Oral 1: Speaker recognition |
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| Wednesday, November 21 | |
| 09:20 – 10:40 | |
| O1.1 | Differentiable Supervector Extraction for Encoding Speaker and Phrase Information in Text Dependent Speaker Verification |
| Victoria Mingote, Antonio Miguel, Alfonso Ortega and Eduardo Lleida | |
| O1.2 | Phonetic Variability Influence on Short Utterances in Speaker Verification |
| Ignacio Viñals, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel and Eduardo Lleida | |
| O1.3 | Restricted Boltzmann Machine Vectors for Speaker Clustering |
| Umair Khan, Pooyan Safari and Javier Hernando | |
| O1.4 | Speaker Recognition under Stress Conditions |
| Esther Rituerto-González, Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín and Carmen Peláez- Moreno | |
Keynote 1 |
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| Wednesday, November 21 | |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | |
| Bio signal-based Spoken Communication | |
| Tanja Schultz | |
Posters: Topics on speech technologies |
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| Wednesday, November 21 | |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | |
| P1.01 | Bilingual Prosodic Dataset Compilation for Spoken Language Translation |
| Alp Oktem, Mireia Farrús and Antonio Bonafonte | |
| P1.02 | Building an Open Source Automatic Speech Recognition System for Catalan |
| Baybars Külebi and Alp Öktem | |
| P1.03 | Multi-Speaker Neural Vocoder |
| Oriol Barbany Mayor, Antonio Bonafonte and Santiago Pascual de la Puente | |
| P1.04 | Improving the Automatic Speech Recognition through the improvement of Laguage Models |
| Andrés Piñeiro-Martín, Carmen Garcia-Mateo and Laura Docio-Fernandez | |
| P1.05 | Towards expressive prosody generation in TTS for reading aloud applications |
| Monica Dominguez, Alicia Burga, Mireia Farrús and Leo Wanner | |
| P1.06 | Performance evaluation of front- and back-end techniques for ASV spoofing detection systems based on deep features |
| Alejandro Gomez-Alanis, Antonio M. Peinado, Jose A. Gonzalez and Angel M. Gomez | |
| P1.07 | The observation likelihood of silence: analysis and prospects for VAD applications |
| Igor Odriozola, Inma Hernaez, Eva Navas, Luis Serrano and Jon Sanchez | |
| P1.08 | On the use of Phone-based Embeddings for Language Recognition |
| Christian Salamea, Ricardo Córdoba, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Rubén San-Segundo and Javier Ferreiros | |
| P1.09 | End-to-End Speech Translation with the Transformer |
| Laura Cross Vila, Carlos Escolano, José A. R. Fonollosa and Marta R. Costa- Jussà | |
| P1.10 | Audio event detection on Google’s Audio Set database: Preliminary results |
| using different types of DNNs | |
| Javier Darna-Sequeiros and Doroteo T. Toledano | |
| P1.11 | Emotion Detection from Speech and Text |
| Mikel de Velasco, Raquel Justo, Josu Antón, Mikel Carrilero and M. Inés Torres | |
| P1.12 | Experimental Framework Design for Sign Language Automatic Recognition |
| Darío Tilves Santiago, Ian Benderitter and Carmen García Mateo | |
| P1.13 | Baseline Acoustic Models for Brazilian Portuguese Using Kaldi Tools |
| Cassio Batista, Ana Larissa Dias and Nelson Sampaio Neto | |
Oral 2: ASR & Speech Applications |
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| Wednesday, November 21 | |
| 15:00 – 16:40 | |
| O2.1 | Converted Mel-Cepstral Coefficients for Gender Variability Reduction in Query-by-Example Spoken Document Retrieval |
| Paula López Otero and Laura Docío Fernández | |
| O2.2 | A Recurrent Neural Network Approach to Audio Segmentation for Broadcast domain Data |
