[chisigmail] SA CHI next meeting 24th June + advance notice of July meeting

[Karen Hughes]

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 at saabsystems.com.au
<mailto:karen.hughes at 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
mob: +61 -4 1788 4876

 

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