Izhak Shafran
Before joining Google, he was a faculty member for 8 years in the Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) – part of what used to be the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI). Before that, he was in the Speech Algorithms Department at AT&T Labs - Research from 2001–2003 and a research faculty at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) at the Johns Hopkins University from 2003-2006. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington Seattle in 2001.
Google Publications
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Reducing the Computational Complexity of Multimicrophone Acoustic Models with Integrated Feature Extraction
Tara N. Sainath, Arun Narayanan, Ron J. Weiss, Ehsan Variani, Kevin W. Wilson, Michiel Bacchiani, Izhak Shafran
Proc. Interspeech, ISCA (2016) (to appear)
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Context dependent phone models for LSTM RNN acoustic modelling
Andrew W. Senior, Hasim Sak, Izhak Shafran
ICASSP (2015), pp. 4585-4589
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Discriminative pronunciation modeling for dialectal speech recognition
Maider Lehr, Kyle Gorman, Izhak Shafran
Proc. Interspeech (2014) (to appear)
Previous Publications
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Applications of Lexicographic Semirings to Problems in Speech and Language Processing
Richard Sproat, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Izhak Shafran, Brian Roark
Computational Linguistics, vol. 40 (2014)
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Continuous Space Discriminative Language Modeling
Puyang Xu, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Maider Lehr, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Nathan Glenn, Damianos Karakos, Brian Roark, Kenji Sagae, Murat Saraclar, Izhak Shafran, Dan Bikel, Chris Callison-Burch, Yuan Cao, Keith Hall, Eva Hasler, Philipp Koehn, Adam Lopez, Matt Post, Darcey Riley
ICASSP 2012
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Hallucinated N-Best Lists for Discriminative Language Modeling
Kenji Sagae, Maider Lehr, Emily Tucker Prud’hommeaux, Puyang Xu, Nathan Glenn, Damianos Karakos, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Brian Roark, Murat Saraçlar, Izhak Shafran, Daniel M. Bikel, Chris Callison-Burch, Yuan Cao, Keith Hall, Eva Hassler, Philipp Koehn, Adam Lopez, Matt Post, Darcey Riley
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (2012)
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Semi-supervised discriminative language modeling for Turkish ASR
Arda Çelebi, Hasim Sak, Erinç Dikici, Murat Saraclar, Maider Lehr, Emily Tucker Prud'hommeaux, Puyang Xu, Nathan Glenn, Damianos Karakos, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Brian Roark, Kenji Sagae, Izhak Shafran, Daniel M. Bikel, Chris Callison-Burch, Yuan Cao, Keith B. Hall, Eva Hasler, Philipp Koehn, Adam Lopez, Matt Post, Darcey Riley
ICASSP (2012), pp. 5025-5028
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Corrective Models for Speech Recognition of Inflected Languages
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, Australia, pp. 390-398
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A Comparison of Classifiers for Detecting Emotion from Speech
ICASSP (1) (2005), pp. 341-344
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A Comparison of Classifiers for Detecting Emotion from Speech
Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Voice Signatures
Izhak Shafran, Michael Riley, Mehryar Mohri
Proceedings of The 8th IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2003), St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands














