Human-Computer Spoken Language Interfaces

Bruce Millar
Australian National University

Tuesday 29 May at 11am

Abstract

This seminar will examine the vision of the speech-only interface for human-computer interaction. It will examine some of the issues relating to user authentication, navigation, and content delivery in this restrictive but highly mobile environment. The issue of robustness of communication using only speech for input and auditory displays for output will also be discussed and some recent research results will be presented.

Short resume

Bruce Millar is currently Associate Director of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University. He has been involved with speech research since 1964. He gained his PhD in Speech Communication in the UK in 1968 prior to emigrating to Australia in 1970.

He has led a small speech research group at ANU since 1973 and has supervised many PhD projects in the areas of speaker characterisation, integration of data-driven and knowledge-based techniques in speech recognition, and audio-video speech processing. He has worked closely with the Bionic Ear project at the University of Melbourne (1978-1994) and was involved in the design of initial speech processing for that project. He was heavily involved with the Australian National Database Of Spoken Language project (1993-1995) and now manages the dissemination of its products. He currently serves as the President of the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association and on several international conference committees. He was co-architect of what became the Speech Science and Technology conference series in Australia and chaired the coordination of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing held in Sydney in 1998.

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