Rob van Son

Other writings

Exploring ICT and Learning in Developing Countries

Rob van Son We Cannot Train More Teachers, We Must Empower Them with Technology (February 2011)
Rob van Son The question is not whether, but how ICT can be useful in education (January 2011)
Rob van Son You May Eat Too Much, But You Can Never Know Too Much (August 2010)
Rob van Son Stop Wasting Children with ICT4E Assessments (November 2009)
Rob van Son ICT in Education Assessments are Biased and Inaccurate (November 2009)

Publications

Dubagunta, S. Pavankumar, Rob JJH van Son, and Mathew Magimai Doss. "Adjustable deterministic pseudonymization of speech." Computer Speech & Language 72 (2022): 101284. doi: 10.1016/j.csl.2021.101284
van Son, R.J.J.H. (2021) Measuring Voice Quality Parameters After Speaker Pseudonymization. Proc. Interspeech 2021, 1019-1023, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2021-26
Karsten, R.T., Chargi, N., van der Molen, L. et al. Dysphagia, trismus and speech impairment following radiation-based treatment for advanced stage oropharyngeal carcinoma: a one-year prospective evaluation. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol (2021). doi: 10.1007/s00405-021-06870-x
van Sluis, K.E., van Son, R.J.J.H., van der Molen, L. et al. Multidimensional evaluation of voice outcomes following total laryngectomy: a prospective multicenter cohort study. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 278, 1209-1222 (2021). doi: 10.1007/s00405-020-06216-z
Halpern, B., Kelly, F., van Son, R., Alexander, A. (2020) Residual Networks for Resisting Noise: Analysis of an Embeddings-based Spoofing Countermeasure. Proc. The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2020), 326-332, doi: 10.21437/Odyssey.2020-46
Leemans, M, van Sluis, KE, van Son, RJJH, van den Brekel, MWM. Interaction of functional and participation issues on quality of life after total laryngectomy. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. 2020; 5: 453- 460. doi: 10.1002/lio2.38
K. van Sluis, M. Kapitein, R.van Son, P. Boersma. "The acoustic contrast between the Dutch consonants /t/ and /d/ is reduced in tracheo-esophageal speech" In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019 (pp. 914-918).
K.G. van Leeuwen, P. Bos, S. Trebeschi, M.J.A. van Alphen, L. Voskuilen, L.E. Smeele, F. van der Heijden, R.J.J.H. van Son (2019). "CNN-based phoneme classifier from vocal tract MRI learns embedding consistent with articulatory topology", Proc. Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria, 909-913. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-1173
Ratnayake, C. B., Fles, R. , Tan, I. B., Baijens, L. W., Pilz, W. , Meeuwis, C. A., Janssen-van Det, P. H., van Son, R. and Van den Brekel, M. W. (2019). "Multicenter randomized crossover trial evaluating the provox luna in laryngectomized subjects", The Laryngoscope. doi:10.1002/lary.27839
van Son, R.J.J.H., Middag, C., & Demuynck, K (2018). "Vowel space as a tool to evaluate articulation problems", Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2018, Hyderabad, India, 357-361 (Poster)
van Sluis, K. E., van der Molen, L., van Son, R. J., Hilgers, F. J., Bhairosing, P. A., & van den Brekel, M. W. (2018). Objective and subjective voice outcomes after total laryngectomy: a systematic review. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 275: 11. doi: 10.1007/s00405-017-4790-6.
van Sluis, Klaske E., Michiel W. M. van den Brekel, Frans J. M. Hilgers, and Rob J. J. H. van Son. "Long-Term Stability of Tracheoesophageal Voices." Proceedings of Interspeech 2016, San Francisco (2016): 102-106.
Clapham, R. P., Martens, J. P., van Son, R. J., Hilgers, F. J., van den Brekel, M. M., & Middag, C. (2016). Computing scores of voice quality and speech intelligibility in tracheoesophageal speech for speech stimuli of varying lengths. Computer Speech & Language, 37, 1-10.
S.A.C. Kraaijenga, I.M. Oskam, R.J.J.H. van Son, O. Hamming-Vrieze, F.J.M. Hilgers, M.W.M. van den Brekel, L. van der Molen (in Press). "Assessment of voice, speech, and related quality of life in advanced head and neck cancer patients 10-years+ after chemoradiotherapy, Oral Oncology, ISSN 1368-8375, doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2016.02.001, p24-30.
Clapham Renee P., van As-Brooks Corina J., van Son Rob J. J. H., Hilgers Frans J. M., and van den Brekel Michiel W. M. (2015). "The Relationship Between Acoustic Signal Typing and Perceptual Evaluation of Tracheoesophageal Voice Quality for Sustained Vowels, Journal of Voice, 29 (4), July 2015, Pages 517.e23-517.e29, ISSN 0892-1997, doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2014.10.002.
