Alex Waibel

Alexander "Alex" Waibel (born 2 May 1956 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Waibel's research interests focus on speech recognition and translation[1] and human communication signals and systems.[2] Waibel is known for time delay neural networks, which he developed.[3]

Dr Waibel is the director of interACT,[4] the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies. He was one of the founders of C-STAR,[5] an international consortium for speech translation research, and served as its chairman from 1998-2000. Waibel directed the CHIL program [6] (FP-6 Integrated Project on multimodality) in Europe and NSF-ITR project STR-DUST (the first domain independent speech translation project) in the U.S. He is project coordinator of the IP EU-BRIDGE,[7] funded by the EC and started on 1 February 2012.

At C-STAR, his team developed the JANUS [8] speech translation system, the first American and European Speech Translation system, and more recently the first real-time simultaneous speech translation system for lectures. His lab has also developed a number of multimodal systems including perceptual meeting rooms, meeting recognizers, meeting browsers and multimodal dialog systems for humanoid robots.

In the areas of speech, speech translation, and multimodal interfaces Dr. Waibel holds several patents[9] and has founded and co-founded several successful commercial ventures. He is the founder and chairman of Mobile Technologies, LLC, maker of the Jibbigo mobile speech-to-speech translation app which uses speech recognition and machine translation.

References

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  2. ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 2010-01-09. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
  3. ↑ Alex Waibel et al, Phoneme Recognition Using Time-Delay Neural Networks IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Volume 37, No. 3, pp. 328. - 339 March 1989.
  4. ↑ (IAR), Roedder, Margit (30 September 2016). "InterACT- Startseite". interact.ira.uka.de.
  5. ↑ (inaktiv), Schweizer, Dorothea (28 August 2012). "KIT - C-STAR". isl.anthropomatik.kit.edu.
  6. ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 2013-07-22. Retrieved 2013-09-11.
  7. ↑ Daroussi, Younes. "EU-BRIDGE". www.eu-bridge.eu.
  8. ↑ (IAR), Roedder, Margit (26 January 2018). "KIT - Janus Recognition Toolkit". isl.anthropomatik.kit.edu.
  9. ↑ "Alex Waibel Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com.
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