Refereed Journal Articles

S. A. Zahorian, D. Summerville, S. Craver, M. Elmore, “ACTS—An ABET Compliance Tracking System for Assessing Student Outcomes,” Computers in Education Journal, Vol 3, No 2, pages 49-58, April-June 2012.

S. A. Zahorian, A. J. Zuckerwar, and M. Karnjanadecha, “Dual Transmission Model of the Fetal Heart Sounds,” Elsevier Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, COMM3323, 10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.12.006, January 28, 2012.

Stephen A. Zahorian and Hongbing Hu, "A Spectral/temporal method for Robust Fundamental Frequency Tracking," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123 (6), June 2008.

Montri Karjanadecha and Stephen Zahorian, "Signal Modeling for High-Performance Isolated Word Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing , Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 647-654, September 2001.

S. A. Zahorian, W. Swart, V. Lakdawala, J. Leathrum, O. González, "A Modular Approach to using Computer Technology for Education and Training," International Journal of Computer Aided Manufacturing, Vol. 13, pp. 286-297, May-June 2000.

S. A. Zahorian and Z. B. Nossair, "A Partitioned Neural Network Approach for Vowel Classification Using Smoothed Time/Frequency Features," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing , Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 414-425, July 1999.

Weinstein, S. Zahorian, and V. Zue, "The Challenge of Spoken Language Systems: Research Directions for the Nineties," IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing , Vol. 3, pp. 1-21, January 1995.

S. A. Zahorian and A. J. Jagharghi, "Spectral-Shape Features Versus Formants as Acoustic Correlates for Vowels," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. , Vol. 94-4, pp. 1966-1982, October 1993.

S. A. Zahorian and A. J. Jaghurghi (1992). "Minimum Mean-Square Error Transformations of Categorical Data to Target Positions," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing , 40-1, pp. 13-23.

S. A. Zahorian and A. J. Jagharghi (1991). "Speaker Normalization of Static and Dynamic Vowel Spectral Features," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. , 90-1, 67-75.

Z. B. Nossair and S. A. Zahorian (1991). "Dynamic Spectral Shape Features as Acoustic Correlates for Initial Stop Consonants," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. , 89-6, 2978-2991.

Z. A. Zahorian and M. Rothenberg (1981). "Principal Components Analysis for Low Redundancy Encoding of Speech Spectra," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. , 69, 832-845.

M. Rothenberg, R. Verillo, S. A. Zahorian, M. Brachman and S. Bolanow-ski, Jr. (1977). "Vibrotactile Frequency for Encoding a Speech Parameter," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. , 62, 1003-1012.

Refereed National/International Proceedings

M. Karnjanadecha, S. A. Zahorian, “Toward an Optimum Feature Set and HMM Model Parameters for Automatic Alignment of Spontaneous Speech,” accepted for September 2012 Interspeech conference.

S. A. Zahorian, J. Wu, M. Karnjanadecha, C. Sekhar Vootkuri, B. Wong, A. Hwang, E. Tokhtamyshev, “Open Source Multi-Language Audio Database for Spoken Language Processing Applications,” Interspeech 2011, August, 2011.

S. A. Zahorian, D. Summerville, S. Craver, and M. Elmore, “ABET Compliance Tracking System (ACTS),” Paper M423, 118th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, June 26-29, 2011.

Hongbing Hu, Stephen A. Zahorian, "Dimensionality Reduction Methods for HMM Phonetic Recognition," Mar. 2010, ICASSP 2010, Dallas, TX

Stephen A. Zahorian, Hongbing Hu, Zhengqing Chen, Jiang Wu, "Spectral and Temporal Modulation Features for Phonetic Recognition," Sep. 2009, Interspeech 2009, Brighton, U.K.

Hongbing Hu, Stephen A. Zahorian, "A Neural Network Based Nonlinear Feature Transformation for Speech Recognition," Sep. 2008, Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.

Stephen A. Zahorian, Tara Singh, Hongbing Hu, "Dimensionality Reduction of Speech Features using Nonlinear Principal Components Analysis," Aug. 2007, Eurospeech, Antwerp, Belgium

Stephen A. Zahorian, Princy Dikshit, Hongbing Hu, "A Spectral-Temporal Method for Pitch Tracking," Sep. 2006, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA

S. Prasad, S. A. Zahorian, "Nonlinear and Linear Transformations of Speech Features to Compensate for Channel and Noise Effects," pp.969-972, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005.

