{"id":502418,"date":"2018-08-23T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=502418"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:56:53","slug":"interspeech-2018","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/interspeech-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft @ Interspeech 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hicc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hyderabad International Convention Centre<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nNovotel & HICC Complex<br \/>\n(Near Hitec City)<br \/>\nP.O Bag 1101<br \/>\nCyberabad Post Office<br \/>\nHyderabad \u2013 500 081<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/interspeech2018.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interspeech 2018<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of Interspeech in Hyderabad September 2 \u2013 September 6, 2018. Come by our booth (L1) to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n<h2>Committee Members<\/h2>\n<h3>Publicity Committee<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/anstolck\/\">Andreas Stolcke<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Industry Liaison<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Radhakrishnan Srikanth<\/p>\n<h3>Exhibits<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\">Sunayana Sitaram<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Show and Tell<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kalikab\/\">Kalika Bali<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Microsoft Attendees<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Ankur Gupta<br \/>\nAnnam Naresh<br \/>\nBasil Abraham<br \/>\nBrij Mohan Lal Srivastava<br \/>\nChangliang Liu<br \/>\nDeepika Aggarwal<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/haerdoga\/\">Hakan Erdogan<\/a><br \/>\nIssac Alphonso<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kazukoi\/\">Kazuhito Koishida<\/a><br \/>\nKei Sawada<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mlevit\/\">Michael Levit<\/a><br \/>\nMortaza Doulaty Bashkand<br \/>\nOscar Koller<br \/>\nPallavi Matani<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Lakmala<\/a><br \/>\nRaveesh Motlani<br \/>\nRui Zhao<br \/>\nRupesh Mehta<br \/>\nSamirul Mallick<br \/>\nSarangarajan Parthasarathy<br \/>\nShuangyu Chang<br \/>\nTasos Anastasakos<br \/>\nTejaswi Seeram<br \/>\nVikram Manney<br \/>\nXi Wang<br \/>\nYang Cui<br \/>\nYifan Gong<br \/>\nYujia Xiao<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nSpeech Recognition for Indian Languages | MR12_1<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/effect-of-tts-generated-audio-on-oov-detection-and-word-error-rate-in-asr-fo-rlow-resource-languages\/\">Effect of TTS Generated Audio on OOV Detection and Word Error Rate in ASR for Low-resource Languages<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Savitha Murthy, Dinkar Sitaram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\"><strong>Sunayana Sitaram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nSpeech Technologies for Code-Switching in Multilingual Communities | MR<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/homophone-identification-and-merging-for-code-switched-speech-recognition\/\">Homophone Identification and Merging for Code-switched Speech Recognition<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\"><strong>Sunayana Sitaram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, September 6, 2018 | 10:00 AM<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/interspeech-2018-special-session-low-resource-speech-recognition-challenge-indian-languages\/\">Low Resource Speech Recognition Challenge for Indian Languages<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Kalika Bali, Krishna Doss Mohan, Rupesh Mehta, Niranjan Nayak, Sunayana Sitaram, Radhakrishnan Srikanth<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Monday, September 3, 2018 | 5:50 PM<br \/>\nASR Systems and Technologies | Hall 1<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1803.04291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entity-Aware Language Model as an Unsupervised Reranker<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Sarangarajan Parthasarathy<\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nNovel Neural Network Architectures for Acoustic Modelling | Hall3<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/layer-trajectory-lstm\/\">Layer Trajectory LSTM<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinyli\/\"><strong>Jinyu Li<\/strong><\/a>, Changliang Liu, Yifan Gong<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, September 6, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nDistant ASR | Hall3<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/recognizing-overlapped-speech-in-meetings-a-multichannel-separation-approach-using-neural-networks-2\/\">Recognizing Overlapped Speech in Meetings: a Multichannel Separation Approach Using Neural Networks<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tayoshio\/\"><strong>Takuya Yoshioka<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/haerdoga\/\"><strong>Hakan Erdogan<\/strong><\/a>, Zhuo Chen, Xiong Xiao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fil\/\"><strong>Fil Alleva<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, September 6, 2018 | 4:10 AM<br \/>\nSource Separation from Monaural Inputs | Hall1<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\">Investigations on Data Augmentation and Loss Functions for Deep Learning Based Speech-Background Separation<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/haerdoga\/\"><strong>Hakan Erdogan<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tayoshio\/\"><strong>Takuya Yoshioka<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nNovel Approaches to Enhancement | Hall4 \u2013 Poster2<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\">Cycle-Consistent Speech Enhancement<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Zhong Meng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinyli\/\"><strong>Jinyu Li<\/strong><\/a>, Yifan Gong, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | 2:30 PM<br \/>\nApplications in Education and Learning | Hall4 \u2013 Poster3<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\">Paired Phone-Posteriors Approach to ESL Pronunciation Quality Assessment<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yujia Xiao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/frankkps\/\"><strong>Frank Soong<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wenh\/\"><strong>Wenping Hu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nVoice Conversion and Speech Synthesis | Hall4 \u2013 Poster1<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\">A New Glottal Neural Vocoder for Speech Synthesis<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yang Cui, Xi Wang, Lei He, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/frankkps\/\"><strong>Frank Soong<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | 5:00 PM<br \/>\nNeural Network Training Strategies for ASR | Hall4 \u2013 Poster 2<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1711.02212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Improved Training for Online End-to-end Speech Recognition Systems<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Suyoun Kim, Michael Seltzer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinyli\/\"><strong>Jinyu Li<\/strong><\/a>, Rui Zhao<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, September 6, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nDeep Enhancement | Hall4 \u2013 Poster1<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/pdf?id=BJtNZAFgg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adversarial Feature-Mapping for Speech Enhancement<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Zhong Meng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinyli\/\"><strong>Jinyu Li<\/strong><\/a>, Yifan Gong, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, September 6, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nLanguage Modeling | Hall4 \u2013 Poster3<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/expect-expected-kneser-ney-smoothing\/\">What to Expect from Expected Kneser-Ney Smoothing<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mlevit\/\"><strong>Michael Levit<\/strong><\/a>, Sarangarajan Parthasarathy, Shuangyu Chang<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nShow and Tell 3 | MR56<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\">HoloCompanion: An MR Friend for EveryOne<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Annam Naresh, Rushabh Gandhi, Mallikarjuna Rao Bellamkonda, Mithun Das Gupta<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of Interspeech in Hyderabad September 2 \u2013 6. Come by our booth (L1) to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":502601,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2018-09-02","msr_enddate":"2018-09-06","msr_location":"Hyderabad, India","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"http:\/\/interspeech2018.org\/registration.html","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13545],"msr-region":[197903],"msr-event-type":[197941],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-502418","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-human-language-technologies","msr-region-asia-pacific","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"<!-- wp:msr\/event-details {\"title\":\"Microsoft @ Interspeech 2018\",\"backgroundColor\":\"grey\",\"image\":{\"id\":502601,\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/interspeech-header-image.jpg\",\"alt\":\"\"}} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:msr\/content-tabs --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"About\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hicc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hyderabad International Convention Centre<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nNovotel &amp; HICC Complex<br \/>\n(Near Hitec City)<br \/>\nP.O Bag 1101<br \/>\nCyberabad Post Office<br \/>\nHyderabad \u2013 500 081<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/interspeech2018.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interspeech 2018<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of Interspeech in Hyderabad September 2 \u2013 September 6, 2018. Come by our booth (L1) to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n<h2>Committee Members<\/h2>\n<h3>Publicity Committee<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/anstolck\/\">Andreas Stolcke<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Industry Liaison<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Radhakrishnan Srikanth<\/p>\n<h3>Exhibits<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\">Sunayana Sitaram<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Show and Tell<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kalikab\/\">Kalika Bali<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Microsoft Attendees<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Ankur Gupta<br \/>\nAnnam Naresh<br \/>\nBasil Abraham<br \/>\nBrij Mohan Lal Srivastava<br \/>\nChangliang Liu<br \/>\nDeepika Aggarwal<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/haerdoga\/\">Hakan Erdogan<\/a><br \/>\nIssac Alphonso<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kazukoi\/\">Kazuhito Koishida<\/a><br \/>\nKei Sawada<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mlevit\/\">Michael Levit<\/a><br \/>\nMortaza Doulaty Bashkand<br \/>\nOscar Koller<br \/>\nPallavi Matani<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Lakmala<\/a><br \/>\nRaveesh Motlani<br \/>\nRui Zhao<br \/>\nRupesh Mehta<br \/>\nSamirul Mallick<br \/>\nSarangarajan Parthasarathy<br \/>\nShuangyu Chang<br \/>\nTasos Anastasakos<br \/>\nTejaswi Seeram<br \/>\nVikram Manney<br \/>\nXi Wang<br \/>\nYang Cui<br \/>\nYifan Gong<br \/>\nYujia