Steven Greenberg

International Computer Science Institute
1947 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
steveng@icsi.berkeley.edu

 

 


LIS (Learning and Intellegence Systems Initialtive) web site.

Prosodic Stress transcription web site.  (download or view examples)

Switchboard Transcription Project (STP) web site

Sound files for the exceedingly sparse spectral representation (Eurospeech 1999)

PASTA page with PDF files for the meeting.

Phoneval site
 

PUBLICATIONS (1994-2003) (Click the link to download the file in .pdf format or 'Postscript' for the postscript version)

2003

Chang, S. and Greenberg, S. (2003) Application of fuzzy-integration-based multiple-information aggregation in automatic speech recognition, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Integration Processing, Beijing, in press.

Chang, S. and Greenberg, S. (2003) Syllable-proximity evaluation in automatic speech recognition using fuzzy measures and a fuzzy integral. Proceedings of the IEEE Fuzzy Systems Conference, St. Louis, in press.

Greenberg, S., Carvey, H, Hitchcock, L. and Chang, S. (2003) The phonetic patterning of spontaneous American English discourse. Proceedings of the ISCA and IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition, Tokyo, in press.
 

2002

Papers
Greenberg, S. (2002) From here to utility - Melding phonetic insight with speech technology, to appear in  Integrating Phonetic Knowledge with Speech Technology, W. Barry and W. Domelen (eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Greenberg, S., Carvey, H.M. and Hitchcock, L. (2002) The relation of stress accent to pronunciation variation in spontaneous American English discourse, To appear in the Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Prosody and Speech Processing.

Greenberg, S., Carvey, H.M., Hitchcock, L. and Chang, S. (2002) Beyond the phoneme - A juncture-accent model of spoken language, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, pp. 36-44.

Greenberg, S., Carvey, H.M., Hitchcock, L. and Chang, S. (2002) Temporal properties of spontaneous speech - A syllable-centric perspective, submitted to Journal of Phonetics (based on a presentation at the ISCA Workshop on Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech, Aix-en-Provence, April 5, 2002.
 

Presentations (Powerpoint Format)
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Greenberg, S., Carvey, H., Hitchcock, L. and Chang, S. (2002) Beyond the Phoneme: A Juncture-Accent Model of Spoken Language. Presented at the Human Language Technology Conference, San Diego, March 25, 2002.

Greenberg, S. (2002) Time Frames of Spoken Language. ISCA Workshop on Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech, Aix-en-Provence, April 10, 2002.

Greenberg, S., Carvey, H., Hitchcock, L. and Chang, S. (2002) The Relation of Stress Accent to Pronunciation Variation in Spontaneous American English Discourse. ISCA Workshop on Speech Prosody 2002, Aix-en-Provence, April 11, 2002.
 

2001
 

Papers

Chang, S., Greenberg, S. and Wester, M.  (2001)  An elitist approach to articulatory-acoustic feature classification.  Proceedings of the 7th Eurospeech Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech-2001), pp. 1725-1728.

Chang, S., Shastri, L. and Greenberg, S. (2001)  Robust phonetic feature extraction under a wide range of noise backgrounds and signal-to-noise ratios .  Proceedings of the Workshop on Consistent and Reliable Acoustic Cues for Sound Analysis, Aalborg, Denmark, 2001.

Chang, S., Wester, M. and Greenberg, S. (2001) An elitist approach to automatic  articulatory-acoustic feature classification for phonetic characterization of spoken language, submitted for review.

Grant, K.W. and Greenberg, S., (2001)  Speech intelligibility derived from asynchrounous processing of auditory-visual information.   Proceedings of the Audio-visual Speech Processsing Workshop (AVSP-2001),

Greenberg, S., (2001)  From here to utility ? Melding phonetic insight with speech technology.  Proceedings of the 7th Eurospeech Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech-2001), pp. 2485-2488.

