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

Harm de Vries mail at harmdevries.com
Fri Apr 22 15:19:12 EDT 2016


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On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Jörg Bornschein <bornj at iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:

> 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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