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Thomas Hain

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Papers indexed

142

Venues

13

Active years

1994–2026

Best venue rank

A*

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Papers

142 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026ACLDifference in Task Performance on Sparse Speech Representations.Wenjie Peng, Chen Chen, Thomas Hain
2026LRECCS-YODAS: A Mined Dataset of In-the-Wild Code-Switched Speech.Brian Yan, Qingzheng Wang, Matthew Wiesner, Anuj Diwan, Olga Iakovenko, Alexander Polok, Injy Hamed, Shuichiro Shimizu, Iris Emerman, Thomas Hain, David R. Mortensen, Peter Viechnicki, Shinji Watanabe
2025ASRUEmphasis Sensitivity in Speech Representations.Shaun Cassini, Thomas Hain, Anton Ragni
2025ICASSPFast Word Error Rate Estimation Using Self-Supervised Representations for Speech and Text.Chanho Park, Chengsong Lu, Mingjie Chen, Thomas Hain
2025InterspeechTowards a Unified Benchmark for Arabic Pronunciation Assessment: Qur'anic Recitation as Case Study.Yassine El Kheir, Omnia Ibrahim, Amit Meghanani, Nada Almarwani, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Sadeen Alharbi, Modar Alfadly, Lamya Alkanhal, Ibrahim Selim, Shehab Elbatal, Salima Mdhaffar, Thomas Hain, Yasser Hifny, Mostafa Shahin, Ahmed Ali
2025InterspeechSemi-Supervised Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition with Word Error Rate Estimation and Targeted Domain Data Selection.Chanho Park, Thomas Hain
2024COLINGAutomatic Speech Recognition System-Independent Word Error Rate Estimation.Chanho Park, Mingjie Chen, Thomas Hain
2024EACLImproving Acoustic Word Embeddings through Correspondence Training of Self-supervised Speech Representations.Amit Meghanani, Thomas Hain
2024EMNLPMethods of Automatic Matrix Language Determination for Code-Switched Speech.Olga Iakovenko, Thomas Hain
2024ICASSPProgressive Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for ASR Using Ensemble Models and Multi-Stage Training.Rehan Ahmad, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Thomas Hain
2024ICASSPMulti-CMGAN+/+: Leveraging Multi-Objective Speech Quality Metric Prediction for Speech Enhancement.George Close, William Ravenscroft, Thomas Hain, Stefan Goetze
2024ICASSPSCORE: Self-Supervised Correspondence Fine-Tuning for Improved Content Representations.Amit Meghanani, Thomas Hain
2024ICASSPNon-Intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction for Hearing-Impaired Users Using Intermediate ASR Features and Human Memory Models.Rhiannon Mogridge, George Close, Robert Sutherland, Thomas Hain, Jon Barker, Stefan Goetze, Anton Ragni
2024ICASSPCombining Conformer and Dual-Path-Transformer Networks for Single Channel Noisy Reverberant Speech Separation.William Ravenscroft, Stefan Goetze, Thomas Hain
2024InterspeechEmoBox: Multilingual Multi-corpus Speech Emotion Recognition Toolkit and Benchmark.Ziyang Ma, Mingjie Chen, Hezhao Zhang, Zhisheng Zheng, Wenxi Chen, Xiquan Li, Jiaxin Ye, Xie Chen, Thomas Hain
2024InterspeechLASER: Learning by Aligning Self-supervised Representations of Speech for Improving Content-related Tasks.Amit Meghanani, Thomas Hain
2024InterspeechTranscription-Free Fine-Tuning of Speech Separation Models for Noisy and Reverberant Multi-Speaker Automatic Speech Recognition.William Ravenscroft, George Close, Stefan Goetze, Thomas Hain, Mohammad Soleymanpour, Anurag Chowdhury, Mark C. Fuhs
2023ASRUMUST: A Multilingual Student-Teacher Learning Approach for Low-Resource Speech Recognition.Muhammad Umar Farooq, Rehan Ahmad, Thomas Hain
2023ASRUSimulation of Teacher-Learner Interaction in English Language Pronunciation Learning.Elaf Islam, Thomas Hain, Protima Nomo Sudro
2023ASRUDeriving Translational Acoustic Sub-Word Embeddings.Amit Meghanani, Thomas Hain
2023ASRUOn Time Domain Conformer Models for Monaural Speech Separation in Noisy Reverberant Acoustic Environments.William Ravenscroft, Stefan Goetze, Thomas Hain
2023ICASSPTowards Domain Generalisation in ASR with Elitist Sampling and Ensemble Knowledge Distillation.Rehan Ahmad, Md Asif Jalal, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Anna Ollerenshaw, Thomas Hain
2023ICASSPPerceive and Predict: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Based Loss Functions for Speech Enhancement.George Close, William Ravenscroft, Thomas Hain, Stefan Goetze
2023ICASSPDeformable Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Noisy Reverberant Speech Separation.William Ravenscroft, Stefan Goetze, Thomas Hain
2023InterspeechDomain Adaptive Self-supervised Training of Automatic Speech Recognition.Cong-Thanh Do, Rama Doddipatla, Mohan Li, Thomas Hain
2023InterspeechLearning Cross-lingual Mappings for Data Augmentation to Improve Low-Resource Speech Recognition.Muhammad Umar Farooq, Thomas Hain
2022ICASSPUnsupervised Data Selection for Speech Recognition with Contrastive Loss Ratios.Chanho Park, Rehan Ahmad, Thomas Hain
2022ICASSPA Model for Assessor Bias in Automatic Pronunciation Assessment.Jose Antonio Lopez Saenz, Thomas Hain
2022InterspeechNon-intrusive Speech Intelligibility Metric Prediction for Hearing Impaired Individuals.George Close, Samuel Hollands, Stefan Goetze, Thomas Hain
2022InterspeechInvestigating the Impact of Crosslingual Acoustic-Phonetic Similarities on Multilingual Speech Recognition.Muhammad Umar Farooq, Thomas Hain
2022InterspeechNon-Linear Pairwise Language Mappings for Low-Resource Multilingual Acoustic Model Fusion.Muhammad Umar Farooq, Darshan Adiga Haniya Narayana, Thomas Hain
2021ACLUncertainty Aware Review Hallucination for Science Article Classification.Korbinian Friedl, Georgios Rizos, Lukas Stappen, Madina Hasan, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain, Bjrn W. Schuller
2021ASRUAttention Based Model for Segmental Pronunciation Error Detection.Jose Antonio Lopez Saenz, Md Asif Jalal, Rosanna Milner, Thomas Hain
2021ICASSPImproving Audio Anomalies Recognition Using Temporal Convolutional Attention Networks.Qiang Huang, Thomas Hain
2021ICASSPTowards Low-Resource Stargan Voice Conversion Using Weight Adaptive Instance Normalization.Mingjie Chen, Yanpei Shi, Thomas Hain
2021ICASSPMultiple-Hypothesis CTC-Based Semi-Supervised Adaptation of End-to-End Speech Recognition.Cong-Thanh Do, Rama Doddipatla, Thomas Hain
2021InterspeechInsights on Neural Representations for End-to-End Speech Recognition.Anna Ollerenshaw, Md. Asif Jalal, Thomas Hain
2021PRICAIWINVC: One-Shot Voice Conversion with Weight Adaptive Instance Normalization.Shengjie Huang, Mingjie Chen, Yanyan Xu, Dengfeng Ke, Thomas Hain
2020ICASSPH-Vectors: Utterance-Level Speaker Embedding Using a Hierarchical Attention Model.Yanpei Shi, Qiang Huang, Thomas Hain
2020InterspeechExploration of Audio Quality Assessment and Anomaly Localisation Using Attention Models.Qiang Huang, Thomas Hain
2020InterspeechUnsupervised Acoustic Unit Representation Learning for Voice Conversion Using WaveNet Auto-Encoders.Mingjie Chen, Thomas Hain
2020InterspeechEmpirical Interpretation of Speech Emotion Perception with Attention Based Model for Speech Emotion Recognition.Md. Asif Jalal, Rosanna Milner, Thomas Hain
2020InterspeechRemoving Bias with Residual Mixture of Multi-View Attention for Speech Emotion Recognition.Md Asif Jalal, Rosanna Milner, Thomas Hain, Roger K. Moore
2020InterspeechMultilingual Speech Recognition Using Language-Specific Phoneme Recognition as Auxiliary Task for Indian Languages.Hardik B. Sailor, Thomas Hain
2020InterspeechSpeaker Re-Identification with Speaker Dependent Speech Enhancement.Yanpei Shi, Qiang Huang, Thomas Hain
2020InterspeechWeakly Supervised Training of Hierarchical Attention Networks for Speaker Identification.Yanpei Shi, Qiang Huang, Thomas Hain
2020InterspeechUncertainty-Aware Machine Support for Paper Reviewing on the Interspeech 2019 Submission Corpus.Lukas Stappen, Georgios Rizos, Madina Hasan, Thomas Hain, Bjrn W. Schuller
2019ASRUSpatio-Temporal Context Modelling for Speech Emotion Classification.Md Asif Jalal, Roger K. Moore, Thomas Hain
2019ASRUA Cross-Corpus Study on Speech Emotion Recognition.Rosanna Milner, Md Asif Jalal, Raymond W. M. Ng, Thomas Hain
2019ASRUUnsupervised Adaptation of Acoustic Models for ASR Using Utterance-Level Embeddings from Squeeze and Excitation Networks.Hardik B. Sailor, Salil Deena, Md Asif Jalal, Rasa Lileikyte, Thomas Hain
2019InterspeechLatent Dirichlet Allocation Based Acoustic Data Selection for Automatic Speech Recognition.Mortaza Doulaty, Thomas Hain
2019InterspeechDetecting Mismatch Between Speech and Transcription Using Cross-Modal Attention.Qiang Huang, Thomas Hain
2019InterspeechLearning Temporal Clusters Using Capsule Routing for Speech Emotion Recognition.Md Asif Jalal, Erfan Loweimi, Roger K. Moore, Thomas Hain
2018ATSIPTowards a generic approach for automatic speech recognition error detection and classification.Rahhal Errattahi, Asmaa El Hannani, Thomas Hain, Hassan Ouahmane
2018ICASSPExploring the Use of Group Delay for Generalised VTS Based Noise Compensation.Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Thomas Hain
2018InterspeechOn the Usefulness of the Speech Phase Spectrum for Pitch Extraction.Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Thomas Hain
2018InterspeechImproved Acoustic Modelling for Automatic Literacy Assessment of Children.Mauro Nicolao, Michiel Sanders, Thomas Hain
2017ASRUExploring the use of acoustic embeddings in neural machine translation.Salil Deena, Raymond W. M. Ng, Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain
2017ICASSPStatistical normalisation of phase-based feature representation for robust speech recognition.Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Thomas Hain
2017ICASSPDNN approach to speaker diarisation using speaker channels.Rosanna Milner, Thomas Hain
2017ICASSPShefce: A Cantonese-English bilingual speech corpus for pronunciation assessment.Raymond W. M. Ng, Alvin C. M. Kwan, Tan Lee, Thomas Hain
2017InterspeechSemi-Supervised Adaptation of RNNLMs by Fine-Tuning with Domain-Specific Auxiliary Features.Salil Deena, Raymond W. M. Ng, Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain
2017InterspeechChannel Compensation in the Generalised Vector Taylor Series Approach to Robust ASR.Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Thomas Hain
2017InterspeechRobust Source-Filter Separation of Speech Signal in the Phase Domain.Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Oscar Saz-Torralba, Thomas Hain
2016AICCSAAutomatic speech recognition errors detection using supervised learning techniques.Rahhal Errattahi, Asmaa El Hannani, Hassan Ouahmane, Thomas Hain
2016ICASSPSegment-oriented evaluation of speaker diarisation performance.Rosanna Milner, Thomas Hain
2016ICASSPGroupwise learning for ASR k-best list reranking in spoken language translation.Raymond W. M. Ng, Kashif Shah, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain
2016InterspeechColloquialising Modern Standard Arabic Text for Improved Speech Recognition.Sarah Al-Shareef, Thomas Hain
2016InterspeechImproving Generalisation to New Speakers in Spoken Dialogue State Tracking.Iigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Phil D. Green
2016InterspeechCombining Feature and Model-Based Adaptation of RNNLMs for Multi-Genre Broadcast Speech Recognition.Salil Deena, Madina Hasan, Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain
2016InterspeechAutomatic Genre and Show Identification of Broadcast Media.Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Raymond W. M. Ng, Thomas Hain
2016InterspeechwebASR 2 - Improved Cloud Based Speech Technology.Thomas Hain, Jeremy Christian, Oscar Saz, Salil Deena, Madina Hasan, Raymond W. M. Ng, Rosanna Milner, Mortaza Doulaty, Yulan Liu
2016InterspeechThe Sheffield Wargame Corpus - Day Two and Day Three.Yulan Liu, Charles Fox, Madina Hasan, Thomas Hain
2016InterspeechUse of Generalised Nonlinearity in Vector Taylor Series Noise Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition.Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Thomas Hain
2016InterspeechDNN-Based Speaker Clustering for Speaker Diarisation.Rosanna Milner, Thomas Hain
2016InterspeechCombining Weak Tokenisers for Phonotactic Language Recognition in a Resource-Constrained Setting.Raymond W. M. Ng, Bhusan Chettri, Thomas Hain
2016InterspeechError Correction in Lightly Supervised Alignment of Broadcast Subtitles.Julia Olcoz, Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain
2016LRECThe OpenCourseWare Metadiscourse (OCWMD) Corpus.Ghada AlHarbi, Thomas Hain
2016LRECA Framework for Collecting Realistic Recordings of Dysarthric Speech - the homeService Corpus.Mauro Nicolao, Heidi Christensen, Stuart P. Cunningham, Phil D. Green, Thomas Hain
2016SIGdialUsing phone features to improve dialogue state tracking generalisation to unseen states.Iigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Mauro Nicolao, Phil D. Green
2015ASRUThe MGB challenge: Evaluating multi-genre broadcast media recognition.Peter Bell, Mark J. F. Gales, Thomas Hain, Jonathan Kilgour, Pierre Lanchantin, Xunying Liu, Andrew McParland, Steve Renals, Oscar Saz, Mirjam Wester, Philip C. Woodland
2015ASRULatent Dirichlet Allocation based organisation of broadcast media archives for deep neural network adaptation.Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Raymond W. M. Ng, Thomas Hain
2015ASRUThe 2015 sheffield system for longitudinal diarisation of broadcast media.Rosanna Milner, Oscar Saz, Salil Deena, Mortaza Doulaty, Raymond W. M. Ng, Thomas Hain
2015ASRUThe 2015 sheffield system for transcription of Multi-Genre Broadcast media.Oscar Saz, Mortaza Doulaty, Salil Deena, Rosanna Milner, Raymond W. M. Ng, Madina Hasan, Yulan Liu, Thomas Hain
2015EDMUsing Topic Segmentation Models for the Automatic Organisation of MOOCs resources.Ghada AlHarbi, Thomas Hain
2015ICASSPAn investigation into speaker informed DNN front-end for LVCSR.Yulan Liu, Penny Karanasou, Thomas Hain
2015ICASSPQuality estimation for asr k-best list rescoring in spoken language translation.Raymond W. M. Ng, Kashif Shah, Wilker Aziz, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain
2015ICASSPAutomatic assessment of English learner pronunciation using discriminative classifiers.Mauro Nicolao, Amy V. Beeston, Thomas Hain
2015InterspeechData-selective transfer learning for multi-domain speech recognition.Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain
2015InterspeechUnsupervised domain discovery using latent dirichlet allocation for acoustic modelling in speech recognition.Mortaza Doulaty, Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain
2015InterspeechNoise-matched training of CRF based sentence end detection models.Madina Hasan, Rama Doddipatla, Thomas Hain
2015InterspeechSource-filter separation of speech signal in the phase domain.Erfan Loweimi, Jon Barker, Thomas Hain
2015InterspeechA study on the stability and effectiveness of features in quality estimation for spoken language translation.Raymond W. M. Ng, Kashif Shah, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain
2015SIGdialKnowledge transfer between speakers for personalised dialogue management.Iigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Heidi Christensen, Ricard Marxer, Phil D. Green
2014ICASSPUsing neural network front-ends on far field multiple microphones based speech recognition.Yulan Liu, Pengyuan Zhang, Thomas Hain
2014ICASSPUsing contextual information in joint factor eigenspace MLLR for speech recognition in diverse scenarios.Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain
2014InterspeechAdaptive speech recognition and dialogue management for users with speech disorders.I. Casanueva, Heidi Christensen, Thomas Hain, Phil D. Green
2014InterspeechSpeaker dependent bottleneck layer training for speaker adaptation in automatic speech recognition.Rama Doddipatla, Madina Hasan, Thomas Hain
2014InterspeechExtending Limabeam with discrimination and coarse gradients.Charles Fox, Thomas Hain
2014InterspeechMulti-pass sentence-end detection of lecture speech.Madina Hasan, Rama Doddipatla, Thomas Hain
2013ICASSPLightly supervised learning from a damaged natural speech corpus.Charles Fox, Thomas Hain
2013ICASSPAdaptation of lecture speech recognition system with machine translation output.Raymond W. M. Ng, Thomas Hain, Trevor Cohn
2013InterspeechCombining in-domain and out-of-domain speech data for automatic recognition of disordered speech.Heidi Christensen, Magda B. Aniol, Peter Bell, Phil D. Green, Thomas Hain, Simon King, Pawel Swietojanski
2013InterspeechLearning speaker-specific pronunciations of disordered speech.Heidi Christensen, Phil D. Green, Thomas Hain
2013InterspeechThe sheffield wargames corpus.Charles Fox, Yulan Liu, Erich Zwyssig, Thomas Hain
2013InterspeechAutomatic Transcription of Multi-genre Media Archives.Pierre Lanchantin, Peter Bell, Mark J. F. Gales, Thomas Hain, Xunying Liu, Yanhua Long, Jennifer Quinnell, Steve Renals, Oscar Saz, Matthew Stephen Seigel, Pawel Swietojanski, Philip C. Woodland
2013InterspeechAsynchronous factorisation of speaker and background with feature transforms in speech recognition.Oscar Saz, Thomas Hain
2012ICASSPApplication of SVM-based correctness predictions to unsupervised discriminative speaker adaptation.Matthew Gibson, Thomas Hain
2012InterspeechCRF-based Diacritisation of Colloquial Arabic for Automatic Speech Recognition.Sarah Al-Shareef, Thomas Hain
2012InterspeechA comparative study of adaptive, automatic recognition of disordered speech.Heidi Christensen, Stuart P. Cunningham, Charles Fox, Phil D. Green, Thomas Hain
2012InterspeechSupervised and unsupervised Web-based language model domain adaptation.Gwnol Lecorv, John Dines, Thomas Hain, Petr Motlcek
2012InterspeechAn alignment matching method to explore pseudosyllable properties across different corpora.Raymond W. M. Ng, Thomas Hain, Keikichi Hirose
2011InterspeechAn Investigation in Speech Recognition for Colloquial Arabic.Sarah Al-Shareef, Thomas Hain
2011InterspeechCross-Language Phone Recognition when the Target Language Phoneme Inventory is not Known.Timothy Kempton, Roger K. Moore, Thomas Hain
2011InterspeechAn Analysis of Automatic Speech Recognition with Multiple Microphones.Davide Marino, Thomas Hain
2011InterspeechExtending Audio Notetaker to Browse WebASR Transcriptions.Roger C. F. Tucker, Dan Fry, Vincent Wan, Stuart N. Wrigley, Thomas Hain
2011InterspeechWeb-Based Automatic Speech Recognition Service - webASR.Stuart N. Wrigley, Thomas Hain
2011InterspeechMaking an Automatic Speech Recognition Service Freely Available on the Web.Stuart N. Wrigley, Thomas Hain
2010InterspeechThe AMIDA 2009 meeting transcription system.Thomas Hain, Luks Burget, John Dines, Philip N. Garner, Asmaa El Hannani, Marijn Huijbregts, Martin Karafit, Mike Lincoln, Vincent Wan
2009InterspeechReal-time ASR from meetings.Philip N. Garner, John Dines, Thomas Hain, Asmaa El Hannani, Martin Karafit, Danil Korchagin, Mike Lincoln, Vincent Wan, Le Zhang
2008InterspeechAutomatic speech recognition for scientific purposes - webASR.Thomas Hain, Asmaa El Hannani, Stuart N. Wrigley, Vincent Wan
2008InterspeechDiscrimininative training of narrow band - wide band adapted systems for meeting recognition.Martin Karafit, Luks Burget, Thomas Hain, Jan Cernock
2007ASRURecognition and understanding of meetings the AMI and AMIDA projects.Steve Renals, Thomas Hain, Herv Bourlard
2007ICASSPThe AMI System for the Transcription of Speech in Meetings.Thomas Hain, Vincent Wan, Luks Burget, Martin Karafit, John Dines, Jithendra Vepa, Giulia Garau, Mike Lincoln
2007InterspeechTemporal masking for unsupervised minimum Bayes risk speaker adaptation.Matthew Gibson, Thomas Hain
2007InterspeechApplication of CMLLR in narrow band wide band adapted systems.Martin Karafit, Luks Burget, Jan Cernock, Thomas Hain
2006ICASSPStrategies for Language Model Web-Data Collection.Vincent Wan, Thomas Hain
2006InterspeechThe segmentation of multi-channel meeting recordings for automatic speech recognition.John Dines, Jithendra Vepa, Thomas Hain
2006InterspeechHypothesis spaces for minimum Bayes risk training in large vocabulary speech recognition.Matthew Gibson, Thomas Hain
2006InterspeechAutomatic speech recognition experiments with articulatory data.Esmeralda Uraga, Thomas Hain
2005InterspeechApplying vocal tract length normalization to meeting recordings.Giulia Garau, Steve Renals, Thomas Hain
2005InterspeechTranscription of conference room meetings: an investigation.Thomas Hain, John Dines, Giulia Garau, Martin Karafit, Darren Moore, Vincent Wan, Roeland Ordelman, Steve Renals
2004ICASSPDevelopment of the 2003 CU-HTK conversational telephone speech transcription system.Gunnar Evermann, Ho Yin Chan, Mark J. F. Gales, Thomas Hain, Xunying Liu, David Mrva, Lan Wang, Philip C. Woodland
2004InterspeechUsing VTLN for broadcast news transcription.Do Yeong Kim, Srinivasan Umesh, Mark J. F. Gales, Thomas Hain, Philip C. Woodland
2001ICASSPNew features in the CU-HTK system for transcription of conversational telephone speech.Thomas Hain, Philip C. Woodland, Gunnar Evermann, Daniel Povey
2000InterspeechModelling sub-phone insertions and deletions in continuous speech recognition.Thomas Hain, Philip C. Woodland
1999ICASSPThe 1998 HTK system for transcription of conversational telephone speech.Thomas Hain, Philip C. Woodland, Thomas Niesler, Edward W. D. Whittaker
1999InterspeechDynamic HMM selection for continuous speech recognition.Thomas Hain, Philip C. Woodland
1999InterspeechImprovements in accuracy and speed in the HTK broadcast news transcription system.Philip C. Woodland, J. J. Odell, Thomas Hain, Gareth L. Moore, Thomas Niesler, Andreas Tuerk, Edward W. D. Whittaker
1998ICASSPExperiments in broadcast news transcription.Philip C. Woodland, Thomas Hain, Sue E. Johnson, Thomas Niesler, Andreas Tuerk, Steve J. Young
1998InterspeechSegmentation and classification of broadcast news audio.Thomas Hain, Philip C. Woodland
1994ICASSPOn the convergence of fractal transforms.Bemd Hurtgen, Thomas Hain