Department of Engineering

Publications by Dr W.J. Byrne

Number of items: 106.

Article

Dines, J and Liang, H and Saheer, L and Gibson, M and Byrne, W and Oura, K and Tokuda, K and Yamagishi, J and King, S and Wester, M and Hirsimaki, T and Karhila, R and Kurimo, M (2011) Personalising speech-to-speech translation: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis. Computer Speech and Language.

Gibson, M and Byrne, W (2011) Unsupervised intra-lingual and cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using two-pass decision tree construction. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 19. 895 - 904-895 - 904.

de Gispert, A and Iglesias, G and Blackwood, GW and Banga, ER and Byrne, WJ (2010) Hierarchical phrase-based translation with weighted finite state transducers and shallow-N grammars. Computational Linguistics, 36. ISSN 0891-2017

Deng, Y and Byrne, WJ (2008) HMM word and phrase alignment for statistical machine translation. IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 16. pp. 494-507. ISSN 1558-7916

Venkataramani, V and Chakrabartty, S and Byrne, WJ (2007) Ginisupport vector machines for segmental minimum Bayes risk decoding of continuous speech. Computer Speech and Language, 21. pp. 423-442. ISSN 0885-2308

Deng, Y and Kumar, S and Byrne, W (2007) Segmentation and alignment of parralel text for statistical machine translation. Natural Language Engineering, 13. pp. 235-260. ISSN 1351-3249

Byrne, W (2006) Minimum Bayes Risk Estimation and Decoding in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, Japan – Special Section on Statistical Modeling for Speech Processing, E89-D.

Doumpiotis, V and Byrne, WJ (2006) Lattice segmentation and minimum Bayes risk discriminative training for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. Speech Communication, 48. pp. 142-160. ISSN 0167-6393

Li, J and Zheng, F and Byrne, WJ and Jurafsky, D (2006) A dialectal Chinese speech recognition framework. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 21. pp. 106-115. ISSN 1000-9000

Kumar, S and Deng, Y and Byrne, WJ (2006) A weighted finite state transducer translation template model for statistical machine translation. Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 12. pp. 35-76. ISSN 1351-3249

Gunawardana, A and Byrne, WJ (2005) Convergence theorems for generalized alternating minimization procedures. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6. pp. 2049-2073. ISSN 1532-4435

Tsakalidis, S and Doumpiotis, V and Byrne, WJ (2005) Discriminative linear transforms for feature normalization and speaker adaptation in HMM estimation. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 1310. pp. 367-376. ISSN 1063-6676

Byrne, WJ and Doermann, D and Franz, M and Gustman, S and Hajic, J and Oard, D and Picheny, M and Psutka, J and Ramabhadran, B and Soergel, D and Ward, T and Wei Jing, Z (2004) Automatic recognition of spontaneous speech for access to multilingual oral history archives. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 12. pp. 430-435. ISSN 1063-6676

Goel, V and Kumar, S and Byrne, WJ (2004) Segmental minimum Bayes-risk decoding for automatic speech recognition. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 12. pp. 234-249. ISSN 1063-6676

Zheng, F and Song, Z and Fung, P and Byrne, WJ (2002) Mandarin pronunciation modeling based on CASS corpus. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 17. pp. 249-263. ISSN 1000-9000

Gunawardana, A and Byrne, WJ (2001) Discounted likelihood linear regression for rapid speaker adaptation. Computer Speech and Language, 15. pp. 15-38. ISSN 0885-2308

Byrne, WJ and Gabai, A (2000) Comments on "Efficient training algorithms for HMM's using incremental estimation". IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 8. pp. 751-753. ISSN 1063-6676

Goel, V and Byrne, WJ (2000) Minimum Bayes-risk automatic speech recognition. Computer Speech and Language, 14. pp. 115-135. ISSN 0885-2308

Riley, M and Byrne, W and Finke, M and Khudanpur, S and Ljolje, A and McDonough, J and Nock, H and Saraclar, M and Wooters, C and Zavaliagkos, G (1999) Stochastic pronunciation modelling from hand-labelled phonetic corpora. Speech Communication, 29. pp. 209-224. ISSN 0167-6393

Young, SJ and Woodland, PC and Byrne, WJ (1994) Spontaneous speech recognition for the credit card corpus using the HTK toolkit. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2. pp. 615-621. ISSN 1063-6676

Byrne, WJ (1992) Alternating minimization and Boltzmann machine learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 3. pp. 612-620. ISSN 1045-9227

Byrne, WJ and Zapp, R and Flynn, P and Siegel, M (1986) Adaptive filter processing in microwave remote heart monitors. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 33. pp. 717-722. ISSN 0018-9294

Book Section

Kurimo, M and Virpioja, S and Turunen, VT and Blackwood, GW and Byrne, WJ (2010) Overview and results of Morpho Challenge 2009. In: Multilingual Information Access Evaluation, 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1 . Springer, pp. 578-597. ISBN 9783642157530

Goel, V and Byrne, WJ (2003) Minimum Bayes-risk automatic speech recognition. In: Pattern Recognition in Speech and Language Processing. The Electrical Engineering and Applied Signal Processing Series . CRC Press. ISBN 0849312329

Byrne, W and Sharma, S (1997) Neurocontrol in sequence recognition. In: Neural Systems for Control. Academic Press, -. ISBN 0125264305

Conference or Workshop Item

Iglesias, G and Allauzen, C and Byrne, W and de Gispert, A and Riley, M (2011) Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Representations. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 1373-1383..

Shannon, M and Zen, H and Byrne, W (2011) The Effect of Using Normalized Models in Statistical Speech Synthesis. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Shannon, SM and Byrne, WJ (2010) Autoregressive clustering for HMM speech synthesis. In: International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Interspeech 2010, 26-9-2010 to 30-9-2010, Makuhari, Japan pp. 829-832..

Blackwood, GW and de Gispert, A and Byrne, WJ (2010) Fluency constraints for minimum Bayes-risk decoding of statistical machine translation lattices. In: The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2010, 23-8-2010 to 27-8-2010, Beijing, China pp. 71-79..

Pino, J and Iglesias, G and de Gispert, A and Blackwood, GW and Byrne, WJ (2010) The CUED HiFST system for the WMT10 translation shared task. In: ACL 2010 Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 15-7-2010 to 16-7-2010, Uppsala, Sweden.

Blackwood, GW and de Gispert, A and Byrne, WJ (2010) Efficient path counting transducers for minimum Bayes-risk decoding of statistical machine translation lattices. In: 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 11-7-2010 to 16-7-2010, Uppsala, Sweden pp. 27-32..

Gibson, M and Hirsimaki, T and Karhila, R and Kurimo, M and Byrne, WJ (2010) Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using two-pass decision tree construction. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP' 10, 14-3-2010 to 19-3-2010, Dallas, Texas pp. 4642-4645..

Shannon, SM and Byrne, WJ (2009) Autoregressive HMMs for speech synthesis. In: 10th International Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2009, 6-9-2009 to 10-9-2009, Brighton, UK.

Brunning, JJJ and de Gispert, A and Byrne, WJ (2009) Context-dependent alignment models for statistical machine translation. In: 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 31-5-2009 to 5-6-2009, Boulder, Colorado, USA pp. 110-118..

Iglesias, G and de Gispert, A and Byrne, WJ (2009) Hierarchical phrase-based translation with weighted finite state transducers. In: 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 31-5-2009 to 5-6-2009, Boulder, Colorado, USA pp. 433-441..

de Gispert, A and Virpioja, S and Kurimo, M and Byrne, WJ (2009) Minimum Bayes risk combination of translation hypotheses from alternative morphological decompositions. In: 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 31-5-2009 to 5-6-2009, Boulder, Colorado, USA pp. 73-76..

Iglesias, G and de Gispert, A and Banga, ER and Byrne, WJ (2009) Rule filtering by pattern for efficient hierarchical translation. In: 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL' 09, 30-3-2009 to 3-4-2009, Athens, Greece pp. 380-388..

