Matthew Lennig's Publications

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Refereed Full-Length Journal Publications

J. De Jong, M. Lennig, A. Kerkhoff, and P. Poelmans. “Development of a Test of Spoken Dutch for Prospective Immigrants,” Language Assessment Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 2009, pp. 41-60.

M. Lennig, G. Bielby, and J. Massicotte. “Directory assistance automation in Bell Canada: trial results,” Speech Communication, vol. 17, 1995, pp. 227-234.

P. Kenny, G. Boulianne, H. Garudadri, S. Trudelle, R. Hollan, M. Lennig, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “Experiments in continuous speech recognition using books on tape,” Speech Communication, Vol. 14, No. 1, February 1994, pp. 49-60.

G. Boulianne, P. Kenny, M. Lennig, D. O’Shaughnessy, and P. Mermelstein, “Books on tape as training data for continuous speech recognition,” Speech Communication, Vol. 14, No. 1, February 1994, pp. 61-70.

P. Kenny, R. Hollan, V. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “A*-admissible heuristics for rapid lexical access,” IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1993, pp. 49-58.

V.N. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, P. Kenny, F. Seitz, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “Use of minimum duration and energy contour for phonemes to improve large vocabulary isolated-word recognition,” Computer Speech and Language 6(4), 1992, pp. 345-359.

V. Gupta, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “A language model for very large-vocabulary speech recognition,” Computer Speech and Language 6(4), 1992, pp. 331-344.

L. Deng, M. Lennig, P. Kenny, and P. Mermelstein. “Modeling acoustic transitions in speech by state-interpolation hidden Markov models,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 40, No. 2, February 1992, pp. 265-271.

L. Deng, M. Lennig, F. Seitz, and P. Mermelstein. “Large vocabulary word recognition using context-dependent allophonic hidden Markov models,” Computer Speech and Language 4, 1990, pp. 345-357.

M. Lennig. “Putting speech recognition to work in the telephone network,” IEEE Computer, Vol. 23, No. 8, August 1990, pp. 35-41.

L. Deng, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Modeling microsegments of stop consonants in an HMM-based word recognizer,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 87, No. 6, June 1990, 2738-2747.

P.F. Seitz, V. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Kenny, L. Deng, and P. Mermelstein. “A dictionary for a very large vocabulary word recognition system,” Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 1990, pp. 193-202.

P. Kenny, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “A linear predictive HMM for vector-valued observations with applications to speech recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 38, No. 2, Feb. 1990, pp. 220-225.

L. Deng, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Use of vowel duration information in a large vocabulary word recognizer,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 86, No. 2, August 1989, pp. 540-548.

V.N. Gupta, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Fast search strategy in a large vocabulary word recognizer,Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 84, No. 6, December 1988, pp. 2007-2017.

G. Akers and M. Lennig. “Intonation in text-to-speech synthesis: evaluation of algorithms,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 77, No. 6, June 1985, pp. 2157-2165.

M. Lennig and J.-P. Brassard. “Machine-readable phonetic alphabet for English and French,” Speech Communication Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 165-166, 1984.

M. Lennig. “Automatic alignment of natural speech with a corresponding transcription,” Speech Communication, Vol. 2, Nos. 2-3, pp. 190-192, 1983.

M. Lennig. “Phrases françaises phonétiquement équilibrées,” Revue d'Acoustique, No. 56, pp. 39-42, 1981.


Other Refereed Publications

F. Seitz and M. Lennig. “Phonological rule set complexity in a very large vocabulary word recognition system,” in G.R. Guy, C. Feagan, D. Schiffrin, and J.G. Baugh, eds., Towards a Social Science of Language (J. Benjamins, Philadelphia), pp. 289-307, 1995.

W. Labov and M. Lennig, “Industrial applications of variation studies,” presented at NWAVE, Stanford, 24-27 Oct 1994.

P. Kenny, P. Labute, Z. Li, R. Hollan, M. Lennig, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “A very fast method for scoring phonetic transcriptions,” Proceedings of Eurospeech 93, Berlin, paper 67.2, September 1993.

P. Kenny, P. Labute, Z. Li, R. Hollan, M. Lennig, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “A new fast match for very large vocabulary continuous speech recognition,” Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 2, pp. 656-659, April 1993.

M. Lennig, D. Sharp, V. Gupta, P. Kenny, and K. Precoda. “Flexible vocabulary recognition of speech over the telephone network,” Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Interactive Voice Technology in the Telephone Industry, Piscataway, 19-29 Oct 1992, pp. 93-96.

D. O’Shaughnessy, P. Kenny, Y-M Cheng, V. Gupta, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Toward a very large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer,” Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 13-16 September 1992, pp. WA9.31.1-4.

M. Lennig, D. Sharp, P. Kenny, V. Gupta, and K. Precoda. “Flexible vocabulary recognition of speech,” Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, 12-16 October 1992, pp. 93-96.

G. Boulianne, P. Kenny, M. Lennig, D. O’Shaughnessy, and P. Mermelstein. “HMM training on unconstrained speech for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition,” Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, 12-16 October 1992, pp. 229-232.

P. Kenny, R. Hollan, G. Boulianne, H. Garudadri, Y.-M. Cheng, M. Lennig, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “Experiments in continuous speech recognition with a 60,000 Word Vocabulary,” Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, 12-16 October 1992, pp. 225-228.

P. Kenny, R. Hollan, G. Boulianne, H. Garudadri, M. Lennig, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “An A* algorithm for very large vocabulary continuous speech recognition,” Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Los Altos: Morgan Kaufmann, February 1992, pp. 333-338.

Y.M. Cheng, V. Gupta, P. Kenny, M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, and S. Parthasarathy. “Hybrid segmental-LVQ/HMM for connected speech recognition,” Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, San Francisco.

S. Parthasarathy, P. Kenny, V. Gupta, M. Lennig, D. O’Shaughnessy, and P. Mermelstein. “Segmental and suprasegmental features for speech recognition,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition, Arden House, December 1991.

P. Kenny, R. Zhao, V. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “Articulatory Markov Models,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition, Arden House, December 1991.

P. Kenny, S. Parthasarathy, V. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, and D. O'Shaughnessy. “Energy, duration, and Markov models,” Proceedings of Eurospeech 1991, Genova, pp. 655-658.

L. Deng, P. Kenny, M. Lennig, V. Gupta, F. Seitz, and P. Mermelstein. “Phonemic hidden Markov models with continuous mixture output densities for large vocabulary word recognition,” correspondence item, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 39, No. 7, July 1991, pp. 1677-1681.

V.N. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, P. Kenny, F. Seitz, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “Using phoneme duration and energy contour information to improve large vocabulary isolated word recognition,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toronto, 14-17 May 1991, pp. 341-344.

P. Kenny, R. Hollan, V. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “A*-admissible heuristics for rapid lexical access,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toronto, 14-17 May 1991, pp. 689-692.

M. Lennig, V. Gupta, P. Kenny, P. Mermelstein, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “An 86,000-Word Recognizer Based on Phonemic Models,” Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Los Altos: Morgan Kaufmann, June 24-27, 1990, pp. 391-396.

P. Kenny, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Speaker adaptation in a large vocabulary Gaussian HMM recognizer,” correspondence item, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 12, No. 9, September 1990, pp. 917-920.

P. Mermelstein, D. Millar, and M. Lennig. “Speech processing for telecommunications applications,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications Technology, Beijing, 12-14 July 1990.

M.A.J. Murphy, B.W. Roe, M. Lennig, G. Bielby, and A. O'Gorman. “Automation of alternate billed calls using voice recognition,” Proceedings of the International Switching Symposium, 27 May to 2 June 1990, Stockholm, pp. 123-127.

