Hank Liao

Hank Liao is now at Google. Hank was formly a research student in the Machine Intelligence Laboratory. He submitted his PhD on Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition supervised by Dr. Mark Gales. He is a member of Sidney Sussex College. A brief bio is available.

Here's a set of Hank's frequently accessed links.

Research Project

Noise Robust Automatic Speech Recognition (Toshiba Research Europe Limited funded project).

PhD Thesis:

Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis. Sept 2007. [Abstract] [Full PDF]

Journal Paper:

H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Issues with Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition. In Speech Communication, Vol. 50, Issue 4, pp. 265-277, April 2008.

Conference Papers:

H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Adaptive Training with Joint Uncertainty Decoding for Robust Recognition of Noise Data. In Proc. ICASSP. Honolulu, USA, April 2007. [Abstract] [Full PDF]
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Issues with Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition. In Proc. Interspeech. Pittsburgh, USA, September 2006. [Abstract] [Full PDF] [Poster]
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Joint Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition. In Proc. Interspeech. Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005. [Abstract] [Full PDF]

Technical Reports

H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Joint Uncertainty Decoding for Robust Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition. Cambridge University Engineering Department Technical Report, CUED/F-INFENG/TR-552. Nov 2006. [Abstract] [Full PDF]
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Issues with Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition. Cambridge University Engineering Department Technical Report, CUED/F-INFENG/TR-549. August 2006. [Abstract] [Full PDF]
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition. Cambridge University Engineering Department Technical Report, CUED/F-INFENG/TR-499. October 2004. [Abstract] [Full PDF]

Presentations:

H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Joint Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition (60 minute talk). Presentation to Yahoo!. Dec, 2006.
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Joint Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition (60 minute talk). Presentation to Google. Dec, 2006.
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Joint Uncertainty Decoding with Found Data (45 minute talk). CUED Internal Presentation to Toshiba. September, 2006.
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Estimating Noise Models for Uncertainty Decoding (45 minute talk). CUED Internal Presentation to Toshiba. February, 2006.
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Issues with Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition (45 minute talk). CUED Internal Presentation to Toshiba. September, 2005.
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition (45 minute talk). CUED Internal Presentation to Toshiba. February 2, 2005.
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition (45 minute talk). Seminar at Toshiba Cambridge Research Lab. September 23, 2004. [Abstract] [Slides]
H. Liao and M.J.F. Gales. Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition (20 minute talk). CUED Internal Presentation to Toshiba. August 31, 2004. [Abstract] [Slides]

Masters Thesis:

Multimodel Fusion (with HP Labs, Bristol). CUED MPhil Thesis. July 2002. [Abstract] [Full PDF]

M.Phil in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology - Speech Processing II Practical Demonstrator
Engineering 3rd year 3F6 Software Engineering Supervisor

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