Speech and Computer : 19th International Conference, SPECOM 2017, Hatfield, UK, September 12-16, 2017, Proceedings

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by  Karpov, Alexey, Mporas, Iosif, Potapova, Rodmonga

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Rodmonga Potapova
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SPIIRAS University of Hertfordshire
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Rodmonga Potapova
Moscow State Linguistic University
Moscow
Russia
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Preface
The Speechand ComputerInternational Conference(SPECOM) hasbecomearegular
eventsincethefirstSPECOM,whichwasheldinSt.Petersburg,RussianFederation,in
1996.Twentyoneyearsago,SPECOM wasestablished bytheSt.PetersburgInstitute
for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences and State
Pedagogical University of Russia thanks to the efforts of Prof. Yuri Kosarev and
Prof. Rajmund Piotrowski.
SPECOMisaconferencewithalongtraditionthatattractsresearchersintheareaof
computer speech processing (recognition, synthesis, understanding, etc.) and related
domains (including signal processing, language and text processing, computational
paralinguistics, multi-modal speech processing, and human–computer interaction).
TheSPECOMInternationalConferenceisanidealplatformforknow-howexchange–
especially for experts working on Slavic and other highly inflectional languages –
including both under-resourced and regular well-resourced languages.
In its long history, the SPECOM conference has been organized alternately by the
St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of
Sciences (SPIIRAS) and by the Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU) in their
home cities. Furthermore, in 1997 it was organized by the Cluj-Napoca Subsidiary
oftheResearchInstituteforComputerTechnique(Romania),in2005bytheUniversity
of Patras (in Patras, Greece), in 2011 by the Kazan Federal University (Russian Fed-
eration,RepublicofTatarstan),in2013bytheUniversityofWestBohemia(inPilsen,
Czech Republic), and in 2014 by the University of Novi Sad (Serbia), in 2015 by the
University of Patras (in Athens, Greece), and in 2016 by the Budapest University of
Technology and Economics (in Budapest, Hungary).
SPECOM2017wasthe19theventintheseriesandthistimeitwasorganizedbythe
University of Hertfordshire, in cooperation with the St. Petersburg Institute for Infor-
maticsandAutomationoftheRussianAcademyofSciences(SPIIRAS),MoscowState
Linguistic University (MSLU), and St. Petersburg National Research University of
Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University). The conference
washeldjointlywiththeSecondInternationalConferenceonInteractiveCollaborative
Robotics (ICR) – where problems and modern solutions of human–robot interaction
were discussed – during September 12–16, 2017 at the College Lane campus of the
University ofHertfordshire,which islocatedinHatfield, UK20miles(30kilometres)
north of London, just 20 minutes by train from London’s King’s Cross station.
During the conference two invited talks were given by Prof. Mark J.F. Gales
(Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK) and Prof. Björn W. Schuller
(University of Passau, Germany and Imperial College London, UK) on the latest
achievements in speech technology, automatic speech recognition, keyword spotting
speakeranalysisandcomputationalparalinguistics.Theinvitedpapersarepublishedas
a first part of the SPECOM 2017 proceedings.
VI Preface
This volume contains a collection of submitted papers presented at the conference,
whichwerethoroughlyreviewedbymembersoftheProgramCommitteeconsistingof
above 100 top specialists in the conference topic areas. A total of 80 accepted papers
outof150submitted forSPECOMandICRwereselectedbytheProgram Committee
forpresentationattheconferenceandforinclusioninthisbook.Theoreticalandmore
general contributions were presented in common (plenary) sessions. Problem-oriented
sessions as well as panel discussions brought together specialists in limited problem
areaswiththeaimofexchangingknowledgeandskillsresultingfromresearchprojects
ofallkinds.Thisyear,excepttheregulartechnicalsessions,threespecialsessionswere
organizedon(i)NaturalLanguageProcessingforSocialMediaAnalysis,(ii)Multilingual
andLow-ResourcedLanguagesSpeechProcessinginHuman-ComputerInteraction,and
(iii) Real-Life Challenges in Voice and Multimodal Biometrics.
We would like to express our gratitude to the authors for providing their papers on
time, to the members of the conference Program Committee and the organizers of the
special sessions for their careful reviews and paper selection, and to the editors and
correctors for their hard work in preparing this volume. Special thanks are due to the
members of the Organizing Committee for their tireless effort and enthusiasm during
the conference organization.
September 2017 Alexey Karpov
Rodmonga Potapova
Iosif Mporas
Organization
The conference SPECOM 2017 was organized by the University of Hertfordshire,
in cooperation with the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation
of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS), Moscow State Linguistic
University (MSLU), and St. Petersburg National Research University of Informa-
tion Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University). SPECOM 2017 was
sponsored by ASM Solutions Ltd. (Moscow, Russia). The conference website is:
http://specom.nw.ru/sites/2017.
General Co-chairs
Iosif Mporas University of Hertfordshire, UK
Rodmonga Potapova MSLU, Russia
Andrey Ronzhin SPIIRAS, Russia
Program Committee Chair
Alexey Karpov SPIIRAS, Russia
Program Committee
Shyam Agrawal, India Vasiliki Foufi, Switzerland
Tanel Alumae, Estonia Peter French, UK
Ebru Arisoy, Turkey Mark Gales, UK
Elias Azarov, Belarus Philip Garner, Switzerland
Gerard Bailly, France Theodoros Giannakopoulos, Greece
Andrey Barabanov, Russia Gabor Gosztolya, Hungary
Anton Batliner, Germany Abualsoud Hanani, Palestine
Marie-Luce Bourguet, UK Charl van Heerden, South Africa
Nick Campbell, Ireland Ivan Himawan, Australia
Eric Castelli, Vietnam Ruediger Hoffmann, Germany
Vladimiir Chuchupal, Russia Marek Hruz, Czech Republic
Dirk van Compernolle, Belgium Alexei Ivanov, USA
Marelie Davel, South Africa Kristiina Jokinen, Finland
Vlado Delic, Serbia Oliver Jokisch, Germany
Olivier Deroo, Belgium Alexey Karpov, Russia
Keelan Evanini, USA Heysem Kaya, Turkey
Nicholas Evans, France Andreas Kerren, Sweden
Vera Evdokimova, Russia Tomi Kinnunen, Finland
Nikos Fakotakis, Greece Irina Kipyatkova, Russia
Mauro Falcone, Italy Kate Knill, UK
VIII Organization
Daniil Kocharov, Russia Blaise Potard, UK
Liliya Komalova, Russia Fabio Rinaldi, Switzerland
Theodoros Kostoulas, Switzerland Andrey Ronzhin, Russia
Constantine Kotropoulos, Greece Paolo Rosso, Spain
Georgios Kouroupetroglou, Greece Milan Rusko, Slovakia
Alexandros Lazaridis, Switzerland Saeid Safavi, UK
Benjamin Lecouteux, France Sakriani Sakti, Japan
Boris Lobanov, Belarus Albert Ali Salah, Turkey
Elena Lyakso, Russia Murat Saraclar, Turkey
Fragkiskos Malliaros, USA Björn Schuller, Germany
Konstantin Markov, Japan James Scobbie, UK
Yuri Matveev, Russia Vasiliki Simaki, Sweden
Lily Meng, UK Pavel Skrelin, Russia
Roman Meshcheryakov, Russia Victor Sorokin, Russia
Peter Mihajlik, Hungary Efstathios Stamatatos, Greece
Wolfgang Minker, Germany Stefan Steidl, Germany
Bernd Möbius, Germany Mikhail Stolbov, Russia
Konstantinos Moustakas, Greece Sebastian Stüker, Germany
Iosif Mporas, UK Yannis Stylianou, Greece
Hema Murthy, India György Szaszák, Hungary
Maryam Najafian, USA Zheng-Hua Tan, Denmark
Satoshi Nakamura, Japan Laszlo Toth, Hungary
Marina Nastasenko, Russia Isabel Trancoso, Portugal
Géza Németh, Hungary Khiet Truong, The Netherlands
Thomas Niesler, South Africa Stavros Tsakalidis, USA
Stavros Ntalampiras, Italy Vasilisa Verkhodanova, Russia
Carita Paradis, Sweden Klara Vicsi, Hungary
Hemant Patil, India Wenwu Wang, UK
Alexander Petrovsky, Belarus Christian Wellekens, France
Alexey Petrovsky, Russia Andreas Wendemuth, Germany
Branislav Popović, Serbia Hossein Zeinali, Iran
Vsevolod Potapov, Russia Miloš Železný, Czech Republic
Rodmonga Potapova, Russia
Organizing Committee
Iosif Mporas (Chair) Ekaterina Miroshnikova
Alexey Karpov Rodmonga Potapova
Irina Kipyatkova Andrey Ronzhin
Dana Kovach Dmitry Ryumin
Yuri Matveev Anton Saveliev
Contents
Invited Talks
Low-Resource Speech Recognition and Keyword-Spotting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Mark J.F. Gales, Kate M. Knill, and Anton Ragni
Big Data, Deep Learning – At the Edge of X-Ray Speaker Analysis. . . . . . . 20
Björn W. Schuller
Conference Papers
A Comparison of Covariance Matrix and i-vector Based
Speaker Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Nikša Jakovljević, Ivan Jokić, Slobodan Jošić, and Vlado Delić
A Trainable Method for the Phonetic Similarity Search in German
Proper Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Oliver Jokisch and Horst-Udo Hain
Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of Vowel Articulation in Parkinson’s
Disease With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study. . . . . . 56
Michaela Strinzel, Vasilisa Verkhodanova, Fedor Jalvingh,
Roel Jonkers, and Matt Coler
Acoustic Cues for the Perceptual Assessment of Surround Sound . . . . . . . . . 65
Ingo Siegert, Oliver Jokisch, Alicia Flores Lotz, Franziska Trojahn,
Martin Meszaros, and Michael Maruschke
Acoustic Modeling in the STC Keyword Search System for OpenKWS
2016 Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Ivan Medennikov, Aleksei Romanenko, Alexey Prudnikov,
Valentin Mendelev, Yuri Khokhlov, Maxim Korenevsky,
Natalia Tomashenko, and Alexander Zatvornitskiy
Adaptation Approaches for Pronunciation Scoring with
Sparse Training Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Federico Landini, Luciana Ferrer, and Horacio Franco
AnAlgorithm forDetectionofBreathSoundsinSpontaneousSpeechwith
Application to Speaker Recognition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Sri Harsha Dumpala and K.N.R.K. Raju Alluri