Speak While You Think: Streaming Speech Synthesis During Text Generation
- Avihu Dekel
- Slava Shechtman
- et al.
- 2024
- ICASSP 2024
Zvi Kons
Title
Senior Research Scientist, Speech technologies
Bio
Zvi Kons is a researcher in the Speech Technologies group at IBM Haifa Research Lab. His main interest is speech classification, speech synthesis and speech processing.
Zvi received his B.A. and M.Sc. in Physics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1992 and 1999, respectively.
Previous experience includes research and development in areas of signal processing, image processing and computer vision. He joined IBM at 2001 and for several years lead the IBM embedded Text-to-Speech project.
Publications
Extending RNN-T-based speech recognition systems with emotion and language classification
- Zvi Kons
- Hagai Aronowitz
- et al.
- 2022
- INTERSPEECH 2022
A new data augmentation method for intent classification enhancement and its application on spoken conversation datasets
- Zvi Kons
- Aharon Satt
- et al.
- 2022
- ICASSP 2022
RNN transducer models for spoken language understanding
- Samuel Thomas
- Hong-Kwang J. Kuo
- et al.
- 2021
- ICASSP 2021
An autonomous debating system
- Noam Slonim
- Yonatan Bilu
- et al.
- 2021
- Nature
End-to-end spoken language understanding without full transcripts
- Hong-Kwang J. Kuo
- Zoltan Tuske
- et al.
- 2020
- INTERSPEECH 2020
Leveraging Unpaired Text Data for Training End-To-End Speech-to-Intent Systems
- Yinghui Huang
- Hong Kwang Kuo
- et al.
- 2020
- ICASSP 2020
High quality, lightweight and adaptable TTS using LPCNet
- Zvi Kons
- Slava Shechtman
- et al.
- 2019
- INTERSPEECH 2019
Neural TTS Voice Conversion
- Zvi Kons
- Slava Shechtman
- et al.
- 2018
- SLT 2018
The IBM virtual voice creator
- Alexander Sorin
- Slava Shechtman
- et al.
- 2018
- INTERSPEECH 2018
Patents
- US
- 11211053
- US
- 10418025
- DE
- 112012000689.4
- GB
- 2506278
- US
- 9996732
- US
- 9990537
- TW
- I564881
- US
- 9484036
- JP
- 5936236
- US
- 9105272
Top collaborators
RH
Ron Hoory
STSM, Speech Team lead, IBM Research - Haifa
ST
Samuel Thomas
Senior Research Scientist - Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Understanding
GK
Gakuto Kurata
Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist for Spoken Conversational Systems
RB
Roy Bar-Haim
Senior Technical Staff Member - AI, Natural Language Processing