Alan W Black (original) (raw)

In June 2022, I retired as a full professor from CMU to move to Anchorage, Alaska, where the weather is better (i.e. colder). I am no longer taking on students, and although I will continue some of my language technologies activities, I will be concentrating on new open source projects. Updates will eventually be released through my new webpage at http://festvox.org.org/awb.

Research Goals

• Practical implementations of computational theories of speech and language
• Making computer speech synthesis as natural, flexible, and efficient as human speech.

Current Research Interests

• CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset: 650+ Languages: 20 hours of aligned speech per language. map.
• New Parameterization for Emotional Speech a Johns Hopkins University CLSP summer workshop 2011. final report
• The Spoken Dialog Challenge 2011 has started, results from the SDC2010 will be presented at a special session at SLT 2010 .
• The Blizzard ChallengeEvaluating corpus-based speech synthesis on common databases. See the call for participation and timeline.
• CMU SPICESpeech Processing - Interactive Creation and Evaluation Toolkit for New Languages: automatically building recognition and synthesis support in new languages.
• Evaluation and Personalization of Synthetic Voices
• TRANSFORM: flexible voice synthesis through articulatory voice transformation
• Speech Synthesis for telling children's stories:
  • ESPER Extracting Speaker Information From Children's Stories for Speech Synthesis.
• Let's Go: designing better spoken dialog systems for the elderly and non-natives.
• Speech-to-speech translation: Transtac (Iraqi, Farsi, Pashto and Dari), LASER ACTD (Thai), Babylon (Arabic) and Tongues (Croatian).
• Open source text to speech Flite a small fast run-time synthesis engine. Providing fast resource-light scalable speech synthesis for speech technology applications.
• Bard a story teller program for ebook reading. You can read books, and it can read to you.
• The FestVox project: providing automated methods for building new voices and languages for speech synthesis.
• Finding automatic training techniques to build domain specific synthesis voices to capture individual style, domain and prosodic characteristics.
• The University of Edinburgh's Festival Speech Synthesis System for general multi-lingual text to speech.

Teaching

• Formerly Chair of Undergraduate Program in charge of theUndergraduate Minor in Language Technologies. Now you should contact Carolyn Rose.
• Spring '22: 11-411/11-611: Natural Language Processing.
  • TR 3:05pm-4:25pm POS A35 (but remote to start with)
• Spring '22: 11-737: Multilingual Natural Language Processing (remote to start with).
  • TR 1:25pm-2:45pm DH 1212 (but remote to start with)
• Spring '22: 11-823: ConLanging: Learning about linguistics and language technologies through construction of artificial languages taught with Lori Levin.
  • MW 3:05-4:25pm GHC 5222 (but remove to start with)
• Spring '22: 11-830: Computational Ethics for NLP with Emma Strubell.
  • TR 10:10-11:30am REH Singleton.
• Fall '21: 11-492/11-692/18-495: (formerly 18-492) Speech Processing MW(notF) 03:05pm-04:25pm POS146 (in person).
• Fall '19: 11-736: Seminar of Endangered Languages 4:30 GHC 6404.
• Spring '20: 11-754: Speech lab with Alex Rudnicky

Working Group:Siddharth Dalmia,Xinjian Li,

Recent Graduates:S P Kishore,John Kominek,Brian Langner,Joao Miranda,Prasanna Muthukumar,Arthur Toth,Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli,Alok Parlikar.Pallavi Baljekar,Wang Ling,Sunayana Sitaram,Zhou Yu,Elijah Mayfield,Kevin Lenzo,Sai Krishna Rallabandi,Khyathi Raghavi Chandu,Shruti Palaskar, andShrimai Prabhumoye.

Slides and audio samples of recent talks I have given.

Other interesting things

• Pictures of Mr Black
• Voice of Mr Black the awb_arctic voices are based on Mr Black.
• Biographical Sketch of Mr Black
• A different type of gadget for telling the time (2010)
• Running Unix on an IBM PC110 palmtop computer (1999)
• Running Unix on a Casio E-105 Palm-sized PC (2000)

Publications

Software

• Bard a book reader that can read books to you.
• Flite a small fast run-time speech synthesis engine. Yet another addition to the suite for free software tools and engines for speech synthesis.
  • CMU Flite home page
• The Festvox project: documentation, scripts, tools and examples of building new synthetic voices in the Festival Speech Synthesis System. This contains enough basic information, scripts, autolabellers and walkthroughs for an interested person to build a complete new synthetic voice for English and other languages.
  • http://festvox.org
• NSW: non-standard words: Standardizing how text is normalized using the techniques developed at the Johns Hopkins University Summer Workshop 1999 project on Normalization of Non-Standard Words
  • http://festvox.org/nsw/
• The Festival Speech Synthesis System, is a general purpose text to speech system offering both a development environment for synthesis techniques and a robust multi-lingual text to speech system. Festival offers a Scheme-based interpreter for high-level control of the C++ objects that do most of the real work. Work in Festival is currently concentrated on using statistical language processing techniques for text analysis, e.g. part of speech tagging, tokenization, superficial syntactic parsing etc. See here for demos. A full source distribution for most Unix systems (and Windows), is available for free for commercial and non-commercial use under an X11-type licence.
  • Festival home page
• ASTL: This software offers a situation theoretic language which can be used to describe many contemporary semantic theories such as DRT, Dynamic Logic, Montague Grammar and Situation Semantics. It is especially good with donkeys. This is written in Common Lisp, and includes some small examples.
  • astl-0.4.tar.gz
• GNU Tools for Minix 386: This (now old code) provided the first ports of gcc, emacs and gdb to the cheap, though not free (at that time), Unix-like system Minix (but does include full sources). Linux was first developed using this compiler. This work has been superseded by the more substantial free Unix systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
  • Minix GCC
• MAP-3.1: a morphological analyser and lexicon system. This was developed as part of the UK ALVEY Natural Language Tools project but is now available separately without licence. This is written in Common Lisp and allows users to design, test and use practical lexicons and morphological analysers. It includes a substantial manual for both the non-programmer and programmer who wishes to embed this system in larger natural language systems. A substantial English dictionary (8000 stems) and morphological analyser is included.
  • MAP3.1.tar.gz

Papers

Alan W Black's Google Scholar page [2021] [2020] [2019] [2018] [2017] [2016] [2015] [2014] [2013] [2012] [2011] [2010] [2009] [2008] [2007] [2006] [2005] [2004] [2003] [2002] [2001] [2000] [1999] [1998] [1997] [1996] [1995] [1994]and [Earlier]

2021

• A Ravichander, AW Black, T Norton, S Wilson, N Sadeh, "Breaking Down Walls of Text: How Can NLP Benefit Consumer Privacy", ACL 2021 pdf.
• Xinjian Li, David R. Mortensen, Florian Metze and Alan W Black, "Multilingual Phonetic Dataset for Low Resrouce Speech Recognition", ICASSP 2021 pdf.
• Xinjian Li, Juncheng Li, Jiali Yao, Alan W Black and Florian Metze, "Phone Distribution Estimation for Low Resource Languages", ICASSP 2021 pdf.
• Akshat Gupta, Xinjian Li, SaiKrishna Rallabandi and Alan W Black, "Acoustics based intent recognition using discovered phonetic units for low resrouce languages", ICASSP 2021 pdf.
• Khyathi Chandu, Yonatan Bisk, and Alan W Black, "Grounding 'Grounding' in NLP", Findings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2021, pdf.
• Rishabh Joshi, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shikhar Vashishth, Alan W Black and Yulia Tsvetkov, "DialoGraph: Incorporating Interpretable Strategy-Graph Networks into Negotiation Dialogues", ICLR 2021 pdf.
• Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Kavya Nerella, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Alan W Black, "CodemixedNLP: An Extensible and Open NLP Toolkit for Code-Mixing:, Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching 2021 pdf.
• Akshat Gupta, Sargam Menghani, Sai Krishna Rallabandi and Alan W Black "Unsupervised Self-Training for Sentiment Analysis of Code-Switched Data", Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching 2021 pdf.
• Akshat Gupta, SaiKrishna Rallabandi and Alan W Black, "Task-specific pre-training and cross lingual transfer for code-switched data" Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching 2021 pdf.
• Shrimai Prabhumoye, Kazuma Hashimoto, Yingbo Zhou, Alan W Black, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, "Focused Attention Improves Document-Grounded Generation", NAACL 2021 pdf.
• Shrimai Prabhumoye, Brendon Boldt, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Alan W Black, "Case Study: Deontological Ethics in NLP", NAACL 2021 pdf.
• A Ravichander, S Dalmia, M Ryskina, F Metze, E Hovy, AW Black, "NoiseQA: Challenge Set Evaluation for User-Centric Question Answering", EACL 2021 pdf
• Y Feng, AW Black, M Eskenazi, "Towards Automatic Route Description Unification in Spoken Dialog Systems", SLT 2021 pdf
• Shruti Palaskar, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Alan W Black, Florian Metze, "Multimodal Speech Summarization Through Semantic Concept Learning", Interspeech 2021, pdf
• Xinjian Li, Juncheng Li, Florian Metze, Alan W Black, "Hierarchical Phone Recognition with Compositional Phonetics", Interspeech 2021, pdf.
• Peter Wu, Jiatong Shi, Yifan Zhong, Shinji Watanabe, Alan W Black, "Cross-Lingual Transfer For Speech Processingusing Acoustic Language Similarity:, ASRU 2021 pdf.
• Akshat Gupta, Olivia Deng, Akruti Kushwaha, Saloni Mittal, William Zeng, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Alan W Black, "Intent recognition and unsupervised slot identification for low resourced spoken dialog systems" ASRU 2021 pdf.
• Amrith Setlur, Aman Madaan, Tanmay Parekh, Yiming Yang, and Alan W Black, "Towards Using Heterogeneous Relation Graphs for End-to-End TTS", ASRU2021 pdf.

2020

• Emily Ahn, Cecilia Jimenez, Yulia Tsvetkov, Alan Black_What Code-Switching Strategies are Effective in Dialogue Systems?_Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 3 (1), 308-318 (pdf)
• E Salesky, E Chodroff, T Pimentel, M Wiesner, AW Black, J Eisner_A large-scale corpus for phonetic typology_ Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting for the ACL (pdf)
• Vaibhav Kumar, Alan W Black_ClarQ: A large-scale and diverse dataset for Clarification Question Generation_ Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting for the ACL (pdf)
• Mingjun Duan, Carlos Fasola, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Rodolfo M Vega, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Lori Levin, Alan W Black_A Resource for Computational Experiments on Mapudungun_ LREC 2020 (pdf)
• X Li, S Dalmia, DR Mortensen, J Li, AW Black, F Metze_Towards Zero-Shot Learning for Automatic Phonemic Transcription._ AAAI, 8261-8268 (pdf)
• Aman Madaan, Amrith Setlur, Tanmay Parekh, Barnabas Poczos, Graham Neubig, Yiming Yang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Alan W Black, Shrimai Prabhumoye_Politeness transfer: A tag and generate approach_ ACL 2020 (pdf)
• David R Mortensen, Xinjian Li, Patrick Littell, Alexis Michaud, Shruti Rijhwani, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Alan W Black, Florian Metze, Graham Neubig_AlloVera: a multilingual allophone database_ LREC 2020 (pdf)
• S Prabhumoye, R Salakhutdinov, AW Black_Topological Sort for Sentence Ordering_ ACL 2020 (pdf)
• Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Alan W Black_Style Variation as a Vantage Point for Code-Switching_ Interpseech 2020 (pdf)
• Xinjian Li, Siddharth Dalmia, Juncheng Li, Matthew Lee, Patrick Littell, Jiali Yao, Antonios Anastasopoulos, David R Mortensen, Graham Neubig, Alan W Black, Florian Metze_Universal phone recognition with a multilingual allophone system_ ICASSP 2020 (pdf)
• Shrimai Prabhumoye, Alan W Black, Ruslan Salakhutdinov_Exploring Controllable Text Generation Techniques_ COLING 2020 (pdf)
• Elizabeth Salesky, Alan W Black_Phone Features Improve Speech Translation_ ACL 2020 (pdf)
• Elijah Mayfield, Alan W Black_Should You Fine-Tune BERT for Automated Essay Scoring?_ Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications pp 151-162 (pdf)
• Amrith Setlur, Barnabas Poczos, Alan W Black_Nonlinear ISA with Auxiliary Variables for Learning Speech Representations_ Interspeech 2020 (pdf)
• Sopan Khosla, Rishabh Joshi, Ritam Dutt, Alan W Black, Yulia Tsvetkov_LTIatCMU at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Incorporating multi-level features for multi-granular propaganda span identification_ SEMEVAL 2020 (pdf)
• Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Ruo-Ping Dong, Alan Black_Reading Between the Lines: Exploring Infilling in Visual Narratives_ EMNLP 2020 (pdf)
• Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Alan W Black_On detecting code mixing in speech using discrete latent representations_ First Workshop on Speech Technologies for Code-switching in Multilingual Communities 2020 (pdf)
• Anjana Umapathy, Sharanya Chakravarthy, Alan W Black_Investigating Modelling Techniques for Natural Language Inference on Code-Switched Dialogues in Bollywood Movies_ First Workshop on Speech Technologies for Code-switching in Multilingual Communities 2020 (pdf)
• Tanmay Parekh, Emily Ahn, Yulia Tsvetkov, Alan W Black_Understanding Linguistic Accommodation in Code-Switched Human-Machine Dialogues_ CoNLL 2020 (pdf)
• A Gupta, SK Rallabandi, AW Black_Mere account mein kitna balance hai?--On building voice enabled Banking Services for Multilingual Communities_ First Workshop on Speech Technologies for Code-switching in Multilingual Communities 2020 (pdf)
• Sharanya Chakravarthy, Anjana Umapathy, Alan W Black_Detecting Entailment in Code-Mixed Hindi-English Conversations_ Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2020) (pdf)

2019

• Abhilasha Ravichander, Alan W Black, Shomir Wilson, Thomas Norton and Norman Sadeh, "Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives", EMNLP 2019 pdf.
• E Mayfield, AW Black_Analyzing Wikipedia Deletion Debates with a Group Decision-Making Forecast Model_Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3 (CSCW), 2019 (pdf)
• A Chaudhary, SA Hayati, N Otani, AW Black_What A Sunny Day: Toward Emoji-Sensitive Irony Detection_W-NUT 2019 (pdf)
• W Du, AW Black_Learning to Order Graph Elements with Application to Multilingual Surface Realization_Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation 2019 (pdf)
• IC Etinger, AW Black_Formality Style Transfer for Noisy, User-generated Conversations: Extracting Labeled, Parallel Data from Unlabeled Corpora_Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019), 11-16 (pdf)
• J Route, S Hillis, IC Etinger, H Zhang, AW Black_Multimodal, Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Low-Resource Languages_Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource Languages. 2019 (pdf)
• Zhou, Yiheng, He He, Alan W. Black, and Yulia Tsvetkov._"A Dynamic Strategy Coach for Effective Negotiation."_In Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 367-378. 2019. (pdf)
• Mehri, Shikib, Alan W. Black, and Maxine Eskenazi._"CMU GetGoing: An Understandable and Memorable Dialog System for Seniors."_Dialog For Good Workshop on Speech and Language Technology Serving Society, Stockholm, 10 September, 2019 (pdf)
• Du, Wenchao, Louis-Philippe Morency, Jeffrey Cohn, and Alan W. Black._"Bag-of-Acoustic-Words for Mental Health Assessment: A Deep Autoencoding Approach."_Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria. (pdf)
• Steven Hillis, Anushree Prasanna Kumar, Alan W. Black.Unsupervised Phonetic and Word Level Discovery for Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria (pdf)
• X Li, Z Zhou, S Dalmia, AW Black, F Metze_SANTLR: Speech Annotation Toolkit for Low Resource Languages_Show and Tell, Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria (pdf)
• Peter Wu, SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Alan W. Black, Eric Nyberg _Ordinal Triplet Loss: Investigating Sleepiness Detection from Speech_Interspeech 2019, Graz Austria. (pdf)
• X Li, S Dalmia, AW Black and F Metze_Multilingual Speech Recognition with Corpus Relatedness Sampling_ Interspeech 2019, Graz Austria. (pdf)
• SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Alan W. Black_Variational Attention Using Articulatory Priors for Generating Code Mixed Speech Using Monolingual Corpora_Interspeech 2019, Graz Austria. (pdf)
• Ewan Dunbar, Robin Algayres, Julien Karadayi, Mathieu Bernard, Juan Benjumea, Xuan-Nga Cao, Lucie Miskic, Charlotte Dugrain, Lucas Ondel, Alan W. Black, Laurent Besacier, Sakriani Sakti, Emmanuel Dupoux_The Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019: TTS Without T_Interspeech 2019, Graz Austria. (pdf)
• Elijah Mayfield, Michael Madaio, Shrimai Prabhumoye, David Gerritsen, Brittany McLaughlin, Ezekiel Dixon-Roman, Alan W Black_Equity Beyond Bias in Language Technologies for Education_Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications 2019 pp 444-460. (pdf)
• K Chandu, S Prabhumoye, R Salakhutdinov, AW Black_"My Way of Telling a Story": Persona based Grounded Story Generation_2019 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling, 11-21 (pdf)
• K Kurita, N Vyas, A Pareek, AW Black, Y Tsvetkov_Quantifying Social Biases in Contextual Word Representations_1st ACL Workshop on Gender Bias for Natural Language Processing 2019. (pdf)
• P Gupta, VB Kumar, M Bhutani, AW Black_WriterForcing: Generating more interesting story endings_2019 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling (pdf)
• Du, Wenchao, and Alan W. Black._"Boosting Dialog Response Generation."_Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2019. (pdf)
• Chandu, Khyathi, Eric Nyberg, and Alan W. Black._"Storyboarding of Recipes: Grounded Contextual Generation."_in Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 6040-6046. 2019. (pdf)
• Prabhumoye, Shrimai, Elijah Mayfield, and Alan W. Black._"Principled Frameworks for Evaluating Ethics in NLP Systems."_Widening NLP Workshop at ACL 2019 (pdf)
• E Salesky, M Sperber, AW Black_Exploring Phoneme-Level Speech Representations for End-to-End Speech Translation_ACL 2019 (pdf)
• T Manzini, YC Lim, Y Tsvetkov, AW Black.Black is to criminal as caucasian is to police: Detecting and removing multiclass bias in word embeddings NAACL-HLT 2019 (pdf)
• Wenchao Du and Alan W Black.Top-Down Structurally-Constrained Neural Response Generation with Lexicalized Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar NAACL-HLT 2019 (pdf)
• Alan W Black.CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK. (pdf) dataset
• N Vyas, SK Rallabandi, L Morishetti, E Hovy, AW Black.Learning Disentangled Representation in Latent Stochastic Models: A Case Study with Image Captioning ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK. (pdf)
• S Dalmia, X Li, AW Black, F Metze.Phoneme Level Language Models for Sequence Based Low Resource ASR ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK. (pdf)
• Sunayana Sitaram, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Alan W Black, A Survey of Code-switched Speech and Language Processing, (2019),arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00784

