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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.

Group News

ASR challenge with code-switching in multilingual nations

research — last modified Jan 13, 2021

You’re never far from an English word in Switzerland

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

research — last modified Jan 12, 2021

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

Idiap at NeurIPS 2020

research — last modified Dec 17, 2020

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

Challenges in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

research — last modified Dec 02, 2020

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

Lei Wang finishes her internship at Idiap

research — last modified Dec 02, 2020

Lei joined Idiap in October 2019 for an internship in the framework of the China Scholarship Council visiting scholar program. During her internship, she worked on neural network-based mappings for single-channel dereverberation and noise reduction.

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Group Job Openings

PhD position in Neural Architectures for Speech Technology — by admin — last modified Dec 21, 2020: In the context of a Swiss NSF grant, we seek a PhD student to work in the general area of neural architectures for speech technology.
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).