Home Page of Louis C.W. Pols

Home Page of Louis C.W. Pols

To IFA home page

Short_CV

Present_professional_activities

Supervized_dissertations

Presentations

Publications

ISCA 2001 Medal for scientific achievement

2005 honorary medal University of Amsterdam

Short CV

1941 born in Tiel, the Netherlands
1958 High School Diploma (HBS-B, Roosendaal)
1964 Degree in Physics (Technological University, Delft)
1964-1982 TNO Institute for Perception, Soesterberg. Speech and Hearing Department (head R. Plomp)
1966 Married with Anneliese (J.E.M.) de Bot, meanwhile two daughters (Edith E.M. 1967, Mirjam M.J. 1969)
1977 Ph.D.-thesis "Spectral analysis and identification of Dutch vowels in monosyllabic words", Free University of Amsterdam (promotor prof. dr. ir. R. Plomp)
1978-1979 One-year stay on ZWO-fellowship in the United States at the (former) Speech Communication Research Lab (SCRL) in Santa Barbara, CA and at (then) AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
1981 SCAMP-81, Acoustic phonetics and speech modeling, extended stay at Williamstown, MA
1982 Appointed full professor in Phonetic Sciences at the University of Amsterdam in the Faculty of Arts (since Oct. 1997 called Faculty of Humanities). Director of Institute of Phonetic Sciences, Herengracht 338, 1016 CG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1985-2005 Board member of the Dutch Foundation on Speech Technology (SST)
1988-1998 Board Member and co-founder of ESCA
1989 Chairman of ESCA Tutorial Day and Research Workshop (ETRW) on 'Speech I/O assessment and speech databases', Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
1990 4 Weeks stay at NTT, Basic Research Lab., Tokyo, Japan
1992-1997 Scientific director of Research Institute IFOTT
1992-2004 Member Permanent Council of the International Conferences on Spoken Language Processing (PC-ICSLP) (since 1992, re-elected in 1998, stopped in 2004 at creation of Interspeech under ISCA)
1993-1997 President of ESCA
1996-1997 Co-chairman of the Int. Workshop Speech and Computer SPECOM'96 in St.-petersburg, Russia and SPECOM'97 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1997 2 Weeks stay in China (Peking University, Institute of Acoustics, Phonetics Department)
1997-2003 Member of the NWO Council for the Humanities (Gebiedsbestuur Geesteswetenschappen)
1998-2003 Member of the NWO Steering Committee 'Spoken Dutch Corpus CGN'
1998-2005 Member of the Senate of the University of Amsterdam; chairman during 2nd term
1998-2010 Member of the Advisory Council of ISCA
2001 ISCA Medal for scientific achievement, at Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark
2001-2002 Temporary scientific director of Research Institute ACLC
2001 and 2005 Member of the Jury Keetje Hodshonprijs Taalwetenschappen
2002-2008 Member of the NWO Steering Committee IMIX (Interactive Multimodal Information Extraction)
2004-2007 Member Organizing Committee Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium
2005 Honorary medal for special services to the university, Farewell Lecture at Univeristy of Amsterdam
2006 April, 65 years of age, formal retirement
2006-2010 Member of the ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Committee
2008 September, elected at Interspeech 2008 in Brisbane as one of the first 12 ISCA Fellows
2009-2011 Member of the ISCA Fellow Selection Committee

Present professional activities

Member Editorial Board of the international journal Speech Communication (since 1981)
Member Permanent Council for the Organisation of International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) (since 1992; re-elected in 2007)
Member Royal Holland Society of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem) (since 1995)
Member Working Group STEVIN Flanking Activities (since Nov. 2006)
Member Scientific Advisory Council of DANS-KNAW (Data Archiving and Networked Services) (since March 2007)

