International Meetings - Presentations

1.Moyal A. (2013). “Key-Word Spotting Methods for Searching Large Speech Databases,” SpeechTEK 2013, New-York, August 19, 2013 (Invited Speaker).

2.Tetariy E., Lotner N., Gishri M. and Moyal A. (2013). “ACLP Approach and Performance in OpenKWS2013,” OpenKWS2013 Workshop, Washington, July 17, 2013 (Invited Speaker).

3.Moyal A. (2011). "Speech Recognition – The Underlying Technology,” SpeechTEK Europe, London, May 2011 (Invited Speaker).

4.Moyal A. (2010). "Efficient Algorithm for Transcription of Spontaneous Speech." SpeechTEK Europe, London, May 26-27, 2010.

5. Moyal A. (2007). "The use of Speech Technologies to Extract Information from Large Scale Multimedia Databases,” Workshop on "Tecnologias Del Habla Analisis De Grandes Volumenes De Informacion,” Madrid, May 2007 (Invited Speaker).

6. Moyal A. (2006). "Using Speech Processing Technologies in Intelligence Systems for Security," Workshop on Opportunities in The Security Market, Madrid, Sept. 2006 (Invited Speaker).

7. Moyal A. (2005). "Key-word Spotting Technology for Monitoring Speech Conversations,” ISS (Intelligent Support Systems) World, Washington, Dec. 2005.

8. Moyal A. (2005). “Using a DSP-based Speech Recognition Engine in Telephony Applications," AVIOS Speech Technology Track, SpeechTEK West Conference, San-Francisco, Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2005, pp. 93-96.

9. Moyal A. (2004). “Embedding DSP-Based ASR Into Telephony Systems,” SpeechTEK, New York, Sept. 13-16, 2004.

10. Moyal A. (2003). “Voice Driven Services - Architectural Issues," Voice on Network (VON) Conference, London, June 9-12, 2003.

11. Moyal A. (2003). “Architectural Issues Regarding the Deployment of Voice Driven Services,” Voice Enabled Services Conference, London, Jan. 2003.

12. Moyal A. (2002). “ASR Architectures for Wireless Speech Solutions,” In the proceedings of SpeechTEK, New York, Sept 30-Oct. 2, 2002.

13. Moyal A. (2002). “Mass Market Telephony ASR,” Language and Speech technologies forum (LangTech), Berlin, Sept. 26-27, 2002.

14. Moyal A. (2001). “System Architectures for Voice Driven Mobile Voice portals & Voice XML,” VoiceXML and Voice Technology Conference, London, Sept. 12-14, 2001.

International Meetings - Conference Papers

1. Gishri M., V. Silber-Varod and A. Moyal. (2010). “Lexicon design for Transcription of Spontaneous Voice Messages.” In Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Malta, May 19-21, 2010.

2. Shammas S, O.Gedge and A. Moyal. (2002). “Database Adaptation for Speech Recognition in Cross Environmental Conditions.” In Proceedings of the third international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Las Palmas, May 29-31, 2002.

3. Shammas S, O. Gedge and A. Moyal. (1998). “Effects of Phonetic Transcription on A Sub Word Based Name Recognition System,” In proceedings of the Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), Tel Aviv, 1998, pp. 1-4

4. Golani O., A. Moyal, Y. Himmelhoch, M. Grutman, S. Shammas & Z. M. Rannon. (1997). “Subword based Name Recognition for Information Retrieval Applications.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Processing (ICSP), Seoul, 1997, pp. 469-473.

5. Moyal A., Z.M. Rannon and I.D. Shallom. (1994). “Advanced Key Word Spotting Algorithm for Vocal Command Recognition in Telephone Network Applications." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing, Applications and Technology (ICSPAT), Dallas, Oct. 18-21, 1994, pp. 1671-1676.

6. Moyal A., and A. Cohen. (1993). "Speaker Independent Phoneme Recognition using Heuristic Search," In Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH), Berlin, Sept. 22-25, 1993, pp. 599-603.

