George Saon

George Saon, Hagen Soltau: Boosting systems for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. Speech Communication 54(2): 212-218 (2012)

George Saon, Jen-Tzung Chien: Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Systems: A Look at Some Recent Advances. IEEE Signal Process. Mag. 29(6): 18-33 (2012)

George Saon, Jen-Tzung Chien: Bayesian Sensing Hidden Markov Models. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 20(1): 43-54 (2012)

Xiaodong Cui, Mohamed Afify, George Saon, Vaibhava Goel: Sparse Bayesian Factor Analysis for Stereo-based Stochastic Mapping. INTERSPEECH 2012

George Saon, Brian Kingsbury: Discriminative feature-space transforms using deep neural networks. INTERSPEECH 2012

Michael Picheny, David Nahamoo, Vaibhava Goel, Brian Kingsbury, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Steven J. Rennie, George Saon: Trends and advances in speech recognition. IBM Journal of Research and Development 55(5): 2 (2011)

George Saon, Jen-Tzung Chien: Some properties of Bayesian sensing hidden Markov models. ASRU 2011: 65-70

Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo, Ebru Arisoy, Lidia Mangu, George Saon: Minimum Bayes risk discriminative language models for Arabic speech recognition. ASRU 2011: 208-213

Lidia Mangu, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Stephen M. Chu, Brian Kingsbury, George Saon, Hagen Soltau, Fadi Biadsy: The IBM 2011 GALE Arabic speech transcription system. ASRU 2011: 272-277

Brian Kingsbury, Hagen Soltau, George Saon, Stephen M. Chu, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Lidia Mangu, Suman V. Ravuri, Nelson Morgan, Adam Janin: The IBM 2009 GALE Arabic speech transcription system. ICASSP 2011: 4672-4675

George Saon, Jen-Tzung Chien: Bayesian sensing hidden Markov models for speech recognition. ICASSP 2011: 5056-5059

George Saon, Jen-Tzung Chien: Discriminative training for Bayesian sensing hidden Markov models. ICASSP 2011: 5316-5319

George Saon, Hagen Soltau, Upendra V. Chaudhari, Stephen M. Chu, Brian Kingsbury, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Lidia Mangu, Daniel Povey: The IBM 2008 GALE Arabic speech transcription system. ICASSP 2010: 4378-4381

George Saon, Hagen Soltau: Boosting systems for LVCSR. INTERSPEECH 2010: 1341-1344

Hagen Soltau, George Saon, Brian Kingsbury: The IBM Attila speech recognition toolkit. SLT 2010: 97-102

Hagen Soltau, George Saon, Brian Kingsbury, Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo, Lidia Mangu, Daniel Povey, Ahmad Emami: Advances in Arabic Speech Transcription at IBM Under the DARPA GALE Program. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 17(5): 884-894 (2009)

Hagen Soltau, George Saon: Dynamic network decoding revisited. ASRU 2009: 276-281

George Saon, Daniel Povey, Hagen Soltau: Large margin semi-tied covariance transforms for discriminative training. ICASSP 2009: 3753-3756

Daniel Povey, Dimitri Kanevsky, Brian Kingsbury, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, George Saon, Karthik Visweswariah: Boosted MMI for model and feature-space discriminative training. ICASSP 2008: 4057-4060

George Saon, Daniel Povey: Penalty function maximization for large margin HMM training. INTERSPEECH 2008: 920-923

George Saon, Michael Picheny: Lattice-based Viterbi decoding techniques for speech translation. ASRU 2007: 386-389

Stanley F. Chen, Brian Kingsbury, Lidia Mangu, Daniel Povey, George Saon, Hagen Soltau, Geoffrey Zweig: Advances in speech transcription at IBM under the DARPA EARS program. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 14(5): 1596-1608 (2006)

Daniel Povey, George Saon: Feature and model space speaker adaptation with full covariance Gaussians. INTERSPEECH 2006

