Maxine Eskenazi | Carnegie Mellon University | retiring on December 31, 2022 (original) (raw)

To create intelligent agents (using spoken dialogue architectures, automatic speech recognition and synthesis) using knowledge of the speech signal and of human cognition. To confront research with real human users and, in turn, provide a real benefit to those users. This endeavor implies studying groups of users, input conditions and speaking styles, the manner in which humans and systems can entrain to one another, and how we can assess the systems we build, often profiting from the wisdom of the crowd.