Horacio Franco

Vikramjit Mitra, Horacio Franco, Martin Graciarena, Arindam Mandal: Normalized amplitude modulation features for large vocabulary noise-robust speech recognition. ICASSP 2012: 4117-4120

Patricia A. Pelle, Claudio Estienne, Horacio Franco: Robust speech representation of voiced sounds based on synchrony determination with PLLs. ICASSP 2011: 5424-5427

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: Recent advances in SRI'S IraqComm^TM Iraqi Arabic-English speech-to-speech translation system. ICASSP 2009: 4809-4812

Federico Cesari, Horacio Franco, Gregory K. Myers, Harry Bratt: MUESLI: multiple utterance error correction for a spoken language interface. INTERSPEECH 2008: 199-202

Kristin Precoda, Jing Zheng, Dimitra Vergyri, Horacio Franco, Colleen Richey, Andreas Kathol, Sachin S. Kajarekar: Iraqcomm: a next generation translation system. INTERSPEECH 2007: 2841-2844

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 Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 14(5): 1729-1744 (2006)

Martin Graciarena, Horacio Franco, Gregory K. Myers, Victor Abrash: Robust feature compensation in nonstationary and multiple noise environments. INTERSPEECH 2005: 985-988

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 Communication 41(2-3): 273-285 (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: 679-682

Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Vassilios Digalakis, Mitch Weintraub: Automatic scoring of pronunciation quality. Speech Communication 30(2-3): 83-93 (2000)

Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, Vassilios Digalakis, Orith Ronen: Combination of machine scores for automatic grading of pronunciation quality. Speech Communication 30(2-3): 121-130 (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: 187-190

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: 325-328

Jacob Goldberger, David Burshtein, Horacio Franco: Segmental modeling using a continuous mixture of nonparametric models. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 7(3): 262-271 (1999)

Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer, María Ramos, Harry Bratt: Automatic detection of phone-level mispronunciation for language learning. EUROSPEECH 1999

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, Leonardo Neumeyer: Calibration of machine scores for pronunciation grading. ICSLP 1998

Jacob Goldberger, David Burshtein, Horacio Franco: Segmental modeling using a continuous mixture of non-parametric models. EUROSPEECH 1997

Yoon Kim, Horacio Franco, Leonardo Neumeyer: Automatic pronunciation scoring of specific phone segments for language instruction. EUROSPEECH 1997

Orith Ronen, Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco: Automatic detection of mispronunciation for language instruction. EUROSPEECH 1997

Leonardo Neumeyer, Horacio Franco, Mitchel Weintraub, Patti Price: Automatic text-independent pronunciation scoring of foreign language student speech. ICSLP 1996

Victor Abrash, Horacio Franco, Ananth Sankar, Michael Cohen: Connectionist speaker normalization and adaptation. EUROSPEECH 1995

Horacio Franco, Vassilios Digalakis: Temporal correlation modeling in a hybrid neural network/hidden Markov model speech recognizer. EUROSPEECH 1995

Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco: Connectionist probability estimators in HMM speech recognition. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 2(1): 161-174 (1994)

Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Steve Renals, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco: Hybrid Neural Network/Hidden Markov Model Systems for Continuous Speech Recognition. IJPRAI 7(4): 899-916 (1993)

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

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: 649-657

Yochai Konig, Nelson Morgan, Chuck Wooters, Victor Abrash, Michael Cohen, Horacio Franco: Modeling Consistency in a Speaker Independent Continuous Speech Recognition System. NIPS 1992: 682-687

Steve Renals, Nelson Morgan, Hervé Bourlard, Horacio Franco, Michael Cohen: Connectionist Optimisation of Tied Mixture Hidden Markov Models. NIPS 1991: 167-174

Horacio Franco, António 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