Zvi Kons

29 papers A 10C 1Misc 4Journal 11Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 C conf
Granite-speech: open-source speech-aware LLMs with strong English ASR capabilities.
ASRU
George Saon, Avihu Dekel, Alexander Brooks, Tohru Nagano, Abraham Daniels, Aharon Satt, Ashish R. Mittal, Brian Kingsbury, David Haws, Edmilson Da Silva Morais, Gakuto Kurata, Hagai Aronowitz, Ibrahim Ibrahim, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Kate Soule, Luis A. Lastras, Masayuki Suzuki, Ron Hoory, Samuel Thomas, Sashi Novitasari, Takashi Fukuda, Vishal Sunder, Xiaodong Cui, Zvi Kons
2025 A conf
Spoken Question Answering for Visual Queries.
INTERSPEECH
Nimrod Shabtay, Zvi Kons, Avihu Dekel, Hagai Aronowitz, Ron Hoory, Assaf Arbelle
2025 J jnl
Spoken question answering for visual queries.
CoRR
Nimrod Shabtay, Zvi Kons, Avihu Dekel, Hagai Aronowitz, Ron Hoory, Assaf Arbelle
2024 Misc conf
Speak While You Think: Streaming Speech Synthesis During Text Generation.
ICASSP
Avihu Dekel, Slava Shechtman, Raul Fernandez, David Haws, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory
2023 J jnl
Speak While You Think: Streaming Speech Synthesis During Text Generation.
CoRR
Avihu Dekel, Slava Shechtman, Raul Fernandez, David Haws, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory
2022 Misc conf
A New Data Augmentation Method for Intent Classification Enhancement and its Application on Spoken Conversation Datasets.
ICASSP
Zvi Kons, Aharon Satt, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Samuel Thomas, Boaz Carmeli, Ron Hoory, Brian Kingsbury
2022 J jnl
A new data augmentation method for intent classification enhancement and its application on spoken conversation datasets.
CoRR
Zvi Kons, Aharon Satt, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Samuel Thomas, Boaz Carmeli, Ron Hoory, Brian Kingsbury
2022 A conf
Extending RNN-T-based speech recognition systems with emotion and language classification.
INTERSPEECH
Zvi Kons, Hagai Aronowitz, Edmilson Da Silva Morais, Matheus Damasceno, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Samuel Thomas, George Saon
2022 J jnl
Extending RNN-T-based speech recognition systems with emotion and language classification.
CoRR
Zvi Kons, Hagai Aronowitz, Edmilson Da Silva Morais, Matheus Damasceno, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Samuel Thomas, George Saon
2021 J jnl
An autonomous debating system.
Nat.
Noam Slonim, Yonatan Bilu, Carlos Alzate, Roy Bar-Haim, Ben Bogin, Francesca Bonin, Leshem Choshen, Edo Cohen-Karlik, Lena Dankin, Lilach Edelstein, Liat Ein-Dor, Roni Friedman-Melamed, Assaf Gavron, Ariel Gera, Martin Gleize, Shai Gretz, Dan Gutfreund, Alon Halfon, Daniel Hershcovich, Ron Hoory, Yufang Hou, Shay Hummel, Michal Jacovi, Charles Jochim, Yoav Kantor, Yoav Katz, David Konopnicki, Zvi Kons, Lili Kotlerman, Dalia Krieger, Dan Lahav, Tamar Lavee, Ran Levy, Naftali Liberman, Yosi Mass, Amir Menczel, Shachar Mirkin, Guy Moshkowich, Shila Ofek-Koifman, Matan Orbach, Ella Rabinovich, Ruty Rinott, Slava Shechtman, Dafna Sheinwald, Eyal Shnarch, Ilya Shnayderman, Aya Soffer, Artem Spector, Benjamin Sznajder, Assaf Toledo, Orith Toledo-Ronen, Elad Venezian, Ranit Aharonov
2021 J jnl
RNN Transducer Models For Spoken Language Understanding.
CoRR
Samuel Thomas, Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo, George Saon, Zoltán Tüske, Brian Kingsbury, Gakuto Kurata, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory
2021 Misc conf
RNN Transducer Models for Spoken Language Understanding.
ICASSP
Samuel Thomas, Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo, George Saon, Zoltán Tüske, Brian Kingsbury, Gakuto Kurata, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory
2020 A conf
End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding Without Full Transcripts.
INTERSPEECH
Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo, Zoltán Tüske, Samuel Thomas, Yinghui Huang, Kartik Audhkhasi, Brian Kingsbury, Gakuto Kurata, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory, Luis A. Lastras
2020 J jnl
End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding Without Full Transcripts.
CoRR
Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo, Zoltán Tüske, Samuel Thomas, Yinghui Huang, Kartik Audhkhasi, Brian Kingsbury, Gakuto Kurata, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory, Luis A. Lastras
2020 Misc conf
Leveraging Unpaired Text Data for Training End-To-End Speech-to-Intent Systems.
ICASSP
Yinghui Huang, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Samuel Thomas, Zvi Kons, Kartik Audhkhasi, Brian Kingsbury, Ron Hoory, Michael Picheny
2020 J jnl
Leveraging Unpaired Text Data for Training End-to-End Speech-to-Intent Systems.
CoRR
Yinghui Huang, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Samuel Thomas, Zvi Kons, Kartik Audhkhasi, Brian Kingsbury, Ron Hoory, Michael Picheny
2019 A conf
High Quality, Lightweight and Adaptable TTS Using LPCNet.
INTERSPEECH
Zvi Kons, Slava Shechtman, Alexander Sorin, Carmel Rabinovitz, Ron Hoory
2019 J jnl
High quality, lightweight and adaptable TTS using LPCNet.
CoRR
Zvi Kons, Slava Shechtman, Alexander Sorin, Carmel Rabinovitz, Ron Hoory
2018 — conf
Neural TTS Voice Conversion.
SLT
Zvi Kons, Slava Shechtman, Alexander Sorin, Ron Hoory, Carmel Rabinovitz, Edmilson Da Silva Morais
2018 A conf
The IBM Virtual Voice Creator.
INTERSPEECH
Alexander Sorin, Slava Shechtman, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory, Shay Ben-David, Joe Pavitt, Shai Rozenberg, Carmel Rabinovitz, Tal Drory
2017 A conf
Weakly-Supervised Phrase Assignment from Text in a Speech-Synthesis System Using Noisy Labels.
INTERSPEECH
Asaf Rendel, Raul Fernandez, Zvi Kons, Andrew Rosenberg, Ron Hoory, Bhuvana Ramabhadran
2014 J jnl
Fusion of voice signal information for detection of mild laryngeal pathology.
Appl. Soft Comput.
Evaldas Vaiciukynas, Antanas Verikas, Adas Gelzinis, Marija Bacauskiene, Zvi Kons, Aharon Satt, Ron Hoory
2013 A conf
Audio event classification using deep neural networks.
INTERSPEECH
Zvi Kons, Orith Toledo-Ronen
2013 A conf
Voice transformation-based spoofing of text-dependent speaker verification systems.
INTERSPEECH
Zvi Kons, Hagai Aronowitz
2011 J jnl
A Hybrid Text-to-Speech System That Combines Concatenative and Statistical Synthesis Units.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process.
Stas Tiomkin, David Malah, Slava Shechtman, Zvi Kons
2008 — conf
The IBM Submission to the 2008 Text-to-Speech Blizzard Challenge.
Blizzard Challenge
Raul Fernandez, Zvi Kons, Slava Shechtman, Zhiwei Shuang, Ron Hoory, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Yong Qin
2006 — conf
The IBM Submission to the 2006 Blizzard Text-to-Speech Challenge.
Blizzard Challenge
Ellen Eide, Raul Fernandez, Ron Hoory, Wael Hamza, Zvi Kons, Michael Picheny, Ariel Sagi, Slava Shechtman, Zhiwei Shuang
2005 A conf
Small footprint concatenative text-to-speech synthesis system using complex spectral envelope modeling.
INTERSPEECH
Dan Chazan, Ron Hoory, Zvi Kons, Ariel Sagi, Slava Shechtman, Alexander Sorin
2002 A conf
Reducing the footprint of the IBM trainable speech synthesis system.
INTERSPEECH
Dan Chazan, Ron Hoory, Zvi Kons, Dorel Silberstein, Alexander Sorin