[Lisa_teatalk] Tea talks tomorrow, Apr 22nd, 14:30

Jörg Bornschein bornj at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Apr 21 15:30:09 EDT 2016


Here is another last-minute announcement for our Friday tea talk tomorrow:

First we will have Mirco Ravanelli, who recently joined MILA, talk about
"Some insights into distant speech recognition" (abstract below).

Subsequent to the talk Harm de Vries, Sarath Chandar and Aaron Courville
will present and betatest "GuessWhat?!" - their new data collection game.
Don't forget to bring your laptop!

PS we will bring some beers!
PS2 the best player will be awarded a special prize!

Where: AA3195
When: Friday, Apr. 22nd, 14:30

Abstract for Mircos talk:

Some insights into distant speech recognition

Building computers that understand speech represents a crucial step towards
easy-to-use human-machine interfaces. Despite the significant progress made
in the last decade, state-of-the-art speech recognition technologies
provide a satisfactory performance only in close-talking scenarios, forcing
the users to speak close to a microphone-equipped device. However, it is
easy to predict that in the future people will prefer to relax the
constraint of handling or wearing any device to access speech recognition
services, requiring techniques able to better cope with distant-talking
interactions even in adverse acoustic conditions.
This talk will briefly discuss some important applications of this emerging
technology and will highlight  prominent issues of current systems.   In
the final part of the talk a new architecture solely based on
machine-learning techniques, which is  potentially able to better
counteract the harmful effects of noise and reverberation, is proposed to
overcome the major limitations of state-of-the-art technology.
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