Session P1B- Speech Analysis (Poster)

P1B.01. Speech Detection Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform
Ching-Tang HSIEH, Tamkang University, Taipei, Chih-Hsu HSU, Dahan Institute of Technology, Hua-Lien

P1B.02. Pitch Declination in the Statement Sentence in Mandarin
WANG Anhong, LU Shinan, CHEN Ming, Department of Chinese, Peking University; Institute of Acoustics, Academia Sinica; Beijing InfoQuick SinoVoice Speech Technology, Beijing

P1B.03. Research on the Semivowel by Dynamic Palatogram in Standard Chinese
ZHENG Yuling, BAO Huaiqiao, Nationality Studies, CASS, Beijing

P1B.04. Acoustical F0 Analysis of Continuous Cantonese Speech
Yujia li, Tan LEE and Yao QIAN, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

P1B.05. An Improved Entropy-based Endpoint Detection Algorithm
Chuan JIA, Bo XU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

P1B.06. Robust Speech Detection with Heteroscedastic Discriminant Analysis Applied to the Time-Frequency Energy
Ye TIAN, Zuoying WANG, and Dajin LU, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Session P1C- Feature Extraction (Poster)
 
P1C.01. A New Normalization for MFCC: Multi Layer Strategy and Rrcursive Progress
WANG Dong; ZHU Xiaoyan; LIU Ying, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P1C.02. A Pitch Detection Algorithm Based on Special Points and Area
Li WANG, Xin LV, Tie-Jun ZHAO, Zhan-Yi LIU, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin

P1C.03. An algorithm for Voiced / Unvoiced Decision and Pitch Estimation in Speech Feature Extraction
WANG Dong, CHEN Yi-Ning, LIU Jia, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P1C.04. Comparison between the Spectral Estimation Techniques by Different Spectral-distortion Measures
ZHU Shaohui, Wenju LIU, Bo XU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

P1C.05. Accuracy Improving Method for Parametric Trajectory Modeling and Its Use in A* Search
Yi-yan ZHANG, Wen-ju LIU, Bo XU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

P1C.06. Some Issues on the Study of Vocal Tract Normalization
Zhuo WANG, Peng DING, Bo XU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

P1C.07. Compact Speech Features Based on Wavelet Transform and PCA with Application to Speaker Identification
Ching-Tang HSIEH, Eugene LAI, Wan-Chen CHEN, You-Chuang WAN, Tamkang University, Taipei

Session O3A-Speech Analysis & Recognition (Oral)

O3A.01. Distributed Mandarin Speech Recognition under Wireless Environment
Cheng-Huang WU, Yumin LEE, and Lin-shan LEE, National Taiwan University, Taipei

O3A.02. Optimization of Viterbi Beam Search in Speech Recognition
Jyh-Shing Roger JANG, Shiuan-Sung LIN, National Tsing Hua University, Taipei

O3A.03. A Voice Activity Detection Algorithm Based on Perceptual Wavelet Packet Transform and Teager Energy Operator
Jhing-Fa WANG and Shi-Huang CHEN, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan

O3A.04. Speech Enhancement Using Wavelet Transform with Constrained Thresholds
Ching-Ta LU, Hsiao-Chuan WANG, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu

O3A.05. Constrained Maximum A Posteriori Approach for Speech Enhancement
Chuan JIA, Jian ZHANG, Bo XU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

Session O3B- Natural Language Processing (Oral)
 
O3B.01. Knowledge-based Sense Pruning Using the HowNet: An Alternative to Word Sense Disambiguation
GAN Kok-Wee, WANG Chi-Yung, Brian MAK, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

O3B.02. Equivalent Node-Based Speech Grammar Optimization
Min ZHANG, Cuntai GUAN, Haizhou LI, Infotalk Technology, Singapore

O3B.03. Linguistic and Acoustic Analysis of Chinese Person Names
Wen-Jie CAO, Bo XU, Juha ISO-SIPILA*, Chinese Academy of Sciences; *Nokia China R&D Center, Beijing

O3B.04. Improvements on a Belief Network Framework for Natural Language Understanding of Domain-Specific Chinese Queries
Bonnie MOK and Helen M. MENG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

O3B.05. Automatic Construction of English-Chinese Translation Lexicon from Parallel Spoken Language Corpus
Bo-xing CHEN, Li-min DU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

Session P2A-Speech Recognition (Poster)
 
P2A.01. Improvement of the Post-processing Method for Isolated Word Oov Rejection
Yifei ZHU,Chengrong LI,Bo XU, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing

P2A.02. Real-time Viterbi Searching for Practical Telephone Speech Recognition Systems
Jin ZHANG, Jia LIU, Run-Sheng LIU, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P2A.03. Two-Pass Continuous Digit String Decoder
WANG Zhi-yu, WEN Yuan, LI Ming, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

P2A.04. Partial Change Phone Models for Pronunciation Variations in Spontaneous Mandarin Speech
LIU Yi, Pascale FUNG, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

P2A.05. Likelihood Probability Mismatch Analysis and Normalization in Multilingual Speech Applications
Bin MA, Cuntai GUAN, Haizhou LI, InfoTalk Technology, Singapore

P2A.06. Comparison and Combination of Confidence Measures in Isolated Word Recognition
XIONG Zhenyu, XU Mingxing, WU Wenhu, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P2A.07. Confidence Measures for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
LV Ping, WANG Zuo-Ying, LU Da-Jin, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P2A.08. A Comparative Study on Wavelet Packet Based Front-End in Connected Mandarin Digit Recognition
Xiu Ping WANG, Chuan-Qi ZHU, Zong-Ge LI, Fudan University, Shanghai

P2A.09. Study on the Strategy for Hierarchical Speech Recognition
Dali YANG, Mingxing XU and Wenhu WU, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P2A.10. Fast Likelihood Computation Method Using Block-Diagonal Covariance Matrices in Hidden Markov Model
Rui WANG, Xuan ZHU, Yining CHEN, Jia LIU, Runsheng LIU, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P2A.11. Integration of Tone Related Feature for Mandarin Speech Recognition by a One-Pass Search Algorithm
WONG Pui-Fung, Man-Hung SIU, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Session P2B-Speech Synthesis (Poster)

P2B.01. Applying Source-filter Model in Chinese Speech Synthesis
YI Lifu, TIAN Jing, SUN Jingcheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Acoustics, Beijing

P2B.02. An Efficient Way to Learn Rules for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion in Chinese
Zi-rong ZHANG, Min CHU, Eric CHANG, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing

P2B.03. Modeling Duration and Intonation in Mandarin Chinese Synthesis with a Neural Network
Hongwei DING, Oliver JOKISCH, Hans KRUSCHKE, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

P2B.04. Hakka Pitch-Contour Parameter Generation Using a Mandarin-Trained Pitch-Contour Model
Hung-Yan GU and Shiue-Jen LI, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei

P2B.05. Large lexicon construction for TTS system
Ben-Feng CHEN, Guo-Ping HU, Ren-Hua WANG, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei

P2B.06. Decision Tree Based Unit Pre-Selection in Mandarin Chinese Synthesis
Zhen-Hua LING, Yu HU, Zhi-Wei SHUANG, Ren-Hua WANG, University of Science and Technology, Hefei

P2B.07. Study on Detection of Prosodic Phrase Boundaries in Spontaneous Speech
Hui SUN, Mingxing XU, Wenhu WU, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P2B.08. Design of Embedded Application Oriented Distributed Speech Synthesis System with High Naturalness
TANG Hao, YIN Bo, and Ren-Hua WANG, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei

P2B.09. A Novel Approach for Pitch Modification on Time Domain
LI Ming, WANG Zhiyu, WEN Yuan, HOU Zhen, YU Tiecheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

P2B.10. Prosodic Phrase Detection for Chinese TTS using CART and Statistical Model
DONG Minghui LUA Kim-Teng, National University of Singapore, Singapore

P2B.11. Voice Quality Analysis under the Pitch Effect
Dan-Ning JIANG, Jian-Hua TAO, Lian-Hong CAI, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Session P2C- Spoken Dialogue and Natural Language Processing (Poster)

