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12thAnnual Conference of the
International Speech Communication Association

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 Interspeech 2011 Florence

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Best Student Paper Award List

Each year ISCA selects up to three best student papers from INTERSPEECH to honor with a Best Student Paper Award. The winners are announced during the closing ceremony of the conference.
This year's shortlist of papers is below. The final decisions will be made based on the papers themselves and their presentations at the conference.

Sunday

Phoneme Level Non-Native Pronunciation Analysis by an Auditory Model-based Native Assessment Scheme
Christos Koniaris, and Olov Engwall
Sun-Ses2-P1 - Second Language Acquisition, Development and Learning I, 13:30-15:30, Sunday

Low-Frequency Bandwidth Extension of Telephone Speech Using Sinusoidal Synthesis and Gaussian Mixture Model
Hannu Pulakka, Ulpu Remes, Santeri Yrttiaho, Kalle Palomäki, Mikko Kurimo, and Paavo Alku
Sun-Ses2-P2 - Speech Enhancement, 13:30-15:30, Sunday

Prediction of binaural intelligiblity level differences in reverberation
Jan Rennies, Thomas Brand, and Birger Kollmeier
Sun-Ses2-O2 - Speech perception - Speech Intelligibility, 14:10-14:30, Sunday

Monday     

Factored Translation Models for improving a Speech into Sign Language Translation System
Verónica López-Ludena, Rubén San-Segundo, Ricardo Cordoba, Javier Ferreiros, Juan Manuel Montero, and  José Manuel Pardo
Mon-Ses1-P2 - Applications for Learning, Education, Aged and Handicapped Persons, 10:00-12:00, Monday

A versatile Gaussian splitting approach to non-linear state estimation and its application to noise-robust ASR
Volker Leutnant , Alexander Krueger , and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach
Mon-Ses1-P3 - Robust Speech Recognition I, 10:00-12:00, Monday

Tuesday

One-to-Many Voice Conversion Based on Tensor Representation of Speaker Space
Daisuke Saito, Keisuke Yamamoto, Nobuaki Minematsu, and Keikichi Hirose
Tue-Ses1-O3 - Voice Conversion, 10:00-10:20, Tuesday

Modelling Novelty Preference in Word Learning
Maarten Versteegh, Louis ten Bosch, and Lou Boves
Tue-Ses2-O2 - First Language Acquisition, 14:30-14:50, Tuesday

Using Imitation to learn Infant-Adult Acoustic Mappings
G Ananthakrishnan, and Giampiero Salvi
Tue-Ses2-O2 - First Language Acquisition, 14:50-15:10, Tuesday

Language Recognition in iVectors Space
David Martínez , Oldrich Plchot , Lukas Burget, Ondrej Glembek, and Pavel Matejka
Tue-Ses3-O1 - Language Identification, 17:20-17:40, Tuesday

Wednesday

Structured Support Vector Machines for Noise Robust Continuous Speech Recognition
Shi-Xiong Zhang, and M.J.F. Gales
Wed-Ses1-O3 - ASR - New Paradigms, 10:20-10:40, Wednesday

Information Bottleneck Features for HMM/GMM Speaker Diarization of Meetings Recordings
Sree Harsha Yella, and Fabio Valente
Wed-Ses1-O1 - Speaker Diarization I, 11:20-11:40, Wednesday

Does it Groove or Does it Stumble - Automatic Classification of Alcoholic Intoxiation Using Prosodic Features
Florian Hönig, and Anton Batliner
Wed-Ses1-S1 - Speaker State Challenge - Intoxication and Sleepiness I, 12:00-12:20, Wednesday

A study on speaker normalized MLP features in LVCSR
Zoltán Tüske, Christian Plahl, and  Ralf Schlüter
Wed-Ses2-O3 - Adaptation for ASR, 14:10-14:30, Wednesday