P. Dikshit, S. A. Zahorian and S. Nagulapati, "An Algorithm for Locating Fundamental Frequency Markers in Speech Signals," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pp. I.233-I.236, March 2005.

Stephen A. Zahorian, Mame Sall, Fansheng Meng, and Wei Wang, “Generalization of Support Vector Machines versus Neural Networks for Pattern Classification,” Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks, Volume 14, pp 639-644, Nov 7-10, 2004, St. Louis.

"HMM-Neural Network Monophone Models for Computer-Based Articulation Training for the Hearing Impaired," Mukund Devarajan, Fansheng Meng, Penny Hix, and Stephen A. Zahorian, 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo , v lll, pp. 197-200, July 2003.

"Vowel Classification for Computer-Based Visual Feedback for Speech Training for the Hearing Impaired," Stephen A. Zahorian, A. Mathew Zimmer, Fansheng Meng, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , 973-976, Denver, CO, September 16-20, 2002.

"Yet Another Algorithm for Pitch Tracking," Kavita Kasi and Stephen A. Zahorian, Paper #2294, l-361-364, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing , Orlando , FL , May 13-17, 2002.

"An Instrument for Assessing Knowledge Gain in a First Course in Circuit Theory," Lakdawala, V. K., Zahorian, Stephen A., Gonzalez, Oscar R., Kumar H., Amit, and Leathrum, James F., Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Canada, 2002.

"Question model for Intelligent Questioning Systems in Engineering Education, " Stephen A. Zahorian, Vishnu Lakdawala, Oscar Gonzalez, Scott Starsman, and James F. Leathrum, Proceedings of the 2001 Frontiers in Education Conference, Reno , Nevada , October 10-13, 2001.

"Global Engineering Education: A partnership between Rajagiri College (Cochin, India), and Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA)" Stephen A. Zahorian, Sacharia Albin, William Swart, Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 24-27, 2001.

"Knowledge Maps for Intelligent Questioning Systems in Engineering Education," James Leathrum, Oscar Gonzalez, Vishnu Lakdawala, Stephen A. Zahorian, Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 24-27, 2001.

J. Venugopal, S. A. Zahorian, and M. Karnjanadecha, " Minimum Mean Square Error Spectral Peak Envelope Estimation for Automatic Vowel Classification," Proc.International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , vol. 4, pp. 700-703, Beijing , China , Oct 16-20, 2000.

M. Karnjanadecha and S. A. Zahorian, "An Investigation of Variable Block Length Methods for Calculation of Spectral/Temporal Features for Automatic Speech Recognition," Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , vol. 4, pp. 1053-1056, Beijing , China , Oct 16-20, 2000.

S. A. Zahorian and M. A. Zimmer, "Discriminative and Maximum Likelihood Classifiers for Computer-Based Visual Feedback and Speech Training for the Hearing Impaired," World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2000/ISAS 2000), Vol. VI, Part II, pp. 475-479, Orlando, Florida, July 2000.

S. A. Zahorian, S. Patilkulkarni, M. Karnjanadecha, and C. Brewton, "Speech-to-Text Translation for Indexing and Searching of Audio/Visual Materials for a Digital Library," World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2000/ISAS 2000), Vol. VI, Part II, pp. 415-417, Orlando, Florida, July 2000.

William Swart, Stephen Zahorian, Vishnu Lakdawala, James Leathrum, Oscar González , "A Multi-Use Architecture for Technology-Based Delivery of Curricula, Paper presented at 29 th Annual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Nov 10-13, 1999, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 12c2-12 - 12c2--17.

Stephen A. Zahorian, "Reusable Binary-Paired Partitioned Neural Networks for Text-Independent Speaker Identification," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. II-849-852, March 15-59, 1999.

Montri Karnjanadechi and Stephen A. Zahorian, "Signal Modeling for Isolated Word Recognition," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. II-293-296, March 15-19, 1999.

S. A. Zahorian, A. Zimmer, and B. Dai, "Personal Computer Software Vowel Training Aid for the Hearing Impaired," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing , pp. VI-3625-3628, May 12-15, 1998.

Montri Karnjanadechi and Stephen A. Zahorian, "Robust Feature Extraction for Alphabet Recognition," 5 th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. II-337-340, November 30 - December 4, 1998.

S. A. Zahorian, P. Silsbee and X. Wang, "Phone Classification with Segmental Features and a Binary-Pair Partitioned Neural Network Classifier," ICASSP -97 , Munich , Germany , April 21-23, 1997.

