Catherine Breslin

Catherine Breslin is a research associate with the Dialogue Systems group at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory. Prior to joining the group, she completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr Mark Gales in 2004-08, and subsequently worked for Toshiba Research until 2012.

Catherine organises the Friday speech group seminars within the speech group.

Current project and research interests

Online automatic speech recognition (ASR) and voice activity detection (VAD) for dialogue systems
Combining VAD and ASR for improved performance
End-of-turn detection for improved turn-taking in dialogue
Incremental recognition and adaptation for more flexible dialogue management

C. Breslin, M. Gašić, M. Henderson, D. Kim, M. Szummer, B. Thomson, P. Tsiakoulis and S. Young
"Continuous ASR for Flexible Incremental Dialogue"
ICASSP 2013, to appear
M. Gašić, C. Breslin, M. Henderson, D. Kim, M. Szummer, B. Thomson, P. Tsiakoulis and S. Young
"On-line Policy Optimisation of Bayesian Spoken Dialogue Systems via Human Interaction"
ICASSP 2013, to appear
C. Breslin, K.K. Chin, M.J.F. Gales and K. Knill
"Integrated Online Speaker Clustering and Adaptation" (pdf)
Interspeech 2011
K.K. Chin, H. Xu, M.J.F. Gales, C. Breslin and K. Knill
"Prior Joint Speaker and Noise Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition" (pdf)
ICASSP 2011
C. Breslin, H. Xu, K.K. Chin, M.J.F. Gales and K. Knill
"Prior Information for Rapid Speaker Adaptation" (pdf)
Interspeech 2010
C. Breslin, M. Stuttle and K. Knill
"Compression Techniques Applied to Multiple Speech Recognition Systems" (pdf)
Interspeech 2009
C. Breslin and M.J.F. Gales
"Building Multiple Complementary Systems using Directed Decision Trees" (ps|pdf)
Interspeech, August 2007
C. Breslin and M.J.F. Gales
"Complementary System Generation Using Directed Decision Trees" (ps|pdf)
ICASSP, April 2007
C. Breslin and M.J.F. Gales
"Generating Complementary Systems for Speech Recognition" (ps|pdf)
Interspeech, Sept 2006

C. Breslin and M.J.F. Gales
"Directed Decision Trees for Generating Complementary Systems" Speech Comunication May 2009

"Speech processing system and method" filed March 2011
"An adaptive speech recognition system and method using a cascade of transforms" filed May 2010
"An adaptive speech processing system" filed May 2010
"A speech recognition based method and system for retrieving data" filed November 2008 (secondary inventor)
"A speech recognition system using a plurality of acoustic models which share probability distributions" filed November 2008

C. Breslin (2008)
"Generation and Combination of Complementary Systems for Automatic Speech Recognition" (pdf)
Completed June 2008

Catherine Breslin
Engineering Department
Trumpington Street, Cambridge
CB2 1PZ, UK	e-mail cb404(at)eng.cam.ac.uk