Modelling phonological processes in continuous speech recognition. 2368-2371
Anne Cutler, Sally Butterfield: Natural speech cues to word segmentation under difficult listening conditions. 2372-2375
Anne Lacheret-Dujour: Automatic generation of phonological variations. 2376-2379
Speech Recognition: Algorithms and Models
Xixian Chen, Changnian Cai: A continuous VQ clustering algorithm for realtime speech recognition. 2380-2383
R. L. Bowles, Robert I. Damper: Application of the dempster-shafer theory of evidence to improved-accuracy isolated-word recognition. 2384-2388
R. C. Shillcock: Competitor effects in auditory word recognition: implications for interactive-activation models of word recognition. 2388-2391
V. Le Maire, Régine André-Obrecht, Denis Jouvet: An acoustic-phonetic decoder an automatic segmentation algorithm. 2392-2395
Hiroshi Hamada, Tatsuya Hirahara, Akihiro Imamura, Tatsuo Matsuoka, Ryohei Nakatsu: Auditory-based filter-bank analysis as a front-end processor for speech recognition. 2396-2399
Akio Komatsu, Eiji Oohira, Akira Ichikawa: Prosodical sentence structure inference for natural conversational speech understanding. 2400-2403
H. Ye, Marie-José Caraty, Louis-Jean Boë, D. Tuffelli: Structural (phonetic) evaluation of dissimilarities functions used in speech recognition. 2404-2407
José B. Mariño, Enric Monte: Generation of multiple hypothesis in connected phonetic-unit recognition by a modified one-stage dynamic programming algorithm. 2408-2411
Speech Production
Eric Castelli, Pascal Perrier, Pierre Badin: Acoustic considerations upon the low nasal formant based on nasopharyngeal tract transfer function measurements. 2412-2415
C. Delattre, Mounir Jomaa, C. Worley, Christian Abry: The phasing of the jaw in consonant and vowel lengthening Arabic and French patterns. 2416-2419
Daniel Recasens: Control mechanisms of tongue dorsum activity in speech production. 2420-2423
Yousef El-Halees: A study of subglottal pressure for emphatic and non-emphatic sounds in Arabic. 2424
Edda Farnetani, William J. Hardcastle, Alain Marchal: Cross-language investigation of lingual coarticulatory processes using EPQ. 2429-2432
Denis Autesserre, Yukihiro Nishinuma, Isabelle Guaïtella: Breathing, pausing, and speaking in dialogue. 2433-2436
Denis Autesserre, Benoit Galindo, Bernard Teston, Nadine Vigouroux: Movement of the lips and velum in speech: variations in aerodynamic parameters. 2437-2440
Shinji Maeda: Compensatory articulation in speech: analysis of x-ray data with an articulatory model. 2441-2445
Jean-Pierre Zerling: The three degrees of labialisation of the French steady-state vowels a study for 105 speakers. 2445-2448
Anna M. Barney, Christine H. Shadle, David W. Thomas: An investigation of air flow through the larynx by computer and mechanical modelling. 2449-2452
Emanuela Magno Caldognetto, Kyriaki Vagges, N. Alberto Borghese, Giancarlo Ferrigno: Automatic analysis of lips and jaw kinematics in VCV sequences. 2453-2456
Assessment: Speech Recognition

