TECHNICAL PROGRAMME

 

 

Session 1

P1 Xueru Zhang, Kris Demuynck, Dirk Van Compernolle and Hugo Van Hamme. Subspace-GMM acoustic models for under-resourced languages: feasibility study
P2 Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Solomon Teferra Abate, Laurent Besacier and Solange Rossato. Syllable-Based and hybrid acoustic models for Amharic speech recognition
P3 Tim Schlippe, Edy Guevara Komgang Djomgang, Ngoc Thang Vu, Sebastian Ochs and Tanja Schultz. Hausa large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
P4 Tanel Alumäe and Kaarel Kaljurand. Open and extendable speech recognition application architecture for mobile environments
P5 Seiichi Nakagawa, Turmunkh Erdenebat, Hiroshi Kibishi, Kengo Ohta, Yasuhisa Fujii, Masatoshi Tsuchiya and Kazumasa Yamamoto. Development of large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system for Mongolian language
P6 Thiago Fraga Silva, Viet-Bac Le, Lori Lamel and Jean-Luc Gauvain. Incorporating MLF features in the unsupervised training process

Session 2

P7 Karen Calteaux, Aditi Sharma and Gerhard van Huyssteen. Business drivers and design choices for multilingual IVRs: a government service delivery case study
P8 Mulu Gebreegziabher Teshome and Laurent Besacier English-Amharic statistical machine translation
P9 Audrey Mbogho and Alexander Kivaisi. Web-based corpus acquisition for Swahili language modelling
P10 Tunde Adegbola and Lydia Odilinye. Quantifying the effect of corpus size on the quality of automatic diacritizaion of Yoruba texts
P11 Daniel Van Niekerk and Etienne Barnard. Tone realisation in a Yorùbá speech recognition corpus

Session 3

P12 David Imseng, Hervé Bourlard and Philip N. Garner. Boosting under-resourced speech recognizers by exploiting out of language data - case study on Afrikaans
P13 Marelie Davel, Charl van Heerden and Etienne Barnard. Validating smartphone-collected speech corpora
P14 Jochen Weiner, Ngoc Thang Vu, Dominic Telaar, Florian Metze, Tanja Schultz, Dau-Cheng Lyu, Eng-Siong Chng and Haizhou Li Integration of language identification into a recognition system for spoken conversations containing code-switches
P15 Jon Gudnason, Oddur Kjartansson, Jokull Johannsson, Elin Carstensdottir, Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Hrafn Loftsson, Sigrun Helgadottir, Kristin Johannsdottir and Eirikur Rognvaldsson Almannaromur: an open Icelandic speech corpus
P16 Alexey Karpov, Irina Kipyatkova and Andrey Ronzhin Speech recognition for East Slavic languages: the case of Russian

Session 4

P17 Ngoc Thang Vu, Florian Metze and Tanja Schultz. Multilingual bottle-neck features and its application for under-resourced languages
P18 Hadrien Gelas, Laurent Besacier and Francois Pellegrino. Developments of Swahili resources for an automatic speech recognition system
P19 Herman Kamper, Febe de Wet, Thomas Hain and Thomas Niesler. Resource development and experiments in automatic South African broadcast news transcription
P20 Roberto Naranjo, Laurent Besacier, Tulio Rojas and Egidio Marsico. Pronunciation learning system for 21 vowel system of Nasa Yuwe language
P21 Dang-Khoa Mac, Eric Castelli and Véronique Aubergé. Modeling the prosody of Vietnamese attitudes for expressive speech synthesis
P22 Benoit Weber, Genevieve Caelen, Do Dat Tran and Binh Hai Pham MISTRAL+: Dedicated tool for under-resourced languages study

Session 5

P23 Karima Meftouh, Nadjette Bouchemal and Kamel Smaïli. A study of non-resourced language: the case of one of the Algerian dialect
P24 Mpho Raborife, Sabine Zerbian and Sigrid Ewert. Empirical measurements on a Sesotho tone labeling algorithm
P25 Jaco Badenhorst, Alta de Waal and Febe de Wet. Quality measurements for mobile data collection in the developing world
P26 Charl van Heerden, Marelie H. Davel and Etienne Barnard. Medium-vocabulary speech recognition for under-resourced languages
P27 Zahira Benkhellat, Emmanuel Ferreira and Pascal Nocera. Automatic speech recognition system for under-resourced languages based on SPEERAL: application to Berber language
P28 Lori Lamel, Sandrine Courcinous, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Yvan Josse and Viet Bac Le. Transcription of Russian conversational speech