Torbjørn Karl Svendsen
About
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Torbjørn Svendsen (1955) is an emeritus Professor at the Department of Electronic Systems. Professor Svendsen holds a MScEE, and a PhD both from the NTNU. He is an ISCA Fellow and IEEE Life Senior Member.
Fields of interest and present research activities
My research interests have from the outset in 1979 been speech signal processing. The first period was focused on source coding, i.e. speech compression, which was also the subject of my doctoral thesis. From the mid 80’s the research interests have been mainly on automatic speech recognition, but also areas like spoken dialogue systems and speech synthesis have been included in my research. Speech analysis methods and lexical modelling, e.g. pronunciation modelling have been two central areas. Realizing that current approaches to speech recognition seem to be nearing a saturation point in terms of performance, a major recent activity has been to investigate new paradigms for speech recognition, aiming to integrate phonetic and linguistic knowledge in a statistical framework based on detection of (language universal) phonetic features. Lately, the challenges of reliable recognition of children's speech and transcription of conversational, accented and dialectal speech have been central in my research.
Work experience
- NTNU (1979-1981 Research assistant, 1983-1984 doctoral fellowship, 1988-1995 Associate professor, 1995-present Professor), Director NTNU Digital (2015-2021)
- SINTEF (1981-1987, Research scientist)
- Research visits at AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ (1986-1987, 1990); Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia (1996-97); AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ (2000); Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (2002-03); Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (2013); Delft University of Technology (2022); Kore University of Enna, Italy (2023)
Professional merits
Peer review and professional evaluation work:
- Reviewer for international journals like IEEE Transactions (Communications; Signal Processing; Audio, Speech and Language Processing; Multimedia); EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Signal, Image and Video Processing; and Speech Communication, and various conferences and workshops on speech and signal processing.
- Member of Speech Communication journal Editorial Board
- Reviewer for EU's Language Engineering program and the Information Society Research Programme of the Academy of Finland. Project reviews for the Norwegian, Australian, Swiss, Dutch, Belgian and South African Research Councils
- Opponent/member of examination boards for 26 doctoral theses
Membership in academic and professional committees
- Various appointments at the national level, e.g. in the Research Council of Norway, incl. grant committee member for the IKTPLUSS program, program board chair for the VERDIKT program, and in the Norwegian Language Council.
- Member of advisory board, Norwegian Language Bank (“Språkbanken”)
- Member of Technical committees, Eurospeech2001 and Interspeech2012, and organizing committee of Eurospeech2001.
- Life Senior Member, IEEE
- Member, Signal Processing Society Speech Technical Committee (1998-2001)
- Elected member, Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
- ISCA Fellow
- Board of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) (Member 2015-2017, Vice President 2017-2021, Board Secretary 2021-2023)
Other professional merits
- Project manager, "Atomic Units for Language Universal Speech" (current), "Spoken dialog systems for telephony"; "Speech interfaces and reasoning systems"; "Norwegian corpus for language technology"; “Voice centric user interfaces for location based services”; “Tools for realistic speech synthesis in”; “Spoken Information Retrieval by Knowledge Utilization in Statistical Speech Processing”; “Rundkast – A transcribed broadcast news for applications in language technology”(past projects).
- Vice chair, COST action 278; WG chair COST actions 232 and 249; Advisory Scientific Board member, EU project ACORNS; Board member, Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology (former actions and activities)
- Previous NTNU appointments: Department Head, Department of Telecommunications; Vice Dean, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications; member of several NTNU committees
- 19 PhD students graduated (3 as co-supervisor). Currently supervising 5 PhD students.
- ~100 Master degree students graduated
- >100 papers in international journals and conferences
Research
My research interests have from the outset in 1979 been speech signal processing. The first period was focused on source coding, i.e. speech compression, which was also the subject of my doctoral thesis. From the mid 80’s the research interests have been mainly on automatic speech recognition, but also areas like spoken dialogue systems and speech synthesis have been included in my research. Speech analysis methods and lexical modelling, e.g. pronunciation modelling have been two central areas. Realizing that current approaches to speech recognition seem to be nearing a saturation point in terms of performance, a major recent activity has been to investigate new paradigms for speech recognition, aiming to integrate phonetic and linguistic knowledge in a statistical framework based on detection of (language universal) phonetic features. Lately, the challenges of reliable recognition of children's speech and transcription of conversational, accented and dialectal speech have been central in my research.
Publications
2026
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Cao, Xinwei;
Fan, Zijian;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2026)
Segmentation-Free Goodness of Pronunciation.
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Academic article
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Parsons, Phoebe;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Kvale, Knut.
(2026)
On Dialects and Speech Technology.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
2025
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Parsons, Phoebe Luree Turner;
Bremnes, Heming Strømholt;
Kvale, Knut;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2025)
Effects of Prosodic Information on Dialect Classification Using Whisper Features.
Academic chapter
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Fan, Zijian;
Cao, Xinwei;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2025)
Improving Phone Recognition through Informed Initialization and Path-Aligned CTC Loss.
Academic chapter
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Cao, Xinwei;
Fan, Zijian;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2025)
Child speech assessment through large language model speech synthesis: Preliminary results.
Academic chapter
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Dymbe, Simen;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2025)
Using Cross-Attention for Conversational ASR over the Telephone.
Academic chapter
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Rugayan, Janine Lizbeth Cabrera;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2025)
Optimizing ASR Models with Semantic Information.
Academic chapter
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Parsons, Phoebe Luree Turner;
Solberg, Per Erik;
Kvale, Knut;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2025)
Adding Metadata to Existing Parliamentary Speech Corpus.
Academic chapter
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Parsons, Phoebe Luree Turner;
Kvale, Knut;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2025)
Match ‘em: Multi-Tiered Alignment for Error Analysis in ASR.
Academic chapter
2024
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Cao, Xinwei;
Fan, Zijian;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2024)
A Framework for Phoneme-Level Pronunciation Assessment Using CTC.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Fan, Zijian;
Cao, Xinwei;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2024)
Towards Better Recognition of Spontaneous Children's Speech: Speaker-Clustering Fine-Tuning of Whisper.
