Projects
Title "Applied research on technologies for conversational human-machine interfaces”
Location Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile
Funding agency Fondef, Chile.
Total award amount In study
Start/end dates 24 months starting June 1st 2003.
Description
In this project four topics will be addressed:
a) speech technology;
b) conversational interfaces with Galaxy II architecture;
c) implementation of speech technology DSP; and,
d) usability evaluation of dialogue systems.

Several prototypes will be developed along the project, which allow to follow the progress in the research, and to discuss with companies possible applications and technology transfer issues.

Gallaxy II architecture
Publications  


Title "Robust Processing of Acoustic Patterns for Applications on the Telephone Line and Internet".
Location Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile
Funding agency Conicyt/Fondecyt, Chile.
Total award amount US$ 70.000
Start/end dates March 2000/April 2003.
Description

This project involves theoretical and experimental study of techniques for robust speech recognition to noise in practical applications in the telephone network and the Internet. It is also focused on the problem of QoS in VoIP.

Front-end of research area

Publications
  • Néstor Becerra Yoma, Ivan Brito, Jorge Silva. "The stochastic weighted Viterbi algorithm: on integrating language modeling and noise canceling in speech recognition". Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing.
  • Néstor Becerra Yoma, Carlos Molina, Jorge Silva, Carlos Busso "Modelling, estimating and compensating low-bit rate coding distortion in speech recognition". Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2005.
  • Néstor Becerra Yoma and Jorge Silva. "MAP speaker adaptation of state duration distributions for speech recognition". IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing Vol. 10, Nº7, pp.443-450, 2002.
  • Néstor Becerra Yoma and Miguel Villar. Speaker Verification in noise using a stochastic version of the weighted Viterbi algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 10, No 3, March 2002.
  • Néstor Becerra Yoma and Tarciano F. Pegoraro. Robust speaker verification using state duration modeling. Speech Communications (Elsevier), Vol. 38, pp.77-88, 2002.
  • Néstor Becerra Yoma, Angela Cortés, Mauricio Hormazábal, Enrique López. "Wizard of Oz evaluation of a dialogue with Communiactor system in Chile". ICSLP 2002 (International Conference on Speech and Language Processing), Denver, USA.
  • Néstor Becerra Yoma, Jorge Silva. "Speaker adaptation of output probabilities and state duration distributions for speech recognition". Proceedings International Conference Eurospeech 2001.
  • Néstor Becerra Yoma, Miguel Villar. "Additive and convolutional noise canceling in speaker verification using a stochastic weighted viterbi algorithm". Proceedings International Conference Eurospeech 2001.
  • Néstor Becerra Yoma and Tarciano F. Pegoraro. "Robust speaker verification with temporal restrictions". Proceedings International Conference for Spoken Language Processing ICSLP´2000.
  • Néstor Becerra Yoma. "Speaker-dependent temporal constraints combined with speaker-independent HMM". Proceedings International Conference for Spoken Language Processing ICSLP´2000.


Title "Robust Processing of Acoustic Patterns for Applications on the Telephone Line and Internet".
Location Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile
Funding agency Conicyt/Fondecyt (international cooperation), Chile.
Total award amount US$ 5.000
Start/end dates March 2000/April 2003.
Description International Co-operation with Dr. Fergus McInnes, CCIR, University of Edinburh, UK.
Publications


Title "NSF-CONICYT: Advancing Human Language Technology in the U.S. and Chile through Collaborative Research on Advanced Dialogue Systems"
Location Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile
Funding agency Conicyt-NSF, Chile.
Total award amount US$ 6.000
Start/end dates July 2002/ June 2003.
Description

Project is oriented to create and to share knowledge and resources to stimulate and to maintain joint investigation between Chile and USA about man-machine on interfaces outposts with voice technology.

Publications  


Title "Multimedia Communications on Wireless Networks".
Location Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile
Funding agency Fondef, Chile.
Description

This project studies the modelling of radio networks of last generation, and the design and the evaluation of applications TCP/IP in these platforms.

Publications  

Speech Processing and Transmission Laboratory