Frank K. Soong

According to our database, Frank K. Soong authored at least 305 papers between 1978 and 2024.

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2024

NaturalSpeech: End-to-End Text-to-Speech Synthesis With Human-Level Quality.

Xu Tan, Jiawei Chen, Haohe Liu, Jian Cong, Chen Zhang, Yanqing Liu, Xi Wang, Yichong Leng, Yuanhao Yi, Lei He, Sheng Zhao, Tao Qin, Frank K. Soong, Tie-Yan Liu

IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., June, 2024

2023

MSMC-TTS: Multi-Stage Multi-Codebook VQ-VAE Based Neural TTS.

Haohan Guo, Fenglong Xie, Xixin Wu, Frank K. Soong, Helen Meng

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2023

ContextSpeech: Expressive and Efficient Text-to-Speech for Paragraph Reading.

Yujia Xiao, Shaofei Zhang, Xi Wang, Xu Tan, Lei He, Sheng Zhao, Frank K. Soong, Tan Lee

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

2022

ParaTTS: Learning Linguistic and Prosodic Cross-Sentence Information in Paragraph-Based TTS.

Liumeng Xue, Frank K. Soong, Shaofei Zhang, Lei Xie

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2022

Disentangling Style and Speaker Attributes for TTS Style Transfer.

Xiaochun An, Frank K. Soong, Lei Xie

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2022

Ordinal Regression via Binary Preference vs Simple Regression: Statistical and Experimental Perspectives.

Bin Su, Shaoguang Mao, Frank K. Soong, Zhiyong Wu

CoRR, 2022

A Multi-Stage Multi-Codebook VQ-VAE Approach to High-Performance Neural TTS.

Haohan Guo, Feng-Long Xie, Frank K. Soong, Xixin Wu, Helen Meng

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

Neural Lexicon Reader: Reduce Pronunciation Errors in End-to-end TTS by Leveraging External Textual Knowledge.

Mutian He, Jingzhou Yang, Lei He, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

An Approach to Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis with Acoustic, Phonetic and Linguistic (APL) Embeddings.

Wenxuan Ye, Shaoguang Mao, Frank K. Soong, Wenshan Wu, Yan Xia, Jonathan Tien, Zhiyong Wu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2022

Improving Fastspeech TTS with Efficient Self-Attention and Compact Feed-Forward Network.

Yujia Xiao, Xi Wang, Lei He, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2022

A Universal Ordinal Regression for Assessing Phoneme-Level Pronunciation.

Shaoguang Mao, Frank K. Soong, Yan Xia, Jonathan Tien

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2022

2021

Cycle consistent network for end-to-end style transfer TTS training.

Liumeng Xue, Shifeng Pan, Lei He, Lei Xie, Frank K. Soong

Neural Networks, 2021

Effective and direct control of neural TTS prosody by removing interactions between different attributes.

Xiaochun An, Frank K. Soong, Shan Yang, Lei Xie

Neural Networks, 2021

A Survey on Neural Speech Synthesis.

Xu Tan, Tao Qin, Frank K. Soong, Tie-Yan Liu

CoRR, 2021

Multilingual Byte2Speech Models for Scalable Low-resource Speech Synthesis.

Mutian He, Jingzhou Yang, Lei He, Frank K. Soong

CoRR, 2021

Conversational End-to-End TTS for Voice Agents.

Haohan Guo, Shaofei Zhang, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Lei Xie

Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2021

Improving Performance of Seen and Unseen Speech Style Transfer in End-to-End Neural TTS.

Xiaochun An, Frank K. Soong, Lei Xie

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

A New High Quality Trajectory Tiling Based Hybrid TTS In Real Time.

Feng-Long Xie, Xinhui Li, Wen-Chao Su, Li Lu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

Improving Pronunciation Assessment Via Ordinal Regression with Anchored Reference Samples.

Bin Su, Shaoguang Mao, Frank K. Soong, Yan Xia, Jonathan Tien, Zhiyong Wu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

MBNET: MOS Prediction for Synthesized Speech with Mean-Bias Network.

Yichong Leng, Xu Tan, Sheng Zhao, Frank K. Soong, Xiang-Yang Li, Tao Qin

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

Speech Bert Embedding for Improving Prosody in Neural TTS.

Liping Chen, Yan Deng, Xi Wang, Frank K. Soong, Lei He

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

2020

Spoken Language Understanding of Human-Machine Conversations for Language Learning Applications.

Yao Qian, Rutuja Ubale, Patrick L. Lange, Keelan Evanini, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Frank K. Soong

J. Signal Process. Syst., 2020

s-Transformer: Segment-Transformer for Robust Neural Speech Synthesis.

Xi Wang, Huaiping Ming, Lei He, Frank K. Soong

CoRR, 2020

Conversational End-to-End TTS for Voice Agent.

Haohan Guo, Shaofei Zhang, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Lei Xie

CoRR, 2020

On Early-stop Clustering for Speaker Diarization.

Liping Chen, Kong-Aik Lee, Lei He, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Odyssey 2020: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 2020

Transfer Learning for Improving Singing-Voice Detection in Polyphonic Instrumental Music.

Yuanbo Hou, Frank K. Soong, Jian Luan, Shengchen Li

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

An Efficient Subband Linear Prediction for LPCNet-Based Neural Synthesis.

Yang Cui, Xi Wang, Lei He, Frank K. Soong

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

An Improved Frame-Unit-Selection Based Voice Conversion System Without Parallel Training Data.

Feng-Long Xie, Xinhui Li, Bo Liu, Yibin Zheng, Li Meng, Li Lu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

Improving Prosody with Linguistic and Bert Derived Features in Multi-Speaker Based Mandarin Chinese Neural TTS.

Yujia Xiao, Lei He, Huaiping Ming, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

Improving LPCNET-Based Text-to-Speech with Linear Prediction-Structured Mixture Density Network.

Min-Jae Hwang, Eunwoo Song, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Frank K. Soong, Hong-Goo Kang

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

LP-WaveNet: Linear Prediction-based WaveNet Speech Synthesis.

Min-Jae Hwang, Frank K. Soong, Eunwoo Song, Xi Wang, Hyeonjoo Kang, Hong-Goo Kang

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2020

2019

Voice conversion with SI-DNN and KL divergence based mapping without parallel training data.

Feng-Long Xie, Frank K. Soong, Haifeng Li

Speech Commun., 2019

Feature reinforcement with word embedding and parsing information in neural TTS.

Huaiping Ming, Lei He, Haohan Guo, Frank K. Soong

CoRR, 2019

Forward-Backward Decoding for Regularizing End-to-End TTS.

Yibin Zheng, Xi Wang, Lei He, Shifeng Pan, Frank K. Soong, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua Tao

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

Exploiting Syntactic Features in a Parsed Tree to Improve End-to-End TTS.

Haohan Guo, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Lei Xie

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

A New GAN-Based End-to-End TTS Training Algorithm.

Haohan Guo, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Lei Xie

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

A Pitch-aware Approach to Single-channel Speech Separation.

Ke Wang, Frank K. Soong, Lei Xie

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2019

NN-based Ordinal Regression for Assessing Fluency of ESL Speech.

Shaoguang Mao, Zhiyong Wu, Jingshuai Jiang, Peiyun Liu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2019

Domain Adversarial Training for Improving Keyword Spotting Performance of ESL Speech.

Jingyong Hou, Pengcheng Guo, Sining Sun, Frank K. Soong, Wenping Hu, Lei Xie

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2019

2018

Modeling Multi-speaker Latent Space to Improve Neural TTS: Quick Enrolling New Speaker and Enhancing Premium Voice.

Yan Deng, Lei He, Frank K. Soong

CoRR, 2018

LP-WaveNet: Linear Prediction-based WaveNet Speech Synthesis.

Min-Jae Hwang, Frank K. Soong, Feng-Long Xie, Xi Wang, Hong-Goo Kang

CoRR, 2018

Frame Selection in SI-DNN Phonetic Space with WaveNet Vocoder for Voice Conversion without Parallel Training Data.

Feng-Long Xie, Frank K. Soong, Xi Wang, Lei He, Haifeng Li

Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2018

From Speech Signals to Semantics - Tagging Performance at Acoustic, Phonetic and Word Levels.

Yao Qian, Rutuja Ubale, Patrick L. Lange, Keelan Evanini, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2018

A Refined Query-by-Example Approach to Spoken-Term-Detection on ESL learners' Speech.

Jingyong Hou, Wenping Hu, Frank K. Soong, Lei Xie

Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2018

Paired Phone-Posteriors Approach to ESL Pronunciation Quality Assessment.

Yujia Xiao, Frank K. Soong, Wenping Hu

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

A New Glottal Neural Vocoder for Speech Synthesis.

Yang Cui, Xi Wang, Lei He, Frank K. Soong

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

Exploring Sequential Characteristics in Speaker Bottleneck Feature for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification.

Liping Chen, Yong Zhao, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Jie Li, Guoli Ye, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2018

2017

Effective Spectral and Excitation Modeling Techniques for LSTM-RNN-Based Speech Synthesis Systems.

Eunwoo Song, Frank K. Soong, Hong-Goo Kang

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2017

DNN i-Vector Speaker Verification with Short, Text-Constrained Test Utterances.

Jinghua Zhong, Wenping Hu, Frank K. Soong, Helen Meng

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

Proficiency Assessment of ESL Learner's Sentence Prosody with TTS Synthesized Voice as Reference.

Yujia Xiao, Frank K. Soong

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

Improving Sub-Phone Modeling for Better Native Language Identification with Non-Native English Speech.

Yao Qian, Keelan Evanini, Xinhao Wang, David Suendermann-Oeft, Robert A. Pugh, Patrick L. Lange, Hillary R. Molloy, Frank K. Soong

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

Perceptual quality and modeling accuracy of excitation parameters in DLSTM-based speech synthesis systems.

Eunwoo Song, Frank K. Soong, Hong-Goo Kang

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2017

Improving native language (L1) identifation with better VAD and TDNN trained separately on native and non-native English corpora.

Yao Qian, Keelan Evanini, Patrick L. Lange, Robert A. Pugh, Rutuja Ubale, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2017

2016

A Two-Pass Framework of Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis for Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training.

Xiaojun Qian, Helen M. Meng, Frank K. Soong

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2016

Modeling F0 trajectories in hierarchically structured deep neural networks.

Xiang Yin, Ming Lei, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Zhen-Hua Ling, Li-Rong Dai

Speech Commun., 2016

Improving speaker verification performance against long-term speaker variability.

Linlin Wang, Jun Wang, Lantian Li, Thomas Fang Zheng, Frank K. Soong

Speech Commun., 2016

A deep bidirectional LSTM approach for video-realistic talking head.

Bo Fan, Lei Xie, Shan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong

Multim. Tools Appl., 2016

Learning Distributed Word Representations For Bidirectional LSTM Recurrent Neural Network.

Peilu Wang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Hai Zhao

Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2016, 2016

A KL Divergence and DNN-Based Approach to Voice Conversion without Parallel Training Sentences.

Feng-Long Xie, Frank K. Soong, Haifeng Li

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

Improved Time-Frequency Trajectory Excitation Vocoder for DNN-Based Speech Synthesis.

Eunwoo Song, Frank K. Soong, Hong-Goo Kang

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

A KL divergence and DNN approach to cross-lingual TTS.

Feng-Long Xie, Frank K. Soong, Haifeng Li

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

Speaker and language factorization in DNN-based TTS synthesis.

Yuchen Fan, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

Unsupervised speaker adaptation for DNN-based TTS synthesis.

Yuchen Fan, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

KL-divergence based mispronunciation detection via DNN and decision tree in the phonetic space.

