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ECST 1987: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- European Conference on Speech Technology, ECST 1987, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 1987. ISCA 1987
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.
Continuous Speech Systems
- William S. Meisel:
Phonetic representation and accuracy in a commercial phonetic speech recognition system. 1001-1004 - Gerhard Th. Niedermair:
Syntactic analysis in speech understanding. 1005-1008 - Guy Mercier, D. Bigorgne, L. Le Guennec, Laurent Miclet, Jean Monné, M. Querre, Jacqueline Vaissière, M. Cloatre:
Speaker-dependent continuous speech recognition with KEAL. 1009-1012 - Mary O'Kane, G. Jones, P. E. Kenne:
A dictating machine accepting continuous speech: evaluation of a design. 1013-1016
Text-to-Speech Systems
- N. Debello, Gian Antonio Mian, Carlo Offelli, Roberto Rinaldo, Graziano Tisato:
Design of an Italian text-to-speech system. 1017-1020 - Björn Granström, Peter Molbaek Hansen, Nina Gronnum Thorsen:
A danish text-to-speech system using a text normalizer based on morph analysis. 1021-1024 - Gábor Olaszy, Géza Gordos:
On the speaking module of an automatic reading machine. 1025-1028 - A. Rajouani, Mohamed Najim, D. Chiadmi, M. Zyoute:
Synthesis-by-rule of Arabic language. 1029-1032
Speech Analysis
- Yasuo Ariki, S. Mizuta, Masaaki Nagata, Toshiyuki Sakai:
Spoken word recognition using statistic and dynamic information obtained by two-dimensional cepstrum analysis. 1033-1036 - Johan de Veth, Louis Boves:
Tracking of speech parameters using ARMA analysis techniques. 1037 - David A. Seggie:
Analysis of speech signal envelope-frequency relationships. 1038-1041
Formant Analysis and Tracking
- Willem J. M. Peeters:
Acoustic structure and perceptual relevance of 'steady states' and 'glides' within formant trajectories of diphthongs, complex vowels, and vowel clusters. 1042-1045 - James Hieronymus:
Compensating for vowel coarticulation in continuous speech recognition. 1046-1049 - Andrew P. Breen:
Segmentation of the speech waveform using differentiated first and second formant tracks. 1050-1053 - Mahesan Ganesan, Shyam S. Agrawal, K. D. Pavate:
Formant analysis and synthesis of (hindi) vowels and their perceptual limits. 1054
Text-to-Speech Systems
- Anthony Bladon, Rolf Carlson, Björn Granström, Sheri Hunnicutt, Inger Karlsson:
A text-to-speech system for british English, and issues of dialect and style. 1055-1058 - Mike McAllister:
The structural design of the cstr text-to-speech system. 1059-1062 - Pier Luigi Salza, Stefano Sandri, Enzo Foti:
Evaluation of experimental diphones for text-to-speech synthesis of Italian. 1063-1066 - Klaus Fellbaum, Jörg Rook:
Text-to-speech synthesis based on grapheme and phoneme clusters. 1067-1070
Speech Modelling
- Mahesan Niranjan, Frank Fallside:
On modelling the dynamics of speech patterns. 1071-1074 - Ian S. Howard, Mark A. Huckvale:
The application of adaptive constraint satisfaction networks to acoustic phonetic attribute determination. 1075-1078 - Hynek Hermansky:
Automatic speech recognition and human auditory perception. 1079-1082 - Michael T. M. Scheffers:
Separation of speech sounds from background sounds: human listeners vs. a model of hearing. 1083-1086
Phonetic Decoding
- Li Wu, Jean Paul Haton, François Lonchamp:
Recognition of French nasal vowels. 1087-1090 - S. Kitazawa, Jean-Pierre Tubach:
Statistical discrimination of French initial stops. 1091-1095 - R. Sundar, S. Raman, B. Yegnanarayana:
Studies on speech recognition of hindi stop consonants. 1095-1098 - Mark Tatham:
The representation and accessing of linguistic and phonetic knowledge. 1099-1103
Speech Recognition
- J. H. Wright:
Linguistic control in speech recognition. 1104-1107 - V. Walsh, H. R. Taylor:
Automatic speech recognition using artificial intelligence methods. 1108-1111 - Grzegorz Dogil:
The PIVOT parser. 1112-1115 - Georges Zanellato:
