Speech and Language Technology (SLT)

The yearbook Speech and Language Technology (SLT) has been pubished by the Polish Phonetic Association for almost 40 years (at the beginning under the title "Speech Synthesis and Analysis"). The first Editor-in-Chief was prof. Wiktor Jassem, the second (and present) - prof. UAM Grażyna Demenko.
All published work is reviewed by a committee of experts in linguistics and computer science:
Grażyna Demenko (Institute of Linguistics, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań),
Stefan Grocholewski (Institute of Computer Science, Poznań University of Technology),
Maciej Karpiński (Institute of Linguistics, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań),
Krzysztof Jassem (The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań),
Maciej Piasecki (Institute of Computer Science, Wrocław University of Technology),
Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences).
The papers published in the SLT concern topics from the following areas:
- speech and language technology (speech synthesis, recognition),
- speech and language processing,
- linguistics in general,
- phonetics and phonology,
- speech production and perception,
- speech acoustics,
- prosody,
- second language learning (especially as regards pronunciation and prosody training in L2),
- phonetics in medical applications,
- language resources (especially as regards creation and annotation of speech and text corpora, and lexica).
We kindly remaind you that only PPA members have right to publish in SLT.
Persons interested in making their contribution to SLT have to fill in the Membership Declaration and to settle the membership fee (details are given in the Membership section).
The abstracts of the proposed papers should be to submitted via e-mail (see the section Contact).
The maximum paper length is 10 pages. The submitted papers must be written in good English and formatted according to the template available here.
Since March 2010 we will provide free internet access to the full content of the SLT volumes published in years 2004-2008.
In order to view the contents of the selected volume choose the link from the list below:
- vol. 11 (2008)
- vol. 9/10 (2006/2007)
The content and selected papers from vol. 7 and 8 are available on request.
vol. 11 (2008)
Part 1: Speech and speaker recognition
Acoustical parameters of target voices and their imitators
Wojciech Majewski and Piotr StaroniewiczFirst evaluation of Polish LVCSR acoustic models obtained from the JURISDIC database
Marcin Szymański, Jerzy Ogórkiewicz, Marek Lange, Katarzyna Klessa,
Stefan Grocholewski, and Grażyna DemenkoAn Investigation into the Intra- and Inter-labeller Agreement in the JURISDIC Database
Katarzyna Klessa and Jolanta BachanTelephony Based Voice Portal for a University
Łukasz Brocki, Danijel Koržinek, Krzysztof MarasekThe system architecture of a speech database via the WWW (Baza nagrań głosowych z dostępem poprzez Internet)
Andrzej Izworski, Piotr Pracuch, Jarosław Bułka, and Ireneusz WochlikModeling of Polish language for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (Modelowanie języka polskiego dla ciągłego rozpoznawania mowy z uwzględnieniem obszernego zakresu słownictwa)
Leszek Gajecki and Ryszard TadeusiewiczPart 2: Speech analysis and synthesis
Synthesis of F0contours for Mandarin speech by superposing corpus-generated tone contours on rule-generated phrase components
Keikichi Hirose, Qinghua Sun, and Nobuaki MinematsuThe design of Polish Speech Corpus for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis
Grażyna Demenko, Bernd Möbius, and Katarzyna KlessaA Model of Personalized Audio-Visual TTS-synthesis for Russian
B. Lobanov, L. Tsirulnik, A. Ronzhin, and A. KarpovPreliminary Results of Expressive Speech Synthesis in Polish
Jolanta Bachan and Barbara SurmanowiczAspects of gestural and prosodic structure of multimodal utterances in Polish task-oriented dialogues
Maciej Karpiński, Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow, and Zofia MaliszThe use of CALL in acquiring foreign language pronunciation and prosody – General specifications for Euronounce Project
N. Cylwik, G. Demenko, O. Jokisch, R. Jäckel, M. Rusko, R. Hoffmann, A. Ronzhin, D. Hirschfeld, U. Koloska, and L. HanischAn acoustic database gathered for the purpose of creating a detector of selected pronunciation errors appearing in English spoken by Poles (Akustyczna baza danych zgromadzona na potrzeby układu detekcji wybranych błędów wymowy w mowie angielskiej Polaków)