2018

• K Zhou, S Prabhumoye, AW Black_A Dataset for Document Grounded Conversations_ EMNLP 2018dataset (pdf)
• T Manzini, A Black_Towards Improving Intelligibility of Black-Box Speech Synthesizers in Noise_ International Conference on Speech and Computer, 367-376, 2018 (pdf)
• W Du, AW Black_Data Augmentation for Neural Online Chat Response Selection_ Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SCAI: The 2nd Int'l Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI, pages 52 (pdf)
• S Dalmia, X Li, F Metze, AW Black_Domain Robust Feature Extraction for Rapid Low Resource ASR Development_ SLT 2018, Athens. (pdf)
• Patrick Littell, Tian Tian, Ruochen Xu, Zaid Sheikh, David Mortensen, Lori Levin, Francis Tyers, Hiroaki Hayashi, Graham Horwood, Steve Sloto, Emily Tagtow, Alan Black, Yiming Yang, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard Hovy_The ARIEL-CMU situation frame detection pipeline for LoReHLT16: a model translation approach_ Machine Translation 32 (1-2), 105-126, 2018 (pdf)
• S Prabhumoye, Y Tsvetkov, R Salakhutdinov, AW Black_Style transfer through back-translation_ ACL 2018, Melbourne. (pdf)
• Odette Scharenborg, Laurent Besacier, Alan Black, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Florian Metze, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Stueker, Pierre Godard, Markus Mueller, Lucas Ondel, Shruti Palaskar, Philip Arthur, Francesco Ciannella, Mingxing Du, Elin Larsen, Danny Merkx, Rachid Riad, Liming Wang, Emmanuel Dupoux_Linguistic unit discovery from multi-modal inputs in unwritten languages: Summary of the "Speaking Rosetta" JSALT 2017 workshop_ ICASSP 2018 Calgary. (pdf)
• Siddharth Dalmia, Ramon Sanabria, Florian Metze and Alan W Black_Sequence-based multi-lingual low resource speech recognition_ pp 4909-4913, ICASSP 2018 Calgary.
• P Baljekar, SK Rallabandi, AW Black_An Investigation of Convolution Attention Based Models for Multilingual Speech Synthesis of Indian Languages_ Proc. Interspeech 2018, 2474-2478 (pdf)
• SK Rallabandi, B Karki, C Viegas, E Nyberg, AW Black_Investigating Utterance Level Representations for Detecting Intent from Acoustics_ Proc. Interspeech 2018, 516-520 (pdf)
• A Ravichander, AW Black_An Empirical Study of Self-Disclosure in Spoken Dialogue Systems_ SIGdial 2018 (pdf)
• K Lee, T Zhao, AW Black, M Eskenazi_DialCrowd: A toolkit for easy dialog system assessment_ SIGdial 2018 (pdf)
• Khyathi Chandu, Ekaterina Loginova, Vishal Gupta, Josef van Genabith, Guenter Neuman, Manoj Chinnakotla, Eric Nyberg, Alan W Black_Code-Mixed Question Answering Challenge: Crowd-sourcing Data and Techniques_ Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching, 2018 (pdf)
• K Chandu, T Manzini, S Singh, AW Black_Language informed modeling of code-switched text_ Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching, 2018 (pdf)
• SK Rallabandi, S Sitaram, AW Black_Automatic Detection of Code-switching Style from Acoustics_ Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguist ic Code-Switching, 2018 (pdf)
• P Geetha, K Chandu, AW Black_Tackling Code-Switched NER: Participation of CMU_ Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching, 2018 (pdf)

2017

• Ting-Yao Hu, Chirag Raman, Salvador Medina Maza, Liangke Gui, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Robert E. Frederking, Louis-Philippe Morency, Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi:_Integrating Verbal and Nonverbal Input into a Dynamic Response Spoken Dialogue System_AAAI 2017: 5091-5092 (pdf)
• Shrimai Prabhumoye, Samridhi Choudhary, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Christopher Bogart, Carolyn Penstein Rose, Alan W Black."Linguistic Markers of Influence in Informal Interactions" NLP+CSS, ACL 2017 (pdf)
• Odette Scharenborg, Francesco Ciannella, Shruti Palaskar, Alan Black, Florian Metze, Lucas Ondel, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson_"Building an ASR System for a Low research Language Through the Adaptation of a High-resource Language ASR System: Preliminary Results"_ICNLSSP 2017, Casablanca, Morocco (pdf)
• SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Pallavi Baljekar and Alan W Black."The CMU System for Blizzard Challenge 2017", Blizzard Workshop,INTERSPEECH 2017, Sweden Aug 2017
• Pallavi Baljekar, SaiKrishna Rallabandi and Alan W Black. "The CMU System for the Blizzard Machine Learning Challenge 2017", ASRU 2017, Okinawa, Japan Dec 2017 (pdf)
• Miguel Varela Ramos, Alan W. Black, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso, Nuno Fonseca_"Segment Level Voice Conversion with Recurrent Neural Networks"_Interspeech 2017, Stockholm Sweden (pdf)
• Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Alan W Black, and Manish Shrivastava_WebShodh: A Code Mixed Factoid Question Answering System for Web_International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages, 2017. (pdf)
• Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Sunayana Sitaram, Alan W Black_"Speech Synthesis for Mixed-Language Navigation Instructions"_Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden (pdf)
• SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Alan W Black_"On building mixed lingual speech synthesis systems"_Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden (pdf)
• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Alan Black, Lucas Ondel, Odette Scharenborg, Francesco Ciannella_"Image2speech: Automatically generating audio descriptions of images"_ICNLSSP 2017, Casablanca, Morocco (pdf)
• Zhou Yu, Alan W Black and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "Learning Conversational Systems that Interleave Task and Non-Task Content", IJCAI 2017 (pdf)

2016

• Zhou Yu, Leah Nicolich-Henkin, Alan W Black, and Alex I Rudnicky. 2016. _"A Wizard-of-Oz Study on A Non-Task-Oriented Dialog Systems That Reacts to User Engagement"_SIGDIAL 2016 (pdf)
• Leah Nicolich-Henkin, Carolyn Rose and Alan W Black_Initiations and Interruptions in a Spoken Dialog System_SIGDIAL 2016 (pdf)
• Zhou Yu, Xinrui He, Alan W Black and Alexander I. Rudnicky, "User Engagement Modeling in Virtual Agents Under Different Cultural Contexts", IVA 2016 (pdf)
• Zhou Yu, Ziyu Xu, Alan W Black and Alexander Rudnicky, "Chatbot evaluation and database expansion via crowdsourcing", In Proceedings of the RE-WOCHAT workshop of LREC, 2016 (pdf)
• Zhou Yu, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Robert Mundkowsky, Patrick Lange, Alan Black, Alexei Ivanov, David Suendermann-Oeft, "Multimodal HALEF: An Open-Source Modular Web-Based Multimodal HALEF", IWSDS 2016 (pdf)
• Andrew Wilkinson, Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W. Black:"Deriving Phonetic Transcriptions and Discovering Word Segmentations for Speech-to-Speech Translation in Low-Resource Settings". INTERSPEECH 2016: 3086-3090 (pdf)
• Ran Zhao, Tanmay Sinha, Alan W. Black, Justine Cassell:"Socially-Aware Virtual Agents: Automatically Assessing Dyadic Rapport from Temporal Patterns of Behavior". IVA 2016: 218-233 (pdf)
• Ran Zhao, Tanmay Sinha, Alan W. Black, Justine Cassell:"Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog System". SIGDIAL Conference 2016: 381-392 (pdf)
• Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Alan W Black, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura_"Postfilters to modify the modulation spectrum for statistical parametric speech synthesis"_IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP) Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages755-767 (pdf)
• Pallavi Baljekar and Alan W Black. "Utterance Selection Techniques for TTS Systems using Found Speech", SSW 2016, Sunnyvale, USA Sept 2016 (pdf)
• Sunayana Sitaram, Sai Krishna Rallabandi, Shruti Rijhwani, Alan W Black,"Experiments with Cross-lingual Systems for Synthesis of Code-Mixed Text", Speech Synthesis Workshop 9 (2016), Sunnyvale, USA (pdf)
• Andrew Wilkinson, Alok Parlikar, Sunayana Sitaram, Tim White, Alan W Black, Suresh Bazaj,"Open-Source Consumer-Grade Indic Text To Speech", Speech Synthesis Workshop 9 (2016), Sunnyvale, USA. (pdf)
• Catharine Oertel, Joakim Gustafson, Alan W. Black_"Towards Building an Attentive Artificial Listener: On the Perception of Attentiveness in Feedback Utterances"_Interspeech 2016 (pdf)
• Catharine Oertel, Jose Lopes, Yu Yu, Kenneth Alberto Funes Mora, Joakim Gustafson, Alan W. Black, Jean-Marc Odobez:"Towards building an attentive artificial listener: on the perception of attentiveness in audio-visual feedback tokens". ICMI 2016 (pdf)
• Catharine Oertel, Joakim Gustafson, Alan W. Black:"On data driven parametric backchannel synthesis for expressing attentiveness in conversational agents". MA3HMI@ICMI 2016 (pdf)
• Alok Parlikar, Sunayana Sitaram, Andrew Wilkinson and Alan W Black,"The Festvox Indic Frontend for Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion", Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia (pdf)
• Yulia Tsvetkov, Sunayana Sitaram, Manaal Faruqui, Guillaume Lample, Patrick Littell, David Mortensen, Alan W Black, Lori Levin and Chris Dyer."Polyglot Neural Language Models: Case Study in Cross-Lingual Phonetic Representation Learning", Proc. NAACL'16. (pdf)
• Sunayana Sitaram and Alan W Black,"Speech Synthesis of Code Mixed Text", LREC 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia (pdf)
• Wang Ling, Luis Marujo, Chris Dyer, Alan W. Black, Isabel Trancoso: Mining Parallel Corpora from Sina Weibo and Twitter. Computational Linguistics 42(2): 307-343 (2016) (pdf)

