Institute to Co-sponsor Linguistics Colloquium: Qian Hu, “Speech Technology & Applications”
The Hariri Institute for Computing, in collaboration with the Linguistics Program at Boston University, will be sponsoring the first Linguistics Colloquium of the fall semester. Dr. Qian Hu (BU PhD in Applied Linguistics, 1993; currently Chief Scientist of Speech Technologies and Senior Principal Artificial Intelligence Scientist at the MITRE Corporation) will speak about “Speech Technology & Applications” on Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 5:30 PM in KCB 101, with a pre-event reception taking place at the Hariri Institute for Computing.
4 – 5 PM Reception with Dr. Hu
Please stop by to meet Dr. Hu and learn about her work as well as opportunities for collaboration in computational linguistics at BU.
111 Cummington Mall (Entrance nearest the corner of Hinsdale Ave)
5:30 – 6:30 PM “Speech Technology & Applications”
KCB 101, 565 Commonwealth Avenue
Abstract: The talk will cover several branches of speech technology, including Automatic Speech Recognition, Phoneme Indexing and Audio Retrieval, Spoken Language Identification, Speaker Identification, Verification, Speech Synthesis, audio and prosodic feature extraction, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). It will discuss research and development that apply the components of speech technology and NLP for various operational applications ranging from multimedia cross-lingual information retrieval, voice command and control of electronic medical record systems for medical data entry and retrieval, intelligent situation awareness and communication for unmanned systems, voice biometrics for authentication on mobile devices and mining audio cues from PTSD interview recordings.