Apple sponsored the 34th Interspeech conference, which was held in Incheon, Republic of Korea from September 18 to 22. Interspeech is a global conference focused on cognitive intelligence for speech processing and application.
All Interspeech attendees erew invited to stop by the Apple booth (booth number B5, located in the Grand Ballroom Lobby on the second floor of the Songdo ConvensiA) to check out our demo and chat with available recruiters and booth staff.
Schedule
Below was the schedule of Apple sponsored workshops and events.
Saturday September 17
Monday September 19
- Space-Efficient Representation of Entity-centric Query Language Models
- From 2:30 - 4:30 PM KST in Rooms 113 - 115
- Christophe Van Gysel, Mirko Hannemann, Ernest Pusateri, Youssef Oualil, Ilya Oparin
Tuesday September 20
- Device-Directed Speech Detection: Regularization via Distillation for Weakly-Supervised Models
- From 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM KST in Rooms 113 - 115
- Vineet Garg, Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic, Pranay Dighe, Ahmed H. Abdelaziz, Erik Marchi, Saurabh Adya, Chandra Dhir, Ahmed Tewfik
- Improving Voice Trigger Detection with Metric Learning
- From 1:30 - 3:30 PM KST in Rooms 113 - 115
- Prateeth Nayak, Takuya Higuchi, Anmol Gupta, Shivesh Ranjan, Stephen Shum, Siddharth Sigtia, Erik Marchi, Varun Lakshminarasimhan, Minsik Cho, Saurabh Adya, Chandra Dhir, Ahmed Tewfik
- Vocal Effort Modeling in Neural TTS for Improving the Intelligibility of Synthetic Speech in Noise
- From 1:30 - 3:30 PM KST in the Premier Ballroom
- Tuomo Raitio, Petko Petkov, Jiangchuan Li, Muhammed Shifas, Andrea Davis, Yannis Stylianou
Wednesday September 21
- Emphasis Control for Parallel Neural TTS
- From 1:30 - 3:30 PM KST in Rooms 104 - 106
- Shreyas Seshadri, Tuomo Raitio, Dan Castellani, Jiangchuan Li
Thursday September 22
- Speech Emotion: Investigating Model Representations, Multi-Task Learning and Knowledge Distillation
- From 10:00 - 12:00 PM KST
- Vikramjit Mitra, Hsiang-Yun Sherry Chien, Vasudha Kowtha, Joseph Yitan Cheng, Erdrin Azemi
Accepted Papers
Conference Accepted Papers
Device-Directed Speech Detection: Regularization via Distillation for Weakly-Supervised Models
Vineet Garg, Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic, Pranay Dighe, Ahmed H. Abdelaziz, Erik Marchi, Saurabh Adya, Chandra Dhir, Ahmed Tewfik
Emphasis Control for Parallel Neural TTS
Shreyas Seshadri, Tuomo Raitio, Dan Castellani, Jiangchuan Li
Improving Voice Trigger Detection with Metric Learning
Prateeth Nayak, Takuya Higuchi, Anmol Gupta, Shivesh Ranjan, Stephen Shum, Siddharth Sigtia, Erik Marchi, Varun Lakshminarasimhan, Minsik Cho, Saurabh Adya, Chandra Dhir, Ahmed Tewfik
Space-Efficient Representation of Entity-centric Query Language Models
Christophe Van Gysel, Mirko Hannemann, Ernest Pusateri, Youssef Oualil, Ilya Oparin
Speech Emotion: Investigating Model Representations, Multi-Task Learning and Knowledge Distillation
Vikramjit Mitra, Hsiang-Yun Sherry Chien, Vasudha Kowtha, Joseph Yitan Cheng, Erdrin Azemi
Vocal Effort Modeling in Neural TTS for Improving the Intelligibility of Synthetic Speech in Noise
Tuomo Raitio, Petko Petkov, Jiangchuan Li, Muhammed Shifas, Andrea Davis, Yannis Stylianou
Acknowledgements
Rin Metcalf Susa is a member of the Speaking Styles and Interaction Styles Special Session Scientific Committee at Interspeech 2022.
Lyan Verwimp, Mirko Hannemann, Shreyas Seshadri, Tuomo Raitio, Barry Theobald, Zak Aldeneh, and Vikram Mitra are reviewers for Interspeech 2022.
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