Speech Communication

Editor-in-Chief M.G.J. Swerts Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands, Subject Editors C Davis University of Western Sydney, PENRITH SOUTH DC, NSW, Australia, E. Krahmer Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands, K. Livescu Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, B. Ma Institute for InfoComm Research, Singapore, Singapore, T. Matsui Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan, B Möbius Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, J.D. Moore University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, Institutional Representatives S. Furui Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-Ku, Japan, J.-L. Gauvain Université Paris-Sud (Paris XI), Orsay Cedex, France, J. Hirschberg Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, J.J. Ohala University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Editorial Board A. Alwan University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA, M. Bacchiani Google, Inc., New York, NY, USA, M. Beckman Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, J. Bellegarda Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA, A.W. Black Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, USA, H. Bourlard IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland, L. Boves Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands, R. Carlson KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, K. Choukri ELDA, Paris, France, A. Cutler Max Planck Institut (MPI) für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, Netherlands, R. de Mori Université d'Avignon, Avignon, France, T. Dutoit Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Mons, Belgium, J. Flanagan Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA, J. Flege University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, S. Furui Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-Ku, Japan, J. Gustafson KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, J.P. Haton Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Vandoeuvre Cedex, France, H. Hermansky Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, K. Hirose University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Japan, M.J. Hunt Novauris Laboratories UK Ltd., Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, UK, D. Jouvet France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France, K. Kirchhoff University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, L.F. Lamel Paris, France, K. Maekawa National Institute of Japanese Language, Tachikawa-Shi, Japan, B. Mak Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, J.B. Millar Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia, R.K. Moore University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, UK, N. Morgan International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA, C. Nadeu Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, E. Nöth Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, M. Picheny IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, L.C.W. Pols Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, R. Rose McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Y. Sagisaka Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, Japan, T. Schultz Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, USA, S. Seneff Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, E. Shriberg Microsoft Speech Labs, Mountain View, CA, USA, T. Svendsen Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, C. Wellekens EURECOM/CICA, Sophia Antipolis, Valbo, France, P. Woodland University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Th.F. Zheng Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Founding Editor M. Wajskop