News
25.12.2009
The Laboratory starts new research project supported by the Human Capital Foundation and devoted to assistive systems for 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.
01.12.2009
The Laboratory starts two research projects that are supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in framework of the Federal Target Program "Scientific and scientifically-pedagogical personnel of innovation Russia for 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 ISCA International Affairs Committee meeting organized during Interspeech-2009.
30.08.2009
Speech and Multimodal Interfaces Laboratory sucessfully hosted the 3-rd Interdisciplinary Workshop "Analysis of Conversational Russian Speech".
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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.
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11.03.2009
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 is starting.
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 XX 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.
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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" !
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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 a poster session on 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" ¹ 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.
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30.01.2005
Dr. Andrey Ronzhin was rewarded as distinguished PhD of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2005.
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Alexey Karpov was rewarded as distinguished PhD student of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2005.
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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.
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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
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24.03.2004
Dr. Andrey Ronzhin has been awarded as distinguished PhD of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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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”.
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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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