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Alex Acero

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

149

Venues

10

Active years

1993–2021

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A*

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Papers

149 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2021InterspeechDEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants.Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Weicheng Zhang, Stephen Pulman, Lin Li, Megan Barnes, Jingjing Pan, Jason D. Williams, Alex Acero
2013CIKMLearning deep structured semantic models for web search using clickthrough data.Po-Sen Huang, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng, Alex Acero, Larry P. Heck
2013ICASSPRecent advances in deep learning for speech research at Microsoft.Li Deng, Jinyu Li, Jui-Ting Huang, Kaisheng Yao, Dong Yu, Frank Seide, Michael L. Seltzer, Geoffrey Zweig, Xiaodong He, Jason D. Williams, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
2012ICASSPNew methods and evaluation experiments on translating TED talks in the IWSLT benchmark.Amittai Axelrod, Xiaodong He, Li Deng, Alex Acero, Mei-Yuh Hwang
2012InterspeechFactored adaptation using a combination of feature-space and model-space transforms.Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero
2011ASRUSpeaker adaptation with an Exponential Transform.Daniel Povey, Geoffrey Zweig, Alex Acero
2011ASRUFactored adaptation for separable compensation of speaker and environmental variability.Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero
2011ICASSPLarge vocabulary continuous speech recognition with context-dependent DBN-HMMS.George E. Dahl, Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2011ICASSPA new speaker identification algorithm for gaming scenarios.Hoang Do, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
2011ICASSPJoint encoding of the waveform and speech recognition features using a transform codec.Xing Fan, Michael L. Seltzer, Jasha Droppo, Henrique S. Malvar, Alex Acero
2011ICASSPWhy word error rate is not a good metric for speech recognizer training for the speech translation task?Xiaodong He, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2011ICASSPLexicon modeling for query understanding.Jingjing Liu, Xiao Li, Alex Acero, Ye-Yi Wang
2011ICASSPA novel decision function and the associated decision-feedback learning for speech translation.Yaodong Zhang, Li Deng, Xiaodong He, Alex Acero
2011InterspeechSeparating Speaker and Environmental Variability Using Factored Transforms.Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero
2010ICASSPContext dependent phonetic string edit distance for automatic speech recognition.Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2010ICASSPDiscriminative training methods for language models using conditional entropy criteria.Jui-Ting Huang, Xiao Li, Alex Acero
2010ICASSPReverberated speech signal separation based on regularized subband feedforward ICA and instantaneous direction of arrival.Lae-Hoon Kim, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
2010ICASSPAcoustic model adaptation via Linear Spline Interpolation for robust speech recognition.Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero, Kaustubh Kalgaonkar
2010ICASSPInformation retrieval methods for automatic speech recognition.Xiaoqiang Xiao, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2010InterspeechBinary coding of speech spectrograms using a deep auto-encoder.Li Deng, Michael L. Seltzer, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Geoffrey E. Hinton
2010InterspeechHMM adaptation using linear spline interpolation with integrated spline parameter training for robust speech recognition.Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero
2010InterspeechContinuous speech recognition with a TF-IDF acoustic model.Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2009ASRUNoise robust model adaptation using linear spline interpolation.Kaustubh Kalgaonkar, Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero
2009ICASSPExperimenting with a global decision tree for state clustering in automatic speech recognition systems.Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2009ICASSPNoise adaptive training using a vector taylor series approach for noise robust automatic speech recognition.Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero
2009ICASSPA study on multilingual acoustic modeling for large vocabulary ASR.Hui Lin, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero, Chin-Hui Lee
2009ICASSPVoice search of structured media data.Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Yun-Cheng Ju, Michael L. Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
2009ICASSPUsing collective information in semi-supervised learning for speech recognition.Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2009ICASSPMaximizing global entropy reduction for active learning in speech recognition.Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2009ICASSPDiscriminative pronounciation learning using phonetic decoder and minimum-classification-error criterion.Oriol Vinyals, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Alex Acero
2009ICASSPCross-lingual speech recognition under runtime resource constraints.Dong Yu, Li Deng, Peng Liu, Jian Wu, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
2009InterspeechHidden conditional random field with distribution constraints for phone classification.Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2009SIGIRExtracting structured information from user queries with semi-supervised conditional random fields.Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2008ICASSPLive search for mobile: Web services by voice on the cellphone.Alex Acero, Neal Bernstein, Rob Chambers, Yun-Cheng Ju, Xinggang Li, Julian Odell, Patrick Nguyen, Oliver Scholz, Geoffrey Zweig
2008ICASSPSpeech enhancement using a pitch predictive model.Luis Buera, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2008ICASSPHMM adaptation using a phase-sensitive acoustic distortion model for environment-robust speech recognition.Jinyu Li, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
2008ICASSPAdaptation of compressed HMM parameters for resource-constrained speech recognition.Jinyu Li, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Jian Wu, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
2008ICASSPLanguage modeling for voice search: A machine translation approach.Xiao Li, Yun-Cheng Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, Alex Acero
2008ICASSPAN EM-based probabilistic approach for Acoustic Echo Suppression.Nilesh Madhu, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
2008ICASSPRobust design of wideband loudspeaker arrays.Ivan Tashev, Jasha Droppo, Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero
2008ICASSPMaximum a posteriori ICA: Applying prior knowledge to the separation of acoustic sources.Graham W. Taylor, Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero
2008ICASSPA minimum-mean-square-error noise reduction algorithm on Mel-frequency cepstra for robust speech recognition.Dong Yu, Li Deng, Jasha Droppo, Jian Wu, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
2008InterspeechTowards a non-parametric acoustic model: an acoustic decision tree for observation probability calculation.Jasha Droppo, Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero, Yu-Hsiang Bosco Chiu
2008InterspeechAutomatic children's reading tutor on hand-held devices.Xiaolong Li, Li Deng, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero
2008InterspeechSound capture system and spatial filter for small devices.Ivan Tashev, Slavy Mihov, Tyler Gleghorn, Alex Acero
2008InterspeechInductive and example-based learning for text classification.Ye-Yi Wang, Xiao Li, Alex Acero
2008InterspeechDiscriminative training of variable-parameter HMMs for noise robust speech recognition.Dong Yu, Li Deng, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
2008InterspeechParameter clustering and sharing in variable-parameter HMMs for noise robust speech recognition.Dong Yu, Li Deng, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
2008SIGIRLearning query intent from regularized click graphs.Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2007ASRUHigh-performance hmm adaptation with joint compensation of additive and convolutive distortions via Vector Taylor Series.Jinyu Li, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
2007ASRUAdapting grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for name recognition.Xiao Li, Asela Gunawardana, Alex Acero
2007ASRUMaximum entropy model parameterization with TF∗IDF weighted vector space model.Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2007ICASSPEfficient and Robust Language Modeling in an Automatic Children's Reading Tutor System.Xiaolong Li, Yun-Cheng Ju, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2007ICASSPMicrophone Array Post-Filter using Incremental Bayes Learning to Track the Spatial Distributions of Speech and Noise.Michael L. Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
2007ICASSPA Generative-Discriminative Framework using Ensemble Methods for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification.Amarnag Subramanya, Zhengyou Zhang, Arun C. Surendran, Patrick Nguyen, Mukund Narasimhan, Alex Acero
2007ICASSPMaximum Entropy Confidence Estimation for Speech Recognition.Christopher White, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero, Julian Odell
2007ICASSPA Discriminative Training Framework using N-Best Speech Recognition Transcriptions and Scores for Spoken Utterance Classification.Sibel Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2007ICASSPRobust Adaptive Beamforming Algorithm using Instantaneous Direction of Arrival with Enhanced Noise Suppression Capability.Byung-Jun Yoon, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
2007ICASSPLarge-Margin Minimum Classification Error Training for Large-Scale Speech Recognition Tasks.Dong Yu, Li Deng, Xiaodong He, Alex Acero
2007InterspeechA fine pitch model for speech.Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2007InterspeechRobust location understanding in spoken dialog systems using intersections.Michael L. Seltzer, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
2007InterspeechVoicepedia: towards speech-based access to unstructured information.J. Sherwani, Dong Yu, Tim Paek, Mary Czerwinski, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero
2007InterspeechConfidence measures for voice search applications.Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, Alex Acero
2007InterspeechHandling phonetic context and speaker variation in a structure-based speech recognizer.Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2007InterspeechAutomated directory assistance system - from theory to practice.Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Geoffrey Zweig, Alex Acero
2007InterspeechThe voice-rate dialog system for consumer ratings.Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Alex Acero
2007NAACLVoice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings.Geoffrey Zweig, Yun-Cheng Ju, Patrick Nguyen, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2007SIGdialCommute UX: Telephone Dialog System for Location-based Services.Ivan Tashev, Michael L. Seltzer, Yun-Cheng Ju, Dong Yu, Alex Acero
2006ACLCombining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models.Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan, John Lee
2006ICASSPJoint Discriminative Front End and Back End Training for Improved Speech Recognition Accuracy.Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2006ICASSPTraining Algorithms for Hidden Conditional Random Fields.Milind Mahajan, Asela Gunawardana, Alex Acero
2006ICASSPPruning Analysis for the Position Specific Posterior Lattices for Spoken Document Search.Jorge F. Silva, Ciprian Chelba, Alex Acero
2006ICASSPSpeech Utterance Classification Model Training without Manual Transcriptions.Ye-Yi Wang, John Lee, Alex Acero
2006ICASSPN-Gram Based Filler Model for Robust Grammar Authoring.Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2006InterspeechCall analysis with classification using speech and non-speech features.Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2006InterspeechA time-synchronous phonetic decoder for a long-contextual-Span hidden trajectory model.Xiaolong Li, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Alex Acero
2006InterspeechAutomatic removal of typed keystrokes from speech signals.Amarnag Subramanya, Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero
2006InterspeechDiscriminative models for spoken language understanding.Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2006InterspeechUse of incrementally regulated discriminative margins in MCE training for speech recognition.Dong Yu, Li Deng, Xiaodong He, Alex Acero
2006InterspeechAn effective and efficient utterance verification technology using word n-gram filler models.Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero
2005ACLPosition Specific Posterior Lattices for Indexing Speech.Ciprian Chelba, Alex Acero
2005ACLSPEECH OGLE: Indexing Uncertainty for Spoken Document Search.Ciprian Chelba, Alex Acero
2005ICASSPA Hidden Trajectory Model with Bi-directional Target-Filtering: Cascaded vs. Integrated Implementation for Phonetic Recognition.Li Deng, Xiang Li, Dong Yu, Alex Acero
2005ICASSPUnsupervised Semantic Intent Discovery from Call Log Acoustics.Xiao Li, Asela Gunawardana, Alex Acero
2005ICASSPLeakage Model and Teeth Clack Removal for Air- and Bone-Conductive Integrated Microphones.Zicheng Liu, Amar Subramanya, Zhengyou Zhang, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2005ICASSPTraining Wideband Acoustic Models using Mixed-Bandwidth Training Data via Feature Bandwidth Extension.Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero
2005ICASSPMaximum Entropy Based Generic Filter for Language Model Adaptation.Dong Yu, Milind Mahajan, Peter Mau, Alex Acero
2005InterspeechIndexing uncertainty for spoken document search.Ciprian Chelba, Alex Acero
2005InterspeechLearning statistically characterized resonance targets in a hidden trajectory model of speech coarticulation and reduction.Li Deng, Dong Yu, Alex Acero
2005InterspeechMaximum mutual information SPLICE transform for seen and unseen conditions.Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2005InterspeechHidden conditional random fields for phone classification.Asela Gunawardana, Milind Mahajan, Alex Acero, John C. Platt
2005InterspeechRobust bandwidth extension of noise-corrupted narrowband speech.Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero, Jasha Droppo
2005InterspeechA graphical model for multi-sensory speech processing in air-and-bone conductive microphones.Amarnag Subramanya, Zhengyou Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2005InterspeechSGStudio: rapid semantic grammar development for spoken language understanding.Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2005InterspeechEvaluation of a long-contextual-Span hidden trajectory model and phonetic recognizer using a* lattice search.Dong Yu, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2004EMNLPAdaptation of Maximum Entropy Capitalizer: Little Data Can Help a Lo.Ciprian Chelba, Alex Acero
2004ICASSPA structured speech model with continuous hidden dynamics and prediction-residual training for tracking vocal tract resonances.Li Deng, Leo J. Lee, Hagai Attias, Alex Acero
2004ICASSPNoise robust speech recognition with a switching linear dynamic model.Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2004ICASSPMulti-sensory microphones for robust speech detection, enhancement and recognition.Zhengyou Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Mike Sinclair, Alex Acero, Li Deng, Jasha Droppo, Xuedong Huang, Yanli Zheng
2004InterspeechA quantitative model for formant dynamics and contextually assimilated reduction in fluent speech.Li Deng, Yu Dong, Alex Acero
2004InterspeechUnsupervised learning from users' error correction in speech dictation.Dong Yu, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Peter Mau, Alex Acero, Li Deng
2004NAACLUse and Acquisition of Semantic Language Model.Kuansan Wang, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2003ICASSPAn expectation maximization approach for formant tracking using a parameter-free non-linear predictor.Issam Bazzi, Alex Acero, Li Deng
2003ICASSPSpeech utterance classification.Ciprian Chelba, Milind Mahajan, Alex Acero
2003ICASSPIncremental Bayes learning with prior evolution for tracking nonstationary noise statistics from noisy speech data.Li Deng, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2003ICASSPConcept acquisition in example-based grammar authoring.Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2003InterspeechDiscriminative training of n-gram classifiers for speech and text routing.Ciprian Chelba, Alex Acero
2003InterspeechTracking vocal tract resonances using an analytical nonlinear predictor and a target-guided temporal constraint.Li Deng, Issam Bazzi, Alex Acero
2003InterspeechEstimating speech recognition error rate without acoustic test data.Yonggang Deng, Milind Mahajan, Alex Acero
2003InterspeechA comparison of three non-linear observation models for noisy speech features.Jasha Droppo, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2003InterspeechAdapting acoustic models to new domains and conditions using untranscribed data.Asela Gunawardana, Alex Acero
2003InterspeechA harmonic-model-based front end for robust speech recognition.Michael L. Seltzer, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2003InterspeechCombination of CFG and n-gram modeling in semantic grammar learning.Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2003InterspeechImproved name recognition with user modeling.Dong Yu, Kuansan Wang, Milind Mahajan, Peter Mau, Alex Acero
2003NAACLSpeech Recognition and Understanding.Alex Acero
2002ICASSPA Bayesian approach to speech feature enhancement using the dynamic cepstral prior.Li Deng, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2002ICASSPUncertainty decoding with SPLICE for noise robust speech recognition.Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero, Li Deng
2002ICASSPEvaluation of spoken language grammar learning in the ATIS domain.Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
2002ICASSPSeparating colorred signals distorted by convolutive channels using diagonal constrained decorrelation.Yong Xiang, Yingbo Hua, Senjian An, Alex Acero
2002InterspeechSequential MAP noise estimation and a phase-sensitive model of the acoustic environment.Li Deng, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2002InterspeechExploiting variances in robust feature extraction based on a parametric model of speech distortion.Li Deng, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
