Louis C. W. Pols

According to our database, Louis C. W. Pols authored at least 71 papers between 1971 and 2011.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2011

The Acquisition of Hungarian High Front Unrounded Short vs. Long Vowels.

Krisztina Zajdó, Ton G. Wempe, Jeannette M. van der Stelt, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2011

Speech Dynamics.

Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2011

2007

The influence of masking words on the prediction of TRPs in a shadowed dialog.

Wieneke Wesseling, R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

2006

On the sufficiency and redundancy of pitch for TRP projection.

Wieneke Wesseling, Rob van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Prominent words as anchors for TRP projection.

Rob van Son, Wieneke Wesseling, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Measuring and comparing vowel qualities in a Dutch spontaneous speech corpus.

Irene Jacobi, Louis C. W. Pols, Jan Stroop

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

2005

Cross-linguistic comparison of two-year-old children's acoustic vowel spaces: contrasting Hungarian with dutch.

Krisztina Zajdó, Jeannette M. van der Stelt, Ton G. Wempe, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

The intelligibility of tracheoesophageal speech: first results.

P. Jongmans, Frans J. M. Hilgers, Louis C. W. Pols, Corina J. van As-Brooks

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

Polder dutch: aspects of the /ei/-lowering in standard dutch.

Irene Jacobi, Louis C. W. Pols, Jan Stroop

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

2004

Frisian TTS, an example of bootstrapping TTS for minority languages.

Jelske Dijkstra, Louis C. W. Pols, R. J. J. H. van Son

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

Frequency effects on vowel reduction in three typologically different languages (dutch, finish, Russian).

Rob van Son, Olga Bolotova, Louis C. W. Pols, Mietta Lennes

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

2003

Information structure and efficiency in speech production.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

2002

Evidence for efficiency in vowel production.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

2001

Up to what level can acoustical and textual features predict prominence.

Barbertje M. Streefkerk, Louis C. W. Pols, Louis ten Bosch

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

The IFA corpus: a phonemically segmented dutch "open source" speech database.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Diana Binnenpoorte, Henk van den Heuvel, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

Acquiring and implementing phonetic knowledge.

Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

Mechanical versus perceptual constraints as determinants of articulatory strategy.

Ahmed M. Elgendy, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

2000

An acoustic profile of speech efficiency.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Barbertje M. Streefkerk, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

1999

Perisegmental speech improves consonant and vowel identification.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Speech Commun., 1999

An acoustic description of consonant reduction.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Speech Commun., 1999

Acoustical features as predictors for prominence in read aloud dutch sentences used in ANN's.

Barbertje M. Streefkerk, Louis C. W. Pols, Louis ten Bosch

Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

Effects of stress and lexical structure on speech efficiency.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

1998

Report on the Third ESCA TTS Workshop evaluation procedure.

Jan P. H. van Santen, Louis C. W. Pols, Masanobu Abe, Dan Kahn, Eric Keller, Julie Vonwiller

Proceedings of the Third ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1998

The use of large text corpora for evaluating text-to-speech systems.

Louis C. W. Pols, Jan P. H. van Santen, Masanobu Abe, Dan Kahn, Eric Keller

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 1998

Automatic detection of prominence (as defined by listeners' judgements) in read aloud dutch sentences.

Barbertje M. Streefkerk, Louis C. W. Pols, Louis ten Bosch

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

Efficiency as an organizing principle of natural speech.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

1997

Tribute to James L. Flanagan.

Biing-Hwang Juang, Christel Sorin, Sadaoki Furui, Louis C. W. Pols

Speech Commun., 1997

Word juncture modelling based on the TIMIT database.

Xue Wang, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

The correlation between consonant identification and the amount of acoustic consonant reduction.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

Modeling the acoustic differences between L1 and L2 speech: the short vowels of africaans and south-african English.

Elizabeth C. Botha, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

1996

Modelling of phone duration (using the TIMIT database) and its potential benefit for ASR.

Louis C. W. Pols, Xue Wang, Louis ten Bosch

Speech Commun., 1996

Analysis of context-dependent segmental duration for automatic speech recognition.

Xue Wang, Louis C. W. Pols, Louis ten Bosch

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Integration of context-dependent durational knowledge into HMM-based speech recognition.

Xue Wang, Louis ten Bosch, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

An acoustic profile of consonant reduction.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Acoustical characteristics of sound production of deaf and normally hearing infants.

Chris J. Clement, Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

1995

What does consonant reduction look like, if it exists?

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

The influence of local context on the identification of vowels and consonants.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

1994

A structured way of looking at the performance of text-to-speech systems.

Louis C. W. Pols, Ute Jekosch

Proceedings of the Second ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1994

Voice quality of synthetic speech: representation and evaluation.

Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

A feature-profile for application-specific speech synthesis assessment and evaluation.

Ute Jekosch, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

Naturalness and intelligibility of rule-synthesized speech, supplied with specific spectro-temporal features derived from natural continuous speech.

Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

Perception of central vowel with pre- and post-anchors.

Masato Akagi, Astrid van Wieringen, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

1993

Acoustics and perception of dynamic vowel segments.

Louis C. W. Pols, R. J. J. H. van Son

Speech Commun., 1993

The perceptual relevance of CV- and VC- transitions in identifying stop consonants: cross-language results.

Astrid van Wieringen, John K. Cullen, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1993

Modelling speaker normalization by adapting the BIAS in a neural net.

David Weenink, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1993

Impact of dimensionality and correlation of observation vectors in HMM-based speech recognition.

Xue Wang, Louis ten Bosch, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1993

Vowel identification as influenced by vowel duration and formant track shape.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1993

1992

Multi-lingual synthesis evaluation methods.

Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1992

Cross-languages differences in the identification of intervocalic stop consonants by Japanese and dutch listeners.

Makio Kashino, Astrid van Wieringen, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1992

1991

The influence of formant track shape on the perception of synthetic vowels.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1991

Performance of text-to-speech conversion for dutch: a comparative evaluation of allophone and diphone based synthesis at the level of the segment, the word, and the paragraph.

Renée van Bezooijen, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1991

Comparing various feature vectors in automatic speech recognition.

Paul van Alphen, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1991

1990

Editorial.

Louis C. W. Pols

Speech Commun., 1990

Evaluating text-to-speech systems: Some methodological aspects.

Renée van Bezooijen, Louis C. W. Pols

Speech Commun., 1990

How useful are speech databases for rule synthesis development and assessment?

Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1990

1989

ESCA tutorial day and workshop on speech input/output assessment and speech databases.

Louis C. W. Pols

Speech Commun., 1989

Comparing formant movements in fast and normal rate speech.

R. J. J. H. van Son, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1989

Evaluation of a sentence accentuation algorithm for a dutch text-to-speech system.

Renée van Bezooijen, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1989

Objective evaluation of word pronunciation by filter-band analysis.

Mark J. Bakkum, Reinier Plomp, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1989

A real-time FIR-based felterbank, as the acoustic front end of a speech recognizer.

Paul van Alphen, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1989

1988

Perceptual normalization of the vowels of a man and a child in various contexts.

Dick R. van Bergem, Louis C. W. Pols, Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum

Speech Commun., 1988

1987

Word intelligibility of a rule synthesis system for French.

Louis C. W. Pols, Jean-Paul Lefèvre, Gerard Boxelaar, Nic van Son

Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Technology, 1987

Evaluation of two synthesis-by-rule systems for dutch.

Renée van Bezooijen, Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Technology, 1987

1986

How to make more efficient use of the fact that the speech signal is dynamic and redundant.

Louis C. W. Pols, Reinier Plomp

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1986

Comparative evaluation of the speech quality of speech coders and text-to-speech synthesizers.

Louis C. W. Pols, Gerard Boxelaar

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1986

1983

Intelligibility of consonants in CVC utterances produced by dyadic rule synthesis.

Louis C. W. Pols, J. P. Olive

Speech Commun., 1983

Three-mode principal component analysis of confusion matrices, based on the identification of Dutch consonants, under various conditions of noise and reverberation.

Louis C. W. Pols

Speech Commun., 1983

Dependency of processing of consonants and vowels in CV syllables.

L. E. O. Klaassen-Don, Louis C. W. Pols

Speech Commun., 1983

1982

How humans perform on a connected-digits data base.

Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1982

1979

Intelligibility of intervocalic consonants in noise.

Louis C. W. Pols

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1979

1971

Real-Time Recognition of Spoken Words.

Louis C. W. Pols

IEEE Trans. Computers, 1971