Tuesday, October 25, 2016

States of the Arts

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Fall 2016 has seen important improvements to the state of the art in both speech synthesis and speech recognition. In September, Google...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

Interspeech 2014 Recap

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This year's Interspeech was in Singapore.    Singapore is, in some ways, a very easy venue to travel to.  It's a modern, cosmopolita...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Things I didn't know before becoming a professor: #5 How to manage my time

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Grad school is an exercise in working independently.  What I mean by working independently is this:  Your daily activities are barely s...
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Monday, July 07, 2014

Things I didn't know before becoming a professor: #4 Different types of collaboration

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There's a romantic and resilient fantasy of the scientist toiling away in isolation.  He (sad to say, it's almost always he) emerges...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Things I didn't know before becoming a professor: #3 How to run a research group

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At this point, I've figured out my classes  and  secured a little bit of funding .  Now it's time to staff up the group and get to t...
Monday, May 05, 2014

Things I didn't know before becoming a professor: #2 How to Write a Grant

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To get tenure in computer science, you have to secure external funding. I don't know how important this is in other disciplines.  I...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Things I didn't know before becoming a professor: #1 How to Teach

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In order to be a professor* you need a PhD.  The two responsibilities you have as a professor are to do good research and to teach well. T...