From VAD to Siri: A 30-year Journey of Human Speech Understanding
Technology R&D at the Bell Systems
Harry M. Chang, D.Sc.
Sr. Voice Architect
爲了慶祝澳門科技大學成立17周年，資訊科技學院于2017年3月28日在A座A201室舉辦學術研討會，幷特別邀請了美國Honeywell Automated Control Solutions Labs的張曉明博士擔任本次研討會的演講嘉賓。他以《From VAD to Siri: A 30-year Journey of Human Speech Understanding Technology R&D at the Bell Systems》爲題進行了演講。資訊科技學張渡院長以及師生共20餘人出席了研討會。
演講摘要:
Human speech has been the heart and soul of the American telecom industry for over 140 years. Alexander Graham Bell filed his first and most famous patent for the telephone in 1874. Some 70 years later in 1944, the Bell Labs developed a device capable of recognizing human speech in its most primitive form in real time. Since then, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology has inspired many STEM graduates to pursue its practical applications in the telecomm industry and beyond over the past 7 decades. It is in this context that the presenter will first give a historical review of some of major research activities in areas of human speech understanding technology at the Bell Systems over the last 30 years (1984-2014). Then, he discusses a recent research project in area of natural language understanding technology in context of voice search engine for TV content by exploring mutual information (MI) techniques using a structured text corpus derived from actual TV electronic programming guide (EPG).
張曉明博士簡介:
Dr. Chang began his research career in the Bell systems in 1986 and span over the next 25 years, starting as a member of technical staff (MTS) at Nynex (the Baby Bell in the northeast region) in 1986 and then moved to Southwestern Bell in 1993 as a Senior MTS and subsequently as Principal MTS and Lead MTS at SBC Communications. After the historical merger of SBC Communications and the legacy AT&T from 2006 and 2013, he was a Lead MTS at the new AT&T Labs in Austin, TX. Currently, he is Sr. Voice Architect at Honeywell Automated Control Solutions (ASC) Labs in Minneapolis, MN. He received his BS degree in CS from Nanjing University in 1977. He enrolled in the first graduate program at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing from 1978 and 1980. He came to the U.S. in 1981 and received his doctor of science degree in CS from the Engineering School at Washington University in St. Louis in May 1987. Dr. Chang has published over 20 papers and holds 26 US patents. Dr. Chang is a Senior IEEE member.
張曉明博士在演講中
張曉明博士與資訊科技學院院長張渡教授