Address:
IT Branch – Covilhã
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores
Faculdade Ciências Tecnologia Universidade Coimbra - Pólo II
3030-290 COIMBRA
, PORTUGAL
Academic position:
PhD Student
Joining date:
04-11-2001
Role in IT: Researcher Scientific Area: Networks and Multimedia
Group: Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv
Degrees
- MSc, Universidade de Coimbra, 01-01-2008 - Licenciatura, Universidade de Coimbra, 01-01-2001
Expertise Topics
- Treino não supervisionado de modelos acústicos para o reconhecimento de fala - Reconhecimento de fala - Reconhecimento de locutor - Segmentação de fala
- Lopes, C.; Veiga, A.; Perdigão, F.; "Automatic Phone Clustering based on Confusion Matrices" - Chapter in Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, T. Pardo, A. Branco, A., R. Vieira and V. de Lima, Springer, ,
2010.
Papers in Journals [4]
- Veiga, A.; D. Celorico; JP Proença; Candeias, S.; Perdigão, F.; "Prosodic and Phonetic Features for Speaking Styles Classification and Detection", Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, Vol. 328, No. -, pp. 89 - 98, November, 2012. Abstract
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- Veiga, A.; Candeias, S.; Perdigão, F.; "Generating a Pronunciation Dictionary for European Portuguese Using a Joint-Sequence Model with Embedded Stress Assignment", Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 1 - 8, September, 2012. Abstract
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- Veiga, A.; Lopes, C.; D. Celorico; JP Proença; Perdigão, F.; Candeias, S.; "O desafio da participação humana do IT-Coimbra no Págico", Linguamática, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 49 - 52, April, 2012.
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- Veiga, A.; Candeias, S.; Perdigão, F.; "Conversão de Grafemas para Fonemas em Português Europeu - Abordagem Híbrida com Modelos Probabilísticos e Regras Fonológicas", Linguamática, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 39 - 51, December, 2011. Abstract
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Papers in Conference Proceedings [23]
- Veiga, A.; JP Proença; D. Celorico; Candeias, S.; Perdigão, F.; "Vocalic Filler Characterization using Acoustical Properties Derived from Cepstrum", Proc VII Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla and III Iberian SLTech Workshop - IberSPEECH 2012, Madrid, Spain, Vol. -, pp. 260 - 268, November, 2012. Abstract | Full text (PDF 130KB) | BibTex
- Candeias, S.; Veiga, A.; Perdigão, F.; "Conversor de Grafemas em Fonemas: Um Recurso Linguístico para o Português Europeu", Proc APL, XXVIII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística - APL, Faro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, October, 2012.
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- Candeias, S.; Veiga, A.; D. Celorico; JP Proença; Perdigão, F.; "Eventos Linguísticos na Classificação Automática de Estilos de Fala", Proc APL, XXVIII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística - APL, Faro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, October, 2012.
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- Veiga, A.; Perdigão, F.; Sá, L. V.; "Using Phoneme Acoustic Models for Fast Word Spotting", Proc Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. 77 - 78, October, 2012.
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- Lopes, C.; Veiga, A.; Perdigão, F.; "A European Portuguese Children Speech Database for Computer Aided Speech Therapy", Proc International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. 7243/2012, pp. 368 - 374, April, 2012.
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- Veiga, A.; Candeias, S.; D. Celorico; JP Proença; Perdigão, F.; "Towards Automatic Classification of Speech Styles", Proc International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. 421 - 426, April, 2012.
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- Candeias, S.; Veiga, A.; Lopes, C.; Perdigão, F.; "A Realização do Schwa no Português Europeu", Proc Braz Comput Soc Brazilian Symp. in Information and Human Language Technology - STIL, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Vol. ---, pp. 26 - 31, October, 2011.
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- Veiga, A.; Candeias, S.; Perdigão, F.; "Generating a Pronunciation Dictionary for European Portuguese Using a Joint-Sequence Model with Embedded Stress Assignment", Proc Braz Comput Soc Brazilian Symp. in Information and Human Language Technology - STIL, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Vol. , pp. 144 - 153, October, 2011.
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- Veiga, A.; Candeias, S.; Lopes, C.; Perdigão, F.; "Characterization of Hesitations Using Acoustic Models", Proc International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - ICPhS XVII, Hong Kong, China, Vol. -, pp. 2054 - 2057, August, 2011.