7. Moyal A., and A. Cohen. (1992). "Sequential Phoneme Recognition from Continuous Speech," In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing, Applications and Technology (ICSPAT), Boston, 1992, pp. 1056-1063.

Israeli Meetings – Presentations

1. Moyal A. (2013). “Speech Recognition – Technology and Target Applications”, Afeka Colloquium, Nov. 26, 2013.

2. Moyal A. (2013). “Speech Recognition – Technology and Target Applications”, Nice System Ltd., Security Division R&D Seminar, Oct. 31, 2013 (Invited Speaker).

3. Moyal A. (2013). “ACLP Research Activity”, Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, July 1, 2012.

4. Silber-Varod V., Latin M. and Moyal A. (2013). “The Hebrew Phoneme Set – A Project that Starts with One Hundred Million Words Targeting 31 Phonemes,” The 29th Meeting of The Israeli Linguist Society, Tsfat, Israel, Feb. 4, 2013.

5. Levy T., Silber-Varod V. and Moyal A. (2012). “Automatic Speech Punctuation Using Prosodic Cues,” Acoustics and Audio 2012, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, September 13, 2012

6. Moyal A. (2012). “ACLP Research Activity”, Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv - June 2012.

7. Moyal A. (2012). "Speech Processing Technologies and NUI,” Presented at “What's Natural about NUI? - Naturalizing the Digital”, Microsoft Workshop, Herzeliya, Israel, April 18, 2012 (Invited Speaker).

8. Moyal A. (2012). “ACLP Research Activity”, Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, June 2012.

9. Moyal A. (2012). "Speech Recognition – Technology and Applications,” Conference of the Israeli Association of Gynecologists, Medicine Faculty, Beer-Sheva University, March 22, 2012 (Invited Speaker).

10. Moyal A. (2011). "Speech Recognition – Technology and Applications,” Special Topics in Architecture, Technion, Haifa, Israel, Dec. 13, 2011 (Invited Speaker).

11. Moyal A. (2010). “ACLP Research Activity”, Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv - June 2010.

12. Moyal A. (2009) "Speech as an Interface", 140 Character Conference, Tel-Aviv, Dec. 6, 2009 (Invited Speaker).

13. Moyal A. (2009). "Efficient Algorithm for Speech Transcription." Presented at the AVIOS Israel Conference, Tel-Aviv, Oct. 14, 2009 (Invited Speaker).

14. Moyal A. (2008). "Speech Recognition – from Communication in The Telephony Market to Search in the Internet Market" Presented at the AVIOS Israel Conference, Tel-Aviv, October 2008 (Invited Speaker).

15. Moyal A. (2005). "Speech Recognition Technology – Reality, Myths and Vision,” AVIOS Israel Conference, Tel-Aviv, Sept. 2005.

16. Moyal A. (2002). “Speech Recognition Technology for Wireless Networks.” Mobile Corporate Application Conference, Tel-Aviv, 2002.

17. Moyal A. (2001). “A Compact & Robust Voice Gateway to the Internet for the Masses,” In the proceedings of the DSP Conference, Tel-Aviv, 2000.

18. Moyal A. (1997). “A Family of Speech Recognition Products for Telephone Networks,” In the proceedings of the DSP Conference, Tel-Aviv, 1997.

Israeli Meetings - Conference Papers

1. Bar-Yosef Y., Aloni-Lavi R., Opher I., Tetariy E., Dudy S., Silber-Varod V., Aharonson V. and Moyal A. (2013). “Phonetic-Search in a New Target Language Using Multi-Language Indexing and Phonetic-Mappings”, 2013 Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, July 1-2, 2013.

2. Lotner N., Tetariy E., Silber-Varod V., Aharonson V., Moyal A., Aloni-Lavi R., Bar-Yosef Y. and Opher I. (2012). “Cross-Language Phoneme Recognition for Under-Resourced Languages,” IEEE 27-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat, Israel, November 14-17, 2012.

3. Bar-Yosef Y., Opher I., Aloni-Lavi R., Lotner N., Tetariy E., Silber-Varod V., Aharonson V. and Moyal A. (2012). “Automatic Learning of Phonetic Mappings for Cross-Language Phonetic-Search in Keyword Spotting,” IEEE 27-th
Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat, Israel, November 14-17, 2012.

4. Levy T., Silber-Varod V. and Moyal A. (2012). “The Effect of Pitch, Intensity and Pause Duration in Punctuation Detection,” IEEE 27-th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat, Israel, November 14-17, 2012

5. Bar-Yosef Y., Aloni-Lavi R., Opher I., Tetariy E., Lotner N., Silber-Varod V., Aharonson V. and Moyal A (2012). "Cross-Language Phonetic-Search for Keyword Spotting", 2012 Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel June 19-20, 2012.

6. Lotner N., Gishri M., Aharonson V. and Moyal A (2012). "A Multi-Stage Spoken Dialogue Question-Answering (QA) System”, 2012 Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel June 19-20, 2012.

7. Harel I., S. Bernat, T. Slonim, A. Moyal, B. Li and K. C. Sim. (2011). “Acoustic Spatiotemporal Modeling using Deep Machine Learning for Robust Phoneme Recognition”, 2011 Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 20-21, 2011.

8. Avargel Y., T. Bakish, A. Dekel, G. Horovitz, Y. Kurtz and A. Moyal. (2011). “Robust Speech Recognition Using an Auxiliary Laser-Doppler Vibrometer Sensor,” 2011 Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 20-21, 2011.

9. Lotner N., M. Gishri, D. Shechnik, A. Moyal and V. Aharonson. (2011). “Applying Natural Speech to Domain-Specific Human-Machine Dialogue”, 2011 Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 20-21, 2011.

10. Har-Lev B., V. Aharonson and A. Moyal. (2010). "An Efficient Phoneme Distance Measure Using a Lexical Tree", IEEE 26-Th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat, Israel, December 2010.

11. Tetariy E., A. Moyal and V. Aharonson. (2010). "Phonetic Search Using Anchor-Based Algorithm", IEEE 26-Th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat, Israel, December 2010.

12. Shechnik D. and A. Moyal. (2010). "An Efficient Vocabulary Reduction Algorithm for a Very Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Engine”, IEEE 26-Th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat, Israel, December 2010.

13. Har-Lev B. and A. Moyal. (2010). “An Efficient Distance Measure for Comparing Phoneme Sequences.” 2010 Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 8, 2010.

14. Shechnik D. and A. Moyal. (2010). “Approaches in Very Large Vocabulary Continues Speech Recognition.” 2010 Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 8, 2010.

15. Tetariy E. and A. Moyal. (2010). “Creating Word Hypotheses Using Anchors”, 2010 Speech Processing Conference, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 8, 2010.

16. Moyal A., and A. Cohen. (1991). "HMM Recognition of Hebrew Phonemes," IEEE 17-TH Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Tel-Aviv, May 1991, pp. 285-288.

Peer Reviewed Papers

1. Tetariy E., Gishri M., Aharonson V. and Moyal A. (2013). “An Efficient Lattice-based Phonetic Search Method for Accelerating Keyword Spotting in Large Speech Databases,” International Journal of Speech Technology, Volume 16, Issue 2, pp. 161-169, June 2013.

2. Tetariy E., Bar-Yosef Y., Silber-Varod V., Gishri M., Aloni-Lavi R., Opher I., Aharonson V. and Moyal A. “Cross-Language Phoneme Mapping for Phonetic Search Keyword Spotting in Continuous Speech of Under-Resourced Languages,” Submitted for publication in the Computer Speech and Language Journal.

3. Lapidot I, Shoa A., Furmanov T., Aminov l., Moyal A. and Bonastre JF, “Generalized Viterbi-based Models for Time-Series Segmentation and Clustering Applied to Speaker Diarization,” Submitted for publication in the Digital Signal Processing Journal, Elseveir.

Books

1. Moyal A., Aharonson V., Tetariy E. and l Gishri M. (2013). Phonetic Search Methods for Large Speech Databases, SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology, New-York, Springer, March 2013 (60 pages).