Horacio Franco

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1990-2020
Publications (10 Years): 23

Top Topics

Keyword Spotting

Cepstral Coefficients

Speech Recognition

Language Learning

Top Venues

Publications

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco
Investigation and Analysis of Hyper and Hypo neuron pruning to selectively update neurons during Unsupervised Adaptation. CoRR (2020)
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco
Investigation and analysis of hyper and hypo neuron pruning to selectively update neurons during unsupervised adaptation. Digit. Signal Process. 99 (2020)
Horacio Franco, Chris Cobo-Kroenke, Stephanie Welch, Martin Graciarena
Wideband spectral monitoring using deep learning. WiseML@WiSec (2020)
Emre Yilmaz, Vikramjit Mitra, Ganesh Sivaraman, Horacio Franco
Articulatory and bottleneck features for speaker-independent ASR of dysarthric speech. Comput. Speech Lang. 58 (2019)
Emre Yilmaz, Vikramjit Mitra, Ganesh Sivaraman, Horacio Franco
Articulatory and bottleneck features for speaker-independent ASR of dysarthric speech. CoRR (2019)
Vikramjit Mitra, Wen Wang, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco, Dimitra Vergyri
Articulatory Information and Multiview Features for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. ICASSP (2018)
Emre Yilmaz, Vikramjit Mitra, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco
Articulatory Features for ASR of Pathological Speech. CoRR (2018)
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco
Interpreting DNN output layer activations: A strategy to cope with unseen data in speech recognition. CoRR (2018)
Vikramjit Mitra, Wen Wang, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco, Dimitra Vergyri
Articulatory information and Multiview Features for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. CoRR (2018)
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, Jeff Hetherly, Cory Stephenson, Karl Ni
Voices Obscured in Complex Environmental Settings (VOICES) corpus. CoRR (2018)
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco
Interpreting DNN Output Layer Activations: A Strategy to Cope with Unseen Data in Speech Recognition. ICASSP (2018)
Emre Yilmaz, Vikramjit Mitra, Chris Bartels, Horacio Franco
Articulatory Features for ASR of Pathological Speech. INTERSPEECH (2018)
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
Voices Obscured in Complex Environmental Settings (VOiCES) Corpus. INTERSPEECH (2018)
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Chris Bartels, Julien van Hout, Martin Graciarena, Dimitra Vergyri
Speech recognition in unseen and noisy channel conditions. ICASSP (2017)
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco
Leveraging Deep Neural Network Activation Entropy to cope with Unseen Data in Speech Recognition. CoRR (2017)
Federico Landini, Luciana Ferrer, Horacio Franco
Adaptation Approaches for Pronunciation Scoring with Sparse Training Data. SPECOM (2017)
Vikramjit Mitra, Ganesh Sivaraman, Chris Bartels, Hosung Nam, Wen Wang, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco
Joint modeling of articulatory and acoustic spaces for continuous speech recognition tasks. ICASSP (2017)
Emre Yilmaz, Julien van Hout, Horacio Franco
Noise-robust exemplar matching for rescoring query-by-example search. ASRU (2017)
Julien van Hout, Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Chris Bartels, Dimitra Vergyri
Tackling unseen acoustic conditions in query-by-example search using time and frequency convolution for multilingual deep bottleneck features. ASRU (2017)
Aaron Lawson, Mitchell McLaren, Harry Bratt, Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Christopher George, Allen R. Stauffer, Chris Bartels, Julien van Hout
Open Language Interface for Voice Exploitation (OLIVE). INTERSPEECH (2016)
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco
Coping with Unseen Data Conditions: Investigating Neural Net Architectures, Robust Features, and Information Fusion for Robust Speech Recognition. INTERSPEECH (2016)
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
Fusion Strategies for Robust Speech Recognition and Keyword Spotting for Channel- and Noise-Degraded Speech. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Vikramjit Mitra, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco
Unsupervised Learning of Acoustic Units Using Autoencoders and Kohonen Nets. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Vikramjit Mitra, Julien van Hout, Mitchell McLaren, Wen Wang, Martin Graciarena, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco
Combating reverberation in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco
Time-frequency convolutional networks for robust speech recognition. ASRU (2015)
Luciana Ferrer, Harry Bratt, Colleen Richey, Horacio Franco, Victor Abrash, Kristin Precoda
Classification of lexical stress using spectral and prosodic features for computer-assisted language learning systems. Speech Commun. 69 (2015)
Vikramjit Mitra, Julien van Hout, Wen Wang, Martin Graciarena, Mitchell McLaren, Horacio Franco, Dimitra Vergyri
Improving robustness against reverberation for automatic speech recognition. ASRU (2015)
Luciana Ferrer, Harry Bratt, Colleen Richey, Horacio Franco, Victor Abrash, Kristin Precoda
Lexical stress classification for language learning using spectral and segmental features. ICASSP (2014)
Horacio Franco, Luciana Ferrer, Harry Bratt
