Publications

Research Interests

Speech Synthesis: Speaking Styles, Prosody, Emotions, Singing
Automatic Speech Recognition
Speech to Speech Translation
Multilingual Speech and Language Processing
Error Analysis and Visualization Tools
Practical Implementations of Speech and Language Technologies

PhD Thesis

Style-Specific Phrasing in Speech Synthesis

Alok Parlikar

Carnegie Mellon University (2013)

Book Chapters

Machine Translation Evaluation and Optimization

Joseph Olive, John McCary, and Caitlin Christianson (editors). Yaser Al-Onaisan, Bonnie Dorr, Doug Jones, Jeremy Kahn, Seth Kulick, Alon Lavie, Gregor Leusch, Nitin Madnani, Chris Manning, Arne Mauser, Alok Parlikar, Mark Przybocki, Rich Schwartz, Matt Snover, Stephan Vogel and Clare Voss

Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation (2011)

Conference and Workshop Papers

	Open-Source Consumer-Grade Indic Text To Speech Andrew Wilkinson, Alok Parlikar, Sunayana Sitaram, Tim White, Alan W Black and Suresh Bazaj Speech Synthesis Workshop (2016), Sunnyvale (CA), USA
	The Indic Frontend for Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion Alok Parlikar, Sunayana Sitaram, Andrew Wilkinson and Alan W Black Workshop on Indian Language Data (2016), Portoroz, Slovenia
	Universal Grapheme-Based Speech Synthesis Sunayana Sitaram, Alok Parlikar, Gopala Anumanchipalli and Alan W Black Interspeech (2015), Dresden, Germany
	Analysis and Modeling of 'Focus' in Context Dirk Hovy, Gopala Anumanchipalli, Alok Parlikar, Caroline Vaughn, Adam Lammert, Eduard Hovy and Alan W Black Interspeech (2013), Lyon, France
	Minimum Error Rate Training for Phrasing in Speech Synthesis Alok Parlikar and Alan W Black Speech Synthesis Workshop (2013), Barcelona, Spain
	Text to Speech in New Languages without a Standardized Orthography Sunayana Sitaram, Gopala Anumanchipalli, Justin Chiu, Alok Parlikar and Alan W Black Speech Synthesis Workshop (2013), Barcelona, Spain
	Bootstrapping Text-to-Speech for Speech Processing in Languages without an Orthography Sunayana Sitaram, Sukhada Palkar, Yun-Nung Chen, Alok Parlikar and Alan W Black ICASSP (2013), Vancouver, Canada
	Text-to-Speech for Languages without an Orthography Sukhada Palkar, Alan W Black and Alok Parlikar CoLing (2012), Mumbai, India
	Modeling Pause-Duration for Style-Specific Speech Synthesis Alok Parlikar and Alan W Black Interspeech (2012), Portland (OR), USA
	Data-Driven Phrasing for Speech Synthesis in Low-Resource Languages Alok Parlikar and Alan W Black ICASSP (2012), Kyoto, Japan
	A Grammar Based Approach to Style Specific Phrase Prediction Alok Parlikar and Alan W Black Interspeech (2011), Florence, Italy
	Improving Speech Synthesis of Machine Translation Output Alok Parlikar, Alan W Black and Stephan Vogel Interspeech (2010), Makuhari, Japan
	Improving Speech Synthesis for Noisy Environments Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Prasanna Muthukumar, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Alok Parlikar, Alan W Black and Brian Langner Speech Synthesis Workshop (2010), Kyoto, Japan
	Towards a Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation System from English to Hindi Sriram Venkatapathy and Alok Parlikar International Conference on Natural Language Processing (2009), Hyderabad, India
	An Improved Statistical Transfer System for French-English Machine Translation Greg Hanneman, Vamshi Ambati, Jonathan H. Clark, Alok Parlikar and Alon Lavie Workshop on Machine Translation (2009), Athens, Greece
	Syntax-driven Learning of Sub-sentential Translation Equivalents and Rules from Parsed Parallel Corpora Alon Lavie, Alok Parlikar and Vamshi Ambati Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Translation (2008), Columbus (OH), USA
	NQML: Natural Query Markup Language Alok Parlikar, Nishant Shrivastava, Varun Khullar and Sudip Sanyal IEEE NLP-KE (2005), Wuhan, China
	Home Automation System Based on TeleBYTE Alok Parlikar, Nishant Shrivastava, Shubham Agarwal, Varun Khullar and G C Nandi International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (2005), New Delhi, India
	TeleBYTE: Remote Controlled Electronic Switching System Alok Parlikar, Shubham Agarwal, Nishant Shrivastava, Varun Khullar and G C Nandi International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (2005), Allahabad, India