P2C.01. Improving Language Modeling by Combining Heteogeneous Corpora
Zheng-Yu ZHOU, Fudan University, Shanghai; Jian-Feng GAO, Eric CHANG, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing

P2C.02. PhoneAgent: A Conversational Interface for Telephone Exchange System
Bin SHE, Mingxing XU, Wenhu WU, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P2C.03. The Design of a Multi-Domain Chinese Dialogue System
Wei-Tek HSU, Huei-Ming WANG, Yi-Chun LIN, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu

P2C.04. A Spoken Dialogue Model Based on Extended Lambek Calculus
Ke-Song HAN, Gui-Lin CHEN, Motorola Labs, China Research Center, Shanghai

P2C.05. Preparing for Evaluation of a Flight Spoken Dialogue System
Xiaojun WU, Mingxing XU, and Wenhu WU, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P2C.06. An Automatic Speech Recognition Strategy Directed by the Semantic Knowledge in Dialogue System
Guoliang ZHANG, Pengju YAN, Mingxing XU and Wenhu WU, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P2C.07. Developing Chinese TAK for Computer Directly
Guo-Ping HU, Ben-Feng CHEN, Ren-Hua WANG, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei

P2C.08. An Approach to Automatic Identification of Chinese Base Noun Phrases
Yan ZHANG, Chengqing ZONG and Bo XU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

P2C.09. Chinese Person Name Identification Based on Rules and Statistics
Wenjie CAO, Chengqing ZONG, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; Juha ISO-SIPILA , Nokia China R&D Center, Beijing; Bo XU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

P2C.10. Investigation and Analysis on Designing Chinese Balance Corpus
Rile HU, Chengqing ZONG, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; Juha ISO-SIPILA , Nokia China R&D Center, Beijing; Bo XU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

P2C.11. A Compression Method Used in Language Modeling for Handheld Devices
Genqing WU, Fang ZHENG, Wenhu WU, Tsinghua University, Beijing

P2C.12. Spoken Language Identification Using Bigram
CHENG Xuelin, WU Kaizheng, WANG Han, LI Zongge, Fudan University, Shanghai

Session O4A- Speech recognition and Adaptation (Oral)
 
O4A.01. A Comparative Study of Several Incremental Adaptation Algorithms for Speaker Adaptation
Bin MA InfoTalk Technology Pte Ltd, Singapore; Qiang HUO, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

O4A.02. Structure-Based Compensation Using an Improved Statistical Linear Approximation for Mandarin Speech Recognition over Telephone
Zhao-Bing HAN, Hua-Yun ZHANG, Bo XU, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

O4A.03. A Comparative Study of Quickprop and GPD Optimization Algorithms for MCELR Adaptation of CDHMM Parameters
Jian WU and Qiang HUO, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

O4A.04. Integration of Model Adaptation and Missing Feature Theory for Robust Speech Recognition
An-Tze YU and Hsiao-Chuan WANG, Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu

O4A.05. An Investigation on Wireless Speech Recognition by Data Contamination and Robust Training Techniques
Wei-Tyng HONG and Ke-Shiu CHEN, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu

Session O4B- Speech Synthesis (Oral)
   
O4B.01. The Effect of Tonal Context on Cantonese Concatenative Speech Synthesis
Tien-Ying FUNG and Helen M. MENG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

O4B.02. Face Synthesis Driven by Audio Speech Input Based on HMMs
Ling SUN, Wei LAI, Ren-Hua WANG, University of Science & Technology of China, Heifei

O4B.03. Annotation of Chinese Prosodic Level Based on Probabilistic Model
Rui CAI*, Zhi-Yong WU, Lian-Hong CAI, Tsinghua University, Beijing

O4B.04. A Cross-linguistic Study on Discourse and Syntactic Boundary Cues in Spontaneous Speech: Using Duration as an Example
Janice FON, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei

O4B.05. A Study of Evaluation Method for Synthetic Mandarin Speech
BAO Huaiqiao, Institute of Nationality Studies, CASS, Beijing; WANG Anhong, Department of Chinese, Peking University, Beijing; LU Shinan, Institute of Acoustics, Academia Sinica, Beijing