Speech and Computer: 22nd International Conference, SPECOM 2020, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 7-9

Lightweight CNN for Robust Voice Activity Detection.- Hate Speech Detection Using Transformer Ensembles on the HASOC Dataset.- MP3 Compression to Diminish Adversarial Noise in End-to-End Speech Recognition.- Exploration of End-to-End ASR for OpenSTT - Russian Open Speech-to-Text Dataset.- Directional Clustering with Polyharmonic Phase Estimation for Enhanced Speaker Localization.- Speech Emotion Recognition using Spectrogram Patterns as Features.- Pragmatic Markers in Dialogue and Monologue: Difficulties of Identification and Typical Formation Models.- Data Augmentation and Loss Normalization for Deep Noise Suppression.- Automatic Information Extraction from Scanned Documents.- Dealing with Newly Emerging OOVs in Broadcast Programs by Daily Updates of the Lexicon and Language Model.- A Rumor Detection in Russian Tweets.- Automatic Prediction of Word form Reduction in Russian Spontaneous Speech.- Formant Frequency Analysis of MSA Vowels  in Six Algerian Regions.- Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis of Extemporaneous Speech Transcriptions in Russian.- Predicting a Cold from Speech using Fisher Vectors; SVM and XGBoost as Classifiers.- Toxicity in Texts and Images on the Internet.- An Automated Pipeline for Robust Image Processing and Optical Character Recognition of Historical Documents.- Lipreading with LipsID.- Automated Destructive Behavior State Detection on the 1D CNN-based Voice Analysis.- Rhythmic Structures of Russian Prose and Occasional Iambs (a Diachronic Case Study) .- Automatic Detection of Backchannels in Russian Dialogue Speech.- Experimenting with Attention Mechanisms in Joint CTC-Attention Models for Russian Speech Recognition.- Comparison of Deep Learning Methods for Spoken Language Identification.- Conceptual Operations with Semantics for a Companion Robot.- Legal Tech: Documents' Validation Method Based on the Associative-Ontological Approach.- Audio Adversarial Examples for Robust Hybrid CTC/Attention Speech Recognition.- CTC-Segmentation of Large Corpora for German End-to-End Speech Recognition.- Stylometrics Features under Domain Shift: Do they Really "Context-independent".- Speech Features of 13-15 Year-old Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.- Multi-corpus Experiment on Continuous Speech Emotion Recognition: Convolution or Recurrence.- Detection of Toxic Language in Short Text Messages.- Transfer Learning in Speaker's Age and Gender Recognition.- Interactivity-based Quality Prediction of Conversations with Transmission Delay.- Graphic Markers of Irony and Sarcasm in Written Texts.- Digital Rhetoric 2.0: How to Train Charismatic Speaking with Speech-melody Visualization Software.- Generating a Concept Relation Network for Turkish Based on ConceptNet Using Translational Methods.- Bulgarian Associative Dictionaries in the LABLASS Web-based System.- Preliminary Investigation of Potential Steganographic Container Localization.- Some Comparative Cognitive and Neurophysiological Reactions to Code-modified Internet Information.- The Influence of Multimodal Polycode Internet Content on Human Brain Activity.- Synthetic Speech Evaluation by Differential Maps in Pleasure-Arousal Space.- Investigating the Effect of Emoji in Opinion Classification of Uzbek Movie Review Comments.- Evaluation of Voice Mimicking using i-vector Framework.- Score Normalization of x-vector Speaker Verification System for Short-duration Speaker Verification Challenge.- Genuine Spontaneous vs Fake Spontaneous Speech: in Search of Distinction.- Mixing Synthetic and Recorded Signals for Audio-book Generation.- Temporal Concord in Speech Interaction: Overlaps and Interruptions in Spoken American English.- Cognitively Challenging: Language Shift and Speech Rate of Academic Bilinguals.- Toward Explainable Automatic Classification of Children's Speech Disorders.- Recognition Performance of Selected Speech Recognition APIs - A Longitudinal Study.- Does A Priori Phonological Knowledge Improve Cross-Lingual Robustness of Phonemic Contrasts.- Can We Detect Irony in Speech Using Phonetic Characteristics Only? - Looking for a Methodology of Analysis.- Automated Compilation of a Corpus-based Dictionary and Computing Concreteness Ratings of Russian.- Increasing the Accuracy of the ASR System by Prolonging Voiceless Phonemes in the Speech of Patients using the Electrolarynx.- Leverage Unlabeled Data for Abstractive Speech Summarization with Self-Supervised Learning and Back-Summarization.- Uncertainty of Phone Voicing and its Impact on Speech Synthesis.- Grappling with Web Technologies: the Problems of Remote Speech Recording.- Robust Noisy Speech Parameterization Using Convolutional Neural Networks.- More than Words: Cross-Linguistic Exploration of Parkinson's Disease Identification from Speech.- Phonological Length of L2 Czech Speakers' Vowels in Ambiguous Contexts as Perceived by L1 Listeners.- Learning an Unsupervised and Interpretable Representation of Emotion from Speech.- Synchronized Forward-Backward Transformer for End-to-End Speech Recognition.- KazNLP: a Pipeline for Automated Processing of Texts Written in Kazakh Language.- Diarization based on Identification with x-vectors.- Different Approaches in Cross-Language Similar Documents Retrieval in the Legal Domain.