Zvi Kons

Title

Senior Research Scientist, Speech technologies

Zvi Kons

Bio

Zvi Kons is a researcher in the Speech Technologies group at IBM Haifa Research Lab. His main interest is speech classification, speech synthesis and speech processing.

Zvi received his B.A. and M.Sc. in Physics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1992 and 1999, respectively.

Previous experience includes research and development in areas of signal processing, image processing and computer vision. He joined IBM at 2001 and for several years lead the IBM embedded Text-to-Speech project.

Publications

Speak While You Think: Streaming Speech Synthesis During Text Generation
- - Avihu Dekel
  - Slava Shechtman
  - et al.
- 2024
- ICASSP 2024
Extending RNN-T-based speech recognition systems with emotion and language classification
- - Zvi Kons
  - Hagai Aronowitz
  - et al.
- 2022
- INTERSPEECH 2022
A new data augmentation method for intent classification enhancement and its application on spoken conversation datasets
- - Zvi Kons
  - Aharon Satt
  - et al.
- 2022
- ICASSP 2022
RNN transducer models for spoken language understanding
- - Samuel Thomas
  - Hong-Kwang J. Kuo
  - et al.
- 2021
- ICASSP 2021
An autonomous debating system
- - Noam Slonim
  - Yonatan Bilu
  - et al.
- 2021
- Nature
End-to-end spoken language understanding without full transcripts
- - Hong-Kwang J. Kuo
  - Zoltan Tuske
  - et al.
- 2020
- INTERSPEECH 2020
Leveraging Unpaired Text Data for Training End-To-End Speech-to-Intent Systems
- - Yinghui Huang
  - Hong Kwang Kuo
  - et al.
- 2020
- ICASSP 2020
High quality, lightweight and adaptable TTS using LPCNet
- - Zvi Kons
  - Slava Shechtman
  - et al.
- 2019
- INTERSPEECH 2019
Neural TTS Voice Conversion
- - Zvi Kons
  - Slava Shechtman
  - et al.
- 2018
- SLT 2018
The IBM virtual voice creator
- - Alexander Sorin
  - Slava Shechtman
  - et al.
- 2018
- INTERSPEECH 2018

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Patents

- 09 Jun 2015
- CN
- ZL201280013374.6
Voice Transformation With Encoded Information
- 05 Jan 2015
- US
- 8930182
Voice Transformation With Encoded Information
- 05 Sep 2008
- JP
- 4178319
Phase Alignment In Speech Processing
- 24 Oct 2006
- US
- 7127389
Method For Encoding And Decoding Spectral Phase Data For Speech Signals

Top collaborators

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Ron Hoory

Ron Hoory

STSM, Speech Team lead, IBM Research - Haifa

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Samuel Thomas

Samuel Thomas

Senior Research Scientist - Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Understanding

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Gakuto Kurata

Gakuto Kurata

Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist for Spoken Conversational Systems

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Roy Bar-Haim

Roy Bar-Haim

Senior Technical Staff Member - AI, Natural Language Processing