Ivan Bulyko

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, March 2002. M.S. Computer Engineering, Boston University, 1999 B.S. Computer Science & EE, Suffolk University, 1997

Ivan Bulyko grew up in Moscow, Russia. In 1992, he moved to Boston, MA where he received a full tuition scholarship from Suffolk University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1997, earning a B. S. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Ivan started his graduate studies at Boston University, where in 1999 he received an M. S. degree in Computer Engineering, before transferring to the University of Washington to pursue his Ph.D. Ivan's research interests include speech synthesis, recognition and natural language processing.

Dissertation: Flexible Speech Synthesis using Weighted Finite-State Transducers. (pdf, ps). March 2002.
CV: (Available on request).

Publications

• N. Mirghafori, A. Stolcke, C. Wooters, T. Pirinen, I. Bulyko, D. Gelbart, M. Graciarena, S. Otterson, B. Peskin and M. Ostendorf. "From Switchboard to Meetings: Development of the 2004 ICSI-SRI-UW Meeting Recognition System", to appear in Proceedings of InterSpeech. 2004.
• S. Schwarm, I. Bulyko and M. Ostendorf. "Adaptive Language Modeling with Varied Sources to Cover New Vocabulary Items" , IEEE Transaction on Speech and Audio Processing, 12(3), pp. 334-342. May 2004.
• I. Bulyko, M. Ostendorf and A. Stolcke. "Class-dependent Interpolation for Estimating Language Models from Multiple Text Sources.", Technical Report UWEETR-2003-0003. March 2003.
• I. Bulyko, M. Ostendorf and A. Stolcke. "Getting More Mileage from Web Text Sources for Conversational Speech Language Modeling using Class-Dependent Mixtures", To Appear in Proceedings of HLT. 2003.
• I. Bulyko and M. Ostendorf. "Efficient Integrated Response Generation from Multiple Targets using Weighted Finite-State Transducers", Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 16, No. 3/4, pp. 533-550, July 2002.
• M. Ostendorf and I. Bulyko. "The Impact of Speech Recognition on Speech Synthesis", invited paper, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2002.
• I. Bulyko and M. Ostendorf. "A Bootstrapping Approach to Automating Prosodic Annotation for Constrained Domain Synthesis", in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2002.
• I. Bulyko, M. Ostendorf and J. Bilmes. "Robust Splicing Costs and Efficient Search with BMM Models for Concatenative Speech Synthesis", in Proceedings of ICASSP, 1:461-464, 2002.
• I. Bulyko and M. Ostendorf. "Unit Selection for Speech Synthesis Using Splicing Costs with Weighted Finite State Transducers", In Proceedings of Eurospeech, 2:987-990, 2001.
• I. Bulyko and M. Ostendorf. "Joint Prosody Prediction and Unit Selection for Concatenative Speech Synthesis", In Proceedings of ICASSP, 2:781-784, 2001.
• I. Bulyko and M. Ostendorf. "Predicting Gradient F0 Variation: Pitch Range and Accent Prominence", In Proceedings of Eurospeech, 4:1819-1822, 1999.
• I. Bulyko, M. Ostendorf and P. Price. "On the Relative Importance of Different Prosodic Factors in Improving Speech Synthesis", In Proceedings of ICPhS, 1:81-84, 1999.