Mike Seltzer
RESEARCHER
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Research interests
- Speech recognition in adverse environments
- Acoustic modeling
- Microphone array processing
- Speech enhancement
- Machine learning for speech and audio applications
Background
I have been a Researcher in the Speech Technology Group at Microsoft Research since October, 2003. I did my graduate work in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, receiving my M.S. in 2000 and my Ph.D. in 2003. While at CMU, I was a member of the Robust Speech Recognition group, led by my advisor Professor Richard Stern. My dissertation research focused on improving recognition accuracy in hands-free environments using microphone arrays. From 1996-1998, I worked at Teradyne, Inc. as an Applications Engineer. Teradyne makes automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry. I received my B.S. at Brown University in 1996. At Brown, I worked in the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems (LEMS) with Professor Harvey Silverman on a huge microphone array project that was called, in fact, the Huge Microphone Array.
Publications
- Ivan Tashev, Michael L. Seltzer, and Yun-Cheng Ju, Speech and sound for in-car infotainment systems, in Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2009), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Essen, Germany, 22 September 2009
- Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Commute UX: Voice Enabled In-car Infotainment System, in Mobile HCI '09: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Bonn, Germany, 15 September 2009
- Yun-Cheng Ju, Michael Seltzer, and Ivan Tashev, Improving Perceived Accuracy for In-Car Media Search, International Speech Communication Association, September 2009
- Michael L. Seltzer and Lei Zhang, The data deluge: challenges and opportunities of unlimited data in statistical signal processing, in Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009
- Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Yun-Cheng Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Voice Search of Structured Media Data, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electornic Engineers, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009
- Ozlem Kalinli, Michael L. Seltzer, and Alex Acero, Noise Adaptive Training Using a Vector Taylor Series Approach for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition, in Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009
- Michael Seltzer and Ivan Tashev, A Log-MMSE Adaptive Filter Using a non-Linear Spatial Filter, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic, Echo and Noise Control IWAENC 2008, Seattle, USA, September 2008
- Ivan Tashev and Michael Seltzer, Data Driven Beamformer Design for Binaural Headset, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic, Echo and Noise Control IWAENC 2008, Seattle, USA, September 2008
- Jasha Droppo, Michael L. Seltzer, Alex Acero, and Y.-H. Chiu, Towards a non-parametric acoustic model: an acoustic decision tree for observation probability calculation, in Proceedings of Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008
- Dong Yu, Li Deng, Jasha Droppo, Jian Wu, Yifan Gong, and Alex Acero, Robust speech recognition using cepstral minimum-mean-square-error noise suppressor, in IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 16, no. 5, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., July 2008
- Michael L. Seltzer, Bridging the gap: towards a unified framework for hands-free speech recognition using microphone arrays, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Trento, Italy, May 2008
- Ivan Tashev, Jasha Droppo, Michael Seltzer, and Alex Acero, Robust Design of Wideband Loudspeaker Arrays, in Proc. of International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Las Vegas, USA, April 2008
- Luis Buera, Jasha Droppo, and Alex Acero, Speech Enhancement using a Pitch Predictive Model, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., April 2008
- Graham Taylor, Michael Seltzer, and Alex Acero, Maximum a Posteriori ICA: Applying Prior Knowledge to the Separation of Acoustic Sources, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., April 2008
- Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Dong Yu, and Alex Acero, Commute UX: Telephone Dialog System for Location-based Services, in Proceedings of SIGdial Workshop on Disclosure and Dialogue 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007
- Michael Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Robust Location Understanding in Spoken Dialog Systems Using Intersections, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007
- Amarnag Subramanya, Mike Seltzer, and Alex Acero, Removal of Typed Keystrokes from Speech Signals, in Proc. of the Interspeech Conference, International Speech Communication Association, May 2007
- Amarnag Subramanya, Michael Seltzer, and Alex Acero, Automatic Removal of Typed Keystrokes From Speech Signals, in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 363-366, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., May 2007
- Michael Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Microphone Array Post-Filter Using Incremental Bayes Learning to Track the Spatial Distribution of Speech and Noise, in Proceedings of International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2007, Honolulu, USA, April 2007
- Michael Seltzer and Alex Acero, Training Wideband Acoustic Models Using Mixed-Bandwidth Training Data for Speech Recognition, in Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 235-245, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., January 2007
- R. Stern and Michael Seltzer, Subband Likelihood-Maximizing Beamforming for Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments, in IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. Volume: 14 Issue: 6, Nov 2006. pp. 2109-2121, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., November 2006
- Amarnag Subramanya, Michael Seltzer, and Alex Acero, Removal of Typed Keystrokes from Speech Signals, in Proc. of the Interspeech Conference, International Speech Communication Association, September 2006
- Mike Seltzer and Alex Acero, An EM Algorithm for Training Wideband Acoustic Models from Mixed-Bandwidth Training Data , in Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., December 2005
- Zicheng Liu, Michael Seltzer, Alex Acero, Ivan Tashev, Zhengyou Zhang, and Mike Sinclair, A Compact Multi-Sensor Headset for Hands-Free Communication, in Proceedings of Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, USA, October 2005
- Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, and Alex Acero, Microphone Array for Headset with Spatial Noise Suppressor, in Proceedings of Ninth International Workshop on Acoustic, Echo and Noise Control IWAENC 2005, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 2005
Contact Info
E-mail: mseltzer --at-- microsoft --dot-- com
Postal Mail: Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052-6399, USA
Tel: (425) 706-3763
Fax: (425) 706-7329 (This is the main MS FAX number so make sure to send documents to my attention)