2015

• Lara J. Martin, Andrew Wilkinson, Sai Sumanth Miryala, Vivian Robison, Alan W. Black:"Utterance classification in speech-to-speech translation for zero-resource languages in the hospital administration domain" ASRU 2015: 303-309 (pdf)
• Sunayana Sitaram, Serena Jeblee and Alan W Black,"Using Acoustics to Improve Pronunciation for Synthesis of Low Resource Languages", Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany. (pdf)
• Sunayana Sitaram, Alok Parlikar, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli and Alan W Black,"Universal Grapheme-based Speech Synthesis", Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany (pdf)
• Justin Chiu, Yajie Miao, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky:"Distributed representation-based spoken word sense induction". INTERSPEECH 2015: 1358-1362 (pdf)
• Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W. Black, Maxine Eskenazi:"An Incremental Turn-Taking Model with Active System Barge-in for Spoken Dialog Systems". SIGDIAL Conference 2015: 42-50 (pdf)
• Pallavi Baljekar, Sunayana Sitaram, Prasannakumar Muthukumar and Alan W Black,"Using Articulatory Features and Inferred Phonological Segments in Zero Resource Speech Processing", Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany. (pdf)
• Wang Ling, Tiago Luis, Luis Marujo, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Silvio Amir, Chris Dyer, Alan W Black, Isabel Trancoso,_"Finding Function in Form: Compositional Character Models for Open Vocabulary Word Representation"_EMNLP/CoNLL, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015 (pdf)
• Wang Ling, Lin Chu-Cheng, Yulia Tsvetkov, Silvio Amir, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Chris Dyer, Alan W Black, Isabel Trancoso_"Not All Contexts Are Created Equal: Better Word Representations with Variable Attention"_EMNLP/CoNLL, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015 (pdf)
• Luis Marujo, Wang Ling, Isabel Trancoso, Chris Dyer, Alan W Black, Anatole Gershman, David Martins De Matos, Joao Paulo Neto, Jaime Carbonell,_"Automatic Keyword Extraction on Twitter"_ACL 2015 ,Beijing, China, July 2015 (pdf)
• Wang Ling, Chris Dyer, Alan W Black, Isabel Trancoso,_"Two/Too Simple Adaptations of Word2Vec for Syntax Problems"_NAACL2015, Denver, USA, June 2015 (pdf)
• Alan W Black and Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, "Random Forests for Statistical Speech Synthesis" Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany. (pdf)
• Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Alan W Black, Satoshi Nakamura_"Modulation spectrum-constrained trajectory training algorithm for GMM-based voice conversion"_ICASSP 2015. (pdf)
• Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Alan W Black, Satoshi Nakamura_"Parameter generation algorithm considering modulation spectrum for HMM-based speech synthesis"_ICASSP 2015 (pdf)

2014

• Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson, Antoine Raux, Blaise Thomson, Alan W. Black, Deepak Ramachandran: The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series. AI Magazine 35(4): 121-124 (2014)
• Jianhua Tao, Keikichi Hirose, Keiichi Tokuda, Alan W. Black, Simon King:_Introduction to the Issue on Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis_J. Sel. Topics Signal Processing 8(2): 170-172 (2014)
• Wang Ling, Luis Marujo, Chris Dyer, Alan W Black, Isabel Trancoso_Crowdsourcing High-Quality Parallel Data Extraction from Twitter_Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Baltimore, USA. (pdf)
• Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, Satoshi Nakamura:_Modulation spectrum-based post-filter for GMM-based Voice Conversion_APSIPA 2014: 1-4
• Shinnosuke Takamichi, Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, Satoshi Nakamura:_Modified post-filter to recover modulation spectrum for HMM-based speech synthesis_GlobalSIP 2014: 547-551
• Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, Alan W. Black:_Automatic discovery of a phonetic inventory for unwritten languages for statistical speech synthesis_ICASSP 2014: 2594-2598 (pdf)

2013

• Joao Miranda, Joao Paulo da Silva Neto, Alan W. Black:_Improved punctuation recovery through combination of multiple speech streams_ASRU 2013: 132-137 (pdf)
• Dirk Hovy, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Alok Parlikar, Caroline Vaughn, Adam C. Lammert, Eduard H. Hovy, Alan W. Black:_Analysis and modeling of "focus" in context_INTERSPEECH 2013: 402-406 (pdf)
• A Parlikar, AW Black_Minimum error rate training for phrasing in speech synthesis_Eighth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (pdf)
• Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, Alan W Black and H. Timothy Bunnell_Optimizations and Fitting Procedures for the Liljencrants-Fant model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis_INTERSPEECH 2013: 397-401 (pdf)
• Zhou Yu, David Gerritsen, Amy Ogan, Alan Black and Justine Cassell_Automatic Prediction of Friendship via Multi-model Dyadic Features_SIGDIAL 2013 (pdf)
• Wang Ling, Guang Xiang, Chris Dyer, Alan W. Black, Isabel Trancoso:_Microblogs as Parallel Corpora_ACL (1) 2013: 176-186 (pdf)
• Wang Ling, Chris Dyer, Alan W. Black, Isabel Trancoso:Paraphrasing 4 Microblog Normalization. EMNLP 2013: 73-84 (pdf)
• Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Luis C. Oliveira, Alan W. Black:_Accent Group modeling for improved prosody in statistical parameteric speech synthesis_ICASSP 2013: 6890-6894 (pdf)
• Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Luis C. Oliveira, Alan W. Black:_A style capturing approach to F0 transformation in voice conversion_ICASSP 2013: 6915-6919 (pdf)
• Joao Miranda, Joao Paulo da Silva Neto, Alan W. Black:_Improving ASR by integrating lecture audio and slides_ICASSP 2013: 8131-8135 (pdf)
• Sunayana Sitaram, Sukhada Palkar, Yun-Nung Chen, Alok Parlikar, Alan W. Black:_Bootstrapping Text-to-Speech for speech processing in languages without an orthography_ICASSP 2013: 7992-7996 (pdf)

2012

• Anumanchipalli, G., Oliveira, L. and Black A._Intent Transfer in Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation_SLT 2012, Miami, FL. (pdf)
• Miranda, J., Neto, J., and Black A. _Recovery of acronyms, out-of-lattice words and pronunciations from parallel multilingual speech_SLT 2012, Miami, FL. (pdf)
• Palkar, S., Black, A., and Parlikar, A._Text-To-Speech for Languages without an Orthography_Coling 2013, Mumbai, India. (pdf)
• Ling, W., Tomeh, N., Ziang, G., Black, A., and Trancoso, I._Improving Relative-Entropy Pruning using Statistical Significance_Coling 2013, Mumbai, India. (pdf)
• Anumachipalli, G., Meinedo, H., Bugalho, M., Trancoso, I., Oliveira, L. and Black. A._Text-dependent pathological voice detection_Interspeech 2012, Portland, OR. (pdf)
• Bollepalli, B., Black, A., and Prahallad, K._Modeling a Noisy-channel for Voice Conversion Using Articulatory Features_Interspeech 2012, Portland, OR. (pdf)
• Prahallad, K., Kumar, N., Keri, V., Rajendran, S., and Black, A._The IIIT-H Indic Speech Databases_Interspeech 2012, Portland, OR. (pdf databases)
• Parlikar, A. and Black, A._Modeling Pause-Duration for Style-Specific Speech Synthesis_Interspeech 2012, Portland, OR. (pdf)
• Miranda, J., Neto, J. and Black A._Parallel combination of speech streams for improved ASR_Interspeech 2012, Portland, OR. (pdf)
• Wang, W., Finkelstein, S., Ogan, A., Black, A., and Cassell, J.,_"Love ya, jerkface": using Sparse Log-Linear Models to Build Positive (and Impolite) Relationships with Teens_SIGdial 2012, Seoul, Korea. (pdf)
• Ling, W., Graca, J., Trancoso, I and Black A._Entropy-based Pruning for Phrase-based Machine Translation_EMNLP 2012, Jeju Island, Korea. (pdf)
• Stefan Steidl, Tim Polzehl, H. Timothy Bunnell, Ying Dou, Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, Daniel Perry, Kishore Prahallad, Callie Vaughn, Alan W. Black, and Florian Metze, Emotion Identification for Evaluation of Synthesized Emotional Speech Speech Prosody 2012, Shanghai, China. (pdf)
• Black, A., Bunnell, T., Dou, Y., Muthukumar, P., Metze, F., Perry, D., Polzehl, T., Prahallad, K., Steidl, S., and Vaughn, C. Articulatory Features for Expressive Speech Synthesis, ICASSP 2012 Kyoto, Japan. (pdf)
• Parlikar, A. and Black, A. Data-driven Phrasing for Speech Synthesis in Low-Resource Languages, ICASSP 2012 Kyoto, Japan. (pdf)

