Horacio Franco, Victor Abrash, Kristin Precoda, Harry Bratt, Ramana Rao, John Butzberger, ...
www.speech.sri.com, www.EduSpeak.com The EduSpeak TM system is a software development toolkit that enables developers of interactive language education software to use state-of-the-art speech...
Modeling Consistency in a Speaker Independent Continuous Speech Recognition System (2008)
Yochai Konig, Nelson Morgan, Chuck Wooters, Victor Abrash, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco
We would like to incorporate speaker-dependent consistencies, such as gender, in an otherwise speaker-independent speech recognition system. In this paper we discuss a Gender Dependent Neural Network...
Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Andreas Stolcke
We investigate several variants of speech-rate-dependent acoustic models for large-vocabulary conversational speech recognition, in the framework of combining rate-specific models in decoding to...
Limited-Domain Speech-to-Speech Translation between English and Pashto (2008)
Kristin Precoda, Horacio Franco, Er Dost, Michael Fr, John Fry, Andreas Kathol, ...
This paper describes a prototype system for near-real-time spontaneous, bidirectional translation between spoken English and Pashto, a language presenting many technological challenges because of its...
Babak Hodjat, Horacio Franco, Harry Bratt, Kristin Precoda, Andreas Stolcke, Anand Venkataraman, ...
We describe a method for developing a statistical language model (SLM) with high keyword spotting accuracy for a natural language interface (NLI). The NLI is based on the Adaptive Agent Oriented...
RATE-OF-SPEECH MODELING FOR LARGE VOCABULARY CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH RECOGNITION (2007)
Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Andreas Stolcke
Variations in rate of speech (ROS) produce changes in both spectral features and word pronunciations that affect automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To deal with these ROS effects, we propose...
Hybrid Neural Network/hidden Markov Model Continuous-Speech Recognition (2007)
Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco, Nelson Morgan, David Rumelhart, Victor Abrash
n M In this paper we present a hybrid multilayer perceptron (MLP)/hidde arkov model (HMM) speaker-independent continuous-speech recognib tion system, in which the advantages of both approaches are...
Integrating Neural Networks Into Computer Speech Recognition Systems (2007)
Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco, Nelson Morgan, David Rumelhart, Victor Abrash, Yochai Konig
this paper we describe the ini ial baseline DECIPHER system and the approach for n integrating MLP-based estimation techniques; present a umber of new techniques that have been developed to allow d l...
Carlos Teixeira L, Horacio Franco, Elizabeth Shriberg, Kemal Ssnmez, Kristin Precoda
Predicting the degree of nativeness of a student utterance is an important issue in computer-aided language learning. This task has been addressed by many studies focusing on the segmental assessment...
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Michael Cohen, Nelson Morgan, David Rumelhart, Victor Abrash, Horacio Franco, Horacio Franco
In this paper we present a training method and a network architecture for estimating contextdependent observation probabilities in the framework of a hybrid hidden Markov model (HMM) / multi layer...
Limited-Domain Speech-to-Speech Translation between English and Pashto (2006)
Precoda, Kristin, Franco, Horacio, Dost, Ascander, Frandsen, Michael, Fry, John, Kathol, Andreas, ...
This paper describes a prototype system for near-real-time spontaneous, bidirectional translation between spoken English and Pashto, a language presenting many technological challenges because of its...
Recent innovations in speech-to-text transcription at sri-icsi-uw (2006)
Andreas Stolcke, Senior Member, Barry Chen, Horacio Franco, Venkata Ramana Rao, Martin Graciarena, ...
Abstract — We summarize recent progress in automatic speechto-text
Recent innovations in speech-to-text transcription at sri-icsi-uw (2006)
Andreas Stolcke, Senior Member, Barry Chen, Horacio Franco, Venkata Ramana Rao, Martin Graciarena, ...
Abstract — We summarize recent progress in automatic speechto-text
Voicing feature integration in SRI’s Decipher LVCSR system (2004)
Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Jing Zheng, Dimitra Vergyri, Andreas Stolcke
We augment the Mel cepstral (MFCC) feature representation with voicing features from an independent front end. The voicing feature front end parameters are optimized for recognition accuracy. The...
Bach, Johann Sebastian (música), Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (música), Franco, Horacio (ejecución Musical Y Texto Del Folleto)
Calificado por los expertos como el máximo representante de la música barroca, Johann Sebastian Bach (Eisenach, 1685 – Leipzig, 1750) nació en una familia de gran tradición musical y se formó...