P.F. Seitz, V. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Kenny, L. Deng, D. O’Shaughnessy, and P. Mermelstein. “Phonological rule set complexity as a factor in the performance of a very large vocabulary word recognition system,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 87, No. 1, May 1990, S108 (A).

L. Deng, V.N. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Kenny, and P. Mermelstein. “Acoustic recognition component of an 86,000-word speech recognizer,” Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Albuquerque, April 3-6, 1990, pp. 741-744.

D. O’Shaughnessy, V. Gupta, M. Lennig, F. Seitz, and P. Mermelstein. “Language modeling for very large vocabulary speech recognition,” Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montreal, September 17-20, 1989, pp. 392-395.

L. Deng, P. Kenny, M. Lennig, V. Gupta, and P. Mermelstein. “A locus model of coarticulation in an HMM speech recognizer,” Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Glasgow, 23-26 May 1989, pp. 97-100.

M. Lennig. “Les technologies interactives vocales et leurs applications,” Actes du 57e Congrès de l'ACFAS - Production et perception de la parole: Synthèse et reconnaissance automatiques, Montréal: Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences, May 17, 1989, pp. 31-35.

M. Lennig. “Using speech recognition in the telephone network to automate collect and third-number-billed calls,” Proceedings of Speech Tech '89, May 2-4, 1989, New York, pp. 125-125.

L. Deng, P. Kenny, M. Lennig, V. Gupta, and P. Mermelstein. “Large vocabulary word recognition based on phonetic representation by hidden Markov models,” Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 315-318, Vancouver, 3-4 November, 1988.

P.F. Seitz, V.N. Gupta, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Designing a dictionary for a very large vocabulary word recognition system,” 17th Colloquium on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Université de Montréal, 29-30 October 1988.

P. Kenny, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Speaker adaptation in a large vocabulary HMM Recognizer,” Proceedings of the 1988 IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition, Arden House, Harriman, New York, 31 May - 3 June 1988.

L. Deng, M. Lennig, V.N. Gupta, and P. Mermelstein. “Modeling acoustic-phonetic detail in an HMM-based large vocabulary speech recognizer,” Proceedings of the 1988 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, New York, April 1988, vol. I, pp. 509-512.

P. Dumouchel, V.N. Gupta, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Three Probabilistic Language models for a large vocabulary speech recognizer,” Proceedings of the 1988 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, New York, April 1988, vol. I, pp. 513-516.

G. Bielby, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Speaker verification with sequential decision on a speaker specific vocabulary,” European Conference on Speech Technology, Edinburgh, 2-4 September 1987.

V.N. Gupta, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Integration of acoustic information in a large vocabulary word recognizer,” Proceedings of the 1987 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Dallas, 6-9 April 1987, pp. 697-700.

V.N. Gupta, M. Lennig, J. Marcus, and P. Mermelstein. “Syllable network for phonemic decoding of speech,” Proceedings of the Montreal Symposium on Speech Recognition, Montreal, 21-22 July, 1986, pp. 45-46.

P. Dumouchel and M. Lennig. “Using stress information in large vocabulary speech recognition,” Proceedings of the Montreal Symposium on Speech Recognition, Montreal, 21-22 July, 1986, pp. 73-74.

P. Dumouchel and M. Lennig. “Automatic segmentation and labelling of speech,” Canadian Acoustical Association Annual Conference, Ottawa, 3-4 October 1985.

M. Lennig. “Experiments on speaker-independent recognition of hand-segmented French vowels,” Proceedings of the 1985 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 1985, pp. 17-20.

V.N. Gupta, M. Lennig, and P. Mermelstein. “Decision rules for speaker-independent isolated word recognition,” Proceedings of the 1984 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 9.2.1-9.2.4, March 1984.

M.J. Hunt, M. Lennig and P. Mermelstein. “Use of dynamic programming in a syllable-based continuous speech recognition system,” in Time Warps, String Edits, and Macromolecules: The Theory and Practice of Sequence Comparison, edited by D. Sankoff and J. Kruskal, New York: Addision-Wesley, 1983, pp. 163-187.

