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INTERSPEECH 2005: Lisbon, Portugal
- INTERSPEECH 2005 - Eurospeech, 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005. ISCA 2005
Keynote Papers
- Graeme M. Clark: The multiple-channel cochlear implant: interfacing electronic technology to human consciousness. 1-4
Speech Recognition - Language Modelling I-III
- Yik-Cheung Tam, Tanja Schultz: Dynamic language model adaptation using variational Bayes inference. 5-8
- Alexander Gruenstein, Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff: Context-sensitive statistical language modeling. 17-20
- Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff, Grace Chung: Language model data filtering via user simulation and dialogue resynthesis. 21-24
Prosody in Language Performance I, II
- Daniel Hirst, Caroline Bouzon: The effect of stress and boundaries on segmental duration in a corpus of authentic speech (british English). 29-32
- Tomoko Ohsuga, Masafumi Nishida, Yasuo Horiuchi, Akira Ichikawa: Investigation of the relationship between turn-taking and prosodic features in spontaneous dialogue. 33-36
- Michiko Watanabe, Keikichi Hirose, Yasuharu Den, Nobuaki Minematsu: Filled pauses as cues to the complexity of following phrases. 37-40
- Angela Grimm, Jochen Trommer: Constraints on the acquisition of simplex and complex words in German. 45-48
- Julien Meyer: Whistled speech: a natural phonetic description of languages adapted to human perception and to the acoustical environment. 49-52
Spoken Language Extraction / Retrieval I, II
- Olivier Siohan, Michiel Bacchiani: Fast vocabulary-independent audio search using path-based graph indexing. 53-56
- John Makhoul, Alex Baron, Ivan Bulyko, Long Nguyen, Lance A. Ramshaw, David Stallard, Richard M. Schwartz, Bing Xiang: The effects of speech recognition and punctuation on information extraction performance. 57-60
- Tomoyosi Akiba, Hiroyuki Abe: Exploiting passage retrieval for n-best rescoring of spoken questions. 65-68
- BalaKrishna Kolluru, Heidi Christensen, Yoshihiko Gotoh: Multi-stage compaction approach to broadcast news summarisation. 69-72
- Chien-Lin Huang, Chia-Hsin Hsieh, Chung-Hsien Wu: Audio-video summarization of TV news using speech recognition and shot change detection. 73-76
The Blizzard Challenge 2005
- Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda: The blizzard challenge - 2005: evaluating corpus-based speech synthesis on common datasets. 77-80
- Shinsuke Sakai, Han Shu: A probabilistic approach to unit selection for corpus-based speech synthesis. 81-84
- John Kominek, Christina L. Bennett, Brian Langner, Arthur R. Toth: The blizzard challenge 2005 CMU entry - a method for improving speech synthesis systems. 85-88
- H. Timothy Bunnell, Christopher A. Pennington, Debra Yarrington, John Gray: Automatic personal synthetic voice construction. 89-92
- Heiga Zen, Tomoki Toda: An overview of nitech HMM-based speech synthesis system for blizzard challenge 2005. 93-96
- Wael Hamza, Raimo Bakis, Zhiwei Shuang, Heiga Zen: On building a concatenative speech synthesis system from the blizzard challenge speech databases. 97-100
- Robert A. J. Clark, Korin Richmond, Simon King: Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the blizzard challenge. 101-104
- Christina L. Bennett: Large scale evaluation of corpus-based synthesizers: results and lessons from the blizzard challenge 2005. 105-108
New Applications
- Berlin Chen, Yi-Ting Chen, Chih-Hao Chang, Hung-Bin Chen: Speech retrieval of Mandarin broadcast news via mobile devices. 109-112
- Michiaki Katoh, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Jun Ogata, Takashi Yoshimura, Futoshi Asano, Hideki Asoh, Nobuhiko Kitawaki: State estimation of meetings by information fusion using Bayesian network. 113-116
- Roger K. Moore: Results from a survey of attendees at ASRU 1997 and 2003. 117-120
- Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Basilis Kladis, Joerg Schmalenstroeer: Speech processing in the networked home environment - a view on the amigo project. 121-124
- Masahide Sugiyama: Fixed distortion segmentation in efficient sound segment searching. 125-128
- Jun Ogata, Masataka Goto: Speech repair: quick error correction just by using selection operation for speech input interfaces. 133-136
- Dirk Olszewski, Fransiskus Prasetyo, Klaus Linhard: Steerable highly directional audio beam loudspeaker. 137-140
- Hassan Ezzaidi, Jean Rouat: Automatic music genre classification using second-order statistical measures for the prescriptive approach. 141-144
- Alberto Abad, Dusan Macho, Carlos Segura, Javier Hernando, Climent Nadeu: Effect of head orientation on the speaker localization performance in smart-room environment. 145-148
- Corinne Fredouille, Gilles Pouchoulin, Jean-François Bonastre, M. Azzarello, Antoine Giovanni, Alain Ghio: Application of automatic speaker recognition techniques to pathological voice assessment (dysphonia). 149-152
- Upendra V. Chaudhari, Ganesh N. Ramaswamy, Edward A. Epstein, Sasha Caskey, Mohamed Kamal Omar: Adaptive speech analytics: system, infrastructure, and behavior. 153-156
E-learning and Spoken Language Processing
- Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman: Correlating student acoustic-prosodic profiles with student learning in spoken tutoring dialogues. 157-160
- Diane J. Litman, Katherine Forbes-Riley: Speech recognition performance and learning in spoken dialogue tutoring. 161-164
- Satoshi Asakawa, Nobuaki Minematsu, Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola, Keikichi Hirose: Structural representation of the non-native pronunciations. 165-168
- Fu-Chiang Chou: Ya-ya language box - a portable device for English pronunciation training with speech recognition technologies. 169-172
- Akinori Ito, Yen-Ling Lim, Motoyuki Suzuki, Shozo Makino: Pronunciation error detection method based on error rule clustering using a decision tree. 173-176
- Abhinav Sethy, Shrikanth Narayanan, Nicolaus Mote, W. Lewis Johnson: Modeling and automating detection of errors in Arabic language learner speech. 177-180
- Felicia Zhang, Michael Wagner: Effects of F0 feedback on the learning of Chinese tones by native speakers of English. 181-184
E-inclusion and Spoken Language Processing I, II
- Tom Brøndsted, Erik Aaskoven: Voice-controlled internet browsing for motor-handicapped users. design and implementation issues. 185-188
- Briony Williams, Delyth Prys, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide: Creating an ongoing research capability in speech technology for two minority languages: experiences from the WISPR project. 189-192
- Anestis Vovos, Basilis Kladis, Nikolaos D. Fakotakis: Speech operated smart-home control system for users with special needs. 193-196
- Takatoshi Jitsuhiro, Shigeki Matsuda, Yutaka Ashikari, Satoshi Nakamura, Ikuko Eguchi Yairi, Seiji Igi: Spoken dialog system and its evaluation of geographic information system for elderly persons' mobility support. 197-200
- Daniele Falavigna, Toni Giorgino, Roberto Gretter: A frame based spoken dialog system for home care. 201-204
Acoustic Processing for ASR I-III
- Matthias Wölfel: Frame based model order selection of spectral envelopes. 205-208
- Vivek Tyagi, Christian Wellekens, Hervé Bourlard: On variable-scale piecewise stationary spectral analysis of speech signals for ASR. 209-212
- Yanli Zheng, Richard Sproat, Liang Gu, Izhak Shafran, Haolang Zhou, Yi Su, Daniel Jurafsky, Rebecca Starr, Su-Youn Yoon: Accent detection and speech recognition for Shanghai-accented Mandarin. 217-220
- Loïc Barrault, Renato de Mori, Roberto Gemello, Franco Mana, Driss Matrouf: Variability of automatic speech recognition systems using different features. 221-224
- Slavomír Lihan, Jozef Juhar, Anton Cizmar: Crosslingual and bilingual speech recognition with Slovak and Czech speechdat-e databases. 225-228
- Carmen Peláez-Moreno, Qifeng Zhu, Barry Y. Chen, Nelson Morgan: Automatic data selection for MLP-based feature extraction for ASR. 229-232
- Thilo Köhler, Christian Fügen, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel: Rapid porting of ASR-systems to mobile devices. 233-236
- Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo Neto: A stream-based audio segmentation, classification and clustering pre-processing system for broadcast news using ANN models. 237-240
- Etienne Marcheret, Karthik Visweswariah, Gerasimos Potamianos: Speech activity detection fusing acoustic phonetic and energy features. 241-244
- Zoltán Tüske, Péter Mihajlik, Zoltán Tobler, Tibor Fegyó: Robust voice activity detection based on the entropy of noise-suppressed spectrum. 245-248
- Masamitsu Murase, Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kentaro Yamada, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Multiple moving speaker tracking by microphone array on mobile robot. 249-252
Speech Recognition - Adaptation I, II
- Yaxin Zhang, Bian Wu, Xiaolin Ren, Xin He: A speaker biased SI recognizer for embedded mobile applications. 253-256
- Bart Bakker, Carsten Meyer, Xavier L. Aubert: Fast unsupervised speaker adaptation through a discriminative eigen-MLLR algorithm. 257-260
- Rusheng Hu, Jian Xue, Yunxin Zhao: Incremental largest margin linear regression and MAP adaptation for speech separation in telemedicine applications. 261-264
- Giulia Garau, Steve Renals, Thomas Hain: Applying vocal tract length normalization to meeting recordings. 265-268
- Srinivasan Umesh, András Zolnay, Hermann Ney: Implementing frequency-warping and VTLN through linear transformation of conventional MFCC. 269-272
- Xiaodong Cui, Abeer Alwan: MLLR-like speaker adaptation based on linearization of VTLN with MFCC features. 273-276
- Chandra Kant Raut, Takuya Nishimoto, Shigeki Sagayama: Model adaptation by state splitting of HMM for long reverberation. 277-280
- Daben Liu, Daniel Kiecza, Amit Srivastava, Francis Kubala: Online speaker adaptation and tracking for real-time speech recognition. 281-284
- Masafumi Nishida, Yasuo Horiuchi, Akira Ichikawa: Automatic speech recognition based on adaptation and clustering using temporal-difference learning. 285-288
- Hui Ye, Steve J. Young: Improving the speech recognition performance of beginners in spoken conversational interaction for language learning. 289-292
- Randy Gomez, Akinobu Lee, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano: Rapid unsupervised speaker adaptation based on multi-template HMM sufficient statistics in noisy environments. 293-296
- Dong-jin Choi, Yung-Hwan Oh: Rapid speaker adaptation for continuous speech recognition using merging eigenvoices. 297-300
Signal Analysis, Processing and Feature Estimation I-III
- Jian Liu, Thomas Fang Zheng, Jing Deng, Wenhu Wu: Real-time pitch tracking based on combined SMDSF. 301-304
- András Bánhalmi, Kornél Kovács, András Kocsor, László Tóth: Fundamental frequency estimation by least-squares harmonic model fitting. 305-308
- Siu Wa Lee, Frank K. Soong, Pak-Chung Ching: Harmonic filtering for joint estimation of pitch and voiced source with single-microphone input. 309-312
- John-Paul Hosom: F0 estimation for adult and children's speech. 317-320
- Ben Milner, Xu Shao, Jonathan Darch: Fundamental frequency and voicing prediction from MFCCs for speech reconstruction from unconstrained speech. 321-324
- Nelly Barbot, Olivier Boëffard, Damien Lolive: F0 stylisation with a free-knot b-spline model and simulated-annealing optimization. 325-328
- Friedhelm R. Drepper: Voiced excitation as entrained primary response of a reconstructed glottal master oscillator. 329-332
- Damien Vincent, Olivier Rosec, Thierry Chonavel: Estimation of LF glottal source parameters based on an ARX model. 333-336
- Leigh D. Alsteris, Kuldip K. Paliwal: Some experiments on iterative reconstruction of speech from STFT phase and magnitude spectra. 337-340
- R. Muralishankar, Abhijeet Sangwan, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy: Statistical properties of the warped discrete cosine transform cepstrum compared with MFCC. 341-344
- Aníbal J. S. Ferreira: New signal features for robust identification of isolated vowels. 345-348
- Jonathan Pincas, Philip J. B. Jackson: Amplitude modulation of frication noise by voicing saturates. 349-352
