Sarah Borys

Graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

TA for ECE 403: Audio Engineering

Member of the Statistical Speech Technology Group. Here's our wiki.

Beckman Institute, 2013
405 N. Mathews,
Urbana, IL, 61801

sborys@illinois.edu

• Sarah Borys and Mark-Hasegawa-Johnson, SVM-HMM landmark based speech recognition, in review.
• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Jennifer Cole, Karen Livescu, Ken Chen, Partha Lal, Amit Juneja, Taejin Yoon, Sarah Borys, Xiaodan Zhuang, Phonology and the Art of Automatic Speech Recognition, in review.
• Ken Chen, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Aaron Cohen, Sarah Borys, Sung-Suk Kim, Jennifer Cole and Jeung-Yoon Choi, Prosody Dependent Speech Recognition on Radio News Corpus of American English. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 14(1):232-245, 2006.
• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Ken Chen, Jennifer Cole, Sarah Borys, Sung-Suk Kim, Aaron Cohen, Tong Zhang, Jeung-Yoon Choi, Heejin Kim, Taejin Yoon, and Sandra Chavarria, Simultaneous Recognition of Words and Prosody in the Boston University Radio Speech Corpus. Speech Communication 46(3-4):418-439, 2005.
• Sarah Borys, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Jennifer Cole, Prosody as a Conditioning Variable in Speech Recognition, Illinois Journal of Undergraduate Research, 2003.

Books

• Sarah Borys, An SVM Front End Landmark Speech Recognition System, M.S. Thesis, 2008.
• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, James Baker, Steven Greenberg, Katrin Kirchhoff, Jennifer Muller, Kemal Sonmez, Sarah Borys, Ken Chen, Amit Juneja, Katrin Kirchhoff, Karen Livescu, Srividya Mohan, Emily Coogan, and Tianyu Wang, Landmark-Based Speech Recognition: Report of the 2004 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop. technical report of the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing, 2005.
• Sarah Borys, Recognition of Prosodic Factors and Detection of Landmarks for Improvements to Continuous Speech Recognition Systems. B.S. Thesis, 2003.

Papers

• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Jennifer Cole, Ken Chen, Partha Lal, Amit Juneja, Taejin Yoon, Sarah Borys, and Xiaodan Zhuang, "Prosodically Organized Automatic Speech Recognition." Linguistic Processes in Spontaneous Speech, Academica Sinica, Taiwan, November 2006.
• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, James Baker, Sarah Borys, Ken Chen, Emily Coogan, Steven Greenberg, Amit Juneja, Katrin Kirchhoff, Karen Livescu, Srividya Mohan, Jennifer Muller, Kemal Sönmez, and Tianyu Wang, "Landmark-Based Speech Recognition: Report of the 2004 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop." ICASSP, March 2005.
• Sarah Borys and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, "Distinctive Feature Based SVM Discriminant Features for Improvements to Phone Recognition on Telephone Band Speech." ISCA Interspeech, October 2005.
• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Jennifer Cole, Chilin Shih, Ken Chen, Aaron Cohen, Sandra Chavarria, Heejin Kim, Taejin Yoon, Sarah Borys, and Jeung-Yoon Choi, Speech Recognition Models of the Interdependence Among Syntax, Prosody, and Segmental Acoustics," Human Language Technologies: Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL), Workshop on Higher-Level Knowledge in Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, May, 2004.
• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Sarah Borys and Ken Chen, ``Experiments in Landmark-Based Speech Recognition.'' Sound to Sense: Workshop in Honor of Kenneth N. Stevens, June, 2004.
• Bowon Lee, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Camille Goudeseune, Suketu Kamdar, Sarah Borys, Ming Liu, and Thomas Huang, "AVICAR: Audio-Visual Speech Corpus in a Car Environment." Interspeech, October 2004.
• Sarah Borys, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Ken Chen, and Aaron Cohen, "Modeling and Recognition of Phonetic and Prosodic Factors for Improvements to Acoustic Speech Recognition Models." Interspeech, October, 2004.
• Yanli Zheng, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, and Sarah Borys "Stop Consonant Classification by Dynamic Formant Trajectory." Interspeech, October, 2004.
• Ken Chen, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Aaron Cohen, Sarah Borys, and Jennifer Cole, "Prosody Dependent Speech Recognition with Explicit Duration Modelling at Intonatinal Phrase Boundaries." Interspeech, September, 2003, 393-396.
• Sarah Borys, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Jennifer Cole, "The Importance of Prosodic Factors in Phoneme Modeling with Applications to Speech Recognition," ACL Student Session, 2003.

• My Animals
• The Adventures of the Lovable Indestructible Grad Student of Chaos
• Thank you to the students of ECE 403 (Spring 2009)