D. O'Shaughnessy

Douglas O'Shaughnessy has been a Professor at INRS-Télécommunications (University of Quebec) in Montreal, Canada, since 1977. For this same period, he has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, McGill University. Dr. O'Shaughnessy has worked as a Teacher and Researcher in the speech communication field for 30 years. His interests include automatic speech synthesis, analysis, coding, and recognition. His research team is currently working to improve various aspects of automatic voice dialogues in English and French. He received his education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (B.S. and M.S. degrees in 1972; Ph.D. degree in 1976). He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (1992) and an IEEE Senior Member (1989). From 1995 to 1999, he served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, and has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America since 1998. Dr. O'Shaughnessy has been selected as the General Chair of the 2004 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Montreal, Canada. He is the Author of the textbook Speech Communications: Human and Machine (IEEE Press, 2000).

Biography Updated on 6 December 2002

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Experiments on Automatic Recognition of Nonnative Arabic Speech
    EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, vol. 2008, Article ID 679831, 9 pages, 2008
  2. Acoustic Analysis and Detection of Hypernasality Using a Group Delay Function
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 621–629, 2007
  3. Theoretical Complex Cepstrum of DCT and Warped DCT Filters
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 367–370, 2007
  4. Interacting with computers by voice: automatic speech recognition and synthesis
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91, no. 9, pp. 1272–1305, 2003
  5. On the Use of Evolutionary Algorithms to Improve the Robustness of Continuous Speech Recognition Systems in Adverse Conditions
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2003, no. 8, pp. 814–823, 2003
  6. Generalized mel frequency cepstral coefficients for large-vocabulary speaker-independent continuous-speech recognition
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 525–532, 1999
  7. Objective evaluation of grapheme to phoneme conversion for text-to-speech synthesis in French
    Computer Speech & Language, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 393–410, 1998
  8. Critique: Speech perception: Acoustic or articulatory?
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 99, no. 3, p. 1726, 1996
  9. The masking of narrowband noise by broadband harmonic complex sounds and implications for the processing of speech sounds
    Speech Communication, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 103–118, 1994
  10. Experiments in continuous speech recognition using books on tape
    Speech Communication, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 49–60, 1994
  11. Books on tape as training data for continuous speech recognition
    Speech Communication, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 61–70, 1994
  12. Statistical recovery of wideband speech from narrowband speech
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 544–548, 1994
  13. A perceptual study of source coding of Fourier phase and amplitude of the linear predictive coding residual of vowel sounds
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 95, no. 4, p. 2231, 1994
  14. Frequency domain adaptive postfiltering for enhancement of noisy speech
    Speech Communication, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 41–56, 1993
  15. On 450-600 b/s natural sounding speech coding
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 207–220, 1993
  16. Use of minimum duration and energy contour for phonemes to improve large vocabulary isolated-word recognition*1
    Computer Speech & Language, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 345–359, 1992
  17. Speech enhancement based conceptually on auditory evidence
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 1943–1954, 1991
  18. Short-term temporal decomposition and its properties for speech compression
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1282–1290, 1991
  19. Automatic and reliable estimation of glottal closure instant and period
    IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1805–1815, 1989
  20. Enhancing speech degrated by additive noise or interfering speakers
    IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 46–52, 1989
  21. Specifying accent marks in French text for teletext and speech synthesis
    International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 405–414, 1989
  22. Lexical stress detection in isolated English words
    Speech Communication, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 113–124, 1989
  23. Diphone speech synthesis
    Speech Communication, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 55–65, 1988
  24. Linear predictive coding
    IEEE Potentials, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 29–32, 1988
  25. Design of a real-time French text-to-speech system
    Speech Communication, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 233–243, 1984
  26. A multispeaker analysis of durations in read French paragraphs
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 76, no. 6, p. 1664, 1984
  27. Linguistic modality effects on fundamental frequency in speech
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 74, no. 4, p. 1155, 1983
  28. Automatic speech synthesis
    IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 26–34, 1983
  29. The Issue Editor's Preface
    The Counseling Psychologist, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 2–2, 1975
  30. Consonant durations in clusters
    IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 282–295, 1974