Supervized dissertations

Jacobi, I. (2009), On variation and change in diphthongs and long vowels of spoken Dutch, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, 143 pag.
Jongmans, P. (2008), The intelligibility of tracheoesophageal speech. An analytic and rehabilitation study, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, 272 pag.
Weenink, D.J.M. (2006), Speaker-adaptive vowel identification, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, 236 pag.
Streefkerk, B. (2002), Prominence. Acoustic and lexical/syntactic correlates, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, LOT 58, 168 pag.
Van As, C.J. (2001), Tracheoesophageal Speech. A Multidimensional Assessment of Voice Quality, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, 209 pag.
Van Dijk, J.S.C. (2001), Mechanical aspects of hearing, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, 211 pag.
Elgendy, A.M.S. (2001), Aspects of pharyngeal coarticulation, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, LOT 44, 312 pag.
Donzel, M. E. van (1999), Prosodic aspects of information structure in discourse, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, LOT 23, 194 pag.
Jansonius-Schultheiss, K. (1999), Twee jaar spraak en taal bij schisis, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, LOT 17, 277 pag.
Mozziconacci, S. (1998), Speech variability and emotion: Production and perception, Ph.D thesis, Technological Univ. of Eindhoven, 210 pag.
Boersma, P. (1998), Functional Phonology. Formalizing the interactions between articulatory and perceptual drives, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, LOT 11, 493 pag.
Verdonck-de Leeuw, I. M. (1998), Voice characteristics following radiotherapy: the development of a protocol, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, SLLU 33, 137 pag.
Wang, X. (1997), Incorporating knowledge on segmental duration in HMM-based continuous speech recognition, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, SLLU 29, 190 pag.
Reetz, H. (1996), Pitch perception in speech: A time domain approach. Implementation and evaluation., Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, SLLU 26, 236 pag.
Wieringen, A. van (1995), Perceiving dynamic speechlike sounds. Psycho-acoustics and speech perception, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, 256 pag.
Bergem, D. R. van (1995), Acoustic and lexical vowel reduction, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, SLLU 16, 195 pag.
Van der Stelt, J.M. (1993), Finally a word: A sensori-motor approach of the mother-infant system in its development towards speech, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, 256 pag.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. (1993), Spectro-temporal features of vowel segments, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, SLLU 3, 195 pag.
Kuijpers, C.T.L. (1993), Temporal coordination in speech development. A study on voicing contrast and assimilation, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, 165 pag.
Van Gelderen, A.J.S. (1992), De evaluatie van spreekvaardigheid in communicatieve situaties. Globale beoordeling en gedetailleerde analyse van spreekprestaties van 11- en 12-jarigen, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, SCO-report 303, 265 pag.
Tielen, M.T.J. (1992), Male and female speech. An experimental study of sex-related voice and pronunciation characteristics, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, 180 pag.
Van Alphen, P. (1992), HMM-based continuous-speech recognition. Systematic evaluation of various system components, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, 216 pag.
Steeneken, H.J.M. (1992), On measuring and predicting speech intelligibility, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, 165 pag.
Ten Bosch L.F.M. (1991), On the structure of vowel systems. Aspects of an extended vowel model using effort and contrast, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Amsterdam, 190 pag.
Bloothooft , G. (1985), Spectrum and timbre of sung vowels, Ph.D.-thesis, Free Univ. of Amsterdam, 169 pag.
Klaassen-Don, L.E.O. (1983), The influence of vowels on the perception of consonants, Ph.D.-thesis, Univ. of Leiden, 153 pag.

Presentations

Pols, L.C.W. (2011), "Speech Dynamics", Plenary keynote at 17th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS 2011 in Hong Kong, Aug. 18, 2011. (Powerpoint presentation)
Pols, L.C.W. (2005), "Samenspraak. Fonetische kennis verwerven en implementeren", Farewell Lecture Aula Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 3rd, 2005. (Dutch text with sheets in English)
Pols, L.C.W. (2004), "Spraak in de maak", Afscheidsymposium Florien van Beinum, Singelkerk, Amsterdam, July 2, 2004. (Powerpoint sheets, 4,058 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2004), "Current developments in phonetics", MIT Symposium 'From Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication', Cambridge MA, June 11-15, 2004. (Powerpoint sheets, 632 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2004), "Praten met mens en machine", Lezing TUD, Delft, Apr. 15, 2004. (Powerpoint sheets, 817 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2002), "Ontwikkeling van klinkerruimte: Uitingen van dove en horende baby's", Dag van de Fonetiek, Utrecht, Dec. 19, 2002. (Powerpoint sheets, 618 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2002), "Spraaksignaalverwerking", Signaalverwerkingscolloquium TNO-FEL, den Haag, October 10, 2002. (Powerpoint sheets, 278 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2002), "Speech acoustics and phonetics", NATO-ASI Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception, July 1st 2002, Il Ciocco, Italy. (Powerpoint sheets, 297 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2002), "From speech signal acoustics to perception", NATO-ASI Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception, July 4th 2002, Il Ciocco, Italy. (Powerpoint sheets, 295 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2001), "Multilingual HLT in Europe and the development of ASR", Keynote address at the 12th Annual Symp. of the South African Pattern Recognition Association - PRASA2001, Nov. 30, 2001, Franschhoek, South Africa. (Powerpoint sheets, 580 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2001), "Acquiring and implementing phonetic knowledge", Plenary keynote at Eurospeech'2001 - Scandinavia, Sept. 3, 2001, Aalborg, Denmark. (Powerpoint sheets, 847 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2001), "The 10-million words Spoken Dutch Corpus and its potential use in experimental phonetics", Int. Symp. on "100 Years of Experimental Phonetics in Russia", Febr. 1-4, 2001, St.-Petersburg, Russia. (Powerpoint sheets, 590 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2000), "An acoustic profile of speech efficiency", Oct. 20, 2000, ICSLP 2000, Beijing, China. (Powerpoint sheets, 124 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2000), "Speech is beautiful", Wolfgang Hess 60 years, Sept. 29,2000, Germany. (Powerpoint sheets, 305 Kb)
Pols, L.C.W. (2000), "Human and Machine Performance in Speech Processing", Heraeus-Seminar "Speech Recognition and Speech Understanding", April 3-5, 2000, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany. (Powerpoint sheets, 440 Kb)
Pols, L. C. W. (1999), "Flexible, robust, and efficient human speech processing versus present-day speech technology", Plenary keynote at 14th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS99, August 2, 1999, San Fransisco, CA. (Powerpoint sheets, 340 Kb)

