- Date: May 12, 2014 - May 14, 2014
Where: Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - MERL is a sponsor for the 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2014), held in Nancy, France, in May 2014.
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- Date: May 1, 2014
Where: IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - John R. Hershey is Co-Chair of the GlobalSIP 2014 Symposium on Machine Learning.
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- Date: March 11, 2014
Awarded to: Yuuki Tachioka
Awarded for: "Effectiveness of discriminative approaches for speech recognition under noisy environments on the 2nd CHiME Challenge"
Awarded by: Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - MELCO researcher Yuuki Tachioka received the Awaya Prize Young Researcher Award from the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ) for "effectiveness of discriminative approaches for speech recognition under noisy environments on the 2nd CHiME Challenge", which was based on joint work with MERL Speech & Audio team researchers Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John R. Hershey.
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- Date: March 1, 2014
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - John R. Hershey is Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Signal Processing Techniques for Assisted Listening of the IEEE Signal Processing.
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- Date: January 1, 2014
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - Jonathan Le Roux, Shinji Watanabe and John R. Hershey have been elected for 3-year terms to Technical Committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Jonathan has been elected to the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee (AASP-TC), and Shinji and John to the Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (SL-TC). Members of the Speech & Audio team now together hold four TC positions, as John also serves on the AASP-TC.
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- Date: September 26, 2013
Awarded to: Jonathan Le Roux
Awarded for: "A new non-negative dynamical system for speech and audio modeling"
Awarded by: Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date: June 1, 2013
Where: International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Discriminative Methods for Noise Robust Speech Recognition: A CHiME Challenge Benchmark" by Tachioka, Y., Watanabe, S., Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME).
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- 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: June 1, 2013
Awarded to: Yuuki Tachioka, Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John R. Hershey
Awarded for: "Discriminative Methods for Noise Robust Speech Recognition: A CHiME Challenge Benchmark"
Awarded by: International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME)
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: 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 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 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: 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: 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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