Presentations
- “Making machines talk and listen: Why it is still interesting,” Plenary talk at International Conference on Speech, Acoustics, and Signal Processing, ICASSP2005, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
- “Speech Research in Telecommunications – A Bell-centric View,” Keynote Speech at ISCSLP (International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing), Hong Kong, Dec. 17, 2004.
- “Progress in speech research for telecommunications in the last five decades,” Invited Talk at ASA (Acoustical Society of America), Nov. 2004; J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 116, No. 4, pt.2, pp.2498, Nov. 2004.
- “Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding – A Human Communications Perspective,” Special Lecture at IEICE Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 29, 2004.
- “Hands-free human-machine interaction with voice,” Invited Talk at ASA (Acoustical Society of America), May 2004; J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 115, No. 5, pt.2, pp.2483, May 2004.
- “Multimedia & Intelligent Broadband – Key to Telecom Revival,” Keynote Speech at ISCIT (International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies) 2004, Sapporo, Japan, Oct. 27, 2004.
- “Interactive Multimedia & Intelligent Broadband – Key to Telecom Revival,” Keynote Speech at WOCC (Wireless & Optical Communication Conference), Taipei, Taiwan, March 2004.
- “Mathematical and Scientific Basis of Speech Recognition,” Invited Talk at AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, Feb. 2004.
- “On naturalness of speech communications,” Invited talk at Next Generation Speech Technologies, SpeechTEK 2003, New York, September 2003.
- “Naturalness in speech communications,” Invited talk at AT&T Labs, Florham Park, New Jersey, August 2003.
- “Immersive communications,” Invited talk at IBM Human interface seminar series, May 28, 2003.
- “Multi-party communications and telepresence,” Invited talk at Microsoft Research, Redmond, May 2003.
- “From information delivery to information sharing – new aspirations and challenges in telecommunication,” NTT workshop on Communications Scene Analysis, Atsugi, Japan, Jan. 2002.
- “Multimedia signal processing – progress and challenges,” UC San Diego, June 2001.
- “Towards Hands-free Telecommunications”, Keynote speech at International Workshop on Hands-free Communications (HFC2000), Kyoto, Japan, April 2001.
- “Speech Research at the Turn of the Century,” Keynote Speech at the Closing Session, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China, Oct. 2000.
- “Digital Sound Distribution & Digital Radio”, Technical Advisory Board Meeting, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Taiwan, September 2000.
- “Speech Recognition”, Princeton University, May, 2000
- “Progress and Challenges in Automatic Recognition and Understanding of Spoken Language”, Keynote speech at Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Research – A Japanese National Project, February, 2000.
- “Progress and Challenges in Automatic Recognition and Understanding of Spoken Language”, DARPA Workshop on Spoken Language technology, February 2000.
- “Representation of Speech for Spoken Language Processin”, IEEE/FLV Workshop, Flanders, Belgium, December, 1999
- “Advances and challenges in signal processing for multimedia communications,” IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture, National Jiaotong University, May 7, 1999, Shanghai, China.
- “Advances and challenges in signal processing for multimedia communications,” IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 10, 1999.