Publications

2011

Pols, L.C.W. (2011), "Speech Dynamics", Proc. 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS 2011, Hong Kong. (pdf-file)

2010

Jongmans, P., Wempe, A.G., van Tinteren, H., Hilgers, F.J.M., Pols, L.C.W. and van As-Brooks, C.J. (2010), "Acoustic analysis of the voiced-voiceless distinction in Dutch tracheoesophegeal speec", Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 53(2), 284-297.

2009

Pols, L.C.W. (2009), "Phonetics: Consistency and Variability", In: Frontiers in Phonetics and Speech Science, G. Fant, H. Fujisaki and J. Shen (Eds.), The Commercial Press, Beijing, 349-357.

2008

Jongmans, P., van Rossum, M., van As-Brooks, C., Hilgers, F. & Pols, L. (2008), “An evidence-based rehabilitation program for tracheoesophageal speakers”, Proc. Invitational Round Table “Evidence-based Voice and Speech Rehabilitation in Head and Neck Cancer”, May 15-16, Amsterdam, pp. 41-60.
Stelt, J.M. van der, Wempe, T.G. & Pols, L.C.W. (2008), “Comparing deaf and hearing Dutch infants: Changes in the vowel space in the first 2 years”, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, pp. 835-844.

2007

Jacobi, I., Pols, L. & Stroop, J. (2007), “Dutch diphthong and long vowel realizations as changing socioeconomic markers”, Proc. ICPhS XVI, Saarbrücken, pp. 1481-1484.
Jongmans, P., Wempe, T., Hilgers, F., Pols, L. & As-Brooks, C. van (2007), “Acoustic correlates of the voiced-voiceless distinction in Dutch normal and tracheoesophageal speakers”, Proc. ICPhS XVI, Saarbrücken, pp. 1997-2000.
Wesseling, W., Son, R.J.J.H. van & Pols, L.C.W. (2007), “The influence of masking words on the prediction of TRPs in a shadowed dialog”, Proc. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, pp. 1254-1257.

