[1]    Carlos Busso, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Analysis of emotionally salient aspects of fundamental frequency for emotion detection. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, In press, 2008.

[2]    Jorge Silva and Shrikanth Narayanan. Discriminative Wavelet Packet Filter Bank Selection for Pattern Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, In press, 2008.

[3]    Erik Bresch and Shrikanth Narayanan. Region segmentation in the frequency domain applied to upper airway real-time magnetic resonance images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, In press, 2008.

[4]    Abhinav Sethy, Panayiotis Georgiou, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, and Shrikanth Narayanan. An iterative relative entropy minimization based data selection approach for n-gram model adaptation. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, In press, 2008.

[5]    Vivek Rangarajan, Srinivas Bangalore, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Combining lexical, syntactic and prosodic cues for improved online dialog act tagging. Computer, Speech, and Language, In press, 2008.

[6]    Serdar Yildirim and Shrikanth Narayanan. Automatic Detection of Disfluency Boundaries in Spontaneous Speech of Children Using Audio-Visual Information. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, In press, 2008.

[7]    Carlos Busso, Murtaza Bulut, Chi-Chun Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Emily Mower, Samuel Kim, Jeannette Chang, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. IEMOCAP: Interactive emotional dyadic motion capture database. Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation, In press, 2008.

[8]    Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Shrikanth Narayanan. Unsupervised Adaptation of Categorical Prosody Models for Prosody Labeling and Speech Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, In press, 2008.

[9]    Kyu Jeong Han, Samuel Kim, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Strategies to Improve the Robustness of Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering under Data Source Variation for Speaker Diarization. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, In press, 2008.

[10]    Erik Bresch, Yoon-Chul Kim, Krishna Nayak, Dani Byrd, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Seeing Speech: Capturing Vocal Tract Shaping using Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 25(3):123–132, May 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Bresch-IEEE-SPM-2008.pdf.

[11]    Jorge Silva and Shrikanth Narayanan. Upper Bound Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Transient Hidden Markov Models. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 56(9), Sept 2008.

[12]    Murtaza Bulut and Shrikanth Narayanan. Analysis of Effects of F0 Modifications on Emotional Speech. J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 123(6):4547–4558, Jun 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Bulut_Narayanan_JASA2008.pdf.

[13]    Chuping Liu, John Galvin, Qian-Jie Fu, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Effect of spectral normalization on different talker speech recognition by cochlear implant users. J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 123(5):2836–2847, May 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/chuping_JASA08.pdf.

[14]    Vivek Rangarajan, Srinivas Bangalore, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Exploiting acoustic and syntactic features for automatic prosody labeling in a maximum entropy framework. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, 16(4):797–811, May 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Vivek_IEEE_trans_08.pdf.

[15]    Erdem Unal, Elaine Chew, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Challenging Uncertainty in Query by Humming Systems: A fingerprinting approach. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, 16(2):359–371, Feb 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Erdem-TASLP-2008.pdf.

[16]    Joseph Tepperman and Shrikanth Narayanan. Using articulatory representations to detect segmental errors in nonnative pronunciation. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, 16(1):8–22, Jan 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Tepperman-TSALP-2008.pdf.

[17]    Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Shrikanth Narayanan. Automatic Prosody Labeling using Acoustic, Lexical, and Syntactic Evidence. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, 16(1):216–228, Jan 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Shankar-TSALP-2008.pdf.

[18]    Chartchai Meesookho, Urbashi Mitra, and Shrikanth Narayanan. On Energy-Based Acoustic Source Localization for Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 56(1):365–377, Jan 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Meesokho-TSP2008.pdf.

[19]    Carlos Busso and Shrikanth Narayanan. Interrelation between Speech and Facial Gestures in Emotional Utterances: A single subject study. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, 15(8):2331–2347, Nov 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Busso-Narayanan-IEEETASLP-Nov2007.pdf.

[20]    Dagen Wang and Shrikanth Narayanan. Robust speech rate estimation for spontaneous speech. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, 15(8):2190–2201, Nov 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Wang-Narayanan-IEEETASLP-Nov2007.pdf.

[21]    Michael Grimm, Emily Mower, Kristian Kroschel, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Primitives based estimation and evaluation of emotions in speech. Speech Communication, 49:787–800, Nov 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/spcom_grimm.pdf.

[22]    Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Michael Grimm, Ulrich Neumann, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Rigid Head Motion in Expressive Speech Animation: Analysis and Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, 15(3):1075–1086, Mar 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Busso_2007.pdf.

[23]    Dagen Wang and Shrikanth Narayanan. An Acoustic Measure For Word Prominence In Spontaneous Speech”. IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing, 15(2):690–701, Feb 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Wang-Narayanan-TASLP-2007.pdf.

[24]    Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth Narayanan. Automatic Acoustic Synthesis of Human-Like Laughter. J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 121(1):527–535, Jan 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Shiva-JAS000527.pdf.

[25]    Soonil Kwon and Shrikanth Narayanan. Robust Speaker Identification based on Selective Use of Feature Vectors. Pattern Recognition Letters, 28(1):85–89, Jan 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Soonil_PRL2007.pdf.

[26]    Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann, J.P. Lewis, Tae-Yong Kim, Murtaza Bulut, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Expressive Facial Animation Synthesis by Learning Speech Co-Articulation and Expression Spaces. IEEE Transactions On Visualization And Computer Graphics, 12(6):1523–1534, Nov/Dec 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/zhigang_TVCG_expressive_face.pdf.

[27]    Erik Bresch, Jon Nielsen, Krishna Nayak, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Synchronized and noise-robust audio recordings during realtime MRI scans. J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 120(4):1791–1794, Sept 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/bresch_nielsen_jasa06.pdf.

[28]    Abhinav Sethy, Shrikanth Narayanan, and S. Parthasarathy. A Split Lexicon Approach for Improved Recognition of Spoken Names. Speech Communication, 48(9):1126–1136, Sept 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Sethy-SpeechComm2006.pdf.

[29]    Naveen Srinivasamurthy, Antonio Ortega, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Efficient scalable encoding for Distributed Speech Recognition. Speech Communication, 48(8):888–902, Aug 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/NaveenSpecom2006.pdf.

[30]    Jorge Silva and Shrikanth Narayanan. Average Divergence Distance as a Statistical Discrimination Measure for Hidden Markov Models. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 14:890–906, May 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Silva_Narayanan_ieee_2004_double.pdf.

[31]    Soonil Kwon and Shrikanth Narayanan. Unsupervised multiple speaker indexing using generic models. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13(5):1004–1013, Sept 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/soonil_sap.pdf.

[32]    Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Natural Head Motion Synthesis driven by Acoustic Prosody Features. Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 16:283–290, July 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Busso_CAVW05.pdf.

[33]    Erdem Unal, Shrikanth Narayanan, Maverick H.-H. Shih, Elaine Chew, and C.-C. Jay Kuo. Creating Data Resources for Designing User-centric Front-ends for Query by Humming Systems. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Special Issue on Music Information Retrieval, 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ErdemUnal.pdf.

[34]    Chul Min Lee and Shrikanth Narayanan. Towards detecting emotions in spoken dialogs. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13(2):293–302, 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/emotion-cml-journal.pdf.

[35]    A. Potamianos, S. Narayanan, and G. Riccardi. Adaptive categorical understanding for spoken dialog systems. IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, 13(3):321–329, May 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/PoNaRi_understand_Review.pdf.

[36]    Athanasios Mouchtaris, Shrikanth Narayanan, and Chris Kyriakakis. Multichannel audio synthesis by subband-based spectral conversion and parameter adaptation. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13(2):263–274, 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/thanasis-SAP2002-submit.pdf.

[37]    Shrikanth Narayanan, Krishna Nayak, Sungbok Lee, Abhinav Sethy, and Dani Byrd. An approach to real-time magnetic resonance imaging for speech production. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115:1771–1776, 2004. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/rtmri_jasa2004.pdf.

[38]    Ying Li, Shrikanth Narayanan, and C.-C. Jay Kuo. Content-based Movie Analysis and Indexing Based on AudioVisual Cues. IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 14(8):1073–1085, 2004. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/CSVT2002YingLi.pdf.

[39]    Ying Li, Shrikanth Narayanan, and C.-C. Jay Kuo. Adaptive speaker identification with audiovisual cues for movie content analysis. Pattern Recognition Letters (Special Issue on Recent Trends in Video Computing), 25(7):777–791, 2004. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Pattern-reco-letters-yingli.pdf.

[40]    Athanasios Mouchtaris, Shrikanth Narayanan, and Chris Kyriakakis. Virtual microphones for multichannel audio resynthesis. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (Special Issue on Digital Audio for Multimedia Communications), 10:968–979, Sept. 2003. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/mouchtar_jasp.pdf.

[41]    A. Potamianos and S. Narayanan. Robust recognition of children’s speech. IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, 11:603–616, Nov. 2003. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/PoNa_childasr_Review.pdf.

[42]    S. Narayanan and A. Potamianos. Creating conversational interfaces for children. IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, 10(2):65–78, 2003. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/IEEESAP_NaPo_2002.pdf.