Greenberg, S., (2001) Whither speech technology?  ? A twenty-first century perspective.  Proceedings of the 7th Eurospeech Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech-2001), pp. 3-6.

Greenberg, S. and Arai, T.  (2001)  The relation between speech intelligibility and the complex modulation spectrum.  Proceedings of the 7th Eurospeech Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech-2001), pp. 473-476.

Greenberg, S., Chang, S. and Hitchcock, L. (2001) The relation between stress accent and vocalic identity in spontaneous American English discourse. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, pp. 51-56.

Hitchcock, L., and Greenberg, G.  (2001)  Vowel height is intimately associated with stress accent in spontaneous American English discourse. Proceedings of the 7th Eurospeech Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech-2001), pp. 79-82.

Wester, M., Greenberg, S. and Chang, S.  (2001)  A Dutch treatment of an elitist approach to articulatory-acoustic feature classification.  Proceedings of the 7th Eurospeech Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech-2001), pp. 1729-1732.

Presentations (Powerpoint Format)
You may have to shift-click to download

Greenberg, S. (2001) What are the Essential cues for Understanding Spoken Language?   Presented at the 141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL, June 5, 2001.

Greenberg, S., (2001)  From Here to Utility  -  Melding Phonetic Insight with Speech Technology.  Presented at the Eurospeech Special Event on Integrating Phonetic Knowledge with Speech Technology (Eurospeech-2001), September 7, 2001.

Greenberg, S., Chang, S. and Wester, M. (2001) An Elitist Approach to Articulatory-Acoustic Feature Classification in English and in Dutch. Presented at the Eurospeech Special Event on Corpora ? Present and Future (Eurospeech-2001), September 6, 2001.

Greenberg, S. and Chang, S. (2001)  Phonetic Dissection of the Switchboard Corpus Automatic Speech Recognition Systems. Presented at the NIST Workshop on Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR), Linthicum Heights, MD, May 4, 2001.

Greenberg, S. and Hitchcock, H. (2001) Stress-Accent and Vowel Quality in the Switchboard Corpus, presented at the Workshop on Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR), Linthicum Heights, MD, May 4, 2001.
 
 

2000

Chang, S., Shastri, L. and Greenberg, G.  (2000)   Automatic phonetic transcription of spentaneous speech (American English) Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, 2000.

Greenberg, S. (2000)  Understanding spoken language using statistical and computational methods, Patterns of Speech Sounds in Unscripted Communication -Production, Perception, Phonology.  Akademie Sankelmark, October 8-11, 2000

Greenberg, S. and Chang, S. (2000)  Linguistic dissection of switchboard-corpus automatic speech recognition systems, Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition: Challenges for the New Millennium,  Paris, 2000.  Power Point presentation.

Greenberg, S., Chang, S. and Hollenback, J. (2000) An introduction to the diagnostic evaluation of the Switchboard-corpus automatic speech recognition systems. Proceedings of the NIST Speech Transcription Workshop, College Park, MD, May 16-19, 2000.

Greenberg, S. and Fosler-Lussier, E. (2000) The uninvited guest: Information's  role in guiding the production of spontaneous speech, in the Proceedings  of the Crest Workshop on Models of Speech Production: Motor  Planning and Articulatory Modelling, Kloster  Seeon, Germany (May 1-4, 2000).   (Postscript)

Silipo, R. and Greenberg, S. (2000) Prosodic stress revisited: Reassessing the fole of fundamental frequency. Proceedings of the NIST Speech Transcription Workshop, College Park, MD, May 16-19, 2000.



1999

Fosler-Lussier, E.,  Greenberg, S., and Morgan, N. (1999) Incorporating Contextual Phonetics Into Automatic Speech Recognition.  invited paper for Plenary Session "The Phonetics of Spontaneous Speech," ICPhS-99, San Francisco, CA, August 1999.   (Postscript)

Greenberg, S. (1999) Speaking in shorthand - A syllable-centric perspective for  understanding pronunciation variation, in Speech Communication v. 29 (1999) pp. 159-176

Shastri, L. Chang, S. and Greenberg, S. (1999) Syllable Detection and Segmentation Using Temporal Flow Neural Networks.   Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, August 1999.

