8:30-9:30 Keynote by

Richard C. Hendriks

on

"

Optimizing Speech Intelligibility in Noisy Environments Using a Simple Model of Communication"

9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:00 Oral Session: Speech Processing for ear-mounted devices

       

Performance Comparison of Bilateral and Binaural MVDR-based Noise Reduction Algorithms in the Presence of DOA Estimation Errors

        Daniel Marquardt and Simon Doclo, Universität Oldenburg

       

Active Cancellation of the Occlusion Effect in Hearing Aids by Time Invariant Robust Feedback

        Stefan Liebich, Peter Jax and Peter Vary, RWTH Aachen

       

A Model-Based Placement Strategy for a Nearby External Microphone for Speech Enhancement in Hearing Aids

        Dianna Yee¹, Rainer Martin², Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi¹ and Henning Puder^{1
        1}Sivantos GmbH, ²Ruhr-Universität Bochum

       

On the Use of Beamforming Approaches for Binaural Speaker Localization

        Mehdi Zohourian, Gerald Enzner and Rainer Martin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

11:00 - 12:30 Poster Session: Speech Processing for ear-mounted devices

       

Probabilistic Spatial Filter Estimation for Multi-Channel Signal Enhancement in Hearing Aids

        Hendrik Kayser and Jörn Anemüller, Universität Oldenburg

        Development of a Sound Coding Strategy based on a Deep Recurrent Neural Network for Monaural Source Separation in Cochlear Implants

        Waldo Nogueira¹, Tom Gajęcki², Benjamin Krüger¹, Jordi Janer² and Andreas Büchner¹,
        ¹Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, ²Universitat Pompeu Fabra

       

On The Impact of Quantization on Binaural MVDR Beamforming

        Jamal Amini¹, Richard C. Hendriks¹, Richard Heusdens¹, Meng Guo² and Jesper Jensen²,
        ¹TU Delft, ²Aalborg University

       

A Robust Null-Steering Beamformer for Acoustic Feedback Cancellation for a Multi-Microphone Earpiece

        Henning Schepker¹, Linh Tran², Sven Nordholm² and Simon Doclo¹, 
        ¹Universität Oldenburg, ²Curtin University

       

Two-channel Coherence-Based Own Voice Detection for Privacy-aware Long-term Acoustic Measurements

        Joerg Bitzer and Sven Kissner, Jade Hochschule

11:00 - 12:30 Poster Session: Quality Evaluation

       

Method for analyzing personalized telephone speech in quiet and noisy environments in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners 

        Tobias Bruns¹, Dirk Oetting¹, Markus Meis² and Jan Rennies¹,
        ¹Fraunhofer IDMT, ²Hörzentrum Oldenburg GmbH

       

Design of Double Talk Sequences in Different Languages to Harmonize Third Party Listening Test Results

        Frank Kettler, Silvia Poschen and Radi Serafimov, HEAD acoustics GmbH

       

Towards VoIP quality testing with real-life devices and degradations

        Michal Soloducha¹, Alexander Raake¹, Frank Kettler², Nils Rohrer², Eva Parotat³, Marcel Wältermann³, Sven Trevisany³ and Peter Voigt³,
        ¹TU Ilmenau, ²HEAD acoustics GmbH, ³AVM GmbH

       

Instrumental speech and noise quality assessment for super-wideband and fullband transmission

        Jan Reimes and H. W. Gierlich, HEAD acoustics GmbH

       

Emotion Intelligibility within Codec-Compressed and Reduced Bandwith Speech

        Ingo Siegert¹, Alicia Flores Lotz¹, Michael Maruschke², Jokisch Oliver² and Andreas Wendemuth¹, 
        ¹Otto von Guericke Universität, ²Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig

       

Voice and Speech Assessment From Telephone Recordings Using Prosodic Analysis Based on mu-Law-Companded Features

        Tino Haderlein, Anne Schützenberger, Michael Döllinger and Elmar Nöth, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

       

Evaluation of Communication Systems for Full-Face Firefighter Masks

        Michael Brodersen¹, Moritz Juengling² and Gerhard Schmidt²,
        ¹Dräger Safety AG, ²Universität Kiel

11:00 - 12:30 Poster Session: Speech & Diagnostics

       

Large Sleepy Reading Corpus (LSRC): Applying Read Speech for Detecting Sleepiness

        Jarek Krajewski¹, Christopher Monschau², Raphael Titt³, Martin Golz⁴, David Sommer⁴ and Sebastian Schnieder¹,
        ¹Bergische Universität Wuppertal, ²Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln, ³Universität Tübingen, ⁴FH Schmalkalden

