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Thursday, May 4

Keynote Speaker 3: Chiu-Yu Tseng   Thursday, May 4, 09:00
Oral Session 3 (OS3):
Prosody and Speech Perception
Thursday, May 4, 09:45
No. Paper Author(s) Title
1   Cummins, F.; Doherty, C.; Dilley, L. Phrase-Final Pitch Discrimination in English
2   Koreman, J. The role of articulation rate in distinguishing fast and slow speakers
3   Soderstrom, M.; Morgan, J. L. Toddlers are sensitive to prosodic correlates of disfluency in spontaneous speech
4   Carlson, R.; Gustafson, K.; Strangert, E. Modelling Hesitation for Synthesis of Spontaneous Speech
5   Geiser, E.; Schmidt, C.; Jancke, L.; Meyer, M. Neural correlates of rhythm processing in speech perception
Oral Session 4 (OS4):
Affective Speech
Thursday, May 4, 11:50
No. Paper Author(s) Title
1   Chuenwattanapranithi, S.; Xu, Y.; Thipakorn, B.; Maneewongvatana, S. Expressing anger and joy with the size code
2   Aharonson, V.; Amir, N. Emotion Elicitation in a Computerized Gambling Game
3   Benus, S.; Enos, F.; Hirschberg, J.; Shriberg, E. Pauses in Deceptive Speech
4   Yanushevskaya, I.; Gobl, Ch.; Ní Chasaide, A. Mapping Voice to Affect: Japanese listeners
Poster Session 5 (PS 5): Speech Technology
- Speech Synthesis -
Thursday, May 4, 14:30
No. Paper Author(s) Title
1   Becker, S.; Schröder, M.; Barry, W. J. Rule-based Prosody Prediction for German Text-to-Speech Synthesis
2   Guo, Q.; Katae, N. Duration Prediction in Mandarin TTS System
3   Bell, P.; Burrows, T.; Taylor, P. Adaptation of Prosodic Phrasing Models
4   Schötz, S. F0 and Segment Duration in Formant Synthesis of Speaker Age
5   Bárdi, T. High Resolution Speech F0 Modification
6   Miao, Q.; Niu, X.; Klabbers, E.; van Santen, J. Effects of Prosodic Factors on Spectral Balance: Analysis and Synthesis
7   Mishra, T.; van Santen, J.; Klabbers, E. Decomposition of Pitch Curves in the General Superpositional Intonation Model
8   Giannopoulos, G.; Chalamandaris, A. An innovative F0 modeling approach for emphatic affirmativespeech, applied to the Greek language
9   Agüero, P. D.; Adell, J.; Bonafonte, A. Prosody generation in the Speech-to-Speech Translation Framework
10   Agüero, P. D.; Bonafonte, A. Facing data scarcity using variable feature vector dimension
11   Adell, J.; Bonafonte, A.; Escudero, D. Disfluent Speech Analysis and Synthesis: a preliminary approach.
12   Romportl, J. Structural Data-Driven Prosody Model for TTS Synthesis
13   Lobanov, B.; Tsirulnik, L.; Zhadinets, D.; Karnevskaya, H. Language- and Speaker-Specific Implementation of Intonation Contours in Multilingual TTS Synthesis
14   Lobanov, B.; Tsirulnik, L. Statistical Study of Speaker's Peculiarities of Utterances into Phrases Segmentation
15   Sun, Q.; Hirose, K.; Gu, W.; Minematsu, N. Rule-based Generation of Phrase Components in Two-step Synthesis of Fundamental Frequency Contours of Mandarin
16   Erro, D.; Moreno, A. Efficient Speech Synthesis System using the Deterministic plus Stochastic Model
17   Cho, K.; Harris, J. G. Towards an Automatic Foreign Accent Reduction Tool
18   Nurminen, J.; Himanen, S.; Rämö, A. Efficient Technique for Quantization of Pitch Contours
Poster Session 5 (PS 5): Speech Technology
- Speech recognition and understanding - 
Thursday, May 4, 14:30
No. Paper Author(s) Title
19   Barrett, L.; Hata, K. F0 Characteristics of Yes-No Question Intonation in Arabic and English: Disambiguation Techniques for Use in ASR
20   Takagi, K.; Ozeki, K. Dependency Analysis of Spontaneous Monologue Speech Using Pause and F0 Information: A Preliminary Study
21   Hwang, H.; Schafer, A. J. Prosodic effects in parsing early vs. late closure sentences by second language learners and native speakers
22   Minematsu, N.; Nishimura, T.; Murakami, T.; Hirose, K. Speech Recognition Only with Supra-segmental Features -- Hearing Speech as Music --
23   Zervas, P.; Mporas, I.; Fakotakis, N. Employing Intonational Events Parameterization for Emotion Recognition
24   Levow, G.-A. Unsupervised Learning of Tone and Pitch Accent
25   Liu, F.; Surendran, D.; Xu, Y. Classification of Statement and Question Intonations in Mandarin
26   Zhu, W. Perceptual Optimization of the Chinese Accent-Index Detector
Poster Session 5 (PS 5): Speech Technology 
- Annotation and speech corpus creation - 
Thursday, May 4, 14:30
No. Paper Author(s) Title
27   Braunschweiler, N. The Prosodizer - Automatic Prosodic Annotation of Speech Synthesis Databases
28   Chen, Y.; Lai, M.; Chu, M.; Soong, F. K.; Zhao, Y.; Hu, F. Automatic Accent Annotation with Limited Manually Labeled Data
29   Nesterenko, I. Prosodic boundaries in spontaneous Russian: perceptual annotation and automatic classification
30   Velázquez, E. Semi-Automatic Prosodic Transcription of Spoken Spanish in XML
31   Vella, A.; Farrugia, P.-J. MalToBI - Building an Annotated Corpus of Spoken Maltese
32   Fon, J. Shape Display: Task Design and Corpus Collection
33   Hofmann, M.; Jokisch, O. Optimization of MFNs for signal-based phrase break prediction
34   Lambert, T. Automatic Construction of a Prosodically Rich Text Corpus for Speech Synthesis Systems
Poster Session 6 (PS 6):
Prosody and Affect 
Thursday, May 4, 14:30
No. Paper Author(s) Title
3   Scarborough, R.; Keating, P.; Baroni, M.; Cho, T.; Mattys, S.; Alwan, A.; Auer, E.; Bernstein, L. Optical Cues to the Visual Perception of Lexical and Phrasal Stress in English
2   Erickson, D. Some gender and cultural differences in perception of affective expressions
3   Mueller-Liu, P. Signalling affect in Mandarin Chinese - the role of non-lexical utterance-final edge tones
4   Menezes, C.; Maekawa, K. Paralinguistic Effects on Voice Quality: A Study in Japanese
5   Matte, A. Neutral Speech Corpora - a test for neutrality
6   Wu, C.-H.; Chuang, Z.-J. Emotion Recognition Using IG-based Feature Compensation and Continuous Support Vector Machines
7   Schuller, B.; Arsic, D.; Wallhoff, F.; Rigoll, G. Emotion Recognition in the Noise Applying Large Acoustic Feature Sets
8   Beller, G.; Hueber, T.; Schwarz, D.; Rodet, X. Speech Rates in French Expressive Speech
9   Paulmann, S.; Kotz, S. A. Temporal Interaction of Emotional Prosody and Emotional Semantics: Evidence from ERPs
10   Clavel, C.; Vasilescu, I.; Richard, G.; Devillers, L. Voiced and Unvoiced Content of fear-type emotions in the SAFE Corpus.
11   de Morães, J. A.; Stein, C. Attitudinal Patterns in Brazilian Portuguese Intonation: Analysis and Synthesis
12   Schaeffler, F.; Kempe, V.; Biersack, S. Comparing vocal parameters in spontaneous and posed child-directed speech.
13   Shochi, T.; Aubergé, V.; Rilliard, A. How prosodic attitudes can be false friends:Japanese vs. French social affects
Oral Session 5 (OS 5):
Prosody in Pathology and Ageing
Thursday, May 4, 16:00
No. Paper Author(s) Title
1   Zellner Keller, B. Ageing and Speech Prosody
2   Haderlein, T.; Nöth, E.; Schuster, M.; Eysholdt, U.; Rosanowski, F Evaluation of Tracheoesophageal Substitute Voices Using Prosodic Features
3   Peppe, S.; Martinez C., Pastora; L., R.;
Mennen, I.; McCann, J.; O'Hare, A.;
Rutherford, M.
Functionality and perceived atypicality of expressive prosody in children with autism spectrum disorders
4   Rigaldie, K.; Nespoulous, J.-L.; Vigouroux, N. Dysprosody in Parkinson's disease: Musical scale production and intonation patterns analysis
5   Duez, D. Consonant and Vowel duration in Parkinsonian Speech