Silipo, R. and Greenberg, S.  (1999) Automatic Transcription of Prosodic Stress for Spontaneous English Discourse.  "The Phonetics of Spontaneous Speech," ICPhS-99, San Francisco, CA, August 1999.

Silipo, R., Greenberg, S and Arai, T.  (1999) Temporal Constraints on Speech Intelligibility as Deduced from Exceedingly Sparse Spectral Representations, proceedings of Eurospeech 1999, Budapest, in press.
    Accompanying sound files.


1998

Arai, T. and Greenberg, S. (1998) Speech intelligibility in the presence of cross-channel spectral asynchrony,  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seatle, pp. 933-936.

Greenberg, S. (1998) In search of the Unicorn: Where is the invariance in speech?   Commentary on Sussman, H. Fruchter,  D., Hilbert, J. and Sirosh, J. Linear correlates in the speech signal: the orderly output constraint. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 21, 267-268.

Greenberg, S. (1998) Recognition in a new key - Towards a science of spoken langauge, in ICASSP98, Internantional Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle, pp. 1041-1045.

Greenberg, S. (1998) Speaking in shorthand - A syllable-centric perspective for  understanding pronunciation variation, Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for Automatic Speech Recognition, Kekrade (Netherlands), pp. 47-56.

Greenberg, S. (1998) A syllable-centric framework for the evolution of spoken language. Commentary on MacNeilage, P.  The frame/content theory of evolution of speech production. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, in press.

Greenberg, S. and Arai, T. (1998) Speech intelligibility is highly tolerant of cross-channel spectral asynchrony. Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Internatioal Congress on Acoustics, Seattle, pp. 2677-2678.

Greenberg, S., Arai, T. and Silipo, R. (1998) Speech intelligibility derived from exceedingly sparse spectral information, Proceedingss of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, in press.

Greenberg, S., Poeppel. D. and Roberts, T. (1998) A space-time theory of pitch and timbre based on cortical expansion of the cochlear traveling wave delay, in Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing,  A. Palmer, Q. Summerfield, A. Rees, R. Meddis (eds.) London: Whurr Publishers, pp. 293-300.

Greenberg, S. and Slaney, M. (editors) (1998) Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computational Hearing, Il Ciocco (Italy).

Kingsbury, B., Morgan, N. and Greenberg, S. (1998) Robust speech recognition using the modulation spectrogram, Speech Communication,   25, 117-132.

Wu, S.-L., Kingsbury, B., Morgan, N. and Greenberg, S. (1998) Incorporating information from syllable-length time scales into automatic speech recognition,  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seatlte, pp. 721-724.

Wu, S.-L., Kingsbury, B., Morgan, N. and Greenberg, S. (1998) Performance improvements through combining phone- and syllable-length information in automatic speech recognition, Proceedingss of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, in press.


1997

Arai. T.  and Greenberg, S. (1997) Speech intelligibility in the presence of cross- channel spectral asynchrony. Submitted to IEEE ICASSP.

Arai, T. and Greenberg, S. (1997) The temporal properties of spoken Japanese are similar to those of English, Proceedings of Eurospeech, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 1011-1014.

Greenberg, S. (1997) Auditory function, in Encyclopedia of Acoustics,, M. Crocker, editor. New York: John Wiley, pp. 1301-1323.

Greenberg, S. (1997) On the origins of speech intelligibility in the real world,   Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Robust Speech Recognition for Unknown Communication Channels, Pont-a-Mousson, France, pp. 23-32.

Greenberg, S. (1997) The significance of the cochlear traveling wave for theories of frequency analysis and pitch, in Diversity of Auditory Mechanics, E. R. Lewis and C. Steele, eds. Singapore: World Scientific Press, in press.

Greenberg, S. (1997) The Switchboard Transcription Project in Research Report #24, 1996 Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Summer Research Workshop Technical Report Series. Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (56 pp.).

Greenberg, S. and Kingsbury, B. (1997) The modulation spectrogram: In pursuit of an invariant representation of speech, in ICASSP-97, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Munich, pp. 1647- 1650.

Greenberg, S. and Shire, M. (1997) Temporal factors in speech perception, in CSRE-based Teaching Modules for Courses in Speech and Hearing Sciences. London, Ontario: AVAAZ Innovations, pp. 91-106.

Kingsbury, B., Morgan, N. and Greenberg, S. (1997) Improving ASR performance for reverberant speech, in Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Robust Speech Recognition for Unknown Communication Channels, Pont-a-Mousson, France, pp.  87-90.

Wu, S-L., Shire, M., Greenberg, S. and Morgan, N. (1997) Integrating syllable boundary information into speech recognition, in ICASSP-97, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Munich, pp. 987-990.


1996

Greenberg, S. (1996) Auditory processing of speech, in Principles of Experimental  Phonetics, N. Lass, editor. St. Louis: Mosby, pp. 362-407.

Greenberg, S. (1996) In praise of imprecision: Insight into spoken language gleaned from phonetic transcription of spoken language. Proceedings of the 1996 CLSP/JHU Workshop on Innovative Techniques for Large Vocabulary Continous Speech Recognition. Center for Language and Speech Processing, Baltimore, MD.

Greenberg, S. (1996) Understanding speech understanding - towards a unified theory of speech perception. Proceedings of the ESCA Tutorial and Advanced Research Workshop on the Auditory Basis of Speech Perception, Keele, England, p. 1-8.

Greenberg, S., Hollenback, J. and Ellis, D. (1996) Insights into spoken language gleaned from phonetic transcription of the Switchboard corpus,  in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language (ICSLP), Philadelphia, S24-27.

Rhode, W S, Greenberg, S. (1996) Coding of noise-embedded spectro-temporal information in the cochlear nucleus, in W. A. Ainsworth, C. Hackney and E. F. Evans, (ed.), Cochlear Nucleus: Structure and Function in Relation to Modelling. (Advances in Speech, Hearing and Language Procedssing, Vol. 3 (a)), JAI Press, London, pp. 169-191


1995
Greenberg, S. (1995) The ears have it: The auditory basis of speech perception, in the Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Vol. 3, pp. 34-41.

Hermansky, H., Greenberg, S., and Pavel, M.  (1995) A brief (100-200 ms) history of time in feature extraction from speech, Proceedings of the 15th Speech Research Symposium, Baltimore, MD, pp. 168-174.

Morgan, N., Bourlard, H., Greenberg, S., and Hermansky, H. (1995) Stochastic perceptual models of speech, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 397-400.


1994

Greenberg, S. R. (1994) Review of Visual Representations of Speech Signals, edited by M. Cooke, S. Beet and  M. Crawford. The Physiologist, 37: 308-309.

Greenberg, S. R. (1994) Speech processing: Auditory models, in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, R. E. Asher, editor.  Oxford: Pergamon, pp. 4206-4227.

Morgan, N., Bourlard, H., Greenberg, S. and Hermansky, H. (1994) Stochastic perceptual auditory-event-based models for speech recognition. Proceedings of the International Congress on Spoken Language Processing, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 1943-1946.

Rhode, W. S. and Greenberg, S. R. (1994) Encoding of amplitude modulation in the cochlear nucleus of the cat. Journal of Neurophysiology 71: 1797-1825.

Rhode, W. S. and Greenberg, S. R. (1994)  Lateral suppression and inhibition in the cochlear nucleus of the cat. Journal of Neurophysiology 71: 493-519.
 



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