ICASSP 2007 Hawaii   Szu-Chen Stan Jou 周思誠
Ph.D. Candidate
Language Technologies Institiute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

Research Assistant
interACT
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Tel: +1-412-268-4582
Email:
Address: 407 S. Craig st, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Research Interest: Making computers wreck a nice beach.
Advisors: Tanja Schultz, Alex Waibel

Education
    Ph.D. Candidate in Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
M.S. in Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
M.S. in Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan
B.S. in Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, TaiChung, Taiwan

Professional Experience
    Associate Engineer, ATC/CCL/ITRI, HsinChu, Taiwan
Research and development on Mandarin speech recognition.
Built a telephone speech auto attendant system, which is the earliest on-line production system of its kind in Taiwan.

Honor
    ICSLP 2006 Demo Award
"An Electromyographic Silent Speech Translation Prototype"
Szu-Chen Jou, Lena Maier-Hein, Tanja Schultz, and Alex Waibel

Publications
   
"Wavelet-based Front-End for Electromyographic Speech Recognition",
Michael Wand, Szu-Chen Stan Jou, and Tanja Schultz,
Interspeech, Aug 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
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"Whispering Speaker Identification",
Qin Jin, Szu-Chen Stan Jou, and Tanja Schultz,
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), July 2007, Beijing, China.
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"Continuous Electromyographic Speech Recognition with a Multi-Stream Decoding Architecture",
Szu-Chen Stan Jou, Tanja Schultz, and Alex Waibel,
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Apr 2007, Honolulu, Hawai'i.
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"Towards Continuous Speech Recognition using Surface Electromyography",
Szu-Chen Jou, Tanja Schultz, Matthias Walliczek, Florian Kraft, and Alex Waibel,
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Sep 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
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"Sub-Word Unit based Non-audible Speech Recognition using Surface Electromyography",
Matthias Walliczek, Florian Kraft, Szu-Chen Jou, Tanja Schultz, and Alex Waibel,
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), Sep 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
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"Articulatory Feature Classification using Surface Electromyography",
Szu-Chen Jou, Lena Maier-Hein, Tanja Schultz, and Alex Waibel,
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2006, Toulouse, France.
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"Whispery Speech Recognition using Adapted Articulatory Features",
Szu-Chen Jou, Tanja Schultz, and Alex Waibel,
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2005, Philadelphia, PA.
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"Using Word Lattice Information for a Tighter Coupling in Speech Translation Systems",
Shirin Saleem, Szu-Chen Jou, Stephan Vogel, and Tanja Schultz,
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), October 2004, Jeju Island, South Korea.
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"Adaptation for Soft Whisper Recognition using a Throat Microphone",
Szu-Chen Jou, Tanja Schultz, and Alex Waibel,
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), October 2004, Jeju Island, South Korea.
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"The 2003 ISL Rich Transcription System for Conversational Telephony Speech",
Hagen Soltau, Hua Yu, Florian Metze, Christian Fügen, Qin Jin, Szu-Chen Jou,
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2004, Montreal, Canada.
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"CCL eAttendant - an on-line auto-attendent system",
Jou, S. C., Chien, S. C., Shieh, W. C., Chen, J. H., and Chang, S. C.,
International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Oct 2000, Beijing, China.

"CCL Auto Attendant System",
Jou, S. C., Chien, S. C., Shieh, W. C., and Chen, J. H.,
CCL Technical Journal, n86, January, 2000.

 
Projects and Skills
    Janus Recognition Toolkit (JRTk)
Extensive use and programming with the speech recognizer developed at InterACT.
Skills: Acoustic modeling; C, Tcl/Tk, Condor.

CCL eAttendant
Designed and developed its multi-threaded, highly modulized software architecture.
Skills: Computer telephony integration; MFC, C++, Dialogic SDK.

Taiwan Mahjong on Super Nintendo, summer internship, Kaiser Electronics
Developed efficient graphics and animation sub-routines.
Skills: Super Nintendo architecture; 65c02 assembly.

Programming skills
Language: C, C++, Objective C, Prolog, Matlab.
Scripting: Tcl/Tk/Expect, Perl, shell script, Applescript.
Framework: MFC, Windows API, Cocoa.
Assembly: x86, 6502, AltiVec.