Publications

2026

• Fidelity of Fricative Measurements in Remote Data Collection
  Marina Oganyan, Emily Ahn, Gina-Anne Levow, Sara Ng, Rob Squizzero, Richard Wright
  JASA Express Letters

2024

• Probing Whisper Predictions for French, English and Persian Transcriptions
  Nicolas Ballier, Léa Burin, Behnoosh Namdarzadeh, Sara Ng, Richard Wright, Jean-Baptiste Yunès
  7th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing
• Investigating the Acoustic Fidelity of Vowels across Remote Recording Methods
  Marina Oganyan, Gina-Anne Levow, Robert Squizzero, Emily P. Ahn, Sara Ng, Ella Deaton, Richard Wright
  Linguistics Vanguard
• Investigating the Influence of Stance-Taking on Conversational Timing of Task-Oriented Speech
  Sara Ng, Gina-Anne Levow, Mari Ostendorf, Richard Wright
  INTERSPEECH
• Effects of Information Load and Pragmatic Load on the Hypo-Hyper Continuum
  Sara Ng, Valerie Freeman, Gina-Anne Levow, Mari Ostendorf, Richard Wright
  Fonetik 2024

2023

• Properties of Constructed Language Phonological Inventories
  Sara Ng, Abigail Schwendiman Sleight
  University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics
  Link to online interface

2022

• Leveraging Prosody for Punctuation Prediction of Spontaneous Speech
  Yeonjin Cho, Sara Ng, Trang Tran, Mari Ostendorf
  INTERSPEECH
• Production federated keyword spotting via distillation, filtering, and joint federated-centralized training
  Andrew Hard, Kurt Partridge, Neng Chen, Sean Augenstein, Aishanee Shah, Hyun Jin Park, Alex Park, Sara Ng, Jessica Nguyen, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, and others
  INTERSPEECH

2021

• Assessing the stability of the spectro-temporal cue weighting angle for listener categorization
  Sara Ng, Gregory M. Ellis, Pamela E. Souza, Frederick J. Gallun, Richard A. Wright, Mari Ostendorf
  Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
• Revisiting Parity of Human vs. Machine Conversational Speech Transcription
  Courtney Mansfield, Sara Ng, Gina-Anne Levow, Richard Wright, Mari Ostendorf
  INTERSPEECH

Theses

• [2024] Prosody in Human Communication and Machine Understanding
  University of Washington
• [2017] Musical text-setting as evidence for syllabficiation of highly moraic structures in English
  University of Utah