Speech recognition based on speech units. 1116-1119 - Shyam S. Agrawal, Mahesan Ganesan, A. M. Ansari, K. D. Pavate:
The role of phonetic features in machine recognition and human recognition of (hindi) vowels. 1120 - Yifan Gong, Jean Paul Haton:
Phoneme-based continuous speech recognition without pre-segmentation. 1121-1124 - Denis Autesserre, C. Barrera, Robert Espesser, Guy Perennou, Mario Rossi, Bernard Teston, Nadine Vigouroux:
Acoustic-articulatory information in a speech data base. 1125-1128 - Juraj Bakran:
The place of cues for the recognition of consonants. 1129-1131
Signal Processing
- Gu Yong, John S. D. Mason:
A comparison between vocal tract and auditory feature analysis in ASR systems. 1132-1135 - W. Millar:
Time domain acoustic parameters for speech recognition. 1136-1139 - Kenneth Adamson, G. Donnan, Norman D. Black:
Investigation of the application of concurrency to a digital simulation of the human basilar membrane. 1140-1143 - James A. S. Angus, Martin T. Whitaker:
Parameter extraction using the winograd fourier transform. 1144-1147 - P. R. Holmes, T. J. Moulsley:
Real-time implementation of acoustic noise suppression. 1148-1151 - Frank Gooding, Ian Shaw:
A real-time auditory 'spectrograph' for speech research. 1152-1154 - Xavier Rodet, Philippe Depalle, Gilles Poirot:
Speech analysis and synthesis methods based on spectral envelopes and voiced/unvoiced functions. 1155-1158
Large Vocabulary Systems
- M. Codogno, Luciano Fissore, Alessandro Martelli, G. Pirani, Giampiero Volpi:
Experimental evaluation of Italian language models for large-dictionary speech recognition. 1159-1162 - Jonathan Harrington, Ian Johnson, Maggie Cooper:
The application of phoneme sequence constraints to word boundary identification in automatic, continuous speech recognition. 1163-1166 - Alessandro Falaschi:
A word like phonetic sequence statistical source model for large lexicon automatic speech recognition systems. 1167-1170 - Gilles Adda, Maxine Eskénazi, P. E. Stem:
The use of rough spectral features for large vocabulary recognition. 1171-1174 - Jean Paul Haton:
Overview of coordinated research in speech communication in france. 1175-1178
Evaluation: Synthesis
- Louis C. W. Pols, Jean-Paul Lefèvre, Gerard Boxelaar, Nic van Son:
Word intelligibility of a rule synthesis system for French. 1179-1182 - Renée van Bezooijen, Louis C. W. Pols:
Evaluation of two synthesis-by-rule systems for dutch. 1183-1186 - Nickolas Yiourgalis, George Kokkinakis:
High quality and reduced memory text-to-speech synthesis of the greek language. 1187-1189
Speech Enhancement
- Jérôme Leboeuf, Dominique Béroule:
Processing of noisy patterns with a connectionnist system using a topographic representation of speech. 1191-1194 - Livio Busnelli, Neviano Dal Degan, Luigi Vetrano:
Multisensor input for a speech enhancement equipment: system architecture and experimental results. 1195-1198 - Richard J. Stubbs, Quentin Summerfield:
Separation of simultaneous voices. 1199-1202 - B. Yegnanarayana, K. V. Madhu Murthy, Hema A. Murthy:
Processing of noisy speech using partial phase. 1203-1206
Prosodic Analysis
- Anne Cutler, David M. Carter:
The prosodic structure of initial syllables in English. 1207-1210 - Shiro Kori, Edda Farnetani, Piero Cosi:
A perspective on relevance and application of prosodic information to automatic speech recognition in Italian. 1211-1214 - David House, Gösta Bruce, F. Lacerda, Björn Lindblom:
Automatic prosodic analysis for Swedish speech recognition. 1215-1218 - Wiktor Jassem:
Off-line automatic recognition of basic F0 curves. 1219-1222
Knowledge-Based Systems
- John H. Connolly:
Some issues in knowledge-based speech recognition. 1223-1226 - Richard Rohwer:
A measure of deliberatenes as an aid to the construction of grammars. 1227-1230 - Mark A. Huckvale:
ASR beyond HMM: a critical review. 1231-1234 - David M. Carter, Branimir Boguraev, Ted Briscoe:
Lexical stress and phonetic information: which segments are most informative? 1235-1238