Grzegorz Krynicki, Dawid Pietrala, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Mikołaj WypychAutomatic assessment of distortions in isolated sounds in dysarthia disease (Automatyczna ocena zaburzeń realizacji głosek w dyzartrii)
Tomasz Orzechowski, Katarzyna Chmurzyńska, Piotr Radkowski, Andrzej IzworskiComputational tools in the analysis of phonetic grammar
Krzysztof Dyczkowski, Norbert Kordek, Paweł Nowakowski, and Krzysztof StrońskiPart 3: Language processing
English grapheme-to-phoneme conversion and evaluation
Uwe Reichel, Hartmut R. Pfitzinger, and Horst-Udo HainAutomatic correction of part-of-speech corpora
Uwe Reichel, Lia Saki Bucar ShigemoriSemantic Modelling for Speech Recognition
Bartosz Ziółko, Suresh Manandhar, Richard C. Wilson, and Mariusz ZiółkoProblems of Disambiguation in the Thetos-3 System
Nina Suszczańska, Przemysław SzmalCorpora based Approach for Arabic/English Word Translation Disambiguation
Farag Ahmed and Andreas NürnbergerOvercoming Agglutination Difficulties in the Development of an MT system from the Azerbaijani Language
Rauf Fatullayev, Ali Abbasov, and Abulfat FatullayevA Linguistically Light Approach to Multilingualism in Lexical Layers for Ontologies
Alexander Troussov, John Judge, Mikhail Sogrin, Amine Akrout, Brian Davis, and Siegfried HandschuhSuperMatrix: A General Tool for Lexical Semantic Knowledge Acquisition
Bartosz Broda and Maciej PiaseckiModeling the Frequency of Phrasal Verbs with Search Engines
Grażyna Chamielec and Dawid WeissSemCAPTCHA - the user-friendly alternative for OCR-based CAPTCHA systems
Paweł Łupkowski and Mariusz Urbański
vol. 9/10 (2006/2007)
Part 1: Phonetics and Phonology (Fonetyka i Fonologia)
Maria Steffen-Batóg, Tadeusz BatógDisfluencies in Polish and Thai task-oriented dialogue (Zaburzenia płynności w polskich i tajskich dialogach zadaniowych)
Janusz Kleśta, Maciej KarpińskiA set of speech perception tests for children with cochlear implants – preliminary evaluation (Zestaw testów percepcyjnych mowy dla dzieci z implantami ślimakowymi – wstępna ewaluacja)
Jerzy Ogórkiewicz, Jolanta Bachan, Małgorzata Mazur, Mariusz Owsianny, Dariusz Komar, Grażyna DemenkoElliptic sentences processing in the Thetos translation system (Przetwarzanie zdań eliptycznych w systemie tłumaczącym Thetos)
Nina Suszczańska, Julia Romaniuk, Przemysław SzmalPart 2: Prosodic Analysis (Analiza Prozodyczna)
Prosody of Hungarian Imperative Sentences (Prozodia węgierskich zdań rozkazujących)
Ilona KoutnyProsodic features in simultaneous interpreting (Cechy prozodyczne w tłumaczeniu symultanicznym)
Natalia CylwikSentence Intonation for Polish Language (Prozodia wypowiedzi w języku polskim)
Bożena Piorkówska, Janusz Rafałko, Wojciech Lesiński, Edward SzpilewskiA Study of Chosen Temporal Relations within Syllable Structure in Polish (Analiza wybranych związków iloczasowych zachodzących w obrębie sylaby w języku polskim)
Katarzyna Klessa, Daniel ŚledzińskiPart 3: Speech synthesis and speech recognition (Synteza i Rozpoznawanie Mowy)
Study of Idiosyncrasy of Syntagmatic Segmentation for Personal Speaking Manner Cloning by TTS
Boris Lobanov, Liliya Tsirulnik, Anatoly FiodorovTalking blogs – an attempt to give weblogs a voice Adding TTS functionality to Wordpress
Arne HellmichAutomatic Close Copy Speech Synthesis (Synteza mowy metodą automatycznego dokładnego kopiowania)
Jolanta BachanThe role of discourse markers in the synthesis of Hungarian prosody (Rola markerów dyskursu w syntezie prozodii węgierskiej)
Ilona KoutnyBuilding speaker identification systgem using Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (Rozpoznawanie mówców przy pomocy zestawu narzędzi HTK)
Marek LangeSemi-automatic segmentation of speech: manual segmentation strategy based on error prediction (Pół-automatyczna segmentacja nagrań mowy: strategia segmentacji ręcznej w oparciu o predykcję błędu
Marcin Szymański and Stefan GrocholewskiThe use of statistics of Polish phonemes in speech Recognition (Zastosowanie statystyk fonemów języka polskiego w rozpoznawaniu mowy)
Bartosz Ziółko, Jakub Gałka, Suresh Manandhar, Richard C. Wilson, Mariusz ZiółkoBuilding lexica for application in a speech dictation system (Tworzenie leksykonów do zastosowania w systemie dyktowania mowy)
Agnieszka Wagner, Grażyna DemenkoAcoustical Analysis of the Polish Syllables for Needs of the Speech Technology (Analiza cech akustycznych sylab języka polskiego na potrzeby technologii mowy)
Daniel ŚledzińskiThe evaluation of recordings’ quality in the database created for the automatic speech recognition system (Ocena jakości nagrań w bazie danych dla systemu rozpoznawania mowy)
Daniel Śledziński
