Who?

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I work within the broader Speech and Audio Processing group at Idiap Research Institute, with particular focus on the conjunction of speech recognition and speech synthesis. In each case, I 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

  • BuSLR is a build system. It contains conda recipes for some speech & language software along with an experimental system based around cmake.
  • SSP is a signal processing library in python. It contains, amongst other things, a feature extractor and continuous pitch estimator.
  • libssp duplicates some functionality of SSP in a C++ library.
  • ISS is a framework for building and evaluating ASR models.
  • Juicer is a collection of ASR decoders. It is not currently under active development; most of the functionality is available in Kaldi. However,
  • I wrote and (infrequently) maintain Tracter, a data-flow framework that forms the feature acquisition mechanism of Juicer. Tracter wraps several other packages, including libssp.

Other work is on my GitHub page.

Teaching

Since May 2019, I teach the course “Fundamentals of Statistics for AI” with David Ginsbourger and colleagues for UniDistance. 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…

For a long while I wasn’t on facebook and the like. I’ve since bought into the social networking world, including LinkedIn. Some more are below; finding the others is left as an exercise for the user.