Speech and Multimodal Interfaces Laboratory

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30.01.2012 Alexey Karpov was awarded with the Grant of the President of Russia for young PhDs for 2012-2013, project title "Development of an automatic system for recognition of audio-visual Russian speech using a high-speed camera".

20.12.2011 On 14-15 December members of the laboratory took part in LenExpo industrial exhibition in the framework of an exposition of Vasileostrovsky district and presented multi-modal computer systems to the Governor of St. Petersburg. The exposition of the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg was awarded with the diploma for the 2nd place among all 19 city districts. Details >>

01.11.2011 The laboratory starts new research project "Development of software for assistive multimodal living environment" (contract No. 11.519.11.4025 for 2011-2013) supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia in the framework of the Federal Target Programme "Research and Development on Priority Fields of Scientific-Technological Complex of Russia for 2007-2013" jointly with Bogazici University in Istanbul (Turkey) Details >>

31.10.2011 Personal research projects of Alexey Karpov and Irina Kipyatkova have been supported in the framework of the program for young PhDs and young scientists by the Committee on Science and Higher Education of the Government of St. Petersburg.

27.10.2011 Irina Kipyatkova has defended her PhD thesis "Methods and software for phonetic and language modeling of conversational Russian speech" in SPIIRAS !

21.10.2011 The laboratory begins research project "Development of methods and models of automatic processing of speech signals in intelligent information-communication systems" (contract No. 11.519.11.4020 for 2011-2013) supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia in the framework of the Federal Target Programme "Research and Development on Priority Fields of Scientific-Technological Complex of Russia for 2007-2013" jointly with University of West Bohemia (Plzen, Czech Republic) Details >>

15.09.2011 During summer 2011 members of our laboratory presented papers at the following International conferences: Interspeech-2011(Florence, Italy); International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS-2011 (Hong Kong); Human-Computer Interaction International HCII-2011 (Orlando, USA); Text, Speech and Dialog TSD-2011; eNTERFACE-2011 (Plzen, Czech Rep.); NEW2AN (St. Petersburg).

26.08.2011 5th Interdisciplinary Workshop "Analysis of Conversational Russian Speech" AR3-2011 was organized by our laboratory. Details >>

18.02.2011 Andrey Ronzhin was awarded with the Grant of the President of the Russian Federation in nomination "Young Doctor of Sciences" for 2011-2012.

02.11.2010 Scientific-Educational Center "Intelligent Space Technologies" has been founded as a subdivision of SPIIRAS. Details >>>

20.10.2010 Four research projects of the laboratory have been supported in the framework of the program for young PhDs and young scientists, initiated by the Committee on Science and Higher Education of the Government of Saint-Petersburg.

18.10.2010 In August-October 2010 members of the laboratory presented several scientific papers in the following International conferences: Interspeech-ICSLP (Makuhari, Japan); ICPR (Istanbul, Turkey); TSD (Brno, Czech Rep.); eNTERFACE (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Graphicon (St.Petersburg); ICUMT (Moscow); RuSmart/NEW2AN (St.Petersburg).

01.09.2010 The Laboratory starts new three-year research project "Development of principles and innovative information technologies for interaction of users with smart space" supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the framework of the Federal Targeted Program “Research and Research-Human Resources for Innovating Russia in 2009-2013”.

11.06.2010 Head of the Laboratory Andrey Ronzhin has defended thesis "Methods and software for multi-channel distant speech processing and their use in interactive multi-modal applications" and become the Doctor of Science!

11.05.2010 The Laboratory begins new three-year research project "Development of models, methods and toolkits of intelligent control for the mobile information enquiry robot" supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the framework of the Federal Targeted Program “Research and Research-Human Resources for Innovating Russia in 2009-2013”.

30.04.2010 The Laboratory starts new research project "Multimodal adaptive interfaces for heterogeneous user devices of intelligent space" supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.

24.03.2010 Alexey Karpov was awarded with the Grant of the President of the Russian Federation in nomination "Young PhD" for 2010-2011.

25.12.2009 The Laboratory starts new research project "Multimodal assistive system based on technologies of Russian speech recognition and technical vision" supported by the Human Capital Foundation and devoted to development of the assistive computer system for hand-disabled people.