Schuller B, Steidl S, Batliner A, Nöth E, Vinciarelli A, Burkhardt F, van Son R, Weninger F, Eyben F, Bocklet T, Mohammadi G. (2015). "A Survey on perceived speaker traits: Personality, likability, pathology, and the first challenge". Computer Speech & Language.29 (1), January 2015: 100-31. doi:10.1016/j.csl.2014.08.003
Clapham R, Middag C, Hilgers F, Martens, J-P, van den Brekel M, van Son R (2014). "Developing automatic articulation, phonation and accent assessment techniques for speakers treated for advanced head and neck cancer", Speech Communication, 59, April 2014, Pages 44-54. doi:10.1016/j.specom.2014.01.003
Middag C, Clapham R, van Son R, Martens, J-P (2014). "Robust automatic intelligibility assessment techniques evaluated on speakers treated for head and neck cancer", Computer Speech and Language 28 (2), 467-482.
Renee P. Clapham, Corina J. Van As-Brooks, Michiel W.M. Van den Brekel, Frans J.M. Hilgers, and Rob J.J.H. Van Son (2013). "Automatic tracheoesophageal voice typing using acoustic parameters", Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2013, Lyon, France, 2162-2166
Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth, Felix Burkhardt, Rob van Son, Felix Weninger, Florian Eyben, Tobias Bocklet, Gelareh Mohammadi, Benjamin Weiss (2012). "The interspeech 2012 speaker trait challenge", Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2012, Portland, OR, USA.
U. Z. Ijaz, R Van Son, and C Quince (2012). Microbial 16S rRNA taxonomic analysis pipeline. In With a little help from your friends-tools and strategies for analyzing microbiome sequence data, Glasgow Polyomics meeting, Friday 23, November, 2012.
(Just to draw attention to this work, I did not contribute to the substance of the poster)
R.P. Clapham, L. van der Molen, R.J.J.H. van Son, M. van den Brekel & F.J.M. Hilgers (2012). "NKI-CCRT corpus: speech intelligibility before and after advanced head and neck cancer treated with concomitant chemoradiotherapy". In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, M. Ugur Dogan, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, J. Odijk & S. Piperidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12): 23-25 May, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey (pp. 3350-3355). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
L van der Molen, MA van Rossum, I Jacobi, RJJH van Son, LE Smeele, CRN Rasch, FJM Hilgers. (2012) "Pre- and posttreatment voice and speech outcomes in patients with advanced head and neck cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy: expert listeners' and patient's perception". J Voice online January 3, 2012
R.P. Clapham, F.J.M. Hilgers, M.W.M. van den Brekel, R.J.J.H. van Son. (2011) An Exploration into Automatic Phonological Feature Evaluation of Tracheoesophageal Speech. In: Sounds and Sounds; eds. W Zonneveld, H Quené, and W Heeren. Publisher UiL OTS, Utrecht; December 2011; pp. 69-79. BSAB: 01111946
van Son, R.J.J.H., Jacobi, I., and Hilgers, F. (2010). Manipulating Treacheoesophageal Speech, Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2010, Makuhari, Japan, 274-277. (my Poster)
van Son, R.J.J.H. (2010). "Quantifying Shannon's Work Function for Cryptanalytic Attacks". arXiv:1003.2123v1 [cs.CR] (March 2010), pp 19.
van Son, R.J.J.H., Wesseling, Wieneke, Sanders, Eric, van den Heuvel, Henk (2009). Promoting free Dialog Video Corpora: The IFADV Corpus Example. Multimodal Corpora: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications, Kipp, M.; Martin, J.-C.; Paggio, P.; Heylen, D. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5509. ISBN 978-3-642-04792-3. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, p18-37.
van Son, R.J.J.H. (2009). "Quantifying Resource Use in Computations". arXiv:0911.5262v1 [cs.CC] (November 2009), pp 19.
van Son, R.J.J.H., Wesseling, Wieneke, Sanders, Eric, van den Heuvel, Henk. "The IFADV corpus: A free dialog video corpus". Proceedings of LREC 2008, Marrakech, 2008. Presentation (pdf)
Van hamme, H. and van Son, R.J.J.H. (eds.) Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerpen, 2007
Weenink, D., Chen, G., Chen, Z., de Konink, S., Vierkant, D., van Hagen, E., and van Son, R.J.J.H."Learning tone distinctions for Mandarin Chinese", Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerpen, 2007, 950-953. And Poster (PDF)
Wesseling, W., van Son, R.J.J.H., and Pols, L.C.W."The influence of masking words on the prediction of TRPs in a shadowed dialog", Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerpen, 2007, 816-819.
Escudero, E., Kastelein, J., Weiand, K., and van Son, R.J.J.H."Formal modelling of L1 and L2 perceptual learning: Computational linguistics versus machine learning", Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerpen, 2007, 1008-1011.