DynaSpeak: SRI's Scalable Speech Recognizer for (2002)
Embedded And Mobile, Horacio Franco, Jing Zheng, John Butzberger, Federico Cesari, Michael Fr, ...
We introduce SRI's new speech recognition engine, , which is characterized by its scalability and flexibility, high recognition accuracy, memory and speed efficiency, adaptation capability,...
Modeling Word-Level Rate-of-Speech (2002)
Variation In Large, Jing Zheng, Jing Zheng, Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Horacio Franco, ...
Variations in rate of speech (ROS) produce variations in both spectral features and word pronunciations that affect automatic speech recognition systems. To deal with these ROS effects, we propose to...
Ramírez, Eugenia (voz), Camerata Aguascalientes (ejecución Musical), Franco, Horacio (dir.), Ortiz De Zárate, Ignacio (música), Zumaya, Manuel De (música), Nebra, José De (música), ...
Suavidad al aire : cantadas y arias del México virreinal (2001)
Ramírez, Eugenia (voz), Camerata Aguascalientes (ejecución Musical), Franco, Horacio (dir.), Ortiz De Zárate, Ignacio (música), Zumaya, Manuel De (música), Nebra, José De (música), ...
Evaluation of Speaker’ s Degree of Nativeness Using Text-Independent Prosodic Features (2001)
Carlos Teixeira, Horacio Franco, Elizabeth Shriberg, Kristin Precoda, Kemal Sönmez
Giving feedback on the degree of nativeness of a student’s speech is an important aspect of computer-aided language learning. This task has been addressed by many studies focusing on the segmental...
Improved Maximum Mutual Information Estimation Training of Continuous Density HMMs (2001)
Jing Zheng, John Butzberger, Horacio Franco, Andreas Stolcke
In maximum mutual information estimation (MMIE) training, the currently widely used update equations derive from the Extended Baum-Welch (EBW) algorithm, which was originally designed for the...
Rate-dependent acoustic modeling for large vocabulary conversational speech recognition (2000)
Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Andreas Stolcke
Variations in rate of speech (ROS) produce changes in both spectral features and word pronunciations that affect automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To deal with these ROS effects, we propose...
The SRI EduSpeak System: Recognition and Pronunciation Scoring for Language Learning (2000)
Horacio Franco, Victor Abrash, Kristin Precoda, Harry Bratt, Ramana Rao, John Butzberger, ...
The EduSpeak system is a software development toolkit that enables developers of interactive language education software to use state-of-the-art speech recognition and pronunciation scoring...
Kemal Sönmez, Madelaine Plauché, Elizabeth Shriberg, Horacio Franco
The constant frame length in typical ASR front ends is too long to capture transient phenomena in speech, such as stop bursts. However, current HMM systems have consistently outperformed systems...
F.Weng, “Word-level rate of speech modeling using rate-specific phones and pronunciations (2000)
Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Fuliang Weng, Ananth Sankar, Harry Bratt
Variations in rate of speech (ROS) produce changes in both spectral features and word pronunciations that affect ASR systems. To cope with these effects, we propose to use ratespecific phone models...
Kemal Sönmez, Madelaine Plauché, Elizabeth Shriberg, Horacio Franco
The constant frame length in typical ASR front ends is too long to capture transient phenomena in speech, such as stop bursts. However, current HMM systems have consistently outperformed systems...
Kristin Precoda, Christine A. Halverson, Horacio Franco
This study's goal was to determine whether receiving a particular type of feedback on nativeness of secondlanguage accent positively influenced pronunciation over time. Forty-five native...
Automatic Detection Of Phone-Level Mispronunciation For Language Learning (1999)
Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, María Ramos, Harry Bratt
We are interested in automatically detecting specific phone segments that have been mispronounced by a nonnative student of a foreign language. The phone-level information allows a language...
Automatic Scoring of Pronunciation Quality (1999)
Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Vassilios Digalakis, Mitchel Weintraub
We present a paradigm for the automatic assessment of pronunciation quality by machine.
Carlos Monsiváis : voz del autor (1998)
Monsiváis, Carlos, Pitol, Sergio (presen.), Franco, Horacio (música)
Carlos Monsiváis (1938), escritor, periodista y crítico mexicano. Nació en la ciudad de México. Cronista de la vida nacional, crítico de los hábitos del poder, observador de los fenómenos...
Carlos Monsiváis : voz del autor (1998)
Monsiváis, Carlos, Pitol, Sergio (presen.), Franco, Horacio (música)
Carlos Monsiváis (1938), escritor, periodista y crítico mexicano. Nació en la ciudad de México. Cronista de la vida nacional, crítico de los hábitos del poder, observador de los fenómenos...
Música barroca mexicana : esplendor de la Catedral de México (1998)
Cappella Cervantina (voz Y Ejecución Musical), Franco, Horacio (dir.), Franco, Hernando (música), Franco, Hernando (música), Cevallos, Rodrigo De (música), López Capillas, Francisco (Francisco José López) (música), ...
Horacio Franco es reconocido internacionalmente como uno de los mejores flautistas del mundo, con la virtud añadida de que ha conseguido que en México el público joven se acerque a la música...
Harry Bratt, Leo Neumeyer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Horacio Franco
We describe the methodologies for collecting and annotating a Latin-American Spanish speech database. The database includes recordings by native and nonnative speakers. The nonnative recordings are...
WebGrader: A Multilingual Pronunciation Practice Tool (1998)
Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Victor Abrash, Luc Julia, Orith Ronen, Harry Bratt, ...
WebGrader TM is a pronunciation grading tool designed for practicing pronunciation in a second language. The system uses SRI's speech recognition [1] and pronunciation scoring [2][3][4]...
Combination of Machine Scores for Automatic Grading of Pronunciation Quality (1998)
Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, Vassilios Digalakis, Orith Ronen
This work is part of an effort aimed at developing computer-based systems for language instruction; we address the task of grading the pronunciation quality of the speech of a student of a foreign...
Cappella Cervantina (voz Y Ejecución Musical), Franco, Horacio (dir.), Franco, Hernando (música), Gutiérrez De Padilla, Juan (música), López Capillas, Francisco (Francisco José López) (música), Salazar, Antonio De (música), ...
Horacio Franco es reconocido internacionalmente como uno de los mejores flautistas del mundo, con la virtud añadida de que ha conseguido que en México el público joven se acerque a la música...
Segmental Modeling Using a Continuous Mixture of Non-parametric Models (1997)
Jacob Goldberger, David Burshtein, Horacio Franco
The aim of the research described in this paper is to overcome the modeling limitation of conventional hidden Markov models. We present a segmental model that consists of two elements. The first is a...
Automatic pronunciation scoring for language instruction (1997)
Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, Yoon Kim, Orith Ronen
This work is part of an effort aimed at developing computerbased systems for language instruction; we address the task of grading the pronunciation quality of the speech of a student of a foreign...
Automatic Text-Independent Pronunciation Scoring of Foreign Language Student Speech (1996)
Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Mitchel Weintraub, Patti Price
SRI International is currently involved in the development of a new generation of software systems for automatic scoring of pronunciation as part of the Voice Interactive Language Training System...
Automatic Text-Independent Pronunciation Scoring of Foreign Language Student Speech (1996)
Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Mitchel Weintraub, Patti Price
SRI International is currently involved in the development of a new generation of software systems for automatic scoring of pronunciation as part of the Voice Interactive Language Training System...
Automatic Text-Independent Pronunciation Scoring of Foreign Language Student Speech (1996)
Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Mitchel Weintraub, Patti Price
SRI International is currently involved in the development of a new generation of software systems for automatic scoring of pronunciation as part of the Voice Interactive Language Training System...
Música sinfónica mexicana (1995)
Gallardo, Ricardo (ejecución Musical), Franco, Horacio (ejecución Musical), Revueltas, Silvestre (música), Ibarra, Federico (música), Ortiz, Gabriela (música), ...
Connectionist Speaker Normalization And Adaptation (1995)
Victor Abrash, Horacio Franco, Ananth Sankar, Michael Cohen
In a speaker-independent, large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems, recognition accuracy varies considerably from speaker to speaker, and performance may be significantly degraded for...
Connectionist probability estimators in HMM speech recognition (1994)
Renals, Steve, Morgan, Nelson, Bourlard, Herve, Cohen, Michael, Franco, Horacio
The authors are concerned with integrating connectionist networks into a hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition system. This is achieved through a statistical interpretation of connectionist...
Connectionist probability estimators in HMM speech recognition (1994)
Renals, Steve, Morgan, Nelson, Bourlard, Herve, Cohen, Michael, Franco, Horacio
The authors are concerned with integrating connectionist networks into a hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition system. This is achieved through a statistical interpretation of connectionist...
Connectionist Probability Estimators in HMM Speech Recognition (1994)
Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Senior Member, Hervc Bourlard, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco
Abstract- We are concerned with integrating connectionist networks into a hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition system. This is achieved through a statistical interpretation of connectionist...
