Publications

2010

• Spiliotopoulos D., Xydas G., Kouroupetroglou G., Argyropoulos V. and Ikospentaki K. (2010): Auditory universal accessibility of data tables using naturally derived prosody specification , Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS), Vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 169-183, June 2010 _Journal
  

2009

• Argyropoulos V., Sideridis G., Kouroupetroglou G., and Xydas G. (2009): Auditory Discriminations of Typographic Attributes of Documents by Students with Blidness , in British Journal of Visual Impairment, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 183-203, 2009 _Journal
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2007

• Tsonos D., Xydas G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2007): A Methodology for Reader's Emotional State Extraction to Augment Expressions in Speech Synthesis , in Proc. 19th IEEE Int. Conf. on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2007), Patras, Greece, 29-31 Oct. 2007, Vol. II, pp. 218-225 _Conference
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• Argyropoulos V., Papadopoulos K., Kouroupetroglou G., Xydas G., and Katsoulis P. (2007): Discrimination and Perception of the Acoustic Rendition of Texts by Blind People , in LNCS, volume 4556, pp. 205-213 _{Book chapter}
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• Tsonos D., Xydas G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2007): Auditory Accessibility of Metadata in Books: A Design for All Approach , in LNCS, volume 4556, pp. 436-445 _{Book chapter}
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2006

• Xydas G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2006): Tone-Group F0 selection for modeling focus prominence in small-footprint speech synthesis , in Speech Communication, volume 48, issue 9, pp. 1057-1078. _Journal
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2005

• Xydas G., Zervas P., Kouroupetroglou G., Fakotakis N. and Kokkinakis G. (2005): Tree-Based Prediction of Prosodic Phrase Breaks on top of Shallow Textual Features , in Proc. of 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (INTERSPEECH 2005), September 4-8, 2005, Lisboa, pp. 3237-3240. _Conference

• Zervas P., Xydas G., Fakotakis N., Kokkinakis G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2005): Experimental Evaluation of Tree-Based Algorithms for Intonational Breaks Representation , in "Text, Speech and Dialogue", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 3658, pp. 334-341, ISBN: 3-540-28789-2, ISSN: 0302-9743 _Book
  (zervas_tsd2005.pdf) (163KB)
  http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2005

• Spiliotopoulos D., Xydas G., and Kouroupetroglou G. (2005): Diction Based Prosody Modeling in Table-to-Speech Synthesis, in "Text, Speech and Dialogue", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 3658, pp. 294-301, ISBN: 3-540-28789-2, ISSN: 0302-9743. _Book
  (spiliotopoulos_tsd2005.pdf) (203KB)
  http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2005

• Spiliotopoulos D., Xydas G., Kouroupetrolgou G. and Argyropoulos V. (2005): Experimentation on Spoken Format of Tables in Auditory User Interfaces, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2005), Las Vegas, Nevada SA, 22-27 July 2005, pp. 361-370. _Conference
  (spiliotopoulos_hcii2005.pdf) (515KB)
  http://www.hci-international.org

• Xydas G., Argyropoulos V., Karakosta T. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2005): An Experimental Approach in Recognizing Synthesized Auditory Components in a Non-Visual Interaction with Documents, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2005), Las Vegas, Nevada SA, 22-27 July 2005, vol. 3, pp. 411-420. _Conference
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  http://www.hci-international.org

• Xydas G., Spiliotopoulos D. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2005): Modeling Improved Prosody Generation from High-Level Linguistically Annotated Corpora, in IEICE Trans. of Inf. and Syst., Special Section on "Corpus-Based Speech Technologies", vol. E88-D, no 3, March 2005, pp. 510-518. _Journal
  http://ietisy.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/E88-D/3/510
  http://ietisy.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/E88-D/3/510

• Xydas G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2005): A Target-Selection Method for Generating F0 Contours in Short Messaging Applications , Intl. Trans. on Speech Science and Engineering, Volume 2, Number 1, February 2005, pp. 109-120. _Journal

• Calder, J., Melengoglou, A. C., Callaway, C., Not, E., Pianesi, F., Androutsopoulos, I. , Spyropoulos, C., Xydas, G., Kouroupetroglou, G., and Roussou, M. (2005): Multilingual Personalised Information Objects , In Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation, "Text, Speech and Language Technology" Series, Oliviero Stock and Massimo Zancanaro (editors), Springer, pp. 177-202. ISBN: 1-4020-3049-5 _{Book chapter}
  
  

2004

• Xydas G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2004): An Intonation Model for Embedded Devices Based on Natural F0 Samples , in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP), Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004, Volume 1, pp. 801-804 _Conference
  (xydas_icslp2004.pdf) (285KB)
  http://www.icslp2004.org

• Zervas P., Xydas G., Fakotakis N., Kokkinakis G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2004): Evaluation of Corpus Based Tone Prediction in Mismatched Environments for Greek TtS Synthesis , in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP), Jeju Island, Korea, October 4-8, 2004, Volume 1, pp. 761-764 _Conference
  (zervas_icslp2004.pdf) (80KB)
  http://www.icslp2004.org

• Xydas G., Argyropoulos V., Karakosta T. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2004): An Open Platform for Conducting Psycho-Acoustic Experiments in the Auditory Representation of Web Documents , in Proceedings of the ACOUSTICS 2004 Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 27-28, 2004, pp. 157-164. (to appear)
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  http://www.wcl.ee.upatras.gr/helina/ac2004.htm

• Xydas G., Spiliotopoulos D. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2004): Modeling Prosodic Structures in Linguistically Enriched Environments , in "Text, Speech and Dialogue", Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Vol 3206, pp. 521-528, ISBN 3-540-23049-1 _Book
  (xydas_tsd2004.pdf) (114KB)
  http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004

• Xydas G., Karberis G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2004): Text Normalization for the Pronunciation of Non-Standard Words in an Inflected Language , in Methods and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. 3025, pp. 390-399, ISBN 3-540-21937-4, ISSN 0302-9743 _Book
  (xydas_setn2004.pdf) (177KB)
  http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/setn04

2003

• Xydas G., Spiliotopoulos D. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2003): Building Prosodic Structures in a Concept-to-Speech System, Workshop on Balkan Language Resources and Tools, Balkan Conference on Informatics (BCI-2003), Thessaloniki, Greece, November 21, 2003, [Available on-line] _Conference
  (xydas_bciw2003.pdf) (170KB)
  http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/bci03_workshop

• Καρμπέρης Γ., Κουρουπέτρογλου Γ. και Ξύδας Γ. (2003): Ένα Υβριδικό Μοντέλο για την Δυναμική Κανονικοποίηση Ελληνικών Κειμένων, "Επεξεργασία κειμένων της Νέας Ελληνικής: από τις συμβολικές στις στατιστικές προσεγγίσεις", 6ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο Ελληνικής Γλωσσολογίας (6thICGL), Ρέθυμνο, Κρήτη, 18-21 Σεπτεμβρίου 2003, pp. 57-64. [Διαθέσιμο on-line] _Conference
  (karberis_icgl2003.pdf) (254KB)
  http://www.philology.uoc.gr/conferences/6thICGL

• Xydas G., Spiliotopoulos D. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2003): Prosody Prediction from Linguistically Enriched Documents Based on a Machine Learning Approach, "Text processing for Modern Greek: from symbolic to statistical approaches", in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Greek Linguistics (6th ICGL), Rethymno, Greece, September 18-21, 2003, pp. 47-55. [Available on-line] _Workshop
  (xydas_icgl2003.pdf) (207KB)
  http://www.philology.uoc.gr/conferences/6thICGL

• Xydas G., Spiliotopoulos D. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2003): Modelling Emphatic Events from Non-Speech Aware Documents in Speech Based User Interfaces, In Human-Computer Interaction, Theory and Practice Vol. 2, Ed. C. Stephanidis and J. Jacko, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, pp 806-810, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction (HCII2003), Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2003 _Conference
  (xydas_hcii2003.pdf) (51KB)
  http://www.hcii2003.gr

2001

• Xydas G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2001): The DEMOSTHeNES Speech Composer , in Proceedings of the 4th ISCA Tutorial and Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW4), Perthshire, Scotland, August 29 - September 1, 2001, pp. 167-172 _Workshop
  (xydas_ssw4.pdf) (167KB)
  http://www.ssw4.org

• Xydas G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2001): Text-to-Speech Scripting Interface for Appropriate Vocalisation of e-Texts, in Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 2001), Aalborg, Denmark, September 2-7, 2001, pp. 2247-2250 _Conference
  (xydas_euro2001.pdf) (43KB)
  http://eurospeech2001.org

• Xydas G. and Kouroupetroglou G. (2001): Augmented Auditory Representation of e-Texts for Text-to-Speech Systems, in "Text, Speech and Dialogue", Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. 2166, pp. 134-141, 2001, ISBN 3-540-42557-8 _Book
  (xydas_tsd2001.pdf) (75KB)
  http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001

2000

• Xydas G. and Tassel J. (2000): Experimentation in CPU Control with Real-Time Java, 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC2000), Newport Beach, California, March 15 - 17, 2000, pp 386-391 _Conference
  (xydas_isorc2000.pdf) (1129KB)
  http://dream.eng.uci.edu/isorc2k