This project will investigate automatic methods of organizing and retrieving collections of music. Ph.D. level student with a background in statistical pattern recognition techniques desirable. It involves building the system architecture to connect these technologies as well as the interactive application itself. No detailed knowledge of computational linguistics or speech recognition are needed. Energy and ability to program a must.
Ensemble methods comprise some of the most successful machine learning techniques in use today.
This project will explore the use of these methods in the areas of acoustic and language modeling. Familiarity with speech recognition concepts would be a plus but not necessary. UI and speech recognition experience is a plus but not required. This project will address one or more of these problems, trying to improve the overall accuracy of SpeechBot. This project will investigate the application of new decoding and adaptation algorithms from the speech recognition literature to computational biology problems.