[43]    C. Y. Espy-Wilson, S. E. Boyce, M. T. T. Jackson, S. Narayanan, and A. Alwan. Acoustic Modeling of the American English /r/. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 108(1):343–356, 2000. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/AEr_JASAjuly2000.pdf.

[44]    S. Narayanan and A. Alwan. Noise source models for fricative consonants. IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, 8(3):328–344, Apr. 2000. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/NaAl_fricsource_SAP_May2000.pdf.

[45]    D. Byrd, A. Kaun, S. Narayanan, and E. Saltzman. Phrasal signatures in articulation. Papers in Laboratory Phonology V, Cambridge University Press, New York, Ch.6, Editors M. Broe and J. Pierrehumbert:70–87, 1999. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Byrd_LPVpreprint.pdf.

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[51]    S. S. Narayanan and A. A. Alwan. A nonlinear dynamical systems analysis of fricative consonants. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,, 97:2511–2524, Apr. 1995. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/nonlinear.pdf.gz.

[1]    Angeliki Metallinou, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Audio-visual emotion recognition using gaussian mixture models for face and voice. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Berkeley, CA, Dec 2008.

[2]    Emily Mower, Sungbok Lee, Maja Mataric, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Selection of emotionally salient audio-visual features for modeling human evaluations of synthetic character emotion displays. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Berkeley, CA, Dec 2008.

[3]    Viktor Rozgic, Kyu Jeong Han, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Multimodal speaker segmentation in presence of overlapped speech segments. In Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval, Berkeley, CA, Dec 2008.

[4]    Joseph Tepperman, Matteo Gerosa, and Shrikanth Narayanan. A generative model for scoring children’s reading comprehension. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, Chania, Greece, Oct 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/joe_cci08.pdf.

[5]    Matthew Black, Jeannette Chang, and Shrikanth Narayanan. An empirical analysis of user uncertainty in problem-solving child-machine interactions. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, Chania, Greece, Oct 2008.

[6]    Vassiliki Farantouri, Alexandros Potamianos, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Linguistic analysis of spontaneous children speech. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, Chania, Greece, Oct 2008.

[7]    Kyu Jeong Han Panayiotis G. Georgiou and Shrikanth Narayanan. The sail speaker diarization system for analysis of spontaneous meetings. In Proceedings of MMSP, Cairns, Australia, Oct 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/kyu_mmsp08.pdf.

[8]    Samuel Kim and Shrikanth Narayanan. Dynamic chroma feature vectors with applications to cover song identification. In Proceedings of MMSP, Cairns, Australia, Oct 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/sam_mmsp08.pdf.

[9]    Carlos Busso and Shrikanth Narayanan. The expression and perception of emotions: Comparing assessments of self versus others. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/busso_expression_interspeech08.pdf.

[10]    Carlos Busso and Shrikanth Narayanan. Scripted dialogs versus improvisation: Lessons learned about emotional elicitation techniques from the iemocap database. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/busso_iemocap_interspeech08.pdf.

[11]    Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Factored translation models for enriching spoken language translation with prosody. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/vivek_interspeech08.pdf.

[12]    Ozlem Kalinli and Shrikanth Narayanan. Combining task-dependent information with auditory attention cues for prominence detection in speech. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008.

[13]    Chi-Chun Lee, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. An analysis of multimodal cues of interruption in dyadic spoken interactions. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/jeremy_interspeech08.pdf.

[14]    Joseph Tepperman and Shrikanth Narayanan. Tree grammars as models of prosodic structure. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/tepperman_tree_interspeech08.pdf.

[15]    Joseph Tepperman and Shrikanth Narayanan. Better nonnative intonation scores through prosodic theory. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/tepperman_intonation_interspeech08.pdf.

[16]    Matthew Black, Joe Tepperman, Abe Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Pronunciation verification of english letter-sounds in preliterate children. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/matt_sound_interspeech08.pdf.

[17]    Matthew Black, Joe Tepperman, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Estimation of children’s reading ability by fusion of automatic pronunciation verification and fluency detection. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/matt_disfluency_interspeech08.pdf.

[18]    Emil Ettelaie, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Towards unsupervised training of the classifier-based speech translator. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/emil_interspeech08.pdf.

[19]    Kyu Jeong Han and Shrikanth Narayanan. Agglomerative hierarchical speaker clustering using incremental gaussian mixture cluster modeling. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/kyu_interspeech08.pdf.

[20]    Abe Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. An interval type-2 fuzzy logic system to translate between emotion-related vocabularies. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/abe_interspeech08.pdf.

[21]    Erik Bresch, Daylen Riggs, Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. An analysis of vocal tract shaping in english sibilant fricatives using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/erik_interspeech08.pdf.

