Yong Zhao

According to our database, Yong Zhao authored at least 52 papers between 2002 and 2023.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of four.
• Erdős number of four.

2023

Improving Transformer-Based Networks with Locality for Automatic Speaker Verification.

Mufan Sang, Yong Zhao, Gang Liu, John H. L. Hansen, Jian Wu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2023

2022

The Microsoft System for VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2022.

Gang Liu, Tianyan Zhou, Yong Zhao, Yu Wu, Zhuo Chen, Yao Qian, Jian Wu

CoRR, 2022

2021

ResNeXt and Res2Net Structures for Speaker Verification.

Tianyan Zhou, Yong Zhao, Jian Wu

Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2021

Microsoft Speaker Diarization System for the Voxceleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2020.

Xiong Xiao, Naoyuki Kanda, Zhuo Chen, Tianyan Zhou, Takuya Yoshioka, Sanyuan Chen, Yong Zhao, Gang Liu, Yu Wu, Jian Wu, Shujie Liu, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

2020

ResNeXt and Res2Net Structure for Speaker Verification.

Tianyan Zhou, Yong Zhao, Jian Wu

CoRR, 2020

Improving Deep CNN Networks with Long Temporal Context for Text-Independent Speaker Verification.

Yong Zhao, Tianyan Zhou, Zhuo Chen, Jian Wu

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

2019

Adversarial Speaker Verification.

Zhong Meng, Yong Zhao, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2019

Conditional Teacher-student Learning.

Zhong Meng, Jinyu Li, Yong Zhao, Yifan Gong

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2019

CNN with Phonetic Attention for Text-Independent Speaker Verification.

Tianyan Zhou, Yong Zhao, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong, Jian Wu

Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2019

Advances in Online Audio-Visual Meeting Transcription.

Takuya Yoshioka, Yan Huang, Aviv Hurvitz, Li Jiang, Sharon Koubi, Eyal Krupka, Ido Leichter, Changliang Liu, Partha Parthasarathy, Alon Vinnikov, Lingfeng Wu, Igor Abramovski, Xiong Xiao, Wayne Xiong, Huaming Wang, Zhenghao Wang, Jun Zhang, Yong Zhao, Tianyan Zhou, Cem Aksoylar, Zhuo Chen, Moshe David, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Yifan Gong, Ilya Gurvich, Xuedong Huang

Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2019

2018

Speaker-Invariant Training via Adversarial Learning.

Zhong Meng, Jinyu Li, Zhuo Chen, Yong Zhao, Vadim Mazalov, Yifan Gong, Biing-Hwang Juang

CoRR, 2018

Speaker Adaptation for End-to-End CTC Models.

Ke Li, Jinyu Li, Yong Zhao, Kshitiz Kumar, Yifan Gong

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

Domain and Speaker Adaptation for Cortana Speech Recognition.

Yong Zhao, Jinyu Li, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Liping Chen, Yifan Gong

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 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

A comparative study of noise estimation algorithms for nonlinear compensation in robust speech recognition.

Yong Zhao, Biing-Hwang Fred Juang

Speech Commun., 2017

Extended low-rank plus diagonal adaptation for deep and recurrent neural networks.

Yong Zhao, Jinyu Li, Kshitiz Kumar, Yifan Gong

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2017

Challenges in and Solutions to Deep Learning Network Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition Products at Microsoft.

Yifan Gong, Yan Huang, Kshitiz Kumar, Jinyu Li, Chaojun Liu, Guoli Ye, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Yong Zhao, Rui Zhao

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

2016

End-to-End attention based text-dependent speaker verification.

Shi-Xiong Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Yong Zhao, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2016

Low-rank plus diagonal adaptation for deep neural networks.

Yong Zhao, Jinyu Li, Yifan Gong

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

2015

Confidence-features and confidence-scores for ASR applications in arbitration and DNN speaker adaptation.

Kshitiz Kumar, Ziad Al Bawab, Yong Zhao, Chaojun Liu, Benoît Dumoulin, Yifan Gong

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

Investigating online low-footprint speaker adaptation using generalized linear regression and click-through data.

Yong Zhao, Jinyu Li, Jian Xue, Yifan Gong

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2015

2013

Nonlinear compensation and heterogeneous data modeling for robust speech recognition.

Yong Zhao

PhD thesis, 2013

Modeling heterogeneous data sources for speech recognition using synchronous hidden Markov models.

Yong Zhao, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012

Nonlinear Compensation Using the Gauss-Newton Method for Noise-Robust Speech Recognition.

Yong Zhao, Biing-Hwang Juang

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2012

Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Non-Uniform Error Criteria.

Qiang Fu, Yong Zhao, Biing-Hwang Juang

IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2012

A general discriminative training algorithm for speech recognition using weighted finite-state transducers.

Yong Zhao, Andrej Ljolje, Diamantino Caseiro, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

Stranded Gaussian mixture hidden Markov models for robust speech recognition.

Yong Zhao, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

Exploiting sparsity in stranded hidden Markov models for automatic speech recognition.

Yong Zhao, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the Conference Record of the Forty Sixth Asilomar Conference on Signals, 2012

2011

Non-linear noise compensation for robust speech recognition using Gauss-Newton method.

Yong Zhao, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

2010

A comparative study of noise estimation algorithms for VTS-based robust speech recognition.

Yong Zhao, Biing-Hwang Juang

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

On noise estimation for robust speech recognition using vector Taylor series.

Yong Zhao, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

2009

A study on recognizing distorted speech over local distributed transducer networks.

Yong Zhao, Sunghwan Shin, Enrique Robledo-Arnuncio, Biing-Hwang Juang

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

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

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

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

2006

Modeling stylized invariance and local variability of prosody in text-to-speech synthesis.

Min Chu, Yong Zhao, Eric Chang

Speech Commun., 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

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

Constructing stylistic synthesis databases from audio books.

Yong Zhao, Di Peng, Lijuan Wang, Min Chu, Yining Chen, Peng Yu, Jun Guo

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

Identify language origin of personal names with normalized appearance number of web pages.

Jia-Li You, Yining Chen, Min Chu, Yong Zhao, Jin-Lin Wang

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

Measuring Target Cost in Unit Selection with Kl-Divergence Between Context-Dependent HMMS.

Yong Zhao, Peng Liu, Yusheng Li, Yining Chen, Min Chu

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

A Hierarchical Approach to Automatic Stress Detection in English Sentences.

Min Lai, Yining Chen, Min Chu, Yong Zhao, Fangyu Hu

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

Identifying Language Origin of Person Names With N-Grams of Different Units.

Yining Chen, Jia-Li You, Min Chu, Yong Zhao, Jin-Lin Wang

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

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

Customizing base unit set with speech database in TTS systems.

Yining Chen, Yong Zhao, Min Chu

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

2004

Refining segmental boundaries for TTS database using fine contextual-dependent boundary models.

Lijuan Wang, Yong Zhao, Min Chu, Jian-Lai Zhou, Zhigang Cao

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004

2003

Custom-tailoring TTS voice font - keeping the naturalness when reducing database size.

Yong Zhao, Min Chu, Hu Peng, Eric Chang

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

Microsoft Mulan - a bilingual TTS system.

Min Chu, Hu Peng, Yong Zhao, Zhengyu Niu, Eric Chang

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003

2002

Perpetually optimizing the cost function for unit selection in a TTS system with one single run of MOS evaluation.

Hu Peng, Yong Zhao, Min Chu

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