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Speech and 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

The first Roxanne field test took place

research — Oct 26, 2020

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

Artificial Intelligence in Natural Language Processing in India

research — last modified Oct 20, 2020

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

CSI TV series could help further steps towards AI based investigations

tech — Oct 13, 2020

Coordinated by Idiap, the Roxanne project aims to introduce AI technologies for law enforcement agencies. A few days ago, criminal investigation TV series were among the first data sets used to demonstrate early technologies developed by the project partners.

Roxanne Bi-Annual Newsletter: First and Second Edition

research — last modified Oct 08, 2020

Edition: April 2020 and September 2020

A year to reinforce ties between Idiap and Mexico

research — Nov 21, 2019

Full time professor in Mexico, Esaú Villatoro is on sabbatical year at Idiap. He aims to develop a project in the Natural Language Understanding field with different researchers from the Idiap Research Institute.

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Group Job Openings

Speech recognition and natural language processing for digital interviews — by admin — last modified Oct 16, 2020: In the context of a new 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.
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).
Multiple research positions in the Speech and Audio Processing group — by admin — last modified Jul 10, 2020: Multiple research positions in the Speech and Audio Processing group at the Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland