Program

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Sunday, 9 September 2012
08:45	-	12:00	Morning Tutorials
13:00	-	16:15	Afternoon Tutorials
Monday, 10 September 2012
09:00	-	10:30	Opening Ceremony
10:30	-	11:00	Refreshment Break
11:00	-	12:00	Keynote Presentation: An Information-Extraction Approach to Speech Analysis and Processing Chin-Hui Lee (Bio and Abstract)
12:00	-	13:30	Lunch Break
13:30	-	15:30	Concurrent Oral Sessions
			ASR: Deep Neural Networks I Chairs: Li Deng and Nelson Morgan
			Language Recognition Chairs: Haizhou Li and Chuck Wooters
			Communication Disorders and Assistive Technologies Chairs: Stefanie Shattuck Hufnagel and Suzanne Boyce
			Voice Conversion Chairs: Yannis Stylianou and Malcolm Slaney
13:30	-	15:30	Poster Sessions
			Phonetics and Phonology Chair: Christian DiCanio
			Enhancement Chair: Xiaodong Cui
			Language Modeling Chair: Mikko Kurimo
			Spoken Language Understanding and Dialog Chair: Jason Williams
13:30	-	15:30	Special Session: Speaker Trait Challenge - Part 1 Chairs: Anton Batliner and Bjorn Schuller
15:30	-	16:00	Refreshment Break
16:00	-	18:00	Concurrent Oral Sessions
			ASR: Noise Robustness Chairs: Yifan Gong and Brian Kingsbury
			Spoken Language Understanding and Dialog II Chairs: Jean-Luc Gauvain and Dilek Hakkani Tur
			Paralinguistics I Chairs: Emily Mower-Provost and Jens Edlund
			Pitch and Harmonic Analysis Emily Nava and Joseph Tepperman
16:00	-	18:00	Poster Sessions
			Perceptual Learning and Perceptual Cues to Segments and Tones Chair: Carol Espy-Wilson
			Speech Synthesis: Prosody Chair: Esther Klabbers
			Speaker Diarization and Age Recognition Chair: Laurent Besacier
16:00	-	18:00	Special Session: Speaker Trait Challenge - Part 2 Chairs: Anton Batliner and Bjorn Schuller
19:30	-	21:00	Welcome Reception
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
08:30	-	09:30	Keynote Presentation: Music Understanding and the Future of Music Performance Roger B. Dannenberg (Bio and Abstract)
09:30	-	10:00	Refreshment Break
10:00	-	12:00	Concurrent Oral Sessions
			ASR: Discriminative Training Chairs: Frank Seide and Dan Povey
			Single Channel Speech Enhancement Chairs: Douglas O'Shaughnessy and Masato Akagi
			Conversation and Interaction Chairs: Julia Hirschberg and Maeva Garnier
			Speech Synthesis: Intelligibility Chairs: Alistair Conkie and Kim Silverman
10:00	-	12:00	Poster Sessions
			Prosody I Chair: Yosuke Igarashi
			Speech Analysis Chair: Shiva Sundaram
			Dialog Systems Chair: Geoff Zweig
10:00	-	12:00	Special Session: Speech and Language Technologies for STEM Chairs: Martin Russell and Maxine Eskenazi
12:00	-	13:30	Student Roundtable Lunch (pre-registration required, form is on bottom of registration page)
12:00	-	13:30	Lunch Break
13:30	-	15:30	Concurrent Oral Sessions
			ASR: Bayesian Modeling Chairs: Jen-Tzung Chien and Ralf Schlueter
			Computer Assisted Language Learning I Chairs: Maxine Eskenazi and Tanja Schultz
			Conversation and Interaction II Chairs: Elizabeth Shriberg and Andrew Rosenberg
			Speech Analysis and Modeling Chair: Jasha Droppo and Nestor Becerra Yoma
13:30	-	15:30	Poster Sessions
			Language Learning and Cross-Language Production and Perception Chair: Caroline Huang
			Enhancement and Coding Chair: Takayuki Arai
			Speech Synthesis: Adaptation Chair: Junichi Yamagashi
			Search and Decoding Chair: Patrick Nguyen
13:30	-	15:30	Special Session: Analysis of Spoken Disorders in Health Applications - Part 1 Chairs: Marina Nastasenko and Shri Narayanan
15:30	-	16:00	Refreshment Break
16:00	-	18:00	Concurrent Oral Sessions
			Dynamic Decoding Chairs: Frederic Bechet and Michael Riley
			Speaker Recognition I Chairs: Jean-Pierre Martens and Pavel Matejka
			Development of Speech Production and Perception Chairs: Tim Bunnell and Nanette Veilleux
			HMM Synthesis I Chairs: Keiichi Tokuda and Tomoki Toda
16:00	-	18:00	Poster Sessions
			Paralinguistics II Chair: Ozlem Kalinli
			ASR: Robust Modeling Chair: Rich Stern
			ASR: Robust Features I Chair: Jingyu Li
			Computer Assisted Language Learning II Chairs: Martin Russell
16:00	-	18:00	Special Session: Analysis of Spoken Disorders in Health Applications - Part 2 Chairs: Marina Nastasenko and Shri Narayanan
18:15	-	19:15	ISCA General Assembly
19:30	-	21:00	Reviewers' Reception
21:00	-	23:00	Students' Reception
Wednesday, 12 September
08:30	-	09:30	Keynote Presentation: Weighted Transducers in Speech and Language Processing Michael Riley (Bio and Abstract)
09:30	-	10:00	Refreshment Break
10:00	-	12:00	Concurrent Oral Sessions
			ASR: Robust Features II Chairs: Hynek Hermansky and George Saon
			ASR: Rich Transcription Chairs: Michael Picheny and Roberto Pieraccini
			Phonetics and Phonology Chairs: Stefanie Jannedy and Caroline Henton
			HMM Synthesis II Chairs: Masami Akamine and Zhen-Hua Ling
10:00	-	12:00	Poster Sessions
			Hearing Chair: Marijt Witteman
			Degraded Speech and Enhancement Chair: Tom Quatieri
			Source Separation and Computational Auditory Scene Analysis Chair: Emmanuel Vincent
			Speaker Recognition II Chair: Florian Metze
10:00	-	12:00	Special Session: Glottal Source Processing: from Analysis to Applications Chair: Thomas Drugman and Abeer Alwan
12:00	-	13:30	Lunch Break
13:30	-	15:30	Concurrent Oral Sessions
			Language Modeling: New Models and Features Chairs: Ciprian Chelba and Dietrich Klakow
			Speaker Verification Isabel Trancoso and Joseph Campbell
			Speech Intelligibility in Quiet and in Noise Lori Lamel and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
13:30	-	15:30	Poster Sessions
			Audio Analysis, Estimation and Classification Chair: Torbjørn Svendsen
			Adaptation for ASR Chair: Hans Dolfing
			Robust Speech Recognition I Chair: Antti-Veikko Rosti
			Rich Transcription II Chair: Chiori Hori
13:30	-	15:30	Special Event: Speech Tools Demo Chair: Diamantino Caseiro
13:30	-	15:30	Students Discover Industrial Career Challenges (Pre-registration required. Form on registration page.)
15:30	-	16:00	Refreshment Break
16:00	-	18:00	Concurrent Oral Sessions
			Adaptation & Robust Modeling Chairs: Dirk Van Compernolle and Mark Gales
			Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement Chairs: Yunxin Zhao and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach
			Prosody II Chairs: Melissa A. Redford and Robert A. Fox
			Voice Activity Detection Bayya Yegnanarayana and Devang Naik
16:00	-	18:00	Poster Sessions
			Perception and Production Chair: Daryush Mehta
			Language and Accent Recognition Chair: Koichi Shinoda
			Voice Search and Spoken Document Retrieval Chair: Jingjing Liu
16:00	-	18:00	Special Event: Systems Demo Chair: Diamantino Caseiro
19:00	-	22:00	Banquet
Thursday, 13 September
08:30	-	09:30	Keynote Presentation: Finding Meaning in Rodent Ultrasonic Vocalizations Garet Lahvis (Bio and Abstract)
09:30	-	10:00	Refreshment Break
10:00	-	12:00	Concurrent Oral Sessions
			Sparse, Template-Based Representations Chairs: David Nahamoo and Aren Jansen
			Speaker Diarization Chairs: Steve Renals and David Van Leeuwen
			Speech Production: Imaging and Models Chairs: Paavo Alku and Louis Goldstein
			Speech Synthesis Chairs: Daniel Erro and Alan Black
10:00	-	12:00	Poster Sessions
			Paralinguistics III Chair: Keikichi Hirose
			Speech and Speaker Segmentation Chair: Najim Dehak
			Spoken Language Understanding Chair: Gokhan Tur
			Spoken Language Applications Chair: Prem Natarajan
10:00	-	12:00	Special Session: Prosodic Prominence: Annotation, Prediction, Applications Chairs: Petra Wagner and Fabio Tamburini
12:00	-	13:30	Lunch Break
13:30	-	15:30	Concurrent Oral Sessions
			Spoken Term and Unseen Word Detection Chairs: Sadaoki Furui and Murat Akbacak
			Voice Search and Spoken Document Retrieval II Chairs: Tatsuya Kawahara and Lin-shan Lee
			Speech and Age Differences Chairs: Bernd Möbius and Stefan Steidl
			Acoustic Classification Chairs: Stephen Cox and Mahadeva Prasanna
13:30	-	15:30	Poster Sessions
			Speech Synthesis: Selected Topics Chair: Paavo Alku
			ASR: Deep Neural Networks II Chair: Bin Ma
			Robust Speech Recognition II Chair: Kaisheng Yao
			Speaker Recognition III Chair: Tomoko Matsui
13:30	-	15:30	Special Session: New Trends in Vowel Nasalization: The Articulation of Nasal Vowels Chairs: Ryan Shosted and Christopher Carignan
15:30	-	16:00	Refreshment Break
16:00	-	16:30	Closing Ceremony

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