Blackwood, GW and de Gispert, A and Brunning, JJJ and Byrne, WJ (2008) Large-scale statistical machine translation with weighted finite state transducers. In: FSMNLP 2008 Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing 7th International Workshop, 11-9-2008 to 12-9-2008, Ispra, Lago Maggiore, Italy.

Blackwood, GW and de Gispert, A and Byrne, WJ (2008) Phrasal segmentation models for statistical machine translation. In: Coling 2008: 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 18-8-2008 to 22-8-2008, Manchester UK.

Blackwood, GW and de Gispert, A and Brunning, JJJ and Byrne, WJ (2008) European language translation with weighted finite state transducers: the CUED MT system. In: ACL 2008 Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 19-6-2008 to --, Columbus, Ohio pp. 131-135..

Sim, KC and Byrne, WJ and Gales, MJF and Sahbi, H and Woodland, PC (2007) Consensus network decoding for statistical machine translation system combination. In: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP'07, 15-4-2007 to 20-4-2007, Honolulu, HI, US pp. 105-108..

Liu, XA and Byrne, WJ and Gales, MJF and de Gispert, A and Tomalin, M and Woodland, PC and Yu, K (2007) Discriminative language model adaptation for Mandarin broadcast speech transcription and translation. In: 2007 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU2007), 9-12-2007 to 13-12-2007, Kyoto, Japan pp. 153-158..

Liu, XA and Byrne, WJ and Gales, MJF and De Gispert, A and Tomalin, M and Woodland, PC and Yu, K (2007) Discriminative language model adaptation for Mandarin broadcast speech transcription and translation. In: UNSPECIFIED pp. 153-158..

Mathias, L and Byrne, W (2006) Statistical phrase-based speech translation. In: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP'06, 14-5-2006 to 19-5-2006, Toulouse, France pp. 105-108..

Byrne, W (2006) Minimum Bayes risk estimation and decoding in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. In: Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan, Session on Statistical Modelling for Speech Processing, -3-2006 to --, Japan pp. 105-108..

Tsakalidis, S and Byrne, WJ (2005) Acoustic training from heterogeneous data sources: experiments in Mandarin conversational telephone speech transcription. In: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 18-3-2005 to 23-3-2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA pp. 461-464..

Venkataramani, V and Byrne, WJ (2005) Lattice segmentation and support vector machines for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. In: The IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 18-3-2005 to 23-3-2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA pp. 817-820..

Deng, Y and Byrne, WJ (2005) HMM word and phrase alignment for statistical machine translation. In: Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP'05), -10-2005 to --, Vancouver, Canada pp. 169-176..

Kumar, S and Byrne, WJ (2005) Local phrase reordering models for statistical machine translation. In: Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP'05), -10-2005 to --, Vancouver, Canada pp. 161-168..

Psutka, J and Ircing, P and Psutka, JV and Hajic, J and Byrne, WJ and Mirovsky, J (2005) Automatic transcription of Czech, Russian, and Slovak spontaneous speech in the MALACH project. In: The 9th European Conference on Speech Communciation and Technology (EUROSPEECH/INTERSPEECH), --2005 to --, Lisbon, Portugal pp. 1349-1352..

Kumar, S and Byrne, WJ (2004) Minimum Bayes-risk decoding for statistical machine translation. In: The Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL'04), 2-5-2004 to 7-5-2004 pp. 169-176..

Psutka, J and Hajic, J and Byrne, WJ (2004) The development of ASR for Slavic languages in the MALACH project. In: The 29th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP'04, 17-5-2004 to 21-5-2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada pp. 749-752..

Psutka, J and Ircing, P and Hajic, J and Radova, V and Psutka, JV and Byrne, WJ and Gustman, S (2004) Issues in annotation of the Czech spontaneous speech corpus in the MALACH project. In: The 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, -5-2004 to --, Lisbon, Portugal pp. 607-610..