2011

• Black, A., Bunnell, T., Dou, Y., Muthukumar, P., Metze, F., Perry, D., Polzehl, T., Prahallad, K., Steidl, S., and Vaughn, C. New Parameterization for Emotional Speech Synthesis: Final Report, CLSP Summer Workshop Johns Hopkins University, 2011. (pdf)
• Ling, W., Calado, P., Martins, B., Trancoso, I., Black, A., and Coheur, L.Named Entity Translation using Anchor Texts, IWSLT 2011, San Francisco, CA. (pdf)
• Ling, W., Graca, J., de Matos, D., Trancoso, I., and Black, A._Discriminative Phrase-based Lexicalized Reordering Models using Weighted Reordering Graphs_IJCNLP 2011, pages 47-55, Chiang Mai, Thailand. (pdf)
• Fandrianto, A., Langner, B., and Black, A. Using Speaker ID to Discover Repeat Callers of a Spoken Dialog System, Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy. (pdf)
• Parlikar, A. and Black, A. A Grammar Based Approach to Style Specific Phrase Prediction, Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy. (pdf)
• Anumanchipalli, G., Oliveira, L., and Black, A., A Statistical Phrase/Accent Model for Intonation Modeling, Interspeech 2011 , Florence, Italy (pdf)
• Metze, F., Black, A. and Polzehl, T. _A Review of Personality in Voice-based Man-Machine Interaction_In Proc. Human Computer Interaction (HCI) International, Orlando, FL; USA, July 2011. Springer LNCS. (pdf)
• Black, A., Burger, S., Conkie, A., Hastie, H., Keizer, S., Lemon, O., Merigaud, N., Parent, G., Schubiner, G., Thomson, B., Williams, J., Yu, K., Young, S., and Eskenazi, M. Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results, SIGDial 2011 pp 22-27, Portland Oregon. (pdf)
• Anumanchipalli, G., Prahallad, K., Black, A. Festvox: Tools for Creation and Analysis of Large Speech Corpora. in Proceedings of Very Large Scale Phonetics Research, UPenn, 2011. (pdf)

2010

• Black, A., Burger, S., Langner, B., Parent, G., and Eskenazi, M._Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010_Spoken Language Technologies 2010, Berkeley, CA. (pdf)
• Suendermann, D., Hoege, H. and Black, A.Challenges in Speech Synthesis 2010 in Speech Technology: Theory and Applications, eds Chen, F. and Jokinen, K. Springer
• Langner, B., Vogel, S., and Black, A._Evaluating a dialog language generation system: comparing the Mountain System to other NLG approaches_Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan. (pdf)
• Parlikar, A., Black, A., and Vogel, S._Improving Speech Synthesis of Machine Translation Output_Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan. (pdf)
• Schultz, T. and Black, A._Multilingual Speech Processing -- Rapid Language Adaptation Tools and Techniques_Interspeech 2010 Tutorial
• Anumanchipalli, G., Cheng, Y., Fernandez, J., Huang, X., Mao, Q., and Black A._KLATTSTAT: Knowledge-based Parametric Speech Synthesis_Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW7), Japan, 2010. (pdf)
• Anumanchipalli, G., Muthukumar, P., Nallasamy, U., Parlikar, A., Black, A., and Langner, B._Improving Speech Synthesis for Noisy Environments_Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW7), Japan, 2010. (pdf)
• Prahallad, K. and Black, A. _Handling Large Audio Files in Audio Books for Building Synthetic Voices_Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW7), Japan, 2010. (pdf)
• Prahallad, K. Raghavendra, V. and Black, A._Learning Speaker-Specific Phrase Breaks for Text-to-Speech Systems_Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW7), Japan, 2010. (pdf)
• Desai, S., Black, A., Yegnanarayana, B. and Prahallad, K._Spectral Mapping Using Artificial Neural Networks for Voice Conversion_IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 954-964, July 2010.
• Prahallad, K. Raghavendra, V. and Black, A._Semi-Supervised Learning of Acoustic Driven Prosodic Phrase Breaks for Text-to-Speech Systems_5th International Conference on Speech Prosody (Speech Prosody 2010), Chicago, Illinois, May 2010.
• Anumanchipalli, G. and Black, A._Speech Synthesis under resource-scarce conditions_SLTU 2010, Penang, Malaysia, 2010. (pdf)
• Prahallad, K. and Black, A. _Segmentation of Monologues in Audio Books for Building Synthetic Voices from Audio Books_Accepted as letter for publication in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2010 2009
• Jin, Q., Toth, A., Schultz, T., and Black, A._"Speaker De-identification via Voice Transformation"_ASRU 2009, Merano, Italy. (pdf)
• Al-Haj, H., Hsiao, R., Lane, I., Black, A., and Waibel, A._"Pronunciation Modeling for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition"_ASRU 2009, Merano, Italy. (pdf)
• Gonzalez-Brenes, J., Black, A., and Eskenazi, M._"Describing Spoken Dialogue Systems Differences"_IWSDS 2009, Irsee, Germany. (pdf)
• Langner, B., and Black, A._"MOUNTAIN: A Translation-based Approach to Natural Language Generation for Dialog Systems"_IWSDS 2009, Irsee, Germany. (pdf)
• Zen, H,. Tokuda, K., and Black, A.,_"Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis"_Speech Communication, 51(11), pp 1039-1064, November 2009.
• Black, A., and Eskenazi, M.,_"The Spoken Dialogue Challenge"_SIGDIAL 2009, Queen Mary University, London. 2009. (pdf)
• Heiga Zen, Keiichiro Oura, Takashi Nose, Junichi Yamagishi, Shinji Sako, Tomoki Toda, Takashi Masuko, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda,_Recent development of the HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS)_2009 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), 2009 (pdf)
• Bach, N., Hsiao, R., Eck, M., Charoenpornsawat, P., Vogel, S., Schultz, T., Lane, I., Waibel, A., and Black, A._"Incremental Adaptation of Speech-to-Speech Translation "_NAACL-HLT 2009, Boulder, CO, 2009. (pdf)
• Black, A., and Kominek, J.,_"Optimzing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis"_ICASSP 2009, Taipei, Taiwan. 2009. (pdf)
• Desai, S., Veera Raghavendra, E., Yegnanarayana, B., Black, A. and Prahallad, K., _"Voice Conversion using Artificial Neural Networks"_ICASSP 2009, Taipei, Taiwan. 2009. (pdf)
• Jin, Q., Toth, A., Schultz, T,, Black, A.,_"Voice Convergin': Speaker De-identification by voice transformation"_ICASSP 2009, Taipei, Taiwan. 2009. (pdf) 2008
• E. Veera Raghavendra, Srinivas Desai, B Yegnanarayana, Alan W Black, Kishore Prahallad_Global Syllable Set for Building Speech Synthesis in Indian Languages_in Proceedings of IEEE workshop on Spoken Language Technologies, Goa, India, December 2008. (pdf)
• E. Veera Raghavendra, B Yegnanarayana, Alan W Black, Kishore Prahallad _Building Sleek Synthesizer for Multi-lingual Screen Reader_in Proceedings of Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008 (pdf)
• Kominek, J., Badaskar, S., Schultz, T. and Black, A.Improving Speech Systems Built from Very Little Data, Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia. (pdf)
• Toth, A., and Black, A.Incorporating durational modification in voice transformation, Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia. (pdf)
• Eskenazi, M., Black, A., Raux, A. and Langner, B.Let's Go Lab: a platform for evaluation of spoken dialog systems with real world users, Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia. (pdf)
• E. Veera Raghavendra, Srinivas Desai, B Yegnanarayana, Alan W Black, Kishore Prahallad, _Blizzard 2008: Experiments on Unit Size for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis_in Blizzard Challenge 2008 workshop, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008 (pdf)
• Alan W Black, Christina L. Bennett, John Kominek, Brian Langner, Kishore Prahallad, Arthur Toth_CMU Blizzard 2008: Optimally using a large database for unit selection synthesis_in Blizzard Challenge 2008 workshop, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008 (pdf)
• Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Alan W Black, Tanja Schultz, Robert Frederking and Jerry Weltman, _Speech Translation for Triage of Emergency Phone calls in Minority Languages_Speech Translation for Medical and Other Safety-Critical Applications (SLT4MED), International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Manchester, England, 2008.
• Udhyakumar, N., Black, A. Schultz, T, Frederking, R.NineOneOne: Recognizing and classifying speech for handling minority language emergency calls, LREC 2008 Marakesh, Morocco. (pdf)
• Raux, A., Langner, B., Black, A. and Eskenazi, M. _Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems_ACL/HLT 2008 Tutorial, Columbus, Ohio.
• Kominek, J., Schultz, T. and Black, A. Synthesizer voice quality on new languages calibrated with mel-cepstral distorion, SLTU 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam. (pdf)
• Jin, Q., Toth, A., Black, A. and Schultz, T.Is voice transformation a threat to speaker identification?, ICASSP2008, Las Vegas, NV. (pdf)
• Anumanchipalli, G., Prahallad, K. and Black A. (2008)Significance of Early Tagged Contextual Graphemes in Grapheme Based Speech Synthesis and Recognition Systems, ICASSP2008, Las Vegas, NV. (pdf)
• Schultz, T. and Black, A. (2008)Rapid Language Adaptation Tools and Technologies for Multilingual Speech Processing Systems, ICASSP2008, Tutorial.
• Toda, T., Black, A., and Tokuda, K. (2008)Statistical mapping between articulatory movements and acoustic spectrum using a Gaussian mixture model, Speech Communiation, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 215-227, Mar. 2008 2007
• Toda, T., Black, A., and Tokuda, K. (2007)_Voice Conversion Based on Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Spectral Parameter Trajectory_IEEE Transations of Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 15(8) pp 2222-2236.
• Bach, N., Eck, M, Charoenpornsawat, P., Koehler, T., Stueker, S., Nyugen, T., Hsiao, R., Waibel, A., Schultz, T., and Black, A. (2007)_The CMU TransTac 2007 Eyes-free and Hands-free two-way speech-to-speech translation systems_IWSLT 2007, Trento, Italy. (pdf)
• Black, A. (2007) _Speech Synthesis for Educational Technology_SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, Farmington, PA. (pdf)
• Prahallad, K., Toth, A. and Black, A. (2007)_Automatic Building of Synthetic Voices from Large Multi-Paragraph Speech Databases_Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium. (pdf)
• Langner, B., and Black, A._uGloss: A Framework for Improving Spoken Language Generation Understandability_Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium. (pdf)
• Schultz, T., Black, A., Badaskar, S., Hornyak, M., and Kominek, J. (2007)_SPICE: Web-based Tools for Rapid Language Adaptation in Speech Processing Systems_Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium. (pdf)
• Black, A., Bennett, C., Blanchard, B., Kominek, J., Langner, B.. Prahallad, K., Toth, A. (2007)._CMU Blizzard 2007: a hybrid acoustic unit selection system from statistically predicted parameters_Blizzard Challenge 2007 Workshop, Bonn, Germany. (pdf)
• Langner, B., and Black A. (2007),Understandable Production of Massive Synthesis, ISCA SSW6, Bonn Germany. (pdf)
• Kominek, J., Schultz, T., and Black. A. (2007)Voice Building from Insufficient Data - Classroom Experiences with Web-Based Language Development Tools, ISCA SSW6, Bonn Germany. (pdf)
• Zen, H., Nose, T., Yamagishi, J., Sako, S., Masuko, T., Black, A., and Tokuda, K. (2007)The HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS) Version 2.0, ISCA SSW6, Bonn Germany. (pdf)
• Raj, A., Sarkar, T., Pammi, S. C., Yuvaraj S., Bansal, M., Prahallad K., and Black, A. (2007)Text Processing for Text-to-Speech Systems in Indian Languages, ISCA SSW6, Bonn Germany. (pdf)
• Toth A., and Black A. (2007)Using Articulatory Position Data in Voice Transformation, ISCA SSW6, Bonn Germany. (pdf)
• Kumar R., Gangadharaiah R., Rao S., Prahallad K., Rose C. Black, A. (2007)Building a Better Indian English Voice Using "More Data", ISCA SSW6, Bonn Germany. (pdf)
• Black, A., Zen, H., and Tokuda, K, (2007)Statistical Parametric Synthesis, ICASSP 2007, Hawaii. (pdf)

2006

• Bohus, D., Langner, B., Raux, A., Black, A., Eskenazi, M., and Rudnicky, A. (2006), Online Supervised Learning of Non-understanding Recovery Policies, SLT 2006, Aruba.
• Black, A. (2006), CLUSTERGEN: A Statistical Parametric Synthesizer using Trajectory Modeling, Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Langner, B., Kumar, R., Chan, A. Gu, L., and Black A. (2006),Generating Time-Constrained Audio Presentations of Structured Information, Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Hsiao, R., Venugopal, A., Zhang, Y., Zollman, A., Koehler, T., Charoenpornsawat, P., Vogel, S., Black, A., Schultz, T., and Waibel, A.Optimizing Components for Handheld Two-way Speech Translation for an English Iraqi Arabic system, Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Raux, A., Bohus, D., Langner, B., Black, A., and Eskenazi, M. (2006)Doing Research on a Deployed Spoken Dialogue System: One Year of Let's Go! Experience, Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Tomokiyo, L., Peterson, K., Black, A., and Lenzo, K. (2006)Intelligibility of Machine Translation Output in Speech Synthesis, Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Black, A., Tokuda, K., King, S., Hirai, T., Picheny, M. and Nakamura S.(2005)_Blizzard Challenge -- 2006:_satellite workshop of Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA. (papers)
• Bennett, C. and Black, A. (2006), The Blizzard Challenge 2006, Blizzard Challenge 2006, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Kominek, J. and Black, A. (2006), The Blizzard Challenge 2006 CMU Entry introducing hybrid trajectory-selection synthesis, Blizzard Challenge 2006, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Kominek, J, and Black, A. (2006) Learning Pronunciation Dictionaries: Language Complexity and Word Selection Strategies, Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, pp 232--239, New York City, USA. (pdf).
• Tokuda, K. and Black, A. (2006) The Blizzard Challenge (in Japanese), tutorial paper at Acoustic Society of Japan. (pdf).
• Black, A. (2006)_"Multilingual Speech Synthesis"_in Multilingual Speech Processing eds Schultz, T. and Kirchhoff, K., Elsevier, Academic Press.
• Huggins-Daines, D., Kumar, M., Chan, A., Mosur, R., Black, A. and Rudnicky, A. (2006)_POCKETSPHINX: A Free, Real-Time Continuous Speech Recognition System for Hand-Held Devices_ICASSP2006, Toulouse, France (pdf).
• Suendermann, D., Hoege, H., Bonafonte, A., Ney, H., Black, A., and Narayanan, S. (2006)_Text-Independent Voice Conversion Based on Unit Selection_ICASSP2006, Toulouse, France (pdf).
• Prahallad, K., Black, A. and Mosur, R. (2006)_Sub-Phonetic Modeling for Capturing Pronunciation Variation in Conversational Speech Synthesis_ICASSP2006, Toulouse, France (pdf).
• Toth, A. and Black, A. (2006)_Visual Evaluation of Voice Transformation Based on Knowledge of Speaker_ICASSP2006, Toulouse, France (pdf).
• Schultz, T. and Black, A. (2006)_Challenges with Rapid Adaptation of Speech Translation Systems to New Language Pairs_ICASSP2006, Toulouse, France (pdf).
• Black, A. and Schultz, T. (2006), Speaker Clustering for Multilingual Synthesis , Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing, Stellenbosch, South Africa. (pdf)
• Tomokiyo, L., Sisson, C. and Black A. (2006), Mixed-mode Multilinguality in TTS: The Case of Canadian French, Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing, Stellenbosch, South Africa. (pdf)
• Schultz, T., Black, A., Vogel, S. and Woszczyna, M. (2006), _Flexible Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems_IEEE Transactions in Speech and Audio Processing, vol 14 no 2 403-411 March 2006. 2005
• Langner, B. and Black, A. (2005), Using Speech in Noise to Improve Understandability for Elderly Listeners ASRU 2005, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (pdf)
• Suendermann, D., Hoege H., Bonafonte, A., Ney, H., and Black A. (2005)_Residual Prediction Based on Unit Selection_ASRU 2005, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (pdf)
• Prahallad K and Black A, (2005)_A text to speech interface for Universal Digital Library,_Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE, vol.6A, no.11, pp. 1229-1234, Oct 2005 (pdf)
• Black, A., and Tokuda, K., (2005)Blizzard Challenge -- 2005: special session at Interspeech 2005, Lisbon Portgal. (papers)
• Black, A., and Tokuda, K., (2005)_Blizzard Challenge -- 2005: Evaluating corpus-based speech synthesis on common datasets_Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. (pdf)
• Toth, A., and Black, A., (2005)_Cross-Speaker Articulatory Position Data for Phonetic Feature Prediction_Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. (pdf)
• Tomokiyo, L., Black, A., and Lenzo, K. (2005)_Foreign Accents in Synthesis: Development and Evaluation_Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. (pdf)
• Raux, A., Langner, B., Bohus, D., Black, A., and Eskenazi, M. (2005)_Let's Go Public! Taking a Spoken Dialog System to the Real World_Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. (pdf)
• Kominek, J. and Black, A (2005)_Measuring Unsupervised and Acoustic Clustering through Phoneme Pair Merge-and-Split Tests_Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. (pdf)
• Suebvisai, S., Charoenpornsawat, P., Black, A., Woszczyna, M., and Schultz, T., (2005) Thai Automatic Speech Recognition, ICASSP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (pdf)
• Langner, B. and Black, A. (2005), _Improving the Understandability of Speech Synthesis by Modeling Speech in Noise_ICASSP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (pdf)
• Bennett, C. and Black, A., (2005)_Prediction of Pronunciation Variations for Speech Synthesis: A Data-driven approach_ICASSP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (pdf)
• Toda, T., Black, A., and Tokuda, K. (2005)_Spectral Conversion Based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation Considering Global Variance of Converted Parameter_ICASSP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (pdf)
• Carbonell, J., Lavie, A., Levin, L., and Black A. (2005)Language Technologies for Humanitarian Aid, in Technology for Humanitarian Action, eds K Cahill, Fordham University Press. 2004
• Langner, B., Black, A. (2004) An Examination of Speech In Noise and its Effect on Understandability for Natural and Synthetic Speech, Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute, Technical Report CMU-LTI-04-187. (pdf)
• Kominek, J., and Black, A. (2004)A Family-of-Models Approach to HMM-based Segmentation for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis, ICSLP2004, Jeju, Korea, (pdf)
• Toda, T., and Black, A., and Tokuda, K. (2004)Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion Mapping with Gaussian Mixture Model, ICSLP2004, Jeju, Korea, (pdf)
• Maskey, S., Tomokiyo, L., and Black, A. (2004)Bootstrapping Phonetic Lexicons for New Languages, ICSLP2004, Jeju, Korea, (pdf)
• Harris, T., Bannerjee, S., Rudnicky, A., Sison, J., Bodine, K. and Black, A. (2004)_A research platform for multi-agent dialogue dynamics_Proceedings of The IEEE International Workshop on Robotics and Human Interactive Communications. (pdf)
• Tokuda, K., Zen, H. and Black, A. (2004)An HMM-based approach to multilingual speech synthesis, in Narayanan, S. and Alwan, A. (eds) "Text to Speech Synthesis: New Paradigms and Advances", Prentice Hall.
• Toda, T., Black, A. and Tokuda, K. (2004)Mapping from Articulatory Movements to Vocal Tract Spectrum with Gaussian Mixture Model for Articulatory Speech Synthesis, pp 31-36, 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• H/Mariam, S., Kishore, S., Black, A., Kumar, R., and Sangal, R. (2004)_Unit Selection Voice for Amharic Using Festvox_pp 103-107, 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Kominek, J. and Black, A. (2004)_Impact of durational outlier removal from unit selection catalogs_pp 155-160, 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Zhang, J., Toth, A., Collins-Thompson, K. and Black A. (2004) Prominence Prediction For Super-Sentential Prosodic Modeling Based On A New Database, pp 203-208, 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Kominek, J. and Black, A. (2004)_The CMU Arctic speech databases_pp 223-224, 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Langner, B. and Black, A. (2004)_Creating A Database Of Speech In Noise For Unit Selection Synthesis_pp 229-230, 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)
• Black, A. and Lenzo, K. (2004)_Multilingual Text-to-Speech Synthesis_ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada. ( pdf)
• Schultz. T., Alexander, D., Black, A., Petersen, K., Suebvisai, S. and Waibel, A. (2004)_A Thai Speech Translation System For Medical Dialogs_HLT/NAACL 2004, Boston, MA. ( pdf) 2003
• Raux, A. and Black, A. (2003) A Unit Selection Approach to F0 Modeling and Its Application to Emphasis ASRU 2003, St Thomas, US Virgin Is. ( pdf, )
• Black, A. and Lenzo, K. (2003) _Optimal Utterance Selection for Unit Selection Speech Synthesis Databases_International Journal of Speech Technology, 6(4):357-363, October 2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Kishore, S., Black, A., Kumar, R., and Sangal, R. (2003) _Experiments with Unit Selection Speech Databases for Indian Languages_Presented at National seminar on Language Technology Tools: Implementation of Telugu October 2003, Hyderabad, INDIA (pdf)
• Kominek, J. and Black, A. (2003) CMU ARCTIC databases for speech synthesis CMU Language Technologies Institute, Tech Report CMU-LTI-03-177 (pdf,data).
• Black, A. (2003) Unit Selection and Emotional Speech, Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. ( pdf,html)
• Mayfield Tomokiyo, L., Black, A. and Lenzo, K. (2003)Arabic in my Hand: Small-footprint Synthesis of Egyptian Arabic, Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. ( pdf,html)
• Kishore, S. and Black, A. (2003) Unit Size in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis, Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. ( pdf,html)
• Raux, A., Langner, B., Black, A. and Eskenazi, M. (2003) LET'S GO: Improving Spoken Dialog Systems for the Elderly and Non-natives, Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. ( pdf,html)
• Zhang, J., Black, A. and Sproat, R. (2003) Identifying Speakers in Children's Stories for Speech Synthesis, Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. ( pdf,html)
• Waibel, A., Badran, A., Black, A., Frederking, R., Gates, D., Lavie, A., Levin, L., Lenzo, K., Mayfield Tomokiyo, L., Reichert, J., Schultz, T., Wallace, D., Woszczyna, M., and Zhang, J. (2003)Speechalator: two-way speech-to-speech translation on a consumer PDA, Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. (pdf,html)
• Bennett, C. and Black, A. (2003) Using Acoustic Models to Choose Pronunciation Variations for Synthetic Voices, Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. (pdf,html)
• Kominek, J., Bennett, C. and Black, A. (2003) Evaluating and Correcting Phoneme Segmentation for Unit Selection Synthesis, Eurospeech 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. (pdf,html)
• Waibel, A., Badran, A., Black, A., Frederking, R., Gates, D., Lavie, A., Levin, L., Lenzo, K., Mayfield Tomokiyo, L., Reichert, J., Schultz, T., Wallace, D., Woszczyna, M., and Zhang, J. (2003)_Speechalator: two-way speech-to-speech translation in your hand_Demo at HLT-NAACL2003, Edmonton, Canada. ( pdf,html) 2002
• Black, A. (2002)Perfect Synthesis for all of the people all of the time. Keynote, IEEE TTS Workshop 2002, Santa Monica, CA. ( pdf,html,slides.pdf)
• Black, A. and Font Llitjos, A. (2002)_Unit selection without a phoneme set_IEEE TTS Workshop 2002, Santa Monica, CA. ( pdf,html)
• Tokuda, K., Zen, H., and Black, A. (2002)_An HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System applied to English_IEEE TTS Workshop 2002, Santa Monica, CA. ( pdf)
• Black, A., Brown, R., Frederking, R, Lenzo, K. Moody, J, Rudnicky, A., Singh, R., and Steinbrecher, E. (2002)_Rapid Development of Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems_ICSLP2002, Denver, CO. ( pdf)
• Bennett, C. Font Llitjos, A. Shriver, S., Rudnicky, A. and Black, A. (2002)_Building VoiceXML-based applications_ICSLP2002, Denver, CO. ( pdf, )
• Tokuda, K., Zen, H., and Black, A. (2002)_An HMM-based Approach to English Speech Synthesis_Proc. of Autumn Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, 3-10-15, Sep. 2002.
• Lenzo, K. and Black, (2002)_Customized synthesis: blending and tiering_AVIOS2002, San Jose, CA.
• Frederking, R., Black, A., Brown, R., Rudnicky, A., Moody, J., and Steinbrecher, E. (2002)Speech Translation on a Tight Budget Without Enough Data, ACL-02 Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation: Algorithms and Systems, Philadelphia, PA.
• Black, A., Eskenazi, M. and Simmons, R. (2002)Elderly perception of speech from a computer, 143rd Meeting: Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2002. (slides)
• Font Llitjos, A., and Black, A. (2002)Evaluation and collection of proper name pronunciations online, LREC2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands. ( pdf)
• Frederking, R., Black, A., Brown, R., Moody, J. and Steinbrecher, E. (2002)Field Testing the Tongues Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation System, LREC2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands. ( pdf)
• Black, A., Brown, R., Frederking, R., Singh R., Moody, J. and Steinbrecher, E. (2002) TONGUES: Rapid Development of a Speech-to-Speech Translation System, HLT2002, San Diego, California. (pdf, html) 2001
• Black, A., Dusterhoff, K., and Taylor, P. (2001)Using the Tilt Intonation Model: A Data-Driven Approach, in Damper, R. (eds) "Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis", Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• Font Llitjos, A. and Black, A. (2001) Knowledge of Language Origin Improves Pronunciation Accuracy of Proper Names, Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark. (pdf)
• Eskenazi, M. and Black, A. (2001) A study on speech over the telephone and aging, Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark. (pdf, html)
• Black, A. and Lenzo, K. (2001) Optimal Data Selection for Unit Selection Synthesis, pp 63-67, ISCA, 4th Speech Synthesis Workshop, Scotland. (postscript, html)
• Black, A. and Lenzo, K. (2001) Flite: a small fast run-time synthesis engine, pp 157-162, ISCA, 4th Speech Synthesis Workshop, Scotland. (pdf, html)
• Sproat, R., Black, A., Chen, S., Kumar, S., Ostendorf, M. and Richards, C. (2001) Normalization of Non-standard Words, Computer Speech and Language 15(3) pp 287-333.
• Taylor, P., Black, A., and Caley, R. (2001) Hetrogeneous Relation Graphs as a Mechanism for Representing Linguistic Information, Speech Communications 33 pp 153-174. 2000
• Black, A. and Lenzo, K. (2000) Limited Domain Synthesis, ICSLP2000, Beijing, China. (pdf, html)
• Lenzo, K. and Black, A. (2000) Diphone collection and Synthesis, ICSLP2000, Beijing, China. (pdf, html)
• Chotimongkol, A. and Black, A. (2000) Statistically trained orthographic to sound models for Thai, ICSLP2000, Beijing, China. (pdf, html)
• Olinsky, C. and Black, A. (2000) Non-Standard Word and Homograph Resolution for Asian Language Text Analysis, ICSLP2000, Beijing, China. (pdf, html)
• Shriver, S., Black, A. and Rosenfeld, R. (2000) Audio Signals in Speech Interfaces, ICSLP2000, Beijing, China. (pdf, html)
• Rudnicky, A., Bennet, T., Black, A., Chotmongkol, A., Lenzo K., Oh, A. and Singh R. (2000) Task and Domain Specific Modelling in the Carnegie Mellon Communicator System, ICSLP2000, Beijing, China. (pdf, html)
• Rosenfeld, R., Zhu, X., Toth, A., Shriver, S., Lenzo, K. and Black, A. (2000) Towards a Universal Speech Interface, ICSLP2000, Beijing, China. (pdf, html)
• Black, A. and Lenzo, K. (2000) Building Voices in the Festival Speech Synthesis System, DRAFT (updated 2003) (postscript) (html) 1999
• Paul Taylor and Alan W Black (1999). Speech Synthesis by Phonological Structure Matching, in Eurospeech99 postscript
• Janet Hitzeman, Alan W. Black, Chris Mellish Jon Oberlander, Massimo Poesio and Paul Taylor (1999). An Annotation Scheme for Concept-to-Speech Synthesis, in Proceedings of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, pp. 59-66. postscript
• Kurt E. Dusterhoff, Alan W. Black and Paul A. Taylor (1999). Using Decision Trees within the Tilt Intonation Model to Predict F0 Contours, in Eurospeech 99 postscript 1998
• Black, A., Lenzo, K. and Pagel, V. (1998) Issues in Building General Letter to Sound Rules (pdf,html) 3rd ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp. 77-80, Jenolan Caves, Australia,
• Syrdal, A., Moehler, G., Dusterhoff, K., Conkie, A, and Black, A. (1998) Three Methods of Intonation Modeling , 3rd ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp. 305-310, Jenolan Caves, Australia,pdf
• Taylor, P., Black, A. and Caley, R. (1998) The architecture of the Festival Speech Synthesis System, (pdf,html) 3rd ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp. 147-151, Jenolan Caves, Australia,
• Hitzeman, J., Black, A., Mellish, C., Oberlander, J. and Taylor, P. (1998)On the Use of Automatically Generated Discourse-level Information in a Concept-to-Speech Synthesis System(pdf) ICSLP98 vol 6 pp 2763-2768, Syndey, Australia.
• Pagel, V., Lenzo, K. and Black, A. (1998) Letter to sound rules for accented lexicon compression(pdf) ICSLP98, vol 5 pp 2015-2020, Syndey, Australia
• Sproat, R., Hunt, A., Ostendorf, M., Taylor, P., Black, A., Lenzo, K. and Edgington, M. (1998) SABLE: A standard for TTS markup(pdf) ICSLP98, vol 5, pp 1719-1724, Syndey, Australia, also in 3rd ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pp. 27-30, Jenolan Caves, Australia,
• Taylor, P. and Black, A. (1998). Assigning Phrase Breaks from part-of-speech Sequences(pdf,html) Computer Speech and Language 12, 99-117. 1997
• Black, A. and Taylor, P. (1997). Assigning Phrase Breaks from Part-of-Speech Sequences(pdf,html) Proceedings of Eurospeech 97, vol2 pp 995-998, Rhodes, Greece.
• Black, A. and Taylor, P. (1997). Automatically clustering similar units for unit selection in speech synthesis(pdf, html) Proceedings of Eurospeech 97, vol2 pp 601-604, Rhodes, Greece.
• Dusterhoff, K. and Black, A. (1997). Generating F0 contours for speech synthesis using the Tilt intonation theory(postscript,html) Proceedings of ESCA Workshop of Intonation, pp 107-110, September, Athens, Greece.
• Black, A. and Taylor, P. (1997). _Festival Speech Synthesis System: system documentation (1.1.1)_Human Communication Research Centre Technical Report HCRC/TR-83. 1996
• Black, A. and Hunt, A. (1996). _Generating FO contours from ToBI labels using linear regression_Proceedings of ICSLP 96, vol 3, pp 1385-1388, Philadelphia, Penn.
• Campbell, N and Black, A. (1996). CHATR: a multi-lingual speech re-sequencing synthesis system(In Japanese) Institute of Electronic, Information and Communication Engineers, Spring Meeting, Tokyo SP-96-07,
• Hunt, A. and Black, A. (1996). Unit selection in a concatenative speech synthesis system using a large speech database Proceedings of ICASSP 96, vol 1, pp 373-376, Atlanta, Georgia. (pdf)
• Campbell, N. and Black, A. (1996) Prosody and the Selection of Source Units for Concatenative Synthesis, in "Progress in speech synthesis", eds J. van Santen, R Sproat, J Olive and J. Hirschberg, pp 279-282, Springer Verlag. 1995
• Black, A. and Campbell, N. (1995). Optimising selection of units from speech databases for concatenative synthesis Eurospeech 95 vol 1, pp 581-584, Madrid, Spain.
• Black, A. and Campbell, N. (1995) Predicting the intonation of discourse segments from examples in dialogue speech, (Short version) ESCA workshop on spoken dialogue systems, Denmark.
• Black, A. (1995) Predicting the intonation of discourse segments from examples in dialogue speech, ATR Workshop on Computational modeling of prosody for spontaneous speech processing. ATR, Japan. Republished in "Computing Prosody," eds. Y. Sagisaka, N. Campbell and N. Higuchi, Springer Verlag, 1997.
• Black, A. (1995) _Comparison of algorithms for predicting accent placement in English speech synthesis_Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan. 1994
• Black, A. and Taylor, P. (1994) Assigning intonation elements and prosodic phrasing for English speech synthesis from high level linguistic input, ICSLP94, Yokohama, Japan.
• Taylor, P. and Black, A. (1994) Synthesizing Conversational Intonation from a Linguistically Rich Input, Proc. ESCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Mohonk, NY.
• Black, A. and Taylor, P. (1994) CHATR: a generic speech synthesis system, COLING94, II pp 983-986, Kyoto, Japan.
• Black, A. and Taylor, P. (1994) A framework for generating prosody from high level linguistic descriptions, Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan.

Computational Semantics

• Black, A. (1993) Some different approaches to DRT, DYANA-II deliverable, R3.2.
• Black, A. (1993), Using Situation Theory in a computational language for natural language processing, 4th Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming Conference, Nara, Japan.
• Black, A. (1993) A situation theoretic approach to computational semantics, PhD Thesis, Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh.
• Black, A. (1993), Using a computational situation theoretic language to investigate contemporary semantic formalisms, Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar IBFI, report 57.
• Black, A. (1992) Embedding DRT in a Situation Theoretic Framework, pp 1116-1120, COLING92, Nantes, France.

Language Modelling in Speech Recognition

• Foster J, Matheson C, and Black A. (1990)Modelling Linguistic Constraints for Continuous Speech Recognition Using Context Free Phrase Structure Grammar, VERBA 90, International Conference on Speech Technologies, Rome.
• Black, A. (1989) Finite State Machines from Feature Grammars, pp 277-285, International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Lexicons and Morphology

• Ritchie G, Russell G, Black A and Pulman S. (1992)Computational Morphology: practical mechanisms for the English Lexicon, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Black A, van de Plassche J, Williams B. (1991)Analysis of Unknown Words through Morphological Decomposition, pp 101-106, 5th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Berlin, Germany.
• Black A. (1990)A computational description of Japanese morphology, unpublished manuscript, Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh.
• Pulman S, Russell G, Ritchie G and Black A. (1988)Computational Morphology of English, Linguistics Volume 26-4:545-560.
• Black A, Ritchie G, Pulman S, and Russell G. (1987)Formalisms for Morphographemic Description, pp 11-18, Proceedings of 3rd Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Ritchie G, Pulman S, Black A and Russell G. (1987)A Computational Framework for Lexical Description, Journal of Computational Linguistics, 13,3-4:290-307.
• Russell G, Pulman S, Ritchie G, and Black A. (1986)Dictionary and Morphological Analyser for English., pp 277-279, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Bonn, West Germany.

Others

• Black A. (1986)Formal properties of feature grammars, unpublished paper, Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh.
• Black A. (1986)VLSI Design for Context-free Grammar Parsing, Master's Thesis, Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh.
• Black A (1984)A Knowledge Based System for Wood Anatomy and Usage Correlation, Final year dissertation, Dept of Computer Science, Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic.
• Black A (1984)_Complexity Theory and NP-Completeness_Dept of Computer Science, Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic.