Thomas Schaaf

Visiting researcher (Post-doctoral research fellow)

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

407 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
E-mail: tschaaf@cs.cmu.edu

Research Interests:

• Handling of unknown words in speech recognition
• Acoustic modeling techniques
• Audio segmentation and classification
• Music information retrieval
• Man-Machine-Interface

Current Projects:

• TC-STAR (Technology and Corpora for Speech to Speech Translation)
• Recognition of Mandarin broadcast news
• interACT (International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies)
• Co-managing student exchange between School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
• Supervising students from Karlsruhe
• STR-DUST (Speech Translation for Domain-Unlimited Spontaneous Communication Tasks)
• Speech recognition of Modern Standard Arabic and mainland Mandarin
• GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploration)
• Audio segmentation
• Handling of unknown words in speech recognition

Previous Projects:

• VERBMOBIL-II, NESPOLE, FAME

Teaching:

11-753 Advanced Lab in Speech Recognition and Understanding 2005

InterACT Transcontinental Speech Recognition Paper Reading Group (2004-2005)

Students:

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