The Unofficious Joe Tepperman Web SIGHT

My name is Joseph Harris Tepperman and I was born late last century in Toronto. I do research on speech and am a maker of music, always hoping to make the distance between these two things not so very far.

This all happens in Los Angeles. LA's green is the green that, when it does, turns single-serving milk bottles opaque - the weeds, their spray painted through the inside spore webbing. What real coyotes there live our midst are a civilized lot, leaping out at LA River bicyclists like tan triangle basketballs trailing tails. And the sound of Spanish gives really such a simple joy - who could hate to traverse its few birdcall acres?

Those wanting oftener music updates (shows, etc.) should direct themselves here, thanks.

"Say Please" - from Soundwalk 2006 (with Laura Steenberge)

What it looked like:

What it sounded like:
yes Yes YES
Maybe
no No NO

"The Silent Project" - from Soundwalk 2005 (with Ron Saunders and Mackenzie Bristow)

Research publications, seriously

Journals

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.

Conferences

Abeer Alwan, Yijian Bai, Matt Black, Larry Casey, 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.

Joseph Tepperman, Abe Kazemzadeh, and Shrikanth Narayanan. A Text-free Approach to Assessing Nonnative Intonation. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.

Joseph Tepperman, Matthew Black, Patti Price, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Joseph Tepperman, David Traum, and Shrikanth Narayanan. Yeah right: Sarcasm recognition for spoken dialogue systems. In Proceedings of InterSpeech ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.

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.

Joseph Tepperman and Shrikanth Narayanan. Hidden-articulator markov models for pronunciation evaluation. In Proceedings of ASRU, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2005.

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.

Abstracts

Joseph Tepperman and Shrikanth Narayanan "Spoken Name Pronunciation Evaluation." J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 116:2480, 2004.

A Very Selective Discography

As a leader

The Domestication of Animals - The Domestication of Animals Plays the Screams of Drowning Ants, Bites of the Box-packed Dogs. Ebola Music, forthcoming

GST Mugwump - Work in Progress. Unreleased, 2004

GST Mugwump - GST Mugwump and Friends Play the Music of Snidge. Superpickle, 2002

The Nourishment - Not Tonight, Honey - I've Got... The Nourishment. Brave New Weird, 2001

GST Mugwump - While I Was Me 1996-1998. Superpickle, 1999

As a guest

Cat Hair Ensemble - East of Western. ???, forthcoming

Listing Ship - Hull Full of Oil and Bone. True Classical, forthcoming

Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop and Eyes Will Blink. Thousand Tongues, 2007

Dorian Wood - Bolka. Self-released, 2007

Ego Plum and the Ebola Music Orchestra - The Rat King. Ebola Music, 2007

Leopold - The Wreck of Hope. Total Annihilation, 2004.

The Industrial Jazz Group - City of Angles. Innova, 2002