Morphology and Phonology
- Egon Berendsen, Jan Don:
Morphology and stress in a rule-based grapheme-to-phoneme conversion system for dutch. 1239-1242 - Rene Kager, Hugo Quené:
Deriving prosodic sentence structure without exhaustive syntactic analysis. 1243-1246 - Linda Shockey:
Conversational phonology in a text-to-speech system. 1247-1249
Formant Analysis and Tracking
- L. F. Willems:
Robust formant analysis for speech synthesis applications. 1250-1253 - G. Duncan, Mervyn A. Jack:
A Novel Spectrum Estimation Algorithm Offering Enhanced Feature Resolution in LPC Spectra. 1254-1257 - D. Nandagopal, D. A. H. Johnson, J. P. T. Koljonen:
Pole-zero analysis of speech by linear predictive coding. 1258-1261
Medical Applications
- R. Haigh, A. K. Clarke:
VADAS, a simple voice recognition system for environmental control. 1262-1265 - Robert I. Damper, J. A. Sheppard:
Speech recognition and computer access for paralysed users: a case study. 1266-1267 - R. M. Stephens, M. J. Cottle, G. H. Creasey, C. S. Geggie, D. S. Workman:
Text composition using voice recognition and other computer input devices for people with spinal cord injuries. 1268 - J. F. Trehern, Mervyn A. Jack, John Laver, Steven M. Hiller:
Acoustic screening for vocal pathology with a boltzmann machine. 1269-1272
Speech Synthesis
- Piero Cosi:
A graph-oriented approach to the grapheme-to-phoneme transcription of Italian written texts. 1273-1276 - Bert Van Coile:
Computer-aided segmentation of spoken words given their orthographic representation. 1277-1280 - J. M. G. Lammens:
A lexicon-based grapheme-to-phoneme conversion system. 1281-1284 - W. Nick Campbell:
A search for higher-level duration rules in a real-speech corpus. 1285-1288 - John Brian Pickering:
Coarticulation and the synthesis of british English. 1289-1291 - Hugo C. van Leeuwen:
Complementation introduced in linguistic re-write rules. 1292-1295 - Janet Fletcher:
Some effects of tempo change on timing in French. 1296 - Jin Zijian, Ke Youan:
An efficient clustering algorithm and its use in phoneme synthesis. 1297-1300
Signal Processing
- Grazyna Surmanowicz-Demenko:
Mathematical aspects of the classification of basic pitch patterns. 1301-1304 - Mark A. Huckvale, David Michael Brookes, L. T. Dworkin, M. E. Johnson, David J. B. Pearce, L. C. Whitaker:
The SPAR speech filing system. 1305-1308 - Ian S. Howard:
Speech fundamental period estimation by a novel parallel processing method. 1309-1312 - David H. Deterding:
Speaker normalisation for a vowel identifier based on robust formant extraction. 1313-1316 - C. G. Rowden, C. F. Chan:
A multiple DSP system for speech processing applications. 1317 - David M. Howard, Andrew Faulkner, Ian S. Howard:
Speech fundamental frequency estimation by multi-channel peak-picking. 1318-1321 - Helge B. D. Sørensen, Paul Dalsgaard:
Comparison of two frequency domain pitch detectors based on phonetic performance evaluation. 1322 - L. C. Whitaker, David J. B. Pearce:
Larynx synchronous formant analysis. 1323-1326 - J. H. Leather:
Recognition of Chinese word tone from F0, with and without amplitude and speaker information. 1327-1330 - X. D. Huang, Mervyn A. Jack, G. Duncan:
Formant estimation based on temporal synchronous analysis. 1331-1334
Applications
- John L. Arnott:
High-speed control of a speech synthesiser by stenotype keyboard. 1335-1338 - L. O. Kingham, P. R. Harris, I. M. Tolmie:
The integration of speech technology with graphics as an aid for the disabled. 1339-1343 - R. R. Malyan, Yeshwant Sunthankar, Peter Barnwell:
An intelligent text reader for the blind. 1344-1347 - Onsy A. Abdel-Alim, R. Ahmed:
A study on the speech of down's syndrome subjects using the acoustic models. 1348-1351 - C. G. Rowden:
Synthesised speech from gestural input. 1352 - Norman Alm, Alan F. Newell, John L. Arnott:
Using a speech synthesis system for casual conversation a serious application. 1353-1356 - Karoly Galyas, Johan Liljencrants:
Multi-talk, a new portable multi-lingual speech output communication aid. 1357-1360 - B. Brophy, John L. Arnott, Alan F. Newell:
Communication aids and voice synthesis. 1361-1364
Phonetic Processing
- Shigeru Katagiri, Manami Yokota:
Phoneme recognition using visual features on speech spectrograms. 1365-1368 - P. Eswar, S. K. Gupta, C. Chandra Sekhar, B. Yegnanarayana, K. Nagamma Reddy:
An acoustic-phonetic expert for analysis and processing of continuous speech in hindi. 1369-1372 - Phil D. Green, Martin P. Cooke, H. H. Lafferty, Anthony J. H. Simons:
A speech recognition strategy based on making acoustic evidence and phonetic knowledge explicit. 1373-1376 - Raymond L. Watrous, Lokendra Shastri, Alexander H. Waibel:
Learned phonetic discrimination using connectionist networks. 1377-1380
Linguistic Processing
- Stefano Lazzaretto, Luciano Nebbia:
SCYLA: speech compiler for your language. 1381-1384 - Louis Boves, Mario Refice:
The linguistic processor in a multi-lingual text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversion system. 1385-1388 - Silvia Quazza, Enrico Vivalda:
Contextual byntactic analysis for text-to-speech conversion. 1389-1392 - Guy Perennou, Martine de Calmès:
BDLEX lexical data and knowledge base of spoken and written French. 1393-1396
Pitch Tracking
- Jing Yuan, C. S. Chen:
Pitch synchronization via matched filtering. 1397-1402 - Edward H. S. Chilton, Barry G. Evans:
Performance comparison of five pitch determination algorithms on the linear prediction residual of speech. 1403-1406 - Climent Nadeu, E. Garcia-Melendo, J. Alsina:
Pitch determination based on waveform superposition. 1407-1410 - Stelios Bakamidis, George Carayannis, N. Skiadas:
A new pitch detector based on preselected information from the LPC error signal. 1411-1414
Aids for the Deaf
- Ben Maassen, Nico Arends, Dirk-Jan Povel:
Artificial corrections to deaf speech and the development of visual speech training aids. 1415-1418 - A. Maynard Engebretson:
A wearable, vibrotactile /s/-monitor for hearing impaired based on spectral similarity measures. 1419-1422 - Hans-Günther Tillmann, Hans Georg Piroth:
The electrocutaneous stimulation system "SEHR" and the perceivability of tactile syllables. 1423-1426
Plenary
- J. Roukens:
Some observations about speech technology r&d in europe. 1427-1431 - Joseph-Jean Mariani:
Speech technology in europe. 1431-1439 - Janet M. Baker:
State-of-the-art speech recognition u.s. research and business update. 1440-1447
Acoustic Analysis
- Josef Psutka, E. Chan:
The use of coherence coefficient to parameters statistical dependence evaluation in acoustic anylysis. 2001-2004 - Anders Baekgaard, Paul Dalsgaard, Peter Holtse:
The head system and its approach to rule based acoustic-phonetic recognition of speech. 2005-2008 - P. Mertens:
Automatic segmentation of speech into syllables. 2009-2013
Prosody
- Kazuya Takeda, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Shigeru Katagiri:
Acoustic-phonetic labels in a Japanese speech database. 2013-2016 - Nick J. Youd, Frank Fallside:
Generating words and prosody for use in speech synthesis. 2017-2020 - D. Robert Ladd:
A model of intonational phonology for use in speech synthesis by rule. 2021-2024 - Alex I. C. Monaghan:
A system for left-to-right intonation specification from text. 2025-2028 - D. Robert Ladd, Alex I. C. Monaghan:
Modelling rhythmic and syntactic effects on accent in long noun phrases. 2029-2032
Codecs
- Bruce Bukiet, Roderick J. Ragland, John Damoulakis:
Hardware implementation of a multi-rate real-time speech codec. 2033-2036 - I. Boyd:
Position reoptimisation for a multipulse excited LPC coder. 2037-2040 - A. Fukui, K. Shibagaki:
Speech quality improvement of a multi-pulse speech codec with pitch prediction on a single chip signal processor. 2041-2044 - Denis Rochette, Gilles Mathevon, Alain Albarello:
Real time 800 bits/s linear predictive vocoder based upon vector quantization. 2045-2048