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Alex Acero

RESEARCH AREA MANAGER
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Research interests

  • Speech Signal Processing: robustness to noise, microphone arrays
  • Speech Recognition: acoustic modeling, discriminative training, rapid adaptation.
  • Spoken Language Systems: rapid prototyping of speech understanding systems, data mining of speech.
  • Natural Language Processing: machine translation, statistical language processing.

Background

Before joining Microsoft in 1994, I worked in the speech groups of Apple Computer and Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo. I received a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1990, a Master's from Rice University in 1987 and an engineering degree from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 1985, all in Electrical Engineering. I'm also an affiliate Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Washington.

Alex was born in Madrid, Spain. He's married to Donna and is the proud father of Nicolas and Marcos. While he's not chasing Nicolas or Marcos around, he likes to play the piano, soccer and sip a good wine, though not at the same time ;-)

Xuedong Huang, Hsiao-Wuen Hon and I are using the royalties of our book Spoken Language Processing (Prentice Hall, 2001) to fund a best speech processing paper student award.

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    • Li Deng, Kuansan Wang, Alex Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Jasha Droppo, Constantinos Boulis, Ye-Yi Wang, Derek Jacoby, Milind Mahajan, Ciprian Chelba, and Xuedong D. Huang, Distributed Speech Processing in MiPad’s Multimodal User Interface, in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 605-619, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 2002

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      Last updated: Apr. 29, 2009

      E-mail: alexac at microsoft dot com
      U.S.Mail: Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052-6399, USA
      Tel: (425) 706-1597
      Fax: (425) 706-7329 (This is the main MS FAX number so make sure to send documents to my attention)