| Pablo Gimeno, Ignacio Viñals, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel and Eduardo lleida | |
| O2.3 | Improving Transcription of Manuscripts with Multimodality and Interaction emilio Granell, Carlos David Martinez Hinarejos and Verónica Romero |
| O2.4 | Improving Pronunciation of Spanish as a Foreign Language for L1 Japanese speakers with Japañol CAPT Tool |
| Cristian Tejedor-García, Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo, María J. Machuca, David Escudero, Antonio Ríos and Takuya Kimura | |
| O2.5 | Exploring E2E speech recognition systems for new languages |
| Conrad Bernath, Aitor Alvarez, Haritz Arzelus and Carlos David Martínez. | |
Oral 3: Speech & Lang. Tech applied to health |
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| Wednesday, November 21 | |
| 17:00 – 18:40 | |
| O3.1 | Listening to Laryngectomees: A study of Intelligibility and Self-reported Listening Effort of Spanish Oesophageal Speech |
| Sneha Raman, Inma Hernaez, Eva Navas and Luis Serrano | |
| O3.2 | Towards an automatic evaluation of the prosody of people with Down syndrome |
| Mario Corrales-Astorgano, Pastora Martínez-Castilla, David Escudero-Mancebo, Lourdes Aguilar, César González-Ferreras and Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo | |
| O3.3 | Whispered-to-voiced Alaryngeal Speech Conversion with Generative Adversarial Networks |
| Santiago Pascual de la Puente, Antonio Bonafonte, Joan Serrà and Jose Andrés González | |
| O3.4 | LSTM based voice conversion for laryngectomees |
| Luis Serrano, David Tavarez,Xabier Sarasola, Sneha Raman,IbonSaratxaga,Eva Navas and Inma Hernaez | |
| O3.5 | Sign Language Gesture Classification using Neural Networks |
| Zuzanna Parcheta and Carlos David Martinez Hinarejos | |
Oral 4: Synthesis, production and analysis |
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| Thursday, November 22 | |
| 09:00 – 10:40 | |
| O4.1 | Influence of tense, modal and lax phonation on the three-dimensional |
| finiteelement synthesis of vowel | |
| Marc Freixes, Marc Arnela, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías Pujol and Oriol Guasch | |
| O4.2 | Exploring Advances in Real-time MRI for Speech Production Studies of European Portuguese |
| Conceicao Cunha, Samuel Silva, António Teixeira, Catarina Oliveira, Paula Martins, Arun Joseph and Jens Frahm | |
| O4.3 | A postfiltering approach for dual-microphone smartphones |
| Juan M. Martín-Doñas, Iván López-Espejo, Angel M. Gomez and Antonio M.Peinado | |
| O4.4 | Speech and monophonic singing segmentation using pitch parameters |
| Xabier Sarasola, Eva Navas, David Tavarez, Luis Serrano and Ibon Saratxaga | |
| O4.5 | Self-Attention Linguistic-Acoustic Decoder |
| Santiago Pascual de la Puente, Antonio Bonafonte and Joan Serrà | |
Keynote 2 |
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| Thursday, November 22 | |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | |
| Synthesizing variation in prosody for Text-to-Speech | |
| Rob Clark | |
Special Session: Projects, Demo and PhD thesis |
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| Thursday, November 22 | |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | |
| SD.1 | Japañol: a mobile application to help improving Spanish pronunciation by Japanese native speakers |
| Cristian Tejedor-García, Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo and David Escudero-Mancebo | |
| SP.1 | Towards the Application of Global Quality-of-Service Metrics in Biometric Systems |
| Juan Manuel Espín, Roberto Font, Juan Francisco Inglés-Romero and Cristina Vicente-Chicote | |
| SP.2 | Incorporation of a Module for Automatic Prediction of Oral Productions Quality |
| in a Learning Video Game | |
| David Escudero and Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo | |
| SP.3 | Silent Speech: Restoring the Power of Speech to People whose Larynx has been Removed |
| Jose Andres Gonzalez Lopez, Phil D. Green, Damian Murphy, Amelia Gully and James M. Gilbert | |
| SP.4 | RESTORE Project: REpair, STOrage and REhabilitation of speech |
| Inma Hernaez, Eva Navas, Jose Antonio Municio Martín and Javier Gomez Suárez | |
| SP.5 | Corpus for Cyberbullying Prevention |
| Asuncion Moreno, Antonio Bonafonte, Igor Jauk, Laia Tarrés and Victor Pereira | |
| SP.6 | EMPATHIC, Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderdy M. I. Torres et al. |
| M. I. Torres, G. Chollet, C. Montenegro, J. Tenorio-Laranga, O. Gordeeva, | |
| A. Esposito, N.Glackin, S. Schlögl, O. Deroo, B. Fernández-Ruanova, | |
| D.Petrovska-Delacrétaz, R. Santana, M. S. Korsnes, F. Lindner,D. Kyslitska, | |
| M.Reiner, R. Santana, G. Cordasco, A. Férnande, M. Aksnes, R. Justo | |
| ST.1 | Advances on the Transcription of Historical Manuscripts based on Multimodality, Interactivity and Crowdsourcing |
| Emilio Granell, Carlos David Martinez Hinarejos and Verónica Romero | |
| ST.2 | Bottleneck and Embedding Representation of Speech for DNN-based Language and Speaker Recognition |
| Alicia Lozano-Diez, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Javier Gonzalez-Dominguez | |
| ST.3 | Deep Learning for i-Vector Speaker and Language Recognition: A Ph.D. Thesis Overview |
| Omid Ghahabi | |
| ST.4 | Unsupervised Learning for Expressive Speech Synthesis |
| Igor Jauk | |
Albayzin Evaluation |
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| Thursday, November 22 | |
| 15:00 – 16:40 | |
Multimodal Diarization |
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| AMD.1 | ODESSA/PLUMCOT at Albayzin Multimodal Diarization Challenge 2018 |
| Benjamin Maurice, Hervé Bredin, Ruiqing Yin, Jose Patino, Héctor Delgado, Claude Barras, Nicholas Evans and Camille Guinaudeau | |
| AMD.2 | UPC Multimodal Speaker Diarization System for the 2018 Albayzin Challenge |
| Miquel Angel India Massana, Itziar Sagastiberri, Ponç Palau, Elisa Sayrol, Josep Ramon Morros and Javier Hernando | |
| AMD.2 | The GTM-UVIGO System for Audiovisual Diarization |
| Eduardo Ramos-Muguerza, Laura Docío-Fernández and José Luis Alba-Castro | |
Speaker Diarization |
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| ASD.1 | The SRI International STAR-LAB System Description for IberSPEECH-RTVE 2018 Speaker Diarization Challenge |
| Diego Castan, Mitchell McLaren and Mahesh Kumar Nandwana | |
| ASD.2 | ODESSA at Albayzin Speaker Diarization Challenge 2018 |
| Jose Patino, Héctor Delgado, Ruiqing Yin, Hervé Bredin, Claude Barras and Nicholas Evans | |
| ASD.3 | Fischer EML Submission to Albyzin 2018 Speaker Diarization Challenge |
| Omid Ghahabi and Volker Fischer | |
| ASD.4 | In-domain Adaptation Solutions for the RTVE 2018 Diarization Challenge |
| Ignacio Viñals, Pablo Gimeno, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel and Eduardo Lleida | |
| ASD.5 | DNN-based Embeddings for Speaker Diarization in the AuDIaS-UAM System for the Albayzin 2018 IberSPEECH-RTVE Evaluation |
| Alicia Lozano-Diez, Beltran Labrador, Diego de Benito, Pablo Ramirez and Doroteo T. Toledano | |
| ASD.6 | CENATAV Voice-Group Systems for Albayzin 2018 Speaker Diarization Evaluation Campaign |
| Edward L. Campbell, Gabriel Hernandez and José R. Calvo de Lara | |
| ASD.7 | The Intelligent Voice System for the IberSPEECH-RTVE 2018 Speaker Diarization Challenge |
