Presenters are needed for our weekly speech group meetings! Presentations should last roughly 15 minutes, and can be about your research, someone else's research, a new speech technique, a paper review, a cool idea, or whatever you think the group should hear about. Your talk should be a catalyst for discussion.

When possible, presentation slides from each talk are available on this page.

NOTE: Occasionally speakers change at the last minute, and this web page may not reflect the change right away. If you are planning on attending a meeting to hear a particular speaker, you may want to contact  dbansal@cs.cmu.edu  to verify this schedule.

Current meeting time: Thursdays, 12:30pm - 2pm, Wean 4625

To sign up for a presentation time, contact  dbansal@cs.cmu.edu

Past months

May 1998

• May 7 - Meeting canceled
• May 14 - none
• May 21 - Alex Rudnicky, Communicator update
• May 28 - Matt and Stan - ICASSP'98 overview  Language Modeling (ps),  Confidence and other htmlpdf (acrobat)

• June  4  - canceled  due to "Raj Symposium, AI and CS in the 21st Century."
• June 11 - Maxine "Perception in the Peripheral Auditory system and Cochlear Implants"
• June 18 - Rich Stern, Roni Rosenfeld,   "ICASSP-98 overview"  contd..
• June 25 - John Gillett,  "A Class Trigram Model Using PCFGs.

• July  2  - Stan Chen, "On-line Algorithms for Combining Language Models"
• July  9  -  No scheduled talk.
• July 16 -  No scheduled talk.
• July 23 -  Robert Frederking,  " MT in DIPLOMAT"
• July 30 -

• August  6  -  No scheduled Speaker.
• August  13  -  Kevin Lenzo, "1998 NSF  Workshop for Discussing Research Priorities and Evaluation Strategies in Speech Synthesis"
• August 20 -  No scheduled talk.
• August 27 -   Kevin Lenzo, " Intonation in Natural Speech."

• September 3  - Alan W. Black, "Festival Speech synthesis system."
• September 10 -  Alax Hauptmann , "Application of Speech Recognition in INFORMEDIA"
• September 17 -  No scheduled talk.
• September 24 -  No scheduled talk.

• October 1  -  Rita Singh, "Update on Hub4 Status."
• October 8  -  Bhiksha Raj, "Inference of Missing Spectrographic Features for Robust Speech Recognition."
• October 15 -  Stan Chen, "Overview of LVCSR-98."
• October 22 -  No scheduled talk.
• October 29 -  No scheduled talk

• November 5  -  Photina Jang, "Improving Acoustic Models with Captioned Multimedia Speech."  slides
• November 12  -
• November 19 -
• November 26 -  No Meeting.

• December 3    -  No Meeting (ICSLP98)
• December 10  - No Meeting
• December 17  - No Meeting
• December 24  - No Meeting  (Christmas)
• December 31  - No Meeting  ( <1999)

• January 7    -   ICSLP 98 overview ( interesting papers)
• January 14  -
• January 21  -  Matt Siegler, "Using Lattice Properties for Spoken Document Retrieval".
• January 28  -  Greg Aist, "Evaluating the effects of interruption in a reading tutor that listens."

 

• February   4  -  Roni, "Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Model."
• February 11  -  Bansal, "What does the recognizer actually listen? reconstructing speech from MFCC."
• February 18  -  Stan Chan, "Smoothing N-gram Language models."
• February 25  -  Rita."Automatically Designed Linguistic Questions for Acoustic Modeling"

• March 04      -  DARPA Workshop Overview.
• March 11      -  Rich, "Tutorial on Digital Speech Processing."
• March 18      -
• March 25      -  Kristie."Information Extraction Using HMMs."

• April 01      -  Juan Huerta. "Speech Recognition in a Digital Cellular Network".
• April 08      -  ICASSP'99 Overview.
• April 15      -  Rich, "Tutorial on Digital Speech Processing."
• April 22      -  Ravi, "Effecient Gaussian Selection in Continuous Density HMMs".
• April 29      -  Sam Joo,"MLLR for Speaker Adaptation"

• May 06      -  No talk
• May 13      -  Alice Oh,"NLG in Communicator"
• May 20      -  Jeff Allen,"Natural Language in L&H Voice Xpress:  An Overview"
• May 27      -  Alex Hauptmann, "Informedia".

• June 03      -  Roni, "LVCSR Overview"
• June 10      -
• June 17      -
• June 24      -

Page maintained by Dhananjay Bansal.  ( dbansal@cs.cmu.edu )   Last updated : 05-26-99