Antoine Raux
Language
Technologies Institute
Carnegie
Mellon University
5000
Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh,
PA 15213
USA
+1-(412)-268-2067
antoine@cs.cmu.edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~antoine
Research Interests
Education
PhD in Language and Information Technologies (8/2002-?)
Advisor: Maxine
Eskenazi.
MS in Intelligence Science and Technology (9/2000-3/2002)
Advisors: Tatsuya
Kawahara and Hiroshi Okuno.
Thesis:
“Intelligibility Assessment and Adaptive Drill Generation for a
Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Learning System”.
Engineering Degree (9/1996-7/1999)
Ecole Polytechnique,
Major in Computer
Science.
Publications
“Let's Go
Public! Taking a Spoken Dialog System to the Real World”,
A. Raux, B. Langner, D. Bohus, A. W Black and M. Eskenazi, Interspeech
2005,
“Maximum Likelihood Adaptation of
Semi-Continuous HMMs by Latent Variable Decomposition
of State Distributions”, A. Raux and R. Singh, Interspeech 2004,
“Automated
Lexical Adaptation and Speaker Clustering based on Pronunciation Habits for
Non-Native Speech Recognition”, A. Raux, Interspeech 2004,
“Non-Native
Users in the Let's Go!! Spoken Dialogue System: Dealing with Linguistic
Mismatch”, A. Raux and M. Eskenazi, HLT/NAACL 2004,
“A Unit Selection Approach to F0
Modeling and Its Application to Emphasis”, A. Raux and
A. Black, ASRU 2003, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands.
“LET'S GO: Improving Spoken Dialog
Systems for the Elderly and Non-natives”, A. Raux, B.
Langner, A. Black, M. Eskenazi, Eurospeech 2003,
“Automatic intelligibility
assessment and diagnosis of critical pronunciation errors for computer-assisted
pronunciation learning”, A. Raux and T. Kawahara, ICSLP
2002,
“Modeling and automatic detection of
English sentence stress for computer-assisted English prosody learning system”,
K. Imoto, Y. Tsubota, A. Raux, T. Kawahara, and M. Dantsuji, ICSLP 2002, Denver, CO.
“Optimizing computer-assisted
pronunciation instruction by selecting relevant training topics”,
A. Raux and T. Kawahara., InSTIL 2002 Advanced
Workshop, 2002.
Teaching
Supervised a summer intern for work on “The Effects of Lexical
Entrainment on Medium-Term Language Learning in Non-Native Speakers” (Summer
2005)
Teaching assistant for Speech II: Phonetics, Prosody, Perception,
and Synthesis (Spring 2004)
Work Experience
Invited Researcher -
I designed and
implemented a computer-based pronunciation tutor for foreign language learning.
This included the use of speech recognition to spot pronunciation errors and
the application of the research I did for my Masters Thesis for intelligibility
evaluation. The tutor is currently in use in ESL classes for undergraduate
students at
Scientific Advisor - Cerego
Japan, Inc.,
I designed and built prototypes of Computer Assisted Language Learning
software based on cognitive theories of human learning.
Intern - Toshiba R&D Center,
Kawasaki, Japan (1/2000 - 8/2000)
I built a speech
recognizer for French. This included training acoustic models on a large corpus
of French speech, designing and running evaluation experiments, and designing
and implementing improvements based on phonological phenomena specific to the
French language.
Intern - Advanced Telecommunications Research,
I worked on
networking and human-computer interaction, and created a personal agent for a
Quality of Service management system.
Activities and Awards
Skills