Fergus R. McInnes, Y. Ariki, Alan Wrench: Enhancement and optimisation of a speech recognition front end based on hidden Markov models. 2461-2464
Jeffrey N. Marcus: Significance tests for comparing speech recognizer performance using small test sets. 2465-2468
G. J. Vernooij, Gerrit Bloothooft, Y. van Holsteijn: Simulation of isolated word recognition on the basis of a hierarchy of phonetic classes. 2469-2472
Speech Analysis: Voice Quality
Marco Ferretti, Giulio Maltese, Stefano Scarci: Measures of language model and acoustic model information in probabilistic speech recognition. 2473-2476
Dieter Huber: Voice characteristics of female speech and their representation in computer speech synthesis and recognition. 2477-2480
Jean Schoentgen: The spectral dynamics of a non-linear model of the glottal waveform. 2481-2484
David M. Howard, Graham F. Welch: Visual feedback applied to the learning of conscious pitch control in singing. 2485-2488
Bernard Harmegnies, Marielle Bruyninckx, Joaquim Llisterri, Dolors Poch: Effects of language change on voice quality. an experimental contribution to the study of the catalan-castilian case. 2489-2492
Speech Coding: Techniques for Narrowband Coding
Isabel Trancoso, Carlos M. Ribeiro: Adaptive and stochastic search procedures in CELP based coders. 2497-2500
K. Y. Lee, Barry G. Evans: Combined optimization of excitation and filter parameters in analysis-by-synthesis coders. 2501-2504
Enrique Masgrau-Gomez, José A. Rodriguez-Fonollosa, A. Moreno-Bilbao: Including zeros in the backward adaptive predictor of AVPC coders. 2505-2508
Jorge S. Marques, José M. Tribolet, Isabel Trancoso, Luis B. Almeida: Pitch prediction with fractional delays in CELP coding. 2509-2512
Speech Synthesis: Systems
Wendy J. Holmes: Copy synthesis of female speech using the JSRU parallel formant synthesiser. 2513-2516
S. Barbe, Rolf Carlson, Piero Cosi, Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, Björn Granström, Kyriaki Vagges: A rule-based Italian text-to-speech system. 2517-2520
Bo Shi: A Chinese text-to-speech system. 2521-2524
Gábor Olaszy: MULTIVOX - a flexible text-to-speech system for Hungarian, Finnish, German, esperanto, Italian and other languages for IBM-PC. 2525-2528
Speech Recognition: Connectionist Network


Léon Bottou, Françoise Fogelman-Soulié, Pascal Blanchet, Jean-Sylvain Liénard: Experiments with time delay networks and dynamic time warping for speaker independent isolated digits recognition. 2537-2540
Paul Dalsgaard: Semi-automatic phonemic labelling of speech data using a self-organising neural network. 2541-2544
Anders Baekgaard, Paul Dalsgaard: Recognition of continuous speech using neural nets and expert system. 2545-2548
Yasuhiro Komori, Kaichiro Hatazaki, Takaharu Tanaka, Takeshi Kawabata, Kiyohiro Shikano: Phoneme recognition expert system using spectrogram reading knowledge and neural networks. 2549-2552
Patrick Haffner, Alex Waibel, H. Sawai, Kiyohiro Shikano: Fast back-propagation learning methods for large phonemic neural networks. 2553-2556
Mikko Kokkonen, Kari Torkkola: Using self-organizing maps and multi-layered feed-forward nets to obtain phonemic transcriptions of spoken utterances. 2561-2564
Mark Huckvale, Ian S. Howard, William J. Barry: Automatic phonetic feature labelling of continuous speech. 2565-2568
Language Processing: Human Factors, Psychology, and Human-Machine Dialogue

Ellen Gurman Bard, A. J. Lowe, G. T. M. Altmann: The effect of repetition on words in recorded dictations. 2573-2576
Daniel Luzzati: A dynamic dialog model for human machine communication. 2577-2580
James M. McQueen: The use of lexical knowledge in phonetic categorisation. 2581-2584
Christopher Miles, Dylan M. Jones, Annette Simpson: Human factors in speech synthesis: factors affecting friendliness and efficiency. 2585-2588
Clive Frankish: Conversations with computers: problems of feedback and error correction. 2589-2592
Cecile T. L. Kuijpers: Strategies in developmental dialogue system. 2593-2596
Ludwig Hitzenberger, Huberta Kritzenberger: Simulation experiments and prototyping of user interfaces in a multimedial environment of an information system. 2597-2600

