Major Publications of Speech Media Labs. (Kyoto Univ.)

• Year 2001
• Year 2000
• Year 1999
• Year 1998

• T.Kawahara, A.Lee, T.Kobayashi, K.Takeda, N.Minematsu, S.Sagayama, K.Itou, A.Ito, M.Yamamoto, A.Yamada, T.Utsuro, and K.Shikano.
  Free software toolkit for Japanese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition.
  Proc. ICSLP, Vol.4, pp.476--479, 2000. PDF file
• A.Lee, T.Kawahara, and S.Doshita.
  An Efficient Two-Pass Search Algorithm using Word Trellis Index.
  Proc. ICSLP, pp.1831--1834, 1998. PDF file
• A.Lee, T.Kawahara, K.Takeda, and K.Shikano.
  A New Phonetic Tied-Mixture Model for Efficient Decoding.
  Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.1269--1272, 2000. PDF file
• A.Lee, T.Kawahara, and K.Shikano.
  Gaussian Mixture Selection using Context-Independent HMM
  Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.69--72, 2001. PDF file
• H.Nanjo, A.Lee, and T.Kawahara.
  Automatic diagnosis of recognition errors in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems.
  Proc. ICSLP, Vol.2, pp.1027--1030, 2000. PDF file

Spontaneous and Conversational Speech Recognition

• H.Nanjo and T.Kawahara.
  Speaking-rate dependent decoding and adaptation for spontaneous lecture speech recognition.
  Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, p. (to appear), 2002. PDF file
• T.Kawahara and M.Hasegawa
  Automatic indexing of lecture speech by extracting topic-independent discourse markers.
  Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, p. (to appear), 2002. PDF file
• T.Kawahara, H.Nanjo, and S.Furui.
  Automatic transcription of spontaneous lecture speech.
  Proc. IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2001. PDF file
• K.Kato, H.Nanjo, and T.Kawahara.
  Automatic transcription of lecture speech using topic-independent language modeling.
  Proc. ICSLP, Vol.1, pp.162--165, 2000. PDF file

Key-Phrase Detection and Verification

• T.Kawahara and S.Doshita.
  Topic Independent Language Model for Key-Phrase Detection and Verification.
  Proc. IEEE-ICASSP, pp.685--688, 1999. PDF file
• T.Kawahara, C.-H.Lee, and B.-H.Juang.
  Flexible Speech Understanding based on Combined Key-Phrase Detection and Verification.
  IEEE Trans. Speech \& Audio Process., Vol.6, No.6, pp.558--568, 1998. PDF file

Spoken Dialogue System

• K.Komatani and T.Kawahara.
  Generating effective confirmation and guidance using two-level confidence measures for dialogue systems.
  Proc. ICSLP, Vol.2, pp.648--651, 2000. PDF file
• K.Komatani, K.Tanaka, H.Kashima, and T.Kawahara.
  Domain-independent spoken dialogue platform using key-phrase spotting based on combined language model.
  Proc. EUROSPEECH, pp.1319--1322, 2001. PDF file

CALL (Computer Aided Language Learning)

• Y.Tsubota, T.Kawahara, and M.Dantsuji.
  {CALL} system for {Japanese} students of {English} using formant structure estimation and pronunciation error prediction.
  {InSTIL 2002 Advanced Workshop}, 2002. PDF file
• K.Imoto, M.Dantsuji, and T.Kawahara.
  Modelling of the perception of English sentence stress for computer-assisted language learning.
  Proc. ICSLP, Vol.3, pp.175--178, 2000. PDF file
• A.Raux and T.Kawahara.
  Optimizing computer-assisted pronunciation instruction by selecting relevant training topics.
  {InSTIL 2002 Advanced Workshop}, 2002. PDF file
• C.H.Jo, T.Kawahara, S.Doshita and M.Dantsuji.
  Automatic Pronunciation Error Detection and Guidance for Foreign Language Learning.
  Proc. ICSLP, pp.2639--2642, 1998. PDF file

Multi-Modal Interface

• T.Kawahara, K.Tanaka and S.Doshita.
  Virtual fitting room with spoken dialogue interface.
  Proc. ESCA workshop on Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems, pp.5--8, 1999. PDF file

Prosodic Analysis

• F.M.Quimbo, T.Kawahara and S.Doshita.
  Prosodic Analysis of Fillers and Self-Repair in Japanese Speech.
  Proc. ICSLP, pp.3313--3316, 1998. PDF file