dr. ir. Bert Cranen

Assistant professor

 

Room: E 8.09
Tel.: +31 (0)24 3612904
E-mail: B.Cranen@let.ru.nl

 

Publications:

Application of noise robust MDT speech recognition on the SPEECON and SpeechDat-Car databases
J.F. Gemmeke, Y. Wang, M. Van Segbroeck, B. Cranen & H. Van hamme (2009)
Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK
Paper (pdf; 104116 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Using sparse representations for exemplar based continuous digit recognition
J.F. Gemmeke, L. ten Bosch, L. Boves & B. Cranen (2009)
Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2009, Glasgow, Scotland, pp 1755-1759
Paper (pdf; 125335 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Missing Data Imputation using Compressive Sensing techniques for connected digit recognition
J.F. Gemmeke & B. Cranen (2009)
Proceedings of DSP 2009, Santorini, Greece
Paper (pdf; 163963 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Sparse imputation for noise robust speech recognition using soft masks
J.F. Gemmeke & B. Cranen (2009)
Proceedings of ICASSP 2009, Taipei, Taiwan, pp 4645-4648
Paper (pdf; 80049 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Evaluation of missing data techniques for in-car automatic speech recognition
Y. Wang, R. Vuerinckx, J.F. Gemmeke, B. Cranen & H. Van hamme (2009)
Proceedings of NAG/DAGA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp 23-26
Paper (pdf; 234951 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Using Temporal Information for Improving Articulatory-Acoustic Feature Classification
B. Schuppler, J.J.H.C. van Doremalen, O. Scharenborg, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2009)
Proceedings of IEEE ASRU Workshop, Merano, Italy, pp.70-75
Paper (pdf; 319252 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Noise reduction through Compressed Sensing
J.F. Gemmeke & B. Cranen (2008)
Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 1785-1788
Paper (pdf; 101279 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Using sparse representations for missing data imputation in noise robust speech recognition.
J.F. Gemmeke & B. Cranen (2008)
Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland
Paper (pdf; 133885 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Noise robust digit recognition using sparse representations
J.F. Gemmeke & B. Cranen (2008)
Proceedings of ISCA 2008 ITRW "Speech Analysis and Processing for knowledge discovery" , Aalborg, Denmark
Paper (pdf; 88143 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
On the relation between statistical properties of spectrographic masks and recognition accuracy
J.F. Gemmeke, B. Cranen & L. ten Bosch (2008)
Proceedings of IASTED SPPRA 2008, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 200-207
Paper (pdf; 134545 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
FROM SPEECH SOUNDS TO SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION: ABOUT NEW APPROACHES TO IMPOSE STRUCTURE ON SPEECH DATA
L. ten Bosch, A. Hämäläinen, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2006)
Proceedings LabPhon 10, Paris, June 28-30, 2006
Paper (pdf; 9865 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
The effect of the flow mask on phonation
R. Orr & B. Cranen (2005)
Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications.
Paper (pdf; 103568 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Additive background noise as a source of non-linear mismatch in the cepstral and log-energy domain
F. de Wet, J. de Veth, L. Boves & B. Cranen (2005)
Computer Speech and Language Volume 19, Issue 1 pp. 31-54, 2005
Paper (pdf; 277055 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Predicting Word Correct Rate from Acoustic and Linguistic Confusability
A.G.G. Bouwman, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2004)
Proceedings of ICSLP 2004, Jeju, Korea
Paper (pdf; 250002 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Evaluation of formant-like features on an automatic vowel classification task
F. de Wet, K. Weber, L. Boves, B. Cranen, S. Bengio & H. Bourlard (2004)
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 116, No. 3, pp. 1781-1792
Paper (pdf; 319529 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
State dependent feature component selection for noise robust ASR
B. Cranen & J. de Veth (2004)
Proceedings of SPECOM, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp. 112-119
Paper (pdf; 118459 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Active perception: Using a priori knowledge from clean speech models to ignore non-target features
B. Cranen & J. de Veth (2004)
Proceedings of Interspeech-ICSLP 2004, Jeju, Korea
Paper (pdf; 56889 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Comparing the Usability of a User Driven and a Mixed Initiative Multimodal Dialogue System for Train Timetable Information
J. Sturm, I. Bakx, B. Cranen & J. Terken (2003)
Proceedings of Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland
Paper (pdf; 112640 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
The impact of spectral and energy mismatch on the Aurora2 digit recognition task
F. de Wet, J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2003)
CDROM Proceedings of ICASSP, Hong Kong, China
Paper (pdf; 154210 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Accumulated Kullback divergence for analysis of ASR performance in the presence of noise
F. de Wet, J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2002)
Proceedings of ICSLP, Denver, USA, pp. 1069-1073
Paper (pdf; 129903 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Evaluation of formant-like features for ASR
K. Weber, F. de Wet, B. Cranen, L. Boves, S. Bengio & H. Boulard (2002)
Proceedings of ICSLP, Denver, USA, pp. 2101-2104
Paper (ps; 355847 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
The effect of prolonged use on multimodal interaction
J. Sturm, I. Bakx, B. Cranen, J. Terken & F. Wang (2002)
Proceedings of ISCA Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Mobile Environments, Kloster Irsee, Germany
Paper (ps; 665664 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Usability evaluation of a Dutch multimodal system for train timetable information
J. Sturm, I. Bakx, B. Cranen, J. Terken & F. Wang (2002)
Proceedings of LREC2002, Gran Canaria de Las Palmas, Spain
Paper (ps; 693805 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Analysis of Disturbed Acoustic Features in terms of Emission Cost
L. van de Werff, J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2001)
Proceedings of the CRAC Workshop, Aalborg, Denmark, 2001 (no page numbers)
Paper (pdf; 71180 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Adding extra input/output modalities to a spoken dialogue system
J. Sturm, F. Wang & B. Cranen (2001)
Proceedings 2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Aalborg, Denmark
Paper (ps; 308372 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
A comparison of LPC and FFT-based acoustic features for noise robust ASR
F. de Wet, B. Cranen, J. de Veth & L. Boves (2001)
Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 865-868.
Paper (ps; 347820 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Acoustic Backing-off as an Implementation of Missing Feature Theory
J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2001)
Speech Communication, 34 (3), pp 247 - 265.
Paper (ps; 1156090 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Acoustic Features and a Distance Measure that Reduce the Impact of Training-Test Mismatch in ASR
J. de Veth, F. de Wet, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2001)
Speech Communication, 34 (1-2), pp 57 - 74.
Paper (ps; 880366 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Acoustic Features and Distance Measure to Reduce the Vulnerability of ASR Performance due to the Presence of a Communication Channel and/or Background Noise
J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (2001)
In: Robustness in Language and Speech Technology, J.-C. Junqua and G. van Noord (Eds.), Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 9 - 45.
Paper (ps; 851791 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Comparing acoustic features for robust ASR in fixed and cellular network applications
F. de Wet, B. Cranen, J. de Veth & L. Boves (2000)
Proceedings International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1415-1418.
Paper (ps; 289148 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Acoustic pre-processing for optimal effectivity of Missing Feature Theory
J. de Veth, B. Cranen, F. de Wet & L. Boves (1999)
Proceedings Eurospeech'99, Budapest, HUNGARY, 1999, pp. 65-68.
Paper (ps; 132375 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Acoustic backing-off as an implementation of Missing Feature Theory
J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (1999)
PP-TST report, document no. 81, 1999
Paper (ps; 91563 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Missing Feature Theory in ASR: Make sure you miss the right type of features
J. de Veth, F. de Wet, B. Cranen & L. Boves (1999)
Proceedings Workshop on Robust Methods for ASR in Adverse Conditions, Tampere, FINLAND, 1999, pp. 231-234.
Paper (ps; 74784 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Automatic Speech Recognition in Adverse Acoustic Conditions
F. de Wet, J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (1999)
Proceedings of the CLS opening Academic Year 1999/2000, pp. 1-15
Paper (ps; 276898 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Acoustic backing-off in the local distance computation for robust automatic speech recognition
J. de Veth, B. Cranen & L. Boves (1998)
Proceedings International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 4, pp. 1427-1430
Paper (ps; 87042 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Speaker variability in the coarticulation of /a,i,u/.
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1996)
Speech Communication, 18, 113-130.
Speaker characteristics in the coarticulation of three Dutch vowels /a,i,u/.
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1995)
13 - 19 August 1995, Vol. II, 742-745.
Methodological aspects of segment- and speaker-related variability
H. van den Heuvel, A.C.M. Rietveld & B. Cranen (1994)
In: Journal of Phonetics, 22(4), 386-406.
Speaker-variability in spectral bands of Dutch vowel segments.
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1993)
In: Proceedings EUROSPEECH 93, 21-23 september 1993, Berlin, Vol. I, 635-638.
Fitting a LF-model to inverse filter signals.
H. Strik, B. Cranen & L. Boves (1993)
technology" (EUROSPEECH-93), Berlin, Vol.1, pp. 103-106.
Paper (ps; 173038 bytes) ; Abstract (html)
Speaker dependent length of speech segments as a function of speech rate.
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1992)
In: Proceedings of the CLS Ph.D. Conference 1992, 15-24.
Speaker-related variabilities in the durations of Dutch speech segments,
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1991)
In: Proceedings EUROSPEECH 91, Genua, 24-26 September, 1991, 1, 251-254.
Extraction of control parameters for the voice source in a text-to-speech system.
J. de Veth, B. Cranen, H. Strik & L. Boves (1990)
pp. 301-304.
Abstract (html)
Inter- and intra-speaker variability in Dutch speech segments: towards an analysis framework.
H. van den Heuvel, B. Cranen & A.C.M. Rietveld (1990)
technology, edited by Laver, J., Jack, M, Gardiner, A. Edinburgh, 26-28 June, 1990, 198-203.
Some notes on the use of computer aided instruction
H. van den Heuvel & B. Cranen (1988)
In: Proceedings Dept. of Language and Speech, 12, 91-98.