arvind@utcsri.UUCP (11/13/87)
Date: 9 Nov 1987 11:44:35-EST (Monday)
From: "William J. Joel" <JZEM@marist.bitnet>
Subject: Marist College Colloquium Series 87-88
MARIST COLLEGE
DIVISION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS
COLLOQUIUM SERIES 87-88
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POUGHKEEPSIE, NY -- All talks are held at 11:25 am in Donnelly
Hall room 245. Refreshments will be served.
Automatic Speech Recognition by Statistical Methods
Arthur Nadas
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
November 13, 1987
A research team led by Dr. Frederick Jelinek at the IBM
T.J.Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights has built a real-
time, large vocabulary automatic speech recognition system for
dictation of office correspondence. This system is by far the
best of its kind known today. The talk will sketch the organiza-
tion of this system and the basic statistical ideas used in its
construction. The talk will conclude with a short videotape pres-
entation of a demonstration using a PC based version of the ASR
system.
Arthur Nadas was born in Budapest in 1934. He received the
B.A. degree in mathematics from Alfred University in 1959 and
the M.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Oregon in
1961. He was an IBM Graduate Fellow at Columbia University where
in 1967 he received the Ph.D. degree in mathematical statistics.
Dr. Nadas joined the IBM Corporation in 1961 at the Product
Testing Laboratory in Poughkeepsie. Since then he has worked in a
variety of areas including process control, reliability, proces-
sor design, signal processing, speech recognition and others. He
has taught mathematics and statistics at the Polytechnic Insti-
tute of New York, The State University of New York, IBM's System
Research Institute and in other IBM educational programs at Fish-
kill, Kingston, Poughkeepsie and Yorktown Heights. He is the
author of a number of papers in mathematics and statistics, sev-
eral patent disclosures and he has received a patent for a sta-
tistical algorithm used in speech recognition. His work in the
automatic statistical characterization of speech sounds earned
him an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. He is a mem-
ber of several professional societies and is a past president of
the American Statistical Association's Mid-Hudson chapter. At
this time he is working in computer science and mathematics as a
Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598.