Applied Linguistics Nick Campbell & Hideki Kashioka learning how people speak.

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Applied LinguisticsNick Campbell & Hideki Kashioka

learning how people speak

We are recruiting 4 new students

We need 2 men and 2 women to work with us on human & robot speech processing!

talking with robots

how do you talk to a robot?

how does it listen to you?

we use cameras, microphones & computers

to learn how people do conversation

simple japanese !

understanding human speech

much of what we say is not in the dictionary ...

even when it is, the words are not enough !

machine processing of speech conversation

patterns of speech

international research

Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

NAIST, Japan

& NiCT, Japan (Prof Kashioka Hideki)

dublin uni

work with us in ireland

come and see our lab

our lab here at NAIST is open every day ...

come whenever you like ....

or mail me : nick@is.naist.jp

join us

if you are interested in people

and in speech

and in machines

then we would like to meet you ;- )

see you soon !!

applied linguistics

learning how people speak