Geoffrey Zweig, Olivier Siohan, George Saon, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Daniel Povey, Lidia Mangu, Brian Kingsbury: Automated Quality Monitoring for Call Centers using Speech and NLP Technologies. HLT-NAACL 2006

George Saon, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Geoffrey Zweig: On the Effect Ofword Error Rate on Automated Quality Monitoring. SLT 2006: 106-109

George Saon, Daniel Povey, Geoffrey Zweig: Anatomy of an extremely fast LVCSR decoder. INTERSPEECH 2005: 549-552

François Yvon, Geoffrey Zweig, George Saon: Arc minimization in finite-state decoding graphs with cross-word acoustic context. Computer Speech & Language 18(4): 397-415 (2004)

Brian Kingsbury, Lidia Mangu, George Saon, Geoffrey Zweig, Scott Axelrod, Vaibhava Goel, Karthik Visweswariah, Michael Picheny: Toward domain-independent conversational speech recognition. INTERSPEECH 2003

George Saon, Geoffrey Zweig, Brian Kingsbury, Lidia Mangu, Upendra V. Chaudhari: An architecture for rapid decoding of large vocabulary conversational speech. INTERSPEECH 2003

Mukund Padmanabhan, George Saon, Jing Huang, Brian Kingsbury, Lidia Mangu: Automatic speech recognition performance on a voicemail transcription task. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 10(7): 433-442 (2002)

Shai Fine, George Saon, Ramesh A. Gopinath: Digit recognition in noisy environments via a sequential GMM/SVM system. ICASSP 2002: 49-52

Brian Kingsbury, George Saon, Lidia Mangu, Mukund Padmanabhan, Ruhi Sarikaya: Robust speech recognition in Noisy Environments: The 2001 IBM spine evaluation system. ICASSP 2002: 53-56

George Saon, Juan M. Huerta: Improvements to the IBM Aurora 2 multi-condition system. INTERSPEECH 2002

Geoffrey Zweig, George Saon, François Yvon: Arc minimization in finite state decoding graphs with cross-word acoustic context. INTERSPEECH 2002

George Saon, Mukund Padmanabhan: Data-driven approach to designing compound words for continuous speech recognition. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 9(4): 327-332 (2001)

George Saon, Juan M. Huerta, Ea-Ee Jan: Robust digit recognition in noisy environments: the IBM Aurora 2 system. INTERSPEECH 2001: 629-632

George Saon, Mukund Padmanabhan: Minimum Bayes error feature selection. INTERSPEECH 2000: 75-78

Jing Huang, Brian Kingsbury, Lidia Mangu, Mukund Padmanabhan, George Saon, Geoffrey Zweig: Recent improvements in speech recognition performance on large vocabulary conversational speech (voicemail and switchboard). INTERSPEECH 2000: 338-341

Ea-Ee Jan, Jaime Botella Ordinas, George Saon, Salim Roukos: Real-time multilingual HMM training robust to channel variations. INTERSPEECH 2000: 925-928

George Saon, Mukund Padmanabhan: Minimum Bayes Error Feature Selection for Continuous Speech Recognition. NIPS 2000: 800-806

George Saon: Cursive word recognition using a random field based hidden Markov model. IJDAR 1(4): 199-208 (1999)

Mukund Padmanabhan, George Saon, Sankar Basu, Jing Huang, Geoffrey Zweig: Recent improvements in voicemail transcription. EUROSPEECH 1999

George Saon, Abdel Belaïd: High Performance Unconstrained Word Recognition System Combining HMMs and Markov Random Fields. IJPRAI 11(5): 771-788 (1997)

George Saon, Abdel Belaïd, Yifan Gong: Stochastic trajectory modeling for recognition of unconstrained handwritten words. ICDAR 1995: 508-

George Saon, Abdel Belaïd, Yifan Gong: Off-line Handwriting Recognition by Statistical Correlation. MVA 1994: 371-374