Funding

Research in the Speech group is funded to a great extent by individual grants and Academy Centres of Excellence (currently Adaptive Informatics Research Centre AIRC). Beyond that, we are involved in the following specific projects.

Current Projects

New automatic annotation and indexing methods for large volumes of audiovisual data (2012-2014)

A research project funded by the Academy of Finland in the call for supporting research in the Strategic centres for Science, Technology and Innovation.

Simple4All (2011-2014)

The SIMPLE4ALL project will create speech synthesis technology that learns from data with little or no expert supervision and continually improves itself, simply by being used. It is a research project funded by EU FP7, in collaboration with University of Edinburgh, University of Helsinki, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, and Technical University of Madrid.

Mobster (2011-2012)

Mobile and integrated dictation and communication application for health care, Mobster, is a large nation-wide research project funded by Tekes. Our academic partners are at University of Tampere, University of Helsinki and University of Turku.

Perso (2011-2012)

Personalized Hidden Markov Modeling (Perso) ­ based Text-to-Speech Synthesis: Assistive Technology for People with Communication Disabilities is a research project funded by Tekes. Our academic partners are Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics at Aalto University and Department of Speech Sciences at Helsinki University.

Academy Research Fellowship in Noiserobust ASR (2010-2015)

"Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition: Searching for Answers from Human Hearing" is a five year research fellowship of Kalle Palomäki funded by the Academy of Finland. The fellowship is supplemented by a grant for establishment of a research team in noise robust ASR.

CSI-Speech (2010-2014)

Computational Speech Inversion (CSI-Speech) is a research project funded by the Academy of Finland in the research programme LASTU.

UI-ART (2008-2012)

Urban contextual information interfaces with multimodal augmented reality (UI-ART) is a research project funded by TKK under the Multidisciplinary Institute for Digitalisation and Energy (MIDE) research programme.

NextMedia (2010-2012)

Speech is part of WP4 coordinated by the Department of Media Technology at Aalto UniversitySchool of Science which is a project funded by ICT SHOK Next Media. The collaborators in speech processing are Lingsoft and VTT.

Long term projects supported by various organizations

• Language modeling: Mikko Kurimo
• Acoustic modeling: Janne Pylkkönen
• Decoding for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition: Janne Pylkkönen
• Spoken document retrieval: Ville Turunen
• Noise robust speech recognition: Kalle Palomäki
• Morpho Challenge: Morpho Challenge

Finished projects (since 2000)

• Finnish Radio and Television Speech Database (Finnish Academy): Mikko Kurimo
• SA-PUHE (Finnish Academy): Mikko Kurimo
• USIX-STT (TEKES): Mikko Kurimo
• FENIX-PUMS (TEKES): Mikko Kurimo
• SEPEMCO: Mikko Kurimo, Kalle Palomäki
• EMIME (2008-2011) Effective Multilingual Interaction in Mobile Environments (EMIME) is a research project funded by EU FP7, in collaboration with University of Edinburgh, University of Cambridge, Nagoya Insitute of Technology, Idiap, and Nokia.
• PinView (2008-2011) Personal Information Navigator Adapting Through Viewing (PinView) is a research project funded by EU FP7, in collaboration with University of Southampton, University College London, University of Leoben, Xerox Research Centre Europe, and celum gmbh.
• MMR (2008-2011) Mobile Mixed Reality (MMR) is a research project funded by ICT SHOK Devices and Interoperability Ecosystem research programme. The collaborators are the Department of Media Technology at Aalto University School of Science, Nokia Research Center, and VTT.