When possible, presentation slides from each talk are available on this page.

Current presentation schedule 

March 1997

• March 6 - Alex Hauptmann: Informedia, recent work
• March 13 - Lin Chase: Error prediction, confidence annotation
• March 20 - Ravi Mosur: Extracting pronunciations from allphone recognitions
• March 27 - Juan Huerta: Overview of recent work

April 1997

• April 3 - Stan Chen: Maximum entropy models - Slides and references
• April 10 - Eric Thayer: Senone clustering techniques
• April 17 - Bertrand Damiba, Alex Rudnicky: Internationalizing the speech recognition process.
• April 24 - Paul Placeway

May 1997

• May 1 - Evandro Gouvea: Acoustic-feature-based warping function for speaker normalization, Postscript
• May 8 - Sunil Issar
• May 15 - ARPA plans
• May 22 - Kristie Seymore: Topic detection and language model adaptation
• May 29 - Greg Aist: Masters project presentation

June 1997

• June 5 - Stan Chen: LVCSR Hub-5E Workshop review
• June 12 - Phil Green
• June 19 - Roni Rosenfeld
• June 26 - Rich Stern: ARPA 1997 Hub 4 Evaluation Discussion, Specification draft

July 1997

• July 3 - Pierre Dupont: Grammatical Inference: Formal and heuristic methods
• July 10 - Paul Placeway
• July 17 - Ravi Mosur
• July 24 - none
• July 31 - Pierre Dupont: Lattice Language Models

August 1997

• August 7 - Matt Siegler
• August 14 - Jack Mostow, Greg Aist: Project LISTEN - Slides
• August 21 - none
• August 28 - Kristie Seymore: JHU summer workshop overview - Workshop website

September 1997

• September 4 - Juan Huerta: Hub4 Spanish evaluation overview
• September 11 - Eurospeech practice talks
• September 18 - none
• September 25 - none

October 1997

• October 2 - none
• October 9 - none
• October 16 - none
• October 23 - none
• October 30 - none

November 1997

• November 6 - Ravi Mosur: Confidence annotation using lattices
• November 13 - Hub 4 Evaluation update
• November 20 - Stan Chen: Topic Adaptation using Unnormalized Exponential Models

December 1997

• December 4 - Matt Siegler: TREC conference overview
• December 11 - none
• December 18 - none

January 1998

• January 8 - none
• January 15 - Sphinx 3 Tutorial, Front End Processing, Matt Siegler: Slides in ps, pdf; Segmenter at NIST
• January 22 - Sphinx 3 Tutorial, Language Model Training, Kristie Seymore: Slides in ps; CMU-Cambridge Statistical Language Modeling Toolkit
• January 29 - NO MEETING

February 1998

• February 5 - Sphinx 3 Tutorial, Acoustic Model Training, Eric Thayer
• February 12 - Hub4 workshop reports
• February 19 - Kevin Lenzo, Speech Synthesis
• February 26 - Sphinx 3 Tutorial, Decoding, Ravi Mosur, Slides in ps.

March 1998

• March 5 - Pedro Moreno, Digital Research
• March 12 - Dhananjay Bansal, Confidence, notes
• March 19 - Alex Rudnicky, current progress in defining a Dialog Scripting Language
• March 26 - Dr. Michael Ginsburg, Senior ER physician, VoiceDOC Medical

April 1998

• April 2 - Hynek Hermansky, OGI
• April 9 - Stan Chen, Introduction to finite-state transducers, notes
• April 16 - Juan Huerta, The effect of speech coding on speech recognition
• April 23 - Kevin Lenzo, Infobot
• April 30 - none