Alan W. Black

Alan W. Black, John Moody, Eric Steinbrecher, 2001, 2001 MILCOM Proceedings Communications for Network-Centric Operations: Creating the Information Force (Cat. No.01CH37277).

Open-Source Consumer-Grade Indic Text To Speech

Alan W. Black, Andrew Wilkinson, Sunayana Sitaram, 2016, SSW.

Improving speech systems built from very little data

Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, John Kominek, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Towards building an attentive artificial listener: on the perception of attentiveness in audio-visual feedback tokens

Jean-Marc Odobez, Joakim Gustafson, Yu Yu, 2016, ICMI.

Unsupervised Phonetic and Word Level Discovery for Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages

Alan W. Black, Steven Hillis, Anushree Prasanna Kumar, 2019, INTERSPEECH.

Finite State Machines from Feature Grammars

Alan W. Black, 1989, IWPT.

Heterogeneous relation graphs as a formalism for representing linguistic information

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Richard Caley, 2001, Speech Commun..

Strategy and Policy Learning for Non-Task-Oriented Conversational Systems

Zhou Yu, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Alan W. Black, 2016, SIGDIAL Conference.

A situation theoretic approach to computational semantics

Alan W. Black, 1993 .

Language Technologies for Humanitarian Aid

Lori Levin, Alon Lavie, Jaime G. Carbonell, 2006 .

A Dataset for Document Grounded Conversations pdf

Alan W. Black, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Kangyan Zhou, 2018, EMNLP.

Audio signals in speech interfaces

Ronald Rosenfeld, Alan W. Black, Stefanie Shriver, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Normalization of Non-Standard Words: WS '99 Final Report

Shankar Kumar, Mari Ostendorf, Richard Sproat, 1999 .

Is voice transformation a threat to speaker identification?

Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Arthur R. Toth, 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

LET's GO: improving spoken dialog systems for the elderly and non-natives

Maxine Eskénazi, Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Synthesizing conversational intonation from a linguistically rich input

Alan W. Black, Paul A. Taylor, 1994, SSW.

AN HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM APPLIED TO ENGLISH

Heiga Zen, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda, 2003 .

Entropy-based Pruning for Phrase-based Machine Translation

Wang Ling, João Graça, Isabel Trancoso, 2012, EMNLP.

Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results

Maxine Eskénazi, Helen F. Hastie, Oliver Lemon, 2011, SIGDIAL Conference.

Boosting Dialog Response Generation

Alan W. Black, Wenchao Du, A. Black, 2019, ACL.

Parameter generation algorithm considering Modulation Spectrum for HMM-based speech synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Shinnosuke Takamichi, 2015, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Multilingual Speech Recognition with Corpus Relatedness Sampling

Florian Metze, Alan W. Black, Xinjian Li, 2019, INTERSPEECH.

Segment Level Voice Conversion with Recurrent Neural Networks

Ramón Fernández Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso, Alan W. Black, 2017, INTERSPEECH.

The CMU Arctic speech databases

Alan W. Black, John Kominek, A. Black, 2004, SSW.

Mining Parallel Corpora from Sina Weibo and Twitter

Wang Ling, Isabel Trancoso, Luís Marujo, 2016, Computational Linguistics.

Thai automatic speech recognition

Tanja Schultz, Monika Woszczyna, Alan W. Black, 2005, Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005..

Speaker de-identification via voice transformation

Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Arthur R. Toth, 2009, 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding.

A unit selection approach to F0 modeling and its application to emphasis

Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, A. Black, 2003, 2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (IEEE Cat. No.03EX721).

Mere account mein kitna balance hai? - On building voice enabled Banking Services for Multilingual Communities pdf

Alan W. Black, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Akshat Gupta, 2020, ArXiv.

Practical Evaluation of Human and Synthesized Speech for Virtual Human Dialogue Systems

Kallirroi Georgila, David R. Traum, Alan W. Black, 2012, LREC.

Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Heiga Zen, Keiichi Tokuda, Alan W. Black, 2007, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - ICASSP '07.

Comparison of algorithms for predicting accent placement in English speech synthesis.

Alan W. Black, 1995 .

Style Transfer Through Back-Translation pdf

Yulia Tsvetkov, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Alan W. Black, 2018, ACL.

Handling large audio files in audio books for building synthetic voices

Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black, A. Black, 2010, SSW.

User Engagement Study with Virtual Agents Under Different Cultural Contexts

Zhou Yu, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Alan W. Black, 2016, IVA.

Challenges in Speech Synthesis

David Suendermann, Alan W. Black, Harald Höge, 2010 .

Optimizing components for handheld two-way speech translation for an English-iraqi Arabic system

Ying Zhang, Tanja Schultz, Alexander H. Waibel, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

Analysis and modeling of "focus" in context

Dirk Hovy, Eduard H. Hovy, Alan W. Black, 2013, INTERSPEECH.

Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives pdf

Norman Sadeh, Alan W. Black, Thomas B. Norton, 2019, EMNLP.

Automatic building of synthetic voices from large multi-paragraph speech databases

Kishore Prahallad, Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

Data Augmentation for Neural Online Chats Response Selection

Alan W. Black, Wenchao Du, A. Black, 2018, SCAI@EMNLP.

Should You Fine-Tune BERT for Automated Essay Scoring?

Alan W. Black, Elijah Mayfield, A. Black, 2020, BEA.

Let's go lab: a platform for evaluation of spoken dialog systems with real world users

Maxine Eskénazi, Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Task and domain specific modelling in the Carnegie Mellon communicator system

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Rita Singh, Alice H. Oh, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Learning Conversational Systems that Interleave Task and Non-Task Content pdf

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Alan W. Black, Zhou Yu, 2017, IJCAI.

Organizational genesis and development : a study of Australian agricultural colleges

Alan W. Black, 1976 .

A Wizard-of-Oz Study on A Non-Task-Oriented Dialog Systems That Reacts to User Engagement

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Alan W. Black, Zhou Yu, 2016, SIGDIAL Conference.

Modelling a Noisy-channel for Voice Conversion Using Articulatory Features

Bajibabu Bollepalli, Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

Sequence-Based Multi-Lingual Low Resource Speech Recognition

Florian Metze, Ramon Sanabria, Alan W. Black, 2018, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Parallel combination of multilingual speech streams for improved ASR

João Paulo da Silva Neto, João Miranda, Alan W. Black, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

An Empirical Study of Self-Disclosure in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Alan W. Black, Abhilasha Ravichander, A. Black, 2018, SIGDIAL Conference.

Phoneme Level Language Models for Sequence Based Low Resource ASR

Florian Metze, Alan W. Black, Xinjian Li, 2019, ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

CMU Blizzard 2008: Optimally using a large database for unit selection synthesis.

Kishore Prahallad, Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black, 2008 .

WriterForcing: Generating more interesting story endings pdf

Alan W. Black, Prakhar Gupta, Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, 2019, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling.

Towards a universal speech interface

Ronald Rosenfeld, Xiaojin Zhu, Arthur R. Toth, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

A style capturing approach to F0 transformation in voice conversion

Alan W. Black, Luís C. Oliveira, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2013, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

An Investigation of Convolution Attention Based Models for Multilingual Speech Synthesis of Indian Languages

Alan W. Black, Pallavi Baljekar, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, 2018, INTERSPEECH.

ONLINE SUPERVISED LEARNING OF NON-UNDERSTANDING RECOVERY POLICIES

Maxine Eskénazi, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Antoine Raux, 2006, 2006 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop.

The CMU entry to blizzard machine learning challenge

Alan W. Black, Pallavi Baljekar, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, 2017, 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU).

Ugloss: a Framework for Improving Spoken Language Generation Understandability

Alan W. Black, Brian Langner, A. Black, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

Domain Robust Feature Extraction for Rapid Low Resource ASR Development

Florian Metze, Xinjian Li, Alan W. Black, 2018, 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

Automatic Prediction of Friendship via Multi-model Dyadic Features

Zhou Yu, Amy Ogan, Justine Cassell, 2013, SIGDIAL Conference.

Tackling Code-Switched NER: Participation of CMU

Alan W. Black, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Parvathy Geetha, 2018, CodeSwitch@ACL.

Adaptation techniques for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages

Alan W. Black, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, A. Black, 2010, SLTU.

Evaluating a dialog language generation system: comparing the mountain system to other NLG approaches

Stephan Vogel, Alan W. Black, Brian Langner, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

AlloVera: A Multilingual Allophone Database pdf

Florian Metze, Graham Neubig, Alan W. Black, 2020, LREC.

A Review of Personality in Voice-Based Man Machine Interaction

Tim Polzehl, Florian Metze, Alan W. Black, 2011, HCI.

DialCrowd: A toolkit for easy dialog system assessment

Maxine Eskénazi, Alan W. Black, Tiancheng Zhao, 2018, SIGDIAL Conference.

Diphone collection and synthesis

Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo, A. Black, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Generating f0 contours for speech synthesis using the tilt intonation theory.

Alan W. Black, Kurt E Dusterhoff, A. Black, 1997 .

Optimizing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis

Alan W. Black, John Kominek, 2009, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Global syllable set for building speech synthesis in Indian languages

Kishore Prahallad, Bayya Yegnanarayana, Alan W. Black, 2008, 2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop.

