PROGRAMME

The timetable shown below is a preliminary version of the conference programme. We tried to follow your preference of oral/poster presentations, if you made the choice. In case you did not (you have selected "Undefined"), we decided according to the programme needs. We took into account also sessions of the TSD conference, so we tried to avoid to run simultaneously two sessions with the same topic across the two conferences.

Sunday, September 1

whole day Arrivals
17:00 – 19:30 Registration (open on all conference days)

Monday, September 2

09:00 – 09:15 Official Opening of the TSD 2013 and SPECOM 2013 conferences — Opal C+D

Hynek Hermansky (TSD 2013 Programme Committee Chair)
Václav Matoušek (TSD 2013 Organising Committee Chair)
Miloš Železný (SPECOM 2013 Organising Committee Chair)

09:15 – 10:05 Invited Talk — Opal C+D

H. Hermansky: Long, Deep and Wide Artificial Neural Nets for Dealing with Unexpected Noise in Machine Recognition of Speech

10:10 – 11:00 Invited Talk — Opal C+D

T. Lager: Statecharts and SCXML for Dialogue Management

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:20 Section Speech Recognition 1 — Opal A
Marcos Calvo: Exploiting multiple ASR outputs for a Spoken Language Understanding task
Daria Vazhenina: Evaluation of advanced language modelling techniques for Russian LVCSR
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:05 Section Speech synthesis — Opal A
Martin Grůber: Improvements in Czech Expressive Speech Synthesis in Limited Domain
Anna Solomennik: A Method for Auditory Evaluation of Synthesized Speech Intonation
Branislav Popović: Automatic Morphological Annotation in a Text-to-Speech System for Hebrew
Alexander Shipilo: Parametric speech synthesis and user interface for speech modification
Pavel Chistikov: Improving prosodic break detection in a Russian TTS system
16:05 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:45 Section Speech Recognition 2 — Opal A
Natalia Tomashenko: Fast Algorithm for Automatic Alignment of Speech and Imperfect Text Data
Mykola Sazhok: Language model comparison for Ukrainian real-time speech recognition system
Jan Vaněk: Covariance Matrix Enhancement Approach to Train Robust Gaussian Mixture Models of Speech Data
Section Language Identification — Opal B
Amalia Zahra: LIMA: A Spoken Language Identification Framework
Danila Doroshin: Application of l_1 estimation of Gaussian Mixture Model parameters for Language Identification
Aidar Khusainov: Language Identification System for the Tatar Language
19:00 – ...        Welcome Reception
21:00 – 22:30 Evening De-stressing Meditation

Tuesday, September 3

09:00 – 10:00 Invited Talk — Opal C+D

R. Steinberger: Multilingual Media Monitoring and Text Analysis – Challenges for Highly Inflected Languages

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:35 Section Mixed Topics — Opal A
Lukáš Machlica: Dealing with Diverse Data Variances in Factor Analysis Based Methods
Mikko Kurimo: Results for Variable Speaker and Recording Conditions on Spoken IR in Finnish
Milan Gnjatović: Encoding of Spatial Perspectives in Human-Machine Interaction
Andrey Ronzhin: Speaker Turn Detection Based on Multimodal Situation Analysis
Roman Meshcheryakov: Software for assessing voice quality in the rehabilitation of patients after surgical treatment of cancer of oral cavity, oropharynx and upper jaw
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Poster Session 1 — Smaragd
Speaker Recognition
Oleg Kudashev: The Diarization System for an Unknown Number of Speakers
Yuri Matveev: The Problem of Voice Template Aging in Speaker Recognition Systems
Yuri Matveev: SVID Speaker Recognition System for the NIST SRE 2012
Speech Recognition
Yoshiaki Itoh: Pseudo Real-time Spoken Term Detection Using Pre-retrieval Results
Michael Heck: Segmentation of telephone speech based on speech and non-speech models
Mikhail Zulkarneev: Acoustic modeling with deep belief networks for Russian speech recognition
Mikhail Zulkarneev: The Use of d-gram Language Models for Speech Recognition in Russian
Mikhail Stolbov: Speech and crosstalk detection for robust speech recognition using a dual microphone system
Language Recognition
Konstantin Simonchik: Examining vulnerability of voice verification systems to spoofing attacks by means of a TTS system
16:30 – ...        Excursion to the Pilsner-Urquell Brewery — beer tasting, traditional Czech nosh-up in the brewery pub

Wednesday, September 4

09:00 – 10:00 Invited Talk — Opal C+D

R. Cole: Spoken Dialogs with Children for Science Learning and Literacy

10:00 – 11:00 Invited Talk — Opal C+D

V. Zakharov: Russian Corpora: Comparison and Usage

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:20 Section Text processing — Opal A
Roman Suvorov: Method for Pornography Filtering in the WEB based on Automatic Classification and Natural Language Processing
Alexander Kharlamov: Text Understanding as Interpretation of Predicative Structure Strings of Main Text’s Sentences as Result of Pragmatic Analysis (Combination of Linguistic and Statistic Approaches)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Poster Session 2 — Smaragd
Text processing
Lilia Komalova: Lingua-cognitive Survey of the Semantic Field “Aggression” in Multicultural Communication: Typed Text
Varvara Krayvanova: Application of Automatic Fragmentation for the Semantic Comparison of Texts
Vlado Delic: Speech and Language Resources within Speech Recognition and Synthesis Systems for Serbian and Kindred South Slavic Languages
Tatiana Kachkovskaia: Phrase-final Segment Lengthening in Russian: Preliminary Results of a Corpus-based Study
Speech Analysis
Anna Moskvina: Comparative Study of English, Dutch and German Prosodic Features (Fundamental Frequency and Intensity) as Means of Speech Influence
Vera Evdokimova: Detection of the frequency characteristics of the articulation system with the use of voice source signal recording method
Katarina Bartkova: Automatic Detection of the Prosodic Structures of Speech Utterances
Michal Borsky: Noise and Channel Normalized Cepstral Features for Far-Speech Recognition
Andrey Vasiliev: Statistical Language Aspects of Intonation and Gender Features Based on the Lithuanian Language
Anton Stepikhov: Analysis of Expert Manual Annotation of the Russian Spontaneous Monologue: Evidence from Sentence Boundary Detection
Tatiana Platonova: The Investigation of Forensically Significant Changes of Acoustic Features with Regard to Code-Switching (on the Basis of Russian and German)
John Goddard: An analysis of Speech Signals of the Choapam variant Zapotec Language
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:00 Section Speech Recognition 3 — Opal A
Rodmonga Potapova: Auditory and Visual Recognition of Emotional Behaviour of Foreign Language Subjects (by Native and Non-native Speakers)
Gregor Donaj: The Use of Several Language Models and its Impact on Word Insertion Penalty in LVCSR
Irina Kipyatkova: Lexicon Size and Language Model Order Optimization for Russian LVCSR
Vasilisa Verkhodanova: Automatic detection of speech disfluencies in the Spontaneous Russian speech
Section Speech Analysis and Language Identification— Opal B
John Goddard: Hierarchical Clustering and Classification of Emotions in Human Speech using Confusion Matrices
Aleksei Grigorev: Auditory and Spectrographic Analysis of the Words of 2 - 8 Years Old Russian Children
Kamakshi Prasad Valurouthu: GMM Based Language Identification System Using Robust features
19:00 – ...        Closing Ceremony

Thursday, September 5

09:00 – 20:00 Conference Trip to Cheb, SOOS Natural Preserve, and Skalná
whole day Departures (of those who miss the beautiful conference trip)