Doumpiotis, V and Byrne, WJ (2004) Pinched lattice minimum Bayes risk discriminative training for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. In: INTERSPEECH 2004: the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), 4-10-2004 to 8-10-2004 pp. 1717-1720..

Shafran, I and Byrne, WJ (2004) Task-specific minimum Bayes-risk decoding using learned edit distance. In: INTERSPEECH 2004: the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), 4-10-2004 to 8-10-2004 pp. 1945-1948..

Byrne, W (2004) Minimum Bayes risk estimation and decoding in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. In: ATR Workshop "Beyond HMMs", --2004 to --, Japan pp. 105-108..

Psutka, J and Iljuchin, I and Ircing, P and Psutka, JV and Trejbal, V and Byrne, WJ and Hajic, J and Gustman, S (2003) Building LVCSR system for transcription of spontaneously pronounced Russian testimonies in the MALACH project: initial steps and first results. In: The 6th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD'03), -9-2003 to -- pp. 327-332..

Byrne, W and Khudanpur, W and Kim, S and Kumar, S and Pecina, P and Virga, P and Xu, P and Yarowsky, D (2003) The John-Hopkins University 2003 Chinese-English machine translation system. In: 9th Machine Translation Summit of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, -9-2003 to --, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Psutka, J and Ircing, P and Psutka, JV and Radova, V and Byrne, WJ and Hajic, J and Mirovsky, J and Gustman, S (2003) Large vocabulary ASR for spontaneous Czech in the MALACH project. In: The 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology; EUROSPEECH'03; Vol. 3, -9-2003 to -- pp. 1821-1824..

Doumpiotis, V and Tsakalidis, S and Byrne, WJ (2003) Lattice segmentation and minimum Bayes risk discriminative training. In: The 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology; EUROSPEECH'03; Vol. 3, -9-2003 to -- pp. 1985-1988..

Psutka, J and Ircing, P and Psutka, JV and Radova, V and Byrne, WJ and Hajic, J and Gustman, S (2003) Towards automatic transcription of spontaneous Czech speech in the MALACH project. In: The 6th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD'03), -9-2003 to -- pp. 214-219..

Oard, D and Doermann, D and Dorr, B and He, D and Resnik, P and Weinberg, A and Byrne, WJ and Khudanpur, S and Yarowsky, D and Leuski, A and Koehn, P and Knight, K (2003) Desparately seeking Cebuano. In: The 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL'03), -5-2003 to --.

Kolak, O and Byrne, WJ and Resnik, P (2003) A generative probabilistic OCR model for NLP applications. In: The 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL'03), -5-2003 to -- pp. 55-62..

Kumar, S and Byrne, WJ (2003) A weighted finite state transducer implementation of the alignment template model for statistical machine translation. In: The 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL'03), -5-2003 to -- pp. 63-70..

Ikeno, A and Pellom, B and Cer, D and Thornton, A and Brenier, JM and Jurafsky, D and Ward, W and Byrne, W (2003) Issues in recognition of spanish-accented spontaneous english. In: ISCA and IEEE workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, 13-4-2003 to 16-4-2003, Tokyo, Japan MAP7-..

Doumpiotis, V and Tsakalidis, S and Byrne, WJ (2003) Discriminative training for segmental minimum Bayes-risk decoding. In: The 28th IEEE International Conference on International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP); Vol. 1: Speech Processing, -4-2003 to -- pp. 136-139..

Venkataramani, V and Chakrabartty, SA and Byrne, WJ (2003) Support vector machines for segmental minimum Bayes risk decoding of continuous speech. In: The IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, -11-2003 to -- pp. 13-18..

Li, A and Zheng, F and Byrne, WJ and Fung, P and Kamm, T and Liu, Y and Song, Z and Ruhi, U and Venkataramani, V and Chen, XX (2002) CASS: A phonetically transcribed corpus of Mandarin spontaneous speech. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 485-488..

Goel, V and Kumar, S and Byrne, WJ (2002) Confidence based lattice segmentation and minimum Bayes-risk decoding. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 2569-2572..

Gunawardana, A and Byrne, WJ (2002) Convergence of DLLR rapid speaker adaptation algorithms. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 45-48..

Byrne, WJ and Gunawardana, A (2002) Discounted likelihood linear regression for rapid adaptation. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 203-206..

Tsakalidis, S and Doumpiotis, V and Byrne, WJ (2002) Discriminative linear transforms for feature normalization and speaker adaptation in HMM estimation. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 2585-2588..

Gunawardana, A and Byrne, WJ (2002) Discriminative speaker adaptation with conditional maximum likelihood linear regression. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 1203-1206..

Goel, V and Byrne, WJ and Khudanpur, S (2002) LVCSR rescoring with modified loss functions: a decision theoretic perspective. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 425-428..

Ward, W and Krech, H and Yu, X and Herold, K and Figgs, G and Ikeno, A and Jurafsky, D and Byrne, WJ (2002) Lexicon adaptation for LVCSR: speaker idiosyncracies, non-native speakers, and pronunciation choice. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language Technology, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado, USA.

Byrne, WJ and Venkataramani, V (2002) MLLR adaptation techniques for pronunciation modeling. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 421-424..

Kumar, S and Byrne, WJ (2002) Minimum Bayes-risk word alignments of bilingual texts. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 140-147..

Vergyri, D and Tsakalidis, S and Byrne, WJ (2002) Minimum risk acoustic clustering for multilingual acoustic model combination. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 873-876..

Zheng, F and Song, Z and Fung, P and Byrne, WJ (2002) Modeling pronunciation variation using context-dependent weighting and B/S refined acoustic modeling. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 57-60..

Ircing, P and Krbec, P and Hajic, J and Psutka, J and Khudanpur, S and Jelinek, F and Byrne, WJ (2002) On large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of highly inflectional language - Czech. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 487-490..

McDonough, J and Kumar, S and Byrne, WJ (2002) On the incremental addition of regression classes for speaker adaptation. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 1539-1542..

Zheng, F and Song, Z and Fung, P and Byrne, WJ (2002) Reducing pronunciation lexicon confusion and using more data without phonetic transcription for pronunciation modeling. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 2461-2164..

Kumar, S and Byrne, WJ (2002) Risk based lattice cutting for segmental minimum Bayes-risk decoding. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 373-376..

Gunawardana, A and Byrne, WJ (2002) Robust estimation for rapid adaptation using discounted likelihood techniques. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 985-988..

Goel, V and Kumar, S and Byrne, WJ (2002) Segmental minimum Bayes-risk ASR voting strategies. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 139-142..

McDonough, J and Byrne, WJ (2002) Single-pass adapted training with all-pass transforms. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 2737-2740..

McDonough, J and Byrne, WJ and Luo, X (2002) Speaker normalization with all-pass transforms. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA.

Goel, V and Byrne, WJ (2002) Task dependent loss functions in speech recognition: A-star search over recognition lattices. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 1243-1246..

Goel, V and Byrne, WJ (2002) Task dependent loss functions in speech recognition: application to named entity extraction. In: ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language, Session II, 14-9-2002 to 15-9-2002, Estes Park, Colorado USA pp. 49-53..

Psutka, J and Ircing, P and Psutka, JV and Radova, V and Byrne, WJ and Hajic, J and Gustman, S and Ramabhadran, B (2002) Automatic transcription of Czech language oral history in the MALACH project: resources and initial experiments. In: The 5th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue Conference, -9-2002 to -- pp. 253-260..

Oard, DW and Demner Fushman, D and Hajic, J and Ramabhadran, B and Gustman, S and Byrne, WJ and Soergel, D and Dorr, B and Resnik, P and Picheny, M (2002) Automatic transcription of Czech language oral history in the MALACH project: resources and initial experiments. In: The 5th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue Conference, -9-2002 to -- pp. 57-64..

Gustman, S and Soergel, D and Oard, D and Byrne, W and Picheny, M and Ramabhadran, B and Greenberg, D (2002) Supposting access to large digital oral history archives. In: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 14-7-2002 to 18-7-2002, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Byrne, WJ and Beyerlein, P and Huerta, J and Khudanpur, S and Marthi, B and Morgan, J and Peterek, N and Picone, J and Vergyri, D and Wang, W (2000) Towards language independent acoustic modeling. In: International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, -6-2000 to --, Istanbul, Turkey pp. 1029-1032..

Byrne, WJ and Hajič, J and Ircing, P and Jelinek, S and Khudanpur, S and McDonough, J and Peterek, N and Psutka, J (1999) Large vocabulary speech recognition for read and broadcast Czech. In: 2nd Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD’99), 13-9-1999 to 17-9-1999, Plzen and Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic pp. 235-240..

Byrne, W and Gunawardana, A (1999) Convergence of EM variants. In: IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 15-3-1999 to 19-3-1999, Phoenix, Arizona p.64-..

McDonough, JW and Byrne, WJ (1999) Speaker adaptation with all-pass transforms. In: The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), -3-1999 to -- pp. 757-760..

Byrne, W and Beyerlein, P and Huerta, S and Khudanpur, S and Marthi, B and Morgan, J and Peterek, J and Picone, J and Vergyri, D and Wang, W (1999) Towards language independent acoustic modelling. In: IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 12-12-1999 to 15-12-1999, Keystone, Colorado, USA.

Byrne, W and Finke, M and Khunanpur, S and Ljolje, A and McDonough, J and Nock, H and Riley, M and Saraclar, M and Wooters, C and Zavaliagkos, G (1998) Pronunciation modelling using a hand-labelled corpus for conversational speech recognition. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol.1: Speech Processing, 4-5-1998 to 6-5-1998, Seattle; WA pp. 313-316..

Byrne, W and Finke, M and Khunanpur, S and McDonough, J and Nock, H and Riley, M and Saraclar, M and Wooters, C and Zavaliagkos, G (1998) Pronunciation modelling using a hand-labelled corpus for conversational speech recognition. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol.1: Speech Processing, 12-5-1998 to 15-5-1998, Seattle, WA, USA pp. 313-316..

Byrne, W and Khudanpur, S and Knodt, E and Bernstein, J (1998) Is automatic speech recognition ready for non-native speech? A data collection effort and initial experiments in modelling conversational Hispanic English. In: ESCA-ITR Workshop on Speech Technology in Language Learning, -5-1998 to --, Marholmen, Sweden pp. 37-40..

Byrne, WJ and Finke, M and Khudanpur, S and McDonough, J and Nock, H and Riley, M and Saraclar, M and Wooters, C and Zavaliagkos, G (1997) Pronunciation modelling for conversational speech recognition: a status report from WS97. In: IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, -12-1997 to --, Santa Barbara, CA, USA pp. 26-33..

Byrne, WJ (1996) Information geometry and maximum likelihood criteria. In: 30th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, -3-1996 to --, Princeton, NJ, USA pp. 1043-1048..

Byrne, WJ and Robinson, J and Shamma, S (1989) The auditory processing and recognition of speech. In: Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language Workshop, 15-10-1989 to 18-10-1989, Cape Code, Massachusetts pp. 325-331..

Byrne, WJ and Zapp, R and Flynn, P and Siegel, M (1985) Adaptive filtering in microwave remote heart monitors. In: 7th Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Frontiers of Engineering and Computing in Health Care, 27-9-1985 to 30-9-1985, Chicago, IL, USA pp. 1985-33..

Monograph

Venkataramani, V and Byrne, WJ (2006) Sub-problem selection for acoustic code-breaking. Technical Report. Cambridge University Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK.

Other

Young, SJ and Woodland, PC and Byrne, WJ (1993) HTK V1.5: User, Reference and Programmer Manuals. Cambridge University Engineering Department and Entropic Cambridge Research Laboratory, Cambridge.

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