SCHWARZ, PETR

Involvement: PHONEXIA

Petr Schwarz, Ph.D.

Petr Schwarz (Ing. [MS] Brno University of Technology, 2001) is post-gradual student of Speech processing group at the Faculty of Information Technology, FIT, BUT. He is planning to submit his doctoral thesis "Robust phoneme recognition" in summer 2006. He has been with the Anthropic speech processing group of Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, USA, from 10/2002 till 6/2003. Petr has actively participated in EU-projects SpeechDat-East, SpeeCon and M4 (Multimodal Meeting manager) as well as in GACR-sponsored project "Voice technologies for support of information society". He is currently participating in EU-project AMI (Augmented Multimodal Interaction). Petr Schwarz is author or co-author of more than 15 papers at reviewed international conferences. He is member of IEEE and ISCA. His research interests include speech recognition, namely phoneme recognition based on novel features and neural networks. He has been active also in keyword-spotting and on-line implementation of speech processing algorithms.