Khalil Sima'an, Maarten de Rijke, Remko Scha and Rob van Son Eds. (2006). Proceedings of the Sixteenth Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands
Pols, L.C.W., and van Son R.J.J.H. (2006). "Speech Dynamics: Acoustic manifestations and perceptual consequences", In: Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception, P.Divenyi et al. (Eds.), IOS Press, 71-80.
Wesseling W., Pols, L.C.W., and van Son R.J.J.H. (2006). "On the Sufficiency and Redundancy of Pitch for TRP Projection", Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2006, Pittsburgh 2402-2405 and Poster ( Stimulus Example)
van Son R.J.J.H., Wesseling W., and Pols, L.C.W. (2006). "Prominent Words as Anchors for TRP Projection", Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2006, Pittsburgh, 465-468 and Poster ( Stimulus Example)
Odé, C. and Van Son, R.J.J.H. (guest eds.) (2005). "Special Issue in honor of Louis Pols", Speech Communication 47.
Son R.J.J.H. and Van Santen, J.P.H. (2005). "Duration and spectral balance of intervocalic consonants: A case for efficient communication", Speech Communication 47, 100-123.
Son R.J.J.H. (2005). "A study of pitch, formant, and spectral estimation errors introduced by three lossy speech compression algorithms", Acta Acustica united with Acustica 91 (4), 771-778.
Wesseling W. and van Son R.J.J.H. (2005). "Early Preparation of Experimentally Elicited Minimal Responses", Proceedings of 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 11-18. and presentation
Wesseling W. and van Son R.J.J.H. (2005). "Timing of Experimentally Elicited Minimal Responses as Quantitative Evidence for the Use of Intonation in Projecting TRPs", Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2005, Lisbon, 3389-3392 and poster
R.J.J.H. Van Son, Olga Bolotova, Mietta Lennes, Louis C.W. Pols (2004). Frequency Effects on Vowel Reduction in Three Typologically Different Languages (Dutch, Finnish, Russian), Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2004, Jeju Island, South Korea, 1277-1280.
Jelske Dijkstra, R.J.J.H. van Son, and Louis C.W. Pols (2004). Frisian TTS, an Example of Bootstrapping TTS for minority Languages , 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 14th-16th June 2004, Carnegie Mellon University
Van Son, R.J.J.H. and Pols, L.C.W. (2003). "How efficient is speech?", Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences 25, 171-184. (corrected version with equation 2)
Van Son, R.J.J.H. and Pols, L.C.W. (2003). "Information Structure and Efficiency in Speech Production", Proceedings of EUROSPEECH2003, Geneva, Switzerland, 769-772.
Our Poster
Van Son, R.J.J.H. and Pols, L.C.W. (2003). "An Acoustic Model of Communicative Efficiency in Consonants and Vowels taking into Account Context Distinctiveness", Proceedings of ICPhS, Barcelona, Spain, 2141-2144.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. and Pols, L.C.W. (2002). "Evidence for Efficiency in vowel production", Proceedings of ICSLP2002, Denver, USA, Vol I, 37-40.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. (2002b). "Can standard analysis tools be used on decompressed speech?", Paper presented at the COCOSDA2002 meeting, Denver (URL:http://www.cocosda.org/meet/denver/COCOSDA2002-Rob.pdf).
Pols, L.C.W. & Van Son, R.J.J.H. (2002). "Accessing the IFA-corpus", In: Book in honor of the 70-th anniversary of Prof. L.V. Bondarko, N.B. Volskaya, N.D. Svetozarova (Eds.), University of St. Petersburg, 316-320.
Van Son, R.J.J.H & Pols, L.C.W. (2001d). "The IFA Corpus: A phonemically segmented Dutch "Open Source" speech Database" Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the University of Amsterdam 24, 15-26.
Van Son, R.J.J.H & Pols, L.C.W. (2001c). "Phoneme recognition as a function of task and context", Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the University of Amsterdam 24, 27-38.
Van Son, R.J.J.H & Pols, L.C.W. (2001b). "Structure and access of the open source IFA Corpus", Proceedings of the IRCS workshop on Linguistic Databases, Philadelphia, 245-253.
Van Son, R.J.J.H., Binnenpoorte, D., van den Heuvel, H. and Pols, L.C.W. (2001) "The IFA corpus: a phonemically segmented Dutch Open Source speech database", Proc. EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 3, 2051-2054.
Van Son, R.J.J.H & Pols, L.C.W. (2001a). Phoneme recognition as a function of task and context, SPRAAC workshop, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 25-30. PDF Postscript
Slides: PDF Postscript
