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 Speech Lab Publications
  • Lilley, J., Aronoff, J., Pal, I., Bunnell, T., & Soli, S. (2010). Automatic scoring of responses to the Hearing In Noise Test using utterance verification based on hidden Markov models. Presented at the 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore, MD, April 21, 2010.[pdf]
  • Nagao, K., Cornaglia, A., & Bunnell, H.T. (2010). Development of vowel production in young children with cochlear implants. Presented at the 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Baltimore, MD, April 23, 2010.[pdf]
  • Nagao, K., Cornaglia, A., & Bunnell, H.T. (2010). Acoustic analysis of vocal development in young children with cochlear implants: A preliminary report. Presented in XVIIth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, Maryland, on March 12, 2010. [pdf]
  • Bunnell, H. T., & Lilley, J. (2008). Schwa variants in American English. Proceeding of the InterSpeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 1159-1162.
  • Yarrington, D., Pennington, C., Bunnell, T., Gray, J., Lilley, J., Nagao, K., & Polikoff, J. B. (2008). ModelTalker Voice Recorder (MTVR) - A System for Capturing Individual Voices for Synthetic Speech. Paper presented at the ISAAC 13th Biennial Conference, Montreal, Canada.
  • Yarrington, D., Gray, J., Pennington, C., Bunnell, H. T., Cornaglia, A., Lilley, J., Nagao, K., & Polikoff, J. B. (2008). ModelTalker Voice Recorder – An Interface System for Recorded a Corpus of Speech for Synthesis. Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Demo Session, Columbus, OH, pp. 28-31.[poster-pdf][paper-pdf]
  • Bunnell, H. T., Schanen, N. C., Vallino, L., Morlet, T., Polikoff, J., Driscoll, J., & Mantell, J.T. (2007). Speech Perception in Children with Speech Sound Disorder. Proceedings of the Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, pp.422-425.
  • Bunnell, H. T., Polikoff, J. B., & Mantell, J. T. (2006). Acoustic characterization of children with speech delay. Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH-2006, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 989-992.
  • Bunnell, H. T., Pennington, C., Yarrington, D., & Gray, J. (2005). Automatic personal synthetic voice construction. Proceedings of the Interspeech'2005 - Eurospeech, 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 89-92.
  • Yarrington, D., Pennington, B. F., Gray, J., & Bunnell, H. T. (2005). A System for Creating Personalized Synthetic Voices. Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2005), 196-197.
  • Bunnell, H. T., Polikoff, J. B., and McNicholas, J. (2004). Spectral moment vs. Bark cepstral analysis of children's word-initial voiceless stops. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 4-8, Jeju, Korea, pp.1313-1316. [paper-pdf] [poster-pdf]
  • Bunnell, H.T., Yarrington, D. and Polikoff, J.B. (2000). "STAR: Articulation Training for Young Children." Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 16-20, Beijing, China, vol. 4, pp. 85-88.[pdf] [ps]
  • Yarrington, D.M., Hoskins, S.R., Polikoff, J.B., and Bunnell, H.T. (2000). Personalized Synthetic Voices for AAC. Proceedings of ISAAC 2000 The Ninth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Commmunication, August 2-6, 2000, Washington, D.C., pp 700-702. [html] [ps]
  • Bunnell, H. T. (1999). "Review of The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences." Journal of Linguistics, 35, 1, 183-187.
  • Polikoff, J.B. and Bunnell, H.T. (1999) "The Nemours database of dysarthric speech: A perceptual analysis." Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, August 1-7, 1999, San Francisco, CA, USA, vol. 1, pp. 783-786. [pdf]
  • Yeni-Komshian, G.H. and Bunnell, H.T. (1998). "Perceptual Evaluations of Spectral and Temporal Modifications of Deaf Speech." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 104, no. 2, pt. 1, pp. 637-647.
  • Bunnell, H. T., Hoskins, S. R., and Yarrington, D. (1998d). "Prosodic vs. segmental contributions to naturalness in a diphone synthesizer." Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP-98, Nov. 30 - Dec. 4, 1998, Sydney Australia. Vol. 5, 1723-1726.
  • Bunnell, H. T., Hoskins, S. R., and Yarrington, D. (under revision). "Acoustic and perceptual features of focus", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
  • Hoskins, S. (1997). "On the Phonology and Phonetics of Broad and Narrow Focus in English." Doctoral Dissertation, University of Delaware.
  • Hoskins, S. (1997). "The Prosody of Broad and Narrow Focus in English: Two Experiments." Proceedings of EuroSpeech '97, Rhodes, Greece, September 22-25, pp 791-794.
  • Hoskins, S., Yarrington, D., and Bunnell, H.T. (1997). "Prosody in the ASEL Synthesizer." Proceedings of the RESNA '97 Annual Conference, RESNAPRESS, Arlington, Va., pp 348-350.
  • Yarrington, D., Hoskins, S., Menendez-Pidal, X., Taylor, K., and Bunnell, H.T. (1997). "The Automatic Construction of Voice Databases for the ASEL Text-to-Speech System." Proceedings of the RESNA '97 Annual Conference, RESNAPRESS, Arlington, Va., pp 51-53.
  • Menéndez-Pidal, X., Polikoff, J.B., Peters, S.M., Leonzio, J.E., and Bunnell, H.T. (1996). "The Nemours Database of Dysarthric Speech." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 3-6, Philadelphia, PA, USA. [pdf] [ps]
  • Barner, K. E. (1996). "Nonlinear Estimation of DEGG Signals with Applications to Speech Pitch Detection." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 3-6, Philadelphia, PA, USA. [pdf]
  • Barner, K. E. and Schumeyer, R. P. (1996). "The Effect of Visual Information on Word Initial Consonant Perception of Dysarthric Speech." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 3-6, Philadelphia, PA, USA. [pdf]
  • Hoskins, S. (1996). "A Phonetic Study of Broad and Narrow Focus in Intransitive Verb Sentences." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 3-6, Philadelphia, PA, USA. [pdf] [ps]
  • Vogel, I. and Hoskins, S. (1996). "The Interaction of Clash, Focus and Phonological Phrasing." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 3-6, Philadelphia, PA, USA. [pdf] [ps]
  • Pickett, J.M., Bunnell, H.T., and Revoile, S.G. (1995) "Phonetics of Intervocalic Consonant Perception: Retrospect and Prospect." Phonetica, 52, 1 - 40.
  • Polikoff, J.B., Bunnell, H.T., and Borkowski, W. (1995). "Toward a P300-based Computer Interface." Proceedings of the RESNA '95 Annual Conference, RESNAPRESS, Arlington, Va., pp 178-180. [html] [pdf] [ps]
  • Yarrington, D., Bunnell, H.T., and Ball, G. (1995). "Robust Automatic Extraction of Diphones with Variable Boundaries." Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1845-1848. [ps]
  • Bunnell, H.T., Yarrington, D. and Barner, K.E. (1994). "Pitch Control in Diphone Synthesis." Proceedings of the Second ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis. September 12 - 15, 1994, 127-130. [html] [ps]
  • Vogel, I., Bunnell, H.T., and Hoskins, S. (1994). "The Phonology and Phonetics of the Rhythm Rule." In Phonology and Phonetic Evidence: Papers in Laboratory Phonology IV, Bruce Connell and Amalia Arvaniti (Eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Technical Reports, Abstracts, and Presentations:
  • Lilley, J. (2008). Data-Driven Investigation of Subphonemic Variation: “Front” Schwa vs. “Back” Schwa. Paper presented at the University of Delaware Cognitive Science Graduate Student Conference, Newark DE, April 18, 2008.
  • Bunnell, H. T., & Lilley, J. (2007). Analysis methods for assessing TTS intelligibility. Paper presented at the the 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW6), Bonn, Germany.
  • Bunnell, H. T., Mantell, J. T., & Polikoff, J. B. (2006). Database size and naturalness in concatenative speech synthesis. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(5), 3037.