- Ron M. Hecht, Naftali Tishby: Extraction of relevant speech features using the information bottleneck method. 353-356
- Mohammad Firouzmand, Laurent Girin, Sylvain Marchand: Comparing several models for perceptual long-term modeling of amplitude and phase trajectories of sinusoidal speech. 357-360
- Woojay Jeon, Biing-Hwang Juang: A category-dependent feature selection method for speech signals. 365-368
- Trausti T. Kristjansson, Sabine Deligne, Peder A. Olsen: Voicing features for robust speech detection. 369-372
Robust Speech Recognition I-IV
- Svein Gunnar Pettersen, Magne Hallstein Johnsen, Tor André Myrvoll: Joint Bayesian predictive classification and parallel model combination for robust speech recognition. 373-376
- Glauco F. G. Yared, Fábio Violaro, Lívio C. Sousa: Gaussian elimination algorithm for HMM complexity reduction in continuous speech recognition systems. 377-380
- Luis Buera, Eduardo Lleida, Antonio Miguel, Alfonso Ortega: Robust speech recognition in cars using phoneme dependent multi-environment linear normalization. 381-384
- Yi Chen, Lin-Shan Lee: Energy-based frame selection for reliable feature normalization and transformation in robust speech recognition. 385-388
- Yoshitaka Nakajima, Hideki Kashioka, Kiyohiro Shikano, Nick Campbell: Remodeling of the sensor for non-audible murmur (NAM). 389-392
Speech Perception I, II
- Jennifer A. Alexander, Patrick C. M. Wong, Ann R. Bradlow: Lexical tone perception in musicians and non-musicians. 397-400
- Joan K.-Y. Ma, Valter Ciocca, Tara L. Whitehill: Contextual effect on perception of lexical tones in Cantonese. 401-404
- Anne Cutler: The lexical statistics of word recognition problems caused by L2 phonetic confusion. 413-416
- Chun-Fang Huang, Masato Akagi: A multi-layer fuzzy logical model for emotional speech perception. 417-420
Spoken Language Understanding I, II
- Ian R. Lane, Tatsuya Kawahara: Utterance verification incorporating in-domain confidence and discourse coherence measures. 421-424
- Constantinos Boulis, Mari Ostendorf: Using symbolic prominence to help design feature subsets for topic classification and clustering of natural human-human conversations. 425-428
- Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada: Tightly integrated spoken language understanding using word-to-concept translation. 429-432
- Ruhi Sarikaya, Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo, Vaibhava Goel, Yuqing Gao: Exploiting unlabeled data using multiple classifiers for improved natural language call-routing. 433-436
- Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo, Vaibhava Goel: Active learning with minimum expected error for spoken language understanding. 437-440
- Matthias Thomae, Tibor Fábián, Robert Lieb, Günther Ruske: Lexical out-of-vocabulary models for one-stage speech interpretation. 441-444
E-inclusion and Spoken Language Processing I, II
- Mark S. Hawley, Phil D. Green, Pam Enderby, Stuart Cunningham, Roger K. Moore: Speech technology for e-inclusion of people with physical disabilities and disordered speech. 445-448
- Björn Granström: Speech technology for language training and e-inclusion. 449-452
- Roger C. F. Tucker, Ksenia Shalonova: Supporting the creation of TTS for local language voice information systems. 453-456
- Knut Kvale, Narada D. Warakagoda: A speech centric mobile multimodal service useful for dyslectics and aphasics. 461-464
Paralinguistic and Nonlinguistic Information in Speech
- Christophe Blouin, Valérie Maffiolo: A study on the automatic detection and characterization of emotion in a voice service context. 469-472
- Raul Fernandez, Rosalind W. Picard: Classical and novel discriminant features for affect recognition from speech. 473-476
- Jaroslaw Cichosz, Krzysztof Slot: Low-dimensional feature space derivation for emotion recognition. 477-480
- Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita: Proposal of acoustic measures for automatic detection of vocal fry. 481-484
- Anton Batliner, Stefan Steidl, Christian Hacker, Elmar Nöth, Heinrich Niemann: Tales of tuning - prototyping for automatic classification of emotional user states. 489-492
- Iker Luengo, Eva Navas, Inmaculada Hernáez, Jon Sánchez: Automatic emotion recognition using prosodic parameters. 493-496
- Sungbok Lee, Serdar Yildirim, Abe Kazemzadeh, Shrikanth Narayanan: An articulatory study of emotional speech production. 497-500
- Gregor Hofer, Korin Richmond, Robert A. J. Clark: Informed blending of databases for emotional speech synthesis. 501-504
- Fabio Tesser, Piero Cosi, Carlo Drioli, Graziano Tisato: Emotional FESTIVAL-MBROLA TTS synthesis. 505-508
- Felix Burkhardt: Emofilt: the simulation of emotional speech by prosody-transformation. 509-512
- Andrew Rosenberg, Julia Hirschberg: Acoustic/prosodic and lexical correlates of charismatic speech. 513-516
- Yoko Greenberg, Minoru Tsuzaki, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka: Communicative speech synthesis using constituent word attributes. 517-520
- Angelika Braun, Matthias Katerbow: Emotions in dubbed speech: an intercultural approach with respect to F0. 521-524
- Nicolas Audibert, Véronique Aubergé, Albert Rilliard: The prosodic dimensions of emotion in speech: the relative weights of parameters. 525-528
- Susanne Schötz: Stimulus duration and type in perception of female and male speaker age. 529-532
- Hideki Kawahara, Alain de Cheveigné, Hideki Banno, Toru Takahashi, Toshio Irino: Nearly defect-free F0 trajectory extraction for expressive speech modifications based on STRAIGHT. 537-540
- Tomoko Yonezawa, Noriko Suzuki, Kenji Mase, Kiyoshi Kogure: Gradually changing expression of singing voice based on morphing. 541-544
Issues in Large Vocabulary Decoding
- I. Lee Hetherington: A multi-pass, dynamic-vocabulary approach to real-time, large-vocabulary speech recognition. 545-548
- Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex Acero: Evaluation of a long-contextual-Span hidden trajectory model and phonetic recognizer using a* lattice search. 553-556
- Takaaki Hori, Atsushi Nakamura: Generalized fast on-the-fly composition algorithm for WFST-based speech recognition. 557-560
