The work described in this thesis takes place in the context of data-driven integration of linguistic knowledge and acoustic information for the pronunciation lexicon development.
The Idiap Research Institute invites applications for three post-doctoral positions in the general areas of multilingual speech recognition, low-resourced speech recognition, domain adaptation and cross-lingual indexing. The positions are currently funded by EU H2020 and IARPA projects, ranging from one to five years in duration.
The Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for one PhD student position in the field of speech processing and classification of motor speech disorders from the speech signal (pathological speech analysis and synthesis for perception and production).
When speech processing systems are designed for use in multilingual environments, additional complexity is introduced. Identifying when language switching has occurred, predicting how cross-lingual terms will be pronounced, obtaining sufficient speech data from diverse language backgrounds: such factors all complicate the development of practical speech-oriented systems. In this talk, I will discuss our research group's experience in building speech recognition systems for the South African environment, one in which 11 official languages are recognised. I will also show how this relates to our participation in the BABEL project, a recent 5-year international collaborative project aimed at solving the spoken term detection task in under-resourced languages.
The Prof. Marelie Davel will give the talk entitled: Multilingual speech recognition in under-resourced environments
12th of April, 2017 in Prague (ANS CR)
Winner of the IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant:
On March 3rd, 2017, Pierre-Edouard Honnet made the public defense of his PhD thesis entitled "Intonation Modelling for Speech Synthesis and Emphasis Preservation".
The Idiap Research Institute seeks a qualified candidate for postdoctoral position in automatic speaker recognition.
The Idiap Research Institute seeks a qualified candidate for postdoctoral position in automatic spam call detection.
In October 2016, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, has organized the Speaker Recognition (SRE) evaluation, as the one of ongoing series of speaker recognition system evaluations conducted by NIST since 1996.
The Idiap Research Institute invites applications for post-doctoral position in automatic speech recognition. The position is funded by a new industrial project with a leading credit card company in Switzerland. The research and development project will focus on combining technologies of speech recognition with speaker verification. The research will be carried out in a collaboration with other (i.e. European H2020) projects already running at the Idiap research institute.
How is it possible for people with bad intentions to get access to data from our smartphone or our GPS?
The Idiap Research Institute invites applications for one internship position in the domain of speech processing. The position will be aligned with an European project on speaker identification.
In the context of a Swiss NSF grant, we seek a PhD student to work on multilingual and affective speech synthesis.
With regard to devices using voice control, the Swiss German population has so far been left out in the cold. At the best, smartphones, smart TVs and other tools of this kind understand High German, but have no chance when the Swiss German dialect is concerned. But this will change soon.
Marzieh Razavi, Idiap/EPFL Ph.D. student was granted the LTC 2015 Best Student Paper Award for the paper entitled "Pronunciation Lexicon Development for Under-Resourced Languages Using Automatically Derived Subword Units: A Case Study on Scottish Gaelic".
Raphael Ullmann, Idiap/EPFL Ph.D. student was awarded a ISCA 2015 Best Student Paper Award for the paper entitled "Objective Intelligibility Assessment of Text-to-Speech Systems Through Utterance Verification"
On October first 2014, Ramya Rasipuram made the public defense of her PhD thesis entitled "Grapheme-based Automatic Speech Recognition using Probabilistic Lexical Modeling". She received the EPFL PhD thesis diploma from her thesis Director Hervé Bourlard.
On September 4th 2013, Afsaneh Asaei, made the public defense of her PhD thesis entitled "Model-based Sparse Component Analysis for Multiparty Distant Speech Recognition". She received the EPFL diploma from her doctoral advisor (Hervé Bourlard).
Prof. Hervé Bourlard, Idiap Director and EPFL Full Professor, has been named as a Fellow by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
Le déferlement d’outils technologiques accélère la communication et bouleverse notre rapport au monde. Basé à Martigny, l’Idiap – qui mène des projets de recherche fondamentale au plus haut niveau – travaille à l’amélioration des relations personne-machine et à l’optimisation de la communication humaine. Ce prestigieux institut s’engage pour un progrès scientifique au service de l’homme. Interview de son directeur, Hervé Bourlard, expert mondial du traitement de la parole et également professeur à l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
In its issue of April 17, 2013, the Swiss economic journal Bilan released its annual ranking of the top 300 "most influential personalities" in Switzerland.
Crédit: RTS.ch, la première, émission CQFD, 5 octobre 2012
A new book on multimodal signal processing for the analysis of human communication has been published by Cambridge University Press on June 7, 2012. The book was edited by Hervé Bourlard and Andrei Popescu-Belis, with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh, and five other Idiap researchers have contributed chapters to it.
A new book on multimodal signal processing for the analysis of human communication has been published by Cambridge University Press on June 7, 2012. The book was edited by Hervé Bourlard and Andrei Popescu-Belis, with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh, and five other Idiap researchers have contributed chapters to it.
In december 2011, Idiap signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology at Guwahati (IITG) and the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Hyderhabad, India
In december 2011, Idiap signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology at Guwahati (IITG) and the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Hyderhabad, India
Afsaneh Asaei's paper was selected as the winner of the IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant.
Multimodal signal processing: methods and techniques to build multimodal interactive systems by Jean-Philippe Thiran (Author), Herve Bourlard (Author), Ferran Marques (Author), Academic Press Inc (23 novembre 2009), 448 pages, ISBN-10: 0123748259
Special Issue on Mobile Media Search
by T.Dutoit, L.Couvreur, H.Bourlard
On August 10, 2017, Marzieh Razavi successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "On Modeling the Synergy Between Acoustic and Lexical Information for Pronunciation Lexicon Development".
