Roxanne Bi-Annual Newsletter: First and Second Edition

Edition: April 2020 and September 2020

Artificial Intelligence in Natural Language Processing in India

Organized by the KIIT University, India, this 5 days program involved Idiap speakers.

The first Roxanne field test took place

Roxanne is a EU-funded project that leverages text, speech and video in real-time in order to build tools for combating organized crime.

Idiap at Interspeech 2020

This week Idiap's speech group will be presenting five papers at Interspeech 2020, the largest conference for automatic speech processing. Our papers address a ...

Lei Wang finishes her internship at Idiap

Lei joined Idiap in October 2019 for an internship in the framework of the China Scholarship Council visiting scholar program. During her internship, she ...

Challenges in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

Prof. Esaú Villatoto Tello, visitor professor at Idiap since September 2019, joins the SARAL project to work on the design of Cross-lingual Information ...

Idiap at NeurIPS 2020

This week Idiap's speech and machine learning group presented their joint work on Fast Transformers with Clustered Attention

Can sparsity be our friend? Challenges in learning meaningful representations from speech

As speech processing expands with diversified tasks, designing novel neural network models capable of learning meaningful speech representations gain ...

ASR challenge with code-switching in multilingual nations

You’re never far from an English word in Switzerland

HMMGradients.jl

A first step towards a Julia-based speech recognition toolkit.