Selected topics from 40 years of research on speech and speaker recognition

Sadaoki Furui
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Monday, October 12, 2009 at 1:00PM
54-134 Engineering IV Building
Refreshments Served

Abstract: This talk summarizes my 40 years research on speech and speaker recognition, focusing on selected topics that I have investigated at NTT Laboratories, Bell Laboratories and Tokyo Institute of Technology with my colleagues and students. These topics include: the importance of spectral dynamics in speech perception; speaker recognition methods using statistical features, cepstral features, and HMM/GMM; text-prompted speaker recognition; speech recognition by dynamic features; Japanese LVCSR; spontaneous speech corpus construction and analysis; spontaneous speech recognition; automatic speech summarization; WFST-based decoder development and its applications; and unsupervised model adaptation methods.

Biography: Sadaoki Furui is currently a Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science. He is engaged in a wide range of research on speech analysis, speech recognition, speaker recognition, speech synthesis, and multimodal human-computer interaction and has authored or coauthored over 800 published articles. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE), and the Acoustical Society of America. He has served as President of the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ) and the ISCA. He has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) Society and Editor-in-Chief of both the Transaction of the IEICE and the Journal of Speech Communication. He has received the Yonezawa Prize, the Paper Award and the Achievement Award from the IEICE (1975, 88, 93, 2003, 2003, 2008), and the Sato Paper Award from the ASJ (1985, 87). He has received the Senior Award and Society Award from the IEEE SP Society (1989, 2006), the Achievement Award from the Minister of Science and Technology and the Minister of Education, Japan (1989, 2006), the Purple Ribbon Medal from Japanese Emperor (2006), and the ISCA Medal (2009). In 1993 he served as an IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer.