Phil Garner

Who?

I work generally in the Speech and Audio Processing group at Idiap Research Institute, and particularly with

• Alexandre Bittar
• Louise Coppieters
• Haolin Chen
• Mutian He

We work on the conjunction of speech recognition and speech synthesis. In each case, we try to focus on physiologically plausible systems. Here is a short bio.

Paper trail

• My reviewed publications. These are also indexed by Google Scholar.

• A (possibly incomplete) list of my patents. They are mainly US, but in practice most of these began life as either GB or Japan patents; the US ones are just easier to reference.

• Other technical reports that are not commercial in confidence or published elsewhere. The list includes some MPEG submissions that made it into MPEG-7.

Boards

I’m a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters. I’m also on the Editorial Board for Speech Communication.

Software

Most work is on my GitHub page.

• For a while now I’ve been trying to find a sustainable way of maintaining software for the group. BuSLR was a failed attempt, but does contain some useful conda recipes. Right now, the most promising approach is homebrew, for which I maintain a tap.
• SSP is a signal processing library in python. It contains, amongst other things, a feature extractor and continuous pitch estimator. libssp duplicates some functionality in a C++ library.
• ISS is/was a framework for building and evaluating ASR and TTS models. Based around HTS it’s quite old.
• I wrote and (infrequently) maintain Tracter, a data-flow framework that formed the feature acquisition mechanism of Juicer. Tracter wraps several other packages, including libssp.

Software ages; Juicer and ISS were effectively replaced by Kaldi.

Teaching

Since May 2019, Ina Kodrasi and I teach the course “Fundamentals of Statistics for AI” for UniDistance. The course was originally designed with David Ginsbourger. A while ago now, I held a lecturer position at EPFL, and taught a course on Speech Signal Processing.

Contact

Look at the username above and add @idiap.ch. It’ll probably get here. Otherwise try the Idiap contact page.

Also…

I’m on LinkedIn, but have a more on/off relationship with facebook and the like. Some are below; finding any others is left as an exercise for the user.