SST 2010 Accepted Papers
The following papers and abstracts have been accepted for presentation at SST 2010...
Acoustic Phonetics
Denis Burnham, Sebastian Joeffrey and Lauren Rice. Computer- and Human-Directed Speech Before and After Correction
Karen Croot, Natalie Chilko, Heather Kember, Jaime Auton and Stephanie Barnes. Initialness in the prosodic hierarchy and tongue-twister errors
Chris Davis and Jeesun Kim. Is speech produced in noise more distinct and/or consistent?
Hilmi Hamzah. Durational Properties of Initial Geminate Consonants in Kelantan Malay
Tom Harris. Phonation in Sumi Nasals
Mitsuhiro Nakamura. Characterising Vocalisation of /l/ in English: an EPG, EMA, and Acoustic Study
Saeed Shar and John Ingram. Pharyngealization in Assiri Arabic: an acoustic analysis
Mary Stevens and John Hajek. Preaspirated /pp tt kk/ in standard Italian: a sociophonetic v. phonetic analysis
Catherine Watson and Chung Ting Justine Hui. Two Short Studies in Vocal Tract Measurements
Child Speech
Adele Gregory, Marija Tabain and Angela Morgan. Fundamental Frequency and Perturbation in Infant Vocalisations
Rachel Theodore, Katherine Demuth and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel. An acoustic examination of the effects of word frequency and utterance position on 2-year-olds’ production of 3rd person singular -s
Xiuli Tong, Catherine McBride-Chang and Denis Burnham. The role of lexical status and syllable context in Chinese children’s phonological awareness
Corpus Management
Steven Bird. Collecting a Corpus of Oral Literature in Papua New Guinea
Dominique Estival. The Big Australian Speech Corpus
Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Philip Rose, Cuiling Zhang, Julien Epps, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Joaquín González Rodríguez, Daniel Ramos, Gary Edmond, Claude Roux. Making demonstrably valid and reliable forensic voice comparison a practical everyday reality in Australia – Database collection protocol
Forensics
Kanae Amino and Takashi Osanai. Improvement of likelihood ratio calculation for forensic speaker verification using isolated vowels –Effect of transmission systems–
Frantz Clermont. Separating speaker and co-articulation effects via linear scaling
Helen Fraser. Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO): Current Issues
Helen Fraser. Transcripts: Their use and abuse in the legal system
Shunichi Ishihara and Yuko Kinoshita. Whose Mumbling is That? Filler Words as a Speaker Classification Feature
Yuko Kinoshita and Shunichi Ishihara. F0 can tell us more: speaker classification using the long term distribution
Yuko Kinoshita and Michael Norris. Simulating spontaneous speech: application to forensic voice comparison
Sheeraz Memon, Margaret Lech and Namunu Maddage. Effects of Clinical Depression on Automatic Speaker Verification
Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Tharmarajah Thiruvaran and Julien Epps. An issue in the calculation of logistic-regression calibration and fusion weights for forensic voice comparison
Michael Norris and Michael Wagner. Age-group and gender classification through class-dependent phone recognition
Philip Rose. Bernard’s 18 – Vowel Inventory Size and Strength of Forensic Voice Comparison Evidence
Philip Rose. Traditional Forensic Voice Comparison with Female Formants: Gaussian mixture model and multivariate likelihood ratio analyses
Gina Villar, Joanne Arciuli and Alessio Barsaglini. Can reduced use of pronouns during deceptive versus truthful speech be observed in languages other than English?
L2
Katsumasa Shimizu. Acoustic Analysis of Korean L2 Learners in the Acquisition of English and Japanese Stop Voicing Contrasts
Connie So and Catherine Best. Discrimination and Categorization of Mandarin Tones by Cantonese speakers: The Role of Native Phonological and Phonetic Properties
Kimiko Tsukada. Pattern of perceptual assimilation of Japanese vowels to Australian English vowels: Comparison of learners and non-learners of Japanese
Kimiko Tsukada. Vowel Length Categorization in Arabic and Japanese: Comparison of Native and Non-native Japanese Perception
Chiharu Tsurutani, Kimiko Tsukada and Shunichi Ishihara. Comparison of Native and Non-native Perception of L2 Japanese Speech Varying in Prosodic Characteristics
OzPhon
Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Christian Kroos, Mark Harvey, Catherine Best, Brett Baker and Louis Goldstein. A kinematic analysis of temporal differentiation of the four-way coronal stop contrast in Wubuy
Janet Fletcher, Andrew Butcher, Deborah Loakes and Hywel Stoakes. Aspects of nasal realization and the place of articulation imperative in Bininj Gun-wok
Christian Kroos, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Louis Goldstein and Catherine Best. Tongue body position differences in the coronal stop consonants of Wubuy
Michael Proctor, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Catherine Best and Louis Goldstein. Articulatory Modelling of Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy
Erich Round. Widespread patterns of lenition in Australian indigenous languages: initial findings and implications
Hywel Stoakes. An Aerodynamic Study of Nasals in Bininj Gun-Wok
Marija Tabain and Richard Beare. Jaw Movement and Coronal Stop Spectra: the case of Central Arrernte
Laura Thompson, Catherine Watson, Helen Charters, Ray Harlow, Peter Keegan, Jeanette King and Margaret Maclagan. An experiment in mita-reading: investigating perception of rhythmic prominence in the Māori language
PANZE
Joshua Clothier. Worrying and wondering acoustically: evidence for a case of sociophonetic variation in Melbourne speakers of Australian English
Felicity Cox and Sallyanne Palethorpe. Broadness variation in Australian English speaking females
Deborah Loakes, John Hajek and Janet Fletcher. Issues in the perception of the /el/ ~ /æl/ contrast in Melbourne: Perception, production and lexical frequency effects
Deborah Loakes, John Hajek and Janet Fletcher. (Mis)perceiving /el/ ~ /æl/ in Melbourne English: a micro-analysis of sound perception and change
Simon Musgrave and Kate Burridge. [jɛəs pɹɔɪm mɪnɪstə]
Jennifer Price. HORDE EXPLORED
Speech Pathology and Audiology
Stephen Bier and Catherine I. Watson. A Platform for Modelling Aging in the Adult Vocal Folds
Peter Blamey, Lois Martin and Elaine Saunders. Hearing aid benefit as a function of hearing loss
Colleen Holt and Janet Fletcher. Pitch accentuation in adolescent users of cochlear implants
Laura Street, Julia Day and Teresa Ching. Phoneme production and phonological processes of children with hearing loss: interim findings from the Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment (LOCHI) study
Adam P Vogel, Janet Fletcher and Paul Maruff. Acoustic analysis of the effects of 24 hours of sustained wakefulness in healthy adults
Speech Perception
Molly Babel and Chandan Narayan. Episodes and abstraction: When listeners attend to talker-specific phonetic detail
Aleksandar Igic, Catherine Watson, Bruce MacDonald, Elizabeth Broadbent, Chandimal Jayawardena and Rebecca Stafford. Perceptions of synthetic speech with emotion modelling delivered through a robot platform: an initial investigation with older listeners
Xu Yizhong and Meng Hong. The Voice Pitch and Speed Control under Frequency Modulated Auditory Feedback Conditions in Standard Chinese and Japanese Speakers
Speech Processing
Marie Camilleri, Jeremy Marozeau, Hamish Innes-Brown and Peter Blamey. Effect of sound localisation on melody segregation
Ingrid Jafari, Roberto Togneri and Sven Nordholm. Review of Multi-Channel Source Separation in Realistic Environments
Siripong Potisuk. Acoustic Description of Successive Non-identical Nasal Sounds for Automatic Segmentation of Continuous Thai Speech
Speech Recognition
Zeeshan Ahmed and Julie Carson-Berndsen. Modeling Pronunciation of OOV Words for Speech Recognition
Cathy Chua and Manny Rayner. What’s the Magic Word?
Serajul Haque, Roberto Togneri and David B. Grayden. An Enhanced Feature Extraction Method for the Zero-Crossings with Peak Amplitudes Auditory Model Based on the Mean Discharge Rate
Mayank Kaushik, Matthew Trinkle and Ahmad Hashemi Sakhtsari. Automatic Detection and Removal of Disfluencies from Spontaneous Speech
Tristan Kleinschmidt, Sridha Sridharan and Michael Mason. The Application of Phonetic Distribution Normalisation to Likelihood-Maximising Speech Enhancement for Robust ASR
Tristan Kleinschmidt, Sridha Sridharan and Michael Mason. The Effect of Dialect Mismatch on Likelihood-Maximising Speech Enhancement for Noise-Robust Speech Recognition
Rajitha Navarathna, David Dean, Patrick Lucey, Sridha Sridharan and Clinton Fookes. Recognising Audio-Visual Speech in Vehicles using the AVICAR Database
Siripong Potisuk. A Conceptual Model for Thai Spoken Language Understanding System
Tones and Intonation
Michael Carne. A preliminary investigation of tonal F0 contour realisation in normal Southern Vietnamese Speech
Olga Maxwell. Marking of Focus in Indian English of L1 Bengali Speakers
Phil Rose. The long and the short of Wencheng tones – acoustic and auditory description of tonologically challenging phenomena in an Oujiang Wu dialect of Chinese
Katrin Schweitzer, Sasha Calhoun, Antje Schweitzer, Hinrich Schuetze and Michael Walsh. Relative Frequency Affects Pitch Accent Realisation: Evidence for Exemplar Storage of Prosody