| SUNDAY - 9 April 2006 |
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Registration |
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| 18:00 - 20:00 |
Welcoming Function |
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| MONDAY - 10 April 2006 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Registration |
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Session 1 : Opening & Keynote |
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| 9:00 - 9:15 |
Opening |
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Prof E.C. Botha |
| 9:15 - 10:00 |
Keynote address: SPICE - An Interactive Toolkit for Rapid Portability of Speech Processing Systems to new Languages |
Presentation |
Dr T. Schultz |
| 10:00 - 11:30 |
Session 2 : Poster |
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Multidialectal Acoustic Modelling: A Comparative Study |
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M. Caballero, A. Moreno, A. Nogueiras |
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Training Acoustic Models with Speech Data from Different Languages |
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C.L. Liu, L. Melnar |
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Detection of Multilingual Named Entities Using Prosodic Features for Improved Speech Recognition and Translation |
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V. Rangarajan, S. Narayanan |
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Language identification and multilingual speech recognition using discriminatively trained acoustic models |
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T.R. Niesler, D. Willett |
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Non-native pronunciation modeling in a Command & Control Recognition Task: A comparison between acoustic and lexical modeling |
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J.M. Kessens |
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Session 3 : Oral |
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| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Extracting pronunication rules for phonemic variants |
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M.H. Davel, E. Barnard |
| 11:50 - 12:10 |
Language-dependent state clustering for multilingual speech recognition in Afrikaans, South African English, Xhosa and Zulu |
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T.R. Niesler |
| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Crosslingual adaptation of semi-continuous HMMs using acoustic sub-simplex projection |
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F. Diehl, A. Moreno, E. Monte |
| 12:30 - 12:50 |
Nguni and Sotho varieties of South African English - distant cousins or twins? |
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F. De Wet, T. Niesler, P. Louw |
| 13:00 - 14:30 |
LUNCH |
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Session 4 : Oral |
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| 14:30 - 14:50 |
Vowel data of early speech development in several languages |
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L.C.W. Pols, E. Lyakso, J.M. van der Stelt, T.G. Wempe, K. Zajdo |
| 14:50 - 15:10 |
A Study of Speech Pauses for Multilingual Time-Scaling Applications |
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M.D. Demol, W.V. Verhelst, P.V. Verhoeve |
| 15:10 - 15:30 |
PELT: An English language tutorial system for Polish speakers |
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K Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, A. Bogacka, D. Pietrala, M. Wypech, G. Krynicki |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
TEA |
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Workshop Dinner |
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| TUESDAY - 11 April 2006 |
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Session 5 : Oral |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 |
Guest Speaker: Department of Science and Technology |
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Dr B. Sehlapelo |
| 9:20 - 9:40 |
Articulartory-Acoustic-Feature-based Automatic Language Identification |
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S. Kanokphara, J. Carson-Berndsen |
| 9:40 - 10:00 |
Problems and solutions in African tone language TTS |
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D. Gibbon, E. Urua, M. Ekpenyong |
| 10:00 - 10:20 |
Computational models of prosody in the Nguni languages |
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E. Barnard, N. Govender, V. Zimu, C. Kuun, M. Davel |
| 10:20 - 11:20 |
Session 6 : Poster |
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Multilingual Data Configurable Text-to-Speech System for Embedded Devices |
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K.M. Parssinen, M. Moberg |
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Investigating Prosodic Modifications for Polyglot Text-to-speech Synthesis |
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P. Olaszi, T.L. Burrows, K. Knill |
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Is Intrinsic Pitch a language-dependent phenomenon? Evidences from a cross-linguistic pitch experiment |
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D.P. Pape, C. Mooshammer |
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Statistical Modeling of Pronunciation Variation by Hierarchical Grouping rule Inference |
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M. Caballero, A. Moreno |
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Is it possible to train a speech recognition system on text only? |
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E. Rubagotti |
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Session 7 : Oral |
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| 11:20 - 11:40 |
Character Stream Parsing of Mixed-lingual Text |
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H. Romsdorfer, B. Pfister |
| 11:40 - 12:00 |
New approach to polyglot synthesis: how to speak any language with anyone's voice. |
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J.L. Latorre, K. Iwano, S. Furui |
| 12:00 - 12:20 |
Mixed-mode multilinguality in TTS: The Case of English in Canadian French |
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L.M.Tomokiyo, C.J.Sisson, A.W. Black |
| 12:20 - 12:40 |
Speaker Clustering for Multilingual Synthesis |
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A.W. Black, T.Schultz |
| 12:40 - 13:10 |
Wrap-up |
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| 13:10 - 14:15 |
LUNCH |
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