Bent K. Schmidt-Nielsen

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Team Leader Speech Group
B.S. University of California at San Diego, 1971

Phone: (617) 621-7523
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Bent Schmidt-Nielsen has seven years of experience at Dragon Systems in applying speech recognition to useful products. Here at MERL he is paying a lot of attention to making speech interfaces robust and usable. Bent has very broad interests in science and technology. Among many other activities he has taught genetics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and he has been a leader in the development of an easy to use mass market database.

Publications:

Garay-Vega, L.; Pradhan, A.K.; Weinberg, G.L.; Schmidt-Nielsen, B.K.; Harsham, B.A.; Shen, Y.; Divekar, G.; Romoser, M.; Knodler, M.; Fisher, D.L., "Evaluation of Different Speech and Touch Interfaces to In-vehicle Music Retrieval Systems", Accident Analysis & Prevention, ISSN: 0001-4575, Vol. 42, Issue 3, May 2010 (Elsevier Ltd, TR2010-025)

Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Harsham, B.; Raj, B.; Forlines, C., "Speech-Based UI Design for the Automobile", Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology, ISBN: 978-1-59904-871-0, Vol. 1, Chapter XV, pp. 237-252, February 2008 (Information Science Reference, TR2008-006)

*   Dietz, P.H.; Harsham, B.; Forlines, C.; Leigh, D; Yerazunis, W.; Shipman, S.; Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Ryall, K., "DT Controls: Adding Indentity to Physical Interfaces", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-59593-271-2, pp. 245-252, October 2005 (ACM Press, TR2005-069)

Forlines, C.; Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Raj, B.; Wittenburg, K.; Wolf, P., "A Comparison between Spoken Queries and Menu-based Interfaces for In-Car Digital Music Selection", IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), September 2005 (INTERACT 2005, TR2005-020)

*   Guinness, J.; Raj, B.; Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Turicchia, L.; Sarpeshkar, R., "A Companding Front End for Noise-Robust Automatic Speech Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), ISSN: 1520-6149, Vol. 1, pp. 249-252, March 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-023)

Divi, V.; Forlines, C.; van Gemert, J.V.; Raj, B.; Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Wittenburg, K.; Woelfel, J.; Wolf, P.; Zhang, F., "A Speech-In List-Out Approach to Spoken User Interfaces", Human Language Technology Conference, May 2004 (HLT 2004, TR2004-023)