Hisashi Kawai, Tomoki Toda, Junichi Yamagishi, Toshio Hirai, Jinfu Ni, Nobuyuki Nishizawa, Minoru Tsuzaki, and Keiichi Tokuda. Ximera: a concatenative speech synthesis system with large scale corpora. IEICE Trans. Information and Systems, J89-D-II(12):2688-2698, December 2006. [ bib ]

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver Lemon, and Hiroshi Shimodaira. Reinforcement learning of dialogue strategies with hierarchical abstract machines. In Proc. IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), December 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Chie Shimodaira, Hiroshi Shimodaira, and Susumu Kunifuji. A Divergent-Style Learning Support Tool for English Learners Using a Thesaurus Diagram. In Proc. KES2006, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, October 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Junko Tokuno, Mitsuru Nakai, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Shigeki Sagayama, and Masaki Nakagawa. On-line Handwritten Character Recognition Selectively employing Hierarchical Spatial Relationships among Subpatterns. In Proc. IWFHR-10, La Baule, France, October 2006. [ bib | Abstract ]

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver Lemon, and Hiroshi Shimodaira. Learning multi-goal dialogue strategies using reinforcement learning with reduced state-action spaces. In Proc. Interspeech, September 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Sue Fitt and Korin Richmond. Redundancy and productivity in the speech technology lexicon - can we do better? In Proc. Interspeech 2006, September 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Le Zhang and Steve Renals. Phone recognition analysis for trajectory HMM. In Proc. Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, USA, September 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Jithendra Vepa and Simon King. Subjective evaluation of join cost and smoothing methods for unit selection speech synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 14(5):1763-1771, September 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

J. Frankel and S. King. Observation process adaptation for linear dynamic models. Speech Communication, 48(9):1192-1199, September 2006. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]

R. Clark, K. Richmond, V. Strom, and S. King. Multisyn voices for the Blizzard Challenge 2006. In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop (Interspeech Satellite), Pittsburgh, USA, September 2006. (http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2006.html). [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Partha Lal. A comparison of singing evaluation algorithms. In Proc. Interspeech 2006, September 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Robert A. J. Clark and Simon King. Joint prosodic and segmental unit selection speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, USA, September 2006. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]

K. Richmond. A trajectory mixture density network for the acoustic-articulatory inversion mapping. In Proc. Interspeech, Pittsburgh, USA, September 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

G. Murray and S. Renals. Dialogue act compression via pitch contour preservation. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, USA, September 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

G. Murray, S. Renals, J. Moore, and J. Carletta. Incorporating speaker and discourse features into speech summarization. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference - North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Meeting (HLT-NAACL) 2006, New York City, USA, June 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

B. Hachey, G. Murray, and D. Reitter. Dimensionality reduction aids term co-occurrence based multi-document summarization. In Proceedings of ACL Summarization Workshop 2006, Sydney, Australia, June 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

G. Murray, S. Renals, and M. Taboada. Prosodic correlates of rhetorical relations. In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL ACTS Workshop, 2006, New York City, USA, June 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

A. Janin, A. Stolcke, X. Anguera, K. Boakye, Ö. Çetin, J. Frankel, and J. Zheng. The ICSI-SRI spring 2006 meeting recognition system. In Proc. MLMI, Washington DC., May 2006. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]

Peter Bell, Tina Burrows, and Paul Taylor. Adaptation of prosodic phrasing models. In Proc. Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany, May 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

M. Al-Hames, A. Dielmann, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Reiter, S. Renals, G. Rigoll, and D. Zhang. Multimodal integration for meeting group action segmentation and recognition. In S. Renals and S. Bengio, editors, Proc. Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms Workshop (MLMI-05), pages 52-63. Springer, 2006. [ bib | Abstract ]

Steve Renals, Samy Bengio, and Jonathan Fiscus, editors. Machine learning for multimodal interaction (Proceedings of MLMI '06), volume 4299 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 2006. [ bib ]

T. Hain, L. Burget, L. Burget, J. dines, G. Garau, M. Karafiat, M. Lincoln, J. Vepa, and V. Wan. The AMI meeting transcription system: Progress and performance. In Proceedings of the Rich Transcription 2006 Spring Meeting Recognition Evaluation, 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Simon King. Handling variation in speech and language processing. In Keith Brown, editor, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier, 2nd edition, 2006. [ bib ]

Sasha Calhoun. Information Structure and the Prosodic Structure of English: a Probabilistic Relationship. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. [ bib | Abstract ]

Simon King. Language variation in speech technologies. In Keith Brown, editor, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier, 2nd edition, 2006. [ bib ]

P. Hsueh, J. Moore, and S. Renals. Automatic segmentation of multiparty dialogue. In Proc. EACL06, 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Volker Strom, Robert Clark, and Simon King. Expressive prosody for unit-selection speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, Pittsburgh, 2006. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]

Marc Al-Hames, Thomas Hain, Jan Cernocky, Sascha Schreiber, Mannes Poel, Ronald Mueller, Sebastien Marcel, David van Leeuwen, Jean-Marc Odobez, Sileye Ba, Hervé Bourlard, Fabien Cardinaux, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Adam Janin, Petr Motlicek, Stephan Reiter, Steve Renals, Jeroen van Rest, Rutger Rienks, Gerhard Rigoll, Kevin Smith, Andrew Thean, and Pavel Zemcik. Audio-video processing in meetings: Seven questions and current AMI answers. In S. Renals, S. Bengio, and J. G. Fiscus, editors, Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (Proc. MLMI '06), volume 4299 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 24-35. Springer, 2006. [ bib ]

Steve Renals and Samy Bengio, editors. Machine learning for multimodal interaction (Proceedings of MLMI '05), volume 3869 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 2006. [ bib ]