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Speech & Audio Processing

Speech processing has been one of the mainstays of Idiap’s research portfolio for many years. Today it is still the largest group within the institute, and Idiap continues to be recognised as a leading proponent in the field.

The expertise of the group encompasses statistical automatic speech recognition—based on hidden Markov models, or hybrid systems exploiting connectionist approaches—, text-to-speech, and generic audio processing, covering sound source localization, microphone arrays, speaker diarization, audio indexing, very low bit-rate speech coding, and perceptual background noise analysis for telecommunication systems.

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Adjustable Deterministic Pseudonymization of Speech

research — last modified Apr 21, 2021

Obfuscating Voice Identity

Learning to transcribe Swiss German dialects

research — last modified Apr 21, 2021

Improving Swiss German speech recognition for Swisscom TV Box Voice Assistant

Idiap at ICASSP 2021

research — last modified Apr 21, 2021

Idiap's speech group will be presenting six papers at ICASSP 2021. Our papers address a variety of research problems in pathological and physiological speech processing, automatic speech recognition, and machine learning.

What is the relation between the language and our mental health?

research — last modified Mar 29, 2021

“To understand others implies no only to get their point, but also to understand their feelings and emotions”; Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence.

PARIDA Shantipriy invited speaker at the Indo-German SPARC Symposium

research — last modified Mar 10, 2021

PARIDA Shantipriya, Idiap Postdoctoral Researcher has been granted to be an invited speaker at the Indo-German SPARC Symposium.

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Group Job Openings

Speech recognition and natural language processing for digital interviews — by admin — last modified Mar 09, 2021: In the context of a Swiss NSF grant, we seek a PhD student to work on speech recognition and natural language processing for digital interviews. The project is a collaboration between the universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne, and Idiap Research Institute.
Several Openings for Cross-Disciplinary Senior Researcher positions — by admin — last modified Mar 01, 2021: With the growth of the institute, in addition to increased Federal funding to further support its activities, Idiap is opening several additional permanent senior research scientist positions.
Internship position in domain of automatic speech recognition — by admin — last modified Jul 10, 2020: The position will be aligned with an European project on automatic speech recognition of air-traffic communication through SESAR Joint Undertaking exploratory research
Postdoc positions in automatic speech recognition — by admin — last modified Jul 10, 2020: The Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for several postdoctoral positions in the field of Deep Learning applied for acoustic, and/or language modeling in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR).