SANE 2012 - Speech and Audio in the Northeast
October 24, 2012
Host: Jonathan Le Roux — ![leroux[at]merl[dot]com](/ecode.php?etext=leroux)
SANE 2012, a one-day event gathering researchers and students in speech and audio from the northeast of the American continent, will be held on Wednesday October 24, 2012 at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, MA.
Details
- Date: October 24, 2012; 8:30am - 5:00pm
- Venue: MERL - 201 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Access)
Schedule
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:10 | Welcome |
| 9:10-9:55 | Jim Glass and Chia-ying Lee (MIT CSAIL) "Zero-Resource Speech Pattern and Sub-Word Unit Discovery" |
| 9:55-10:40 | Tara Sainath (IBM Research) "Deep Belief Network Research at IBM" |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break 1 |
| 11:00-11:45 | Dan Ellis (Columbia University) "Recognizing and Classifying Environmental Sounds" |
| 11:45-12:30 | Josh McDermott (MIT BCS) "Understanding Audition via Sound Analysis and Synthesis" |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:15 | Herb Gish (BBN - Raytheon) "Self-Organizing Units (SOUs): Training Speech Recognizers Without Any Transcribed Audio" |
| 2:15-3:00 | Timothy J. Hazen (MIT Lincoln Labs) and David Harwath (MIT CSAIL) "Latent Topic Modeling of Conversational Speech" |
| 3:00-3:20 | Coffee Break 2 |
| 3:20-4:05 | Steven J. Rennie (IBM Research) "Factorial Hidden Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Noise Robust Speech Recognition" |
| 4:05-4:50 | John R. Hershey (MERL) "A New Class of Dynamical System Models for Speech and Audio" |
| 4:50-5:00 | Closing remarks |
Registration
Registration is free but required. We will only be able to accomodate a limited number of participants, so we encourage those interested in attending this event to register as soon as possible by sending an email to with your name and affiliation.
Update: registration is now closed, and the waiting list is full.
Directions
The workshop will be hosted at MERL, on the 8th floor of 201 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139. MERL is located within a short walk from Kendall/MIT station on the T Red Line. Please come directly to the 8th floor lobby to register.
Organizing Committee
- Jonathan Le Roux (MERL, Chair)
- Jim Glass (MIT)
- John R. Hershey (MERL)
- Shinji Watanabe (MERL)