2006

As-Brooks, C.J. van, Koopmans-van Beinum, F.J., Pols, L.C.W. & Hilgers, F.J.M. (2006), “Acoustic signal typing for evaluation of voice quality in tracheoesophageal speech”, Journal of Voice, 20(3), 355-368.
Jacobi, I., Pols, L.C.W. & Stroop, J. (2006), “Measuring and comparing vowel qualities in a Dutch spontaneous speech corpus”, Proc. Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, 701-704.
Jongmans, P., Hilgers, F.J.M., Pols, L.C.W. & As-Brooks, C.J. van (2006), “The intelligibility of tracheoesophageal speech, with an emphasis on the voiced-voiceless distinction”, Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology, 31(4), 172-181.
Pols, L.C.W., Lyakso, E., Stelt, J.M. van der, Wempe, T.G. & Zajdo, K. (2006), “Vowel data of early speech developemnt in several languages”, Proc. Multiling 2006, Stellenbosch, see http://www.unistel.co.za/multiling2006/pdfs/pols.pdf, also on CD-rom.
Pols, L.C.W. & Son, R.J.J.H. van (2006), “Speech dynamics: Acoustic manifestations and perceptual consequences”, In: P. Divenyi, S. Greenberg & G. Meyer (Eds.), Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception, NATO Science Series 1, Life and Behavioural Sciences – Vol. 374, IOS Press, 71-80.
Son, R.J.J.H. van, Wesseling, W. & Pols, L.C.W. (2006), “Prominent words as anchors for TRP projection”, Proc. Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, 465-468.
Stelt, J.M. van der, Lyakso, E., Pols, L.C.W. & Wempe, T. (2006), “Developing a Russian vowel space in infancy: the First two years”, Proc. of the 11th International Conference “Speech and Computer” SPECOM’2006, St.-Petersburg, 561-566.
Wesseling, W., Son, R.J.J.H. van & Pols, L.C.W. (2006), “On the sufficiency and redundancy of pitch for TRP projection”, Proc. Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, 2402-2405.
Wieringen, A. van & Pols, L.C.W. (2006), “Perception of highly dynamic properties in speech”, In: S. Greenberg & W.A. Ainsworth (Eds.), Listening to speech. An Auditory Perspective, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, NJ, 21-38.

2005

As-Brooks, C.J. van, Hilgers, F.J.M., Koopmans-van Beinum, F.J. & Pols, L.C.W. (2005), “Anatomic and functional correlates of voice quality in tracheoesophageal speech”, Journal of Voice, 19(3), pp. 360-372.
Jacobi, I., Pols, L.C.W. & Stroop, J. (2005), "Polder Dutch: Aspects of the /Ei/-lowering in Stadard Dutch", Proc. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, pp. 2877-2880.
Jongmans, P., Hilgers, F.J.M., Pols, L.C.W. & Van As-Brooks, C.J. (2005), "The intelligibility of tracheoesophageal speech: First results", Proc. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, pp. 1749-1752.
Pols, L.C.W. (2005), "Samenspraak. Fonetische kennis verwerven en implementeren", Institute of Phonetic Sciences afcheidscollege UvA Report, 1-28 pp.
Pols, L.C.W. (2005), “Samenspraak. Acquiring and implementing phonetic knowledge”, IFA Proceedings, 26, pp. 7-23.
Pols, L.C.W., van Santen, J.P.H., Abe, M., Kahn, D. & Keller, E. (2005), “The use of large text corpora for evaluating text-to-speech systems”, In: Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a widening discipline, G. Sampson & D. McCarthy (Eds.), Continuum, London, Chapter 36, pp. 421-426 (Originally published in Proc. LREC 1998, Vol. 1, pp. 637-640).
Pols, L.C.W. & Weenink, D.J.M. (2005), “Vowel recognition and (adaptive) speaker normalization”, Proc. SPECOM 2005, 10th International Conference Speech and Computer, Patras, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. 17-24.
Zajdó, K., Van der Stelt, J.M., Wempe, T.G. & Pols, L.C.W. (2005), "Cross-linguistic comparison of two-year-old children's acoustic vowel spaces: Contrasting Hungarian with Dutch", Proc. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, pp. 1173-1176.

2004

Dijkstra, J., Pols, L.C.W. & Son, R.J.J.H. van (2004), "Frisian TTS, an example of bootstrapping TTS for minority languages", Proc. 5th ISCA Synthesis Workshop, Pittsburgh, pp. 97-102.
Pols, L.C.W. (2004), "Current developments in phonetics", In: J. Slifka, S. Manuel and M. Matthies (Eds.), Conference Proceedings ‘From Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication’, MIT Cambridge, pp. B52-B61, available on CD-ROM and via internet http://www.rle.mit.edu/soundtosense/.
Pols, L.C.W. (2004), "Expanding phonetics", In: H. Quené and V. J. van Heuven (Eds.), On speech and language: Studies for Sieb G. Nooteboom, LOT Occasional Series 2, Utrecht, pp. 141-148.
Pols, L.C.W. (2004), "Foreword", In: G. Fant, Speech Acoustics and Phonetics. Selected Writings, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, vii-viii.
Son, R.J.J.H. van, Bolotova, O., Lennes, M. & Pols, L.C.W. (2004), "Frequency effects on vowel reduction in three typologically different languages (Dutch, Finnish, Russian)", Proc. Interspeech 2004 - ICSLP, Jeju Island, Vol. II, pp. 1277-1280.

