Alan W. Black

Wang Ling, Nadi Tomeh, Guang Xiang, Isabel Trancoso, Alan W. Black: Improving Relative-Entropy Pruning using Statistical Significance. COLING (Posters) 2012: 713-722

Sukhada Palkar, Alan W. Black, Alok Parlikar: Text-To-Speech for Languages without an Orthography. COLING (Posters) 2012: 913-922

Wang Ling, João Graça, Isabel Trancoso, Alan W. Black: Entropy-based Pruning for Phrase-based Machine Translation. EMNLP-CoNLL 2012: 962-971

Alan W. Black, H. Timothy Bunnell, Ying Dou, Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, Florian Metze, Daniel Perry, Tim Polzehl, Kishore Prahallad, Stefan Steidl, Callie Vaughn: Articulatory features for expressive speech synthesis. ICASSP 2012: 4005-4008

Alok Parlikar, Alan W. Black: Data-driven phrasing for speech synthesis in low-resource languages. ICASSP 2012: 4013-4016

Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Hugo Meinedo, Miguel Bugalho, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, Alan W. Black: Text-dependent pathological voice detection. INTERSPEECH 2012

Bajibabu Bollepalli, Alan W. Black, Kishore Prahallad: Modelling a Noisy-channel for Voice Conversion Using Articulatory Features. INTERSPEECH 2012

João Miranda, João Paulo Neto, Alan W. Black: Parallel combination of multilingual speech streams for improved ASR. INTERSPEECH 2012

Alok Parlikar, Alan W. Black: Modeling Pause-Duration for Style-Specific Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2012

Kishore Prahallad, Naresh Kumar, Venkatesh Keri, Rajendran S, Alan W. Black: The IIIT-H Indic Speech Databases. INTERSPEECH 2012

William Yang Wang, Samantha L. Finkelstein, Amy Ogan, Alan W. Black, Justine Cassell: "Love ya, jerkface": Using Sparse Log-Linear Models to Build Positive and Impolite Relationships with Teens. SIGDIAL Conference 2012: 20-29

Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Luís C. Oliveira, Alan W. Black: Intent transfer in speech-to-speech machine translation. SLT 2012: 153-158

João Miranda, João Paulo Neto, Alan W. Black: Recovery of acronyms, out-of-lattice words and pronunciations from parallel multilingual speech. SLT 2012: 348-353

Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black: Segmentation of Monologues in Audio Books for Building Synthetic Voices. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 19(5): 1444-1449 (2011)

Florian Metze, Alan W. Black, Tim Polzehl: A Review of Personality in Voice-Based Man Machine Interaction. HCI (2) 2011: 358-367

Wang Ling, João Graça, David Martins de Matos, Isabel Trancoso, Alan W. Black: Discriminative Phrase-based Lexicalized Reordering Models using Weighted Reordering Graphs. IJCNLP 2011: 47-55

Andrew Fandrianto, Brian Langner, Alan W. Black: Using Speaker ID to Discover Repeat Callers of a Spoken Dialog System. INTERSPEECH 2011: 1317-1320

Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Luís C. Oliveira, Alan W. Black: A Statistical Phrase/Accent Model for Intonation Modeling. INTERSPEECH 2011: 1813-1816

Alok Parlikar, Alan W. Black: A Grammar Based Approach to Style Specific Phrase Prediction. INTERSPEECH 2011: 2149-2152

Alan W. Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Wright Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve Young, Maxine Eskenazi: Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results. SIGDIAL Conference 2011: 2-7

Srinivas Desai, Alan W. Black, B. Yegnanarayana, Kishore Prahallad: Spectral Mapping Using Artificial Neural Networks for Voice Conversion. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 18(5): 954-964 (2010)

Alok Parlikar, Alan W. Black, Stephan Vogel: Improving speech synthesis of machine translation output. INTERSPEECH 2010: 194-197

Brian Langner, Stephan Vogel, Alan W. Black: Evaluating a dialog language generation system: comparing the mountain system to other NLG approaches. INTERSPEECH 2010: 1109-1112