- Hiroaki Nanjo, Teruhisa Misu, Tatsuya Kawahara: Minimum Bayes-risk decoding considering word significance for information retrieval system. 561-564
- Arthur Chan, Mosur Ravishankar, Alexander I. Rudnicky: On improvements to CI-based GMM selection. 565-568
- Dominique Massonié, Pascal Nocera, Georges Linares: Scalable language model look-ahead for LVCSR. 569-572
- Miroslav Novak: Memory efficient approximative lattice generation for grammar based decoding. 573-576
- Dong-Hoon Ahn, Su-Byeong Oh, Minhwa Chung: Improved semi-dynamic network decoding using WFSTs. 577-580
- Janne Pylkkönen: New pruning criteria for efficient decoding. 581-584
- Tibor Fábián, Robert Lieb, Günther Ruske, Matthias Thomae: A confidence-guided dynamic pruning approach - utilization of confidence measurement in speech recognition. 585-588
Spoken Language Extraction / Retrieval I, II
- Toru Taniguchi, Akishige Adachi, Shigeki Okawa, Masaaki Honda, Katsuhiko Shirai: Discrimination of speech, musical instruments and singing voices using the temporal patterns of sinusoidal segments in audio signals. 589-592
- Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals, Jean Carletta: Extractive summarization of meeting recordings. 593-596
- Benoît Favre, Frédéric Béchet, Pascal Nocera: Mining broadcast news data: robust information extraction from word lattices. 601-604
- Mikko Kurimo, Ville T. Turunen: To recover from speech recognition errors in spoken document retrieval. 605-608
- Masahide Yamaguchi, Masaru Yamashita, Shoichi Matsunaga: Spectral cross-correlation features for audio indexing of broadcast news and meetings. 613-616
- Chiori Hori, Alex Waibel: Spontaneous speech consolidation for spoken language applications. 617-620
- Sameer Maskey, Julia Hirschberg: Comparing lexical, acoustic/prosodic, structural and discourse features for speech summarization. 621-624
- Te-Hsuan Li, Ming-Han Lee, Berlin Chen, Lin-Shan Lee: Hierarchical topic organization and visual presentation of spoken documents using probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) for efficient retrieval/browsing applications. 625-628
- Janez Zibert, France Mihelic, Jean-Pierre Martens, Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo Neto, Laura Docío Fernández, Carmen García-Mateo, Petr David, Jindrich Zdánský, Matús Pleva, Anton Cizmar, Andrej Zgank, Zdravko Kacic, Csaba Teleki, Klára Vicsi: The COST278 broadcast news segmentation and speaker clustering evaluation - overview, methodology, systems, results. 629-632
- Igor Szöke, Petr Schwarz, Pavel Matejka, Lukas Burget, Martin Karafiát, Michal Fapso, Jan Cernocký: Comparison of keyword spotting approaches for informal continuous speech. 633-636
- Teruhisa Misu, Tatsuya Kawahara: Dialogue strategy to clarify user's queries for document retrieval system with speech interface. 637-640
- Nicolas Moreau, Shan Jin, Thomas Sikora: Comparison of different phone-based spoken document retrieval methods with text and spoken queries. 641-644
Signal Analysis, Processing and Feature Estimation I-III
- Pedro Gómez Vilda, Francisco Díaz Pérez, Agustín Álvarez Marquina, Rafael Martínez, Victoria Rodellar, Roberto Fernández-Baíllo, Alberto Nieto, Francisco J. Fernandez: PCA of perturbation parameters in voice pathology detection. 645-648
- Anindya Sarkar, T. V. Sreenivas: Dynamic programming based segmentation approach to LSF matrix reconstruction. 649-652
- T. Nagarajan, Douglas D. O'Shaughnessy: Explicit segmentation of speech based on frequency-domain AR modeling. 653-656
- Petr Motlícek, Lukás Burget, Jan Cernocký: Non-parametric speaker turn segmentation of meeting data. 657-660
- Petri Korhonen, Unto K. Laine: Unsupervised segmentation of continuous speech using vector autoregressive time-frequency modeling errors. 661-664
- P. Vijayalakshmi, M. Ramasubba Reddy: The analysis on band-limited hypernasal speech using group delay based formant extraction technique. 665-668
- Jindrich Zdánský, Jan Nouza: Detection of acoustic change-points in audio records via global BIC maximization and dynamic programming. 669-672
- Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu: Multi-band approach of audio source discrimination with empirical mode decomposition. 673-676
- Minoru Tsuzaki, Satomi Tanaka, Hiroaki Kato, Yoshinori Sagisaka: Application of auditory image model for speech event detection. 677-680
- José Anibal Arias: Unsupervised identification of speech segments using kernel methods for clustering. 681-684
- Georgios Evangelopoulos, Petros Maragos: Speech event detection using multiband modulation energy. 685-688
- John Kominek, Alan W. Black: Measuring unsupervised acoustic clustering through phoneme pair merge-and-split tests. 689-692
- Sarah Borys, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson: Distinctive feature based SVM discriminant features for improvements to phone recognition on telephone band speech. 697-700
- P. Vijayalakshmi, M. Ramasubba Reddy: Detection of hypernasality using statistical pattern classifiers. 701-704
- Luis Weruaga, Marián Képesi: Self-organizing chirp-sensitive artificial auditory cortical model. 705-708
- Sotiris Karabetsos, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Ioannis Dologlou: On the use of a decimative spectral estimation method based on eigenanalysis and SVD for formant and bandwidth tracking of speech signals. 709-712
- Alexei V. Ivanov, Marek Parfieniuk, Alexander A. Petrovsky: Frequency-domain auditory suppression modelling (FASM) - a WDFT-based anthropomorphic noise-robust feature extraction algorithm for speech recognition. 713-716
Keynote Papers
- Fernando C. N. Pereira: Linear models for structure prediction. 717-720
Speech Recognition - Language Modelling I-III
- Chuang-Hua Chueh, To-Chang Chien, Jen-Tzung Chien: Discriminative maximum entropy language model for speech recognition. 721-724
- Minwoo Jeong, Jihyun Eun, Sangkeun Jung, Gary Geunbae Lee: An error-corrective language-model adaptation for automatic speech recognition. 729-732
- Holger Schwenk, Jean-Luc Gauvain: Building continuous space language models for transcribing european languages. 737-740
