Research in the SSLI Lab
- Dynamic acoustic and language models for large vocabulary speech recognition.
- Modeling uncertainty and leveraging structure in speech (e.g. segmentation, prominence) in spoken language processing.
- Multilingual speech processing.
- Natural language processing and machine translation.
- Language technology for education applications.
- Speech-based human-computer interfaces.
- Low-power and efficient software algorithms - optimize at the software level to reduce power consumption for speech systems running on portable devices.
- Incorporating ASR confidence in information extraction from speech.
- Prosody and dialog tracking - integrating prosodic and language cues for recognizing dialog acts and topic structure.
- Graphical models for speech and language technology - adjust the models automatically to better match the properties found in very large databases.