  • Bunnell, H. T., Gray, J., Pennington, C., and Yarrington, D. (2004). "Automatic construction of concatenative speech synthesis databases for AAC." Paper presented at the 2004 ASHA Convention, November 18-20, Philadelphia, PA. [poster-pdf]
  • Bunnell, H. T., Polikoff, J. B., McNicholas, J., and Walter, R. (2004). "Acoustic characterization of developmental speech disorders." J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., 115 (5), 2628. [pdf]
  • Polikoff, J. B., Hammond, J., McNicholas, J., Bunnell, H. T. (2004). "Spectral moments versus Bark cepstrum classification of children's voiceless stops." J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., 115 (5), 2628. [pdf]
  • Bunnell, H. T., Walter, R., Polikoff, J. B., and McNicholas, J. (2004). Computer-based speech tharapeutic intervention. Paper presented at the 2004 ASHA Convention, November 18-20, Philadelphia, PA. [poster-pdf]
  • Bunnell, H. T., McNicholas, J., Polikoff, J. B., Lilley, J., and Oikonomou, G. (2002). Personalized synthetic speech for AAC devices: The ModelTalker project. Paper presented at the 2002 ASHA Convention, November 21-24, Atlanta, GA. [poster-pdf]
  • Bunnell, H.T., Yarrington, D. and Polikoff, J.B. (2000). Using Markov Models to Assess Articulation Errors in Young Children. Presented at the 139th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, May 30 - June, 3, 2000, Atlanta, GA., 107( 5), pp 2903. [html] [ps]
  • Bunnell, H. T. and Eberhardt, S.P.(1999). "Revisiting analysis by synthesis". J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 105, 2, 1353.
  • Bunnell, H.T., Hoskins, S.R. and Yarrington, D.M. (1998a). "The ModelTalker project: Software for diphone speech synthesis and automatic diphone extraction." University of Delaware, Computer and Information Sciences Technical Report, 98-113.
  • Bunnell, H.T., Hoskins, S.R. and Yarrington, D.M. (1998b). "A biphone constrained concatenation method for diphone synthesis." To be presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Jenolan Caves, Australia, November, 1998.
  • Bunnell, H. T., Hoskins, S. R., and Yarrington, D. (1998c). "Non-traditional Acoustic Features of Focus." Proceedings of the ICA/ASA `98, 1257-1258.
  • Bunnell, HT (1997a). "Looking beyond standard models of speech acoustics." Presentation to the Workshop on Basic Science at the Intersection of Speech Science and Communication Disorders. San Diego, CA, December, 1997.
  • Hoskins, S. (1997). "Improving the Process of Automatically Extracting Diphones with Context-dependent Boundaries for Synthesized Speech." Presented at the 133rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Penn State, PA
  • Hoskins, S. (1997). "The Prosody of Broad and Narrow Focus Within Noun Phrases." Presented at the 133rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Penn State, PA
  • Menéndez-Pidal, X. (1996). "A Data Compression Algorithm for Fast Quantization Estimation." Tech. Rep.: ASEL/Speech/01b-96, ASEL, A. I. duPont Institute-Univ. of Delaware, USA [ps]
  • Hoskins, S. (1995). "On the Acoutics of Broad and Narrow Focus." Presented at the 130th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, St. Louis, MO.
  • Peters, S. M.. and Bunnell, H. T. (1995). "ANN Classification of Speech/Silence/Non-speech." ASEL Technical Report, A.I. duPont Institute. [html]
  • Zhang, G. and Bunnell, H.T. (1995). "Toward Automatic Segmentation and Syllabification of Dysarthric Speech." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 5, Pt. 2. 3246. [ps]
  • Bunnell, H.T., Hoskins, S. and Polikoff, J. (1994). "Acoustic and Perceptual Properties of Intervocalic Consonants Produced by Talkers with Cerebral Palsy." Presented at the 127th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, in Cambridge, MA, May, 1994. [ps]
  • Bunnell, H.T., Kadambe, S., Polikoff, J., Peters, S.M., and Mineo, B. (1992). "Progress in Computer Enhancement of Dysarthric Speech." Paper presented at the Fifth Biennial ISAAC conference. [ps]
  • Bunnell, H. T., and Mohammed, O. (1992). "EDWave - A PC-based Program for Interactive Graphical Display, Measurement and Editing of Speech and Other Signals." Software presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • Bunnell, H.T. and Polikoff, J. (1991). "Effects of Emphatic Stress and Speaking Mode on Articulatory Organization." J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 89, Pt. 2. [ps]
  • Peters, S. M.. and Bunnell, H. T. (1991). "Adjusting Dysarthric Speech Timing using Neural Networks." J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 89, S1. [ps]
  • Bunnell, H. T. (1990). "On Enhancement of Spectral Contrast in Speech for Hearing Impaired Listeners." J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 88, 2546-2556.
  • Bunnell, H.T. and Polikoff, J. (1990). "Observations on Disordered Articulations." J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 87, S1. [ps]

 

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