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Hermann, Enno

Project: Rapid development of speech technology for pathological speech

Host Institution: Idiap Research Institute

Nationality: German

Supervisors: Mathew Magimai Doss

Start Date: 01.07.2018

Email: enno.hermann@idiap.ch

Personal website: enno.xyz

SHORT BIOSKETCH

I’m pursuing my PhD at the Idiap Research Institute and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. My research focuses on speech recognition for pathological speech with limited resources.

Previously I have completed a BA in Computer Science, Linguistics and French at Trinity College Dublin. I then did an MSc in Speech & Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh and worked with Sharon Goldwater on unsupervised modeling of speech for low‑resource languages. During internships at Google I have also worked on coreference resolution and speech synthesis.

Research Interests

Speech recognition, unsupervised learning, computer‑assisted language learning and pronunciation training, and other topics in speech and NLP.

Publications

Full list of publications available on my Google Scholar profile or personal website.

TAPAS project publications

B. M. Halpern, J. Fritsch, E. Hermann, R. van Son, O. Scharenborg, M. Magimai.-Doss. An Objective Evaluation Framework for Pathological Speech Synthesis. Proc. ITG, 2021.

E. Hermann, M. Magimai.-Doss. Handling acoustic variation in dysarthric speech recognition systems through model combination. Proc. Interspeech, 2021.

E. Hermann, M. Magimai.-Doss. Dysarthric Speech Recognition with Lattice-Free MMI. Proc. ICASSP, 2020. [Code]