Federico Flego

I am a research associate at the Cambridge University Engineering Department and I belong to the Speech Research Group in the Information Engineering Division.

Research Interests

• Hierarchical phrase-based translation

• Adaptive and discriminative training
• Model compensation for noise robustness
• Rapid environment adaptation
• Environment change tracking/detection
• Model compensation for speaker adaptation
• Key word spotting in extremely noisy speech (S/N < 10dB)

Research Projects

• 2012-         :Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT)
                      (DARPA funded project)
• 2011-2012: Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech (RATS)
                      (DARPA funded project)
• 2008-2010: Rapid and Robust Environment Aware Processing (RREAP)
                      (Toshiba Research Europe Limited funded project)

Activities

• Journal reviewer
  • Audio, Speech and Language Processing, IEEE Transactions
  • Computer Speech and Language
  • The Computer Journal

Publications

Journal articles

• Discriminative Classifiers With Adaptive Kernels For Noise Robust Speech Recognition
  M. J. F. Gales and F. Flego, Computer Speech & Language, 2009

Conference proceedings

• Model-Based Approaches for Degraded Channel Modelling in Robust ASR
  M. J. F. Gales and F. Flego, Interspeech 2012
• Factor Analysis Based VTS Discriminative Adaptive Training
  F. Flego and M. J. F. Gales, ICASSP 2012
• Factor Analysis Based VTS and JUD Noise Estimation and Compensation
  F. Flego and M. J. F. Gales, ICASSP 2011
• Discriminative Adaptive Training with VTS and JUD
  F. Flego and M. J. F. Gales, ASRU 2009
• Incremental Adaptation with VTS and Joint Adaptively Trained Systems
  F. Flego and M. J. F. Gales, Interspeech 2009
• Transforming Features to Compensate Speech Recogniser Models for Noise
  R. C. van Dalen, F. Flego, and M. J. F. Gales, Interspeech 2009
• Combining VTS Model Compensation and Support Vector Machines
  M. J. F. Gales and F. Flego, ICASSP 2009
• Incremental Predictive and Adaptive Noise Compensation
  F. Flego and M. J. F. Gales, ICASSP 2009

Technical Reports

• Adaptive Training and Noise Estimation for Model-Based Noise Compensation for ASR
  F. Flego and M. J. F. Gales, Technical Report CUED/F-INFENG/TR.653, September 2010
• Discriminative Classifiers and Generative Kernels for Noise Robust Speech Recognition
  M. J. F. Gales and F. Flego, Technical Report CUED/F-INFENG/TR.605, August 2008

Teaching

• demonstrator for CSTIT MPhil course (2008, 2009)
• supervisor for 3F1 - Signals and Systems, Prof N. kingsbury (2009, 2010, 2011)
• supervisor for 3F3 - Signal and Pattern Processing, Prof S. Godsill (2009, 2010, 2011)

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