2002InterspeechNoise from corrupted speech log mel-spectral energies.Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero, Li Deng
2002InterspeechEvaluation of SPLICE on the Aurora 2 and 3 tasks.Jasha Droppo, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2002InterspeechCombination of statistical and rule-based approaches for spoken language understanding.Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba, Brendan J. Frey, Leon Wong
2001ICASSPHigh-performance robust speech recognition using stereo training data.Li Deng, Alex Acero, Li Jiang, Jasha Droppo, Xuedong Huang
2001ICASSPEfficient on-line acoustic environment estimation for FCDCN in a continuous speech recognition system.Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero, Li Deng
2001ICASSPMiPad: a multimodal interaction prototype.Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba, Li Deng, Jasha Droppo, Doug Duchene, Joshua Goodman, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Derek Jacoby, Li Jiang, Ricky Loynd, Milind Mahajan, Peter Mau, Scott Meredith, Salman Mughal, Salvado Neto, Mike Plumpe, Kuansan Steury, Gina Venolia, Kuansan Wang, Ye-Yi Wang
2001ICASSPTowards non-stationary model-based noise adaptation for large vocabulary speech recognition.Trausti T. Kristjansson, Brendan J. Frey, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2001ICASSPExperimental investigation of delayed instantaneous demixer for speech enhancement.Yong Xiang, Yingbo Hua, Senjian An, Alex Acero
2001InterspeechA new method for speech denoising and robust speech recognition using probabilistic models for clean speech and for noise.Hagai Attias, Li Deng, Alex Acero, John C. Platt
2001InterspeechEvaluation of the SPLICE algorithm on the Aurora2 database.Jasha Droppo, Li Deng, Alex Acero
2001InterspeechALGONQUIN: iterating laplace's method to remove multiple types of acoustic distortion for robust speech recognition.Brendan J. Frey, Li Deng, Alex Acero, Trausti T. Kristjansson
2000InterspeechSpeech/noise separation using two microphones and a VQ model of speech signals.Alex Acero, Steven Altschuler, Lani Wu
2000InterspeechHMM adaptation using vector taylor series for noisy speech recognition.Alex Acero, Li Deng, Trausti T. Kristjansson, Jerry Zhang
2000InterspeechLarge-vocabulary speech recognition under adverse acoustic environments.Li Deng, Alex Acero, Mike Plumpe, Xuedong Huang
2000InterspeechMipad: a next generation PDA prototype.Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba, Li Deng, Doug Duchene, Joshua Goodman, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Derek Jacoby, Li Jiang, Ricky Loynd, Milind Mahajan, Peter Mau, Scott Meredith, Salman Mughal, Salvado Neto, Mike Plumpe, Kuansan Wang, Ye-Yi Wang
1999InterspeechFormant analysis and synthesis using hidden Markov models.Alex Acero
1999InterspeechImprovements on speech recognition for fast talkers.Matthew Richardson, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Alex Acero, Xuedong Huang
1998ICASSPSource-filter models for time-scale pitch-scale modification of speech.Alex Acero
1998ICASSPAutomatic generation of synthesis units for trainable text-to-speech systems.Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Alex Acero, Xuedong Huang, Jingsong Liu, Mike Plumpe
1998InterspeechA mixed-excitation frequency domain model for time-scale pitch-scale modification of speech.Alex Acero
1998InterspeechMaximum a posteriori pitch tracking.James Droppo, Alex Acero
1998InterspeechHMM-based smoothing for concatenative speech synthesis.Mike Plumpe, Alex Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Xuedong Huang
1998IUISpeech Research: Near and Not-so-near Results and What They Might Mean for IUI (Panel).Candace L. Sidner, Alex Acero, Janet E. Cahn, Julia Hirschberg, Robert Moore, Salim Roukos
1997ICASSPRecent improvements on Microsoft's trainable text-to-speech system-Whistler.Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Yun-Cheng Ju, Jingsong Liu, Scott Meredith, Mike Plumpe
1996ICASSPSpeaker and gender normalization for continuous-density hidden Markov models.Alex Acero, Xuedong Huang
1996InterspeechWhistler: a trainable text-to-speech system.Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, J. Adcock, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, John Goldsmith, Jingsong Liu, Mike Plumpe
1995ICASSPMicrosoft Windows highly intelligent speech recognizer: Whisper.Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Fil Alleva, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Li Jiang, Milind Mahajan
1993InterspeechRobust HMM-based endpoint detector.Alex Acero, Carlos Crespo-Casas, Celinda de la Torre, Juan Carlos Torrecilla