07.12.2009 Dr. Alexey Karpov and Dr. Andrey Ronzhin were awarded with diplomas of winners of project's competition in nomination "IT-technologies" organized by St. Petersburg Scientific Center of RAS. Details >>

26.11.2009 The Laboratory starts new three-year research project "Development of methods, models and algorithms for automatic recognition of audio-visual Russian speech" supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the framework of the Federal Targeted Program "Research and Research-Human Resources for Innovating Russia in 2009-2013".

20.11.2009 The Laboratory starts new three-year research project "Development of methods for human-machine interaction and multimodal user interfaces for intelligent information systems" supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the framework of the Federal Targeted Program "Research and Research-Human Resources for Innovating Russia in 2009-2013".

14.09.2009 In September 2009 the Laboratory took part and presented a paper at the 10-th International Conference Interspeech-2009 (Brighton, UK). Dr. Alexey Karpov participated as the representative of the Russian speech community at the ISCA International Affairs Committee meeting organized at Interspeech-2009.

30.08.2009 Speech and Multimodal Interfaces Laboratory sucessfully hosted the 3-rd Interdisciplinary Workshop "Analysis of Conversational Russian Speech". Details >>

02.08.2009 Four one-year research projects of the Laboratory are supported in 2009 by the Committee on Science and Higher Education of the Administration of Saint-Petersburg in frameworks of the programs for young PhD (2 grants), for young scientists and under-graduate students.

01.07.2009 Speech and Multimodal Interfaces Laboratory sucessfully hosted the 13-th International Conference on Speech and Computer SPECOM-2009. Details >>

11.03.2009 The laboratory starts new bilateral Russian-Turkish research project "Methods and multimodal interfaces for contactless communication of handicapped people with information inquiry systems" jointly with Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey) supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.

05.12.2008 Dr. Andrey Ronzhin gave the invited lecture "Multimodal Interfaces for Intelligent Environments" at the International conference devoted to the 50-th anniversary of computerisation of Mexico, UAM, Mexico.

14.11.2008 In October 2008 the Laboratory participated in the XX-th Session of the Russian Acoustic Society (Moscow, Russia).

12.09.2008 In August-September 2008 the members of the Laboratory participated in the following International conferences: EUSIPCO (Lausanne, Switzerland); TSD (Brno, Czechia); eNTERFACE (Orsay, France).

24.07.2008 Four one-year research projects of the Laboratory are supported by the program for young PhD and post-graduate students organized by the Committee on Science and Higher Education of the Administration of Saint-Petersburg.

02.06.2008 In May 2008 two members of the Laboratory participated in the 5-th International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (Minsk, Belarus).

04.05.2008 Bilateral Russian-Belarus research project "A model of audio-visual speech synthesis and recognition for intellectual queuing devices" jointly with United Institute of Informatics Problems (Minsk, Belarus) supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research is starting.

03.04.2008 Recent achievements of the laboratory in speech and multimodal interfaces area were presented at the new program "Vesti - St. Petersburg" of the "Rossiya" broadcast TV channel. Details >>

30.03.2008 Research project "Modeling non-phonemic speech elements and creation of alternative transcriptions for spontaneous Russian speech recognition" supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research is starting.

25.02.2008 Speech and Multimodal Interfaces Laboratory is new department of SPIIRAS (formerly Speech Informatics Group)!

02.02.2008 Dr. Alexey Karpov has been awarded as "Distinguished PhD of the Russian Academy of Sciences" for 2008-2009.

28.12.2007 2-nd Interdisciplinary Workshop "Analysis of Spontaneous Russian Speech - 2008" to be organized by SPIIRAS was announced. Details >>

22.10.2007 Speech Informatics Group presented 4 papers at the 12-th International Conference on Speech and Computer SPECOM (Moscow, Russia). The following 13-th conference will be organized by the Speech Informatics Group in June 2009.

21.10.2007 Speech Informatics Group took part at the V International Exhibition ROBOTICS 2007 (Moscow), ICANDO and SIRIUS systems were awarded with diplomas.

