Pedro Moreno (Google Research) “Contextual Speech Recognition in Google Voice Search”
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When:
April 29, 2016 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
2016-04-29T12:00:00-04:00
2016-04-29T13:15:00-04:00
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17
3400 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
USA
3400 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Center for Language and Speech Processing
Abstract
Traditional speech recognizers are built, deployed into production, and typically not updated until the next refresh. This approach to speech recognition does not leverage all the contextual information available to the recognizer, such as user identity, geographic data , temporal information, dialog state, previous queries, display text, etc. In this talk I’ll give a high level overview of our current efforts to leverage this information and improve the quality of google’s voice search.
Biography
Dr. Pedro J. Moreno leads the Languages Modeling group within google's speech team. Pedro's team is in charge of the infrastructure, engineering, and research needed to deploy and maintain multilingual speech recognition services worldwide. In addition the group conducts research and development in contextual speech recognition. He joined google 12 years ago after working as a research scientist at HP Labs. He completed his Ph.D. studies at Carnegie Mellon University under the direction of Prof. Richard Stern. Before that he completed an Electrical Engineering degree at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
