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Welcome from the Organizing Committee and Foreword, Corneliu BURILEANU, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Horia-Nicolai TEODORESCU, c.m. of the Romanian Academy, Technical University of Iaşi.
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Welcome addresses from Cornel PANAIT, Rector of Constanţa Maritime University.

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Speech Recognition and Understanding. Human-Computer Dialogue
Chairs: Jean-Paul HATON, Corneliu BURILEANU

• Speech Analysis for Automatic Speech Recognition: a Review,
  Jean-Paul HATON , LORIA/INRIA, Institut Universitaire de France.
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• ProtoLOGOS, System for Romanian Language Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU),
  Diana MILITARU, Inge GAVĂT, Octavian DUMITRU, Tiberiu ZAHARIA, Svetlana SEGARCEANU, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology.
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• Comparing Various Voice Recognition Techniques,
  Tudor BARBU, Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iaşi branch.
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• Optimizing a Discourse Structuring Component for Utterance Generation in Human-Computer Dialogue,
  Vladimir POPESCU*, ***, Jean CAELEN**, Corneliu BURILEANU***, *Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, University of Avignon, France, **Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, ***Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania.
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15:00 - 18:00
Text-to-Speech Synthesis. Real-Time Speech-Enabled Communication Applications
Chairs: Horia-Nicolai TEODORESCU, Dragoş BURILEANU

• Assessing the Quality of Voice Synthesizers,
  Horia-Nicolai TEODORESCU*,**, Monica FERARU**, Marius ZBANCIOC*,**, *Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, Romania, **Institute for Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iaşi, Romania.
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• Time-Frequency Processing of Partials for High-Quality Speech Synthesis,
  Amelia CIOBANU*, Cristian NEGRESCU*, Dragoş BURILEANU*, **, Dumitru STANOMIR*, *University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, **Romanian Academy Center for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest, Romania.
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• A Prosodic Control Module for a Romanian TtS System, Based on Melodic Contour Dictionaries,
  Doina JITCA, Vasile APOPEI, Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iaşi, Romania.
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• Automatic Rule-Based Syllabication for Romanian,
  Ştefan-Adrian TOMA, Eugeniu OANCEA, Doru-Petru MUNTEANU, Military Technical Academy, Communication Department, Bucharest, Romania.
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• Real-Time Architectures for a Network-Based Text-to-Speech Service Implementation,
  Mihai SURMEI*, Dragoş BURILEANU**, ***, Cristian NEGRESCU**, Cătălin UNGUREAN**, Aurelian DERVIŞ**, *ERICSSON Telecommunications Romania S.R.L., **University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, ***Romanian Academy Center for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest, Romania.
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• Experiments with the Prediction and Generation of Romanian Intonation,
  Arpad Zsolt BODO*, **, Ovidiu BUZA*, Gavril TODEREAN*, *Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, **Sprint Consulting Ltd., Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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9:30 - 11:00
Natural Language Processing
Chairs: Dan TUFIŞ, Gavril TODEREAN

• Factored Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation,
  Dan TUFIŞ, Alexandru CEAUŞU, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.
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• Dynamic Relationship Management for Personality Rich Character Presentations in Interactive Games,
  Manish MEHTA*, Kinshuk MISHRA*, Andrea CORRADINI**, *Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA, **University of Southern Denmark, Institute of Business Communication and Information Science, Kolding, Denmark.
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• Discourse Theories vs. Topic-Focus Articulation Applied to Prosodic Focus Assignment in Romanian,
  Neculai CURTEANU*, Diana TRANDABĂŢ*,**, Mihai Alex MORUZ*,**, *Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iaşi, **Faculty of Computer Science, University "Al. I. Cuza" Iaşi, Romania.
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                    Poster session

11:30 - 12:30
Natural Language Processing (continued)

• General System for Normal and Phonetic Inflection,
  Ştefan DIACONESCU, Cristi INGINERU, Felicia CODÎRLAŞU, Monica RIZEA, Oana BULIBAŞA, Softwin, Bucharest, Romania.
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• Text Conditioning and Statistical Language Modeling for Romanian Language,
  József DOMOKOS* ,**, Gavril TODEREAN**, Ovidiu BUZA**, *Sapientia University, Faculty of Technical and Human Sciences, Electrical Engineering Department, **Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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15:00 - 17:00
Speech and Audio-Signal Processing. Speech Interface Applications
Chairs: Inge GAVĂT, Cristian NEGRESCU

• Speech Recognition in a Smart Home: Some Experiments for Telemonitoring,
  Michel VACHER*, Anthony FLEURY**, Noé GUIRAND*, Jean-François SERIGNAT*, Norbert NOURY**, *LIG Laboratory , GETALP Team UMR CNRS-UJF-INPG-UPMF, Grenoble, France, **TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, AFIRM Team, La Tronche, France.
• Practical Variable Step-Size Adaptive Algorithms for Echo Cancellation,
  Constantin PALEOLOGU*, Jacob BENESTY**, Silviu CIOCHINĂ*, Călin VLĂDEANU*, *University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Romania, **INRS-EMT, Universite du Quebec, Montreal, Canada.
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• Wavelet Analysis for Audio Signals with Music Classification Applications,
  Anca POPESCU, Inge GAVĂT, Mihai DATCU, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Romania.
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• Linear Interpolation of Spectrotemporal Excitation Pattern Representations for Automatic Speech Recognition in the Presence of Noise,
  Adriana STAN, Telecommunications Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Organizers: Constantin PALEOLOGU, Călin VLĂDEANU

• A Web Tool for Testing the Recognition of Emotional States and Tones in Speech,
  Laura PISTOL*, Horia-Nicolai TEODORESCU*,**, *Institute of Computer Science of the Romanian Academy, Iaşi Branch, **"Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iaşi
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• Speech and Speech-like Psycho-physiological Signals Processing for Health and Well-being Enhancement Applications,
  Marius COTESCU, Inge GAVĂT, Ovidiu GRIGORE, Tiberius ZAHARIA, Svetlana SEGĂRCEANU, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Romania.
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• Building a Text to Speech System for Romanian through Concatenation,
  Ovidiu BUZA*, Gavril TODEREAN*, Joszef DOMOKOS**, Arpad Zsolt BODO*,***, *Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, **Sapientia University of Târgu-Mureş, ***Sprint Consulting Ltd.
• TtS Framework Building Results,
  Arpad Zsolt BODO*,**, Gavril TODEREAN**, Ovidiu BUZA**, *Sprint Consulting Ltd., **Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology.
• Spontaneous Romanian Speech Observations and Statistics for Recognition Purposes,
  Cristina Sorina PETREA*, Diana Mirela HANEŞ*, Andi BUZO*, Vladimir POPESCU*,**, Corneliu BURILEANU*, *University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, *,**Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon, University of Avignon, France.
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