10.10.2007 Dr. Andrey Ronzhin gave an invited lecture in UAM University, Mexico.

06.10.2007 In September 2007 members of Speech Informatics Group participated in 19-th International Congress on Acoustics ICA2007MADRID (Madrid, Spain); Language & Technology Conference L&TC’07 (Poznan, Poland); Intelligent and Multiprocessor systems IMS'2007 (Divnomorskoe, Russia).

01.08.2007 In July 2007 members of Speech Informatics Group participated in 12-th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCII-2007 (Beijing, China) and 3-rd eNTERFACE SIMILAR Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (Istanbul, Turkey).

30.06.2007 During May-June 2007 Speech Informatics Group took part in scientific exchanges with Department of Computer Science at University of Crete, Greece.

10.06.2007 In June 2007 members of Speech Informatics Group participated in the Conference Dialogue-2007 (Moscow, Russia).

30.03.2007 Project “Development of multimodal interfaces for an information kiosk” supported by St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian academy of sciences is starting. Details >>

29.03.2007 Speech Informatics Group participated at the final meeting on SLAV INTAS Project in the University of Bialystok (Poland) on 27-28 March 2007 and demonstrated the developed Russian speech recognition models.

07.03.2007 Alexey Karpov has defended PhD thesis on the topic "Models and software realization of Russian speech recognition based on morphemic analysis".

07.12.2006 Speech Informatics Group of the SPIIRAS team was awarded with Grand Prix at Loco Mummy Contest 2006 in the nomination "Best PC Multimodal User Interface Software" ! Picture 1 >> Picture 2 >>

26.11.2006 Speech Informatics Group participated with the software demonstration at the International Exhibition "People & Health" on 22-25 November in St. Petersburg.

01.10.2006 A. Karpov participated as the representative of Russian speech community at ISCA International Affairs Committee meeting organized on 19 Sep. during Interspeech'2006 - ICSLP Conference in Pittsburgh. Picture >>

30.09.2006 In September 2006 Speech Informatics Group participated in the following International conferences: Interspeech'2006 - ICSLP (Pittsburgh, USA); 14-th European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO-2006 (Florence, Italy); UkrObraz’2006 (Kiev, Ukraine); Artificial Intelligence IMS'2006 (Kacively, Ukraine);

02.06.2006 The results of Conference SPECOM and state-of-the-art in human-computer interaction were discussed at Radio Svoboda (Freedom) on 29 June, where Dr. A. Ronzhin was a guest of the program: Details >>

29.06.2006 Speech Informatics Group of SPIIRAS sucessfully hosted the SPECOM'2006 conference in St. Petersburg.

15.05.2006 Andrey Ronzhin was awarded by the Grant of President of Russian Federation in nomination Young PhD.

28.02.2006 The demo version and video fragments of ICANDO system (Intellectual Computer Assistant for Disabled Operators) can be downloaded. Details >>

06.11.2005 The work of multimodal system for hands-free PC control (ICANDO system) based on speech recognition and head tracking was shown in main Russian TV channel ("First channel") in news program on 5 Novemver 2005. This multimodal system was developed in Speech Informatics Group for persons with disabilities of hands or arms. Details >>

20.10.2005 10-th International Conference "Speech and Computer" SPECOM was held 17-19 October 2005 in Patras, Greece. Dr. Andrey Ronzhin was a chairman of the poster session "Multimodal Interfaces" organized by SIMILAR NoE.

01.10.2005 In September 2005 members of Speech Informatics Group participated in the following International conferences: 13-th European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO-2005 (Antalya, Turkey); 6-th Pan European Voice Conference PEVOC'6 (London, UK); Intelligent and Multiprocessor systems IMS'2005 (Divnomorskoe, Russia).

15.08.2005 In July 2005 members of Speech Informatics Group participated in the following International conferences: 11-th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCII 2005 (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA); eNTERFACE SIMILAR Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (Mons, Belgium).

24.06.2005 In June 2005 members of Speech Informatics Group participated with presentations at conferences: Intelligent Information Systems-2005: New Trends in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining (Gdansk, Poland); Automation, Control and Information Technology ACIT-2005 (Novosibirsk, Russia).

