Full papers and keynote presentations can be downloaded as PDF files
Keynotes
Prof. Jean François Bonastre, VP University of Avignon, France
The Notion of Performance: A Paradigm Shift in Speaker Recognition and Voice Comparison?
Prof. Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; LIMSI-CNRS, France
The Statistical Approach to Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing: Achievements and Open Problems
Prof. Richard M. Stern, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Robust Automatic Speech Recognition in the 21st Century
Mr. Jay Wilpon, Executive Director NLP, AT&T, USA
The Connected World and Speech Technologies: It’s About "Effortless"
Papers
Inter Dataset Variability Compensation for Robust Speaker Recognition
Hagai Aronowitz, Cognitive Computing, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel
On the Importance of Pre- and Post-Conditioning Procedures for Speaker Recognition Systems Based on Total Variability Factors
Pierre-Michel Bousquet & Jean-Francois Bonastre, LIA, University of Avignon, Avignon, France
Speaker Diarization in Commercial Calls
Itsik Lapidot, Lidiya Aminov, Tal Furmanov & Ami Moyal, Afeka Center for Language Processing, Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Automatic Tools for Analyzing Spoken Hebrew
Adiel Ben-Shalom, Doron Modan & Asher Laufer, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Joseph Keshet, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel;
Error Diagnosis and Classification of Errors in two Hebrew State-of-the-Art Speech Recognition Systems
Vered Silber-Varod, The Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, Israel; Nitza Geri, Department of Management and Economics, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, Israel
Mobile Application for Real Time Monitoring of Speaker’s Rate of Speech Based on Phoneme Segmentation Techniques
Katia Raichlin Levi, Aviv Sotzianu, Eran Aharonson & Zehava Blechman, Afeka Academic College of Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel; Ofer Amir, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Robust Convex Segmentation of Sequential Data
Itamar Katz & Koby Crammer, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Glottal Pulse Estimation - a Frequency Domain Approach
Anibal Ferreira & Sandra Diaz, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
A Hybrid Keyword Spotting Approach Combining LVCSR and Phonetic Search
Michal Gishri, Ella Tetariy, Noam Lotner & Ami Moyal, Afeka Center for Language Processing, Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel