Horacio Franco

According to our database, Horacio Franco authored at least 85 papers between 1990 and 2020.

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2020

Investigation and analysis of hyper and hypo neuron pruning to selectively update neurons during unsupervised adaptation.

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco

Digit. Signal Process., 2020

Wideband spectral monitoring using deep learning.

Horacio Franco, Chris Cobo-Kroenke, Stephanie Welch, Martin Graciarena

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning, 2020

2019

Articulatory and bottleneck features for speaker-independent ASR of dysarthric speech.

Emre Yilmaz, Vikramjit Mitra, Ganesh Sivaraman, Horacio Franco

Comput. Speech Lang., 2019

2018

Articulatory Features for ASR of Pathological Speech.

Emre Yilmaz, Vikramjit Mitra, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco

CoRR, 2018

Articulatory Features for ASR of Pathological Speech.

Emre Yilmaz, Vikramjit Mitra, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco

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

Voices Obscured in Complex Environmental Settings (VOiCES) Corpus.

Colleen Richey, María Auxiliadora Barrios, Zeb Armstrong, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena, Aaron Lawson, Mahesh Kumar Nandwana, Allen R. Stauffer, Julien van Hout, Paul Gamble, Jeffrey Hetherly, Cory Stephenson, Karl Ni

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

Interpreting DNN Output Layer Activations: A Strategy to Cope with Unseen Data in Speech Recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2018

Articulatory Information and Multiview Features for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Wen Wang, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco, Dimitra Vergyri

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2018

2017

Leveraging Deep Neural Network Activation Entropy to cope with Unseen Data in Speech Recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco

CoRR, 2017

Adaptation Approaches for Pronunciation Scoring with Sparse Training Data.

Federico Landini, Luciana Ferrer, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the Speech and Computer - 19th International Conference, 2017

Joint modeling of articulatory and acoustic spaces for continuous speech recognition tasks.

Vikramjit Mitra, Ganesh Sivaraman, Chris Bartels, Hosung Nam, Wen Wang, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2017

Speech recognition in unseen and noisy channel conditions.

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Chris Bartels, Julien van Hout, Martin Graciarena, Dimitra Vergyri

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2017

Noise-robust exemplar matching for rescoring query-by-example search.

Emre Yilmaz, Julien van Hout, Horacio Franco

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

Tackling unseen acoustic conditions in query-by-example search using time and frequency convolution for multilingual deep bottleneck features.

Julien van Hout, Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Chris Bartels, Dimitra Vergyri

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

Robust Features in Deep-Learning-Based Speech Recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Richard M. Stern, Julien van Hout, Luciana Ferrer, Martin Graciarena, Wen Wang, Dimitra Vergyri, Abeer Alwan, John H. L. Hansen

Proceedings of the New Era for Robust Speech Recognition, Exploiting Deep Learning., 2017

2016

Unsupervised Learning of Acoustic Units Using Autoencoders and Kohonen Nets.

Vikramjit Mitra, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco

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

Fusion Strategies for Robust Speech Recognition and Keyword Spotting for Channel- and Noise-Degraded Speech.

Vikramjit Mitra, Julien van Hout, Wen Wang, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco, Dimitra Vergyri, Abeer Alwan, Adam Janin, John H. L. Hansen, Richard M. Stern, Abhijeet Sangwan, Nelson Morgan

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

Coping with Unseen Data Conditions: Investigating Neural Net Architectures, Robust Features, and Information Fusion for Robust Speech Recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco

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

Open Language Interface for Voice Exploitation (OLIVE).

Aaron Lawson, Mitchell McLaren, Harry Bratt, Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Christopher George, Allen R. Stauffer, Chris Bartels, Julien van Hout

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

2015

Classification of lexical stress using spectral and prosodic features for computer-assisted language learning systems.

Luciana Ferrer, Harry Bratt, Colleen Richey, Horacio Franco, Victor Abrash, Kristin Precoda

Speech Commun., 2015

Combating reverberation in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Julien van Hout, Mitchell McLaren, Wen Wang, Martin Graciarena, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco

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

Improving robustness against reverberation for automatic speech recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Julien van Hout, Wen Wang, Martin Graciarena, Mitchell McLaren, Horacio Franco, Dimitra Vergyri

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2015

Time-frequency convolutional networks for robust speech recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2015

2014

Deep convolutional nets and robust features for reverberation-robust speech recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Wen Wang, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Evaluating robust features on deep neural networks for speech recognition in noisy and channel mismatched conditions.

Vikramjit Mitra, Wen Wang, Horacio Franco, Yun Lei, Chris Bartels, Martin Graciarena

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

Recent improvements in SRI's keyword detection system for noisy audio.

Julien van Hout, Vikramjit Mitra, Yun Lei, Dimitra Vergyri, Martin Graciarena, Arindam Mandal, Horacio Franco

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

Feature fusion for high-accuracy keyword spotting.

Vikramjit Mitra, Julien van Hout, Horacio Franco, Dimitra Vergyri, Yun Lei, Martin Graciarena, Yik-Cheung Tam, Jing Zheng

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

Medium-duration modulation cepstral feature for robust speech recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena, Dimitra Vergyri

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

Adaptive and discriminative modeling for improved mispronunciation detection.