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- Veiga, A.; Lopes, C.; Perdigão, F.; "Speaker Diarization Using Gaussian Mixture Turns and Segment Matching", Proc GTM, RTTH and SIG-IL VI Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla and II Iberian SLTech Workshop - FALA 2010, Vigo, Spain, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 2010.
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- Lopes, C.; Veiga, A.; Perdigão, F.; "Using Fingerprinting to Aid Audio Segmentation", Proc GTM, RTTH and SIG-IL VI Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla and II Iberian SLTech Workshop - FALA 2010, Vigo, Spain, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 2010.
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- Candeias, S.; Veiga, A.; Perdigão, F.; "A statistical study of Pronunciation Variation of Schwa in Portuguese ", Proc Whorkshop on the Sound Change, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, October, 2010.
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- Veiga, A.; Candeias, S.; Sá, L. V.; Perdigão, F.; "Using Coarticulation Rules in Automatic Phonetic Transcription", Proc International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Vol. ---, pp. --- - ---, April, 2010.
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- S. M. V. S. Semedo; Abreu; Veiga, A.; "Handwriting Spirals and Human Hand Movement Analysis", Proc Thematic Conf. on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing - VipImage, Porto, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. 163 - 167, October, 2009.
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- B. Silva; H. Mendes; Lopes, C.; Veiga, A.; Perdigão, F.; "A Fast Discriminative Training Algorithm For Minimum Classification Error", Proc I Iberian SLTech - I Joint SIG-IL/Microsoft Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages, Lisbon, Poland, Vol. 1, pp. 53 - 56, September, 2009.
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- C. Neves; Veiga, A.; Sá, L. V.; Perdigão, F.; "Audio Fingerprinting System for Broadcast Streams", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 481 - 484, May, 2009.
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- Veiga, A.; C. Neves; Perdigão, F.; Sá, L. V.; "Out-Of-Vocabulary and Confidence Measures for Speech Recognition Using Phone Models", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 457 - 460, May, 2009. Abstract | Full text (PDF 55KB) | BibTex
- J. Lopes; C. Neves; Veiga, A.; A. M. Maciel; Lopes, C.; Sá, L. V.; Perdigão, F.; "Training A Robust Command Recognizer with the Tecnovoz Database", Proc Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla - JTH, Bilbao, Spain, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 2008.
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- C. Neves; Veiga, A.; J. Lopes; A. M. Maciel; Lopes, C.; Perdigão, F.; Sá, L. V.; "A Robust Speech Command Recognizer for European Portuguese", Proc Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2008.
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- C. Neves; Veiga, A.; Sá, L. V.; Perdigão, F.; "Efficient Noise-Robust Speech Recognition Front-End Based on the ETSI Standard", Proc International Conf. on Signal Processing - ICSP, Beijing, China, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2008.
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- J. Lopes; C. Neves; Veiga, A.; A. M. Maciel; Lopes, C.; Perdigão, F.; Sá, L. V.; "Development of a Speech Recognizer with the Tecnovoz Database", Proc International Conf. on Computational Processing of Portuguese - PROPOR, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. , pp. 260 - 263, September, 2008.
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- A. M. Maciel; Veiga, A.; C. Neves; Lopes; Lopes, C.; Perdigão, F.; Sá, L. V.; "A Robust Speech Command Recognizer For Embedded Applications", Proc International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Porto, Portugal, Vol. , pp. 92 - 95, July, 2008.
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- Veiga, A.; Perdigão, F.; "An Efficient Word Confidence Measure Using Likelihood Ratio Scores", Proc International Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. IV, pp. 1525 - 1528, May, 2004.
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Theses
- A. Veiga; "Mediddas de Confiança para um Sistema de Reconhecimento de Fala", Universidade de Coimbra, July, 2008.
- A. Veiga; "Codec Convolucional em Tempo Real num DSP", Universidade de Coimbra, October, 2001.
Other Scientific Achievements
Awards
- Veiga, A.; D. Celorico; JP Proença; Candeias, S.; Perdigão, F.;
"Prosodic and Phonetic Features for Speaking Styles Classification and Detection", one of the nine finalists for the IberSPEECH 2012 Microsoft best student paper award, 01-11-2012.
- Veiga, A.; Candeias, S.; Perdigão, F.;
"Generating a pronunciation dictionary for European Portuguese using a mixed model", prize for the 3rd best paper in the 8th Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (STIL 2011), Cuiabá, UFMG - Brazil, 01-10-2011.