M. Lennig. “Vowel features of Montreal English: Preliminary observations,” 43rd Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, College Park (Maryland), 30 July - 1 August 1982.

D. O’Shaughnessy, M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, and M. Divay. “Simulation of a French reading machine for the blind,” Proceedings of the 7th Canadian Man-Computer Communications Society Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, pp. 217-222, 10-12 June 1981.

D. O’Shaughnessy, M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein and M. Divay. “Simulation d'un lecteur automatique du français,” Actes des XIIièmes Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole -- Groupement des Acousticiens de Langue Française, pp. 315-325, Montreal, 25-27 May 1981.

M. Lennig. “Formal constraints on ATN grammars for speech recognition,” 42nd Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque (New Mexico), 1-3 August 1980.

M. Lennig and P. Mermelstein. “Entraînement lexical semi-automatique d'un système de reconnaissance à base syllabique,” Actes des XIièmes Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole - Groupement des Acousticiens de Langue Française, pp. 175-186, Strasbourg, 28-30 May 1980.

M. Lennig. M.J. Hunt, M. Lennig and P. Mermelstein. “Experiments in syllable-based recognition of continuous speech,” Proceedings of the 1980 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 880-883, April 1980.

M. Lennig. “Une étude quantitative du changement linguistique dans le système vocalique parisien,” in Le Français Parlé: Études Sociolinguistiques, edited by P. Thibault, Edmonton: Linguistic Research, Inc., pp. 29-39, 1979.

M. Lennig. “On the social origins of linguistic change in Parisian French,” 53rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, 1977.

M. Lennig and D. Hindle. “Uniform scaling as a method of vowel normalization,” 94th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami Beach, 1977.

M. Lennig. “Selecting syllable nuclei in Parisian French,” 94th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami Beach, 1977.

M. Lennig. “Continued chain shifting of /u/ and /o/ in Parisian French,” 52nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Philadelphia, 1976.


Nonrefereed Publications

J. Balogh, J. Bernstein, M. Suzuki, P. Subbarayan, M. Lennig, “Automatically scored spoken language tests for air traffic controllers and pilots,” Tenth Global TRAINAIR Training Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, 2006.

J. de Jong, A. Kerkhoff, M. Lennig, and P. Poelmans, “Het inburgeringsexamen buitenland: de Toets Gesproken Nederlands,” Examens no. 3, September 2006, pp. 5-10.

M. Lennig, “The Linguistic User Interface,” presented at the Accelerating Change Conference 2003, September 12-14, 2003, Stanford University (invited talk).

M. Lennig, “Five technology trends and how to ride them,” presented at V-World 2003, April 28-May 1, 2003, San Francisco.

M. Lennig, “A peak inside the lab,” presented at the First Nuance User Conference, April 1998, San Francisco.

M. Lennig, “Recognizing large vocabularies over the telephone network: new capabilities and applications,” presented at AVIOS ’96, Sept. 10-12, 1996, San Jose.

V.N. Gupta and M. Lennig, “Large vocabulary isolated word recognition,” in R.P. Ramachandran and R.J. Mammone, eds., Modern Methods of Speech Processing, Chapter 9, pp. 213-230, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1995.

M. Lennig, G. Bielby, and J. Massicotte, “Directory assistance automation in Bell Canada: trial results,” Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications (IVTTA ’94), Kyoto, Sept. 26-27, 1994, pp. 9-13 (invited paper).

D. Sharp and M. Lennig, “Flexible vocabulary recognition - unleashing the power of the phoneme,” Proceedings of AVIOS '94, September 20-22, San Jose.

M. Lennig and D. Sharp, “Unleashing the potential of human-to-machine communication,” Telesis, Issue 97, December 1993, pp. 22-33.

D.R. Cuddy, B.W. Roe, M. Lennig, and G. Bielby. “Using speech recognition for automation of alternate billed calls,” Journal of the American Voice I/O Society, Spring 1992.

M. Murphy, G. Bielby, B. Roe, K. Read, A. O'Gorman, M. Lennig. “Automation of alternate billed calls using speech recognition,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 1, January 1991, pp. 25-29.

G. Bielby, D. Cuddy, M. Lennig, and B. Roe. “Using speech recognition for automation of alternate billed calls,” Proceedings of the National Communications Forum, Volume 44, Chicago, October 8-10, 1990, pp. 816-824.

M. Lennig. “Speech recognition in the public network,” Telesis, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1989, pp. 51-52.

M. Lennig. “Automating operator services with speech recognition: the Voice Service Node,” Probe Research Voice Processing Conference, 18-19 October 1988, New York City.

M. Lennig and P. Mermelstein. “First public trial of a speech-recognition-based 976 directory,” Proceedings of Speech Tech '88, New York City, 26-28 April 1988, pp. 291-292.

P. Brennan, M. Lennig, and J. Lumsden. “Speech recognition - Talking to Technology,” Telesis, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 44-50, 1988.

M. Lennig. “Speech recognition in a 976 application,” Audiotex 87 Conference, New York City, 15-17 June 1987.

V.N. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, and D. O’Shaughnessy. “Talking with computers” and “La parole est à l'ordinateur,” Telesis, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 4-7, 1982.

M. Lennig. Acoustic measurement of linguistic change: the modern Paris vowel system, Pennsylvania Dissertation Series: Number One, ISBN 978-0-9896932-5-7, Philadelphia, 1978.


Patents

M. Lennig, “Prosody based endpoint detection,” U.S. Patent No. 6,873,953 issued March 29, 2005.

J.E. White and M. Lennig, “Distributed voice web architecture and associated components and methods,” U.S. Patent No. 6,785,653 issued August 31, 2004.

M. Lennig, R.D. Sharp, and G.J. Bielby, “Method and apparatus for automatic automation of directory assistance using speech recognition,” Canadian Patent No. CA 2119072 issued January 14, 2003.

T. Kuhn, M. Lennig, P. Monaco and D. Peters, “A System architecture for and method of voice processing,” United States Patent No. 6,119,087 issued September 12, 2000.

V. Gupta, M. Lennig, C. Toulson, and P. Kenny, “Flexible Vocabulary Recognition,” Canadian Patent No. CA 2069675 issued June 27, 2000.

G. Bielby, V. Gupta, L. Hodgson, M. Lennig, D. Sharp, and H. Wasmeier, “Updating markov models based on speech input and additional information for automated telephone directory assistance,” United States Patent No. 5,644,680 issued July 1, 1997.

V. Gupta and M. Lennig, “Speech recognition method using a two-pass search,” US Patent No. 5,515,475 issued May 7, 1996.

G. Bielby, V. Gupta, L. Hodgson, M. Lennig, D. Sharp, and H. Wasmeier, “Methods and apparatus for training speech recognition algorithms for directory assistance,” United States Patent No. 5,488,652 issued January 30, 1996.

M. Lennig, R.D. Sharp, and G.J. Bielby, “Method and apparatus for automatic automation of directory assistance using speech recognition,” United States Patent No. 5,479,488 issued December 26, 1995.

M. Lennig. “Rejection method for speech recognition,” Canadian Patent No. CA 2013263 issued September 5, 1995.

V. Gupta, M. Lennig, P. Kenny, and C. Toulson, “Flexible Vocabulary Recognition,” United States Patent No. 5,390,278 issued 14 February 1995.

M. Lennig. “Rejection method for speech recognition,” US Patent No. 5,097,509 issued March 17, 1992.

M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, and V.N. Gupta. “Speech Recognition,” United States Patent No. 4,956,865 issued September 11, 1990.

M. Lennig, P. Mermelstein, and V.N. Gupta. “Speech Recognition,” Canadian Patent No. CA 1232686 issued Feb 9, 1988.









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