Yonghong YAN


A Novel Discriminative Method for Pronunciation Quality Assessment
Junbo ZHANG  Fuping PAN  Bin DONG  Qingwei ZHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2013/05/01
Vol. E96-D  No. 5  pp. 1145-1151
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
pronunciation assessmentautomatic scoringdistinctiveness trainingmaximum entropy
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A Forced Alignment Based Approach for English Passage Reading Assessment
Junbo ZHANG  Fuping PAN  Bin DONG  Qingwei ZHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2012/12/01
Vol. E95-D  No. 12  pp. 3046-3052
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
CALLautomatic assessmentforced alignmentformant
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Factor Analysis of Neighborhood-Preserving Embedding for Speaker Verification
Chunyan LIANG  Lin YANG  Qingwei ZHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2012/10/01
Vol. E95-D  No. 10  pp. 2572-2576
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
speaker verificationneighborhood-preserving embeddingtotal variabilitysupport vector machinecosine distance scoring
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Noise Robust Feature Scheme for Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Auditory Perceptual Mechanisms
Shang CAI  Yeming XIAO  Jielin PAN  Qingwei ZHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2012/06/01
Vol. E95-D  No. 6  pp. 1610-1618
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
automatic speech recognitionnoise robustnesscritical bandwidthfrequency maskingtemporal masking
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Two-Microphone Noise Reduction Using Spatial Information-Based Spectral Amplitude Estimation
Kai LI  Yanmeng GUO  Qiang FU  Junfeng LI  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2012/05/01
Vol. E95-D  No. 5  pp. 1454-1464
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
microphone arrayphase differencemagnitude squared coherencespectral amplitude estimator
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Logarithmic Adaptive Quantization Projection for Audio Watermarking
Xuemin ZHAO  Yuhong GUO  Jian LIU  Yonghong YAN  Qiang FU 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2012/05/01
Vol. E95-D  No. 5  pp. 1436-1445
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Information Network
Keyword: 
audio watermarkingquantization index modulation (QIM)psychoacoustic model
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A Hybrid Speech Emotion Recognition System Based on Spectral and Prosodic Features
Yu ZHOU  Junfeng LI  Yanqing SUN  Jianping ZHANG  Yonghong YAN  Masato AKAGI 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2010/10/01
Vol. E93-D  No. 10  pp. 2813-2821
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Human-computer Interaction
Keyword: 
speech emotion recognitionnon-uniform subband processingspectral featureprosodic feature
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Enhancing the Robustness of the Posterior-Based Confidence Measures Using Entropy Information for Speech Recognition
Yanqing SUN  Yu ZHOU  Qingwei ZHAO  Pengyuan ZHANG  Fuping PAN  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2010/09/01
Vol. E93-D  No. 9  pp. 2431-2439
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Processing Natural Speech Variability for Improved Verbal Human-Computer Interaction)
Category: Robust Speech Recognition
Keyword: 
OOVspeech recognitionconfidence measureentropy informationphoneme-level posterior
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Acoustic Feature Optimization Based on F-Ratio for Robust Speech Recognition
Yanqing SUN  Yu ZHOU  Qingwei ZHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2010/09/01
Vol. E93-D  No. 9  pp. 2417-2430
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Processing Natural Speech Variability for Improved Verbal Human-Computer Interaction)
Category: Robust Speech Recognition
Keyword: 
mismatched speechrobust speech recognitionF-Ratiosubband designfeature optimization
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An LVCSR Based Reading Miscue Detection System Using Knowledge of Reference and Error Patterns
Changliang LIU  Fuping PAN  Fengpei GE  Bin DONG  Hongbin SUO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2009/09/01
Vol. E92-D  No. 9  pp. 1716-1724
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
CALLreading tutorreading miscuesLVCSRmultiple pronunciation
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Approximate Decision Function and Optimization for GMM-UBM Based Speaker Verification
Xiang XIAO  Xiang ZHANG  Haipeng WANG  Hongbin SUO  Qingwei ZHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2009/09/01
Vol. E92-D  No. 9  pp. 1798-1802
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
automatic speaker verificationcontribution weight re-estimationoptimization
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Automatic Singing Performance Evaluation for Untrained Singers
Chuan CAO  Ming LI  Xiao WU  Hongbin SUO  Jian LIU  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2009/08/01
Vol. E92-D  No. 8  pp. 1596-1600
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Music Information Processing
Keyword: 
automatic/objective evaluationsinging performance assessmentfeature combination
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Using a Kind of Novel Phonotactic Information for SVM Based Speaker Recognition
Xiang ZHANG  Hongbin SUO  Qingwei ZHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2009/04/01
Vol. E92-D  No. 4  pp. 746-749
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
speaker recognitionGaussian mixture modeluniversal background modelsupport vector machine
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Speech Enhancement Using Improved Adaptive Null-Forming in Frequency Domain with Postfilter
Heng ZHANG  Qiang FU  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Publication Date: 2008/12/01
Vol. E91-A  No. 12  pp. 3812-3816
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
speech enhancementadaptive null-formingauditory subbandpostfilterrobust ASR
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Robust Speaker Clustering Using Affinity Propagation
Xiang ZHANG  Ping LU  Hongbin SUO  Qingwei ZHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/11/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 11  pp. 2739-2741
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
speaker clusteringagglomerative hierarchical clusteringaffinity propagationgeneralized likelihood ratio
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Effective Acoustic Modeling for Pronunciation Quality Scoring of Strongly Accented Mandarin Speech
Fengpei GE  Changliang LIU  Jian SHAO  Fuping PAN  Bin DONG  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/10/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 10  pp. 2485-2492
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
CALLspeech recognitionHLDAspeaker-dependent CMNe-learning
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Melody Track Selection Using Discriminative Language Model
Xiao WU  Ming LI  Hongbin SUO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/06/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 6  pp. 1838-1840
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Music Information Processing
Keyword: 
melody stylemelody track selectionmelody extraction
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Development of a Mandarin-English Bilingual Speech Recognition System for Real World Music Retrieval
Qingqing ZHANG  Jielin PAN  Yang LIN  Jian SHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/03/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 3  pp. 514-521
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments)
Category: Acoustic Modeling
Keyword: 
bilingual speech recognitionphone clusteringTCMlog-likelihood measurenon-native adaptationMandarin-English
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Automatic Language Identification with Discriminative Language Characterization Based on SVM
Hongbin SUO  Ming LI  Ping LU  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/03/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 3  pp. 567-575
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments)
Category: Language Identification
Keyword: 
language identificationsupervised speaker clusteringsupport vector machinediscriminative language characterization score vectorpair-wise posterior probability estimation
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A One-Pass Real-Time Decoder Using Memory-Efficient State Network
Jian SHAO  Ta LI  Qingqing ZHANG  Qingwei ZHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/03/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 3  pp. 529-537
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments)
Category: ASR System Architecture
Keyword: 
real-timememory-efficientlayer-dependent beam pruning
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Effects of the Temporal Fine Structure in Different Frequency Bands on Mandarin Tone Perception
Lin YANG  Jianping ZHANG  Jian SHAO  Yonghong YAN 
Publication:   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
Publication Date: 2008/02/01
Vol. E91-D  No. 2  pp. 371-374
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Speech and Hearing
Keyword: 
tone perceptionauditory chimaerasfine structure cues
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