Björn Hoffmeister

According to our database, Björn Hoffmeister authored at least 47 papers between 2005 and 2024.

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2024

An Efficient Self-Learning Framework For Interactive Spoken Dialog Systems.

Hitesh Tulsiani, David M. Chan, Shalini Ghosh, Garima Lalwani, Prabhat Pandey, Ankish Bansal, Sri Garimella, Ariya Rastrow, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024

Task Oriented Dialogue as a Catalyst for Self-Supervised Automatic Speech Recognition.

David M. Chan, Shalini Ghosh, Hitesh Tulsiani, Ariya Rastrow, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2024

2023

Using External Off-Policy Speech-To-Text Mappings in Contextual End-To-End Automated Speech Recognition.

David M. Chan, Shalini Ghosh, Ariya Rastrow, Björn Hoffmeister

CoRR, 2023

Domain Adaptation with External Off-Policy Acoustic Catalogs for Scalable Contextual End-to-End Automated Speech Recognition.

David M. Chan, Shalini Ghosh, Ariya Rastrow, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2023

2022

Multi-Modal Pre-Training for Automated Speech Recognition.

David M. Chan, Shalini Ghosh, Debmalya Chakrabarty, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2022

Low-Resource Adaptation of Open-Domain Generative Chatbots.

Greyson Gerhard-Young, Raviteja Anantha, Srinivas Chappidi, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the Second DialDoc Workshop on Document-grounded Dialogue and Conversational Question Answering, 2022

2020

DiPCo - Dinner Party Corpus.

Maarten Van Segbroeck, Ahmed Zaid, Ksenia Kutsenko, Cirenia Huerta, Tinh Nguyen, Xuewen Luo, Björn Hoffmeister, Jan Trmal, Maurizio Omologo, Roland Maas

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

2019

Speech Processing for Digital Home Assistants: Combining signal processing with deep-learning techniques.

Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Shinji Watanabe, Tomohiro Nakatani, Michiel Bacchiani, Björn Hoffmeister, Michael L. Seltzer, Heiga Zen, Mehrez Souden

IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 2019

Neural Text Normalization with Subword Units.

Courtney Mansfield, Ming Sun, Yuzong Liu, Ankur Gandhe, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2019

Improving ASR Confidence Scores for Alexa Using Acoustic and Hypothesis Embeddings.

Prakhar Swarup, Roland Maas, Sri Garimella, Sri Harish Mallidi, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

A Study for Improving Device-Directed Speech Detection Toward Frictionless Human-Machine Interaction.

Che-Wei Huang, Roland Maas, Sri Harish Mallidi, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

Frequency Domain Multi-channel Acoustic Modeling for Distant Speech Recognition.

Minhua Wu, Ken'ichi Kumatani, Shiva Sundaram, Nikko Ström, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2019

End-to-end Anchored Speech Recognition.

Yiming Wang, Xing Fan, I-Fan Chen, Yuzong Liu, Tongfei Chen, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2019

Improving Noise Robustness of Automatic Speech Recognition via Parallel Data and Teacher-student Learning.

Ladislav Mosner, Minhua Wu, Anirudh Raju, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Ken'ichi Kumatani, Shiva Sundaram, Roland Maas, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2019

Multi-geometry Spatial Acoustic Modeling for Distant Speech Recognition.

Ken'ichi Kumatani, Minhua Wu, Shiva Sundaram, Nikko Ström, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2019

2018

LSTM-Based Whisper Detection.

Zeynab Raeesy, Kellen Gillespie, Chengyuan Ma, Thomas Drugman, Jiacheng Gu, Roland Maas, Ariya Rastrow, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

Scalable Language Model Adaptation for Spoken Dialogue Systems.

Ankur Gandhe, Ariya Rastrow, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

Device-directed Utterance Detection.

Sri Harish Reddy Mallidi, Roland Maas, Kyle Goehner, Ariya Rastrow, Spyros Matsoukas, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2018

Monophone-Based Background Modeling for Two-Stage On-Device Wake Word Detection.

Minhua Wu, Sankaran Panchapagesan, Ming Sun, Jiacheng Gu, Ryan Thomas, Shiv Naga Prasad Vitaladevuni, Björn Hoffmeister, Arindam Mandal

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2018

Combining Acoustic Embeddings and Decoding Features for End-of-Utterance Detection in Real-Time Far-Field Speech Recognition Systems.

Roland Maas, Ariya Rastrow, Chengyuan Ma, Guitang Lan, Kyle Goehner, Gautam Tiwari, Shaun Joseph, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2018

2017

Just ASK: Building an Architecture for Extensible Self-Service Spoken Language Understanding.

Anjishnu Kumar, Arpit Gupta, Julian Chan, Sam Tucker, Björn Hoffmeister, Markus Dreyer

CoRR, 2017

Domain-Specific Utterance End-Point Detection for Speech Recognition.

Roland Maas, Ariya Rastrow, Kyle Goehner, Gautam Tiwari, Shaun Joseph, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

Zero-Shot Learning Across Heterogeneous Overlapping Domains.

Anjishnu Kumar, Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy, Markus Dreyer, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

Robust Speech Recognition via Anchor Word Representations.

Brian John King, I-Fan Chen, Yonatan Vaizman, Yuzong Liu, Roland Maas, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

2016

Multi-Task Learning and Weighted Cross-Entropy for DNN-Based Keyword Spotting.

Sankaran Panchapagesan, Ming Sun, Aparna Khare, Spyros Matsoukas, Arindam Mandal, Björn Hoffmeister, Shiv Vitaladevuni

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

Anchored Speech Detection.

Roland Maas, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Brian John King, Ruitong Huang, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

LatticeRnn: Recurrent Neural Networks Over Lattices.

Faisal Ladhak, Ankur Gandhe, Markus Dreyer, Lambert Mathias, Ariya Rastrow, Björn Hoffmeister

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

2015

fMLLR based feature-space speaker adaptation of DNN acoustic models.

Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Björn Hoffmeister, Spyros Matsoukas, Arindam Mandal, Nikko Strom, Sri Garimella

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Accurate endpointing with expected pause duration.

Baiyang Liu, Björn Hoffmeister, Ariya Rastrow

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Robust i-vector based adaptation of DNN acoustic model for speech recognition.

Sri Garimella, Arindam Mandal, Nikko Strom, Björn Hoffmeister, Spyros Matsoukas, Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Model Shrinking for Embedded Keyword Spotting.

Ming Sun, Varun K. Nagaraja, Björn Hoffmeister, Shiv Vitaladevuni

Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2015

2012

WFST Enabled Solutions to ASR Problems: Beyond HMM Decoding.

Björn Hoffmeister, Georg Heigold, David Rybach, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2012

2011

Bayes risk decoding and its application to system combination.

Björn Hoffmeister

PhD thesis, 2011

2009

The RWTH aachen university open source speech recognition system.

David Rybach, Christian Gollan, Georg Heigold, Björn Hoffmeister, Jonas Lööf, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Development of the GALE 2008 Mandarin LVCSR system.

Christian Plahl, Björn Hoffmeister, Georg Heigold, Jonas Lööf, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Bayes risk approximations using time overlap with an application to system combination.

Björn Hoffmeister, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Log-linear model combination with word-dependent scaling factors.

Björn Hoffmeister, Ruoying Liang, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

2008

Recent improvements of the RWTH GALE Mandarin LVCSR system.

Christian Plahl, Björn Hoffmeister, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Danju Lu, Georg Heigold, Jonas Lööf, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Spoken language translation systems ************ ASR word lattice translation with exhaustive reordering is possible.

Evgeny Matusov, Björn Hoffmeister, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

iCNC and iROVER: the limits of improving system combination with classification?

Björn Hoffmeister, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

2007

iROVER: Improving System Combination with Classification.

Dustin Hillard, Björn Hoffmeister, Mari Ostendorf, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

The RWTH 2007 TC-STAR evaluation system for european English and Spanish.

Jonas Lööf, Christian Gollan, Stefan Hahn, Georg Heigold, Björn Hoffmeister, Christian Plahl, David Rybach, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

Cross-Site and Intra-Site ASR System Combination: Comparisons on Lattice and 1-Best Methods.

Björn Hoffmeister, Dustin Hillard, Stefan Hahn, Ralf Schlüter, Mari Ostendorf, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

Development of the 2007 RWTH Mandarin LVCSR system.

Björn Hoffmeister, Christian Plahl, Peter Fritz, Georg Heigold, Jonas Lööf, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2007

2006

The 2006 RWTH parliamentary speeches transcription system.

Jonas Lööf, Maximilian Bisani, Christian Gollan, Georg Heigold, Björn Hoffmeister, Christian Plahl, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Frame based system combination and a comparison with weighted ROVER and CNC.

Björn Hoffmeister, Tobias Klein, Ralf Schlüter, Hermann Ney

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

2005

Text Mining Using Markov Chains of Variable Length.

Björn Hoffmeister, Thomas Zeugmann

Proceedings of the Federation over the Web, 2005