24 June 2008, 5:30 for 5:45 start
When: Tuesday 24th June from 5:30 for a 5:45ish start
Title: Usability and Application of Speech Technology in Smart Meeting Rooms
Speaker: Dr Ahmad Hashemi-Sakhtsari, Human Interaction Capabilities, C3I Division, DSTO
Where: yet to be confirmed, however hopefully - Excom – Ground Floor, North Lobby, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (corner Pulteney and Flinders Sts)
Parking: There is a lot of parking either on Pulteney and Flinders St or in Hindmarsh SQ
– its metered but generally only until 6pm (so not much money) and frees up at the right time :-}
Format is intended to be fairly informal: drinks and nibbles on arrival
Presentation from about 5:45 followed by a discussion
Finally networking and more drinks and nibbles
RSVP: to karen.hughes@saabsystems.com.au (just so I have some idea on quantity of nibbles to organise). If you don’t remember to RSVP you are still most welcome :-}
Food and nibbles: gold coin donation to cover costs or if you are able to assist in providing food or nibbles please let me know in your RSVP.
Abstract
In this seminar an overview of research in speech processing to enhance collaboration will be given. The presentation looks at how automatic speech-to-text transcription is combined with integrated audio and video capture and playback during meetings. In order to improve the quality of transcripts speech pre-processing techniques, such as co-channel speaker separation and echo cancellation are applied. To further enhance human computer interaction using audio, optimal speaker scheduling and queuing for speaker-dependent speech recognisers, microphone position calibration, and speaker localisation and tracking are being investigated. In ending the talk, speaker-independent speech recognisers will be mentioned. These recognisers do not require user training prior to operation and hence have been potentially identified for command and control applications where limited vocabulary is required.
Bio
Dr Ahmad Hashemi-Sakhtsari is a Science Team Leader in Speech Processing with Human Interaction Capabilities Discipline of Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence (C3I) Division in DSTO Edinburgh.
His areas of interest are in human computer interaction using speech and language technology, and in audio and speech processing for C3I.
July Meeting details: 29th July (same time and place)
Title: Head Tracking for Virtual Portals
Presenter: Assoc Prof Paul Calder, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Flinders University
Thanks
Karen Hughes
SA Representative
CHISIG
8 December 2008,
CHISIG's major annual conference, OZCHI, will be held in Cairns, QLD, Australia between 8-12 December, 2008.