Publications of Xin Lei

Journals and Book Chapters

1. Xin Lei, Wen Wang, Arindam Mandal, Andreas Stolcke, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Wei Wu, Mari Ostendorf, "Advances in Mandarin Speech-to-Text Transcription for Broadcast News and Conversations", The GALE Book, to appear.
2. Jing Zheng, Xin Lei, Andreas Stolcke, Wen Wang, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Arlo Faria, Nelson Morgan, Ozgur Cetin, "Combining Discriminatively Trained Features, Transforms, and Models for GALE Speech-to-text Task", The GALE Book, to appear.
3. Andreas Stolcke, Barry Chen, Horacio Franco, Ramana Gadde, Martin Graciarena, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Katrin Kirchhoff, Xin Lei, Arindam Mandal, Nelson Morgan, Tim Ng, Mari Ostendorf, Kemal Sonmez, Anand Venkataraman, Dimitra Vergyri,Wen Wang, Jing Zheng, Qifeng Zhu, "Recent Innovations in Speech-to-Text Transcription at SRI-ICSI-UW", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 14(5), 1729-1744, 2006.
   
   

Conferences

1. Xin Lei, Wei Wu, Wen Wang, Arindam Mandal and Andreas Stolcke, "Development of the 2008 SRI Mandarin Speech-to-text System for Broadcast News and Conversation", Interspeech'2009, September 2009, Brighton, UK.
   
2. Wen Wang, Arindam Mandal, Xin Lei, Jing Zheng and Andreas Stolcke, "Multifactor Adaptation for Mandarin Broadcast News and Conversation Speech Recognition", Interspeech'2009, September 2009, Brighton, UK.
   
3. Xin Lei, Wen Wang and Andreas Stolcke, "Data-driven Lexicon Expansion for Mandarin Broadcast News and Conversation Speech Recognition", ICASSP 2009, April 2009, Taipei.
   
4. Murat Akbacak, Horacio Franco, Michael Frandsen, Sasa Hasan, Huda Jameel, Andreas Kathol, Shahram Khadivi, Xin Lei, Arindam Mandal, Saab Mansour, Kristin Precoda, Colleen Richey, Dimitra Vergyri, Wen Wang, Mei Yang and Jing Zheng, "Recent Advances in SRI's IraqComm Iraqi Arabic-English Speech-to-speech Translation System", ICASSP 2009, April 2009, Taipei.
   
5. Mei-Yuh Hwang, Wen Wang, Xin Lei, Jing Zheng, Ozgur Cetin and Gang Peng, "Advances in Mandarin Broadcast Speech Recognition", Interspeech'2007, August 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
   
6. Xin Lei and Mari Ostendorf, "Word-level Tone Modeling for Mandarin Speech Recognition", ICASSP 2007, April 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, US.
   
7. Jing Zheng, Ozgur Cetin, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Xin Lei, Andreas Stolcke and Nelson Morgan, "Combining Discriminative Feature, Transform, and Model Training for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition", ICASSP 2007, April 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, US.
   
8. Xin Lei, Manhung Siu, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Mari Ostendorf and Tan Lee, "Improved Tone Modeling for Mandarin Broadcast News Speech Recognition", Interspeech'2006 (ICSLP), September 2006, Pittsburgh, US.
   
9. Mei-Yuh Hwang, Xin Lei, Wen Wang and Takahiro Shinozaki, "Investigation on Mandarin Broadcast News Speech Recognition", Interspeech'2006 (ICSLP), September 2006, Pittsburgh, US.
   
10. Xin Lei, Jon Hamaker and Xiaodong He, "Robust Feature Space Adaptation for Telephony Speech Recognition", Interspeech'2006 (ICSLP), September 2006, Pittsburgh, US.
    
11. Andreas Stolcke, Frantisek Grezl, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Xin Lei, Nelson Morgan and Dimitra Vergyri, "Cross-domain and Cross-language Portability of Acoustic Features Estimated by Multilayer Perceptrons", ICASSP 2006, May 2006, Toulouse, France.
    
12. Xin Lei, Mei-Yuh Hwang and Mari Ostendorf, "Incorporating Tone-related MLP Posteriors in the Feature Representation for Mandarin ASR", Interspeech'2005 (Eurospeech), September 2005, Lisboa, Portugal.
    
13. Xin Lei, Gang Ji, Tim Ng, Jeff Bilmes and Mari Ostendorf, "DBN-based Multi-Stream Mandarin Toneme Recogntion", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2005 , March 2005, Philadelphia, US.
    
14. Tim Ng, Mari Ostendorf, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Ivan Bulyko, Manhung Siu and Xin Lei, "Web-data Augmented Language Model for Mandarin Speech Recognition", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2005 , March 2005, Philadelphia, US.
    
15. Mei-Yuh Hwang, Xin Lei, Tim Ng, Ivan Bulyko, Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke, Wen Wang, Jing Zheng, Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde, Martin Graciarena, Man-Hung Siu and Yan Huang, "Progress on Mandarin Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition", International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) 2004 , December 2004, Hong Kong.
    

Workshops

1. Mei-Yuh Hwang, Xin Lei, Tim Ng, Mari Ostendorf, Andreas Stolcke, Wen Wang, Jing Zheng, Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde, "Porting Decipher from English to Mandarin", DARPA 2004 Rich Transcription Workshop (RT-04) , November 2004, Palisades, US.
   Also available in UWEETR-2006-0013 (pdf).
   
2. Tim Ng, Mari Ostendorf, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Manhung Siu, Ivan Bulyko and Xin Lei, "Improving Language Models for Mandarin Conversational Speech Recognition with Web Data", DARPA 2004 Rich Transcription Workshop (RT-04) , November 2004, Palisades, US.
   

Technical reports

1. Xin Lei, Lane Owsley and Mari Ostendorf, "Improving the Front-End Noise Preprocessor of MELPe", UW-EE, 12/2003.

Theses

• Xin Lei, Modeling Lexical Tones for Mandarin Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. Ph.D. thesis, University of Washington, 12/2006.

Patents and Others

• Xin Lei, Jon Hamaker, Xiaodong He and Patrick Nguyen, "Speech Recognition Using Adaptation and Prior Knowledge", US patent filed 12/2005.