Juan M. Huerta
Mailing Address: ECE Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes
Ave., Pittsburgh PA, 15213
(412) 2-68-71-09
juan@speech.cs.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~juan
Objective
To perform research and technological development in the areas of Robust
Speech Recognition, Multilingual Speech Recognition, Dialog Based Systems,
Acoustic Modeling for Speech Recognition, Statistical Signal Processing
and Speech Coding.
Education
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Aug. 1995- Present Doctoral Candidate in Electrical and Computer
Engineering. Carnegie Mellon University. Thesis: “Robust Speech Recognition
in GSM Mobile Environments”, (expected graduation date: May 2000)
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Aug 1992-Dec 1993 M.S. in Computer Engineering. Boston University.
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Aug. 1987- Dec 1991 B.S. Electrical Engineering. Instituto Tecnológico
y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México
Professional Experience
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Aug. 1995 - Present Graduate Research Student.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA.
Projects & Activities:
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Led the 1997 and 1998 Darpa H4 CMU Spanish recognizer efforts
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Provided basic Spanish recognition technology for the Diplomat and Informedia
projects
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Researched robustness techniques for Telefónica TI+D mobile speech
project
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Performed research in Multilingual Speech recognition
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June 1999 - Aug. 1999 Invited Graduate Student Participant. Summer
Research Workshop. CLSP, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD.
Project:
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Towards Language Independent Acoustic Modeling
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Jan. 1994 - Aug. 1995 International Technical Specialist. Dragon
Systems Inc., Newton MA
Projects & Activities:
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Played significant role in the development of “Dragon Dictate para Windows”
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Supported Spanish lexical development, Spanish acoustic model training,
language model development, acoustic data collection and labeling and interface
translation
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Customized recognizer’s pre-pausal lengthening code to support foreign
languages
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Co-supervised Spanish documentation translation. Developed verb and
noun inflectors and conjugators
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Jan. 1992 - Aug.1992 Communication Systems Internship.
International Business Machines, Mexico City
Teaching Experience
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Jan 1997- May 1997 Teaching Assistant, “Introduction
to Computer Engineering”. Carnegie Mellon University
Publications
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J. Barnett, P. Bamberg, M. Held, J. Huerta, L. Manganaro, A. Weiss, “Comparative
Performance in Large Vocabulary Isolated Word Recognition in Five European
Languages”, Eurospeech 95
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U. Jain, M. Siegler, S.J. Doh, E. Gouvea, J.M. Huerta, P. Moreno, B. Raj,
R. Stern, “Recognition of Continuous Broadcast News with Multiple Unknown
Speakers and Environments”, Proceedings of the Arpa Speech Recognition
Workshop 1996
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J.M. Huerta, R.M. Stern, “Compensation for Environmental and Speaker variability
by Normalization of Pole Locations”, Eurospeech 97
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J.M. Huerta, E. Thayer, M. Ravishankar, R.M. Stern, “The Development of
the 1997 CMU Spanish Broadcast News Transcription System”, Proceedings
of the Darpa Broadcast News and Understanding Workshop 1998
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J.M. Huerta, R.M. Stern, “Speech Recognition from GSM Codec Parameters”,
ICSLP 1998
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J.M. Huerta, S. Chen, R.M. Stern, “The 1998 CMU SPHINX-3 Spanish
Broadcast News Transcription System”, Proceedings of the Darpa Broadcast
News Workshop 1999
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J.M. Huerta, R.M. Stern, “Distortion-class weighted acoustic modeling for
Robust Speech Recognition under GSM RPE-LTP coding”, Proceedings of the
Workshop on Robust Methods for Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions,
Tampere 1999
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P. Beyerlein, W. Byrne, J. M. Huerta, S. Khudanpur, B. Marthi, J.
Morgan, N. Peterek, J. Picone, W. Wang “Towards Language Independent
Acoustic Modeling” 1999 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition
and Understanding
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P. Beyerlein, W. Byrne, J. M. Huerta, S. Khudanpur, B. Marthi,
J. Morgan, N. Peterek, J. Picone, D. Vergyri, W. Wang “Towards
Language Independent Acoustic Modeling” , ICASSP 2000
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J.M. Huerta, R.M. Stern, “Distortion-class modeling for robust Speech
Recognition under GSM RPE-LTP coding”, submitted to Speech Communication.
Skills
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Programming in C, Perl, C Shell and Matlab, some HTML
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Familiarity with UNIX, Windows NT and DOS Operating Systems
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Fluent in English and Spanish
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Familiarity with the SPHINX-III platform and HTK Toolkit, CU-CMU Language
Model Toolkit
Service on Department and University Committees
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1998-1999 ECE Department representative to the CMU Graduate Student Assembly
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Volunteered in various social and academic activities of the EGO association
(ECE Graduate Student Organization)