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Selected recent publications:
    Räsänen O., Laine U.K. & Altosaar T.: "A blind speech segmentation algorithm utilizing non-linear filtering and temporal masking of spectral frame distances", in preparation.
    ten Bosch L., Räsänen O., Driesen J., Aimetti G., Altosaar T., Boves L.: "Do Multiple Caregivers Speed up Language Acquisition?", Interspeech '09, Brighton, England, 2009 (.pdf).
    Aimetti G., Moore R., ten Bosch L., Räsänen O. & Laine U.: "Discovering Keywords from Cross-Modal Input: Ecological vs. Engineering Methods for Enhancing Acoustic Repetitions", Interspeech '09, Brighton, England, 2009 (.pdf).
    Räsänen O., Laine U.K. & Altosaar T.: "A noise robust method for pattern discovery in quantized time series: the concept matrix approach", Interspeech '09, Brighton, England, 2009 (.pdf).
    Räsänen O., Laine U.K. & Altosaar T.: "An Improved Speech Segmentation Quality Measure: the R-value", Interspeech '09, Brighton, England, 2009 (.pdf).
    Räsänen O., Laine U.K. & Altosaar T.: "Self-learning Vector Quantization for Pattern Discovery from Speech", Interspeech '09, Brighton, England, 2009 (.pdf).
    Räsänen O. & Driesen J.: A comparison and combination of segmental and fixed-frame signal representations in NMF-based word recognition, In Proc. of 17th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, Odense, Denmark, 2009 (.pdf).
    Räsänen O., Laine U.K. & Altosaar T.: "Computational language acquisition by statistical bottom-up processing", In Proc. of Interspeech '08, Brisbane, Australia, 2008 (.pdf).
    Räsänen O., Altosaar T. & Laine U.K.: "Comparison of prosodic features in Swedish and Finnish IDS/ADS speech", In Proc. of Nordic Prosody X, Helsinki, Finland, 2008 (.pdf).
    Fagerlund S.: "Bird Species Recognition Using Support Vector Machines", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 2007, No. 1, 2007.
    Fagerlund S. & Härmä A.: "Parametrization of inharmonic bird sounds for automatic recognition", 13th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005), Antalya, Turkey, 4-8 September, 2005 (.pdf).

Selected reports and theses:
    Räsänen O.: "Statistical learning and language acquisition: a review", special assignment in speech processing, 2008 (.pdf)
    Laine U.K., Räsänen O., Altosaar T., Driesen J., Aimetti G. & Henter G.: "Methods for enhanced pattern discovery in speech processing", ACORNS project deliverable, 2008, (.pdf)
    Räsänen O.: "Speech Segmentation and Clustering Methods for a New Speech Recognition Architecture", M.Sc. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2007 (.pdf).
    Pohjalainen J.: "Methods of Automatic Audio Content Classification", Lic. Tech. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2007 (.pdf).
    Palo P.: "A Review of Articulatory Speech Synthesis", M.Sc. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2006 (.pdf).
    Ojala T.: "Auditory Quality Evaluation of Present Finnish Text-to-speech Systems", M.Sc. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2006 (.pdf).
    Hautsalo J.: "Study of Aurora Related Sound and Electric Field Effects", M.Sc. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2005 (.pdf).
    Argillander J.: "Maximum Entropy Modeling and Semantic Concept Detection", M.Sc. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2005 (.pdf).
    Fagerlund S.: "Automatic Recognition of Bird Species by Their Sounds", M.Sc. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2004 (.pdf).
    Pohjalainen J.: "Frequency-Warped Linear Prediction and Speech Analysis", M.Sc. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2004 (.pdf).
    Korhonen P.: "Unsupervised Segmentation of Continuous Speech Using Vectorautoregressive Modeling", M.Sc. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2004 (.pdf).
    Ursin M.: "Triphone clustering in Finnish continuous speech recognition", M.Sc. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2002 (.pdf).
    Härmä A.: "Frequency-warped autoregressive modeling and filtering", Doctoral Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 2001 (web site).
    Härmä A.: "Audio coding with warped predictive methods", Lic. Tech. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 1998 (.gz).
    Härmä A.: "Perceptual aspects and warped techniques in audio coding", M.Sc. Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, 1997 (.gz).

Related patents:
    Laine U.: "Searching patterns in a data sequence", Patent application number FI-200957080, 2009
    Laine U. & Räsänen O.: "Method for pattern discovery and recognition", Patent application number FI-20086260, 2008
    Laine U. & Räsänen O.: "Audiosignaalin segmentointi automaattisesti ilman opetusta (Automatic, unsupervised segmentation of audio signals)", patent FI85405Q, 2007

Speech Technology Team, 2009