Practice Talks for Interspeech 2006

Speaker 1: Brian Langner, LTI
Title: Generating Time-Constraint Audio Presentations of Structured Information 


Speaker 2: Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, LTI
Title: Example-Based Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Thai

Abstract:
Several characteristics of the Thai writing system make Thai 
grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion very challenging. In this 
paper we propose an Example-Based Grapheme-to-Phoneme conversion 
approach. It generates the pronunciation of a word by selecting, 
modifying and combining pronunciations of syllables from a training 
corpus. The best system achieves 80.99% word accuracy and 94.19% phone 
accuracy which significantly outperform previous approaches for Thai.

Paper online: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~paisarn/papers/interspeech06-1.pdf 

Speaker 3: Stan (Szu-Chen) Jou, LTI
Title: Towards Continuous Speech Recognition Using Surface Electromyography