We introduce the Line Search A-Function (LSAF) technique that generalizes the Extended-Baum Welch technique in order to provide an effective optimization technique for a broader s...
Dimitri Kanevsky, David Nahamoo, Tara N. Sainath, ...
Gradient boosting is a flexible machine learning technique that produces accurate predictions by combining many weak learners. In this work, we investigate its use in two applica...
Bin Zhang, Abhinav Sethy, Tara N. Sainath, Bhuvana...
In this paper, we extend our previous study on discriminative training using non-uniform criteria for speech recognition. The work will put emphasis on how the acoustic modeling i...
In spoken language processing, considerable research has been accomplished on language identi cation. Singing language identi cation is an important yet challenging area that has ...
This paper is about a curious phenomenon. Suppose we have a data matrix, which is the superposition of a low-rank component and a sparse component. Can we recover each component i...