Natural Speech Technology Annual Meeting 2015

28 May 2015 -  University of Cambridge, Engineering Department 

• Steve Renals - Introduction [pdf]
• Penny Karanasou  "Progress in Adaptation of DNN-based Acoustic Models" [pdf]
  • Pawel Swietojanski  "An overview of DNN adaptation methods for ASR Systems within NST project"
  • Zhizheng Wu  "An overview of DNN adaptation methods for TTS Systems within NST project"
• Peter Bell  "The MGB Challenge at IEEE ASRU-2015" [pdf]
• One minute madness (introduction of demos/posters in next session) [pdf]

11.20 - 13:00 Coffee and demos/posters  

1. Pawel Swietojanski "Learning hidden unit contributions for unsupervised speaker adaptation of neural network acoustic models"
2. Yulan Liu/Penny Karanasou "An investigation into speaker informed DNN front-end for LVCSR" [pdf]
3. Yulan Liu "On the relationship between speaker informed DNN training and linear DNN input normalisation" [pdf]
4. Penny Karanasou "I-Vector estimation using informative priors for adaptation of deep neural networks" [pdf]
5. Chunyang Wu "Multi-basis Adaptive Neural Network for Rapid Adaptation in Speech Recognition"
6. Peter Bell "The UEDIN ASR Systems for the IWSLT 2014 Evaluation"
7. Siva Reddy Gangireddy "Prosodically-enhanced recurrent neural network language models" [pdf]
8. Yanmin Qian "Noise-aware structured DNN for robust ASR"
9. Liang Lu "A study of the RNN encoder-decoder for large vocabulary ASR"
10. Mortaza Doulaty "Unsupervised domain discovery" [pdf]
11. Chao Zhang "A general ANN extension for HTK" [pdf]
12. Liang Lu / Pawel Swietojanski / Peter Bell "Kaldi extensions at Edinburgh"
13. Marcus Tomalin "Inserting filled pauses and discourse markers for disfluent speech synthesis" [pdf]
14. Mirjam Wester/Gustav Eje Henter "On the subjective evaluation of synthetic speech: are we using enough listeners?" [pdf]
15. Oliver Watts "Sentence-level control vectors for deep neural network speech synthesis" [pdf]
16. Tom Merritt "Deep neural network context embeddings for model selection in rich-context HMM synthesis" [pdf]
17. Zhizheng Wu "“Deep neural networks employing multi-task learning and stacked bottleneck features for speech synthesis”
18. Pierre Lanchantin "Details of the MGB Challenge data preparation" [pdf]
19. Pierre Lanchantin/ Christophe Veaux "Reconstructing voices within the multiple-average-voice-model framework" [pdf]
20. Phil Green "Browsing Oral History: English Heritage Demo"[pdf]
21. Mauro Nicolao/Salil Deena "Automatic speech recognition for people with disordered speech: results from online and offline experiments" [pdf]
22. Qiang Huang "User dependent interactive system using multimodal information"
23. Peter Bell "GlobalVox Demo"

​13:00 - 14.15 Lunch 

A few photos taken during the meeting (all photo credits: Mauro Nicolao)

Demos/posters