Spoken Language Acquisition, Development and Learning I, II
- Willemijn Heeren: Perceptual development of the duration cue in dutch /a-a: /. 745-748
- Hong You, Abeer Alwan, Abe Kazemzadeh, Shrikanth Narayanan: Pronunciation variations of Spanish-accented English spoken by young children. 749-752
- Willemijn Heeren: L2 development of quantity perception: dutch listeners learning Finnish /t-t: /. 753-756
- Claudio Zmarich, Serena Bonifacio: Phonetic inventories in Italian children aged 18-27 months: a longitudinal study. 757-760
- Hiroko Hirano, Goh Kawai: Pitch patterns of intonational phrases and intonational phrase groups in native and non-native speech. 761-764
- Rebecca Hincks: Measuring liveliness in presentation speech. 765-768
Multi-modal / Multi-media Processing I, II
- Nick Campbell: Non-verbal speech processing for a communicative agent. 769-772
- Stuart N. Wrigley, Guy J. Brown: Physiologically motivated audio-visual localisation and tracking. 773-776
- Jing Huang, Daniel Povey: Discriminatively trained features using fMPE for multi-stream audio-visual speech recognition. 777-780
- Graziano Tisato, Piero Cosi, Carlo Drioli, Fabio Tesser: INTERFACE: a new tool for building emotive/expressive talking heads. 781-784
- Pascual Ejarque, Javier Hernando: Variance reduction by using separate genuine- impostor statistics in multimodal biometrics. 785-788
- Jonas Beskow, Mikael Nordenberg: Data-driven synthesis of expressive visual speech using an MPEG-4 talking head. 793-796
- Oytun Türk, Marc Schröder, Baris Bozkurt, Levent M. Arslan: Voice quality interpolation for emotional text-to-speech synthesis. 797-800
- Murtaza Bulut, Carlos Busso, Serdar Yildirim, Abe Kazemzadeh, Chul Min Lee, Sungbok Lee, Shrikanth Narayanan: Investigating the role of phoneme-level modifications in emotional speech resynthesis. 801-804
- Björn Schuller, Ronald Müller, Manfred K. Lang, Gerhard Rigoll: Speaker independent emotion recognition by early fusion of acoustic and linguistic features within ensembles. 805-808
- Jonghwa Kim, Elisabeth André, Matthias Rehm, Thurid Vogt, Johannes Wagner: Integrating information from speech and physiological signals to achieve emotional sensitivity. 809-812
- Ellen Douglas-Cowie, Laurence Devillers, Jean-Claude Martin, Roddy Cowie, Suzie Savvidou, Sarkis Abrilian, Cate Cox: Multimodal databases of everyday emotion: facing up to complexity. 813-816
Spoken / Multi-modal Dialogue Systems I, II
- Francisco Torres, Emilio Sanchis, Encarna Segarra: Learning of stochastic dialog models through a dialog simulation technique. 817-820
- Lesley-Ann Black, Michael F. McTear, Norman D. Black, Roy Harper, Michelle Lemon: Evaluating the DI@l-log system on a cohort of elderly, diabetic patients: results from a preliminary study. 821-824
- Pavel Král, Christophe Cerisara, Jana Klecková: Combination of classifiers for automatic recognition of dialog acts. 825-828
- Xiaojun Wu, Thomas Fang Zheng, Michael Brasser, Zhanjiang Song: Rapidly developing spoken Chinese dialogue systems with the d-ear SDS SDK. 829-832
- Ioannis Toptsis, Axel Haasch, Sonja Hwel, Jannik Fritsch, Gernot A. Fink: Modality integration and dialog management for a robotic assistant. 837-840
- Norbert Reithinger, Daniel Sonntag: An integration framework for a mobile multimodal dialogue system accessing the semantic web. 841-844
- Ryuichi Nisimura, Akinobu Lee, Masashi Yamada, Kiyohiro Shikano: Operating a public spoken guidance system in real environment. 845-848
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Leena Helin, Perttu Prusi, Anssi Kainulainen: Distributed dialogue management for smart terminal devices. 849-852
- Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen, Esa-Pekka Salonen: Visualization of spoken dialogue systems for demonstration, debugging and tutoring. 853-856
- César González Ferreras, Valentín Cardeñoso-Payo: Development and evaluation of a spoken dialog system to access a newspaper web site. 857-860
- Olivier Pietquin, Richard Beaufort: Comparing ASR modeling methods for spoken dialogue simulation and optimal strategy learning. 861-864
- Shiu-Wah Chu, Ian M. O'Neill, Philip Hanna, Michael F. McTear: An approach to multi-strategy dialogue management. 865-868
- Anna Hjalmarsson: Towards user modelling in conversational dialogue systems: a qualitative study of the dynamics of dialogue parameters. 869-872
- Kouichi Katsurada, Kazumine Aoki, Hirobumi Yamada, Tsuneo Nitta: Reducing the description amount in authoring MMI applications. 873-876
- Kazunori Komatani, Naoyuki Kanda, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Contextual constraints based on dialogue models in database search task for spoken dialogue systems. 877-880
- Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman: Using word-level pitch features to better predict student emotions during spoken tutoring dialogues. 881-884
- Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Dan Bohus, Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi: Let's go public! taking a spoken dialog system to the real world. 885-888
- Shinya Fujie, Kenta Fukushima, Tetsunori Kobayashi: Back-channel feedback generation using linguistic and nonlinguistic information and its application to spoken dialogue system. 889-892
- Kallirroi Georgila, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon: Learning user simulations for information state update dialogue systems. 893-896
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- Saurabh Prasad, Stephen A. Zahorian: Nonlinear and linear transformations of speech features to compensate for channel and noise effects. 969-972
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Dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the terminal ileum: differentiation of activity of Crohn's disease
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To prospectively investigate a new high resolution MRI technique for dynamic evaluation of the enhancement kinetics of bowel parietal layers and to correlate it with CDAI, CRP, endoscopic activity and histologic features.