2003

As, C. van, Koopmans-van Beinum, F.J., Pols, L.C.W. & Hilgers, F.J.M. (2003), “Perceptual evaluation of tracheoesophageal speech by naive and experienced judges through the use of semantic differential scales”, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Vol. 46, 947-959.
Jongmans, P., van As, C., Pols, L.C.W. & Hilgers, F. (2003), “An introduction to the assessment of intelligibility of tracheoesophageal speech”, IFA Proceedings, 25, 185-196.
Son, R.J.J.H. van & Pols, L.C.W. (12003), “An acoustic model of communicative efficiency in consonants and vowels taking into account context distinctiveness”, Proc. 15th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS, Barcelona, Vol. 2, 2141-2144.
Stelt, J.M. van der, Wempe, T.G. & Pols, L.C.W. (2003), “Progression in infants’ vowel space: An analysis of deaf and hearing infants’ sounds”, Proc. 15th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS, Barcelona, Vol. 3, 2225-2228.
Stelt, J.M. van der, Wempe, T.G. & Pols, L.C.W. (2003), “Progression in vowel production. Comparing deaf and hearing children”, IFA Proceedings, 25, 197-206.
Silva, V. de, Iivonen, A., Bondarko, L.V. & Pols, L.C.W. (2003), “Common and language dependent phonetic differences between read and spontaneous speech in Russian, Finnish and Dutch”, Proc. 15th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS, Barcelona, Vol. 3, 2977-2980.
Son, R.J.J.H. van & Pols, L.C.W. (2003), “Information structure and efficiency in speech production”, Proc. Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Vol. 1, 769-772.
Son, R.J.J.H. van & Pols, L.C.W. (2003), “How efficient is speech?”, IFA Proceedings, 25, 171-184.

2002

Pols, L. C. W. (2002), "Spreken en verstaan - spraakklanken", In: R. Appel, A. Baker, K. Hengeveld, F. Kuiken, & P. Muysken (Eds.), Taal en Taalwetenschap, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 245-258.
Pols, L. C. W. & Son, R. J. J. H. van (2002), "Accessing the IFA-corpus", In: N. B. Volskaya & N. D. Svetozarova (Eds.), Problems and methods in experimental-phonetic research. In honour of the 70th anniversary of Prof. L.V. Bondarko, St.-Petersburg: St.-Petersburg State University, 316-320.
Son, R. J. J. H. van & Pols, L. C. W. (2002), "Evidence for efficiency in vowel production", Proc. 7th Internaltional Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP 2002, Vol. Denver, CO,

2001

Elgendy, A. M. & Pols, L. C. W. (2001), "Mechanical versus perceptual constraints as determinants of articulatory strategy", Proc. Eurospeech'01, Vol. 1, Aalborg, Denmark, 269-272.
Pols, L. C. W. (2001a), "The 10-million-words Spoken Dutch Corpus and its potential use in experimental phonetics", Proceedings '100 Years of experimental phonetics in Russia', St.-Petersburg, Russia, 141-145.
Pols, L. C. W. (2001b), "Acquiring and implementing phonetic knowledge", Proc. Eurospeech'01, Vol. 1, Aalborg, Denmark, K3-K-6.
Son, R. J. J. H. van, Binnenpoorte, D., Heuvel, H. van den, & Pols, L. C. W. (2001), "The IFA corpus: a phonemically segmented Dutch "open source" speech database", Proc. Eurospeech'01, Vol. 3, Aalborg, Denmark, 2051-2054.
Son, R. J. J. H. van & Pols, L. C. W. (2001), "Phoneme recognition as a function of task and context", Proc. Workshop on SPeech Recognition As pAttern Classification, Vol. Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 25-30.
Streefkerk, B. M., Pols, L. C. W., & Bosch, L. F. M. ten (2001), "Up to what level can acoustical and textual features predict prominence", Proc. Eurospeech'01, Vol. 2, Aalborg, Denmark, 811-814.

2000

Pols, L.C.W. (2000), "Even better synthesis", In: W.F. Sendlmeier (Ed.), Speech and signals - Aspects of speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition, Frankfurt am Main: Hector, 15-25.
Son, R.J.J.H. van, Streefkerk, B.M. & Pols, L.C.W. (2000), "An acoustic profile of speech efficiency", Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP 2000, Vol. IV, Beijing, 97-100.

