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Horacio Franco publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Horacio Franco sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 119 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Horacio Franco D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Horacio Franco sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 35 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Horacio Franco is affiliated with SRI International in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work centers on several subfields, notably Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing.

The scientist's research contributions include topics such as Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Speech and Audio Processing, and Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning. These areas reflect a concentration on advanced methods in processing and adapting speech and audio signals.

Horacio Franco has published research in the following venues:

  • Digital Signal Processing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Among recent papers, the following are notable:

  • Investigation and analysis of hyper and hypo neuron pruning to selectively update neurons during unsupervised adaptation, 2020, Digital Signal Processing
  • Investigation and Analysis of Hyper and Hypo neuron pruning to selectively update neurons during Unsupervised Adaptation, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent co-author is Vikramjit Mitra, with whom they have collaborated on multiple publications related to neuron pruning techniques in unsupervised adaptation.

Best Publications

  • Connectionist probability estimators in HMM speech recognition

    S. Renals;N. Morgan;H. Bourlard;M. Cohen

  • Automatic scoring of pronunciation quality

    Leonardo Neumeyer;Horacio Franco;Vassilis Digalakis;Mitchel Weintraub

  • Generic virtual personal assistant platform

    Osher Yadgar;Neil Yorke-Smith;Bart Peintner;Gokhan Tur

  • Method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant to a user

    Gokhan Tur;Horacio E. Franco;Elizabeth Shriberg;Gregory K. Myers

  • Method and apparatus for providing speech-driven routing between spoken language applications

    James F. Arnold;Horacio E. Franco;David J. Israel

  • Automatic pronunciation scoring for language instruction

    H. Franco;L. Neumeyer;Yoon Kim;O. Ronen

  • Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic speech-driven control and remote service access system

    James F. Arnold;Horacio E. Franco;David J. Israel;Christopher Culy

  • Automatic text-independent pronunciation scoring of foreign language student speech

    L. Neumeyer;H. Franco;M. Weintraub;P. Price

  • Method and apparatus for speech recognition using a dynamic vocabulary

    Anand Venkataraman;Horacio E. Franco;Douglas A. Bercow

  • Method and system for automatic text-independent grading of pronunciation for language instruction

    Leonardo Neumeyer;Horacio Franco;Mitchel Weintraub;Patti Price

  • Combination of machine scores for automatic grading of pronunciation quality

    Horacio Franco;Leonardo Neumeyer;Vassilis Digalakis;Orith Ronen

  • THE SRI MARCH 2000 HUB-5 CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM

    A. Stolcke;H. Bratt;J. Butzberger;H. Franco

  • Method and apparatus for error correction in speech recognition applications

    Horacio Franco;Gregory Myers;Jing Zheng;Federico Cesari

  • Automatic detection of phone-level mispronunciation for language learning.

    Horacio Franco;Leonardo Neumeyer;María Ramos;Harry Bratt

  • Automatic pronunciation scoring of specific phone segments for language instruction.

    Yoon Kim;Horacio Franco;Leonardo Neumeyer

  • Combining standard and throat microphones for robust speech recognition

    M. Graciarena;H. Franco;K. Sonmez;H. Bratt

  • EduSpeak[R]: A Speech Recognition and Pronunciation Scoring Toolkit for Computer-Aided Language Learning Applications

    Horacio Franco;Harry Bratt;Romain Rossier;Venkata Rao Gadde

  • Normalized amplitude modulation features for large vocabulary noise-robust speech recognition

    Vikramjit Mitra;Horacio Franco;Martin Graciarena;Arindam Mandal

  • Voices Obscured in Complex Environmental Settings (VOiCES) Corpus.

    Colleen Richey;María Auxiliadora Barrios;Zeb Armstrong;Chris Bartels

  • Method and apparatus for obtaining complete speech signals for speech recognition applications

    Victor Abrash;Federico Cesari;Horacio Franco;Christopher George

Frequent Co-Authors

Nelson Morgan
Nelson Morgan International Computer Science Institute
Luciana Ferrer
Luciana Ferrer University of Buenos Aires
Hervé Bourlard
Hervé Bourlard Idiap Research Institute
Steve Renals
Steve Renals University of Edinburgh
Elizabeth Shriberg
Elizabeth Shriberg International Computer Science Institute
Gokhan Tur
Gokhan Tur Amazon (United States)
Abeer Alwan
Abeer Alwan University of California, Los Angeles
David E. Rumelhart
David E. Rumelhart Stanford University
Jacob Goldberger
Jacob Goldberger Bar-Ilan University

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