Wenping Hu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2016

2015

Improved mispronunciation detection with deep neural network trained acoustic models and transfer learning based logistic regression classifiers.

Wenping Hu, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Yong Wang

Speech Commun., 2015

HMM trajectory-guided sample selection for photo-realistic talking head.

Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong

Multim. Tools Appl., 2015

A Unified Tagging Solution: Bidirectional LSTM Recurrent Neural Network with Word Embedding.

Peilu Wang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Hai Zhao

CoRR, 2015

Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network.

Peilu Wang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Hai Zhao

CoRR, 2015

An improved DNN-based approach to mispronunciation detection and diagnosis of L2 learners' speech.

Wenping Hu, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2015

Sequence generation error (SGE) minimization based deep neural networks training for text-to-speech synthesis.

Yuchen Fan, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He

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

AA spectral space warping approach to cross-lingual voice transformation in HMM-based TTS.

Hao Wang, Frank K. Soong, Helen Meng

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2015

Word embedding for recurrent neural network based TTS synthesis.

Peilu Wang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Hai Zhao

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2015

Photo-real talking head with deep bidirectional LSTM.

Bo Fan, Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong, Lei Xie

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2015

Multi-speaker modeling and speaker adaptation for DNN-based TTS synthesis.

Yuchen Fan, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2015

From text-to-speech (TTS) to talking head - a machine learning approach to A/V speech modeling and rendering.

Frank K. Soong, Lijuan Wang

Proceedings of the Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, 2015

A two-pass framework of mispronunciation detection & diagnosis for computer-aided pronunciation training.

Xiaojun Qian, Helen M. Meng, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2015

2014

Pitch transformation in neural network based voice conversion.

Feng-Long Xie, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Haifeng Li

Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2014

A new Neural Network based logistic regression classifier for improving mispronunciation detection of L2 language learners.

Wenping Hu, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2014

Modeling DCT parameterized F0 trajectory at intonation phrase level with DNN or decision tree.

Xiang Yin, Ming Lei, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Lei He, Zhen-Hua Ling, Li-Rong Dai

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

Sequence error (SE) minimization training of neural network for voice conversion.

Feng-Long Xie, Yao Qian, Yuchen Fan, Frank K. Soong, Haifeng Li

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

TTS synthesis with bidirectional LSTM based recurrent neural networks.

Yuchen Fan, Yao Qian, Feng-Long Xie, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

A maximum a Posterior-based reconstruction approach to speech bandwidth expansion in noise.

Hyunson Seo, Hong-Goo Kang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

On the training aspects of Deep Neural Network (DNN) for parametric TTS synthesis.

Yao Qian, Yuchen Fan, Wenping Hu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

A DNN-based acoustic modeling of tonal language and its application to Mandarin pronunciation training.

Wenping Hu, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

Discriminative scoring for speaker recognition based on I-vectors.

Jun Wang, Dong Wang, Ziwei Zhu, Thomas Fang Zheng, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2014

2013

A Unified Trajectory Tiling Approach to High Quality Speech Rendering.

Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Zhi-Jie Yan

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2013

A new language independent, photo-realistic talking head driven by voice only.

Xinjian Zhang, Lijuan Wang, Gang Li, Frank Seide, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

Binocular photometric stereo acquisition and reconstruction for 3d talking head applications.

Chaoyang Wang, Lijuan Wang, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Bojun Huang, Magnetro Chen, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

A source-filter based adaptive harmonic model and its application to speech prosody modification.

JeeSok Lee, Frank K. Soong, Hong-Goo Kang

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

A new DNN-based high quality pronunciation evaluation for computer-aided language learning (CALL).

Wenping Hu, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

A fast table lookup based, statistical model driven non-uniform unit selection TTS.

Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Xiaobo Zhou, Yundi Qian, Xiaotian Zhang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012

Computer-Assisted Audiovisual Language Learning.

Lijuan Wang, Yao Qian, Matthew R. Scott, Gang Chen, Frank K. Soong

Computer, 2012

Tip tap tones: mobile microtraining of mandarin sounds.

Darren Edge, Kai-Yin Cheng, Michael Whitney, Yao Qian, Zhijie Yan, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Mobile HCI '12, 2012

Break index labeling of mandarin text via syntactic-to-prosodic tree mapping.

Xiaotian Zhang, Yao Qian, Hai Zhao, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2012

Cross validation and Minimum Generation Error for improved model clustering in HMM-based TTS.

Feng-Long Xie, Yi-Jian Wu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2012

A unified trajectory tiling approach to high quality TTS and cross-lingual voice transformation.

Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2012

Pitch accent detection and prediction with DCT features and CRF model.

Wenping Hu, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2012

Constrained Multichannel Speech Dereverberation.

Meng Yu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Objective Intelligibility Assessment of Text-to-Speech System using Template Constrained Generalized Posterior Probability.

Linfang Wang, Lijuan Wang, Yan Teng, Zhe Geng, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

The Use of DBN-HMMs for Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis in L2 English to Support Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training.

Xiaojun Qian, Helen M. Meng, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Turning a Monolingual Speaker into Multilingual for a Mixed-language TTS.

Ji He, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Sheng Zhao

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Noise estimation using a constrained sequential HMM IN log-spectral domain.

Dongwen Ying, Xugang Lu, Junfeng Li, Yonghong Yan, Jianwu Dang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

Modeling pitch trajectory by hierarchical HMM with minimum generation error training.

Yi-Jian Wu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

High quality lip-sync animation for 3D photo-realistic talking head.

Lijuan Wang, Wei Han, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

Improved minimum converted trajectory error training for real-time speech-to-lips conversion.

Wei Han, Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong, Bo Yuan

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

High quality lips animation with speech and captured facial action unit as A/V input.

Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2012

2011

Voice Activity Detection Based on an Unsupervised Learning Framework.

Dongwen Ying, Yonghong Yan, Jianwu Dang, Frank K. Soong

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2011

Improved Prosody Generation by Maximizing Joint Probability of State and Longer Units.

Yao Qian, Zhizheng Wu, Boyang Gao, Frank K. Soong

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2011

Text Driven 3D Photo-Realistic Talking Head.

Lijuan Wang, Wei Han, Frank K. Soong, Qiang Huo

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

On Mispronunciation Lexicon Generation Using Joint-Sequence Multigrams in Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT).

Xiaojun Qian, Helen M. Meng, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

A New Phonetic Candidate Generator for Improving Search Query Efficiency.

Bo Peng, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Bo Zhang

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Improvements in Speaker Characterization Using Spectral Subband Energy Based on Harmonic plus Noise Model.

Yanhua Long, Zhi-Jie Yan, Frank K. Soong, Li-Rong Dai, Wu Guo

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

A Sparse and Low-rank approach to efficient face alignment for photo-real talking head synthesis.

King Keung Wu, Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong, Yeung Yam

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

Synthesizing visual speech trajectory with minimum generation error.

Lijuan Wang, Yi-Jian Wu, Xiaodan Zhuang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

A frame mapping based HMM approach to cross-lingual voice transformation.

Yao Qian, Ji Xu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

Speaker characterization using spectral subband energy ratio based on Harmonic plus Noise Model.

Yanhua Long, Zhi-Jie Yan, Frank K. Soong, Li-Rong Dai, Wu Guo

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

Improved F0 modeling and generation in voice conversion.

Aki Kunikoshi, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Nobuaki Minematsu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

2010

Photo-real lips synthesis with trajectory-guided sample selection.

Lijuan Wang, Xiaojun Qian, Wei Han, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2010

Rendering a personalized photo-real talking head from short video footage.

Lijuan Wang, Wei Han, Xiaojun Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2010

Automatic prosody prediction and detection with Conditional Random Field (CRF) models.

Yao Qian, Zhizheng Wu, Xuezhe Ma, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2010

Capturing L2 segmental mispronunciations with joint-sequence models in Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT).

Xiaojun Qian, Helen M. Meng, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2010

A minimum converted trajectory error (MCTE) approach to high quality speech-to-lips conversion.

Xiaodan Zhuang, Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Formant-based frequency warping for improving speaker adaptation in HMM TTS.

Xin Zhuang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Yi-Jian Wu, Bo Zhang

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Synthesizing photo-real talking head via trajectory-guided sample selection.

Lijuan Wang, Xiaojun Qian, Wei Han, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

An HMM trajectory tiling (HTT) approach to high quality TTS.

Yao Qian, Zhi-Jie Yan, Yi-Jian Wu, Frank K. Soong, Xin Zhuang, Shengyi Kong

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Discriminative acoustic model for improving mispronunciation detection and diagnosis in computer-aided pronunciation training (CAPT).

Xiaojun Qian, Frank K. Soong, Helen M. Meng

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

A hierarchical F0 modeling method for HMM-based speech synthesis.

Ming Lei, Yi-Jian Wu, Frank K. Soong, Zhen-Hua Ling, Li-Rong Dai

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

A perceptual study of acceleration parameters in HMM-based TTS.

Yining Chen, Zhi-Jie Yan, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Cross-validation based decision tree clustering for HMM-based TTS.

Yu Zhang, Zhi-Jie Yan, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

Improved modeling for F0 generation and V/U decision in HMM-based TTS.

Qingqing Zhang, Frank K. Soong, Yao Qian, Zhijie Yan, Jielin Pan, Yonghong Yan

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

RIch-context Unit Selection (RUS) approach to high quality TTS.

Zhi-Jie Yan, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

An HMM Trajectory Tiling (HTT) Approach to High Quality TTS - Microsoft Entry to Blizzard Challenge 2010.

Yao Qian, Zhi-Jie Yan, Yi-Jian Wu, Frank K. Soong, Guoliang Zhang, Lijuan Wang

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2010, Kansai Science City, Japan, September 25, 2010, 2010

2009

A Cross-Language State Sharing and Mapping Approach to Bilingual (Mandarin-English) TTS.

Yao Qian, Hui Liang, Frank K. Soong

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2009

Graph-Based Partial Hypothesis Fusion for Pen-Aided Speech Input.

Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2009

A Quadratic Optimization Approach to Discriminative Training of CDHMMs.

Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong

IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2009

A Multi-Space Distribution (MSD) and two-stream tone modeling approach to Mandarin speech recognition.

Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Speech Commun., 2009

Rich context modeling for high quality HMM-based TTS.

Zhi-Jie Yan, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

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

Auto-checking speech transcriptions by multiple template constrained posterior.

Lijuan Wang, Shenghao Qin, Frank K. Soong

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

A minimum v/u error approach to F0 generation in HMM-based TTS.

Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Miaomiao Wang, Zhizheng Wu

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

Model-based speech separation: identifying transcription using orthogonality.

Siu Wa Lee, Frank K. Soong, Tan Lee

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

An evidence framework for Bayesian learning of continuous-density hidden Markov models.

Yu Zhang, Peng Liu, Jen-Tzung Chien, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

Improved prosody generation by maximizing joint likelihood of state and longer units.

Yao Qian, Zhizheng Wu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

State mapping for cross-language speaker adaptation in TTS.

Yining Chen, Yang Jiao, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

Improving mispronunciation detection using machine learning.

Yuqiang Chen, Chao Huang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

HMM-based motion trajectory generation for speech animation synthesis.

Lijuan Wang, Wei Han, Xiaojun Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, 2009

2008

Identifying Language Origin of Named Entity With Multiple Information Sources.

Jia-Li You, Yining Chen, Min Chu, Frank K. Soong, Jin-Lin Wang

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2008

A Constrained Line Search Optimization Method for Discriminative Training of HMMs.

Peng Liu, Cong Liu, Hui Jiang, Frank K. Soong, Ren-Hua Wang

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2008

Tone-enhanced generalized character posterior probability (GCPP) for Cantonese LVCSR.

Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Tan Lee

Comput. Speech Lang., 2008

Modeling and Generating Tone Contour with Phrase Intonation for Mandarin Chinese Speech.

Zhizheng Wu, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Bo Zhang

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2008

HMM-Based Mixed-Language (Mandarin-English) Speech Synthesis.

Yao Qian, Houwei Cao, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2008

Pitch Tracking for Model-Based Speech Separation.

Siu Wa Lee, Frank K. Soong, P. C. Ching, Tan Lee

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2008

Improving Automatic Evaluation of Mandarin Pronunciation with Speaker Adaptive Training (SAT) and MLLR Speaker Adaption.

Chao Huang, Feng Zhang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2008

Prosody for Mandarin speech recognition: a comparative study of read and spontaneous speech.

Yu Ting Yeung, Yao Qian, Tan Lee, Frank K. Soong

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

A real-time text to audio-visual speech synthesis system.

Lijuan Wang, Xiaojun Qian, Lei Ma, Yao Qian, Yining Chen, Frank K. Soong

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

Efficient handwriting correction of speech recognition errors with template constrained posterior (TCP).

Lijuan Wang, Tao Hu, Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong

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

GPU-accelerated Gaussian clustering for fMPE discriminative training.

Yu Shi, Frank Seide, Frank K. Soong

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

Generating natural F0 trajectory with additive trees.

Yao Qian, Hui Liang, Frank K. Soong

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

An ellipsoid constrained quadratic programming perspective to discriminative training of HMMs.

Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong

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

Mispronunciation detection for Mandarin Chinese.

Chao Huang, Feng Zhang, Frank K. Soong, Min Chu

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

Duration refinement by jointly optimizing state and longer unit likelihood.

Boyang Gao, Yao Qian, Zhizheng Wu, Frank K. Soong

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

A symbol graph based handwritten math expression recognition.

Yu Shi, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008), 2008

Radical based fine trajectory HMMs of online handwritten characters.

Peng Liu, Lei Ma, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008), 2008

Automatic mispronunciation detection for Mandarin.

Feng Zhang, Chao Huang, Frank K. Soong, Min Chu, Ren-Hua Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

Improving letter-to-sound conversion performance with automatically generated new words.

Jia-Li You, Yining Chen, Frank K. Soong, Jin-Lin Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

Template constrained posterior for verifying phone transcriptions.

Lijuan Wang, Tao Hu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

Symbol graph based discriminative training and rescoring for improved math symbol recognition.

Zhen Xuan Luo, Yu Shi, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

Prefix tree based auto-completion for convenient bi-modal chinese character input.

Peng Liu, Lei Ma, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

A cross-language state mapping approach to bilingual (Mandarin-English) TTS.

Hui Liang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Gongshen Liu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

Discriminative training for improving letter-to-sound conversion performance.

Yining Chen, Peng Liu, Jia-Li You, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

2007

Static and Dynamic Spectral Features: Their Noise Robustness and Optimal Weights for ASR.

Chen Yang, Frank K. Soong, Tan Lee

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2007

A Cohort-Based Speaker Model Synthesis for Mismatched Channels in Speaker Verification.

Wei Wu, Thomas Fang Zheng, Mingxing Xu, Frank K. Soong

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2007

A Syllable Lattice Approach to Speaker Verification.

Minho Jin, Frank K. Soong, Chang Dong Yoo

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2007

Performance of Discriminative HMM Training in Noise.

Jun Du, Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou, Ren-Hua Wang

Int. J. Comput. Linguistics Chin. Lang. Process., 2007

Measuring attribute dissimilarity with HMM KL-divergence for speech synthesis.

Yong Zhao, Chengsuo Zhang, Frank K. Soong, Min Chu, Xi Xiao

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

Perceptual annotation of expressive speech.

Lijuan Wang, Min Chu, Yaya Peng, Yong Zhao, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

An HMM-based bilingual (Mandarin-English) TTS.

Hui Liang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2007

Context constrained-generalized posterior probability for verifying phone transcriptions.

Hua Zhang, Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong, Wenju Liu

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

Robust F0 modeling for Mandarin speech recognition in noise.

Sheng Qiang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Congfu Xu

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

An unsupervised approach to automatic prosodic annotation.

Xinqiang Ni, Yining Chen, Frank K. Soong, Min Chu, Ping Zhang

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

Iterative unit selection with unnatural prosody detection.

Dacheng Lin, Yong Zhao, Frank K. Soong, Min Chu, Jieyu Zhao

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

Model-based speech separation with single-microphone input.

Siu Wa Lee, Frank K. Soong, Pak-Chung Ching

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

Minimum Error Discriminative Training for Radical-Based Online Chinese Handwriting Recognition.

Yu Zhang, Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007), 2007

A Unified Framework for Symbol Segmentation and Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions.

Yu Shi, HaiYang Li, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007), 2007

A MSD-HMM Approach to Pen Trajectory Modeling for Online Handwriting Recognition.

Lei Ma, Frank K. Soong, Peng Liu, Yi-Jian Wu

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007), 2007

Generalized Segment Posterior Probability for Automatic Mandarin Pronunciation Evaluation.

Jing Zheng, Chao Huang, Min Chu, Frank K. Soong, Weiping Ye

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

Word Graph Based Feature Enhancement for Noisy Speech Recognition.

Zhi-Jie Yan, Frank K. Soong, Ren-Hua Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

A Segmentation Posterior Based Endpointing Algorithm.

Yanlu Xie, Yu Shi, Frank K. Soong, Beiqian Dai

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

Full HMM Training for Minimizing Generation Error in Synthesis.

Yi-Jian Wu, Ren-Hua Wang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

Agreement Learning for Automatic Accent Annotation.

Xinqiang Ni, Yining Chen, Min Chu, Frank K. Soong, Yong Zhao, Ping Zhang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

A Constrained Line Search Optimization for Discriminative Training in Speech Recognition.

Cong Liu, Peng Liu, Hui Jiang, Frank K. Soong, Ren-Hua Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

A New Minimum Divergence Approach to Discriminative Training.

Jun Du, Peng Liu, Hui Jiang, Frank K. Soong, Ren-Hua Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

Divergence-Based Similarity Measure for Spoken Document Retrieval.

Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

Enrich Web Applications with Voice Internet Persona Text-to-Speech for Anyone, Anywhere.

Min Chu, Yusheng Li, Xin Zou, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments, 2007

A constrained line search approach to general discriminative HMM training.

Peng Liu, Cong Liu, Hui Jiang, Frank K. Soong, Ren-Hua Wang

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

2006

A tree-based kernel selection approach to efficient Gaussian mixture model-universal background model based speaker identification.

Zhenyu Xiong, Thomas Fang Zheng, Zhanjiang Song, Frank K. Soong, Wenhu Wu

Speech Commun., 2006

Modeling Cantonese Pronunciation Variations for Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition.

Tan Lee, Patgi Kam, Frank K. Soong

Int. J. Comput. Linguistics Chin. Lang. Process., 2006

Context-Dependent Boundary Model for Refining Boundaries Segmentation of TTS Units.

Lijuan Wang, Yong Zhao, Min Chu, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou, Zhigang Cao

IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2006

Automatic Detection of Tone Mispronunciation in Mandarin.

Li Zhang, Chao Huang, Min Chu, Frank K. Soong, Xianda Zhang, Yudong Chen

Proceedings of the Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 5th International Symposium, 2006

A Robust Voice Activity Detection Based on Noise Eigenspace Projection.

Dongwen Ying, Yu Shi, Frank K. Soong, Jianwu Dang, Xugang Lu

Proceedings of the Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 5th International Symposium, 2006

Signal Trajectory Based Noise Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition.

Zhi-Jie Yan, Jian-Lai Zhou, Frank K. Soong, Ren-Hua Wang

Proceedings of the Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 5th International Symposium, 2006

Training Discriminative HMM by Optimal Allocation of Gaussian Kernels.

Zhijie Yan, Peng Liu, Jun Du, Frank K. Soong, Renhua Wang

Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Improved Mandarin Speech Recognition by Lattice Rescoring with Enhanced Tone Models.

Huanliang Wang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou, Jiqing Han

Proceedings of the Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 5th International Symposium, 2006

An HMM-Based Mandarin Chinese Text-To-Speech System.

Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Yining Chen, Min Chu

Proceedings of the Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 5th International Symposium, 2006

Non-uniform Kernel Allocation Based Parsimonious HMM.

Peng Liu, Jian-Lai Zhou, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 5th International Symposium, 2006

Noisy Speech Recognition Performance of Discriminative HMMs.

Jun Du, Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou, Ren-Hua Wang

Proceedings of the Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 5th International Symposium, 2006

The Paradigm for Creating Multi-lingual Text-To-Speech Voice Databases.

Min Chu, Yong Zhao, Yining Chen, Lijuan Wang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 5th International Symposium, 2006

Integrating Hypotheses of Multiple Recognizers for Improving Mandarin LVCSR Performance.

Yu Shi, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou

Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2006

A multi-space distribution (MSD) approach to speech recognition of tonal languages.

Huanliang Wang, Yao Qian, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou, Jiqing Han

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

Auto-segmentation based VAD for robust ASR.

Yu Shi, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou

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

Generalization of the minimum classification error (MCE) training based on maximizing generalized posterior probability (GPP).

Qiang Fu, Antonio Moreno-Daniel, Biing-Hwang Juang, Jian-Lai Zhou, Frank K. Soong

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

Minimum divergence based discriminative training.

Jun Du, Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou, Ren-Hua Wang

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

Word graph based speech rcognition error correction by handwriting input.

Peng Liu, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2006

Improved Chinese Character Input by Merging Speech and Handwriting Recognition Hypotheses.

Xi Zhou, Ye Tian, Jian-Lai Zhou, Frank K. Soong, Beiqian Dai

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

A Comparative Study of Discriminative Methods for Reranking LVCSR N-Best Hypotheses in Domain Adaptation and Generalization.

Zhengyu Zhou, Jianfeng Gao, Frank K. Soong, Helen Meng

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

Auto-Segmentation Based Partitioning and Clustering Approach to Robust Endpointing.

Yu Shi, Frank K. Soong, Jian-Lai Zhou

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

An Iterative Trajectory Regeneration Algorithm for Separating Mixed Speech Sources.

Siu Wa Lee, Frank K. Soong, Pak-Chung Ching

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

Syllable Lattice Based Re-Scoring For Speaker Verification.

Minho Jin, Frank K. Soong, Chang D. Yoo

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

Weighted Likelihood Ratio (WLR) Hidden Markov Model for Noisy Speech Recognition.

Chao Huang, Yingchun Huang, Frank K. Soong, Jianlai Zhou

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

A Study on How Human Annotations Benefit the TTS Voice.

Min Chu, Yining Chen, Yong Zhao, Yusheng Li, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 16, 2006, 2006

2005

A Dynamic In-Search Data Selection Method With Its Applications to Acoustic Modeling and Utterance Verification.

Hui Jiang, Frank K. Soong, Chin-Hui Lee

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2005

Verification of Multi-Class Recognition Decision: A Classification Approach.

Tomoko Matsui, Frank K. Soong, Biing-Hwang Juang

IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2005

Refining phoneme segmentations using speaker-adaptive context dependent boundary models.

Yong Zhao, Lijuan Wang, Min Chu, Frank K. Soong, Zhigang Cao

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

Phonetic transcription verification with generalized posterior probability.

Lijuan Wang, Yong Zhao, Min Chu, Frank K. Soong, Zhigang Cao

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

Background model based posterior probability for measuring confidence.

Peng Liu, Ye Tian, Jian-Lai Zhou, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

Harmonic filtering for joint estimation of pitch and voiced source with single-microphone input.

Siu Wa Lee, Frank K. Soong, Pak-Chung Ching

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

Generalized Posterior Probability for Minimum Error Verification of Recognized Sentences.

Wai Kit Lo, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2005

Optimal Clustering and Non-Uniform Allocation of Gaussian Kernels in Scalar Dimension for HMM Compression.

Xiao-Bing Li, Frank K. Soong, Tor André Myrvoll, Ren-Hua Wang

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2005

2004

On noise robustness of dynamic and static features for continuous Cantonese digit recognition.

Chen Yang, Frank K. Soong, Tan Lee

Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2004

Generalized posterior probability for minimizing verification errors at subword, word and sentence levels.

Wai Kit Lo, Frank K. Soong, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2004

Improved spoken language translation using n-best speech recognition hypotheses.

Ruiqiang Zhang, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Frank K. Soong, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita, Wai Kit Lo

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

Optimal acoustic and language model weights for minimizing word verification errors.

Frank K. Soong, Wai Kit Lo, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

Tone information as a confidence measure for improving Cantonese LVCSR.

Yao Qian, Tan Lee, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

Robust verification of recognized words in noise.

Wai Kit Lo, Frank K. Soong, Satoshi Nakamura

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

A Unified Approach in Speech-to-Speech Translation: Integrating Features of Speech recognition and Machine Translation.

Ruiqiang Zhang, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Frank K. Soong, Taro Watanabe, Wai Kit Lo

Proceedings of the COLING 2004, 2004

2003

On divergence based clustering of normal distributions and its application to HMM adaptation.

Tor André Myrvoll, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Modeling Cantonese pronunciation variation by acoustic model refinement.

Patgi Kam, Tan Lee, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Optimal clustering of multivariate normal distributions using divergence and its application to HMM adaptation.

Tor André Myrvoll, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003

Combining neighboring filter channels to improve quantile based histogram equalization.

Florian Hilger, Hermann Ney, Olivier Siohan, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003

2002

Recognition of noisy speech using normalized moments.

Jingdong Chen, Yiteng Huang, Qi Li, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

Bell labs approach to Aurora evaluation on connected digit recognition.

Jingdong Chen, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Hui Jiang, Qi Li, Tor André Myrvoll, Olivier Siohan, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

Classifier design for verification of multi-class recognition decision.

Tomoko Matsui, Frank K. Soong, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2002

A dynamic in-search discriminative training approach for large vocabulary speech recognition.

Hui Jiang, Olivier Siohan, Frank K. Soong, Chin-Hui Lee

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2002

2001

A real-time Japanese broadcast news closed-captioning system.

Olivier Siohan, Akio Ando, Mohamed Afify, Hui Jiang, Chin-Hui Lee, Qi Li, Feng Liu, Kazuo Onoe, Frank K. Soong, Qiru Zhou

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

An auditory system-based feature for robust speech recognition.

Qi Li, Frank K. Soong, Olivier Siohan

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

A data selection strategy for utterance verification in continuous speech recognition.

Hui Jiang, Frank K. Soong, Chin-Hui Lee

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

Evaluating the Aurora connected digit recognition task - a bell labs approach.

Mohamed Afify, Hui Jiang, Filipp Korkmazskiy, Chin-Hui Lee, Qi Li, Olivier Siohan, Frank K. Soong, Arun C. Surendran

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

Hierarchical stochastic feature matching for robust speech recognition.

Hui Jiang, Frank K. Soong, Chin-Hui Lee

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2001

2000

Hands-free human-machine dialogue - corpora, technology and evaluation.

Frank K. Soong, Eric A. Woudenberg

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

A high-performance auditory feature for robust speech recognition.

Qi Li, Frank K. Soong, Olivier Siohan

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

1999

Recent advancements in automatic speaker authentication.

Qi Li, Biing-Hwang Juang, Chin-Hui Lee, Qiru Zhou, Frank K. Soong

IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 1999

A block least squares approach to acoustic echo cancellation.

Eric A. Woudenberg, Frank K. Soong, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1999

Hidden Markov models with divergence based vector quantized variances.

Jae H. Kim, Raziel Haimi-Cohen, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1999

1998

Improved utterance rejection using length dependent thresholds.

Sunil K. Gupta, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

1997

Generalized mixture of HMMs for continuous speech recognition.

Filipp Korkmazskiy, Biing-Hwang Juang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1997

1996

Quantizing mixture-weights in a tied-mixture HMM.

Sunil K. Gupta, Frank K. Soong, Raziel Haimi-Cohen

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

High-accuracy connected digit recognition for mobile applications.

Sunil K. Gupta, Frank K. Soong, Raziel Haimi-Cohen

Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1996

1995

Optimizing baseforms for HMM-based speech recognition.

Torbjørn Svendsen, Frank K. Soong, Heiko Purnhagen

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

Large vocabulary, word-based Mandarin dictation system.

Jung-Kuei Chen, Lin-Shan Lee, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

An orthogonal polynomial representation of speech signals and its probabilistic model for text independent speaker verification.

Chi-Shi Liu, Hsiao-Chuan Wang, Frank K. Soong, Chao-Shih Huang

Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, 1995

1994

A fast algorithm for large vocabulary keyword spotting application.

Eng-Fong Huang, Hsiao-Chuan Wang, Frank K. Soong

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 1994

An N-best candidates-based discriminative training for speech recognition applications.

Jung-Kuei Chen, Frank K. Soong

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 1994

A Minimum Error Rate Pattern Recognition Approach to Speech Recognition.

Wu Chou, Chin-Hui Lee, Biing-Hwang Juang, Frank K. Soong

Int. J. Pattern Recognit. Artif. Intell., 1994

The use of tree-trellis search for large-vocabulary Mandarin polysyllabic word speech recognition.

Eng-Fong Huang, Frank K. Soong, Hsiao-Chuan Wang

Comput. Speech Lang., 1994

Cepstral channel normalization techniques for HMM-based speaker verification.

Aaron E. Rosenberg, Chin-Hui Lee, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

Large vocabulary word recognition based on tree-trellis search.

Jung-Kuei Chen, Frank K. Soong, Lin-Shan Lee

Proceedings of ICASSP '94: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1994

Discriminative training of high performance speech recognizer using N best candidates.

Jung-Kuei Chen, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of ICASSP '94: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1994

1993

Optimal quantization of LSP parameters.

Frank K. Soong, Biing-Hwang Juang

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 1993

1992

Continuous mixture HMM-LR using the a* algorithm for continuous speech recognition.

Kouichi Yamaguchi, Shigeki Sagayama, Kenji Kita, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1992

The use of cohort normalized scores for speaker verification.

Aaron E. Rosenberg, Joel DeLong, Chin-Hui Lee, Biing-Hwang Juang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1992

Continuous probabilistic acoustic map for speaker recognition.

Belle L. Tseng, Frank K. Soong, Aaron E. Rosenberg

Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1992

1990

A Tree.Trellis Based Fast Search for Finding the N Best Sentence Hypotheses in Continuous Speech Recognition.

Frank K. Soong, Eng-Fong Huang

Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Hidden Valley, 1990

A tree-trellis based fast search for finding the n best sentence hypotheses in continuous speech recognition.

Frank K. Soong, Eng-Fong Huang

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1990

Experiments in automatic talker verification using sub-word unit hidden Markov models.

Aaron E. Rosenberg, Chin-Hui Lee, Frank K. Soong, Maureen A. McGee

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1990

Optimal quantization of LSP parameters using delayed decisions.

Frank K. Soong, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Acoustics, 1990

Sub-word unit talker verification using hidden Markov models.

Aaron E. Rosenberg, Chin-Hui Lee, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Acoustics, 1990

Speaker recognition based on source coding approaches.

Biing-Hwang Juang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Acoustics, 1990

A probabilistic acoustic map based discriminative HMM training.

Eng-Fong Huang, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Acoustics, 1990

Statistical segmentation and word modeling techniques in isolated word recognition.

S. A. Euler, Biing-Hwang Juang, Chin-Hui Lee, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Acoustics, 1990

1989

High performance connected digit recognition using hidden Markov models.

Lawrence R. Rabiner, Jay G. Wilpon, Frank K. Soong

IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., 1989

A phonetically labeled acoustic segment (PLAS) approach to speech analysis-synthesis.

Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1989

Word recognition using whole word and subword models.

Chin-Hui Lee, Biing-Hwang Juang, Frank K. Soong, Lawrence R. Rabiner

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1989

1988

A frequency-weighted Itakura spectral distortion measure and its application to speech recognition in noise.

Frank K. Soong, Man Mohan Sondhi

IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., 1988

On the use of instantaneous and transitional spectral information in speaker recognition.

Frank K. Soong, Aaron E. Rosenberg

IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., 1988

Optimal quantization of LSP parameters [speech coding].

Frank K. Soong, Bling-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1988

A segment model based approach to speech recognition.

Chin-Hui Lee, Frank K. Soong, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1988

1987

On the automatic segmentation of speech signals.

Torbjørn Svendsen, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1987

A training procedure for a segment-based-network approach to isolated word recognition.

Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1987

1986

A high quality subband speech coder with backward adaptive predictor and optimal time-frequency bit assignment.

Frank K. Soong, Richard V. Cox, Nikil S. Jayant

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1986

Evaluation of a vector quantization talker recognition system in text independent and text dependent modes.

Aaron E. Rosenberg, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1986

1985

A vector-quantization-based preprocessor for speaker-independent isolated word recognition.

Kuk-Chin Pan, Frank K. Soong, Lawrence R. Rabiner

IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process., 1985

Comparative study of several distortion measures for speech recognition.

N. Nocerino, Frank K. Soong, Lawrence R. Rabiner, Dennis H. Klatt

Speech Commun., 1985

Single-frame vowel recognition using vector quantization with several distance measures.

Lawrence R. Rabiner, Frank K. Soong

AT&T Tech. J., 1985

Incorporation of temporal structure into a vector-quantization-based preprocessor for speaker-independent, isolated-word recognition.

A. F. Bergh, Frank K. Soong, Lawrence R. Rabiner

AT&T Tech. J., 1985

A vector quantization approach to speaker recognition.

Frank K. Soong, Aaron E. Rosenberg, Lawrence R. Rabiner, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1985

Subband coding of speech using backward adaptive prediction and bit allocation.

Frank K. Soong, Richard V. Cox, Nikil S. Jayant

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1985

An efficient vector-quantization preprocessor for speaker independent isolated word recognition.

Kuk-Chin Pan, Frank K. Soong, Lawrence R. Rabiner, A. F. Bergh

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1985

1984

On the performance of isolated word speech recognizers using vector quantization and temporal energy contours.

Lawrence R. Rabiner, Kuk-Chin Pan, Frank K. Soong

AT&T Bell Lab. Tech. J., 1984

Line spectrum pair (LSP) and speech data compression.

Frank K. Soong, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1984

On the use of transient information in speech recognition.

Jean-Sylvain Liénard, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1984

1982

Fast least-squares (LS) in the voice echo cancellation application.

Frank K. Soong, Allen M. Peterson

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1982

On the high resolution and unbiased frequency estimates of sinusoids in white noise-A new adaptive approach.

Frank K. Soong, Allen M. Peterson

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1982

1981

On the asymptotic behavior of a complex adaptive line enchancer (CALE).

Frank K. Soong, S. Shankar Narayan, Allen M. Peterson

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1981

1980

Fast spectral estimation of speech signal in analytic form.

Frank K. Soong, Allen M. Peterson

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1980

1978

Frequency estimation by linear prediction.

Leland B. Jackson, Donald W. Tufts, Frank K. Soong, Rahul M. Rao

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1978

Observations on linear estimation.

Leland B. Jackson, Frank K. Soong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1978