Interspeech 2017 Special Session: Speech Technologies for Code-Switching in Multilingual Communities

The special session will be held on 21 August 2017, distributed over two slots. All 9 papers will be presented as oral presentations. In addition, we will also have a panel at the end of the second session in which we will discuss topics such as data and resources for code-switching research. More details about this panel discussion will be available shortly.

Date Time Room Presentation type Paper code Paper ID Title Authors
2017-08-21 11:20-11:40 F11 Oral Mon-SS-1-11-1 301 Longitudinal Speaker Clustering and Verification Corpus with Code-Switching Frisian-Dutch Speech Emre Yilmaz, Jelske Dijkstra, Hans Van de Velde, Frederik Kampstra, Jouke Algra, Henk Van den Heuvel, David Van Leeuwen
2017-08-21 11:40-12:00 F11 Oral Mon-SS-1-11-2 391 Exploiting Untranscribed Broadcast Data for Improved Code-Switching Detection Emre Yilmaz, Henk van den Heuvel, David van Leeuwen
2017-08-21 12:00-12:20 F11 Oral Mon-SS-1-11-3 1198 Jee haan, I’d like both, por favor: Elicitation of a Code-Switched Corpus of Hindi-English and Spanish-English Human-Machine Dialog Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Suendermann-Oeft
2017-08-21 12:20-12:40 F11 Oral Mon-SS-1-11-4 1244 On building mixed lingual speech synthesis systems SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Alan W Black
2017-08-21 12:40-13:00 F11 Oral Mon-SS-1-11-5 1259 Speech Synthesis for Mixed-Language Navigation Instructions Khyathi Chandu, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Sunayana Sitaram, Alan W Black
2017-08-21 14:30-14:50 F11 Oral Mon-SS-1-11-6 1373 Addressing Code-Switching in French/Algerian Arabic Speech Amazouz Djegdjiga, Martine Adda-Decker, Lori Lamel
2017-08-21 14:50-15:10 F11 Oral Mon-SS-1-11-7 1429 Metrics for modeling code-switching across corpora Wally Guzman, Joseph Ricard, Jacqueline Serigos, Barbara Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
2017-08-21 15:10-15:30 F11 Oral Mon-SS-1-11-8 1437 Synthesising isiZulu-English code-switch bigrams using word embeddings Ewald Van der westhuizen, Thomas Niesler
2017-08-21 15:30-15:50 F11 Oral Mon-SS-1-11-9 1663 Crowdsourcing Universal Part-Of-Speech Tags for Code-Switching Victor Soto, Julia Hirschberg