[22]    Sungbok Lee, Tsuneo Kato, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Relation between geometry and kinematics of articulatory trajectory associated with emotional speech production. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2008.

[23]    Emil Ettelaie, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Mitigation of data sparsity in classifier-based translation. In Proceedings of Coling 2008 Workshop on Speech Processing for Safety Critical Translation and Pervasive Applications, Manchester, UK, Aug 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/emil_coling08.pdf.

[24]    Thomas J. Murray IV, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Knowledge as a constraint on uncertainty for unsupervised classification: A study in part-of-speech tagging. In Proceedings of ICML workshop on Prior Knowledge for Text and Language Processing, Helsinki, Finland, Jul 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/murray_pktl08.pdf.

[25]    Michael Grimm, Kristian Kroschel, and Shrikanth Narayanan. The vera am mittag german audio-visual emotional speech database. In Proceedings of ICME, Hannover, Germany, June 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/michael_icme08.pdf.

[26]    Samuel Kim, Erdem Unal, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Fingerprint extraction for classical music cover song identification. In Proceedings of ICME, Hannover, Germany, June 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/sam_icme08.pdf.

[27]    Emily Mower, Sungbok Lee, Maja J Mataric, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Joint-processing of audio-visual signals in human perception of conflicting synthetic character emotions. In Proceedings of ICME, Hannover, Germany, June 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/emily_icme08.pdf.

[28]    Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth Narayanan. Classification of sound clips by two schemes: using onomatopoeia and semantic labels. In Proceedings of ICME, Hannover, Germany, June 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/shiva_icme08.pdf.

[29]    Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Enriching spoken language translation with dialog acts. In Proceedings of ACL, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/vivek_acl08.pdf.

[30]    Carlos Busso and Shrikanth Narayanan. Recording audio-visual emotional databases from actors: a closer look. In Proceedings of International conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, workshop on Emotion: Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/busso_lrec08.pdf.

[31]    Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Ani Nenkova, Dan Jurafsky, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Detecting prominence in conversational speech: Pitch accent, givenness and focus. In Proceedings of Fourth Speech Prosody Conference, Campinas, Brazil, May 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/vivek_sp08.pdf.

[32]    Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Shrikanth Narayanan. Data-driven unsupervised adaptation of acoustic-prosodic models. In Proceedings of Fourth Speech Prosody Conference, Campinas, Brazil, May 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ananthak_sp08.pdf.

[33]    Matteo Gerosa and Shrikanth Narayanan. Investigating automatic assessment of reading comprehension in young children. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/matteo_icassp08.pdf.

[34]    Selina Chu, Shrikanth Narayanan, and C.-C. Jay Kuo. Environmental sound recognition using mp-based features. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/selina_icassp08.pdf.

[35]    Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Modeling the intonation of discourse segments for improved online dialog act tagging. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/vivek_icassp08.pdf.

[36]    Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Shrikanth Narayanan. A novel algorithm for unsupervised prosodic language model adaptation. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ananthak_icassp08_plmadapt.pdf.

[37]    Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Shrikanth Narayanan. Fine-grained pitch accent and boundary tone labeling with parametric f0 features. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ananthak_icassp08_finelabel.pdf.

[38]    Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Prasanta Ghosh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Automatic classification of question turns in spontaneous speech using lexical and prosodic evidence. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ananthak_icassp08_classify.pdf.

[39]    Emily Mower, Sungbok Lee, Maja J Mataric, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Human perception of synthetic character emotions in the presence of conflicting and congruent vocal and facial expressions. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/emily_icassp08.pdf.

[40]    Kyu Jeong Han and Shrikanth Narayanan. A novel inter-cluster distance measure combining glr and icr for improved agglomerative hierarchical speaker clustering. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/kyu_icassp08.pdf.

[41]    Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth Narayanan. Audio retrieval by latent perceptual indexing. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/shiva_icassp08.pdf.

[42]    Ozlem Kalinli and Shrikanth Narayanan. A top-down auditory attention model for learning task dependent influences on prominence detection in speech. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ozlem_icassp08.pdf.

[43]    Murtaza Bulut, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Recognition for synthesis: Automatic parameter selection for resynthesis of emotional speech from neutral speech. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/murtaza_icassp08.pdf.

[44]    Kyu Jeong Han, Samuel Kim, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Robust speaker clustering strategies to data source variation for improved speaker diarization. In Proceedings of IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, December 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/kyu_asru07.pdf.

[45]    Abeer Alwan, Yijian Bai, Matt Black, Larry Caseyz, Matteo Gerosa, Margaret Heritage, Markus Iseli, Barbara Jones, Abe Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan, Patti Price, Joseph Tepperman, and Shizhen Wang. A system for technology based assessment of language and literacy in young children: the role of multiple information sources. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Chania, Greece, October 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/alwan_mmsp07.pdf.

[46]    Viktor Rozgic, Carlos Busso, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Multimodal meeting monitoring: Improvements on speaker tracking and segmentation through a modified mixture particle filter. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Chania, Greece, October 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/viktor_mmsp07.pdf.

[47]    Erdem Unal, Elaine Chew, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Statistical modeling and retrieval of polyphonic music. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Chania, Greece, October 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/erdem_mmsp07.pdf.

[48]    Jong Ho Shin, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Analyzing the multimodal behaviors of users of a speech-to-speech translation device by using concept matching scores. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Chania, Greece, October 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/jongho_mmsp07.pdf.

[49]    Samuel Kim, Panayiotis Georgiou, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Real-time emotion detection system using speech: Multi-modal fusion of different timescale features. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Chania, Greece, October 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/sam_mmsp07.pdf.

[50]    Carlos Busso and Shrikanth Narayanan. Joint analysis of the emotional fingerprint in the face and speech: A single subject study. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Chania, Greece, October 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/busso_mmsp07.pdf.

[51]    Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth Narayanan. Experiments in automatic genre classification of full-length music tracks using audio activity rate. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Chania, Greece, October 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/shiva_mmsp07.pdf.

[52]    Ozlem Kalinli and Shrikanth Narayanan. Early auditory processing inspired features for robust automatic speech recognition. In Proceedings of EUSIPCO, Poznan, Poland, September 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ozlem_eusipco07.pdf.

[53]    Murtaza Bulut, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Analysis of emotional speech prosody in terms of part of speech tags. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/murtaza_icslp07.pdf.

[54]    Carlos Busso, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Using neutral speech models for emotional speech analysis. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/busso_icslp07.pdf.

[55]    Prasanta Ghosh, Antonio Ortega, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Pitch period estimation using multipulse model and wavelet transform. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/prasanta_icslp07.pdf.

[56]    Kyu Jeong Han and Shrikanth Narayanan. A robust stopping criterion for agglomerative hierarchical clustering in a speaker diarization system. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/kyuhan_icslp07.pdf.

[57]    Ozlem Kalinli and Shrikanth Narayanan. A saliency-based auditory attention model with applications to unsupervised prominent syllable detection in speech. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ozlem_icslp07.pdf.

[58]    Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Shrikanth Narayanan. Prosody-enriched lattices for improved syllable recognition. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/shankar_icslp07.pdf.

[59]    Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Exploiting prosodic features for dialog act tagging in a discriminative modeling framework. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/vivek_icslp07.pdf.

[60]    Joseph Tepperman, Matthew Black, Sungbok Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Matteo Gerosa, Margaret Heritage, Abeer Alwan, and Shrikanth Narayanan. A bayesian network classifier for word-level reading assessment. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/tepperman_tball_icslp07.pdf.

[61]    Joseph Tepperman, Abe Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. A text-free approach to assessing nonnative intonation. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/tepperman_intonation_icslp07.pdf.

[62]    Matthew Black, Joseph Tepperman, Sungbok Lee, Patti Price, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Automatic detection and classification of disfluent reading miscues in young children’s speech for the purpose of assessment. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/matt_icslp07.pdf.

[63]    Emily Mower, David Feil-Seifer, Maja Mataric, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Investigating implicit cues for user state estimation in human-robot interaction using physiological measurements. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Jeju Island, Korea, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/emily_roman07.pdf.

[64]    Jorge Silva and Shrikanth Narayanan. Minimum probability of error signal representation. In Proceedings of IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Workshop, Thessaloniki, Greece, August 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/jorge_mlsp07.pdf.

[65]    Jorge Silva and Shrikanth Narayanan. Universal consistency of data-driven partitions for divergence estimation. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Nice, France, June 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/jorge_isit07.pdf.

[66]    Michael Grimm, Kristian Kroschel, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Support vector regression for automatic recognition of spontaneous emotions in speech. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/grimm_icassp07.pdf.

[67]    Jorge Silva and Shrikanth Narayanan. Optimal wavelet packets decomposition based on a rate-distortion optimality criterion. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/silva_wavelet_icassp07.pdf.

[68]    Carlos Busso, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Real-time monitoring of participants interaction in a meeting using audio-visual sensors. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/busso_icassp07.pdf.

[69]    Jorge Silva, Vivek Rangarajan, Viktor Rozgic, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Information theoretic analysis of direct articulatory measurements for phonetic discrimination. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/silva_phonetic_icassp07.pdf.

[70]    Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth Narayanan. Analysis of audio clustering using word descriptions. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/shiva_cluster_icassp07.pdf.

[71]    Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Shrikanth Narayanan. Improved speech recognition using acoustic and lexical correlates of pitch accent in a n-best rescoring framework. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ananthakrishnan_icassp07.pdf.

[72]    Abhinav Sethy, Shrikanth Narayanan, and Bhuvana Ramabhadran. Data driven approach for language model adaptation using stepwise relative entropy minimization. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/sethy_icassp07.pdf.

[73]    Murtaza Bulut, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. A statistical approach for modeling prosody features using pos tags for emotional speech synthesis. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/bulut_icassp07.pdf.

[74]    Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth Narayanan. Discriminating two types of noise sources using cortical representation and dimension reduction technique. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/shiva_noise_icassp07.pdf.

[75]    Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Exploiting acoustic and syntactic features for prosody labeling in a maximum entropy framework. In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL, Rochester, NY, April 2007. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/vivek_hlt2007.pdf.

[76]    Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Acoustic-syntactic maximum entropy model for automatic prosody labeling. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Palm Beach, Aruba, December 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Vivek_slt_2006_prosody_BU.pdf.

[77]    Carlos Busso and Shrikanth Narayanan. Interplay between linguistic and affective goals in facial expression during emotional utterances. In Proceedings of 7th International Seminar On Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil, December 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Busso_issp_2006.pdf.

[78]    Erik Bresch, Jason Adams, Arthur Pouzet, Sungbok Lee, Dani Byrd, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Semi-automatic processing of real-time mr image sequences for speech production studies. In Proceedings of 7th International Seminar On Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil, December 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Bresch_issp_2006.pdf.

[79]    Sungbok Lee, Erik Bresch, and Shrikanth Narayanan. An exploratory study of emotional speech production using functional data analysis techniques. In Proceedings of 7th International Seminar On Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil, December 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/issp2006-emotion-mri-fda.pdf.

[80]    Abe Kazemzadeh, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Using model trees for evaluating dialog error conditions based on acoustic speech information. In Proceedings of First International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Santa Barbara, CA, October 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/Kazemzadeh_acm06_hcm.pdf.

[81]    JongHo Shin, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. User modeling in a speech translation driven mediated interaction setting. In Proceedings of First International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), Santa Barbara, CA, October 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/JongHo_acm06_hcm.pdf.

[82]    Erdem Unal, Panayiotis Georgiou, Elaine Chew, and Shrikanth Narayanan. A dictionary based approach for robust and syllable-independent audio input transcription for query by humming systems. In Proceedings of Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia Workshop (ACM Multimedia) (ACM Multimedia), Santa Barbara, CA, October 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/unal_amcmm06.pdf.

[83]    Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth Narayanan. An attribute-based approach to audio description applied to segmenting vocal sections in popular music songs. In Proceedings of MMSP, Victoria, Canada, October 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/sundaram_MMSP06.pdf.

[84]    Selina Chu, Shrikanth Narayanan, and C.-C. Jay Kuo. Content analysis for acoustic environment classification in mobile robots. In Proceedings of AAAI 2006 Fall Symposium, Aurally Informed Performance: Integrating Machine Listening and Auditory Presentation in Robotic Systems, Arlington, VA, October 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/selina_aaai06.pdf.

[85]    Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth Narayanan. Vector-based representation and clustering of audio using onomatopoeia words. In Proceedings of AAAI 2006 Fall Symposium, Aurally Informed Performance: Integrating Machine Listening and Auditory Presentation in Robotic Systems, Arlington, VA, October 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/sundaram_AAAI06.pdf.

[86]    Alireza Dibazar, Theodore Berger, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Pathological voice assessment. In Proceedings of 28th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference, New York, NY, August 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/PathologicalVoice-EMBS2006.pdf.

[87]    Matteo Gerosa, Diego Giuliani, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Acoustic analysis and automatic recognition of spontaneous children’s speech. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/gerosa-ICASSP2006.pdf.

[88]    Shankar Ananthakrishnan and Shrikanth Narayanan. Combining acoustic, lexical, and syntactic evidence for automatic unsupervised prosody labeling. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ananthak_icslp06.pdf.

[89]    Sungbok Lee, Erik Bresch, Jason Adams, Abe Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. A study of emotional speech articulation using a fast magnetic resonance imaging technique. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/SungbokLee-EmoMRI-ICSLP2006.PDF.

[90]    Joseph Tepperman, Jorge Silva, Abe Kazemzadeh, Hong You, Sungbok Lee, Abeer Alwan, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Pronunciation verification of children’s speech for automatic literacy assessment. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/teppermann_assessment_ICSLP06.PDF.

