- Date: June 1, 2013
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The results of the 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge are out! The team formed by MELCO researcher Yuuki Tachioka and MERL Speech & Audio team researchers Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John Hershey obtained the best results in the continuous speech recognition task (Track 2). This very challenging task consisted in recognizing speech corrupted by highly non-stationary noises recorded in a real living room. Our proposal, which also included a simple yet extremely efficient denoising front-end, focused on investigating and developing state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition back-end techniques: feature transformation methods, as well as discriminative training methods for acoustic and language modeling. Our system significantly outperformed other participants. Our code has since been released as an improved baseline for the community to use.
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- Date: May 2, 2013
Where: International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Block Coordinate Descent for Sparse NMF" by Potluru, V.K., Plis, S.M., Le Roux, J., Pearlmutter, B.A., Calhoun, V.D. and Hayes, T.P. was presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
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- Date: March 1, 2013
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Letters
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Consistent Wiener Filtering for Audio Source Separation" by Le Roux, J. and Vincent, E. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
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- Date: December 6, 2012
Where: APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Bayesian Approaches to Acoustic Modeling: A Review" by Watanabe, S. and Nakamura, A. was published in APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.
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- Date: November 28, 2012
Where: Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Factorial Models for Noise Robust Speech Recognition" by Hershey, J.R., Rennie, S.J. and Le Roux, J. was published in the book Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition.
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- Date: November 1, 2012
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Structured Discriminative Models For Speech Recognition" by Gales, M., Watanabe, S. and Fosler-Lussier, E. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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- Date: October 22, 2012
Where: Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Evaluation of Two Types of In-Vehicle Music Retrieval and Navigation Systems" by Zhang, J., Borowsky, A., Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Harsham, B., Weinberg, G., Romoser, M.R.E. and Fisher, D.L. was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).
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- Date: March 31, 2012
Where: International Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning for Speech Processing (IWSML)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Latent Dirichlet Reallocation for Term Swapping" by Heaukulani, C., Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the International Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning for Speech Processing (IWSML).
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- Date: March 13, 2012
Where: Acoustical Society of Japan Spring Meeting (ASJ)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Speech Enhancement by Indirect VTS" by Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the Acoustical Society of Japan Spring Meeting (ASJ).
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- Date: June 27, 2011
Where: International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Investigating HUDs or the Presentation of Choice Lists in Car navigation Systems" by Weinberg, G., Harsham, B. and Medenica, Z. was presented at the International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design.
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- Date: January 31, 2011
Where: IEEE Multimedia
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Multimodal Input in the Car, Today and Tomorrow" by Mueller, C. and Weinberg, G. was published in IEEE Multimedia.
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- Date: September 26, 2010
Where: Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Ungrounded Independent Non-Negative Factor Analysis" by Raj, B., Wilson, K.W., Krueger, A. and Haeb-Umbach, R. was presented at the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
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- Date: September 26, 2010
Where: Interspeech
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Vocabulary Independent Spoken Query: a Case for Subword Units" by Gouvea, E. and Ezzat, T. was presented at Interspeech.
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- Date: September 7, 2010
Where: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Contextual Push-to-talk: Shortening Voice Dialogs to Improve Driving Performance" by Weinberg, G., Harsham, B., Forlines, C. and Medenica, Z. was presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI).
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- Date: September 7, 2010
Where: Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Object-Oriented Multimodality for Safer-In-Vehicle Interfaces" by Weinberg, G. and Harsham, B. was presented at Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE).
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- Date: May 12, 2010
Where: Accident Analysis & Prevention
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Evaluation of Different Speech and Touch Interfaces to In-vehicle Music Retrieval Systems" by Garay-Vega, L., Pradhan, A.K., Weinberg, G.L., Schmidt-Nielsen, B.K., Harsham, B.A., Shen, Y., Divekar, G., Romoser, M., Knodler, M. and Fisher, D.L. was published in Accident Analysis & Prevention.
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- Date: September 21, 2009
Where: International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Developing a Low-Cost Driving Simulator for the Evaluation of In-Vehicle Technologies" by Weinberg, G.L. and Harsham, B.A. was presented at the International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI).
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- Date: September 15, 2009
Where: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Contextual Push-to-Talk: A New Technique for Reducing Voice Dialog Duration" by Weinberg, G.L. was presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI).
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- Date: April 6, 2009
Where: European Conference on Informaiton Retrieval (ECIR)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Word Particles Applied to Information Retrieval" by Gouvea, E.V. and Raj, B. was presented at the European Conference on Informaiton Retrieval (ECIR).
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- Date: March 2, 2009
Where: Voice Search Conference
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Voice Search While Driving: Is it Safe?" by Wittenburg, K. was presented at the Voice Search Conference.
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- Date: September 22, 2008
Where: Interspeech
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Regularized Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Temporal Dependencies for Speech Denoising" by Wilson, K. W., Raj, B. and Smaragdis, P. was presented at Interspeech.
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- Date: July 25, 2008
Where: IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Display Style Considerations for In-Car Multimodal Music Search" by Weinberg, G. and Kondili, D. was presented at the IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI).
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- Date: February 15, 2008
Where: Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Speech-Based UI Design for the Automobile" by Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Harsham, B., Raj, B. and Forlines, C. was published in the book Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology.
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- Date: October 21, 2007
Where: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Example-Driven Bandwidth Expansion" by Smaragdis, P. and Raj, B. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA).
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- Date: October 1, 2007
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Ultrasonic Doppler Sensor for Voice Activity Detection" by Kalgaonkar, K., Hu, R. and Raj, B. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
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