Xiao<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Special Sessions\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h3>Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nSpeech Recognition for Indian Languages | MR12_1<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/effect-of-tts-generated-audio-on-oov-detection-and-word-error-rate-in-asr-fo-rlow-resource-languages\/\">Effect of TTS Generated Audio on OOV Detection and Word Error Rate in ASR for Low-resource Languages<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Savitha Murthy, Dinkar Sitaram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\"><strong>Sunayana Sitaram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nSpeech Technologies for Code-Switching in Multilingual Communities | MR<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/homophone-identification-and-merging-for-code-switched-speech-recognition\/\">Homophone Identification and Merging for Code-switched Speech Recognition<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\"><strong>Sunayana Sitaram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, September 6, 2018 | 10:00 AM<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/interspeech-2018-special-session-low-resource-speech-recognition-challenge-indian-languages\/\">Low Resource Speech Recognition Challenge for Indian Languages<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Kalika Bali, Krishna Doss Mohan, Rupesh Mehta, Niranjan Nayak, Sunayana Sitaram, Radhakrishnan Srikanth<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Oral Presentations\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h3>Monday, September 3, 2018 | 5:50 PM<br \/>\nASR Systems and Technologies | Hall 1<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1803.04291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entity-Aware Language Model as an Unsupervised Reranker<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Sarangarajan Parthasarathy<\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nNovel Neural Network Architectures for Acoustic Modelling | Hall3<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/layer-trajectory-lstm\/\">Layer Trajectory LSTM<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinyli\/\"><strong>Jinyu Li<\/strong><\/a>, Changliang Liu, Yifan Gong<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, September 6, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nDistant ASR | Hall3<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/recognizing-overlapped-speech-in-meetings-a-multichannel-separation-approach-using-neural-networks-2\/\">Recognizing Overlapped Speech in Meetings: a Multichannel Separation Approach Using Neural Networks<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tayoshio\/\"><strong>Takuya Yoshioka<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/haerdoga\/\"><strong>Hakan Erdogan<\/strong><\/a>, Zhuo Chen, Xiong Xiao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fil\/\"><strong>Fil Alleva<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, September 6, 2018 | 4:10 AM<br \/>\nSource Separation from Monaural Inputs | Hall1<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\">Investigations on Data Augmentation and Loss Functions for Deep Learning Based Speech-Background Separation<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/haerdoga\/\"><strong>Hakan Erdogan<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tayoshio\/\"><strong>Takuya Yoshioka<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Poster Sessions\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h3>Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nNovel Approaches to Enhancement | Hall4 \u2013 Poster2<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\">Cycle-Consistent Speech Enhancement<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Zhong Meng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinyli\/\"><strong>Jinyu Li<\/strong><\/a>, Yifan Gong, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | 2:30 PM<br \/>\nApplications in Education and Learning | Hall4 \u2013 Poster3<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\">Paired Phone-Posteriors Approach to ESL Pronunciation Quality Assessment<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yujia Xiao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/frankkps\/\"><strong>Frank Soong<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wenh\/\"><strong>Wenping Hu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | 10:00 AM<br \/>\nVoice Conversion and Speech Synthesis | Hall4 \u2013 Poster1<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 3px\">A New Glottal Neural Vocoder for Speech Synthesis<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yang Cui, Xi Wang, Lei He, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/frankkps\/\"><strong>Frank Soong<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | 5:00 PM<br \/>\nNeural Network Training Strategies for ASR | Hall4 \u2013 Poster 2<\/h3>\n<h3 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Come by our booth (L1) to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.\r\n<h2>Committee Members<\/h2>\r\n<h3>Publicity Committee<\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/anstolck\/\">Andreas Stolcke<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Industry Liaison<\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Radhakrishnan Srikanth<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Exhibits<\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\">Sunayana Sitaram<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Show and Tell<\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kalikab\/\">Kalika Bali<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Microsoft Attendees<\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Ankur Gupta\r\nAnnam Naresh\r\nBasil Abraham\r\nBrij Mohan Lal Srivastava\r\nChangliang Liu\r\nDeepika Aggarwal\r\n<a 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