Exceptional seminar – Jonathan Le Roux, 22 June 2023
In partnership with IDS Teams, Hi! PARIS is pleased to propose an exceptional seminar of Jonathan Leroux, Speech and Audio Senior Team Leader at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
We are delighted to welcome Jonathan Le Roux for an exceptional seminar, entitled “Towards general and flexible audio source separation and transcription”. Jonathan was invited researcher of Hi! PARIS for 3 months and hosted at IDS research Team. Thanks to Gaël Richard, Stéphan Clémençon and IDS Team for this opportunity.
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Towards general and flexible audio source separation and transcription
With the advent of deep-learning-based methods, audio source separation has seen a resurgence of interest and success. I will give an overview of techniques developed at MERL towards the goal of robustly and flexibly decomposing, analyzing, and transcribing an acoustic scene. In particular, I will describe our efforts to extend our early speech separation and enhancement methods to more challenging environments, and to more general and less supervised scenarios.
Keywords: audio source separation, deep learning, speech enhancement, total transcription, end-to-end automatic speech recognition
Jonathan Le Roux
Jonathan Le Roux is a Distinguished Research Scientist and the Speech and Audio Senior Team Leader at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), his Ph.D. degree at the University of Tokyo (Japan) and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France), and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at NTT’s Communication Science Laboratories from 2009 to 2011. His research interests are in signal processing and machine learning applied to speech and audio. He has contributed to more than 140 peer-reviewed papers and 30 granted patents in these fields. He is a founder and chair of the Speech and Audio in the Northeast (SANE) series of workshops, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.