This week Idiap's speech group will be presenting five papers at Interspeech 2020, the largest conference for automatic speech processing. Our papers address a variety of research problems: Pathological speech processing, Multilingual automatic speech recognition, Automatic Speech Recognition for Air Traffic Control management and Speaker recognition.
Organized by the KIIT University, India, this 5 days program involved Idiap speakers.
Coordinated by Idiap, the Roxanne project aims to introduce AI technologies for law enforcement agencies. A few days ago, criminal investigation TV series were among the first data sets used to demonstrate early technologies developed by the project partners.
Edition: April 2020 and September 2020
Full time professor in Mexico, Esaú Villatoro is on sabbatical year at Idiap. He aims to develop a project in the Natural Language Understanding field with different researchers from the Idiap Research Institute.
Coordinated by the Idiap Research Institute, the European project Roxanne gathers a large variety of national and international police forces, including Interpol, as well as scientists, large industry and private companies. Its aim is to create a computer programme able to help investigators to link various clues and uncover criminal network activities.
Interpol’s New Software Will Recognize Criminals by Their Voices
Following a very strict evaluation process – comprising the nomination by Idiap's management and a formal approval by the Scientific College - , Idiap is pleased to announce the promotion of three of its researchers to Senior Researchers:
LYON, France – In its final field test, the Speaker Identification Integrated Project (SiiP) successfully demonstrated the system’s innovative capabilities as language independent voice recognition system.
The work described in this thesis takes place in the context of data-driven integration of linguistic knowledge and acoustic information for the pronunciation lexicon development.
When speech processing systems are designed for use in multilingual environments, additional complexity is introduced. Identifying when language switching has occurred, predicting how cross-lingual terms will be pronounced, obtaining sufficient speech data from diverse language backgrounds: such factors all complicate the development of practical speech-oriented systems. In this talk, I will discuss our research group's experience in building speech recognition systems for the South African environment, one in which 11 official languages are recognised. I will also show how this relates to our participation in the BABEL project, a recent 5-year international collaborative project aimed at solving the spoken term detection task in under-resourced languages.
The Prof. Marelie Davel will give the talk entitled: Multilingual speech recognition in under-resourced environments
12th of April, 2017 in Prague (ANS CR)
Winner of the IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant:
On March 3rd, 2017, Pierre-Edouard Honnet made the public defense of his PhD thesis entitled "Intonation Modelling for Speech Synthesis and Emphasis Preservation".
In October 2016, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, has organized the Speaker Recognition (SRE) evaluation, as the one of ongoing series of speaker recognition system evaluations conducted by NIST since 1996.
How is it possible for people with bad intentions to get access to data from our smartphone or our GPS?
With regard to devices using voice control, the Swiss German population has so far been left out in the cold. At the best, smartphones, smart TVs and other tools of this kind understand High German, but have no chance when the Swiss German dialect is concerned. But this will change soon.
Marzieh Razavi, Idiap/EPFL Ph.D. student was granted the LTC 2015 Best Student Paper Award for the paper entitled "Pronunciation Lexicon Development for Under-Resourced Languages Using Automatically Derived Subword Units: A Case Study on Scottish Gaelic".
Raphael Ullmann, Idiap/EPFL Ph.D. student was awarded a ISCA 2015 Best Student Paper Award for the paper entitled "Objective Intelligibility Assessment of Text-to-Speech Systems Through Utterance Verification"
On October first 2014, Ramya Rasipuram made the public defense of her PhD thesis entitled "Grapheme-based Automatic Speech Recognition using Probabilistic Lexical Modeling". She received the EPFL PhD thesis diploma from her thesis Director Hervé Bourlard.
On September 4th 2013, Afsaneh Asaei, made the public defense of her PhD thesis entitled "Model-based Sparse Component Analysis for Multiparty Distant Speech Recognition". She received the EPFL diploma from her doctoral advisor (Hervé Bourlard).
Prof. Hervé Bourlard, Idiap Director and EPFL Full Professor, has been named as a Fellow by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
Le déferlement d’outils technologiques accélère la communication et bouleverse notre rapport au monde. Basé à Martigny, l’Idiap – qui mène des projets de recherche fondamentale au plus haut niveau – travaille à l’amélioration des relations personne-machine et à l’optimisation de la communication humaine. Ce prestigieux institut s’engage pour un progrès scientifique au service de l’homme. Interview de son directeur, Hervé Bourlard, expert mondial du traitement de la parole et également professeur à l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
In its issue of April 17, 2013, the Swiss economic journal Bilan released its annual ranking of the top 300 "most influential personalities" in Switzerland.
Crédit: RTS.ch, la première, émission CQFD, 5 octobre 2012
A new book on multimodal signal processing for the analysis of human communication has been published by Cambridge University Press on June 7, 2012. The book was edited by Hervé Bourlard and Andrei Popescu-Belis, with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh, and five other Idiap researchers have contributed chapters to it.
In december 2011, Idiap signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology at Guwahati (IITG) and the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Hyderhabad, India
Idiap at Interspeech 2020
