Mei-Yuh (美玉) works in the MSR Machine Translaton (MT) incubation team since March 2008, helping technology transfer from research to product. She is also an affiliated professor at the EE Department of University of Washingtion. Her main interests lie in pattern recognition (especially speech and handwriting recognition), statistic modeling, heuristic search, discrete math and algorithms. She is familiar with SPHINX, CMU-LM Toolkit, SRILM Toolkit, HTK, and Microsoft and SRI Decipher speech engines.
Mei-Yuh served in the SSLI Lab in March 2004 to Februry 2008, mainly responsible for developing Mandarin automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems using the SRI Decipher engine. Her team developed the best Mandarin ASR system in the DARPA GALE 2007 evaluation.
Before joining to UW, she enjoyed 10 years at Microsoft Corporation, where she contributed to both research and product development which included the Whisper dictation system, Microsoft Speech API, Office XP English/Mandarin/Japanese dictation and Speech Server.
Mei-Yuh has published many conference and journal papers and serves as a reviewer for IEEE Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Computer Speech and Language, and Speech Communication.
- Dong Yu, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Peter Mau, Alex Acero, and Li Deng, Unsupervised Learning from Users’ Error Correction in Speech Dictation, in Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, International Speech Communication Association, October 2004
- Matthew Richardson, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Alex Acero, and Xuedong Huang, Improvements on Speech Recognition for Fast Talkers, in Proc. of the Eurospeech Conference, September 1999
- Li Jiang, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Milind Mahajan, and X.D. Huang, Sharing for Continuous Hidden Markov Models, March 1999
- Mei-Yuh Hwang and Xuedong Huang, Dynamically configurable acoustic models for speech recognition, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., May 1998
- Mei-Yuh Hwang, Xuedong Huang, and Fil Alleva, Predicting unseen triphones with senones, in IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing,, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 412-419, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., November 1996
- X. D. Huang, Alex Acero, F. Alleva, M. Hwang, L Jiang, and Milind Mahajan, From Sphinx-II to Whisper: Making Speech Recognition Usable, in Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition, Advanced Topics, pp. 536, Kluwer Academic , 1996
- Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Fil Alleva, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Li Jiang, and Milind Mahajan, Microsoft Windows Highly Intelligent Speech Recognizer: Whisper, in Proc. of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., May 1995
- Alex Acero, Fil Alleva, Doug Beeferman, Xuedong Huang, Mei-Yuh Hwang, and Milind Mahajan, From CMU Sphinx-II to Microsoft Whisper: Making Speech Recognition Usable, in Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition--Advanced Topics, no. MSR-TR-94-20, pp. 28, Kluwer Academic , September 1994
