Research Field

Speech Recognition and Multi-modal Interfaces

Research Topics

• Articulatory-feature based Acoustic Modelling
• Speech recognition using distant microphones
• Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition
• Multi-modal Interfaces
• Extraction of meta data from speech
• Information discovery and extraction
• Semantic computing

Biography

Florian Metze joined T-Labs in March 2006. He received his doctoral degree in Computer Science in 2005 while working at the Interactive Systems Labs at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, he studied physics and phonetics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), the University of St. Andrews and Université des Sciences Humaines Strasbourg (USHS). He also spent time at Siemens AG in München and Mercer Management Consulting and worked as a consultant in the area of automatic speech recognition. In January 2009 he started as research faculty at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute, please visit http://metze.name/ [2] or http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/index.html [3] for further information.

Address

Quality and Usability Lab
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
TU Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
D-10587 Berlin, Germany

• WS 2007/2008: Vorlesung "Computer-gestützte Interaktion" (0434 L 903) [5]. Das Skript ist hier zu finden. Achtung: die Vorlesung findet am 20.11.2007 und am 08.01.2008 nicht statt.
• WS 2008/2009: Vorlesung "Computer-gestützte Interaktion".