Former MLLP member Isaías Sánchez Cortina defended successfully today his PhD thesis on “Confidence Measures for Automatic and Interactive Speech Recognition” at the Universitat Politècnica de València’s Dept. of Computer Systems and Computation (DSIC).
The article “Speaker-adapted confidence measures for speech recognition of video lectures“, by Isaías Sánchez-Cortina and other MLLP members, has been accepted for publication in the May 2016 volume of Elsevier’s Computer Speech & Language journal, and is already available online. Mr Sánchez-Cortina will also be defending his PhD thesis this Friday at Universitat Politècnica de València.
The MLLP was represented at IN-RED 2015, the 1st Spanish National Conference on Educational Innovation and Online Teaching, by Juan Daniel Valor Miró, who presented his work on user revisions of automatic video transcriptions and translations.