- “Speech recognition and understanding – What and how to learn from real data,” keynote speech, Oriental COCOSDA Meeting, May 13, 1999, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
- “Advances and challenges in signal processing for multimedia communications,” Keynote Speech, 4th International Conference on Signal Processing, Oct. 13, 1998, Beijing, China
- “Statistical & Discriminative Methods for Speech Recognition & Understanding,” Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, Oct. 7, 1998
- “Speech Recognition: Problem, Progress, and Prospects,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, October 8, 1998
- “Multimedia Communications Research & Key Technical Challenges,” University of Florida, Gainsville, March 1997
- “Voice Processing in Multimedia Communications,” Keynote Speech, Korean Telecom Symposium, November 1996
- “Speech Recognition: Problem, Progress, and Prospects,” IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, Kyoto, Japan, September 1996
- “Human Machine Interactions by Voice,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 10, 1996
- “Recent progress in speech recognition,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 27, 1995
- “Discriminative methods for speech recognition,” Columbia University, November 28, 1994
- “Statistical and Discriminative methods for speech recognition,” Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity (CAIP), Rutgers University, July 26, 1994
- “Speech recognition in adverse conditions,” Polytech University (UPI), Barcelona, Spain, July 16, 1994
- “Discriminative training,” Polytech University (UPI), Barcelona, Spain, July 18, 1994
- “Hidden Markov Models for Signal Analysis and Recognition,” Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota, May 2, 1994
- “Statistical & Discriminative Methods for Speech Recognition,” Graduate Seminar, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, April 13, 1994. March 28, 1994
- “Statistical & Discriminative Methods for Speech Recognition,” Dept. of Electrical Engineering Seminar, New Jersey Institute of Technology, March 28, 1994
- “Speech Research for Telecommunication,” Graduate Seminar, University of Illinois, March 24, 1994
- “Discriminative learning,” Advanced Telecommunications Research International (ATR), Science & Technology Seminar, Osaka, Japan, Oct. 27, 1993
- “Hidden Markov models for signal analysis,” Frontier Science in EEG Symposium (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), New Orleans, Oct. 8, 1993
- “Speech recognition in adverse conditions,” Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity, Rutgers University, July 16, 1993
- “Statistical and discriminative methods for speech recognition – from design objectives to implementation,” NATO ASI Speech Processing Seminar, Bubion, Spain, June 28, 1993
- “Discriminative learning for minimum error classification and generalized mixture models,” International Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, National Taiwan University, Dec. 1992
- “A minimum error approach to pattern and speech recognition,” XEROX PARC Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, Nov. 4, 1991
- “Hidden Markov Models: A Statistical Pattern Recognition Perspective,” University of Waterloo, CANADA, September 25, 1991
- “Discriminative Learning for Minimum Error Classification,” Telecommunications Lab., Ministry of Communications, Taiwan, July 1991
- “Personal Wireless Communications,” Industrial Technology and Research Institute, Taiwan, Republic of China, July, 1991
- “Minimum Error Classification and Statistical Knowledge Representation by Artificial Neural Networks,” Advanced Telecommunications Research International (ATR), Osaka, Japan, July 1991
- “Discriminative Learning for Minimum Error Classification,” Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Apr. 1991
- “Personal Wireless Communications and Signal Processing,” Annual Technical Review Board Meeting, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, March, 1991
- “Hidden Markov Model and Its Application to Speech Processing,” Workshop on Statistical Approaches to Spoken Language Processing, Tokyo, JAPAN, Nov. 1990
- “Line Spectral Pair,” Drexel University, IEEE Pennsylvania Chapter, Nov. 1989
- “Distortion Measures for Robust Speech Recognition,” University of California, Santa Barbara, Nov. 1989
- “Acoustic Modeling of Speech Code,” Northeastern University, July 1989
- “Acoustic Modeling of Speech Code and Speech Recognition,” Bell Communications Research, Morristown, New Jersey, Jan. 1989
- “Robust Distortion Measures for Speech Processing,” Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, 1988
- “Acoustic Modeling of Speech Code,” Advanced Telecommunications Research International (ATR), Osaka, Japan, 1988
- “A Family of Projection Measures for Noisy Speech Recognition,” Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, Yokosuka, Japan, 1988
- “A Family of Projection Measures for Noisy Speech Recognition,” Hitachi Central Labs., Kokubunji, Japan, 1988
- “Robust Distortion Measures for Speech Processing,” Nippon Electric Corp. (NEC), Kawasaki, Japan, 1988
- “Mixture Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models,” University of Maryland, Maryland, 1987
- “Robust Distortion Measures for Noisy Speech Recognition,” Speech Research Symposium, Morristown, 1987
- “Signal Modeling with Hidden Markov Models,” National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1986
- “Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multivariate Probabilistic Functions of Markov Chains with Mixture Observations,” Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 1984