Adaptive and discriminative modeling for improved mispronunciation detection. ICASSP (2014)
Vikramjit Mitra, Wen Wang, Horacio Franco
Deep convolutional nets and robust features for reverberation-robust speech recognition. SLT (2014)
Vikramjit Mitra, Julien van Hout, Horacio Franco, Dimitra Vergyri, Yun Lei, Martin Graciarena, Yik-Cheung Tam, Jing Zheng
Feature fusion for high-accuracy keyword spotting. ICASSP (2014)
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena, Dimitra Vergyri
Medium-duration modulation cepstral feature for robust speech recognition. ICASSP (2014)
Julien van Hout, Vikramjit Mitra, Yun Lei, Dimitra Vergyri, Martin Graciarena, Arindam Mandal, Horacio Franco
Recent improvements in SRI's keyword detection system for noisy audio. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Vikramjit Mitra, Wen Wang, Horacio Franco, Yun Lei, Chris Bartels, Martin Graciarena
Evaluating robust features on deep neural networks for speech recognition in noisy and channel mismatched conditions. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Arindam Mandal, Julien van Hout, Yik-Cheung Tam, Vikramjit Mitra, Yun Lei, Jing Zheng, Dimitra Vergyri, Luciana Ferrer, Martin Graciarena, Andreas Kathol, Horacio Franco
Strategies for high accuracy keyword detection in noisy channels. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Vikramjit Mitra, Mitchell McLaren, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena, Nicolas Scheffer
Modulation features for noise robust speaker identification. INTERSPEECH (2013)
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
All for one: feature combination for highly channel-degraded speech activity detection. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena
Damped oscillator cepstral coefficients for robust speech recognition. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena, Arindam Mandal
Normalized amplitude modulation features for large vocabulary noise-robust speech recognition. ICASSP (2012)
Patricia A. Pelle, Claudio Estienne, Horacio Franco
Robust speech representation of voiced sounds based on synchrony determination with PLLs. ICASSP (2011)
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
Iraqi Arabic-English speech-to-speech translation system. ICASSP (2009)
Federico Cesari, Horacio Franco, Gregory K. Myers, Harry Bratt
MUESLI: multiple utterance error correction for a spoken language interface. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Kristin Precoda, Jing Zheng, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco, Colleen Richey, Andreas Kathol, Sachin S. Kajarekar
Iraqcomm: a next generation translation system. INTERSPEECH (2007)
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
Recent innovations in speech-to-text transcription at SRI-ICSI-UW. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 14 (5) (2006)
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
Speech Recognition Engineering Issues in Speech to Speech Translation System Design for Low Resource Languages and Domains. ICASSP (5) (2006)
Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Gregory K. Myers, Victor Abrash
Robust feature compensation in nonstationary and multiple noise environments. INTERSPEECH (2005)
Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Jing Zheng, Dimitra Vergyri, Andreas Stolcke
Voicing feature integration in SRI's decipher LVCSR system. ICASSP (1) (2004)
Kristin Precoda, Horacio Franco, Ascander Dost, Michael Frandsen, John Fry, Andreas Kathol, Colleen Richey, Susanne Z. Riehemann, Dimitra Vergyri, Jing Zheng, Christopher Culy
Limited-Domain Speech-to-Speech Translation between English and Pashto. HLT-NAACL (Demonstration Papers) (2004)
Martin Graciarena, Federico Cesari, Horacio Franco, Gregory K. Myers, Cregg Cowan, Victor Abrash
Combination of standard and throat microphones for robust speech recognition in highly noisy environments. INTERSPEECH (2004)
Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Andreas Stolcke
Effective acoustic modeling for rate-of-speech variation in large vocabulary conversational speech recognition. INTERSPEECH (2004)
Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Andreas Stolcke
Modeling word-level rate-of-speech variation in large vocabulary conversational speech recognition. Speech Commun. 41 (2-3) (2003)
Babak Hodjat, Horacio Franco, Harry Bratt, Kristin Precoda, Andreas Stolcke, Anand Venkataraman, Dimitra Vergyri, Jing Zheng
Iterative Statistical Language Model Generation for Use with an Agent-Oriented Natural Language Interface. HCI (4) (2003)
Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, M. Kemal Sönmez, Harry Bratt
Combining standard and throat microphones for robust speech recognition. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 10 (3) (2003)
Horacio Franco, Jing Zheng, Kristin Precoda, Federico Cesari, Victor Abrash, Dimitra Vergyri, Anand Venkataraman, Harry Bratt, Colleen Richey, Ace Sarich
Development of phrase translation systems for handheld computers: from concept to field. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco
Fast hierarchical grammar optimization algorithm toward time and space efficiency. INTERSPEECH (2002)
Jing Zheng, John Butzberger, Horacio Franco, Andreas Stolcke
Improved maximum mutual information estimation training of continuous density HMMs. INTERSPEECH (2001)
M. Kemal Sönmez, Madelaine Plauché, Elizabeth Shriberg, Horacio Franco
Consonant discrimination in elicited and spontaneous speech: a case for signal-adaptive front ends in ASR. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, Vassilios Digalakis, Orith Ronen
Combination of machine scores for automatic grading of pronunciation quality. Speech Commun. 30 (2-3) (2000)
Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Vassilios Digalakis, Mitch Weintraub
Automatic scoring of pronunciation quality. Speech Commun. 30 (2-3) (2000)
Carlos Teixeira, Horacio Franco, Elizabeth Shriberg, Kristin Precoda, M. Kemal Sönmez
Prosodic features for automatic text-independent evaluation of degree of nativeness for language learners. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Jing Zheng, Horacio Franco, Fuliang Weng, Ananth Sankar, Harry Bratt
Word-level rate of speech modeling using rate-specific phones and pronunciations. ICASSP (2000)
Jacob Goldberger, David Burshtein, Horacio Franco
Segmental modeling using a continuous mixture of nonparametric models. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 7 (3) (1999)
Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, María Ramos, Harry Bratt
Automatic detection of phone-level mispronunciation for language learning. EUROSPEECH (1999)
Hossein Sedarat, Rasool Khadem, Horacio Franco
Simplified neural network architectures for a hybrid speech recognition system with small vocabulary size. ICASSP (1998)
Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer
Calibration of machine scores for pronunciation grading. ICSLP (1998)
Harry Bratt, Leonardo Neumeyer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Horacio Franco
Collection and detailed transcription of a speech database for development of language learning technologies. ICSLP (1998)
Horacio Franco, Mitch Weintraub, Michael Cohen
Context modeling in a hybrid HMM-neural net speech recognition system. ICNN (1997)
Orith Ronen, Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco
Automatic detection of mispronunciation for language instruction. EUROSPEECH (1997)
Nelson Morgan, Horacio Franco
Applications of neural networks to speech recognition. IEEE Signal Process. Mag. 14 (6) (1997)
Yoon Kim, Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer
Automatic pronunciation scoring of specific phone segments for language instruction. EUROSPEECH (1997)
Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, Yoon Kim, Orith Ronen
Automatic pronunciation scoring for language instruction. ICASSP (1997)
Jacob Goldberger, David Burshtein, Horacio Franco
Segmental modeling using a continuous mixture of non-parametric models. EUROSPEECH (1997)
Victor Abrash, Ananth Sankar, Horacio Franco, Michael Cohen
Acoustic adaptation using nonlinear transformations of HMM parameters. ICASSP (1996)
Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Mitchel Weintraub, Patti Price
Automatic text-independent pronunciation scoring of foreign language student speech. ICSLP (1996)
Horacio Franco, Vassilios Digalakis
Temporal correlation modeling in a hybrid neural network/hidden Markov model speech recognizer. EUROSPEECH (1995)
Victor Abrash, Horacio Franco, Ananth Sankar, Michael Cohen
Connectionist speaker normalization and adaptation. EUROSPEECH (1995)
Horacio Franco, Michael Cohen, Nelson Morgan, David E. Rumelhart, Victor Abrash
Context-dependent connectionist probability estimation in a hybrid hidden Markov model-neural net speech recognition system. Comput. Speech Lang. 8 (3) (1994)
Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco
Connectionist probability estimators in HMM speech recognition. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 2 (1) (1994)
Victor Abrash, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco, Isao Arima
Incorporating linguistic features in a hybrid HMM/MLP speech recognizer. ICASSP (2) (1994)
Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Steve Renals, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco
Hybrid Neural Network/Hidden Markov Model Systems for Continuous Speech Recognition. Int. J. Pattern Recognit. Artif. Intell. 7 (4) (1993)
Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco, Nelson Morgan, David E. Rumelhart, Victor Abrash
Hybrid neural network/hidden Markov model continuous-speech recognition. ICSLP (1992)
Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco, Nelson Morgan, David E. Rumelhart, Victor Abrash
Context-Dependent Multiple Distribution Phonetic Modeling with MLPs. NIPS (1992)
Yochai Konig, Nelson Morgan, Chuck Wooters, Victor Abrash, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco
Modeling Consistency in a Speaker Independent Continuous Speech Recognition System. NIPS (1992)
Victor Abrash, Horacio Franco, Michael Cohen, Nelson Morgan, Yochai Konig
Connectionist gender adaptation in a hybrid neural network / hidden Markov model speech recognition system. ICSLP (1992)
Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco
Connectionist probability estimation in the DECIPHER speech recognition system. ICASSP (1992)
Horacio Franco, António Joaquim Serralheiro
Training HMMs using a minimum recognition error approach. ICASSP (1991)
Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Horacio Franco, Michael Cohen
Connectionist Optimisation of Tied Mixture Hidden Markov Models. NIPS (1991)
Horacio Franco, António Joaquim Serralheiro
A new discriminative training algorithm for hidden Markov models. ICSLP (1990)
Jorge A. Gurlekian, Horacio Franco, Miguel Santagada
Speaker independent recognition of isolated Spanish digits. ICSLP (1990)