Machine Learning for Signal Processing
Academic article
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Quatra, Moreno La;
Turco, Maria Francesca;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Orozco-Arroyave, Juan Rafael;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco.
(2024)
Exploiting Foundation Models and Speech Enhancement for Parkinson’s Disease Detection from Speech in Real-World Operative Conditions.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Kynych, Frantisek;
Cerva, Petr;
Zdansky, Jindrich;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2024)
A lightweight approach to real-time speaker diarization: from audio toward audio-visual data streams.
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
Academic article
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Olstad, Anne Marte Haug;
Smolander, Anna;
Strömbergsson, Sofia;
Ylinen, Sari;
Lehtonen, Minna;
Kurimo, Mikko;
Getman, Yaroslav;
Grósz, Tamás;
Cao, Xinwei;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2024)
Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children’s Pronunciation of Nordic Languages.
Proceedings of LREC
Academic article
2023
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Solberg, Per Erik;
Ortiz Cabello, Pablo;
Parsons, Phoebe;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2023)
Improving Generalization of Norwegian ASR with Limited Linguistic Resources.
Academic chapter
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Parsons, Phoebe;
Kvale, Knut;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2023)
A character-based analysis of impacts of dialects on end-to-end Norwegian ASR.
Academic chapter
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Getman, Yaroslav;
Phan, Nhan;
Al-Ghezi, Ragheb;
Voskoboinik, Ekaterina;
Singh, Mittul;
Grosz, Tamas;
Kurimo, Mikko;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Strombergsson, Sofia.
(2023)
Developing an AI-Assisted Low-Resource Spoken Language Learning App for Children.
IEEE Access
Academic article
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Rugayan, Janine Lizbeth Cabrera;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2023)
Perceptual and Task-Oriented Assessment of a Semantic Metric for ASR Evaluation.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
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Gelderblom, Femke Berre;
Tronstad, Tron Vedul;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Myrvoll, Tor Andre.
(2023)
On the Predictive Power of Objective Intelligibility Metrics for the Subjective Performance of Deep Complex Convolutional Recurrent Speech Enhancement Networks.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP)
Academic article
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Fan, Zijian;
Cao, Xinwei;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2023)
Using Modified Adult Speech as Data Augmentation for Child Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Academic article
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Cao, Xinwei;
Fan, Zijian;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2023)
An Analysis of Goodness of Pronunciation for Child Speech.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Gelderblom, Femke Berre;
Myrvoll, Tor Andre;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2023)
Evaluating Performance Metrics for Deep Neural Network-based Speech Enhancement Systems.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
2022
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Kvale, Knut;
Gulla, Jon Atle;
Adde, Line;
Solberg, Per Erik;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Moshagen, Sjur Nørstebø;
Wettre, Jonas Engestøl.
(2022)
Taleteknologi og kunstig intelligens.
Teknologirådet
Research report
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Rugayan, Janine Lizbeth Cabrera;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2022)
Semantically Meaningful Metrics for Norwegian ASR Systems.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
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Getman, Yaroslav;
Al-Ghezi, Ragheb;
Voskoboinik, Ekaterina;
Grósz, Tamás;
Kurimo, Mikko;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Strömbergsson, Sofia.
(2022)
wav2vec2-based Speech Rating System for Children with Speech Sound Disorder.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
2021
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco.
(2021)
Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping With Joint Optimization of Deep Speech Enhancement and Articulatory Inversion Models.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP)
Academic article
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2021)
Raw Speech-to-Articulatory Inversion by Temporal Filtering and Decimation.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Olfati, Negar;
Imran, Ali Shariq;
Johnsen, Magne Hallstein;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2021)
A Two-Stage Deep Modeling Approach to Articulatory Inversion.
Academic chapter
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2021)
A DNN Based Speech Enhancement Approach to Noise Robust Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion.
Academic chapter
2020
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Olfati, Negar;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2020)
Transfer learning of articulatory information through phone information.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Siniscalchi, Marco;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2020)
Sequence-to-sequence articulatory inversion through time convolution of sub-band frequency signals.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
2019
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Olfati, Negar;
Imran, Ali Shariq;
Marco, Siniscalchi Sabato;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2019)
A Phonetic-Level Analysis of Different Input Features for Articulatory Inversion.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
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Imran, Ali Shariq;
Haflan, Vetle;
Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Olfati, Negar;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2019)
Evaluating Acoustic Feature Maps in 2D-CNN for Speaker Identification.
Academic chapter
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Imran, Ali Shariq;
Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Olfati, Negar;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2019)
A Study on the Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Phoneme Classification.
Academic chapter
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Imran, Ali Shariq;
Kastrati, Zenun;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Kurti, Arianit.
(2019)
Text-Independent Speaker ID for Automatic Video Lecture Classification Using Deep Learning.
Academic chapter
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Imran, Ali Shariq;
Olfati, Negar;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2019)
A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Techniques on Frame-Level Speech Data Classification.
Circuits, systems, and signal processing
Academic article
2018
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Imran, Ali Shariq;
Olfati, Negar;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2018)
Acoustic Feature Comparison for Different Speaking Rates.
Academic chapter
2015
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Næss, Arild Brandrud;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Livescu, Karen.
(2015)
Nearest Neighbor Frame Classification for Articulatory Speech Recognition.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
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Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Hamar, Jarle Bauck.
(2015)
Combining NdHMM and Phonetic Feature Detection for Speech Recognition.
Academic chapter
2014
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2014)
An artificial neural network approach to automatic speech processing.
Neurocomputing
Academic article
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Soufifar, Mehdi;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Burget, Lukas.
(2014)
Subspace Modeling of Discrete Features for Language Recognition.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
2013
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Hamar, Jarle Bauck;
Doddipatla, Rama Sanand;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Sreenivas, Thippur.
(2013)
Non-Negative Durational HMM.
Academic chapter
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Doddipatla, Rama Sanand;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2013)
Synthetic Speaker Models Using VTLN to Improve the Performance of Children in Mismatched Speaker Conditions for ASR.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
2012
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Reed, Jeremy;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2012)
Universal attribute characterization of spoken languages for automatic spoken language recognition.
Computer Speech and Language
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Lyu, DC;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, CH.
(2012)
Experiments on Cross-Language Attribute Detection and Phone Recognition With Minimal Target-Specific Training Data.
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Academic article
2011
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Adde, Line;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2011)
Pronunciation Variation Modeling of Non-Natie Proper Names by Discriminative Tree Search.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2011)
A Bottom-Up Stepwise Knowledge-Integration Approach to Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Using Weighted Finite State Machines.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Soufifar, Mehdi;
Kockmann, Marcel;
Burget, Lukas;
Plchot, Oldrich;
Glembek, Ondrej;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2011)
iVector Approach to Phonotactic Language Recognition.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Skogstad, Trond;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2011)
Frequency-Warped and Stabilized Time-Varying Cepstral Coefficients.
Interspeech
Academic article
2010
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Sorbello, Filippo;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2010)
Experimental Studies on Continuous Speech Recognition Using Neural Architectures with ‘Adaptive’ Hidden Activation Functions.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Academic article
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Adde, Line;
Reveil, Bert;
Martens, Jean-Pierre;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2010)
A Minimum Classification Error Approach to Pronunciation Variation Modeling of Non-Native Proper Names.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Skogstad, Trond;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2010)
Intra-Frame Variability As a Predictor of Frame Classifiability.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Reed, Jeremy;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2010)
Exploiting Context-Dependency and Acoustic Resolution of Universal Speech Attribute Models in Spoken Language Recognition.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Adde, Line;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2010)
NameDat: A Database of English Proper Names Spoken by Native Norwegians.
Academic chapter
2009
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Mertens, Timo Pascal;
Schneider, Daniel;
Næss, Arild Brandrud;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2009)
Lexicon Adaptation for Subword Speech Recognition.
Academic chapter
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2009)
A Phonetic Feature Based Lattice Rescoring Approach to LVCSR.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Reed, Jeremy;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2009)
Exploring Universal Attribute Characterization of Spoken Languages for Spoken Language Recognition.
Interspeech
Academic article
2008
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Amdal, Ingunn;
Strand, Ole Morten;
Almberg, Jørn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2008)
RUNDKAST: An Annotated Norwegian Broadcast News Speech Corpus.
Academic chapter
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
lee, chin-hui.
(2008)
A Penalized Logistic Regression Approach to Detection Based Phone Classification.
Interspeech
Academic article
2007
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2007)
Towards Bottom-Up Continuous Phone Recognition.
Academic chapter
2006
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Amdal, Ingunn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2006)
FonDat1: A Speech Synthesis Corpus for Norwegian.
Academic chapter
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Amdal, Ingunn;
Johnsen, Magne Hallstein;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2006)
Log Likelihood Ratio Based Annotation Verification of a Norwegian Speech Synthesis Database.
Academic chapter
2005
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Bjørkan, Ingmund;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Farner, Snorre.
(2005)
Comparing Spectral Distance Measures for Join Cost Optimization in Concatenative Speech Synthesis.
Eurospeech : Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Academic article
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Skogstad, Trond;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2005)
Distributed ASR Using Speech Coder Data for Efficient Feature Vector Representation.
Eurospeech : Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Academic article
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Bjørkan, Ingmund;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2005)
Comparing Spectral Distance Measures for Join Cost Optmization.
Eurospeech : Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Academic article
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Amdal, Ingunn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2005)
Unit Selection Synthesis Database Development Using Utterance Verification.
Eurospeech : Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Academic article
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Meen, Dyre;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Natvig, Jon-Emil.
(2005)
Improving Phone Label Alignment Accuracy by Utilizing Voicing Information.
Academic chapter
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Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Amdal, Ingunn;
Bjørkan, Ingmund;
Meen, Dyre;
Heggtveit, Per Olav;
Natvig, Jon Emil.
(2005)
FONEMA - Tools for realistic speech synthesis in Norwegian.
Academic chapter
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Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Egeberg, Andreas;
Holter, Trym;
Skogstad, Trond.
(2005)
VOCALS - Voice centric user interfaces for location based services.
Academic chapter
2004
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Nordgård, Torbjørn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Harborg, Erik;
Kvale, Knut.
(2004)
Language Technology Towards 2020.
Academic chapter
2003
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2003)
Speech Technology: Past, Present and Future.
Telektronikk
Academic article
2002
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2002)
Roles for Speech And Language Technology in The Information Society.
Academic chapter
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Nordgård, Torbjørn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Natvig, Jon Emil.
(2002)
Talsmann talesyntese som hjelpemiddel for dyslektikere.
Telenor Communication AS
Research report
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Nordgård, Torbjørn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Breivik, Torbjørg.
(2002)
Samling og tilgjengeleggjering av norske språkteknologiressursar.
Norsk språkråd
Research report
2001
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2001)
Nordisk forskningssamarbeid innen språkteknologi.
Språknytt
Popular science article
2000
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Amdal, Ingunn;
Holter, Trym;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2000)
Modellering av uttalevariasjon for automatisk talegjenkjenning.
Nordlyd
Academic article
1999
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1999)
Taleteknologi.
Språk i Norden
Academic article
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Holter, Trym;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1999)
Maximum likelihood modelling of pronunciation variation.
Speech Communication
Academic article
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Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Johnsen, Magne Hallstein;
Nordgård, Torbjørn;
Hofland, Knut;
Hofland, Knut;
Ore, Christian Emil;
Ore, Christian Emil.
(1999)
Nasjonalt korpus for språkteknologi - forprosjekt.
Norges forskningsråd
Research report
1998
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1998)
Blir norsk gresk for språkteknologien?.
Språknytt
Academic article
1995
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Harborg, Erik;
Johnsen, Magne Hallstein;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1995)
Talegjenkjenning II.
SINTEF DELAB
Research report
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Harborg, Erik;
Johnsen, Magne Hallstein;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1995)
Talegjenkjenning for teksting av direktesendte programmer - en studie.
SINTEF DELAB
Research report
1994
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1994)
Talebaserte brukergrensesnitt.
NORSIGnalet : organ for NORSIG, Norsk forening for signalbehandling
Popular science article
Journal publications
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Cao, Xinwei;
Fan, Zijian;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2026)
Segmentation-Free Goodness of Pronunciation.
