Satellite Workshop at Interspeech 2019:
Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology
Final Programme -Book of abstracts
Key note speech (see below)
Download the book of abstracts here and make a print out
(There will be no printed copy of the book of abstracts at the conference)
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Saturday, September 14, 2019 |
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08.00-10.00 |
Registration with Coffee: Between 8.00 and 8.30 all speakers are kindly asked to upload their presentations to the laptop provided. |
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09.00-09.15 |
Opening ceremony - Welcome address by the organizing committee |
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Morning session 1: Chair: Barbara Schuppler |
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09.15 - 09.30 |
1. Muhr R.: Some fundamentals of pluricentric theory. |
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09.30-10.15 |
2. Keynote Speech: Adda-Decker M.: Variation in spoken pluricentric languages: insights from large corpora and challenges for speech technology |
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10.15-10.35 |
3. Qasim M., Habib T., Mumtaz B., and Urooj S.: Speech emotion recognition for Urdu language |
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10.35-11.00 |
Coffee break |
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Morning session 2: Chair: György Szaszák |
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11.00-11.20 |
4. Niebuhr. O., Brem A., Tegtmeier S., Fischer K., Michalsky J., and Sydow A.: Research and development perspectives based on corpus analyses, automatic assessment tools, and speaker-specific effects |
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11.20-11.40 |
5. El Zarka D. and Hödl P.: Topic or Focus: Do Egyptians interpret prosodic differences in terms of information structure? |
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11.40-12.00 |
6. Ludusan B. and Schuppler B.: Automatic detection of prosodic boundaries in two varieties of German |
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12.00-13.30 |
Lunch break |
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Afternoon-Session 1: Chair: Tania Habib |
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13.30-13.50 |
7. Miller C.: Accommodating pluricentrism in speech technology |
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13.50-14.10 |
8. Szaszák G. and Pierucci P.: Accent adaptation of ASR acoustic models: shall we make it really so complicated? |
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14.10-14.30 |
9. Chakraborty J., Saramah P., and Vijaya S.: Speech recognition and dialect identification systems for Bangladeshi and Indian varieties of Bangla |
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14.30 14.50 |
10. Whettam D., Gargett A., and Dethlefs N.: Cross-dialect speech processing |
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14.50-15.30 |
Coffee break |
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Afternoon-Session 2: Chair: Corey Miller |
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15.30-15.50 |
11. Gorisch J.: Challenges in widening the transcription bottleneck |
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15.50-16.10 |
12. Wu Y., Lamel, L., and Adda-Decker M.: Variation in pluricentric Mandarin using large corpus |
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16.10-16.30 |
13. Sinha S., Bansal S., and Agrawal S. S.: Acoustic phonetic convergence and divergence between Hindi spoken in India and Nepal |
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Panel Discussion: Chair: Rudolf Muhr |
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16.30– 16.45 |
14. Cucchiarini C.: Introduction to the panel discussion |
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16.45– 17.30 |
15. Panel discussion: The role of pluricentricity for speech technology, and the role of speech technology for pluricentric languages. Invited panel participants: Catia Cucchiarini (Dutch Language Union/ Radboud University Nijmegen), Juraj Šimko (University of Helsinki), Michael Stadtschnitzer (Fraunhofer Institute, IAIS), Andrej Žgank (University of Maribor), Shyam Agrawal (Gurgaon, India) |
Keynote Speech
Variation in spoken pluricentric
languages:
insights from large corpora and challenges for speech technologyMartine
Adda Decker
The Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology (LPP, Paris)
madda@limsi.fr
The term 'pluricentric language' refers to languages that are shared by, and have official roles, in more than one country. A major difference between pluricentric languages as compared to other regional varieties lies in their official status level more than in objective and ascertainable linguistic features.Research in automatic speech processing started with a focus on the major languages in
the world, which tend to be pluricentric (English, French, German, Spanish,
Mandarin, Arabic...) and has the aim of developing high-performance
technologies, be they text-to-speech synthesis, automatic speech transcription
and translation, information retrieval, dialog systems, chatbots... These
technologies work best if language-specific resources are available in abundance,
for example high-coverage lexica and pronunciation dictionaries, large corpora
including written material and spoken recordings. A further facilitating factor
is that the country policy actively supports NLP and speech processing research
and development in its language(s). As a consequence, dominant varieties for
which there tends to be the largest amount of resources and the strongest
national support, give rise to the best performing speech technologies, thus
reinforcing their norm-setting power with respect to non-dominant varieties.
Thus, there is a risk for non-dominant varieties to have their different
codified standards overlooked. However,
in recent years, porting speech technologies to non-dominant varieties of
pluricentric languages has been the subject of increasing attention, and there
has been growing attention oriented towards some of the less documented oral
languages. These efforts produce as by-products new language resources thus
providing challenging opportunities for both improved technologies and numerous
linguistic studies.In
this talk I will give an overview of ongoing efforts in research and speech
technology development to deal with pluricentric languages. As my main research
interests are in pronunciation variation across languages and speaking styles,
I will develop this latter issue in more detail taking examples from
pluricentric languages.Martine
Adda-Decker is a French CNRS researcher since 1990. After more than 20 years of
research in multilingual speech recognition with the Spoken Language Processing
group at LIMSI-CNRS (Orsay), she joined the Laboratory of Phonetics and
Phonology (LPP, Paris) in 2010. Her
research interests go to man-machine communication, language and accent identification,
multilingual speech recognition, pronunciation variants, corpus phonetics and
phonology, and large corpus-based studies.
Martine Adda-Decker has authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed
articles in the field. She is currently vice-president of the French-speaking
Speech Communication Association (AFCP), which is one of the ISCA Special Interest Groups.
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