1999

Hessen, A. J. van, Jansen, R. & Pols, L. C. W. (1999), "Pre-processing input text: Improving pronunciation for Dutch text-to-speech systems", Proc. XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS'99, Vol. 3, San Fransisco, CA, 2243-2246.
Ölander, A., Perridon, H. C. B. & Pols, L. C. W. (1999), "Length acquisition of stressed syllables in Swedish by Dutch L2 learners", IFA Proceedings, 23, 67-76.
Pols, L. C. W. (1999), "Flexible, robust, and efficient human speech processing versus present-day speech technology", Proc. XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS'99, Vol. 1, San Fransisco, CA, 9-16. (pdf file)
Rog, J., Sanderman, A. & Pols, L. C. W. (1999), "The intelligibility of names", IFA Proceedings, 23, 59-65.
Son, R. J. J. H. van & Pols, L. C. W. (1999a), "An acoustic description of consonant reduction", Speech Communication, 28(2), 125-140.
Son, R. J. J. H. van & Pols, L. C. W. (1999b), "Effects of stress and lexical structure on speech efficiency", Proc. Eurospeech'99, Vol. 1, Budapest, 439-442.
Son, R. J. J. H. van & Pols, L. C. W. (1999c), "Perisegmental speech improves consonant and vowel identification", Speech Communication, 29(1), 1-22.
Streefkerk, B. M., Pols, L. C. W. & Bosch, L. ten (1999a), "Towards finding optimal features of perceived prominence", Proc. XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS'99, Vol. 3, San Fransisco, CA, 1769-1772.
Streefkerk, B. M., Pols, L. C. W. & Bosch, L. ten (1999b), "Acoustical features as predictors for prominence in read aloud Dutch sentences used in ANNs", Proc. Eurospeech'99, Vol. 1, Budapest, 551-554.
Weenink, D. & Pols, L. C. W. (1999), "Multi-speaker vowel classification with adaptive neural nets", Proc. XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS'99, Vol. 3, San Fransisco, CA, 1633-1636.
Wieringen, A. van & Pols, L. C. W. (1999), "Perception of dynamical spectro-temporal properties in speech", Proc. "Eppur si muove". Dynamics of the production and perception of speech, Berkeley, CA, 18-23.
Wieringen, A. van & Pols, L.C.W. (in press), "Perception of highly dynamic aspects of speech", Keele book.

1998

Donzel, M. van, Koopmans-van Beinum, F. J. & Pols, L. C. W. (1998), "Speaker strategies in the use of prosodic means in spontaneous discourse in Dutch", Proc. Sound patterns of spontaneous speech. Production and perception (SPoSS), La Baume les Aix, France, 135-138.
Jansen, R., Hessen, A. J. van, & Pols, L. C. W. (1998), "Pre-processing input text: Improving pronunciation for the Fluent Dutch text-to-speech synthesiser", IFA Proceedings, 22, 115-124.
Pols, L. C. W. (1998a), "Foreword", In: R. Sproat (Ed.), Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis. The Bell Labs approach, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, xxiii-xxiv.
Pols, L. C. W. (1998b), "Speech synthesis evaluation", In: R. Cole (Ed.), Survey of the state of the art in human language technology, Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori, 429-430.
Pols, L. C. W. (1998c), "Spreken en verstaan - spraakklanken", In: R. Appel, A. Baker & P. Muysken (Eds.), Syllabus ‘Taal en Taalwetenschap’, Amsterdam: Fac. Geestesweten-schap-pen, Ch. 14, 255-268.
Pols, L. C. W. (1998d), "Psycho-acoustics and speech perception", In: K. Ponting (Ed.), Computational models of speech pattern processing, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 10-17.
Pols, L. C. W., Santen, J. P. H. van, Abe, M., Black, A., House, D., Liberman, M. & Wu, Z. (1998a), "Easy access via a TTS website to mono- and multilingual text-to-speech systems", Proc. Elsnet in Wonderland, Soesterberg, the Netherlands, 40-44.
Pols, L. C. W., Santen, J. P. H. van, Abe, M., Kahn, D. & Keller, E. (1998b), "The use of large text corpora for evaluating text-to-speech systems", Proceedings First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation (LREC’98), Granada, Spain, Vol. 1, 637-640.
Santen, J. P. H. van, Pols, L. C. W., Abe, M., Kahn, D., Keller, E. & Vonwiller, J. (1998), "Report on the Third ESCA TTS Workshop Evaluation Procedure", Proc. Third ESCA TTS Workshop, Jenolan Caves, Australia, 329-332.
Son, R. J. J. H. van, Koopmans-van Beinum, F. J. & Pols, L. C. W. (1998), "Efficiency as an organizing principle of speech", Proc. ICSLP’98, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 6, 2375-2378
Streefkerk, B. M. & Pols, L. C. W. (1998), "Prominence in read aloud Dutch sentences as marked by naive listeners", Computer, Linguistik und Phonetik zwischen Sprache und Sprechen, Tagungsband der 4. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache - Konvens-98, Bonn, Vol. 1, 201-205.
Streefkerk, B. M., Pols, L. C. W. & Bosch, L. F. M. ten (1998), "Automatic detection of prominence (as defined by listeners’ judgements) in read aloud Dutch sentences", Proc. ICSLP’98, Sydney, Australia, Vol. 3, 683-686.
Verdonck-de Leeuw, I. M. (1998), Voice characteristics following radiotherapy: the development of a protocol, Ph.D.-thesis, University of Amsterdam, SLLU 33, 137 + iv pag.
Wieringen, A. van & Pols, L. C. W. (1998), "Discrimination of short and rapid speechlike transitions", Acta Acustica, 84(3), 520-528.
Wu, S. & Pols, L. C. W. (1998), "An improved objective speech quality evaluation measure", Chinese Journal of Electronics, 7(2), 128-134.

