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Showa-ku, Nagoya 4668555 JAPAN
ri@nitech.ac.jp
Welcome! Here at Lee Laboratory of Nagoya Institute of Technology, we are conducting research on speech recognition, speech dialogue, natural language processing, speech interface, and speech interaction, targeting human-to-human and human-to-machine communication using speech and language.
Our aim is to develop technologies for intelligent information processing, including speech, language, and dialogue, as well as realize natural and easy-to-use voice and language interfaces.
LEE Akinobu was born in Kyoto, Japan, on December 19, 1972. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in information science, and the Ph.D. degree in informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1996, 1998 and 2000, respectively. He worked on Nara Institute of Science and
Technology as an assistance professor from 2000-2005. Currently he
is a professor of Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include speech recognition, spoken language understanding, and spoken dialogue system. He is a member of IEEE, ISCA, JSAI, IPSJ and the Acoustical Society of Japan. He is also a developer of open-source speech recognition software Julius and CG agent-based speech interaction toolkit MMDAgent.
We have released MMDAgent-EX, our open-source platform for CG avatar based spoken dialogue system, multimodal dialogue and avatar communication.
Links:
Press release (by NITech, in Japanese) Official site GitHub
Assistant Professor Sei Ueno joined Lee lab in April. Together with Assist. Prof. Ueno, we will continue our research on spoken language information processing and spoken dialogue interfaces.
From December 2020, Our lab has been participating in the “Avatar Symbiotic Society” project, a moonshot-type research and development project led by Professor Ishiguro of Osaka University.
“CG-Specific Dialogue” is our research theme. We are focusing on a new conversation system with CG characters that seamlessly integrates an autonomous dialogue system and human remote control (avatars) to realize truly usable, rich-enpowered human-communication system on the next era. We are now working in collaboration with various research institutes.
Julius version 4.6 has been released. You can get it from its GitHub site.
What’s new in Julius-4.6 Julius-4.6 is a minor release with new features and fixes, including GPU integration and grammar handling updates.
GPU-based DNN-HMM computation (Take a look at v4.6 performance comparison on YouTube!)
Now Julius can compute DNN-HMM with GPU. Total decoding will be four times faster than CPU-based computation on Julius-4.5.
Requires CUDA version 8, 9 or 10.
