International Journal of Speech Technology

Springer. — 122 p. Number 1 Editorial Measuring the Naturalness of Synthetic Speech Audio Formatting - Making Spoken Text and Math Comprehensible Voter Response to Computerized Campaigning Keep Talking Performance Effectiveness with Continuous Voice Recognition for Spreadsheet Users Number 2 Memoriam Leon Lerman, Founder of AVIOS Editorial Advances in Human-Interface...

Springer. — 372 p. Number 1 Editorial Measuring the naturalness of synthetic speech Debouncing the speech button: A sliding capture window device for synchronizing turn-taking Audio formatting- Making spoken text and math comprehensible Conducting longitudinal studies of behavior using interactive voice response technology Voter response to computerized campaigning...

Springer. — 273 p. Number 1 The Role of Evaluation in the Development of Spoken Language Systems The Effect of Lexical Complexity on Intelligibility An Acoustical Study of Syllables of Mandarin Speech Formant and Pitch Detection Using Time-Frequency Distribution Dealing with Prosody in a Text-to-Speech System Number 2 Users’ Conceptions of Voice-Operated Information Services...

Springer. — 291 p. Number 1 Talking Call Waiting: An Application of Text-to-Speech Error Detection in Spoken Human-Machine Interaction Using Sequence Package Analysis to Improve Natural Language Understanding Improved Data Modeling for Text-Dependent Speaker Recognition Using Sub-Band Processing The Prototype Model in Speaker Identification by Human Listeners The VOT of...

Springer. — 359 p. Number 1 Editorial Phonetic Searching vs. LVCSR: How to Find What You Really Want in Audio Archives A Data-Driven Methodology for Evaluating and Optimizing Call Center IVRs A Generic Widget Vocabulary for the Generation of Graphical and Speech-Driven User Interfaces From Bliss Symbols to Grammatically Correct Voice Output: A Communication Tool for People with...

Springer. — 382 p. Number 1 Obituary: W.A. (‘Bill’) Ainsworth 1939–2002 Editorial: Speech Synthesis Comes of Age Close Shadowing Natural Versus Synthetic Speech The Role of Duration Models and Symbolic Representation for Timing in Synthetic Speech Hierarchical Structure and Word Strength Prediction of Mandarin Prosody Evaluating the Quality of an Integrated Model of German...

Springer. — 317 p. Number 1 A Comparison of Dialog Strategies for Call Routing Speech Recognition and In-Vehicle Telematics Devices: Potential Reductions in Driver Distraction Evaluating the Potential Effectiveness of Automatic Document Analysis Introducing Syntax Information in a Stochastically-Based Semantic Case Grammar Parser An Acoustic-Phonetic and a Model-Theoretic...

Springer. — 332 p. Number 1 Editorial Commercial Speech Recognition Technology in the Military Domain: Results of Two Recent Research Efforts Are You Listening to Your Spanish Speakers? How Spanish Speakers in the U.S. Say U.S. Addresses An Automatic System for Detecting Prosodic Prominence in American English Continuous Speech Knowledge-Combining Methodology for...

Springer. — 160 p. Number 1-2 One family, many voices: Can multiple synthetic voices be used as navigational cues in hierarchical interfaces? Word boundary detection based on suprasegmental features: A case study on Bangla speech Multilingual rule-based approach to number expansion: Framework, extensions and application Experiences of usability evaluation of the IMAGINE...

Springer. — 218 p. Number 1 Correcting automatic speech recognition captioning errors in real time Examining modality usage in a conversational multimodal application for mobile e-mail access Integrating coding techniques into LP-based Mandarin text-to-speech synthesis Automatic conversion from lexical words to prosodic words for mandarin text-to-speech system Innovative...

Springer. — 214 p. Number 1 LP spectra vs. Mel spectra for identification of professional mimics in Indian languages Development of speech corpora for speaker recognition research and evaluation in Indian languages An adaptive speech source separation algorithm under overcomplete-cases using Laplacian mixture modeling for mixture matrix estimation by adaptive EM-type...

Springer. — 177 p. Number 1 Vocal emotion recognition in five native languages of Assam using new wavelet features Prosodic rules for schwa-deletion in Hindi text-to-speech synthesis An efficient singular value decomposition algorithm for digital audio watermarking Syllable modeling in continuous speech recognition for Tamil language Number 2-3 Note from the editor:...

Springer. — 235 p. Number 1 Blind separation of audio signals using trigonometric transforms and wavelet denoising Prosodic modeling for Mandarin Chinese speech embedded with English spelling Language and Space: a two-level semantic approach based on principles of ontological engineering Emotion recognition and adaptation in spoken dialogue systems Number 2 Genetic...

Springer. — 410 p. Number 1 Efficien MLP constructive training algorithm using a neuron recruiting approach for isolated word recognition system Explaining the (non) adoption and use of interactive voice response (IVR) among small and medium-sized enterprises Application of prosody models for developing speech systems in Indian languages Two stage emotion recognition based on...