[91]    Abe Kazemzadeh, Joseph Tepperman, Jorge Silva, Hong You, Sungbok Lee, Abeer Alwan, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Automatic detection of voice onset time contrasts for use in pronunciation assessment. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/kazemzadeh_ICSLP06.pdf.

[92]    Joseph Tepperman, David Traum, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Yeah right: Sarcasm recognition for spoken dialogue systems. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/teppermann_sarcasm_ICSLP06.pdf.

[93]    Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Vivek Rangarajan, Susan Robinson, Ashish Vaswani, Shrikanth Narayanan, and David Traum. Radiobot-cff: A spoken dialogue system for military training. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/roque_icslp06.pdf.

[94]    Emil Ettelaie, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Cross-lingual dialog model for speech to speech translation. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/emil-icslp2006.pdf.

[95]    Abhinav Sethy, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Text data acquisition for domain-specific language models. In Proceedings of EMNLP, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/abhinav_emnlp06.pdf.

[96]    Panayiotis Georgiou, Abhinav Sethy, JongHo Shin, and Shrikanth Narayanan. An english-persian automatic speech translator: Recent developments in domain portability and user modeling. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Systems And Computing: Theory And Applications, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, July 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/georgiou_isyc2006_s2s.pdf.

[97]    Joseph Tepperman, Jorge Silva, Abhinav Sethy, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Robust recognition and assessment of non-native speech variability. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Systems And Computing: Theory And Applications, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, July 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/teppermann_isyc06.pdf.

[98]    Jorge Silva and Shrikanth Narayanan. Upper bound kullback-leibler divergence for hidden markov models with application as discrimination measure for speech recognition. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, WA, July 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/silva_isit06.pdf.

[99]    Michael Grimm, Emily Mower, Kristian Kroschel, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Combining categorical and primitives-based emotion recognition. In Proceedings of EUSIPCO, Florence, Italy, September 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/grimm_eusipco2006.pdf.

[100]    Vivek Rangarajan and Shrikanth Narayanan. Analysis of disfluent repetitions in spontaneous speech recognition. In Proceedings of EUSIPCO, Florence, Italy, September 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/vivek_eusipco06.pdf.

[101]    Selina Chu, Shrikanth Narayanan, C.-C. Jay Kuo, and Maja J. Mataric’. Where am i? scene recognition for mobile robots using audio features. In Proceedings of ICME, Toronto, Canada, July 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/selina_icme06.pdf.

[102]    Abhinav Sethy, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Selecting relevant text subsets from webdata for building topic specific language models. In Proceedings of HLT, New York City, New York, June 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/abhinav_hlt06.ps.

[103]    Selina Chu, Shrikanth Narayanan, and C.-C. Jay Kuo. Efficient rotation invariant retrieval of shapes using dynamic time warping with applications in medical databases. In Proceedings of CBMS, Salt Lake City, UT, June 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/selina_cbms06.pdf.

[104]    Shrikanth Narayanan, Panayiotis Georgiou, Abhinav Sethy, Dagen Wang, Shankar Ananthakrishnan, Emil Ettelaie, Horacio Franco, Kristin Precoda, Dimitra Vergyri, Jing Zheng, Wen Wang, Ramana Rao Gadde, Martin Graciarena, Victor Abrash, and Colleen Richey. Speech recognition engineering issues in speech to speech translation system design for low resource languages and domains. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Toulose, France, May 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/shri_icassp06.pdf.

[105]    David Suendermann, Harald Hoege, Antonio Bonafonte, Hermann Ney, Alan Black, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Text-independent voice conversion based on unit selection. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Toulose, France, May 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/sudermann_icassp06.pdf.

[106]    Michael Grimm, Kristian Kroschel, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Modeling emotion expression and perception behavior in auditive emotion evaluation. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody, Dresden, Germany, May 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/grimm_SProsody06.pdf.

[107]    Matteo Gerosa, Sungbok Lee, Diego Giuliani, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Analyzing children’s speech: an acoustic study of consonants and consonant-vowel transition. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Toulose, France, May 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/gerosa_icassp06.pdf.

[108]    Chuping Liu, Qian-Jie Fu, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Smooth gmm based multi-talker spectral conversion for spectrally degraded speech. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Toulose, France, May 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/liu_icassp06.pdf.

[109]    Vivek Rangarajan and Shrikanth Narayanan. Detection of multilingual named entities using prosodic features for improved speech recognition and translation. In Proceedings of ISCA-MULTILING, Stellenbosch, South Africa, April 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/vivek_multiling-final-draft.pdf.

[110]    Nicolaus Mote, Abhinav Sethy, Shumin Wu, Lewis Johnson, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Not all errors are created equal: Pedagogical contextualization of language learner speech errors. In Proceedings of CALICO, Hawaii, March 2006.

[111]    Michael Grimm, Kristian Kroschel, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Speaker and listener variations in emotion assessment. In Proceedings of DAGA, Braunschweig, Germany, March 2006. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/grimm06_DAGA.pdf.

[112]    Shankar Ananthakrishnan, Srinivas Bangalore, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Automatic diacritization of arabic transcripts for automatic speech recognition. In Proceedings of International Conference On Natural Language Processing, Kanpur, India, December 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/shankar_ICON-2005-Arabic-Diacritization-Final.pdf.

[113]    Joseph Tepperman and Shrikanth Narayanan. Hidden-articulator markov models for pronunciation evaluation. In Proceedings of ASRU, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/tepperman-ASRU2005.PDF.

[114]    Chartchai Meesookho, Urbashi Mitra, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Distributed range difference based target localization in sensor networks. In Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/meesookho_AsilomarFullPaper.pdf.

[115]    Selina Chu, Shrikanth Narayanan, and C.-C. Jay Kuo. Towards parameter-free classification of sound effects in movies. In Proceedings of SPIE, San Diego, CA, August 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/selina_spie05.pdf.

[116]    Dagen Wang and Shrikanth Narayanan. Piecewise linear stylization of pitch via wavelet analysis. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/dagen_shri_euro_final.pdf.

[117]    Abhinav Sethy, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Building topic specific language models from webdata using competitive models. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/sethy-euro2005.PDF.

[118]    Serdar Yildirim, Chul Min Lee, Sungbok Lee, Alexandros Potamianos, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Detecting politeness and frustration state of a child in a conversational computer game. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/kids_emotion-euro05.pdf.

[119]    Sungbok Lee, Serdar Yildirim, Abe Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. An articulatory study of emotional speech production. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/final_ema_euro2005.pdf.

[120]    Abhinav Sethy, Nick Mote, Shrikanth Narayanan, and Lewis Johnson. Modeling and automating detection of errors in arabic language learner speech. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/paper_pron.pdf.

[121]    Murtaza Bulut, Carlos Busso, Serdar Yildirim, Abe Kazemzadeh, Chul Min Lee, Sungbok Lee, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Investigating the role of phoneme-level modifications in emotional speech resynthesis. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/BulutBussoYildirim05.pdf.

[122]    Hong You, Abeer Alwan, Abe Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Pronunciation variations of spanish-accented english spoken by young children. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/honginterspeech2005.pdf.

[123]    Abe Kazemzadeh, Hong You, Markus Iseli, Barbara Jones, Xiaodong Cui, Margaret Heritage, Patti Price, Elaine Andersen, Shrikanth Narayanan, and Abeer Alwan. Tball data collection: the making of a young children’s speech corpus. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/tball_data_coll_final.pdf.

[124]    Carlos Busso, Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Natural Head Motion Synthesis driven by Acoustic Prosody Features. In Proceedings of Computer Animation and Social Agents, Hong Kong, China, October 2005.

[125]    Robert Belvin, Emil Ettelaie, Sudeep Gandhe, Panayiotis Georgiou, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Scott Millward, Shrikanth Narayanan, Howard Neely, and David Traum. Transonics: A practical speech-to-speech translator for english-farsi medical dialogs. In Proceedings of the ACL Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/belvin_acl05.pdf.

[126]    Shrikanth Narayanan and Dagen Wang. Speech rate estimation via temporal correlation and selected sub-band correlation. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/speechrate_shri_dagen_icassp2005.pdf.

[127]    Dagen Wang and Shrikanth Narayanan. An unsupervised quantitative measure for word prominence in spontaneous speech. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/prominence_dagen_shri_final-icassp05.pdf.

[128]    Shankar Ananthakrishnan and Shrikanth Narayanan. An automatic prosody recognizer using a coupled multi-stream acoustic model and a syntactic-prosodic language model. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/icassp-2005-prosody.pdf.

[129]    Joseph Tepperman and Shrikanth Narayanan. Automatic syllable stress detection using prosodic features for pronunciation evaluation of language learners. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/ICASSP2005_tepperman.pdf.

[130]    Carlos Busso, Sergi Hernanz, Chi-Wei Chu, Soon il Kwon, Sung Lee, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Isaac Cohen, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Smart room: Participant and speaker localization and identification. In Proceedings of ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005. URL: http://sail.usc.edu/publications/icassp2005_carlos.pdf.

[131]    David Traum, William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, Patrick Kenny, Eduard Hovy, Shrikanth