Stephanie Seneff

Stephanie Seneff is a Principal Research Scientist in the Spoken Language Systems Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. She received the B.S. degree in Biophysics from MIT in 1968, the M.S. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1980, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985, also from MIT. During the 1970's, she was a member of the Research Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where her research encompassed a wide range of speech processing topics, including speech synthesis, voice encoding, feature extraction (formants and fundamental frequency), speech transmission over networks, and speech recognition. Her doctoral thesis concerned a model for human auditory processing of speech, and some of her later work has been focused on the application of auditory modeling to computer speech recognition. Over the past several years, she has become interested in natural language, and has participated in many aspects of the development of spoken language systems, including parsing, grammar development, discourse and dialogue modelling, probabilistic natural language design, and integration between speech and natural language. She is a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the IEEE Society for Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, where she has served on the Speech Technical Committee.

Contact Information

Stephanie Seneff
Rm G-438 MIT Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
seneff@csail.mit.edu

  • Video Clip illustrating ability for student to create flash cards and use them in a simple speech-enabled interactive game on the Web (Video Clip )
  • Video Clip illustrating simple speech-enabled card game allowing students to use the vocabulary of named objects and colors communicatively (Video Clip )
  • Audio clip illustrating spoken interaction with language learning weather system (Waveform file )
  • Audio clip of student's original speech "shang4 hai3 ne5" (Waveform file )
  • Audio clip of student's speech with tones repaired through phase vocoder transformations (Waveform file )
  • Selected Papers
    The Use of Subword Linguistic Modeling for Multiple Tasks in Speech Recognition, Speech Communication, Vol. 42, No. 3-4, pp. 373--390, 2004.
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    The Use of Linguistic Hierarchies in Speech Understanding, Keynote Address, ICSLP '98.
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    ANGIE: A New Framework for Speech Analysis Based on Morpho-Phonological Modelling, ICSLP '96
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    Response Planning and Generation in the Mercury Flight Reservation System. Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 16, 2002.
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    Interlingua-Based Broad-Coverage Korean-to-English Translation in CCLINC
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    Automatic Acquisition of Names Using Speak and Spell Mode in Spoken Dialogue Systems. HLT 2003.
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    Orion: From On-line Interaction to Off-line Delegation. ICSLP '00.
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    Galaxy-II: A Reference Architecture for Conversational System Development. ICSLP '98.
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    Integration of Hierarchical Linguistic, Prosodic, and Phonological Constraints in the Jupiter Domain. ICSLP '98.
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    A Study of Tones and Tempo in Continuous Mandarin Digit Strings and their Application in Telephone Quality Speech Recognition. ICSLP '98.
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