Van Son, R.J.J.H, Streefkerk, B.M. & Pols, L.C.W. (2000). "An acoustic profile of speech efficiency", Proceedings of ICSLP2000, Beijing,, China, IV 97-100.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1999). "Effects of stress and lexical structure on speech efficiency", Proceedings Eurospeech99, Budapest, 439-442.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1999). Perisegmental speech improves consonant and vowel identification. Speech Communication 29, 1-22.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1999). An acoustic description of consonant reduction. Speech Communication 28, 125-140.
Van Son, R.J.J.H., Koopmans-van Beinum, F.J. & Pols, L.C.W. (1998). Efficiency as an organizing principle of natural speech, Proceedings ICSLP'98, Sydney.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Van Santen, J.P.H. (1997). Word-level prosodical marking of consonant duration and spectral balance, Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the University of Amsterdam 21, 21-36.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Van Santen, J.P.H. (1997). Strong interaction between factors influencing consonant duration, Proceedings Eurospeech97, Rhodos, 319-322.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1997). The correlation between consonant identification and the amount of acoustic consonant reduction, Proceedings Eurospeech97, Rhodos, 2135-2138.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1996). A comparison between the acoustics of vowel and consonant reduction , Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the University of Amsterdam 20, 13-25.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1996). An acoustic profile of consonant reduction, Proceedings of ICSLP 96, Philadelphia, USA, 1529-1532.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1995). Acoustic consonant reduction: A comparison, Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the University of Amsterdam 19, 83-91.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. (1995). The relation between the error distribution and the error rate in identification experiments, Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the University of Amsterdam 19, 71-82.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1995). How transitions and local context affect segment identification, Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the University of Amsterdam 19, 51-69.
Van Son, R.J.J.H.(1995). A method to quantify the error distribution in confusion matrices, Proceedings Eurospeech95, Madrid, 2277-2280.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1995). What does consonant reduction look like, if it exists, Proceedings Eurospeech95, Madrid, 1909-1912.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1995). The influence of local context on the identification of vowels and consonants, Proceedings Eurospeech95, Madrid, 967-970.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. (1994). A method to quantify the error distribution in confusion matrices, Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the University of Amsterdam 18, 41-63.
Pols, L.C.W. & Van Son, R.J.J.H. (1993). Acoustics and perception of dynamic vowel segments. Speech Communication 13, 135-147.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. (1993). Vowel perception: A closer look at the literature, Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the University of Amsterdam 17, 33-64.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. (1993). Spectro-temporal features of vowel segments. In series: Studies of language and language use, IFOTT3, PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1992). Formant movements of Dutch vowels in a text, read at normal and fast rate. J. Acoust.Soc.Am. 92, 121-127.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1991). The influence of formant track shape on the perception of synthetic vowels. Proceedings Eurospeech '91, Genova. Vol. 3, 1117-1120
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1990). Formant frequencies of Dutch vowels in a text, read at normal and fast rate. J. Acoust.Soc.Am. 88, 1683-1693.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1989). Comparing formant movements in fast and normal rate speech, Proceedings EUROSPEECH'89, Paris, Vol. 2, 665-668.
Van Son, R.J.J.H. & Pols, L.C.W. (1988). Differences in formant values of Dutch vowels due to speaking rate, Speech '88 : proceedings, Edinburgh, 313-320
Van der Heijden, L.A.M. & Van Son, R.J.J.H. (1982). A note on the neglect of the doppler effect in the modelling of traffic flow as a line of stationary point sources, Journal of Sound and Vibration 85, 442-444. (this paper was the result of an undergraduate project, both authors contributed equally to it)

Curriculum Vitae

Born in 1960, in Nijmegen. Studied Biology at Nijmegen University from 1978-1984. Obtained my PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1993 (Spectro-temporal features of vowel segments). Worked on NWO Post-Doc projects on consonant reduction from 1993-1997 and on speech efficiency from 1999-2002. From 2004-2008 I worked on a VIDI grant "Integration of information in spoken communication". From 2009 on, I am employed by the Netherlands Cancer Institute to do research on the use of speech technology to assist in the treatment and revalidation of patients with Head and Neck Cancer.

Contact information

Rob van Son
HOD, department of Head and Neck cancer
Netherlands Cancer Institute NKI-AVL
Plesmanlaan 121
1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Also: ACLC, Fac. Humanities, University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 210, 1012 VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
email:
tel: +31 (0)205253864
WWW: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob

To IFA home page

Miscellaneous stuff kept for historical reasons

My Open Source Software Demo's and Downloads (Off line, kept as a reminder to put them on line again)
My EUROSPEECH2003 report (Dutch Only) and Picture Gallery.
A course on Taaltechnologien
My EUROSPEECH2003 report (Dutch Only) and Picture Gallery.
Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed Ranks and Wilcoxon two sample tests. For a quick and dirty test for Windows, use these minimalist distributions of the Signed Ranks (pkzip) and both (tar/gzip, recommended) tests (<500 kB, includes dosperl from CPAN). To get the Signed Ranks test or both tests running, download and unzip any of them, move your data files to the directory, open a DOS window, cd to the directory and type:
```
> perl SRTest.pl data.txt
# OR
> perl WlcxTest.pl data.txt
```
Where 'data.txt' is the name of YOUR data file (or use this test file).
Works best in a complete Perl port, i.e., ActivePerl on windows.
To get Activestate running under windows 98, download the MS Installer and ActivePerl (MSI version, or use the 'AS package' download if you are brave), install it and download the Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed Ranks test into your data directory, e.g., inside the Perl directory. CD to your data directory and run (make sure you replace 'C:\Windows\Desktop\Perl' to point to your own Perl directory):
```
> C:\Windows\Desktop\Perl\bin\perl SRTest.pl data.txt
# OR
> C:\Windows\Desktop\Perl\bin\perl SRTest.pl data.txt > result.txt
```
inside a dos window.