The call for papers for the Fourth Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE) is now available. The workshop will focus on speech user interfaces for pervasive (ubiquitous) computing applications. SiMPE will be held in conjuntion with MobileHCI 2009 in Bonn. This is the fourth year SiMPE is being organized and I’m thrilled …
Category Archive: Speech processing
Jun
30
Sony's MP3 dancing robot – Rolly
Sony revealed an egg-shaped digital music player named Rolly (picture below) at the end of 2007, but I haven’t had the chance to see it until last weekend. It plays MP3 and AAC music files and supports direct music streaming over a Bluetooth connection. And it is able to dance. The Rolly is more than …
May
12
ECE 992 Speech signal processing – Student presentations, Monday 05/12/2008
Hello ecebloggers, Today, Monday 05/12/2008 was the last day of the student project presentations and the day of LPC (Linear Predictive Coding). The session chair was Nate Bourgoine (picture below). After a little confusion in the beginning, Ivan Elhart (in the picture below), CATlab member, opened today’s presentations with Project 25 MATLAB implementation of compression. …
May
09
ECE 992 Speech signal processing – Student presentations, Friday 05/09/2008
Hello ecebloggers, Friday 05/07/2008 was another exciting day of student presentations. The session chair was Dave Estes. He didn’t bring Budweiser (Dude!) but he did have a nice slide listing all the presenters (see picture below). The first presentation today was from Nate Bourgoine. Nate’s project was on speaker recognition using high order formants. He thoroughly …
May
07
ECE 992 Speech signal processing – Student presentations, Wednesday 05/07/2008
Hello ecebloggers, Wednesday 05/07/2008 was the second day of the student project presentations, and the day of prosody. The session chair was Yuanli Wang. He did a nice job with power point presentation so we would all know who is presenting. Here’s Yuanli’s picture. I had the honor of breaking the ice today. My presentation …
May
07
ECE 992 Speech signal processing – Student presentations, Monday 05/05/2008
Hello ecebloggers, Monday was the first day of the student project presentations. The session chair was Ivan Elhart. Here’s Ivan introducing a presenter: Four students were presenting: Zeljko Medenica, Dawe Schwarzenberg, Zach Clifton and Dave Estes. All four presentations were very interesting. Zeljko was trying to estimate pitch in a similar way as people hear. …
Mar
12
Microsoft acoustic anechoic chamber displayed at TechFest
Wired Magazine’s online edition has a couple of blog posts about Microsoft Research’s TechFest, an annual internal event that allows MS researchers from around the world to meet and share ideas in Redmond, WA. One of the Wired blog posts is about the so-called Soundless Audio Lab, that is an acoustic anechoic chamber, located at …
Feb
16
Lecture: Dr. Jenni Cook on Speech Production and the Singing Voice
Dr. Jenni Cook, Associate Professor in the UNH Music Department, visited my Speech Processing class to discuss speech production as it relates to the singing voice. Here’s a picture of Jenni I took during the lecture: I invited Jenni because I was intrigued by a figure in the Quatieri textbook that I use in this …
Jan
29
Speech Signal Processing course – links
Last week I started teaching a Speech Signal Processing course. This promises to be a fun course for me, since it mixes DSP and human speech production, both topics I’m very interested in. I keep track of links relevant to this course here. The latest link I’ve added to this list is a link to …