1997

As, C. J. v., Ravesteijn, A. M. A. v., Koopmans-van Beinum, F. J., Hilgers, F. J. M., & Pols, L. C. W. (1997), "Formant frequencies of Dutch vowels in tracheoesophageal speech", IFA Proceedings, 21, 143-153.
Botha, E. C. & Pols, L. C. W. (1997), "Modelling the acoustic differences between L1 and L2 speech: The short vowels of Afrikaans and South African English", Proc. Eurospeech’97, Vol. 2, Rhodes, 1035-1038.
Pols, L. C. W. (1997a), "Flexible human speech recognition", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Automatic speech recognition and understanding (ASRU-97), Santa Barbara, CA, 273-283.
Pols, L. C. W. (1997b), "Flexible, robust, and efficient human speech recognition", IFA Proceedings, 21, 1-10.
Pols, L. C. W. (1997c), "Psycho-acoustics and speech perception", NATO ASI Computational models of speech pattern processing, Vol. 1, St. Helier, Jersey Channel Islands, Pols 1-13.
Pols, L. C. W. (1997d), "Speech synthesis development and assessment", Proc. SPECOM’97, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 19-23.
Pols, L. C. W. & Jekosch, U. (1997), "A structured way of looking at the performance of text-to-speech systems", In: J. P. H. v. Santen, R. Sproat, J. P. Olive, & J. Hirschberg (Eds.), Progress in speech synthesis, New York: Springer, 519-527.
Son, R. J. J. H. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1997), "The correlation between consonant identification and the amount of acoustic consonant reduction", Proc. Eurospeech’97, Vol. 4, Rhodes, 2135-2138.
Streefkerk, B. M. & Pols, L. C. W. (1997), "Prominence in read aloud sentences, as marked by listeners and classified automatically", IFA Proceedings, 21, 101-116.
Wang, X. & Pols, L. C. W. (1997a), "A preliminary study about robust speech recognition for a robotics application", IFA Proceedings, 21, 11-19.
Wang, X. & Pols, L. C. W. (1997b), "Word juncture modelling based on the TIMIT database", Proc. Eurospeech’97, Vol. 5, Rhodes, 2407-2410.
Wu, S. & Pols, L. C. W. (1997), "A new measure for objective speech quality evaluation", Acta Scientiarium Naturalium, Universitatis Pekinensis, 33(5), 627-632. (in Chinese with English abstract).

1996

Clement, C. J., Koopmans-van Beinum, F. J., & Pols, L. C. W. (1996), "Acoustical characteristics of sound production of deaf and normally hearing infants", Proceedings ICSLP’96, Vol. 3, Philadelphia, 1549-1552.
Pols, L. C. W. (1996a), "Acoustic realization and perception of reduction phenomena in speech", In: Z. Palkova (Ed.), Charisteria viro doctissimo Premysl Janota oblata, Prague: Charles University Press, 217-230.
Pols, L. C. W. (1996b), "Analysis and perception of dynamic events and of reduction phenomena in speech", Proceedings Workshop on The auditory basis of speech perception, Vol. Keele, UK, 17-22.
Pols, L. C. W. (1996c), "Improving synthetic speech quality by systematic evaluation", In: H. Fujisaki (Ed.), Recent research towards advanced man-machine interface through spoken language, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 489-499.
Pols, L. C. W. (1996d), "Spraaktechnologie: Een inleiding", NAG journaal, 134, 3-9.
Pols, L. C. W. & Son, R. J. J. H. v. (1996), "Acoustics and perception of dynamic vowel segments", In: G. Fant, K. Hirose, & S. Kiritani (Eds.), Analysis, perception and processing of spoken language. Festschrift for Hiroya Fujisaki, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B.V., 135-147.
Pols, L. C. W. & Wang, X. (1996), "Extracting durational knowledge and applying it for improved ASR", Proceedings International Workshop Speech and Computer SPECOM’96, Vol. St.-Petersburg, 16-21.
Pols, L. C. W., Wang, X., & Bosch, L. F. M. t. (1996), "Modelling of phone duration (using the TIMIT database) and its potential benefit for ASR", Speech Communication, 19(2), 161-176.
Son, R. J. J. H. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1996a), "An acoustic profile of consonant reduction", Proceedings ICSLP’96, Vol. 3, Philadelphia, 1529-1532.
Son, R. J. J. H. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1996b), "A comparison between the acoustics of vowel and consonant reduction", IFA Proceedings, 20, 13-25.
Streefkerk, B. M. & Pols, L. C. W. (1996), "Prominent accent and pitch movements", IFA Proceedings, 20, 111-119.
Wang, X., Bosch, L. F. M. t., & Pols, L. C. W. (1996a), "Integration of context-dependent duration knowledge into HMM-based speech recognition", Proceedings ICSLP’96, Vol. 2, Philadelphia, 1073-1076.
Wang, X., Pols, L. C. W., & Bosch, L. F. M. t. (1996b), "Analysis of context-dependent segmental duration for automatic speech recognition", Proceedings ICSLP’96, Vol. 2, Philadelphia, 1181-1184.
Wieringen, A. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1996a), "The auditory basis of vocalic speech transitions", Proceedings Workshop on The auditory basis of speech perception, Vol. Keele, UK, 166-169.
Wieringen, A. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1996b), "A continuum from psycho-acoustics to speech perception", Acustica - Acta Acustica, 82(Suppl. 1), S 129(A).
Wu, S. & Pols, L. C. W. (1996), "A distance measure for objective quality evaluation of speech communication channels using also dynamic spectral features", IFA Proceedings, 20, 27-42.

1995

Bakkum, M. J., Plomp, R., & Pols, L. C. W. (1995), "Objective analysis versus subjective assessment of vowels pronounced by deaf and normal-hearing children", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 98(2, Pt. 1), 745-762.
Beun, D. H., Pols, L. C. W., & Kloosterman, H. (1995), "Phoneme-based automatic speech recognition: towards a demonstrator for information retrieval, using Dutch hi-fi speech", IFA-Proceedings, 19, 126-134.
Pols, L. C. W. (1995a), Final Speech Output Report , Deliverable D7 of LRE-project EuroCocosda, Report No. D7.
Pols, L. C. W. (1995b), "Hot topics in the field of speech synthesis assessment", In: G. Bloothooft, V. Hazan, D. Huber, & J. Llisteri (Eds.), European Studies in Phonetics and Speech Communication, 123-126.
Son, R. J. J. H. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1995a), "Acoustic consonant reduction: A comparison", IFA Proceedings, 19, 83-91.
Son, R. J. J. H. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1995b), "How transitions and local context affect segment identification", IFA Proceedings, 19, 51-69.
Son, R. J. J. H. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1995c), "The influence of local context on the identification of vowels and consonants", Proc. Eurospeech’95, Vol. 2, Madrid, 967-970.
Son, R. J. J. H. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1995d), "What does consonant reduction look like, if it exists?", Proc. Eurospeech’95, Vol. 3, Madrid, 1909-1912.
Wieringen, A. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1995a), "Discrimination of single and complex consonant-vowel- and vowel-consonant-like formant transitions", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 98(3), 1304-1312.
Wieringen, A. v. & Pols, L. C. W. (1995b), "Perceiving and processing speechlike sounds", Proc. of the XIIIth Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS 95, Vol. 4, Stockholm, 614-617.

before 1995

Contact information

Prof. dr. Louis C.W. Pols
Institute of Phonetic Sciences and ACLC
University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 210, 1012 VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tel: +31 20 525 3864 / direct 2194; home +31 35 6210310
e-mail: Louis.Pols@uva.nl

Last updated on Aug. 12, 2011

To IFA home page