View Seminar Video Abstract Speech recognition has become a critical part of the user interface in mobile, telephone, and other technology applications. However, current recognition systems consistently underperform their users’ and designers’ expectations.This talk reports[…]

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View Seminar Video Abstract What effect does language have on people, and what effect do people have on language?You might say in response, “Who are you to discuss these problems?” and you would be right[…]

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View Seminar Video Abstract Artificial neural networks have been applied to speech tasks for well over 50 years. In particular, multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been used as components in HMM-based systems for 25 years. This[…]

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View Seminar Video Abstract I intend to mention some techniques I got involved in during the past 40 years. I will not dwell too much on the details of the techniques. These are documented in[…]

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Abstract Recent years have seen an surge of work in natural language understanding which aspires to extract meaning from text or speech inputs for a variety of applications. In this talk, I will address what[…]

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Research Groups Speaker and Language Recognition (June 22 – July 24)

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Abstract Computational social science has been emerging over the last several years as a hotbed of interesting work, taking advantage of, to quote Lazer et al. (Science, v.323), “digital traces that can be compiled into[…]

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