Horacio Franco, Luciana Ferrer, Harry Bratt

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

Lexical stress classification for language learning using spectral and segmental features.

Luciana Ferrer, Harry Bratt, Colleen Richey, Horacio Franco, Victor Abrash, Kristin Precoda

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

2013

Modulation features for noise robust speaker identification.

Vikramjit Mitra, Mitchell McLaren, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena, Nicolas Scheffer

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

Damped oscillator cepstral coefficients for robust speech recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena

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

Strategies for high accuracy keyword detection in noisy channels.

Arindam Mandal, Julien van Hout, Yik-Cheung Tam, Vikramjit Mitra, Yun Lei, Jing Zheng, Dimitra Vergyri, Luciana Ferrer, Martin Graciarena, Andreas Kathol, Horacio Franco

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

All for one: feature combination for highly channel-degraded speech activity detection.

Martin Graciarena, Abeer Alwan, Dan Ellis, Horacio Franco, Luciana Ferrer, John H. L. Hansen, Adam Janin, Byung Suk Lee, Yun Lei, Vikramjit Mitra, Nelson Morgan, Seyed Omid Sadjadi, T. J. Tsai, Nicolas Scheffer, Lee Ngee Tan, Benjamin Williams

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

2012

Normalized amplitude modulation features for large vocabulary noise-robust speech recognition.

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena, Arindam Mandal

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

2011

Robust speech representation of voiced sounds based on synchrony determination with PLLs.

Patricia A. Pelle, Claudio Estienne, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

2009

Recent advances in SRI'S IraqComm^TM Iraqi Arabic-English speech-to-speech translation system.

Murat Akbacak, Horacio Franco, Michael W. Frandsen, Sasa Hasan, Huda Jameel, Andreas Kathol, Shahram Khadivi, Xin Lei, Arindam Mandal, Saab Mansour, Kristin Precoda, Colleen Richey, Dimitra Vergyri, Wen Wang, Mei Yang, Jing Zheng

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

2008

MUESLI: multiple utterance error correction for a spoken language interface.

Federico Cesari, Horacio Franco, Gregory K. Myers, Harry Bratt

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

2007

Iraqcomm: a next generation translation system.

Kristin Precoda, Jing Zheng, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco, Colleen Richey, Andreas Kathol, Sachin S. Kajarekar

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

2006

Recent innovations in speech-to-text transcription at SRI-ICSI-UW.

Andreas Stolcke, Barry Y. Chen, Horacio Franco, Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde, Martin Graciarena, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Katrin Kirchhoff, Arindam Mandal, Nelson Morgan, Xin Lei, Tim Ng, Mari Ostendorf, M. Kemal Sönmez, Anand Venkataraman, Dimitra Vergyri, Wen Wang, Jing Zheng, Qifeng Zhu

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2006

Speech Recognition Engineering Issues in Speech to Speech Translation System Design for Low Resource Languages and Domains.

Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Abhinav Sethy, Dagen Wang, Murtaza Bulut, Shiva Sundaram, Emil Ettelaie, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Horacio Franco, Kristin Precoda, Dimitra Vergyri, Jing Zheng, Wen Wang, Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde, Martin Graciarena, Victor Abrash, Michael W. Frandsen, Colleen Richey

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

2005

Robust feature compensation in nonstationary and multiple noise environments.

Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Gregory K. Myers, Victor Abrash

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

2004

Limited-Domain Speech-to-Speech Translation between English and Pashto.

Kristin Precoda, Horacio Franco, Ascander Dost, Michael Frandsen, John Fry, Andreas Kathol, Colleen Richey, Susanne Z. Riehemann, Dimitra Vergyri, Jing Zheng, Christopher Culy

Proceedings of the Demonstration Papers at HLT-NAACL 2004, 2004

Effective acoustic modeling for rate-of-speech variation in large vocabulary conversational speech recognition.

Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Andreas Stolcke

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

Combination of standard and throat microphones for robust speech recognition in highly noisy environments.

Martin Graciarena, Federico Cesari, Horacio Franco, Gregory K. Myers, Cregg Cowan, Victor Abrash

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

Voicing feature integration in SRI's decipher LVCSR system.

Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Jing Zheng, Dimitra Vergyri, Andreas Stolcke

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004

2003

Combining standard and throat microphones for robust speech recognition.

Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, M. Kemal Sönmez, Harry Bratt

IEEE Signal Process. Lett., 2003

Modeling word-level rate-of-speech variation in large vocabulary conversational speech recognition.

Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Andreas Stolcke

Speech Commun., 2003

Development of phrase translation systems for handheld computers: from concept to field.

Horacio Franco, Jing Zheng, Kristin Precoda, Federico Cesari, Victor Abrash, Dimitra Vergyri, Anand Venkataraman, Harry Bratt, Colleen Richey, Ace Sarich

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

Iterative Statistical Language Model Generation for Use with an Agent-Oriented Natural Language Interface.

Babak Hodjat, Horacio Franco, Harry Bratt, Kristin Precoda, Andreas Stolcke, Anand Venkataraman, Dimitra Vergyri, Jing Zheng

Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction: Universal Access in HCI: Inclusive Design in the Information Society, 2003

2002

Fast hierarchical grammar optimization algorithm toward time and space efficiency.

Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco

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

2001

Improved maximum mutual information estimation training of continuous density HMMs.

Jing Zheng, John Butzberger, Horacio Franco, Andreas Stolcke

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

2000

Automatic scoring of pronunciation quality.

Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Vassilios Digalakis, Mitch Weintraub

Speech Commun., 2000

Combination of machine scores for automatic grading of pronunciation quality.

Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, Vassilios Digalakis, Orith Ronen

Speech Commun., 2000

Prosodic features for automatic text-independent evaluation of degree of nativeness for language learners.

Carlos Teixeira, Horacio Franco, Elizabeth Shriberg, Kristin Precoda, M. Kemal Sönmez

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

Consonant discrimination in elicited and spontaneous speech: a case for signal-adaptive front ends in ASR.

M. Kemal Sönmez, Madelaine Plauché, Elizabeth Shriberg, Horacio Franco

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

Word-level rate of speech modeling using rate-specific phones and pronunciations.

Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Fuliang Weng, Ananth Sankar, Harry Bratt

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2000

1999

Segmental modeling using a continuous mixture of nonparametric models.

Jacob Goldberger, David Burshtein, Horacio Franco

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 1999

Automatic detection of phone-level mispronunciation for language learning.

Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, María Ramos, Harry Bratt

Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

1998

Calibration of machine scores for pronunciation grading.

Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer

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

Collection and detailed transcription of a speech database for development of language learning technologies.

Harry Bratt, Leonardo Neumeyer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Horacio Franco

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

Simplified neural network architectures for a hybrid speech recognition system with small vocabulary size.

Hossein Sedarat, Rasool Khadem, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1998

1997

Applications of neural networks to speech recognition.

Nelson Morgan, Horacio Franco

IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 1997

Automatic detection of mispronunciation for language instruction.

Orith Ronen, Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

Automatic pronunciation scoring of specific phone segments for language instruction.

Yoon Kim, Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

Segmental modeling using a continuous mixture of non-parametric models.

Jacob Goldberger, David Burshtein, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

Context modeling in a hybrid HMM-neural net speech recognition system.

Horacio Franco, Mitch Weintraub, Michael Cohen

Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'97), 1997

Automatic pronunciation scoring for language instruction.

Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, Yoon Kim, Orith Ronen

Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1997

1996

Automatic text-independent pronunciation scoring of foreign language student speech.

Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Mitchel Weintraub, Patti Price

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

Acoustic adaptation using nonlinear transformations of HMM parameters.

Victor Abrash, Ananth Sankar, Horacio Franco, Michael Cohen

Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1996

1995

Temporal correlation modeling in a hybrid neural network/hidden Markov model speech recognizer.

Horacio Franco, Vassilios Digalakis

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

Connectionist speaker normalization and adaptation.

Victor Abrash, Horacio Franco, Ananth Sankar, Michael Cohen

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

1994

Connectionist probability estimators in HMM speech recognition.

Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 1994

Context-dependent connectionist probability estimation in a hybrid hidden Markov model-neural net speech recognition system.

Horacio Franco, Michael Cohen, Nelson Morgan, David E. Rumelhart, Victor Abrash

Comput. Speech Lang., 1994

Incorporating linguistic features in a hybrid HMM/MLP speech recognizer.

Victor Abrash, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco, Isao Arima

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

1993

Hybrid Neural Network/Hidden Markov Model Systems for Continuous Speech Recognition.

Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Steve Renals, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco

Int. J. Pattern Recognit. Artif. Intell., 1993

1992

Modeling Consistency in a Speaker Independent Continuous Speech Recognition System.

Yochai Konig, Nelson Morgan, Chuck Wooters, Victor Abrash, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5, [NIPS Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, November 30, 1992

Context-Dependent Multiple Distribution Phonetic Modeling with MLPs.

Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco, Nelson Morgan, David E. Rumelhart, Victor Abrash

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5, [NIPS Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, November 30, 1992

Hybrid neural network/hidden Markov model continuous-speech recognition.

Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco, Nelson Morgan, David E. Rumelhart, Victor Abrash

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

Connectionist gender adaptation in a hybrid neural network / hidden Markov model speech recognition system.

Victor Abrash, Horacio Franco, Michael Cohen, Nelson Morgan, Yochai Konig

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

Connectionist probability estimation in the DECIPHER speech recognition system.

Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco

Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1992

1991

Connectionist Optimisation of Tied Mixture Hidden Markov Models.

Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Horacio Franco, Michael Cohen

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4, 1991

Training HMMs using a minimum recognition error approach.

Horacio Franco, António Joaquim Serralheiro

Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on Acoustics, 1991

1990

Speaker independent recognition of isolated Spanish digits.

Jorge A. Gurlekian, Horacio Franco, Miguel Santagada

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

A new discriminative training algorithm for hidden Markov models.

Horacio Franco, António Joaquim Serralheiro

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