Intelligibility of machine translation output in speech synthesis

Alan W. Black, Kay Peterson, Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

Not All Contexts Are Created Equal: Better Word Representations with Variable Attention

Ramón Fernández Astudillo, Yulia Tsvetkov, Wang Ling, 2015, EMNLP.

Spectral conversion based on maximum likelihood estimation considering global variance of converted parameter

Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, 2005, Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005..

Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems

Maxine Eskénazi, Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, 2008, ACL.

Language Informed Modeling of Code-Switched Text

Sumeet Singh, Alan W. Black, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, 2018, CodeSwitch@ACL.

Prosody and the Selection of Source Units for Concatenative Synthesis

Alan W. Black, Nick Campbell, A. Black, 1997 .

Doing Research in a Deployed Spoken Dialog System: One Year of Let’s Go! Public Experience

Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, Dan Bohus, 2017 .

Using articulatory position data in voice transformation

Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black, 2007, SSW.

Proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

Massimo Poesio, Chris Mellish, Paul Taylor, 1999 .

Formality Style Transfer for Noisy, User-generated Conversations: Extracting Labeled, Parallel Data from Unlabeled Corpora

Isak Czeresnia Etinger, Alan W. Black, A. Black, 2019, EMNLP.

Towards Improving Intelligibility of Black-Box Speech Synthesizers in Noise

Alan W. Black, Thomas Manzini, A. Black, 2018, SPECOM.

Prediction of pronunciation variations for speech synthesis: a data-driven approach

Alan W. Black, Christina L. Bennett, 2005, Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005..

Building a better Indian English voice using "more data"

Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Kishore Prahallad, Rohit Kumar, 2007, SSW.

Dialog State Tracking Challenge: Information For Prospective Participants

Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, Jason D. Williams, 2012 .

Perfect synthesis for all of the people all of the time

Alan W. Black, A. Black, 2002, Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2002..

“Love ya, jerkface”: Using Sparse Log-Linear Models to Build Positive and Impolite Relationships with Teens

William Yang Wang, Amy Ogan, Justine Cassell, 2012, SIGDIAL Conference.

The blizzard challenge - 2005: evaluating corpus-based speech synthesis on common datasets

Keiichi Tokuda, Alan W. Black, K. Tokuda, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Named entity translation using anchor texts

Wang Ling, Luísa Coheur, Isabel Trancoso, 2011, IWSLT.

Non-standard word and homograph resolution for asian language text analysis

Alan W. Black, Craig Olinsky, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Real Users and Real Dialog Systems: The Hard Challenge for SDS

Maxine Eskénazi, Alan W. Black, 2014, Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones, Putting Spoken Dialog Systems into Practice.

Visual Evaluation of Voice Transformation Based on Knowledge of Speaker

Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black, 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.

Incorporating durational modification in voice transformation

Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Integrating Verbal and Nonvebval Input into a Dynamic Response Spoken Dialogue System

Maxine Eskénazi, Louis-Philippe Morency, Alan W. Black, 2017, AAAI.

Proceedings of The 8th International Global WordNet Conference

Alan W. Black, Jon Oberlander, Shomir Wilson, 2016 .

Pronunciation modeling for dialectal arabic speech recognition

Ian R. Lane, Alexander H. Waibel, Roger Hsiao, 2009, 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding.

Proc. 2009 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)

Heiga Zen, Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, 2009 .

Knowledge of language origin improves pronunciation accuracy of proper names

Ariadna Font Llitjós, Alan W. Black, A. Black, 2001, INTERSPEECH.

Evaluation and collection of proper name pronunciations online

Ariadna Font Llitjós, Alan W. Black, A. Black, 2002, LREC.

Recent development of the HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS)

Heiga Zen, Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, 2009 .

Identifying speakers in children's stories for speech synthesis

Richard Sproat, Jason Y. Zhang, Alan W. Black, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Assigning intonation elements and prosodic phrasing for English speech synthesis from high level linguistic input

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, A. Black, 1994, ICSLP.

The First Conversational Intelligence Challenge

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Yoshua Bengio, Alan W. Black, 2018 .

Introduction to NIPS 2017 Competition Track

Sergio Escalera, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Sergey Levine, 2018 .

Three methods of intonation modeling

Alan W. Black, Ann K. Syrdal, Gregor Möhler, 1998, SSW.

Speech synthesis by phonological structure matching

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, 1999, EUROSPEECH.

The Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019: TTS without T

Sakriani Sakti, Ewan Dunbar, Alan W. Black, 2019, INTERSPEECH.

Pocketsphinx: A Free, Real-Time Continuous Speech Recognition System for Hand-Held Devices

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Alan W. Black, Mohit Kumar, 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.

NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data (SDCTD 2012)

David R. Traum, Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi, 2012, HLT-NAACL 2012.

Modified post-filter to recover modulation spectrum for HMM-based speech synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Shinnosuke Takamichi, 2014, 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP).

Socially-Aware Virtual Agents: Automatically Assessing Dyadic Rapport from Temporal Patterns of Behavior

Ran Zhao, Justine Cassell, Alan W. Black, 2016, IVA.

Character-based Neural Machine Translation pdf

Wang Ling, Isabel Trancoso, Chris Dyer, 2015, ArXiv.

Improving speech synthesis of machine translation output

Stephan Vogel, Alan W. Black, Alok Parlikar, 2010, INTERSPEECH.

Automatic Detection of Code-switching Style from Acoustics

Alan W. Black, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Sunayana Sitaram, 2018, CodeSwitch@ACL.

Automatically clustering similar units for unit selection in speech synthesis

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, A. Black, 1997, EUROSPEECH.

Postfilters to Modify the Modulation Spectrum for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Graham Neubig, 2016, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Dialog State Tracking Challenge Handbook

Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, Jason D. Williams, 2012 .

Formalisms For Morphographemic Description

Stephen G. Pulman, Alan W. Black, Graeme D. Ritchie, 1987, EACL.

Segmentation of Monologues in Audio Books for Building Synthetic Voices

Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black, 2011, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Statistically trained orthographic to sound models for Thai

Alan W. Black, Ananlada Chotimongkol, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Optimal data selection for unit selection synthesis

Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo, A. Black, 2001, SSW.

The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series

Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, Matthew Henderson, 2014, AI Mag..

Paraphrasing 4 Microblog Normalization

Wang Ling, Isabel Trancoso, Chris Dyer, 2013, EMNLP.

The Blizzard Challenge 2006

Alan W. Black, Christina L. Bennett, 2006 .

SABLE: a standard for TTS markup

Mari Ostendorf, Richard Sproat, Mike Edgington, 1998, ICSLP.

Introduction to the Issue on Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Keiichi Tokuda, Keikichi Hirose, Simon King, 2014, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process..

SANTLR: Speech Annotation Toolkit for Low Resource Languages pdf

Florian Metze, Zhong Zhou, Alan W. Black, 2019, INTERSPEECH.

Multilingual Speech Synthesis

Alan W. Black, 2006 .

Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion mapping with Gaussian mixture model

Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Heiga Zen, Keiichi Tokuda, Alan W. Black, 2007, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Investigating Utterance Level Representations for Detecting Intent from Acoustics

Eric Nyberg, Alan W. Black, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, 2018, INTERSPEECH.

Linguistic Markers of Influence in Informal Interactions pdf

Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Alan W. Black, Shrimai Prabhumoye, 2017, NLP+CSS@ACL.

Multimodal HALEF: An Open-Source Modular Web-Based Multimodal Dialog Framework

David Suendermann-Oeft, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Alan W. Black, 2016, IWSDS.

Speech Technology for Unwritten Languages

Florian Metze, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Graham Neubig, 2020, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Mapping from articulatory movements to vocal tract spectrum with Gaussian mixture model for articulatory speech synthesis

Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, 2004, SSW.

Incremental Adaptation of Speech-to-Speech Translation

Tanja Schultz, Ian R. Lane, Alexander H. Waibel, 2009, NAACL.

TONGUES: rapid development of a speech-to-speech translation system

Rita Singh, Alan W. Black, Ralf D. Brown, 2002 .

Speechalator: Two-Way Speech-to-Speech Translation in Your Hand

Tanja Schultz, Alon Lavie, Monika Woszczyna, 2003, HLT-NAACL.

The blizzard machine learning challenge 2017

Keiichi Tokuda, Simon King, Alan W. Black, 2017, 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU).

Creating Multi-Modal, User-Centric Records of Meetings with the Carnegie Mellon Meeting Recorder Architecture

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Richard M. Stern, Satanjeev Banerjee, 2004 .

A Deep Learning Approach to Data-driven Parameterizations for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis pdf

Alan W. Black, Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, A. Black, 2014, ArXiv.

Voice convergin: Speaker de-identification by voice transformation

Tanja Schultz, Qin Jin, Arthur R. Toth, 2009, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

SPICE: web-based tools for rapid language adaptation in speech processing systems

Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, John Kominek, 2007, INTERSPEECH.

A Computational Framework for Lexical Description

Stephen G. Pulman, Alan W. Black, Graeme D. Ritchie, 1987, Comput. Linguistics.

Improving the understandability of speech synthesis by modeling speech in noise

Alan W. Black, Brian Langner, 2005, Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005..

Automatic Keyword Extraction on Twitter

Jaime G. Carbonell, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Wang Ling, 2015, ACL.

Optimizations and fitting procedures for the liljencrants-fant model for statistical parametric speech synthesis

H. Timothy Bunnell, Alan W. Black, Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, 2013, INTERSPEECH.

Blizzard 2008: Experiments on Unit Size for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis

Kishore Prahallad, B. Yegnanarayana, Alan W. Black, 2008 .

Spectral Mapping Using Artificial Neural Networks for Voice Conversion

Kishore Prahallad, Bayya Yegnanarayana, Alan W. Black, 2010, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Detecting Driver Distraction

Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi, Ting-Yao Hu, 2018 .

Rapid Prototyping of a German TTS System

Alan W. Black, Alexander Kain, Horst Meyer, 1998 .

The Spoken Dialogue Challenge

Maxine Eskénazi, Alan W. Black, 2009, SIGDIAL Conference.

Linguistic Unit Discovery from Multi-Modal Inputs in Unwritten Languages: Summary of the “Speaking Rosetta” JSALT 2017 Workshop

Florian Metze, Sebastian Stüker, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, 2018, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Generating Mandarin and Cantonese F0 Contours with Decision Trees and BLSTMs pdf

Alan W. Black, Weidong Yuan, A. Black, 2018, ArXiv.

Using decision trees within the tilt intonation model to predict F0 contours

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Kurt E. Dusterhoff, 1999, EUROSPEECH.

Statistical mapping between articulatory movements and acoustic spectrum using a Gaussian mixture model

Keiichi Tokuda, Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, 2008, Speech Commun..

Improving ASR by integrating lecture audio and slides

João Paulo da Silva Neto, João Miranda, Alan W. Black, 2013, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Building voiceXML-based applications

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Ariadna Font Llitjós, Alan W. Black, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

The Real Challenge 2014: Progress and Prospects

Maxine Eskénazi, Sungjin Lee, David R. Traum, 2015, SIGDIAL Conference.

A Thai Speech Translation System for Medical Dialogs

Tanja Schultz, Alexander H. Waibel, Alan W. Black, 2004, HLT-NAACL.

Bootstrapping Phonetic Lexicons for New Languages

Alan W. Black, Sameer Maskey, Laura Tomokiya, 2004 .

Emotion Identification for Evaluation of Synthesized Emotional Speech

H. Timothy Bunnell, Tim Polzehl, Florian Metze, 2012 .

Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis

Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo, A. Black, 2004, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Text-To-Speech for Languages without an Orthography

Alan W. Black, Alok Parlikar, Sukhada Palkar, 2012, COLING.

Challenges with Rapid Adaptation of Speech Translation Systems to New Language Pairs

Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.

Top-Down Structurally-Constrained Neural Response Generation with Lexicalized Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar

Alan W. Black, Wenchao Du, 2019, NAACL-HLT.

A Survey of Code-switched Speech and Language Processing pdf

Alan W. Black, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Sunayana Sitaram, 2019, ArXiv.

Recovery of acronyms, out-of-lattice words and pronunciations from parallel multilingual speech

João Paulo da Silva Neto, João Miranda, Alan W. Black, 2012, 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

Doing research on a deployed spoken dialogue system: one year of let's go! experience

Maxine Eskénazi, Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

Zero-shot Learning for Speech Recognition with Universal Phonetic Model

Florian Metze, Alan W. Black, Xinjian Li, 2018 .

Random forests for statistical speech synthesis

Alan W. Black, Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, 2015, INTERSPEECH.

Accent Group modeling for improved prosody in statistical parameteric speech synthesis

Alan W. Black, Luís C. Oliveira, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2013, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Data-driven phrasing for speech synthesis in low-resource languages

Alan W. Black, Alok Parlikar, A. Black, 2012, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

A Statistical Phrase/Accent Model for Intonation Modeling

Alan W. Black, Luís C. Oliveira, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Unit size in unit selection speech synthesis

Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Festival Speech Synthesis System

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Richard Caley, 1998 .

Understandable production of massive synthesis

Alan W. Black, Brian Langner, 2007, SSW.

Using the Tilt Intonation Model: A Data-Driven Approach

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Kurt E Dusterhoff, 2001 .

Code-Mixed Question Answering Challenge: Crowd-sourcing Data and Techniques

Josef van Genabith, Günter Neumann, Vishal Gupta, 2018, CodeSwitch@ACL.

Impact of durational outlier removal from unit selection catalogs

Alan W. Black, John Kominek, 2004, SSW.

A family-of-models approach to HMM-based segmentation for unit selection speech synthesis

Alan W. Black, John Kominek, 2004, INTERSPEECH.

CLUSTERGEN: a statistical parametric synthesizer using trajectory modeling

Alan W. Black, A. Black, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

Predicting the Intonation of Discourse Segments from Examples in Dialogue Speech

Alan W. Black, A. Black, 1997, Computing Prosody.

Flite: a small fast run-time synthesis engine

Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo, A. Black, 2001, SSW.

Unit selection and emotional speech

Alan W. Black, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

On Building Mixed Lingual Speech Synthesis Systems

Alan W. Black, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, A. Black, 2017, INTERSPEECH.

A Grammar Based Approach to Style Specific Phrase Prediction

Alan W. Black, Alok Parlikar, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Arabic in my hand: small-footprint synthesis of egyptian arabic

Alan W. Black, Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Kevin A. Lenzo, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Analysis of Unknown Words through Morphological Decomposition

Briony Williams, Alan W. Black, Joke van de Plassche, 1991, EACL.

Speech Synthesis of Code-Mixed Text

Alan W. Black, Sunayana Sitaram, A. Black, 2016, LREC.

Deriving Phonetic Transcriptions and Discovering Word Segmentations for Speech-to-Speech Translation in Low-Resource Settings

Alan W. Black, Andrew Wilkinson, Tiancheng Zhao, 2016, INTERSPEECH.

Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010

Maxine Eskénazi, Alan W. Black, Susanne Burger, 2010, 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop.

Issues in building general letter to sound rules

Alan W. Black, Vincent Pagel, Kevin A. Lenzo, 1998, SSW.

Articulatory features for expressive speech synthesis

H. Timothy Bunnell, Tim Polzehl, Florian Metze, 2012, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Voice building from insufficient data - classroom experiences with web-based language development tools

Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, John Kominek, 2007, SSW.

Equity Beyond Bias in Language Technologies for Education

Alan W. Black, David Gerritsen, Elijah Mayfield, 2019, BEA@ACL.

The Blizzard Challenge 2013 - Indian Language Tasks

Kishore Prahallad, Hema A. Murthy, Alan W. Black, 2013 .

Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog System

Ran Zhao, Justine Cassell, Alan W. Black, 2016, SIGDIAL Conference.

Synthesizer voice quality of new languages calibrated with mean mel cepstral distortion

Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, John Kominek, 2008, SLTU.

Utterance Selection Techniques for TTS Systems Using Found Speech

Alan W. Black, Pallavi Baljekar, 2016, SSW.

Voice conversion using Artificial Neural Networks

Kishore Prahallad, Bayya Yegnanarayana, Alan W. Black, 2009, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Using articulatory features and inferred phonological segments in zero resource speech processing

Alan W. Black, Pallavi Baljekar, Sunayana Sitaram, 2015, INTERSPEECH.

Using acoustic models to choose pronunciation variations for synthetic voices

Alan W. Black, Christina L. Bennett, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Significance of early tagged contextual graphemes in grapheme based speech synthesis and recognition systems

Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Text processing for text-to-speech systems in Indian languages

Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black, Mohit Bansal, 2007, SSW.

Unit selection voice for Amharic using Festvox

Kishore Prahallad, Rohit Kumar, Alan W. Black, 2004, SSW.

The Dialog State Tracking Challenge

Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, Jason D. Williams, 2013, SIGDIAL Conference.

Creating a database of speech in noise for unit selection synthesis

Alan W. Black, Brian Langner, 2004, SSW.

Two/Too Simple Adaptations of Word2Vec for Syntax Problems

Wang Ling, Isabel Trancoso, Chris Dyer, 2015, NAACL.

On data driven parametric backchannel synthesis for expressing attentiveness in conversational agents

Joakim Gustafson, Alan W. Black, Catharine Oertel, 2016, MA3HMI@ICMI.

Building sleek synthesizers for multi-lingual screen reader

Kishore Prahallad, Bayya Yegnanarayana, Alan W. Black, 2008, INTERSPEECH.

Generating time-constrained audio presentations of structured information

Rohit Kumar, Lingyun Gu, Alan W. Black, 2006, INTERSPEECH.

The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2) pdf

Joelle Pineau, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Jason Weston, 2019, The NeurIPS '18 Competition.

Assigning phrase breaks from part-of-speech sequences

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, A. Black, 1997, Comput. Speech Lang..

Chatbot Evaluation and Database Expansion via Crowdsourcing

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Alan W. Black, Ziyu Xu, 2016 .

Field Testing the Tongues Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation System

Alan W. Black, Ralf D. Brown, Eric Steinbrecher, 2002, LREC.

A study on speech over the telephone and aging

Maxine Eskénazi, Alan W. Black, 2001, INTERSPEECH.

Text-dependent pathological voice detection

Isabel Trancoso, Alan W. Black, Luís C. Oliveira, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

Using a Computational Situation Theoretic Language to investigate Contemporary Semantic Theories

Alan W. Black, A. Black, 1993 .

Future Directions in Spoken Dialog Systems: A Community of Possibilities

Maxine Eskénazi, Alan W. Black, 2012, SDCTD@NAACL-HLT.

The ARIEL-CMU situation frame detection pipeline for LoReHLT16: a model translation approach

Yiming Yang, Francis M. Tyers, Teruko Mitamura, 2018, Machine Translation.

Flexible Speech Translation Systems

Tanja Schultz, Monika Woszczyna, Stephan Vogel, 2006, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Towards Building an Attentive Artificial Listener: On the Perception of Attentiveness in Feedback Utterances

Joakim Gustafson, Alan W. Black, Catharine Oertel, 2016, INTERSPEECH.

The architecture of the Festival speech synthesis system

Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Richard Caley, 1998, SSW.

Foreign accents in synthetic speech: development and evaluation

Alan W. Black, Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Kevin A. Lenzo, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Intent transfer in speech-to-speech machine translation

Alan W. Black, Luís C. Oliveira, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2012, 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset

Alan W. Black, A. Black, 2019, ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Speechalator: two-way speech-to-speech translation on a consumer PDA

Tanja Schultz, Alon Lavie, Monika Woszczyna, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Speech Translation for Triage of Emergency Phonecalls in Minority Languages

Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, Jerry Weltman, 2008, SPSCTPA@COLING.

CMU GetGoing: An Understandable and Memorable Dialog System for Seniors pdf

Maxine Eskénazi, Alan W. Black, Shikib Mehri, 2019, ArXiv.

Recurrent Neural Network Postfilters for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis pdf

Alan W. Black, Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, 2016, ArXiv.

Evaluating and correcting phoneme segmentation for unit selection synthesis

Alan W. Black, John Kominek, Christina L. Bennett, 2003, INTERSPEECH.

Microblogs as Parallel Corpora

Wang Ling, Isabel Trancoso, Chris Dyer, 2013, ACL.

Utterance classification in speech-to-speech translation for zero-resource languages in the hospital administration domain

Alan W. Black, Andrew Wilkinson, Lara J. Martin, 2015, 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU).

Rapid development of speech-to-speech translation systems

Alexander I. Rudnicky, Rita Singh, Alan W. Black, 2002, INTERSPEECH.

NineOneOne: Recognizing and Classifying Speech for Handling Minority Language Emergency Calls

Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black, Robert E. Frederking, 2008, LREC.

A Dictionary and Morphological Analyser for English

Stephen G. Pulman, Alan W. Black, Graeme D. Ritchie, 1986, COLING.

Polyglot Neural Language Models: A Case Study in Cross-Lingual Phonetic Representation Learning pdf

Guillaume Lample, Yulia Tsvetkov, Manaal Faruqui, 2016, NAACL.

Normalization of non-standard words

Shankar Kumar, Mari Ostendorf, Richard Sproat, 2001, Comput. Speech Lang..

Learning Pronunciation Dictionaries: Language Complexity and Word Selection Strategies

Alan W. Black, John Kominek, A. Black, 2006, NAACL.

Measuring unsupervised acoustic clustering through phoneme pair merge-and-split tests

Alan W. Black, John Kominek, A. Black, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Modeling Pause-Duration for Style-Specific Speech Synthesis

Alan W. Black, Alok Parlikar, 2012, INTERSPEECH.

Improving speech synthesis for noisy environments

Alan W. Black, Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2010, SSW.

Towards Improving the Naturalness of Social Conversations with Dialogue Systems

Alexander I. Rudnicky, João Miranda, Alan W. Black, 2010, SIGDIAL Conference.

CMU Blizzard 2007: A Hybrid Acoustic Unit Selection System from Statistically Predicted Parameters

Kishore Prahallad, Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black, 2007 .

Improved punctuation recovery through combination of multiple speech streams

João Paulo da Silva Neto, João Miranda, Alan W. Black, 2013, 2013 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding.

Limited domain synthesis

Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo, 2000, INTERSPEECH.

Analyzing Wikipedia Deletion Debates with a Group Decision-Making Forecast Model

Alan W. Black, Elijah Mayfield, A. Black, 2019, Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact..

Speech synthesis for educational technology

Alan W. Black, 2007, SLaTE.

Characteristics of Winter-Precipitation-Related Transportation Fatalities in the United States

Alan W. Black, Thomas L. Mote, T. Mote, 2015 .

The Blizzard Challenge: evaluating corpus-based speech synthesis techniques

Alan W. Black, 2007, SSW.

Speech Synthesis for Mixed-Language Navigation Instructions

Alan W. Black, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Sunayana Sitaram, 2017, INTERSPEECH.

An annotation scheme for concept-to-speech synthesis.

Chris Mellish, Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, 1999 .

Minimum error rate training for phrasing in speech synthesis

Alan W. Black, Alok Parlikar, 2013, SSW.

Discriminative Phrase-based Lexicalized Reordering Models using Weighted Reordering Graphs

Wang Ling, João Graça, Isabel Trancoso, 2011, IJCNLP.

