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Improved End-to-End Speech Recognition Using Adaptive Per-Dimensional Learning Rate Methods Xuyang WANG Pengyuan ZHANG Qingwei ZHAO Jielin PAN Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2016/10/01 Vol. E99-D No. 10 pp. 2550-2553 Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Spoken Language Processing) Category: Acoustic modeling Keyword: connectionist temporal classification, adaptive per-dimensional learning rate method, end-to-end ASR,
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Multi-Task Learning in Deep Neural Networks for Mandarin-English Code-Mixing Speech Recognition Mengzhe CHEN Jielin PAN Qingwei ZHAO Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2016/10/01 Vol. E99-D No. 10 pp. 2554-2557 Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Spoken Language Processing) Category: Acoustic modeling Keyword: multi-task learning, deep neural network, Mandarin-English code mixing, speech recognition,
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Speeding up Deep Neural Networks in Speech Recognition with Piecewise Quantized Sigmoidal Activation Function Anhao XING Qingwei ZHAO Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2016/10/01 Vol. E99-D No. 10 pp. 2558-2561 Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Spoken Language Processing) Category: Acoustic modeling Keyword: deep neural networks, speech recognition, activation function, fixed-point quantization,
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Short Text Classification Based on Distributional Representations of Words Chenglong MA Qingwei ZHAO Jielin PAN Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2016/10/01 Vol. E99-D No. 10 pp. 2562-2565 Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Spoken Language Processing) Category: Text classification Keyword: short text classification, word embedding, gaussian model,
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Policy Optimization for Spoken Dialog Management Using Genetic Algorithm Hang REN Qingwei ZHAO Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2016/10/01 Vol. E99-D No. 10 pp. 2499-2507 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Spoken Language Processing) Category: Spoken dialog system Keyword: spoken dialog management, spoken dialog system, genetic algorithm,
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A Hybrid Approach for Reverberation Simulation Risheng XIA Junfeng LI Andrea PRIMAVERA Stefania CECCHI Yôiti SUZUKI Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2015/10/01 Vol. E98-A No. 10 pp. 2101-2108 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Engineering Acoustics Keyword: image-source method, feedback delay network, energy decay relief,
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Discriminative Pronunciation Modeling Using the MPE Criterion Meixu SONG Jielin PAN Qingwei ZHAO Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2015/03/01 Vol. E98-D No. 3 pp. 717-720 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: automatic speech recognition, pronunciation models, discriminative training, Mandarin conversational speech recognition,
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Smoothing Method for Improved Minimum Phone Error Linear Regression Yaohui QI Fuping PAN Fengpei GE Qingwei ZHAO Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2014/08/01 Vol. E97-D No. 8 pp. 2105-2113 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: speaker adaptation (SA), maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR), maximum a posteriori linear regression (MAPLR), minimum phone error linear regression (MPELR), discriminative maximum a posteriori linear regression (DMAPLR),
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Discriminative Approach to Build Hybrid Vocabulary for Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition of Agglutinative Languages Xin LI Jielin PAN Qingwei ZHAO Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2013/11/01 Vol. E96-D No. 11 pp. 2478-2482 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: agglutinative languages, speech recognition, sub-words, discriminative learning, hybrid system,
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Speaker Recognition Using Sparse Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis Hai YANG Yunfei XU Qinwei ZHAO Ruohua ZHOU Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2013/10/01 Vol. E96-A No. 10 pp. 1938-1945 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Sparsity-aware Signal Processing) Category: Keyword: speaker recognition, i-vectors, sparse representation, laplace prior,
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Fuzzy Matching of Semantic Class in Chinese Spoken Language Understanding Yanling LI Qingwei ZHAO Yonghong YAN
Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Publication Date: 2013/08/01 Vol. E96-D No. 8 pp. 1845-1852 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Natural Language Processing Keyword: fuzzy matching, Conditional Random Field (CRF), Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), Named Entity Recognition (NER), similarity function,
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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 assessment, automatic scoring, distinctiveness training, maximum 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: CALL, automatic assessment, forced alignment, formant,
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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 verification, neighborhood-preserving embedding, total variability, support vector machine, cosine 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 recognition, noise robustness, critical bandwidth, frequency masking, temporal 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 array, phase difference, magnitude squared coherence, spectral 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 watermarking, quantization 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 recognition, non-uniform subband processing, spectral feature, prosodic feature,
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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 speech, robust speech recognition, F-Ratio, subband design, feature optimization,
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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: OOV, speech recognition, confidence measure, entropy information, phoneme-level posterior,
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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: CALL, reading tutor, reading miscues, LVCSR, multiple 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 verification, contribution weight re-estimation, optimization,
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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 evaluation, singing performance assessment, feature 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 recognition, Gaussian mixture model, universal background model, support 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 enhancement, adaptive null-forming, auditory subband, postfilter, robust 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 clustering, agglomerative hierarchical clustering, affinity propagation, generalized 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: CALL, speech recognition, HLDA, speaker-dependent CMN, e-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 style, melody track selection, melody extraction,
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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-time, memory-efficient, layer-dependent beam pruning,
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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 identification, supervised speaker clustering, support vector machine, discriminative language characterization score vector, pair-wise posterior probability estimation,
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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 recognition, phone clustering, TCM, log-likelihood measure, non-native adaptation, Mandarin-English,
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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 perception, auditory chimaeras, fine structure cues,
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