Niko Moritz
- Phone: 617-621-7525
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Visiting Research Scientist -
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Ph.D., University of Oldenburg, 2016 -
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Biography
Niko's research interests are in automatic speech recognition and machine learning with application to acoustic events and speech. Prior to joining MERL in 2018, Niko spent 9 years at the Hearing, Speech and Audio (HSA) Technology branch of the Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg (Germany) doing R&D to build automatic speech recognition systems.
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL Speech & Audio Researchers Presenting 7 Papers and a Tutorial at Interspeech 2019 Date: September 15, 2019 - September 19, 2019
Where: Graz, Austria
MERL Contacts: Chiori Hori; Takaaki Hori; Jonathan Le Roux; Niko Moritz; Gordon Wichern
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Speech & AudioBrief- MERL Speech & Audio Team researchers will be presenting 7 papers at the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH 2019, which is being held in Graz, Austria from September 15-19, 2019. Topics to be presented include recent advances in end-to-end speech recognition, speech separation, and audio-visual scene-aware dialog. Takaaki Hori is also co-presenting a tutorial on end-to-end speech processing.
Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. It gathers around 2000 participants from all over the world.
- MERL Speech & Audio Team researchers will be presenting 7 papers at the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH 2019, which is being held in Graz, Austria from September 15-19, 2019. Topics to be presented include recent advances in end-to-end speech recognition, speech separation, and audio-visual scene-aware dialog. Takaaki Hori is also co-presenting a tutorial on end-to-end speech processing.
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NEWS MERL presenting 16 papers at ICASSP 2019 Date: May 12, 2019 - May 17, 2019
Where: Brighton, UK
MERL Contacts: Petros Boufounos; Anoop Cherian; Chiori Hori; Takaaki Hori; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Hassan Mansour; Tim Marks; Niko Moritz; Philip Orlik; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Speech & AudioBrief- MERL researchers will be presenting 16 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held in Brighton, UK from May 12-17, 2019. Topics to be presented include recent advances in speech recognition, audio processing, scene understanding, computational sensing, and parameter estimation. MERL is also a sponsor of the conference and will be participating in the student career luncheon; please join us at the lunch to learn about our internship program and career opportunities.
ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 2000 participants each year.
- MERL researchers will be presenting 16 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held in Brighton, UK from May 12-17, 2019. Topics to be presented include recent advances in speech recognition, audio processing, scene understanding, computational sensing, and parameter estimation. MERL is also a sponsor of the conference and will be participating in the student career luncheon; please join us at the lunch to learn about our internship program and career opportunities.
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Research Highlights
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MERL Publications
- , "Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition with Joint CTC-Attention Based Models", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), December 2019.BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-159
- @inproceedings{Moritz2019dec,
- author = {Moritz, Niko and Hori, Takaaki and Le Roux, Jonathan},
- title = {Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition with Joint CTC-Attention Based Models},
- booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)},
- year = 2019,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-159}
- }
- , "Unidirectional Neural Network Architectures for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2837, September 2019, pp. 76-80.BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-098
- @inproceedings{Moritz2019sep,
- author = {Moritz, Niko and Hori, Takaaki and Le Roux, Jonathan},
- title = {Unidirectional Neural Network Architectures for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {76--80},
- month = sep,
- doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2837},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-098}
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- , "Vectorized Beam Search for CTC-Attention-based Speech Recognition", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2860, September 2019, pp. 3825-3829.BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-102
- @inproceedings{Seki2019sep2,
- author = {Seki, Hiroshi and Hori, Takaaki and Watanabe, Shinji and Moritz, Niko and Le Roux, Jonathan},
- title = {Vectorized Beam Search for CTC-Attention-based Speech Recognition},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {3825--3829},
- month = sep,
- doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2860},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-102}
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- , "Triggered Attention for End-to-End Speech Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683510, May 2019.BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-015
- @inproceedings{Moritz2019may,
- author = {Moritz, Niko and Hori, Takaaki and Le Roux, Jonathan},
- title = {Triggered Attention for End-to-End Speech Recognition},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2019,
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683510},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-015}
- }
- , "Streaming End-to-End Speech Recognition with Joint CTC-Attention Based Models", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), December 2019.
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