Ron Hoory

According to our database, Ron Hoory authored at least 48 papers between 1994 and 2024.

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2024

Creating an African American-Sounding TTS: Guidelines, Technical Challenges, and Surprising Evaluations.

Claudio Santos Pinhanez, Raul Fernandez, Marcelo Carpinette Grave, Julio Nogima, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2024

Speak While You Think: Streaming Speech Synthesis During Text Generation.

Avihu Dekel, Slava Shechtman, Raul Fernandez, David Haws, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2024

2023

Modeling Turn-Taking in Human-To-Human Spoken Dialogue Datasets Using Self-Supervised Features.

Edmilson da Silva Morais, Matheus Damasceno, Hagai Aronowitz, Aharon Satt, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2023

2022

Speech Emotion Recognition Using Self-Supervised Features.

Edmilson da Silva Morais, Ron Hoory, Weizhong Zhu, Itai Gat, Matheus Damasceno, Hagai Aronowitz

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2022

A New Data Augmentation Method for Intent Classification Enhancement and its Application on Spoken Conversation Datasets.

Zvi Kons, Aharon Satt, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Samuel Thomas, Boaz Carmeli, Ron Hoory, Brian Kingsbury

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2022

Speaker Normalization for Self-Supervised Speech Emotion Recognition.

Itai Gat, Hagai Aronowitz, Weizhong Zhu, Edmilson da Silva Morais, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2022

Towards A Common Speech Analysis Engine.

Hagai Aronowitz, Itai Gat, Edmilson da Silva Morais, Weizhong Zhu, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2022

2021

An autonomous debating system.

Noam Slonim, Yonatan Bilu, Carlos Alzate, Roy Bar-Haim, Ben Bogin, Francesca Bonin, Leshem Choshen, Edo Cohen-Karlik, Lena Dankin, Lilach Edelstein, Liat Ein-Dor, Roni Friedman-Melamed, Assaf Gavron, Ariel Gera, Martin Gleize, Shai Gretz, Dan Gutfreund, Alon Halfon, Daniel Hershcovich, Ron Hoory, Yufang Hou, Shay Hummel, Michal Jacovi, Charles Jochim, Yoav Kantor, Yoav Katz, David Konopnicki, Zvi Kons, Lili Kotlerman, Dalia Krieger, Dan Lahav, Tamar Lavee, Ran Levy, Naftali Liberman, Yosi Mass, Amir Menczel, Shachar Mirkin, Guy Moshkowich, Shila Ofek-Koifman, Matan Orbach, Ella Rabinovich, Ruty Rinott, Slava Shechtman, Dafna Sheinwald, Eyal Shnarch, Ilya Shnayderman, Aya Soffer, Artem Spector, Benjamin Sznajder, Assaf Toledo, Orith Toledo-Ronen, Elad Venezian, Ranit Aharonov

Nat., 2021

RNN Transducer Models for Spoken Language Understanding.

Samuel Thomas, Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo, George Saon, Zoltán Tüske, Brian Kingsbury, Gakuto Kurata, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

2020

Principal Style Components: Expressive Style Control and Cross-Speaker Transfer in Neural TTS.

Alexander Sorin, Slava Shechtman, Ron Hoory

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

Siamese X-Vector Reconstruction for Domain Adapted Speaker Recognition.

Shai Rozenberg, Hagai Aronowitz, Ron Hoory

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

End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding Without Full Transcripts.

Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo, Zoltán Tüske, Samuel Thomas, Yinghui Huang, Kartik Audhkhasi, Brian Kingsbury, Gakuto Kurata, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory, Luis A. Lastras

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

New Advances in Speaker Diarization.

Hagai Aronowitz, Weizhong Zhu, Masayuki Suzuki, Gakuto Kurata, Ron Hoory

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

Leveraging Unpaired Text Data for Training End-To-End Speech-to-Intent Systems.

Yinghui Huang, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Samuel Thomas, Zvi Kons, Kartik Audhkhasi, Brian Kingsbury, Ron Hoory, Michael Picheny

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

2019

High Quality, Lightweight and Adaptable TTS Using LPCNet.

Zvi Kons, Slava Shechtman, Alexander Sorin, Carmel Rabinovitz, Ron Hoory

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

2018

Neural TTS Voice Conversion.

Zvi Kons, Slava Shechtman, Alexander Sorin, Ron Hoory, Carmel Rabinovitz, Edmilson Da Silva Morais

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

The IBM Virtual Voice Creator.

Alexander Sorin, Slava Shechtman, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory, Shay Ben-David, Joe Pavitt, Shai Rozenberg, Carmel Rabinovitz, Tal Drory

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

Word Emphasis Prediction for Expressive Text to Speech.

Yosi Mass, Slava Shechtman, Moran Mordechay, Ron Hoory, Oren Sar Shalom, Guy Lev, David Konopnicki

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

2017

Efficient Emotion Recognition from Speech Using Deep Learning on Spectrograms.

Aharon Satt, Shai Rozenberg, Ron Hoory

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

Weakly-Supervised Phrase Assignment from Text in a Speech-Synthesis System Using Noisy Labels.

Asaf Rendel, Raul Fernandez, Zvi Kons, Andrew Rosenberg, Ron Hoory, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

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

Voice-transformation-based data augmentation for prosodic classification.

Raul Fernandez, Andrew Rosenberg, Alexander Sorin, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2017

2016

Using continuous lexical embeddings to improve symbolic-prosody prediction in a text-to-speech front-end.

Asaf Rendel, Raul Fernandez, Ron Hoory, Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

2015

Using deep bidirectional recurrent neural networks for prosodic-target prediction in a unit-selection text-to-speech system.

Raul Fernandez, Asaf Rendel, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ron Hoory

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

2014

Fusion of voice signal information for detection of mild laryngeal pathology.

Evaldas Vaiciukynas, Antanas Verikas, Adas Gelzinis, Marija Bacauskiene, Zvi Kons, Aharon Satt, Ron Hoory

Appl. Soft Comput., 2014

Speech-based automatic and robust detection of very early dementia.

Aharon Satt, Ron Hoory, Alexandra König, Pauline Aalten, Philippe H. Robert

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

Prosody contour prediction with long short-term memory, bi-directional, deep recurrent neural networks.

Raul Fernandez, Asaf Rendel, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ron Hoory

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

Exploring modulation spectrum features for speech-based depression level classification.

Elif Bozkurt, Orith Toledo-Ronen, Alexander Sorin, Ron Hoory

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

Multi-modal biometrics for mobile authentication.

Hagai Aronowitz, Min Li, Orith Toledo-Ronen, Sivan Harary, Amir B. Geva, Shay Ben-David, Asaf Rendel, Ron Hoory, Nalini K. Ratha, Sharath Pankanti, David Nahamoo

Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, Clearwater, 2014

2013

F0 contour prediction with a deep belief network-Gaussian process hybrid model.

Raul Fernandez, Asaf Rendel, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012

Towards automatic phonetic segmentation for TTS.

Asaf Rendel, Alexander Sorin, Ron Hoory, Andrew Breen

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

2011

Towards Goat Detection in Text-Dependent Speaker Verification.

Orith Toledo-Ronen, Hagai Aronowitz, Ron Hoory, Jason W. Pelecanos, David Nahamoo

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

Improved Spoken Query Transcription Using Co-Occurrence Information.

Jonathan Mamou, Abhinav Sethy, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Ron Hoory, Paul Vozila

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

New Developments in Voice Biometrics for User Authentication.

Hagai Aronowitz, Ron Hoory, Jason W. Pelecanos, David Nahamoo

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

Speech processing and retrieval in a personal memory aid system for the elderly.

Alexander Sorin, Hagai Aronowitz, Jonathan Mamou, Orith Toledo-Ronen, Ron Hoory, Michael Kuritzky, Yael Erez, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Abhinav Sethy

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

2008

The IBM Submission to the 2008 Text-to-Speech Blizzard Challenge.

Raul Fernandez, Zvi Kons, Slava Shechtman, Zhiwei Shuang, Ron Hoory, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Yong Qin

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2008, 2008

2006

Spoken document retrieval from call-center conversations.

Jonathan Mamou, David Carmel, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

High Quality Sinusoidal Modeling of Wideband Speech for the Purposes of Speech Synthesis and Modification.

Dan Chazan, Ron Hoory, Ariel Sagi, Slava Shechtman, Alexander Sorin, Zhiwei Shuang, Raimo Bakis

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

The IBM Submission to the 2006 Blizzard Text-to-Speech Challenge.

Ellen Eide, Raul Fernandez, Ron Hoory, Wael Hamza, Zvi Kons, Michael Picheny, Ariel Sagi, Slava Shechtman, Zhiwei Shuang

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

2005

Small footprint concatenative text-to-speech synthesis system using complex spectral envelope modeling.

Dan Chazan, Ron Hoory, Zvi Kons, Ariel Sagi, Slava Shechtman, Alexander Sorin

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

Automatic analysis of call-center conversations.

Gilad Mishne, David Carmel, Ron Hoory, Alexey Roytman, Aya Soffer

Proceedings of the 2005 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Bremen, Germany, October 31, 2005

2004

The ETSI extended distributed speech recognition (DSR) standards: client side processing and tonal language recognition evaluation.

Alexander Sorin, Tenkasi Ramabadran, Dan Chazan, Ron Hoory, Michael J. McLaughlin, David Pearce, Fan Wang, Yaxin Zhang

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004

The ETSI extended distributed speech recognition (DSR) standards: server-side speech reconstruction.

Tenkasi Ramabadran, Alexander Sorin, Michael J. McLaughlin, Dan Chazan, David Pearce, Ron Hoory

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004

2002

Reducing the footprint of the IBM trainable speech synthesis system.

Dan Chazan, Ron Hoory, Zvi Kons, Dorel Silberstein, Alexander Sorin

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

2001

Efficient periodicity extraction based on sine-wave representation and its application to pitch determination of speech signals.

Dan Chazan, Meir Tzur, Ron Hoory, Gilad Cohen

Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

2000

Conversational networking: conversational protocols for transport, coding, and control.

Stéphane H. Maes, Dan Chazan, Gilad Cohen, Ron Hoory

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

Speech reconstruction from mel frequency cepstral coefficients and pitch frequency.

Dan Chazan, Ron Hoory, Gilad Cohen, Meir Zibulski

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2000

Low bit rate speech compression for playback in speech recognition systems.

Dan Chazan, Gilad Cohen, Ron Hoory, Meir Zibulski

Proceedings of the 10th European Signal Processing Conference, 2000

1994

Speech synthesis for a specific speaker based on a labeled speech database.

Ron Hoory, Dan Chazan

Proceedings of the 12th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1994