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Arlo Faria Speech Technology Research at ICSI

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Speech Technology Research at ICSI. Arlo Faria. ICSI. Independent non-profit research institute Groups: Algorithms Architecture Artificial Intelligence Networking & Security Speech Vision Open House: 1947 Center Street, 6 th floor. The Speech Group. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Arlo Faria

Speech Technology Researchat ICSI

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ICSI• Independent non-profit research institute• Groups:

• Algorithms• Architecture• Artificial Intelligence• Networking & Security• Speech• Vision

• Open House: 1947 Center Street, 6th floor

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• Group leader: Steven Wegmann• Faculty advisor: Prof. Nelson Morgan• Research staff: Jordan Cohen, Dan Ellis, Jim

Hieronymus, Adam Janin, Nikki Mirghafori, Roberto

Pieraccini, Liz Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Chuck Wooters• Post-docs: Howard Lei, Hari Parthasarathi• Ph.D students: Shuo-Yiin Chang, Arlo Faria, Mary Knox,

Suman Ravuri, TJ Tsai, Oriol Vinyals• Visitors: Hai Do, Korbinian Riedhammer, Mirco Ravanelli

The Speech Group

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• Speech recognition• also: keyword search

• Speaker recognition• ID, verification

• Multimedia processing• e.g. Web videos

Research areas

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• Diagnosing flawed HMM assumptions• Acoustic features for noisy data• Revisiting “deep” neural networks• Portability to low-resource languages

Speech Recognition

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• Robustness• to noise (AFRL)• to signal degradation (DARPA)

• Speaker Diarization (ParLab)

Speaker Recognition

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• Speech activity detection • Language identification• Conversational, dialog systems• Models based on measured brain activity• auditory cortex of ferrets (UCLA)• neurosurgery patients (UCSF)

Other research areas

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• Robust acoustic processing• Better understanding of principles• Significant (non-incremental) progress• http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu

Scientific Goals