Crowdsourcing High-Quality Parallel Data Extraction from Twitter

Wang Ling, Isabel Trancoso, Luís Marujo, 2014, WMT@ACL.

Style Transfer Through Multilingual and Feedback-Based Back-Translation pdf

Yulia Tsvetkov, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Alan W. Black, 2018, ArXiv.

Learning speaker-specific phrase breaks for text-to-speech systems

Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black, E. Veera Raghavendra, 2010, SSW.

Modulation spectrum-constrained trajectory training algorithm for GMM-based Voice Conversion

Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Shinnosuke Takamichi, 2015, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

On the use of automatically generated discourse-level information in a concept-to-speech synthesis system

Chris Mellish, Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, 1998, ICSLP.

An Incremental Turn-Taking Model with Active System Barge-in for Spoken Dialog Systems

Maxine Eskénazi, Alan W. Black, Tiancheng Zhao, 2015, SIGDIAL Conference.

The ARIEL-CMU Systems for LoReHLT18 pdf

Yiming Yang, Florian Metze, Jaime G. Carbonell, 2019, ArXiv.

Dataset Analysis and Augmentation for Emoji-Sensitive Irony Detection

Alan W. Black, Naoki Otani, Aditi Chaudhary, 2019, EMNLP 2019.

Describing Spoken Dialogue Systems Differences

Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi, José P. González-Brenes, 2008 .

Optimal Utterance Selection for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis Databases

Alan W. Black, Kevin A. Lenzo, 2003, Int. J. Speech Technol..

The HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS) version 2.0

Heiga Zen, Keiichi Tokuda, Takashi Nose, 2007, SSW.

Generating F/sub 0/ contours from ToBI labels using linear regression

Alan W. Black, Andrew J. Hunt, 1996, Proceeding of Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. ICSLP '96.

Sub-Phonetic Modeling For Capturing Pronunciation Variations For Conversational Speech Synthesis

Kishore Prahallad, Alan W. Black, Mosur Ravishankar, 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.

Modulation spectrum-constrained trajectory training algorithm for HMM-based speech synthesis

Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Shinnosuke Takamichi, 2015, INTERSPEECH.

Unit selection in a concatenative speech synthesis system using a large speech database

Alan W. Black, Andrew J. Hunt, Andrew J. Hunt, 1996, 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Conference Proceedings.

Using Speaker ID to Discover Repeat Callers of a Spoken Dialog System

Alan W. Black, Brian Langner, Andrew Fandrianto, 2011, INTERSPEECH.

Let's go public! taking a spoken dialog system to the real world

Maxine Eskénazi, Antoine Raux, Alan W. Black, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Cross-speaker articulatory position data for phonetic feature prediction

Arthur R. Toth, Alan W. Black, A. Black, 2005, INTERSPEECH.

Unconventional Approaches to Gathering and Sharing Resources for Spoken Dialog Research

Sungjin Lee, Alan W. Black, Tiancheng Zhao, 2017 .

Bootstrapping Text-to-Speech for speech processing in languages without an orthography

Alan W. Black, Sunayana Sitaram, Yun-Nung Chen, 2013, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

Letter to sound rules for accented lexicon compression

Alan W. Black, Vincent Pagel, Kevin A. Lenzo, 1998, ICSLP.

Modulation spectrum-based post-filter for GMM-based Voice Conversion

Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Shinnosuke Takamichi, 2014, Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), 2014 Asia-Pacific.

The Blizzard Challenge 2006 CMU Entry introducing hybrid trajectory-selection synthesis

Alan W. Black, John Kominek, 2006 .

Universal grapheme-based speech synthesis

Alan W. Black, Sunayana Sitaram, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, 2015, INTERSPEECH.

Text-Independent Voice Conversion Based on Unit Selection

Hermann Ney, David Suendermann-Oeft, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.

Optimising selection of units from speech databases for concatenative synthesis

Nick Campbell, Alan W. Black, A. Black, 1995, EUROSPEECH.

The CMU TransTac 2007 Eyes-free and Hands-free Two-way Speech-to-Speech Translation System

Alex Waibel, Tanja Schultz, Sebastian Stüker, 2007 .

Multilingual Phonetic Dataset for Low Resource Speech Recognition

Florian Metze, Alan W. Black, Xinjian Li, 2021, ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Multimodal Speech Summarization Through Semantic Concept Learning

Florian Metze, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Shruti Palaskar, 2021, Interspeech.

Towards Automatic Route Description Unification in Spoken Dialog Systems

Maxine Eskénazi, Alan W. Black, Yulan Feng, 2021, 2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

Hierarchical Phone Recognition with Compositional Phonetics

Florian Metze, Alan W. Black, Xinjian Li, 2021, Interspeech.