        

An Analysis of Perplexity to Reveal the Effects of Alzheimer's Disease on Language 

        Sebastian Wankerl, Elmar Nöth and Stefan Evert, Universität Erlangen

        

Gender–dependent GMM–UBM for tracking Parkinson’s disease progression from speech

        Tomás Arias¹, Juan Camilo Vasquez¹, Juan Rafael Orozco¹, Jesús Francisco Vargas¹, Tino Haderlein² and Elmar Nöth², 
        ¹Universidad de Antioquia, ²Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen

        

Towards Cross-lingual Automatic Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Condition in Children's Voices

        Maximilian Schmitt¹, Erik Marchi², Fabien Ringeval³ and Björn Schuller¹,
        ¹Universität Passau, ²Universität München, ³Université Grenoble Alpes

       

Acoustic and grammatical characterization of crisis-related babblings in Italian persons undergoing Courts-of-Law examinations

        Licia Sbattella, Roberto Tedesco and Sonia Cenceschi, Politecnico di Milano

        

Non-invasive photoglottography for use in the lab and the field

        Eike Suthau¹, Peter Birkholz¹, Alexander Mainka¹ and Adrian P. Simpson², 
        ¹TU Dresden, ²Universität Jena

        

On the Role of the Limbic Brain System in Recognizing Emotions From Paralinguistic Speech Features

        Sascha Frühholz, Universität Zürich

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:30 Oral Session: Quality Evaluation

        

Non-Intrusive Estimation Model for the Speech-Quality Dimension Loudness

        Friedemann Köster, Victor Cercos-Llombart, Gabriel Mittag and Sebastian Möller, TU Berlin

        

Predicting the quality of processed speech by combining modulation based features and model-trees

        Benjamin Cauchi¹, Joao F. Santos², Kai Siedenburg³, Tiago H. Falk², Patrick A. Naylor⁴, Simon Doclo³ and Stefan Goetze¹,
        ¹Fraunhofer IDMT, ²Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, ³Universität Oldenburg, ⁴Imperial College London

        

A Paired-Comparison Listening Test for Collecting Voice Likability Scores

        Laura Fernández Gallardo, TU Berlin

        

Objective Assessment of Artificial Speech Bandwidth Extension Approaches

        Johannes Abel¹, Magdalena Kaniewska², Cyril Guillaumé², Wouter Tirry² and Tim Fingscheidt¹,
        ¹TU Braunschweig, ²NXP Software

14:30 - 15:30 Oral Session: Speech & Diagnostics

       

A Bag-of-Audio-Words Approach for Snore Sounds’ Excitation Localisation

        Maximilian Schmitt¹, Christoph Janott², Kun Qian¹, Vedhas Pandit¹, Clemens Heiser², Werner Hemmert² and Björn Schuller¹,
        1 Universität Passau, 2 TU München

         

Wavelet-Based Time-Frequency Representations for Automatic Recognition of Emotions from Speech

        Juan Camilo Vasquez-Correa¹, Tomas Arias-Vergara¹, Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave¹, Jesus Francisco Vargas Bonilla¹ and Elmar Nöth²,
        ¹Universidad de Antioquia, ²Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

        

Detection of Intra-Personal Development of Cognitive Impairment From Conversational Speech

        Jochen Weiner and Tanja Schultz, Universität Bremen

        

Parkinson-Speech Analysis: Methods and Aims

        Christin Baasch, Gerhard Schmidt, Ulrich Heute, Adelheid Nebel and Günther Deuschl,
        Universität Kiel

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:45 Excursion Town & HNF Computer Museum

19:00 - 23:00 Dinner Gut Ringelsbruch

8:30-9:30 Keynote by

Hynek Hermansky

on "Multistream Recognition of Speech"

9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:30 Oral Session: Speech Enhancement in Dynamic Acoustic Scenarios

        

Time Domain Approach for Listening Enhancement in Noisy Environments

        Markus Niermann, Christian Thierfeld, Peter Jax and Peter Vary, RWTH Aachen

        

Multiframe Echo Suppression Based on Orthogonal Signal Decompositions

        Hai Huang¹, Christian Hofmann², Walter Kellermann², Jingdong Chen¹ and Jacob Benesty³,
        ¹Northwestern Polytechnical University, ²Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen, ³University of Quebec

        

Combined Single-Microphone Wiener and MVDR Filtering based on Speech Interframe Correlations and Speech Presence Probability

        Dörte Fischer¹, Timo Gerkmann¹, Simon Doclo¹ and Emanuel A. P. Habets²,
        ¹Universität Oldenburg, ²International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

        

A Priori SNR Estimation Using Weibull Mixture Model

        Aleksej Chinaev, Jens Heitkaemper and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Universität Paderborn

        Maximum-Likelihood Approach to Multichannel-Wiener-Postfiltering for Wind-Noise 

Reduction

        Philipp Thüne and Gerald Enzner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

        

Kurtosis-Controlled Babble Noise Suppression

        Simon Graf¹, Tobias Herbig¹, Markus Buck¹ and Gerhard Schmidt^{2
        1} Nuance Communications Deutschland GmbH, ² Universität Kiel

11:30 - 13:00 Poster Session: Speech Enhancement in Dynamic Acoustic Scenarios

        

Combined Linear and Nonlinear Residual Echo Suppression Using a Deficient Distortion Model - A Proof of Concept

        Ingo Schalk-Schupp¹, Friedrich Faubel¹, Markus Buck¹ and Andreas Wendemuth²,
        ¹ Nuance Communications Deutschland GmbH, ² Otto-von-Guericke Universität

        

On the Performance of LPTV Coherence Reduction Methods in the Sub-band Domain for Stereophonic Acoustic Echo Cancellation

        Maria Luis Valero and Emanuel A. P. Habets, International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

        

Spectral Envelope Statistics for Source Modelling in Speech Enhancement

        Sneha Das, Alexandra Craciun, Tobias Jähnel and Tom Bäckström, International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

        

A Practical Beamformer-Postfilter System for Microphone Arrays on Seat Belts

        Mohammed Krini¹, Zafar-Baig Mirza² and Klaus Rodemer^{2
        1}Hochschule Aschaffenburg, ²Paragon AG

        

HMM Embedded Conditional Vector Estimation Applied to Noisy Line Spectral Frequencies

        André Klein and Stefan Feldes, Hochschule Mannheim

        

Acoustic Feedback Compensation with Reverb-based Stepsize Control for In-car      Communication Systems

        Philipp Bulling¹, Klaus Linhard¹, Arthur Wolf¹ and Gerhard Schmidt^{2,
        1}Daimler AG, ²Universität Kiel

        

Noise Reduction in the Time Domain Using ARMA Filtering

        Florian Heese, Richard Steinbiss, Peter Jax and Peter Vary, RWTH Aachen

11:30 - 13:00 Poster Session: Efficient Modeling ASR

        

Phoneme Boundary Detection using Deep Bidirectional LSTMs

        Jörg Franke¹, Markus Müller¹, Fatima Hamlaoui², Sebastian Stüker¹ and Alex Waibel^{1
        1}Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, ²Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

        

Training Deep Neural Networks for Reverberation Robust Speech Recognition

        Marvin Ritter, Markus Müller, Sebastian Stüker, Florian Metze and Alex Waibel
        Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

11:30 - 13:00 Poster Session: Show & Tell

        

Binaural Noise Reduction using Raspberry Pi

        Masoumeh Azarpour and Gerald Enzner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

        

3PASS & HHP IV - up-to-date speech quality tests of terminals

        Christian Schüring, HEAD acoustics GmbH

        

Real-time Noise Reduction and Speech Dereverberation Using a Small Microphone Array

        Benjamin Cauchi, Ante Jukic, Feifei Xiong, Jan Wellman, Simon Doclo and Stefan Goetze, Fraunhofer IDMT

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 Oral Session: Efficient Modeling ASR

        

Robust Online Multi-Channel Speech Recognition

        Markus Kitza¹, Jahn Heymann², Albert Zeyer¹, Ralf Schlüter¹ and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach^{2
        1}RWTH Aachen, ²Universität Paderborn

        

Modeling of Phone Features for Phoneme Perception

        Harald Höge, Universität der Bundeswehr München

        

Language Feature Vectors for Resource Constraint Speech Recognition

        Markus Müller, Sebastian Stüker and Alex Waibel, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

        

Uncertainty Decoding Using a Sampling Strategy Based on the Eigenvalue Decomposition

        Christian Huemmer, Philipp Stadter and Walter Kellermann, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

        

Growing a Deep Neural Network Acoustic Model with Singular Value Decomposition

        Kevin Kilgour, Igor Tseyzer, Thai Son Nguyen, Sebastian Stüker and Alex Waibel
        Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

        

Rank based Decoding for Improved DNN/HMM Hybrid Acoustic Models in the EML Transcription Platform

        Volker Fischer and Siegfried Kunzmann, European Media Laboratory GmbH

15:30 - 15:45 Closing Session

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break