S. Albin , J. Zheng, A. Lavariag, S. A. Zahorian, "A Non-Invasive Fiber Optic Sensor for the Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring," International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, December 9-13, 1996.

Xihong Wang, S. A. Zahorian, Stefan Auberg, "Analysis of Speech Segments Using Variable Spectral Temporal Resolution," ICSLP '96, pp. 1221-1222, Philadelphia, PA, October 3-6, 1996.

X. Wang, S. A. Zahorian, and S. Auberg, "Variable Resolution Spectral/Temporal Features for Speech Segments," ICSLP-96, pp. 1221-1224.

H. L. Cycon, W. Li and S. A. Zahorian, "Stop Consonant Classification Using Wavelet Packet Transforms and Neural Network," Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks , Vol. 5, Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Programming, pp. 733-738, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1995.

C. A. Norton, III and S. A. Zahorian, "Speaker Verification Based on Speaker Position in a Multidimensional Space," Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks , Vol. 5, Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Programming, pp. 739-744, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1995.

B. A. Hawickhorst, S. A. Zahorian, and R. Rajagopal, "A Comparison of Three Neural Network Architectures for Automatic Speech Recognition," Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks , Vol. 5, Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Programming, pp. 221-226, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1995.

Z. B. Nossair, P. L. Silsbee, and S. A. Zahorian, "Signal Modeling Enhancements for Automatic Speech Recognition," ICASSP-95 , Vol. I, pp. 824-827, Detroit , MI , May 1995.

S. A. Zahorian, A. Zhou, and N. Correal, "Comparison of Minimum Misclassification (MME) Networks with Least Mean Square Error (LMS) Networks," ANNIE '94 Conference, and published in Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks , Vol. 4, pp. 191-198, St. Louis, MO, November 1994.

C. A. Norton, III, S. A. Zahorian, and Z. B. Nossair, "The Application of Binary-Pair Partitioned Neural Networks to the Speaker Verification Task," ANNIE '94 Conference, and published in Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks , Vol. 4, pp. 441-446, St. Louis, MO, November 1994.

S. A. Zahorian and Z. B. Nossair, "A Neural Network Clustering Technique for Text-Independent Speaker Identification," ANNIE '94 Conference, and published in Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks , Vol. 4, pp. 453-460, St. Louis, MO, November 1994.

P. L. Silsbee, S. A. Zahorian, and Z. B. Nossair, "A Warped Time-Frequency Expansion for Speech Signal Representation," Proc. IEEE-SP Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis , pp. 636-639, Philadelphia, PA, October 1994.

Z. B. Nossair and S. A. Zahorian, "Smoothed Time-Frequency Features for Vowel Classification," Proc. IEEE-SP International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, pp. 592-595, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , October 1994.

S. A. Zahorian, Z. B. Nossair, and C. A. Norton, "A Partitioned Neural Network Approach for Vowel Classification Using Smoothed Time/Frequency Features," Eurospeech , Vol. 2, pp. 1225-1228, Berlin , Germany , September 1993.

S. A. Zahorian and L. Rudasi, (1993). "Speaker Identification with Partitioned Neural Networks," Proc. IEEE DUAL-USE Technologies and Applications Conference , pp. 189-195, Utica/Roma, New York , May 24-27, 1993.

S. A. Zahorian and L. Rudasi, (1993). "Neural Network Advances for Speaker Identification," Secur Tech/Card Tech Conference Proceedings , April 19, 1993 , Washington , D.C. , pp. 339-349.

L. Rudasi and S. A. Zahorian (1992). "Text Independent Talker Identification Using Binary-Pair Partitioned Neural Networks," International Joint Conference on Neural Networks , Vol. 4, pp. 679-684, Baltimore, MD, June 1992.

S. A. Zahorian, and D. L. Livingston (1992). "Neural Networks for Feature Computations in Automatic Speech Recognition," International Joint Conference on Neural Networks , Vol. 4, pp. 667-672, Baltimore , MD , June 1992.

S. A. Zahorian, S. Kelkar and D. L. Livingston (1992). "Formant Estimation from Cepstral Coefficients Using a Feedforward Memoryless Neural Network," International Joint Conference on Neural Networks , Vol. 4, pp. 673-678, Baltimore , MD , June 1992.

A. E. Beck and S. A. Zahorian (1992). "Transformations of Speech Spectra to a Two-Dimensional Continuous-Valued Phonetic Feature Space for Vowel Training", ICASSP-92 , pp. 241-244, San Francisco , CA , March 1992.

