Ramesh Gopinath
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY

Speak to IT

In the ongoing trend towards self-services, enabled by the ubiquity of phones and mobile devices, speech technology is rapidly becoming a critical enabler for a holistic customer experience. In this talk I will explore some of the key business trends and technology trends.

Monday, February 14, 2005
2:00 p.m. - McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Rice University

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* Biography:

Dr. Gopinath has a Phd from Rice University and has been with the Speech Group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center since March 1994. His primary research interests are in statistical learning, speech recognition and signal processing. He currently manages the research effort in acoustic and language modeling that supports the telephony and embedded speech recognition product offerings from IBM. Prior to this assignment he led the IBM Broadcast News Transcription team that won the NIST/DARPA Broadcast News Transcription competition in 1998 and 1999.