18.06.2005 The kick-off meeting of INTAS Project 04-77-7404 “Development of multi-voice and multi-language Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Speech-to-Text (STT) conversion system (languages: Belarussian, Polish, Russian)” was organized in Dresden University of Technology 16-17 June 2005.

03.05.2005 The interview with the head of speech informatics group Dr. Andrey Ronzhin was published in the newspaper "Profession" № 26 (575) /27 April 2005 - 2 May 2005/

27.04.2005 In April 2005 members of Speech Informatics Group participated with presentations at conferences: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium (Orlando, USA); Second Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies HTL'2005 (Tallinn, Estonia); 2-nd Language & Technology Conference L&TC’05 (Poznan, Poland).

02.04.2005 In March 2005 members of Speech Informatics Group participated with presentations at conferences: 3rd International Conference: Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications SETIT'2005 (Susa, Tunisia); International Conference "Understanding in communication-2005" (Moscow, Russia); 34th International philological Conference (St.Petersburg, Russia); 7th Conference of Young Scientists "Navigation and Motion Control" (St.Petersburg, Russia).

10.03.2005 Dr. Andrey Ronzhin gave the interview about research of Speech Informatics Group for television of Saint-Petersburg (channel 5TV) for news program Details >>

05.02.2005 Our group vizited the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory (NISLab) of University of Southern Denmark located in Odense. This vizit was organized in framework of SIMILAR Network of Excellence. Picture >>

30.01.2005 Dr. Andrey Ronzhin was rewarded as distinguished PhD of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2005. Details >>
Alexey Karpov was rewarded as distinguished PhD student of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2005. Details >>

14.01.2005 Dr. Andrey Ronzhin was rewarded with "Youth prize of Saint-Petersburg" by decision of Public council of Saint-Petersburg.

17.11.2004 Alexey Karpov and Izolda Lee obtained the diplomas of laureate of competition "Grant of Saint-Petersburg 2004" of the International Soros Science Education Program (ISSEP) in specialty Mathematics. Details >>

10.11.2004 Alexey Karpov obtained the award of winner of competition of personal grants for 2004 for young scientists and specialists of Saint-Petersburg and North-West of Russia.

05.10.2004 Izolda Lee successfully defended PhD dissertation. PhD thesis "Development of the methods for presentation and processing of natural language for problem-oriented systems of automatic speech understanding"

27.09.2004 SPECOM'2004 was successfully held in Saint-Petersburg 20-22 September 2004. The Conference was very interesting and fruitful. 176 persons participated in SPECOM'2004 during three days. The Photos from SPECOM'2004 are available Details >>

24.03.2004 Dr. Andrey Ronzhin has been awarded as distinguished PhD of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Details >>

27.02.2004 Our group participated in the final of contest of youth innovation projects, which was held 25-26 February 2004 in Moscow.

01.12.2003 SIMILAR Network of Excellence is starting! Details >>

01.11.2003 Our group participated in the 8-th International Workshop "Speech and Computer" SPECOM'2003, which was organized by Moscow State Linguistic University in Moscow 27-29 October 2003.

21.10.2003 Our group participated in Scientific Session “Speech Recognition”, which was organized by Department of informational technologies and computational systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow 20 October 2003.

15.09.2003 Our group participated in the 4-th International Scientific and Technical Conference "Intellectual and Multiprocessing Systems IMS'2003" in Divnomorskoe, Russia.

11.09.2003 Our group participated in the 3-rd All-Russian Conference "Theory and Practice of speech investigations" ARSO'2003 in Moscow.

25.08.2003 Dr. Andrey Ronzhin has been appoined as the Head of the Speech Informatics Group of SPIIRAS.

09.08.2003 Head of the group Prof. Yuri Kosarev is dead. Details >>

08.08.2003 Our team participated in the 15-th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Barcelona.

30.04.2003 The 2nd Award Certificate has been received in the Samsung Young Scientist Day (29-30 April 2003) for the project “Elaboration of the intellectual speech interface provided accuracy, robustness and adaptability”. Details >>

25.04.2003 Our team participates in the European Network of Excellence SIMILAR. SIMILAR federates the European fundamental research in multimodal interfaces. Details >>

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