S. A. Zahorian, D. Qian, and A. J. Jagharghi (1991). "Acoustic-Phonetic Transformations for Improved Speaker-Independent Isolated Word Recognition," ICASSP-91 , 561-564.

L. Rudasi and S. A. Zahorian (1991). "Text-Independent Talker Identification with Neural Networks," ICASSP-91 , 389-392.

S. A. Zahorian and S. Venkat (1990). "Vowel Articulation Training Aid for the Deaf," ICASSP-90 , 1121-1124.

S. A. Zahorian and Z. B. Nossair (1990). "Dynamic Spectral Features for Speaker-Independent Automatic Recognition of Stop Consonants," ICASSP-90 , 793-796.

S. A. Zahorian (1988). "Color Display of Vowels as a Speech Articulation Training Aid," conference proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society 10th Annual International Conference, pp 1539-1540.

S. A. Zahorian and P. Gordy (1983). "Finite Impulse Response (FIR) Filters for Speech Analysis and Synthesis," ICASSP-83 , 808-811.

Refereed Regional/Local Proceedings

L. Rudasi and S. A. Zahorian (1991). "Pattern-Recognition Using Neural Networks with a Binary Partitioning Approach, SOUTHEASTCON-91 .

P. J. Berlinsky and S. A. Zahorian (1986). "A Program for Plotting Experimental Data on a Personal Computer," SOUTHEASTCON '86 Proc., 251-254.

S. A. Zaorian, J. S. Stoughton and M. A. Do (1986). "A Laboratory for Designing Digital Systems," SOUTHEASTCON '86 Proc., 246-250.

Technical Reports

"Commercialization and Industrial Development for the Fetal Heart Rate Monitor, " Final Report submitted to NASA, January 30, 2000 , ODURF #191331

"Visual Speech Articulation Training Aid," Final report submitted to the National Science Foundation, December 3, 1998 .

"Commercialization and Industrial Development for the Fetal Heart Rate Monitor," Final Report submitted to NASA, November 3, 1998 .

S. A. Zahorian, "Passive Acoustically Based Fetal Heart Rate Monitor," NASA TASK ASSIGNMENT #79, June 1996.

S. A. Zahorian, "Calibration and Field Testing of High Temperature Fiber Optic Acoustic Sensors," NASA TASK ASSIGNMENT #31, February 1996.

S. A. Zahorian, "Signal Processing for Prenatal Detection of Cerebral Palsy," NASA TASK ASSIGNMENT #32, December 1995.

S. A. Zahorian, "Coupling of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Knowledge Sources for Automatic Speech Recognition," NSF Final Report, Sept. 1993.

S. A. Zahorian, "Visual Speech Display as an Articulation Training Aid for the Deaf," NSF Final Report, July 1993.

S. A. Zahorian and M. Bountress (1991). "Visual Speech Display as an Articulation Training Aid for the Deaf," Rehabilitation R&D Progress Reports , Veterans Health Administration, pp. 334-335.

S. A. Zahorian (May 1991). "Coupling of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Knowledge Sources for Automatic Speech Recognition," progress report submitted to the National Science Foundation.

S. A. Zahorian (May 1991). "Visual Speech Display as an Articulation Training Aid for the Deaf," progress report NSF Grant #BCS-9010334.

S. A. Zahorian (July 1990). "Spectral Shape Factors as Acoustic Invariants for Speech Perception," final report Grant #IRI-8702649.

S. A. Zahorian (September 1986). "Visual Speech Display for the Deaf," final report for the Whitaker Foundation.

S. A. Zahorian (December 1986). "Speaker Independent Isolated Word Speech Recognition Using the Discrete Cosine Transform," progress report Texas Instruments, Inc.

S. A. Zahorian (February 1984). "Visual Speech Display for the Deaf," progress report submitted to the Whitaker Foundation.

S. A. Zahorian (February 1984). "Research Initiation: Low Redundancy Encoding of Speech Spectra," final report submitted to NSF.

S. A. Zahorian (September 1982). "Research Initiation: Low Redundancy Encoding of Speech Spectra," progress report submitted to NSF.

S. A. Zahorian (October 1978) "Principal-Components Analysis for Low Redundancy Encoding of Speech Spectra," Syracuse University Technical Report TR-78-10.

Presentations not Published in Proceedings (International)

Lingyun Gu and Stephen A. Zahorian, "A New Robust Algorithm for Isolated Word Endpoint Detection," IV-4161 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing , Orlando , FL , May 13-17, 2002 .