About 16 consecutive patients with proven diagnosis of CD underwent ileocolonoscopy with biopsy and serial bowel dynamic contrasted-MRI (D-CE-MRI) evaluated in blind fashion. Quantitative analysis of bowel wall enhancement kinetics was performed basing on signal to noise ratio (SNR) of inner parietal layers (Mucosa–Submucosa, M–SM) and outer parietal layers (Muscular–Serosa, Ms–S). Disease activity was defined by CDAI > 150, serum CRP > 5 mg/dL and histologic results.
About 9 patients showed a layered enhancement of bowel wall (8 active, 1 inactive), whereas inactive (7 cases) group presented a homogeneous pattern. In active patients we found a significant difference in parietal layered enhancement curves (M–SM vs. Ms–S, P < 0.03) not observed in inactive disease and controls (intra-group analysis). M–SM and Ms–S enhanced curves in clinically active patients were significantly different respect to those of patients with inactive CD (P < 0.001) (inter-group analysis). Parietal D-CE-MRI pattern well correlated with histologic features (r = 0.8; P < 0.001, Spearman test).
D-CE-MRI can be a useful tool for clinical follow-up and in the treatment strategies in CD patients.
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- Dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the terminal ileum: differentiation of activity of Crohn's disease
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Abdominal Imaging
Volume 33, Issue 4 , pp 417-424
- Cover Date
- 2008-07-01
- 10.1007/s00261-007-9267-4
- Print ISSN
- 0942-8925
- Online ISSN
- 1432-0509
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Crohn's disease
- Dynamic MRI
- Crohn's disease activity
- Bowel wall vascularity
- Contrast enhancement
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- Authors
- Riccardo Del Vescovo (1) (5)
- Ilaria Sansoni (1)
- Renato Caviglia (2)
- Mentore Ribolsi (2)
- Giuseppe Perrone (3)
- Emanuele Leoncini (4)
- Rosario Francesco Grasso (1)
- Michele Cicala (2)
- Bruno Beomonte Zobel (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Radiology, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
- 5. University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Via E. Longoni, 47, 00155, Rome, Italy
- 2. Department of Gastroenterology, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
- 3. Department of Pathology, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
- 4. Medical Faculty, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy


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Dr. Lewis Nobles, 81, scientist, educator, and administrator died May 25, 2007 at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland. Visitation is 3-5 p.m. Sunday and after 9 a.m. Monday at Lakewood Funeral Home. Services are 10 a.m. Monday in the funeral home chapel with burial to follow in Lakewood Memorial Park.
Dr. Nobles was the son of J.S. Nobles and Ruby Roper Nobles. He was born in Meridian, on September 11, 1925. He entered the U. S. Navy in 1944, attended Ursinus College in the V-12 program during WWII, and was honorably discharged as a Lieutenant in 1952. He earned his B.S. in Pharmacy in 1948 and the M.S. in Chemistry in 1949 from the University of Mississippi, and the Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1952. He was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan from 1958-59.
Dr. Nobles was a member of the University of Mississippi faculty from 1952-68, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry 1955-68, Dean of the University of Mississippi Graduate School 1960-68, and coordinator of university research 1964-68.
Dr. Nobles authored more than 75 technical papers and was co-author of Physical and Technical Pharmacy and contributor to numerous other publications. He was a national leader in pharmaceutical circles and recipient of the International Rho Chi Pharmaceutical Award as well as numerous other awards for his stimulation of research. Among his pioneering pharmaceutical works were the initial production of a gel formulation of alcohol and work on an antimalarial agent for Parke-Davis.
He served on the Board of Trustees for both the Oxford Separate School District and the Clinton Public School District. He was a member of the Lions Club in Oxford and Rotary in Oxford and Jackson.
He began his tenure as President of Mississippi College in the summer of 1968. His contributions to the College include the strengthening and expansion of academic programs with a School of Nursing and a School of Law. Under his leadership, a FM radio station (WHJT 93.5 FM) was established and the Latimer House, a Victorian home on campus, was restored and now serves as a college guesthouse.
An avid fan of all Choctaw Sports, Dr. Nobles led the way in moving intercollegiate athletics from original facilities on the east side of the campus to new facilities and fields on the west side of the campus. He was instrumental in the formation of the Gulf South Conference.
He was recognized in 1986 as one of the Top 18 most effective college presidents in the nation and was very much involved in public policy issues at the state and federal levels. He was a founding member of the Coalition of Christian Colleges, and served as president of many leadership associations of Baptist and independent colleges. He was instrumental in the formation of a consortium of colleges devoted to missions through international programs. Dr. Nobles was honored many times over by his peers and associates including a series of celebrations in 1992-93 of his 25-year tenure as President of Mississippi College.
