My main research interest is within speech processing and especially
automatic speech recognition. A general summary on the activities on
speech processing at our group is given
here.
The last years I have mainly been involved in discriminatory methods
for training speech recognizers. This includes both methods for
training the 'classical' Gaussian HMM-structures, pure Neural Network
based structures and hybrid variants of the two structures.
As to applications for Norwegian as a language, I am involved both in a project dealing
with large vocabulary recognition (on line captioning of TV-programs)
and in two research programs for developing speech based dialog
systems TABOR
and SPODIS.
Descriptions in Norwegian can be found at TABOR_N and SPODIS_N.
Further our group has recently headed a project (founded by
the Norwegian Research Council) which has ended up with a
recommendation for a national Norwegian Corpus for language
engineering. The report (in Norwegian) decribing the recommendations
can be found here.