K. Kasi, L. Gu, and S. A. Zahorian, "Toolbox for fundamental frequency estimation," ICASSP 2001, Salt Lake City, UT , May 2001. (Student presentation)

A. M. Zimmer and S. A. Zahorian, "The integration of discriminative and maximum likelihood distance measures for a vowel articulation training aid", paper presented at the 136 th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Norfolk, VA, October 15, 1998, abstract appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , Vol. 104, No. 3, Pt. 2, p. 1854, September 1998.

B. Dai and S. A. Zahorian, "Fundamental frequency synchronous spectral analysis for vowel classification", paper presented at the 136 th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Norfolk, VA, October 14, 1998, abstract appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , Vol. 104, No. 3, Pt. 2, p. 1805, September 1998.

S. A. Zahorian and N. S. Correal, "Vowel Training Experiments with a Computer-Based Vowel Training System" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. , Vol. 95, No. 5, Pt. 2, p. 3014, May 1994.

Z. B. Nossair, Z. J. Zhang, and S. A. Zahorian, "Spectral Envelope Features for Vowel Classification in Clean and Noisy Speech," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. , Vol. 95, No. 5, Pt. 2, p. 2817, May 1994.

S. A. Zahorian and Z. B. Nossair, "Acoustic Segment Models for Automatic Speech Recognition," Proc. 1993 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition , pp. 22-23, Snowbird, Utah , December 1993.

S. A. Zahorian, Z. J. Zhang, and Z. B. Nossair (1993). "Spectral Shape Cues for Vowels Which Predict the Perception of Multiple-Tone Steady-State Stimuli," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer ., Vol. 93, 2298, 17-21 May, 1993, Ottawa, Canada .

S. A. Zahorian, Z. Zhang, and Z. Nossair (1992). "Perception of Vowels Synthesized from Sinusoids that Preserve Either Formant Frequencies or Spectral Shape," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. , Vol. 92, p. 2414, Nov. 3, 1992 , New Orleans , LA.

L. Rudasi and S. A. Zahorian (1990). "Text-Independent Talker Identification Using Recurrent Neural Networks," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer . 87, Supp. 1, S104.

A. J. Jagharghi and S. A. Zahorian (1990). "Vowel Perception: Spectral Shape Versus Formants," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 87, Supp 1, S159.

Z. B. Nossair and S. A. Zahorian (1989). "Spectral Shape Factors for Speaker-Independent Automatic Recognition of Stop Consonants," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. Suppl 1 85, S136.

S. A. Zahorian and A. J. Jagharghi, (1989). "Linear Transformations for Vowel Normalization," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. Suppl 1 85, S51.

A. J. Jagharghi and S. A. Zahorian (1987). "Vowel Identification: Are Formants Really Necessary?" J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. Suppl 1 81, S18.

S. A. Zahorian, Z. B. Nossair, and R. F. Coleman (1987). "Evidence Against Acoustic Invariance in Initial Voiced Stop Consonants," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. Suppl 1 81, S136.

S. A. Zahorian and A. J. Jagharghi (1987). "Speaker-Independent Vowel Recognition Based on Overall Spectral Shape Versus Formants," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer.Suppl 1 82, S37.

S. A. Zahorian and A. J. Jagharghi (1986). "Matching of "Physical" and "Perceptual" Spaces for Vowels," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. Suppl 1 79, S8.

E. A. Effer and S. A. Zahorian (1986). "An Investigation of Mixed-Source Excitation Models for Linear Predictive Vocoders," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. Suppl 1 79, S26.

S. A. Zahorian and A. J. Jagharghi (1985). "Color Display of Vowel Spectra as a Speech Training Aid for the Deaf," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. Suppl 1 77, S97.

J. Holland and S. A. Zahorian (1984). "Block Encoding of Speech Spectral Principal Components," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. Suppl 1 75, S59.

S. A. Zahorian and J. Holland (1984). "Visual Speech Display for the Deaf," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. Suppl 1 75, S32.

S. A. Zahorian, (1982). "Optimal Vector Quantization of Speech Spectral Principal Components," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 71, Supp 1, S6.

S. A. Zahorian (1980). "Orthogonal Coding of Linear Prediction Log Area Ratios," J. Acous. Soc. Amer. , 67, Supp 1., S12.

S. A. Zahorian and M. Rothenberg (1977). "Principal Components Analysis of Speech Spectra," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 61, Supp 1, S69.

Presentations not Published in Proceedings (Regional/Local)

• J. Jagharghi and S. A. Zahorian (1988). "Visual Speech Display for the Deaf,"

presented at the Virginia Academy of Sciences.

GRADUATE DEGREES SUPERVISED

Hongbing Hu, "Nonlinear Discriminant Analysis Based Feature Dimensionality Reduction for Automatic Speech Recognition,", PhD dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2010

Mame Sall, "Generalization Issues in Pattern Classification Applied to Speaker Identification, " MS Thesis, February, 2005.

Princy Dikshit, "An Algorithm for Locating Fundamental Frequency (F0) Markers in Speech," MS Thesis, December, 2004.

Wei Wang, "Speaker Normalization for Improved Automatic Speech Recognition for Digital Libraries," MS Thesis, May 2004.

Mukund Devarakan, "A Computer-Based Articulation Training Aid for Short Words (CATA), MS Thesis, December 2003.

Ashutosh Mishra, "Automatic Speaker Identification Using Reusable and Retrainable Binary-Pair Partitioned Neural Networks, MS Thesis, May 2003.

Kavita Kasi, "YAPT: Yet Another Pitch Tracking Algorithm," M. S. Thesis, December 2002.

Lingyun Gu , "A New Robust Algorithm for Isolated Word Endpoint Detection," M. S. Thesis, February, 2002.

Matt Zimmer, "VATA: An Improved personal computer-based vowel articulation training aid, M. S. Thesis, February, 2002.

Montri Karnjanadecha, "Signal Modeling with Non-Uniform Time Sampling of Features for Automatic Speech Recognition," Ph.D. Dissertation, August 2000.

Bingjun Dai, "Variability Analysis of Discrete Cosine Transform coefficient (DCTC) Features for Speech Processing," Master's thesis, December 1998.

Xihong Wang, "Acoustic Segmentation Model for Isolated Word Recognition," MS Thesis, April 1998.

Charles Brewton, "An Enhanced Signal Processing Strategy for Fetal Heart Rate Detection," M. S. Thesis, May 1996.

Stefan Auberg, "Speech Feature Computation for Visual Speech Articulation Training," M. S. Thesis, May 1996.

C. A. Norton, III, "Text Independent Speaker Verification Using Binary-Pair Partitioned Neural Networks," December 1995.

Roger Zhou, "Fetal Heart Rate Detection with a Passive Acoustic Sensor System," M.S. Thesis, Spring 1995.

Neiyer Correal, "Real-Time Visual Speech Articulation Training Aid," M.S. Thesis, Fall 1994.

Zhongjiang Zhang, "Acoustic Correlates of Vowel Perception as Determined From Synthesis Experiments with Multi-Tone Stimuli," M. S. Thesis, Dec. 1993.

Laszlo Rudasi, "Text Independent Automatic Speaker Identification Using Partitioned Neural Networks," Ph.D. Dissertation, August 1992.

Shubanghi Kelkar, "Formant Estimation from DCTS's Using a Feedforward Neural Network," M.S. Thesis, May 1992.

Andrew Beck, "Neural Network Based Vowel Training Aid for the Deaf," M.S. Thesis, May 1992.

D. Qian, "Encoding Phonetic Knowledge for Use in Hidden Markov Models of Speech Recognition," Master's Thesis, June 1990.

Amir Jagharghi, "A Comparative Study of Spectral Peaks Versus Global Spectral Shape as Invariant Acoustic Cues for Vowels," Ph.D. Dissertation, August 1990.

Subhashri Venkat, "Visual Speech Training Aid for the Deaf," M.S. Thesis, August 1990.

Zaki Nossair, "Dynamic Spectral Shape Features as Acoustic Correlates for Stop Consonants," Ph.D. Dissertation, December 1989.

C. Shen, "Discrete Cosine Transform Analysis for Speaker-Independent Automatic Acoustic-Phonetic Transcription," Ph.D. Dissertation, August 1988.

A. Jagharghi, "Color Display of Vowel Spectra as a Speech Training Aid for the Deaf," M.E. Thesis, August 1985.

Elizabeth Effer, "An Investigation to Improve Linear Predictive Vocoder Pulse/Noise Models," M.E. Thesis, December 1985.

James Holland, "Block Encoding of Speech Spectral Principal Components," Master's Thesis, August 1984.

Paul E. Gordy, "Speech Spectral Modeling and Speech Synthesis Using Finite Impulse Response Digital Filters," M.E. Thesis, December 1982.

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