He was a member of First Baptist Church of Clinton and served as a deacon. He was also active in denominational affairs at the local, state, and national levels.
His brother, J. Sydney Nobles, and his daughter, Suzanne, who was killed in an accident in 1973, preceded Dr. Nobles in death. He is survived by his wife of over 58 years, the former Joy Ford of Picayune who lives in Clinton; his daughter Sandra Nash and husband, Ben, of Clinton; and two grandchildren, Amy Nash Parker and husband, Ryan, of Alameda, CA, and Benny Nash and wife, Windy, of Brandon.
The family requests in lieu of flowers, gifts be made to the WMU Foundation or the Christian Women's Job Corps Special Fund at Woman's Missionary Union, 100 Missionary Ridge, Birmingham, AL 35242.
Published in the Clarion Ledger on 5/26/2007.
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Hunter of the Forest: Part 1
It has been a while since I've actually written fiction, so I'm not terribly sure how well it's going to go or whether I'll even continue it. Anyhow, here is the first part of what I've written so far. Enjoy.
Vella looked down below from the treetops, bow ready in hand. Her eyes scanned the undergrowth for any game she could hunt. It was a quiet day – she barely caught anything today. There was no breeze. It was too quiet.
Frustrated, she stood up from the tree branch she was sitting on. Sometimes you'd get bad days but this was certainly out of the ordinary. With a swift ease she started scaling down the tree down to the undergrowth below when a cold chill ran up her back and arms. She paused as soon as she could and drew her bow, scanning the forest. Nothing. Vella hopped down the final branch with a cat-like grace and carefully made her way to her camp.
As she approached her camp she saw at the campsite a figure. Metal plate armour. Perhaps they finally found her, but it was odd that there was only one. Normally the knights would search in twos or threes.
Peering from the bushes she could clearly see the heavily armoured person poking around at her belongings. The figure sported a heavy broadsword on its back and a crest of the Kingdom emblazoned on its shoulder piece. It's definitely human. Arrow fully drawn, ready to shoot, she called out. "What are you doing at my camp?" The figure whirled around in surprise, unsure of where the voice came from. "Careful, or you'll find an arrow between your eyes."
"I was separated from battle and got lost in the woods," a raspy voice quivered. Vella could tell that the figure was parched. After a short pause the figure added "It has been days. Could you at least show yourself?"
Slowly she stood up from the undergrowth, arrow still trained on the figure. "There's a waterskin beside the tent. Take that and get out of here."
It was hard to see the face under the full-faced helmet, but you could tell the expression turned from caution to unfriendliness. "An elf," it growled.
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I finally got rid of my old website and this is my new blog. It has been a while but I would like to get back into writing stuff.
Suffering from the flu I spent most of the weekend cooped up in front of my computer tinkering with the design of the site, building the theme from scratch. The penguin I made at the top of the page was a brilliant stroke of inspiration while working with the random background I picked. For a rather quick weekend job I am quite pleased with the outcome. That said, do expect this site to break as I mess around with it further.
Anyways, back to the topic of the blog. I realised I've hardly been writing much lately and have gotten somewhat rusty. So to get back into the swing of things I plan on filling the blog with a mishmash of random things. Heck, I'd probably throw in a Fiction category if that's what it takes to get the writing juices flowing again.
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Two big changes are coming to taxes in Ohio this weekend: The state sales tax goes up, and the state's personal income tax goes down.
The income tax rate for individual taxpayers will drop by 8.5 percent, while the state sales tax goes up a quarter of a percent,from 5.5 percent to 5.75 percent. Tax Commissioner Joe Testa says most people won't notice the sales tax increase.
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I used to think Shake Shack might be undervalued. Not anymore.
Last week, I wrote a positive article on burger chain Shake Shack's SHAKE SHACK INC SHAK 118.5714% IPO on the basis that, "in [the indicative $14 to $16] price range, the shares could significantly undervalue Shake Shack's growth potential." The shares began trading today, and I'm much less excited about the offering. In fact, I think investors ought to avoid the stock entirely. What's changed?
Is no price too high?
It's not unreasonable to think a stock that is attractive at $15 may well be repulsive at more than three times that price — which is where Shake Shack shares are now trading. (The stock was at $48.62 at 12:30 p.m. EST.) Indeed, the underwriters raised the price range to $17 to $19 — and the number of shares being sold — before finally pricing the shares at $21.
Apparently, that did nothing to deter investors once shares began trading in the second market this morning – they opened at $47, for a 124% pop! Despite solid or even outstanding fundamentals, a business will not support any valuation. Price matters.
Last week, I compared Shake Shack to Chipotle Mexican Grill CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC. CMG -0.6564% . Let's see how the share valuations of the two companies on their first day of trading now compare:
Number of restaurants operated by the company at the time of the public offering | Price / TTM Sales (based on closing price on first day of trading)* |
Chipotle | 453 | 4.4 |
Shake Shack | 26 | 16.1 |
That's a huge gap between the two price-to-sales multiples! Given the massive appreciation in Chipotle's stock price since the close of its first day of trading — a more than fifteenfold increase in just more than nine years! — there's a good argument to be made that the shares were undervalued at that time.
However, had Chipotle closed at $160 instead of $44 on its first day of trading — which would equalize the price-to-sales multiples — subsequent gains would have been significantly less impressive.
Buy potential performance at a discount, not a premium
Furthermore, with Chipotle, we are looking back at performance that has already been achieved, both in terms of the stock and the company's operations. The Mexican chain has executed superbly well during that period.
With regard to Shake Shack — however likely you think a similar business performance is — it remains in the realm of possibility instead of certainty. I don't know about you, but when I buy possibility, I like to buy it at a discount to the price of certainty.
Although I think Shake Shack's brand positioning is comparable, and possibly even superior, to that of Chipotle, I'm not convinced the business fundamentals are as attractive.
For one thing, Shake Shack faces stiffer competition in its segment than Chipotle did (or does) in the likes of Five Guys and In-N-Out Burger. For another, Shake Shack's same-store sales growth is significantly lower than Chipotle's was, at just 3% for the 39 weeks ended Sep. 24 versus 10.2% for Chipotle in 2005, which was followed by 13.7% in 2006.
Don't swallow these shares
Shake Shack may produce a premium burger — founder Danny Meyer refers to this segment as "fine casual dining" — but the stock is currently selling at a super-premium price. Paying that price is the equivalent of eating "empty calories" — it could end up being detrimental to your financial health.
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The adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 ten years ago – on 31 October 2000 – marks a watershed in the approach to security policy issues in the United Nations. Resolution 1325 represented the first internationally legally binding call for the active involvement of women in all phases of conflict resolution and conflict prevention. The Resolution has since been instrumental in shaping foreign and security policy in the Federal Republic of Germany, in the European Union, in NATO, as well as in other international organizations
Report of the Government of the Federal Government of Germany on the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 ("Women, Peace and Security") 2010
I wanted to point out what the UN-Security Council is already doing to protect children in conflict and to fight impunity, and why this has been quite successful so far. Very briefly, the UN-mechanism dealing with children and armed conflict consists of three elements: the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed conflict, the country-based Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism on children and armed conflict, currently active in 13 conflict areas and a Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflicts
Statement by Ambassadors Wittig in his capacity as Chairman of the SC Working Group on "Children in Armed Conflict" at Columbia University


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Written on: 22/08/2006 by rho (1 review written)
I bought my EM3000 sewing and embroidery machine from www.joyssewingmachines.co.uk. It looks to be solidly built, and Joy's service warranties appear impressive (untested). It is an embroidery machine that can also be used as a sewing machine. The embroidery area is a good size, and it was way cheaper than the name-brand competition.
There is no needle up/down control in utility sewing, no help with threading, thread-cutting or locking at end of a seam. Clunky, hard-to-turn knobs for stitch-select and stitch-length. Crude tension control. Front-loading, non-transparent bobbin. Switching between embroidery and regular sewing requires you to change the table (which is not easy, as the embroidery table is heavy and has to be lined up just so). The other bad points are the foot (with a screw knob, not a quick-release lever), the stitch length knob (to drop/raise the feed dogs manually), the upper thread tension (manual reset again) and possibly the stitch selector.
This feels like a machine of 15 years ago. I'm sending mine back to the manufacturer and will buy something else.
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141 Percy Street, 3305 Portland, Australia – Show map
Pretty old style, but clean.
Like being in a timewarp. 1960s decor.
Everything, especially being so close to CBD.
Handy to city centre.
New Zealand
Convenience for what I had planned, easy walk to town center and around town.
All of the above
Beds were clean and comfortable Bathroom clean. Good location for seeing the town
New Zealand
Clean, professional.
Nice big clean rooms, near city centre
clean and everything worked
William Dutton Motel is located within the Portland's town centre, a 5-minute drive from Lee Breakwater and the Portland Cable Tram. It offers free on-site parking and free Wi-Fi access.
Fully air-conditioned, each room has a kitchenette with a microwave, a fridge and tea/coffee making facilities. Rooms also come with a seating area and have a flat-screen TV.
Luggage storage is provided. Fax and photocopying services are available.
The hotel offers a breakfast service, and a cooked/continental breakfast can be enjoyed in the comfort of guests' own rooms.
Motel William Dutton is a 15-minute drive from the Bridgewater Bay and the Port Nelson State Park.
We speak your language! Motel: 29 rooms , Hotel Chain: Arra Accommodation Group. This property has been on Booking.com since Jun 4, 2012.
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Next door were extremely roudy all night on the first night
Having to have the door partially open for fresh air as poor ventilation in the room.
20 minute wait in office on arrival - not attended. Inability to find our booking. Breakfast hutch door banged all night long in a slight breeze. Hairs on bathroom floor. Pillows that are well past their use by date - one lump or two? Misleading information on WiFi access. Noise on driveway in front of the unit on arrival. Sign on Office door stating they were fully booked. Strange - only saw our car plus owners.
Pretty old style, but clean.
No internet due to problems with the router (not provider).
Like being in a timewarp. 1960s decor.
Nowhere to eat in this town after 8:30 pm. Portland has nothing to offer really.
stinky bathroom/toilet. seen better settee in hard rubbish collection. generally not very clean. would not stay there again. electrical fault in bedside lamps,looked like a loose connection.
Everything, especially being so close to CBD.
Handy to city centre.
The fact that all the fish and chip shops,closed by 4.00 p m on a Saturday.
good location reasonably clean
parking bays small for modern cars needs a makeover no hot breakfast on a Sunday
Convenience for what I had planned, easy walk to town center and around town.
Door jammed a bit and required manipulating so people with hand and arm issues would have probs. Heating a bit old and noisy, needed to turn up tv to hear over it, worked well but a up grade to whisper quieter would have been more useful.
All of the above
There wasnt knifes ,forks &plates Car park exit is very narrow
Location and the use of a microwave. Within walking distance of fast food outlets.
They need to check regularly that the pump packs of conditioner, shampoo and body lotion are filled regularly. The room we were in had no conditioner or body lotion. Could a photocopied sign, where the bench for the 'kitchen' is, tell you that the toaster and tea\coffee things are in the cupboard under the T.V.? Many of us do not read the compendium until we have settled in. We were on the bottom floor so during the night could hear people in the room above going to the toilet and the noise of the plumbing.
Beds were clean and comfortable Bathroom clean. Good location for seeing the town
Clean, professional.
Soul-less. No little extras - bare minimum and I object to being expected to pay $10 per day for wi-fi access.
Maintenance was not up to date. Furnishings were frayed and the carpet in need of cleaning. Bathroom required forensic cleaning. Disoponting.
location, size of the rooms were great, staff friendly,
having to pay for the wi fi the pillows were too soft(personal ), and not enough