SPEAKER: VICTOR ZUE
Associate Director, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and Head of the Spoken Language Systems Group
ABSTRACT:
But speech recognition is only a part, albeit an important part, of the
solution to the problem of human-machine interactions using speech. In the
second part of my talk, I will describe recent trends in developing
conversational interfaces that incorporate several other human language
technologies (e.g., language understanding and generation, dialogue
modeling, and speech synthesis), and speculate on the future of this field.
SPEAKER BIO:
Dr. Zue has conducted research in speech technology for more than twenty
five years. His main research interest is in the development of spoken
language interfaces to facilitate graceful human/computer interactions, and
e has taught many courses at MIT and around the world. He has also
written over 150 papers on this subject. Over the past few years, his
group has pioneered the development of systems that enable a user to
interact with computers using multiple spoken languages.
Dr. Zue has served on many planning, advisory, and review committees for
the US Department of Defense (DoD), the National Science Foundation, and
the National Academy of Science. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society
of America. In 1994, he was elected Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE
Signal Processing Society. He currently chairs the Information Science and
Technology (ISAT) study group for DoD.
Wreck a Nice Beach in Four Decades
No single individual has had a more profound impact on the field of speech
recognition than Prof. Raj Reddy. He accomplished this feat through
personal research/vision, student supervision, team leadership, sheer
charisma, and international evangelism. In the first part of my talk, I
ill briefly outline Raj's accomplishments in this area over the last four
decades, more than three of which I have had the great fortune to witness
up close.
Victor Zue received the Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. Since then, he has
held various teaching and research positions at MIT. He is currently
Associate Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, and head of
its Spoken Language Systems Group.