Swisscom TV Box learns to transcribe Swiss German dialects

research — May 03, 2021

The Speech and audio processing group at Idiap, in collaboration with Swisscom, improves Swiss-German speech recognition for the voice assistant of the Swisscom TV Box through a multi-dialect approach.

AI and an app to understand drinking habits among young people

research — Apr 29, 2021

Idiap researchers published the results of a study showing that analyzing pictures and audio from voluntarily recorded videos thanks to an app helps to determine with more objectivity the context of alcohol drinking among young people.

Becoming a developer to make research a reality

institute — Apr 22, 2021

Thanks to her master's degree in AI and her internship in the Genomics & health informatics group, Colombine Verzat discovered that she particularly enjoyed implementing research in applied projects. We look back on her journey and how this master's degree allowed her to highlight what she really wanted to bring to the world of research.

Microscopy: At the heart of images thanks to algorithms

research — Mar 26, 2021

Always observe what’s smaller while maintaining the highest image quality possible. This requires ever more powerful microscopes, but computational methods can also do it. This is the subject of the thesis that Olivia Mariani successfully defended.

Importance of context in machine translation

research — Mar 18, 2021

Perfect understanding of a text is not possible without context. Same goes for a computer. It cannot do a good translation without understanding what is really defined in a text. At Idiap, Lesly Miculicich conducted research to make this possible through her thesis which she successfully defended last February.