Date: April, 07 2006

Time: 3:00 p.m.

Location: Centergy One 5186

Speaker(s): Dr. Michael Picheny

Title: Conversational Interaction and Analytics at IBM: Improving Human Communication.

Abstract:
Speech processing technologies are now being employed in increasingly sophisticated ways to aid our abilities to interact and analyze these interactions. We can build systems that can simulate the behavior of service professionals, automate the skills of interpreters, analyze lectures, meetings, and oral histories, and even read people's lips! In this talk, we will give an overview of some of the new developments in speech processing technologies that enable these exciting new applications as well as specifically highlighting the new applications themselves, using specific IBM research projects as examples.

Bio:
Dr. Michael Picheny is the Manager of the Speech and Language Algorithms Group in the Human Language Technologies Group at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Michael has worked in the Speech Recognition area since 1981, joining IBM after finishing his doctorate at MIT. He has been heavily involved in the development of almost all of IBM's recognition systems, ranging from the world's first real-time large vocabulary discrete system through IBM's current ViaVoice product line. He has published numerous papers in both journals and conferences on almost all aspects of speech recognition. Michael was the chairman of the Speech Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2002-2004, a member of the board of ISCA and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Date:	April, 07 2006
Time:	3:00 p.m.
Location:	Centergy One 5186
Speaker(s):	Dr. Michael Picheny
Title:	Conversational Interaction and Analytics at IBM: Improving Human Communication.
Abstract:	Speech processing technologies are now being employed in increasingly sophisticated ways to aid our abilities to interact and analyze these interactions. We can build systems that can simulate the behavior of service professionals, automate the skills of interpreters, analyze lectures, meetings, and oral histories, and even read people's lips! In this talk, we will give an overview of some of the new developments in speech processing technologies that enable these exciting new applications as well as specifically highlighting the new applications themselves, using specific IBM research projects as examples.
Bio:	Dr. Michael Picheny is the Manager of the Speech and Language Algorithms Group in the Human Language Technologies Group at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Michael has worked in the Speech Recognition area since 1981, joining IBM after finishing his doctorate at MIT. He has been heavily involved in the development of almost all of IBM's recognition systems, ranging from the world's first real-time large vocabulary discrete system through IBM's current ViaVoice product line. He has published numerous papers in both journals and conferences on almost all aspects of speech recognition. Michael was the chairman of the Speech Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2002-2004, a member of the board of ISCA and is a Fellow of the IEEE.