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Academic article
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1999)
Taleteknologi.
Språk i Norden
Academic article
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Holter, Trym;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1999)
Maximum likelihood modelling of pronunciation variation.
Speech Communication
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Reed, Jeremy;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2012)
Universal attribute characterization of spoken languages for automatic spoken language recognition.
Computer Speech and Language
Academic article
-
Bjørkan, Ingmund;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Farner, Snorre.
(2005)
Comparing Spectral Distance Measures for Join Cost Optimization in Concatenative Speech Synthesis.
Eurospeech : Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Academic article
-
Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Olfati, Negar;
Imran, Ali Shariq;
Marco, Siniscalchi Sabato;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2019)
A Phonetic-Level Analysis of Different Input Features for Articulatory Inversion.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
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Skogstad, Trond;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2005)
Distributed ASR Using Speech Coder Data for Efficient Feature Vector Representation.
Eurospeech : Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Academic article
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2001)
Nordisk forskningssamarbeid innen språkteknologi.
Språknytt
Popular science article
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco.
(2021)
Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping With Joint Optimization of Deep Speech Enhancement and Articulatory Inversion Models.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP)
Academic article
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2021)
Raw Speech-to-Articulatory Inversion by Temporal Filtering and Decimation.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Bjørkan, Ingmund;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2005)
Comparing Spectral Distance Measures for Join Cost Optmization.
Eurospeech : Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2014)
An artificial neural network approach to automatic speech processing.
Neurocomputing
Academic article
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Cao, Xinwei;
Fan, Zijian;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2024)
A Framework for Phoneme-Level Pronunciation Assessment Using CTC.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2009)
A Phonetic Feature Based Lattice Rescoring Approach to LVCSR.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Reed, Jeremy;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2009)
Exploring Universal Attribute Characterization of Spoken Languages for Spoken Language Recognition.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Fan, Zijian;
Cao, Xinwei;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2024)
Towards Better Recognition of Spontaneous Children's Speech: Speaker-Clustering Fine-Tuning of Whisper.
Machine Learning for Signal Processing
Academic article
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Quatra, Moreno La;
Turco, Maria Francesca;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Orozco-Arroyave, Juan Rafael;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco.
(2024)
Exploiting Foundation Models and Speech Enhancement for Parkinson’s Disease Detection from Speech in Real-World Operative Conditions.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Adde, Line;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2011)
Pronunciation Variation Modeling of Non-Natie Proper Names by Discriminative Tree Search.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Academic article
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Getman, Yaroslav;
Phan, Nhan;
Al-Ghezi, Ragheb;
Voskoboinik, Ekaterina;
Singh, Mittul;
Grosz, Tamas;
Kurimo, Mikko;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Strombergsson, Sofia.
(2023)
Developing an AI-Assisted Low-Resource Spoken Language Learning App for Children.
IEEE Access
Academic article
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Olfati, Negar;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2020)
Transfer learning of articulatory information through phone information.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Siniscalchi, Marco;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2020)
Sequence-to-sequence articulatory inversion through time convolution of sub-band frequency signals.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
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Rugayan, Janine Lizbeth Cabrera;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2022)
Semantically Meaningful Metrics for Norwegian ASR Systems.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
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Rugayan, Janine Lizbeth Cabrera;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2023)
Perceptual and Task-Oriented Assessment of a Semantic Metric for ASR Evaluation.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Lyu, DC;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, CH.
(2012)
Experiments on Cross-Language Attribute Detection and Phone Recognition With Minimal Target-Specific Training Data.
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Academic article
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1994)
Talebaserte brukergrensesnitt.
NORSIGnalet : organ for NORSIG, Norsk forening for signalbehandling
Popular science article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Sorbello, Filippo;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2010)
Experimental Studies on Continuous Speech Recognition Using Neural Architectures with ‘Adaptive’ Hidden Activation Functions.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Academic article
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Adde, Line;
Reveil, Bert;
Martens, Jean-Pierre;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2010)
A Minimum Classification Error Approach to Pronunciation Variation Modeling of Non-Native Proper Names.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Skogstad, Trond;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2010)
Intra-Frame Variability As a Predictor of Frame Classifiability.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Reed, Jeremy;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2010)
Exploiting Context-Dependency and Acoustic Resolution of Universal Speech Attribute Models in Spoken Language Recognition.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Imran, Ali Shariq;
Olfati, Negar;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2019)
A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Techniques on Frame-Level Speech Data Classification.
Circuits, systems, and signal processing
Academic article
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Amdal, Ingunn;
Holter, Trym;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2000)
Modellering av uttalevariasjon for automatisk talegjenkjenning.
Nordlyd
Academic article
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Gelderblom, Femke Berre;
Tronstad, Tron Vedul;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Myrvoll, Tor Andre.
(2023)
On the Predictive Power of Objective Intelligibility Metrics for the Subjective Performance of Deep Complex Convolutional Recurrent Speech Enhancement Networks.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP)
Academic article
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Getman, Yaroslav;
Al-Ghezi, Ragheb;
Voskoboinik, Ekaterina;
Grósz, Tamás;
Kurimo, Mikko;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Strömbergsson, Sofia.
(2022)
wav2vec2-based Speech Rating System for Children with Speech Sound Disorder.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
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Fan, Zijian;
Cao, Xinwei;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2023)
Using Modified Adult Speech as Data Augmentation for Child Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Academic article
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Cao, Xinwei;
Fan, Zijian;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2023)
An Analysis of Goodness of Pronunciation for Child Speech.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2003)
Speech Technology: Past, Present and Future.
Telektronikk
Academic article
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Amdal, Ingunn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2005)
Unit Selection Synthesis Database Development Using Utterance Verification.
Eurospeech : Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Academic article
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Kynych, Frantisek;
Cerva, Petr;
Zdansky, Jindrich;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2024)
A lightweight approach to real-time speaker diarization: from audio toward audio-visual data streams.
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
Academic article
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1998)
Blir norsk gresk for språkteknologien?.
Språknytt
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
lee, chin-hui.
(2008)
A Penalized Logistic Regression Approach to Detection Based Phone Classification.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2011)
A Bottom-Up Stepwise Knowledge-Integration Approach to Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Using Weighted Finite State Machines.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Soufifar, Mehdi;
Kockmann, Marcel;
Burget, Lukas;
Plchot, Oldrich;
Glembek, Ondrej;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2011)
iVector Approach to Phonotactic Language Recognition.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Skogstad, Trond;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2011)
Frequency-Warped and Stabilized Time-Varying Cepstral Coefficients.
Interspeech
Academic article
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Olstad, Anne Marte Haug;
Smolander, Anna;
Strömbergsson, Sofia;
Ylinen, Sari;
Lehtonen, Minna;
Kurimo, Mikko;
Getman, Yaroslav;
Grósz, Tamás;
Cao, Xinwei;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2024)
Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children’s Pronunciation of Nordic Languages.
Proceedings of LREC
Academic article
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Doddipatla, Rama Sanand;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2013)
Synthetic Speaker Models Using VTLN to Improve the Performance of Children in Mismatched Speaker Conditions for ASR.
Interspeech (USB)
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Parsons, Phoebe Luree Turner;
Bremnes, Heming Strømholt;
Kvale, Knut;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2025)
Effects of Prosodic Information on Dialect Classification Using Whisper Features.
Academic chapter
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Fan, Zijian;
Cao, Xinwei;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2025)
Improving Phone Recognition through Informed Initialization and Path-Aligned CTC Loss.
Academic chapter
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Cao, Xinwei;
Fan, Zijian;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2025)
Child speech assessment through large language model speech synthesis: Preliminary results.
Academic chapter
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Dymbe, Simen;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2025)
Using Cross-Attention for Conversational ASR over the Telephone.
Academic chapter
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Rugayan, Janine Lizbeth Cabrera;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2025)
Optimizing ASR Models with Semantic Information.
Academic chapter
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Amdal, Ingunn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2006)
FonDat1: A Speech Synthesis Corpus for Norwegian.
Academic chapter
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Hamar, Jarle Bauck;
Doddipatla, Rama Sanand;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Sreenivas, Thippur.
(2013)
Non-Negative Durational HMM.
Academic chapter
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Amdal, Ingunn;
Johnsen, Magne Hallstein;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2006)
Log Likelihood Ratio Based Annotation Verification of a Norwegian Speech Synthesis Database.
Academic chapter
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Mertens, Timo Pascal;
Schneider, Daniel;
Næss, Arild Brandrud;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2009)
Lexicon Adaptation for Subword Speech Recognition.
Academic chapter
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Imran, Ali Shariq;
Olfati, Negar;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2018)
Acoustic Feature Comparison for Different Speaking Rates.
Academic chapter
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Amdal, Ingunn;
Strand, Ole Morten;
Almberg, Jørn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2008)
RUNDKAST: An Annotated Norwegian Broadcast News Speech Corpus.
Academic chapter
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Solberg, Per Erik;
Ortiz Cabello, Pablo;
Parsons, Phoebe;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2023)
Improving Generalization of Norwegian ASR with Limited Linguistic Resources.
Academic chapter
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Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2002)
Roles for Speech And Language Technology in The Information Society.
Academic chapter
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Olfati, Negar;
Imran, Ali Shariq;
Johnsen, Magne Hallstein;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2021)
A Two-Stage Deep Modeling Approach to Articulatory Inversion.
Academic chapter
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Imran, Ali Shariq;
Haflan, Vetle;
Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Olfati, Negar;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2019)
Evaluating Acoustic Feature Maps in 2D-CNN for Speaker Identification.
Academic chapter
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Parsons, Phoebe;
Kvale, Knut;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2023)
A character-based analysis of impacts of dialects on end-to-end Norwegian ASR.
Academic chapter
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Imran, Ali Shariq;
Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Olfati, Negar;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2019)
A Study on the Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Phoneme Classification.
Academic chapter
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Imran, Ali Shariq;
Kastrati, Zenun;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Kurti, Arianit.
(2019)
Text-Independent Speaker ID for Automatic Video Lecture Classification Using Deep Learning.
Academic chapter
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Nordgård, Torbjørn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Harborg, Erik;
Kvale, Knut.
(2004)
Language Technology Towards 2020.
Academic chapter
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Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Lee, Chin-Hui.
(2007)
Towards Bottom-Up Continuous Phone Recognition.
Academic chapter
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Adde, Line;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(2010)
NameDat: A Database of English Proper Names Spoken by Native Norwegians.
Academic chapter
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Parsons, Phoebe Luree Turner;
Solberg, Per Erik;
Kvale, Knut;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2025)
Adding Metadata to Existing Parliamentary Speech Corpus.
Academic chapter
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Parsons, Phoebe Luree Turner;
Kvale, Knut;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Salvi, Giampiero.
(2025)
Match ‘em: Multi-Tiered Alignment for Error Analysis in ASR.
Academic chapter
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Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Hamar, Jarle Bauck.
(2015)
Combining NdHMM and Phonetic Feature Detection for Speech Recognition.
Academic chapter
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Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Abdolreza;
Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2021)
A DNN Based Speech Enhancement Approach to Noise Robust Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion.
Academic chapter
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Meen, Dyre;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Natvig, Jon-Emil.
(2005)
Improving Phone Label Alignment Accuracy by Utilizing Voicing Information.
Academic chapter
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Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Amdal, Ingunn;
Bjørkan, Ingmund;
Meen, Dyre;
Heggtveit, Per Olav;
Natvig, Jon Emil.
(2005)
FONEMA - Tools for realistic speech synthesis in Norwegian.
Academic chapter
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Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Egeberg, Andreas;
Holter, Trym;
Skogstad, Trond.
(2005)
VOCALS - Voice centric user interfaces for location based services.
Academic chapter
Report
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Kvale, Knut;
Gulla, Jon Atle;
Adde, Line;
Solberg, Per Erik;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Moshagen, Sjur Nørstebø;
Wettre, Jonas Engestøl.
(2022)
Taleteknologi og kunstig intelligens.
Teknologirådet
Research report
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Nordgård, Torbjørn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Natvig, Jon Emil.
(2002)
Talsmann talesyntese som hjelpemiddel for dyslektikere.
Telenor Communication AS
Research report
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Harborg, Erik;
Johnsen, Magne Hallstein;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1995)
Talegjenkjenning II.
SINTEF DELAB
Research report
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Nordgård, Torbjørn;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Breivik, Torbjørg.
(2002)
Samling og tilgjengeleggjering av norske språkteknologiressursar.
Norsk språkråd
Research report
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Harborg, Erik;
Johnsen, Magne Hallstein;
Svendsen, Torbjørn.
(1995)
Talegjenkjenning for teksting av direktesendte programmer - en studie.
SINTEF DELAB
Research report
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Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Johnsen, Magne Hallstein;
Nordgård, Torbjørn;
Hofland, Knut;
Hofland, Knut;
Ore, Christian Emil;
Ore, Christian Emil.
(1999)
Nasjonalt korpus for språkteknologi - forprosjekt.
Norges forskningsråd
Research report
Student thesis or dissertation
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Parsons, Phoebe;
Salvi, Giampiero;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Kvale, Knut.
(2026)
On Dialects and Speech Technology.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
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Næss, Arild Brandrud;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl;
Livescu, Karen.
(2015)
Nearest Neighbor Frame Classification for Articulatory Speech Recognition.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
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Soufifar, Mehdi;
Svendsen, Torbjørn;
Burget, Lukas.
(2014)
Subspace Modeling of Discrete Features for Language Recognition.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
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Gelderblom, Femke Berre;
Myrvoll, Tor Andre;
Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl.
(2023)
Evaluating Performance Metrics for Deep Neural Network-based Speech Enhancement Systems.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Outreach
2025
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Conference lectureParsons, Phoebe Luree Turner; Solberg, Per Erik; Kvale, Knut; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2025) Adding Metadata to Existing Parliamentary Speech Corpus. Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)
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Conference lectureParsons, Phoebe Luree Turner; Kvale, Knut; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2025) Match ‘em: Multi-Tiered Alignment for Error Analysis in ASR. Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)
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Conference lectureParsons, Phoebe Luree Turner; Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Kvale, Knut; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2025) Effects of Prosodic Information on Dialect Classification Using Whisper Features. Interspeech 2025
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Conference lectureRugayan, Janine Lizbeth Cabrera; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2025) Optimizing ASR Models with Semantic Information. Text, Speech and Dialogue
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Conference lectureDymbe, Simen; Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2025) Using Cross-Attention for Conversational ASR over the Telephone. Text, Speech and Dialogue
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Conference lectureFan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2025) Improving Phone Recognition through Informed Initialization and Path-Aligned CTC Loss. 2025 IEEE 35th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)
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Conference lectureCao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Salvi, Giampiero. (2025) Child speech assessment through large language model speech synthesis: Preliminary results. 2025 IEEE 35th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)
2024
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Conference lectureFan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2024) Towards Better Recognition of Spontaneous Children's Speech: Speaker-Clustering Fine-Tuning of Whisper. chine Learning for Signal Processing
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Conference lectureCao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2024) Framework for Phoneme-Level Pronunciation Assessment Using CTC. Interspeech
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Conference lectureParsons, Phoebe Luree Turner; Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Kvale, Knut; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2024) Norwegian dialect identification: is prosody enough?. Fonetik
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Lecture
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2024) Hva er kunstig intelligens? Muligheter for KI i eiendomsbransjen. Internseminar
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2024) Machines may "think" - but can they master the spoken language?. Friday talk
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2024) What is spoken language technology?. From Toys to Tools to Terror(ist?) in a decade
2023
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Conference lectureParsons, Phoebe Luree Turner; Kvale, Knut; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2023) A character-based analysis of impacts of dialects on end-to-end Norwegian ASR. 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)
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Conference lectureRugayan, Janine Lizbeth Cabrera; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2023) Perceptual and Task-Oriented Assessment of a Semantic Metric for ASR Evaluation. Interspeech
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Conference lectureFan, Zijian; Cao, Xinwei; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2023) Using Modified Adult Speech as Data Augmentation for Child Speech Recognition. ICASSP
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Conference lectureCao, Xinwei; Fan, Zijian; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2023) An Analysis of Goodness of Pronunciation for Child Speech. Interspeech
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2023) Joint MAP of Direct and Indirect Adaptation. Symposium for Celebrating 40 Years of Bayesian Learning in Speech and Language Processing and Beyond
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2023) Combining direct and indirect adaptation for speech recognition. Seminar on speech technology
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Conference lecture
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Conference lectureSolberg, Per Erik; Ortiz Cabello, Pablo; Parsons, Phoebe Luree Turner; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2023) Improving Generalization of Norwegian ASR with Limited Linguistic Resources. 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)
2022
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Conference lectureGetman, Yaroslav; Al-Ghezi, Ragheb; Voskoboinik, Ekaterina; Grósz, Tamás; Kurimo, Mikko; Salvi, Giampiero; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Strömbergsson, Sofia. (2022) wav2vec2-based Speech Rating System for Children with Speech Sound Disorder. Interspeech
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Conference lectureRugayan, Janine Lizbeth Cabrera; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero. (2022) Semantically Meaningful Metrics for Norwegian ASR Systems. Interspeech
2018
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LectureØien, Geir Egil Dahle; Mengshoel, Ole Jakob; Ramampiaro, Heri; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl. (2018) NTNUs strategiske satsing på kunstig intelligens (AI) – bakgrunn, aktiviteter og fremtidsvyer. Medlemsmøte, Det Kongelige Norske Vitenskapers Selskap
2012
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Interview
2011
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Conference lectureRodriguez-Fuentes, Luis Javier; Penagarikano, Mikel; Varona, Amparo; Diez, Mireia; Bordel, German; Martinez, David; Villalba, Jesus; Miguel, Antonio; Ortega, Alfonso; Lleida, Eduardo. (2011) MULTI-SITE HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM FUSIONS FOR THE ALBAYZIN 2010 LANGUAGE RECOGNITION EVALUATION. Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
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Feature articleKvale, Knut; Nordgård, Torbjørn; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Lyse, Gunn Inger; Gjesdal, Anje Müller. (2011) Datamaskinen må skjønne norsk.
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (2011) Hva er det med tale? Forskningsutfordringer og aktiviteter innen taleteknologi. På snakkis med teknologien
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (2011) Universal Speech Attribute Characterization for Automatic Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Recognition. CSAIL Seminar
2010
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Conference lectureSiniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Sorbello, Filippo; Lee, Chin-Hui. (2010) Experimental Studies on Continuous Speech Recognition Using Neural Architectures with ‘Adaptive’ Hidden Activation Functions. ICASSP 2010
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Conference lectureSaeidi, Rahim; Soufifar, Mehdi; Kinnunen, Tomi; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Fränti, Pasi. (2010) UEF-NTNU System Description for Albayzin 2010 Language Recognition Evaluation. FALA 2010
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Conference lectureSiniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Lee, Chin-Hui. (2010) A Survey on Recent Progress in the ASAT/SIRKUS Paradigm. ISCSLP 2010
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Conference lectureSiniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Reed, Jeremy; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Lee, Chin-Hui. (2010) Exploiting Context-Dependency and Acoustic Resolution of Universal Speech Attribute Models in Spoken Language Recognition. Interspeech 2010
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Conference lectureSkogstad, Trond; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2010) Intra-Frame Variability As a Predictor of Frame Classifiability. Interspeech 2010
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Conference lectureSikveland, Rein Ove; Öttl, Anton; Amdal, Ingunn; Ernestus, Mirjam; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Edlund, Jens. (2010) Spontal-N: A Corpus of Interactional Spoken Norwegian. LREC
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Conference lectureAdde, Line; Reveil, Bert; Martens, Jean-Pierre; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2010) A Minimum Classification Error Approach to Pronunciation Variation Modeling of Non-Native Proper Names. Interspeech 2010
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Conference lectureMeen, Dyre; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2010) The NTNU Concatenative Speech Synthesizer. Blizzard Challenge Workshop
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Conference lectureAdde, Line; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2010) NameDat: A Database of English Proper Names Spoken by Native Norwegians. LREC
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Conference lectureAdde, Line; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2010) A Comparative Analysis of Discriminative and Non-Discriminative Pronunciation Priors in Pronunciation Variation Modeling. IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2010
2009
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Interview
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Interview
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Conference lectureSiniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Reed, Jeremy; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Lee, Chin-Hui. (2009) Exploring Universal Attribute Characterization of Spoken Languages for Spoken Language Recognition. Interspeech
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Conference lectureSiniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Lee, Chin-Hui. (2009) A Phonetic Feature Based Lattice Rescoring Approach to LVCSR. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
2008
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Interview
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Interview
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Conference lectureAmdal, Ingunn; Strand, Ole Morten; Almberg, Jørn; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2008) RUNDKAST: An Annotated Norwegian Broadcast News Speech Corpus. LREC 2008
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Conference lectureAmdal, Ingunn; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Johnsen, Magne Hallstein; Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Hamar, Jarle Bauck; Martinez, Del Hoyo Canterla A.. (2008) SIRKUS - A new paradigm for speech recognition. VERDIKT Conference 2008
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Conference lectureSiniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Svendsen, Torbjørn; lee, chin-hui. (2008) Toward a Detector-Based Universal Phone Recognizer. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
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Conference lectureSkogstad, Trond; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2008) Time-Varying Cepstral Coefficients. ISCA ITRW on Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge Discovery
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Conference lectureSiniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Birkenes, Øystein; Johnsen, Magne Hallstein; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2008) Joint Optimization of Event Detectors and Evidence Merger for Continuous Speech Recognition. ISCA ITRW on Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge Discovery
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Conference lectureSiniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Svendsen, Torbjørn; lee, chin-hui. (2008) A Penalized Logistic Regression Approach to Detection Based Phone Classification. Interspeech 2008
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Interview
2007
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Interview
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Conference lectureSiniscalchi, Sabato Marco; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Lee, Chin-Hui. (2007) Towards Bottom-Up Continuous Phone Recognition. 2007 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (2007) Articulatory Features and Segmental Information for Automatic Speech Recognition. ESF Exploratory Workshop on Models of Language Evolution, Acquisition and Processing
2006
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Conference posterAmdal, Ingunn; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2006) FonDat1: A Speech Synthesis Corpus for Norwegian. LREC 2006
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Conference lectureNordgård, Torbjørn; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2006) Et norsk uttaleleksikon møter en spontan virkelighet. Oslomålet - et seminar med forskning fra NoTa-korpuset
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Conference lectureAmdal, Ingunn; Johnsen, Magne Hallstein; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2006) Log Likelihood Ratio Based Annotation Verification of a Norwegian Speech Synthesis Database. NORSIG 2006
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Conference lecture
2005
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Conference posterSkogstad, Trond; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2005) Distributed ASR Using Speech Coder Data for Efficient Feature Vector Representation. Eurospeech 2005
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Conference posterMeen, Dyre; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Natvig, Jon-Emil. (2005) Improving Phone Label Aligment Accuracy by Utilizing Voicing Information. SPECOM 2005
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn; Egeberg, Andreas; Holter, Trym. (2005) VOCALS - Voice centric user interfaces for location based services. NORSIG 05
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn; Amdal, Ingunn; Bjørkan, Ingmund; Meen, Dyre; Heggtveit, Per Olav; Natvig, Jon Emil. (2005) FONEMA - Tools for realistic speech synthesis in Norwegian. NORSIG 05
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Conference posterAmdal, Ingunn; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2005) Unit Selection Synthesis Database Development Using Utterance Verification. Interspeech 2005
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Conference posterBjørkan, Ingmund; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Farner, Snorre. (2005) Comparing Spectral Distance Measures for Join Cost Optimization in Concatenative Speech Synthesis. Interspeech 2005
2004
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (2004) Pronunciation Modeling for Speech Technology. 2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications
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Conference lectureØien, Geir Egil; Holte, Nils; Andresen, Steinar; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Hammer, Mikael. (2004) Communication technology towards 2020. INFOSAM-2020 conference
2003
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Conference posterWong, Eddie; Martin, Terrence; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Sridharan, Sridha. (2003) Multilingual Phone Clustering for Recognition of Spontaneous Indonesian Speech Utilising Pronunciation Modelling Techniques. Eurospeech 2003
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Conference posterMartin, Terrence; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Sridharan, Sridha. (2003) Cross-Lingual Pronunciation Modelling for Indonesian Speech Recognition. Eurospeech 2003
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (2003) Snakke dialekt med mobilen? Om dialektbruk i ny språkteknologi. [Mangler data]
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (2003) FONEMA - Metodeutvikling for naturtro norsk talesyntese. KUNSTI-seminar 2003
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (2003) Speech Processing Activities at NTNU: An Overview. Nordic Speech Technology Seminar
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Conference lecture
2002
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Conference lectureAmdal, Ingunn; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2002) Evaluation of pronunciation variants in the ASR lexicon for different speaking styles. Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
2001
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Conference lectureJohnsen, Magne Hallstein; Harborg, Erik; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Amble, Tore; Holter, Trym; Myrvoll, Tor Andre; Nordgård, Torbjørn. (2001) SPODIS - Spoken Dialog Systems for Telephony. NORSIG-2001, Norwegian Signal Processing Symposium
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Conference posterMyrvoll, Tor Andre; Paliwal, Kuldip K.; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2001) Fast Adaptation using Constrained Affine Transformations with Hierarchical Priors. Eurospeech 2001
2000
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Lecture
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (2000) Taleteknologi- teknologi med potensiale for kvalitetsheving og effektivisering ved håndtering av informasjon i sykehus. [Mangler data]
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn; Johnsen, Magne Hallstein. (2000) �Sesam sesam!� - Kan taleteknologi bli en døråpner for funksjonshemmede?. [Mangler data]
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (2000) Ordets makt � om taleteknologi som hjelpemiddel for funksjonshemmede. [Mangler data]
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Conference lectureJohnsen, Magne Hallstein; Holter, Trym; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Harborg, Erik. (2000) Stochastic Modelling of Semantic Content for Use in a Spoken Dialogue System. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
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Conference lecture
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Conference lectureJohnsen, Magne Hallstein; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Amble, Tore; Holter, Trym; Harborg, Erik. (2000) TABOR - A Norwegian Spoken Dialogue System for Bus Travel Information. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
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Conference lectureHolter, Trym; Harborg, Erik; Johnsen, Magne Hallstein; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (2000) ASR-Based Subtitiling of Live TV-Programs for the Hearing Impaired. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
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Feature articleFoldvik, Arne Kjell; Nordgård, Torbjørn; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Thygesen, Ragnar. (2000) Dysleksi og språkteknologi.
1999
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Conference lectureAmdal, Ingunn; Holter, Trym; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1999) Maximum likelihood pronunciation modelling of Norwegian natural numbers for automatic speech recognition. NORSIG'99
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Conference lectureAmdal, Ingunn; Holter, Trym; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1999) Modellering av uttalevariasjon for automatisk talegjenkjenning. Møte om norsk språk (MONS 8)
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LectureYang, Qian; Cremelie, Nick; Holter, Trym; Martens, Jean-Pierre; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Ringland, Simon. (1999) Lexicon building and word accuracy in continuous speech recognition. COST 249 meeting, Prague
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Conference posterHarborg, Erik; Holter, Trym; Johnsen, Magne Hallstein; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1999) Subtitling of live broadcast TV-programs for the hearing impaired. AAATE'99
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Conference lectureHarborg, Erik; Holter, Trym; Johnsen, Magne Hallstein; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1999) On-line captioning of TV-programs for the hearing impaired. EuroSpeech'99
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Conference lectureJohnsen, Magne Hallstein; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1999) Menneske/maskin-kommunikasjon basert på tale. MONS-8 (8nde Møte Om Norsk Språk)
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Conference lectureHarborg, Erik; Holter, Trym; Johnsen, Magne Hallstein; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1999) Generation of closed captions for live TV-programs using speech recognition. Norsig'99
1998
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (1998) SPODIS - Spoken dialog systems for telephony services. Studiemøtet i elektronikk og data
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Conference lectureHolter, Trym; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1998) Maximum likelihood modelling of pronunciation variation. ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Modeling Pronunciation Variation for ASR
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Lecture
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Lecture
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Lecture
1997
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (1997) Acoustic subwords - some applications in speech processing. [Mangler data]
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Lecture
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Lecture
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LectureHolter, Trym; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1997) Combined optimisation of baseforms and model parameters in speech recognition based on acoustic sub-word units. [Mangler data]
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Conference lectureHolter, Trym; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1997) Incorporating linguistic knowledge and automatic baseform generation in acoustic subword unit based speech recognition. Eurospeech '97
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Conference lectureHolter, Trym; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1997) Combined optimisation of baseforms and model parameters in speech recognition based on acoustic subword units. IEEE Speech recognition Workshop
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Conference lectureHolter, Trym; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1997) A joint segmentation and labelling scheme for use in acoustic subword based speech recognition. Norwegian Signal Processing Symposium
1996
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Conference lecturePihl, Johnny; Johnsen, Magne Hallstein; Svendsen, Torbjørn. (1996) A VLSI implementation of pdf computations in HMM based speech recognition. TENCON-96
1995
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Conference lectureJohnsen, Magne Hallstein; Svendsen, Torbjørn; Harborg, Erik. (1995) Experiments on cepstral mean subtraction and Rasta-filtering applied to SAMPA phoneme recognition. COST249
1994
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (1994) Acoustic segmentation of speech : applications in speech processing. [Mangler data]
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LectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (1994) Acoustic segmentation of speech : applications in speech processing. [Mangler data]
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (1994) Segmental quantization of speech spectral information. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
1993
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn. (1993) Efficient quantization of speech spectral information. EUROSPEECH '93 (1993 : Berlin)
1989
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Paliwal, Kuldip K.; Harborg, Erik; Husøy, Per Ove. (1989) An Improved Sub-Word Based Speech Recognizer. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
1988
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Conference lectureSvendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Paliwal, K.K.; Harborg, Erik; Husøy, P.O.. (1988) Experiments with a Sub-Word Based Speech Recognizer. International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (ICSST)