1. BUT Speech@FIT: 18 years of research in speech data mining
Pavel Matejka / Honza Černocký Brno University of Technology,
BUT
Czech Republic
11/2016

2. Speech@FIT – people Founded in 1997 Grew from 1 person to >20
faculty
researchers
grad and pre-grad students
support staff
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3. Our work Data mining from spontaneous conversational speech
Transcription
Speaker identification
Language identification
Spoken term detection and keyword spotting
Achievements
Performance proven in international evaluations
NIST Language recognition since 2003
NIST Speaker recognition since 2006
+ projects, SITW, MediaEval, …
EU (FP*, Horizon2020) and U.S. Govt funded projects (DARPA, IARPA)
Strong presence in prestigious events (Johns Hopkins University workshop)
Open source software used worldwide: phnrec, STK, TNet, KALDI.
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4. Security/Defense sector
Narrow the search space
Gender ID
Language ID
Speaker ID
AGE estimation
Speech quality measures
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5. What for II: Call Centers, Lectures
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6. Current projects DARPA RATS IARPA BABEL
September 2010 – June 2014, prolongation for
BBN, BUT, JHU, others
VAD, SID, LID, KWS in very bad channels
IARPA BABEL
March 2012 – July 2016
BBN, BUT, JHU, MIT, NWU
speech recognition in many languages with limited resources and short and shortening time for system development
Czech MoI „DRAPAK“ Information mining in speech acquired by distant microphones,
Oct 2015 – Sep 2020, BUT and Phonexia
From telephone close-talk speech to far-field microphones, mainly for security and defense applications.
FP7 A-PiMod “Applying Pilots Models for Safer Aircraft”
September 2013 – August 2016
DLR (the German NASA), BUT, Honeywell Brno, others
Multimodal cockpit.
BUT Honza Cernocky /2016

7. Current projects II DARPA Lorelei TAČR Meeting assistant „MINT“
BUT, Phonexia, Lingea, Tovek: 10/ /2017
Recognition and analysis of meetings
Follow up of M4, AMI, AMIDA, this time with a real commercial output.
EU Horizon 2020 BISON
Phonexia, BUT, Telefonica I&D, MyForce, U. Bologna, contact centers
Big speech data mining for contact centers, incl. business output and (lots of!) legal and ethical issues.
DARPA Lorelei
University of South California in L.A., BUT and others,
situational awareness by identifying elements of information in foreign language and English sources, such as topics, names, events, sentiment and relationships
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8. Thank you for your attention !
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