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Publications of Nikko Ström

US Patent
Scott J. Bailey & Nikko Strom (2003): "Coarticulated Concatenated Speech," U.S. Patent No.: 6,873,952 (abstract)
US Patent Nikko Strom & Nicholas Kibre (2001): "Histogram grammar weighting and error corrective training of grammar weights," U.S. Patent No. : 6,985,862 (abstract)
conference
proceedings
N. Ström & S. Seneff (2000):  "Intelligent barge-in in Conversational Systems," Proc. ICSLP 2000, Beijing, China.
(abstract) (paper, pdf 84KB)
workshop
proceedings
N. Ström, L. Hetherington, T.J. Hazen, E. Sandness, & J. Glass (1999):  "Acoustic Modeling Improvements in a Segment-Based Speech Recognizer," Proc. of the 1999 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Keystone, Colorado.
(abstract) (paper, pdf 45KB)
Ph.D.
thesis
Nikko Ström (1997): Automatic continuous speech recognition with rapid speaker adaptation for human/machine interaction, KTH, Stockholm, ISRN KTH/TMH/FR--97/62--SE, ISSN 1104-5787. 
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workshop
proceedings
Nikko Ström (1997):  "A Tonotopic Artificial Neural Network Architechture for Phoneme Probability Estimation," Proc. of the 1997 IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding, pp. 156-163, Santa Barbara, CA. 
(abstract) (paper, html) (paper, pdf 139KB)
journal
paper
Nikko Ström (1997): "Phoneme Probability Estimation with Dynamic Sparsely Connected Artificial Neural Networks," The Free Speech Journal,  Issue # 5.
(paper, pdf 288KB)
conference
proceedings
Nikko Ström (1997): "Sparse Connection and Pruning in Large Dynamic Artificial Neural Networks," Proc. EUROSPEECH' 97, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 2807-2810.
(abstract) (paper, html) (paper, pdf 123KB)
chapter
in book
Nikko Ström (1997): "Speaker Modeling for Speaker Adaptation in Automatic Speech Recognition," in: Talker Variability in Speech Processing, Chapter 9, pp. 167-190, Eds.: Keith Johnson & John Mullennix, Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-386560-3.
TMH
status report 
(QPSR)
Nikko Ström (1996): "Continuous Speech Recognition in the WAXHOLM Dialogue System," STL QPSR 4/1996 pp. 67-96.
(abstract) (paper, pdf 760KB)
conference
proceedings
Nikko Ström (1996): "Speaker Adaptation by Modeling the Speaker Variation in a Continuous Speech Recognition System," Proc. ICSLP '96, Philadelphia, pp. 989-992.
(abstract) (paper, pdf 164KB)
workshop
proceedings
Nikko Ström. (1995): "Generation and Minimization of Word Graphs in Continuous Speech Recognition," Proc. IEEE Workshop on ASR '95, Snowbird, Utah, pp. 125-126.
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conference
proceedings
Bertenstam, J. Blomberg, M., Carlson, R., Elenius, K, Granström, B., Gustafson, J., Hunnicutt, S., Högberg, J., Lindell, R., Neovius, L., de Serpa-Leitao, A. and Ström, N. (1995):"The Waxholm Application Database," Proc. EUROSPEECH '95 Madrid, pp. 833-836.
ATR technical
report
Nikko Ström (1995): "A Speaker Sensitive Artificial Neural Network Architecture for Speaker Adaptation," ATR Technical Report, TR-IT-0116, ATR, Kyoto, Japan.
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conference
proceedings
Bertenstam, J. Blomberg, M., Carlson, R., Elenius, K, Granström, B., Gustafson, J., Hunnicutt, S., Högberg, J., Lindell, R., Neovius, L., de Serpa-Leitao, A., Nord, L. and Ström, N. (1995):"Spoken dialogue data collection in the Waxholm project," STL-QPSR 1/1995, pp. 50-73.
TMH
status report 
(QPSR)
Nikko Ström (1994): "Optimising the Lexical Representation to Speed Up A* Lexical Search," STL QPSR 2-3/1994, pp. 113-124.
(abstract) (paper, pdf 174KB)
conference
proceedings
Nikko Ström (1994): "Experiments with a New Algorithm For Fast Speaker Adaptation," Proc ICSLP '94, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 459-462.
(abstract)
TMH
status report 
(QPSR)
Nikko Ström (1992): "Development of a Time-Delay Neural Net Speech Reconition System," STL QPSR 4/1992, pp. 1-15.
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TMH
status  report 
(QPSR)
Joakim Borell & Nikko Ström (1992): "A Comparison of Speech Signal Representations for Speech Recognition with Hidden Markov Models and Artificial Neural Networks," STL QPSR 2-3/1992, pp. 1-8