| Abbas Khosravani, Cornelius Glackin, Nazim Dugan, Gérard Chollet and Nigel Cannings | |
| ASD.8 | JHU Diarization System Description |
| Zili Huang, L. Paola García-Perera, Jesús Villalba, Daniel Povey and Najim Dehak | |
Search on Speech |
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| ASS.1 | GTM-IRLab Systems for Albayzin 2018 Search on Speech Evaluation |
| Paula López Otero and Laura Docio-Fernandez | |
| ASS.2 | AUDIAS-CEU: A Language-independent approach for the Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection task of the Search on Speech ALBAYZIN 2018 evaluation |
| Maria Cabello, Doroteo Torre and Javier Tejedor | |
| ASS.3 | The ELiRF system for the Albaycin 2018 Query-by-example Spoken Term Detection |
| José-Ángel González Barba, Fernando García-Granada, Lluís-Felip Hurtado and Emilio Sanchis | |
| ASS.4 | GTTS-EHU Systems for the Albayzin 2018 Search on Speech Evaluation |
| Luis Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes, Mikel Peñagarikano, Amparo Varona and Germán Bordel | |
Speech to Text |
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| AST.1 | MLLP-UPV and RWTH Aachen Spanish ASR Systems for theIberSpeech-RTVE 2018 Speech-to-Text Transcription Challenge |
| Javier Jorge, Adrià Martínez-Villaronga, Pavel Golik, Adrià Giménez, Joan Albert Silvestre-Cerdà, Patrick Doetsch, Vicent Andreu Císcar, Hermann Ney, Alfons Juan and Sanchis Albert | |
| AST.2 | Limecraft Flow – workflows for story editing, subtitling and archiving |
| Victor Garcia, Nuria Sanchez, Angus Knights and Maarten Verwaest | |
| AST.3 | Exploring Open-Source Deep Learning ASR for Speech-to-Text TV program transcription |
| Juan M. Perero-Codosero, Javier Antón-Martín, Daniel Tapias Merino, Luis A. Hernández-Gómez and Eduardo López-Gonzalo | |
| AST.4 | The Vicomtech-PRHLT Speech Transcription Systems for the IberSPEECH-RTVE 2018 Speech to Text Transcription Challenge |
| Haritz Arzelus, Aitor Alvarez, Conrad Bernath, Eneritz García, Emilio Granell and Carlos David Martinez Hinarejos | |
| AST.5 | Intelligent Voice ASR system for Iberspeech 2018 Speech to Text Transcription Challenge |
| Nazim Dugan, Cornelius Glackin, Gérard Chollet and Nigel Cannings | |
| AST.6 | The GTM-UVIGO System for Albayzin 2018 Speech-to-Text Evaluation |
| Laura Docio-Fernandez and Carmen Garcia-Mateo | |
| AST.7 | University of the Basque Country (GTTS@EHU) System for IberSPEECH-RTVE 2018 Speech to Text Transcription Challenge |
| Mikel Penagarikano, Amparo Varona, Luis J. Rodriguez-Fuentes and German Bordel | |
Oral 5: Text & NLP applications |
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| Friday, November 23 | |
| 09:00 – 10:40 | |
| O5.1 | Topic coherence analysis for the classification of Alzheimer’s disease |
| Anna Pompili, Alberto Abad, David Martins de Matos and Isabel Pavão Martins | |
| O5.2 | Building a global dictionary for semantic technologies |
| Iklódi Eszter, Gábor Recski, Gábor Borbély and Maria Jose Castro-Bleda | |
| O5.3 | TransDic, a public domain tool for the generation of phonetic dictionaries in standard and dialectal Spanish and Catalan |
| Juan-María Garrido, Marta Codina and Kimber Fodge | |
| O5.4 | Wide Residual Networks 1D for Automatic Text Punctuation |
| Jorge Llombart, Antonio Miguel, Alfonso Ortega and Eduardo Lleida | |
| O5.5 | End-to-End Multi-Level Dialog Act Recognition |
| Eugénio Ribeiro, Ricardo Ribeiro and David Martins de Matos | |
Keynote 3 |
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| Thursday, November 22 | |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | |
| Automatic Question Answering: Problem Solved? | |
| Lluis Marquez | |