Matthew Marge, João Miranda, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky: Towards Improving the Naturalness of Social Conversations with Dialogue Systems. SIGDIAL Conference 2010: 91-94

Alan W. Black, Susanne Burger, Brian Langner, Gabriel Parent, Maxine Eskenazi: Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010. SLT 2010: 448-453

Heiga Zen, Keiichi Tokuda, Alan W. Black: Statistical parametric speech synthesis. Speech Communication 51(11): 1039-1064 (2009)

Hassan Al-Haj, Roger Hsiao, Ian R. Lane, Alan W. Black, Alex Waibel: Pronunciation modeling for dialectal arabic speech recognition. ASRU 2009: 525-528

Qin Jin, Arthur R. Toth, Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black: Speaker de-identification via voice transformation. ASRU 2009: 529-533

Alan W. Black, John Kominek: Optimizing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis. ICASSP 2009: 3785-3788

Srinivas Desai, E. Veera Raghavendra, B. Yegnanarayana, Alan W. Black, Kishore Prahallad: Voice conversion using Artificial Neural Networks. ICASSP 2009: 3893-3896

Qin Jin, Arthur R. Toth, Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black: Voice convergin: Speaker de-identification by voice transformation. ICASSP 2009: 3909-3912

Nguyen Bach, Roger Hsiao, Matthias Eck, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Stephan Vogel, Tanja Schultz, Ian R. Lane, Alex Waibel, Alan W. Black: Incremental Adaptation of Speech-to-Speech Translation. HLT-NAACL (Short Papers) 2009: 149-152

Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi: The Spoken Dialogue Challenge. SIGDIAL Conference 2009: 337-340

Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda: Statistical mapping between articulatory movements and acoustic spectrum using a Gaussian mixture model. Speech Communication 50(3): 215-227 (2008)

Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi: Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems. ACL (Tutorial Abstracts) 2008: 2

Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black: Significance of early tagged contextual graphemes in grapheme based speech synthesis and recognition systems. ICASSP 2008: 4645-4648

Qin Jin, Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black, Tanja Schultz: Is voice transformation a threat to speaker identification? ICASSP 2008: 4845-4848

Maxine Eskenazi, Alan W. Black, Antoine Raux, Brian Langner: Let's go lab: a platform for evaluation of spoken dialog systems with real world users. INTERSPEECH 2008: 219

Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black: Incorporating durational modification in voice transformation. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1088-1091

John Kominek, Sameer Badaskar, Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black: Improving speech systems built from very little data. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1833-1836

E. Veera Raghavendra, B. Yegnanarayana, Alan W. Black, Kishore Prahallad: Building sleek synthesizers for multi-lingual screen reader. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1865-1868

Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Alan W. Black, Tanja Schultz, Robert E. Frederking: NineOneOne: Recognizing and Classifying Speech for Handling Minority Language Emergency Calls. LREC 2008

E. Veera Raghavendra, Srinivas Desai, B. Yegnanarayana, Alan W. Black, Kishore Prahallad: Global syllable set for building speech synthesis in Indian languages. SLT 2008: 49-52

Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda: Voice Conversion Based on Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Spectral Parameter Trajectory. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 15(8): 2222-2235 (2007)

Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, Sameer Badaskar, Matthew Hornyak, John Kominek: SPICE: web-based tools for rapid language adaptation in speech processing systems. INTERSPEECH 2007: 2125-2128

Brian Langner, Alan W. Black: ugloss: a framework for improving spoken language generation understandability. INTERSPEECH 2007: 2893-2896

Kishore Prahallad, Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black: Automatic building of synthetic voices from large multi-paragraph speech databases. INTERSPEECH 2007: 2901-2904

Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, Stephan Vogel, Monika Woszczyna: Flexible speech translation systems. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 14(2): 403-411 (2006)

Alan W. Black: CLUSTERGEN: a statistical parametric synthesizer using trajectory modeling. INTERSPEECH 2006

Roger Hsiao, Ashish Venugopal, Thilo Köhler, Ying Zhang, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Andreas Zollmann, Stephan Vogel, Alan W. Black, Tanja Schultz, Alex Waibel: Optimizing components for handheld two-way speech translation for an English-iraqi Arabic system. INTERSPEECH 2006

Brian Langner, Rohit Kumar, Arthur Chan, Lingyun Gu, Alan W. Black: Generating time-constrained audio presentations of structured information. INTERSPEECH 2006

Antoine Raux, Dan Bohus, Brian Langner, Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi: Doing research on a deployed spoken dialogue system: one year of let's go! experience. INTERSPEECH 2006

Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Kay Peterson, Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo: Intelligibility of machine translation output in speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2006

John Kominek, Alan W. Black: Learning Pronunciation Dictionaries: Language Complexity and Word Selection Strategies. HLT-NAACL 2006

Dan Bohus, Brian Langner, Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi, Alexander I. Rudnicky: Online Supervised Learning of Non-Understanding Recovery Policies. SLT 2006: 170-173

Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda: The blizzard challenge - 2005: evaluating corpus-based speech synthesis on common datasets. INTERSPEECH 2005: 77-80

John Kominek, Alan W. Black: Measuring unsupervised acoustic clustering through phoneme pair merge-and-split tests. INTERSPEECH 2005: 689-692

Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Dan Bohus, Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi: Let's go public! taking a spoken dialog system to the real world. INTERSPEECH 2005: 885-888

Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo: Foreign accents in synthetic speech: development and evaluation. INTERSPEECH 2005: 1469-1472

Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black: Cross-speaker articulatory position data for phonetic feature prediction. INTERSPEECH 2005: 2973-2976

John Kominek, Alan W. Black: A family-of-models approach to HMM-based segmentation for unit selection speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2004

Sameer Maskey, Alan W. Black, Laura Tomokiya: Boostrapping phonetic lexicons for new languages. INTERSPEECH 2004

Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda: Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion mapping with Gaussian mixture model. INTERSPEECH 2004

Christina L. Bennett, Alan W. Black: Using acoustic models to choose pronunciation variations for synthetic voices. INTERSPEECH 2003

Alan W. Black: Unit selection and emotional speech. INTERSPEECH 2003

S. P. Kishore, Alan W. Black: Unit size in unit selection speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2003

John Kominek, Christina L. Bennett, Alan W. Black: Evaluating and correcting phoneme segmentation for unit selection synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2003

Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi: LET's GO: improving spoken dialog systems for the elderly and non-natives. INTERSPEECH 2003

Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo: Arabic in my hand: small-footprint synthesis of egyptian arabic. INTERSPEECH 2003

Alex Waibel, Ahmed Badran, Alan W. Black, Robert E. Frederking, Donna Gates, Alon Lavie, Lori S. Levin, Kevin A. Lenzo, Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Jürgen Reichert, Tanja Schultz, Dorcas Wallace, Monika Woszczyna, Jing Zhang: Speechalator: two-way speech-to-speech translation on a consumer PDA. INTERSPEECH 2003

Jason Y. Zhang, Alan W. Black, Richard Sproat: Identifying speakers in children's stories for speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2003

Alex Waibel, Ahmed Badran, Alan W. Black, Robert E. Frederking, Donna Gates, Alon Lavie, Lori S. Levin, Kevin A. Lenzo, Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Jürgen Reichert, Tanja Schultz, Dorcas Wallace, Monika Woszczyna, Jing Zhang: Speechalator: Two-Way Speech-to-Speech Translation in Your Hand. HLT-NAACL 2003

Christina L. Bennett, Ariadna Font Llitjós, Stefanie Shriver, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Alan W. Black: Building voiceXML-based applications. INTERSPEECH 2002

Alan W. Black, Ralf D. Brown, Robert E. Frederking, Kevin A. Lenzo, John Moody, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Rita Singh, Eric Steinbrecher: Rapid development of speech-to-speech translation systems. INTERSPEECH 2002

Robert E. Frederking, Alan W. Black, Ralf D. Brown, John Moody, Eric Steinbrecher: Field Testing the Tongues Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation System. LREC 2002

Ariadna Font Llitjós, Alan W. Black: Evaluation and collection of proper name pronunciations online. LREC 2002

Richard Sproat, Alan W. Black, Stanley F. Chen, Shankar Kumar, Mari Ostendorf, Christopher Richards: Normalization of non-standard words. Computer Speech & Language 15(3): 287-333 (2001)

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Richard Caley: Heterogeneous relation graphs as a formalism for representing linguistic information. Speech Communication 33(1-2): 153-174 (2001)

Maxine Eskenazi, Alan W. Black: A study on speech over the telephone and aging. INTERSPEECH 2001: 171-174

Ariadna Font Llitjós, Alan W. Black: Knowledge of language origin improves pronunciation accuracy of proper names. INTERSPEECH 2001: 1919-1922

Roni Rosenfeld, Xiaojin Zhu, Arthur R. Toth, Stefanie Shriver, Kevin A. Lenzo, Alan W. Black: Towards a universal speech interface. INTERSPEECH 2000: 102-105

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Christina L. Bennett, Alan W. Black, Ananlada Chotimongkol, Kevin A. Lenzo, Alice Oh, Rita Singh: Task and domain specific modelling in the Carnegie Mellon communicator system. INTERSPEECH 2000: 130-134

Stefanie Shriver, Alan W. Black, Ronald Rosenfeld: Audio signals in speech interfaces. INTERSPEECH 2000: 142-145

Kevin A. Lenzo, Alan W. Black: Diphone collection and synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2000: 306-309

Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo: Limited domain synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2000: 411-414

Ananlada Chotimongkol, Alan W. Black: Statistically trained orthographic to sound models for Thai. INTERSPEECH 2000: 551-554

Craig Olinsky, Alan W. Black: Non-standard word and homograph resolution for asian language text analysis. INTERSPEECH 2000: 733-736

Kurt E. Dusterhoff, Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor: Using decision trees within the tilt intonation model to predict F0 contours. EUROSPEECH 1999

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black: Speech synthesis by phonological structure matching. EUROSPEECH 1999

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black: Assigning phrase breaks from part-of-speech sequences. Computer Speech & Language 12(2): 99-117 (1998)

Janet Hitzeman, Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor, Chris Mellish, Jon Oberlander: On the use of automatically generated discourse-level information in a concept-to-speech synthesis system. ICSLP 1998

Vincent Pagel, Kevin A. Lenzo, Alan W. Black: Letter to sound rules for accented lexicon compression. ICSLP 1998

Richard Sproat, Andrew Hunt, Mari Ostendorf, Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo, Mike Eddington: SABLE: a standard for TTS markup. ICSLP 1998

Vincent Pagel, Kevin A. Lenzo, Alan W. Black: Letter to Sound Rules for Accented Lexicon Compression. CoRR cmp-lg/9808010 (1998)

Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor: Automatically clustering similar units for unit selection in speech synthesis. EUROSPEECH 1997

Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor: Assigning phrase breaks from part-of-speech sequences. EUROSPEECH 1997

Alan W. Black, Andrew Hunt: Generating F0 contours from toBI labels using linear regression. ICSLP 1996

Alan W. Black, Nick Campbell: Optimising selection of units from speech databases for concatenative synthesis. EUROSPEECH 1995

Alan W. Black, Paul A. Taylor: CHATR: a generic speech synthesis system. COLING 1994: 983-986

Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor: Assigning intonation elements and prosodic phrasing for English speech synthesis from high level linguistic input. ICSLP 1994

Alan W. Black: Embedding DRT in a Situation Theoretic Framework. COLING 1992: 1116-1120

Alan W. Black, Joke van de Plassche, Briony Williams: Analysis of Unknown Words through Morphological Decomposition. EACL 1991: 101-106

Graeme D. Ritchie, Stephen G. Pulman, Alan W. Black, Graham Russell: A Computational Framework for Lexical Description. Computational Linguistics 13(3-4): 290-307 (1987)

Alan W. Black, Graeme D. Ritchie, Stephen G. Pulman, Graham Russell: Formalisms For Morphographemic Description. EACL 1987: 11-18

Graham Russell, Stephen G. Pulman, Graeme D. Ritchie, Alan W. Black: A Dictionary and Morphological Analyser for English. COLING 1986: 277-279