Connectionist Probability Estimators in HMM Speech Recognition (1994)
Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco
Abstract—We are concerned with integrating connectionist networks into a hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition system. This is achieved through a statistical interpretation of connectionist...
Connectionist Probability Estimators in HMM Speech Recognition (1994)
Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco
We are concerned with integrating connectionist networks into a hidden Markovmodel (HMM) speech recognition system. This is achieved through a statistical interpretation of connectionist networks as...
Improving statistical speech recognition (1992)
Renals, Steve, Morgan, Nelson, Cohen, Michael, Franco, Horacio, Bourlard, Herve
A summary of the theory of the hybrid connectionist HMM (hidden Markov model) continuous speech recognition system is presented. Experimental results indicating that the connectionist methods can...
Improving statistical speech recognition (1992)
Renals, Steve, Morgan, Nelson, Cohen, Michael, Franco, Horacio, Bourlard, Herve
A summary of the theory of the hybrid connectionist HMM (hidden Markov model) continuous speech recognition system is presented. Experimental results indicating that the connectionist methods can...
Connectionist probability estimation in the DECIPHER speech recognition system (1992)
Renals, Steve, Morgan, Nelson, Cohen, Michael, Franco, Horacio
The authors have previously demonstrated that feedforward networks can be used to estimate local output probabilities in hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition systems (Renals et al., 1991)....
Connectionist probability estimation in the DECIPHER speech recognition system (1992)
Renals, Steve, Morgan, Nelson, Cohen, Michael, Franco, Horacio
The authors have previously demonstrated that feedforward networks can be used to estimate local output probabilities in hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition systems (Renals et al., 1991)....
Franco, Horacio (ejecución Musical), Oritz, Gabriel (música), Catán, Daniel (música), Rodríguez, Marcela (música), Lavista, Mario (música), Lara, Ana (música), ...
Horacio Franco es reconocido internacionalmente como uno de los mejores flautistas del mundo, con la virtud añadida de que ha conseguido que en México el público joven se acerque a la música...
Horacio Franco : música mexicana para flauta de pico (1992)
Franco, Horacio (ejecución Musical), Oritz, Gabriel (música), Catán, Daniel (música), Rodríguez, Marcela (música), Lavista, Mario (música), Lara, Ana (música), ...
Horacio Franco es reconocido internacionalmente como uno de los mejores flautistas del mundo, con la virtud añadida de que ha conseguido que en México el público joven se acerque a la música...
Connectionist Probability Estimation In The Decipher Speech Recognition System (1992)
Steve Renals Nelson, Nelson Morgan, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco
Previously, we have demonstrated that feed-forward networks may be used to estimate local output probabilities in hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition systems. Here these connectionist...
Victor Abrash, Horacio Franco, Michael Cohen, Nelson Morgan, Yochai Konig
a s An approach to modeling long-term consistencies in peech signal within the framework of a hybrid Hidden ) s Markov Model (HMM) / Multilayer Perceptron (MLP peaker-independent continuous-speech...
Combining Neural Networks And Hidden Markov Models For Continuous Speech Recognition (1992)
Michael Cohen, Ichael Cohen, David Rumelhart, Nelson Morgan, Horacio Franco, Victor Abrash, ...
e present a speaker-independent, continuous-speech recog- ( nition system based on a hybrid multilayer perceptron MLP)/hidden Markov model (HMM). The system come bines the advantages of both...
Connectionist Probability Estimation In The Decipher Speech Recognition System (1992)
Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco
Previously, we have demonstrated that feed-forward networks may be used to estimate local output probabilities in hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition systems. Here these connectionist...
Connectionist Speech Recognition: Status and Prospects (1991)
Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Herve Bourlard, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco, Chuck Wooters, ...
We report on recent advances in the ICSI connectionist speech recognition project. Highlights include: . Experimental results showing that connectionist methods can improve the performance of a...
Vivaldi, Antonio (música), Cappela Cervantina (ejecución Musical), Franco, Horacio (dir. Y Ejecución Musical Y Texto Del Folleto), Gouk, Oleg (ejecución Musical), Tokarev, Vladimir (ejecución Musical), Schubring, Matthew P. (ejecución Musical), ...
Compositor y violinista Antonio Vivaldi (Venecia, 1678-Viena, 1741) es considerado por la crítica como el creador que dio forma al concierto como género, con una estructura que implica una...