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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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Towards Factuality Assessment

research — last modified Sep 15, 2023

As part of the Horizon EC project CRiTERIA, our colleagues Dairazalia Sanchez-Cortes, Sergio Burdisso and Petr Motlicek are working on fact assessment.

Idiapers at the JSALT2023 Summer Workshop

research — last modified Aug 07, 2023

Idiap researchers of the Speech & Audio Processing group have been participating on this years—6 weeks long—JSALT2023 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology held in Le Mans.

Idiap awards 2022

institute — Dec 21, 2022

Every year, the Institute nominates two students for its internal awards. In 2022, the Paper Award goes to Alexandre Bittar, and the Student Award goes to Teguh Lembono. Congratulations!

Artificial intelligence to answer challenges of Mexican society

research — Nov 25, 2022

Esau Villatoro, research associate at the Speech & Audio Processing group at Idiap, and his colleagues from the Mathematics Research Center (CIMAT) from Mexico have won first place in two competitions related to Natural Language Processing. The objective of these competitions is to improve important aspects of Mexican society such as tourism and communication.

A speech processing system inspired by the human brain

research — Oct 19, 2022

Idiap researchers published a paper describing an approach to speech processing based on the properties of the human brain. Their method proved as efficient as the current standard, whilst conserving the advantage of energy efficiency. Moreover, their work is replicable thanks to open access software paving the way for future applications.

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Group Job Openings

Our group is regularly posting job openings ranging from internships to researcher positions. To check the opportunities currently available or to submit a speculative applications use the link below.Our group is regularly posting job openings ranging from internships to researcher positions. To check the opportunities currently available or to submit a speculative applications use the link below.