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Liner Notes for ‘Night Owls Podcast, Episode #42:
My guess is you’ve never heard of Rita Singh. Here’s her CV. Here’s a description of her work:
Rita Singh works on core algorithmic aspects of computer voice recognition, and artificial intelligence applied to voice forensics. Her focus is on the development of technology for the automated discovery, measurement, representation, and learning of the information encoded in voice signal for optimal voice intelligence. Speech, a highly ordered manifestation of the human voice, is also shaped and influenced by the external environment. Understanding general audio, its interplay with human voice and its contextual significance, is a vital part of her research. The final goal of her work is to enable computing machines to not only recognize the content of human speech better in general, but also to understand and respond to humans by gauging their persona, their intent, and their staus vis-a-vis their environment from their voice alone, with an acuity that surpasses that of the human brain. This part of her research represents an intersection of the areas of AI and voice forensics. She continues to work toward making voice intelligence algorithms work much better than currently possible in high-noise and other kinds of complex environments, using minimal external (human-generated) knowledge. On the periphery, she works on the general quest for more automation, powerful search strategies, and more scalable learning algorithms for voice intelligence systems. (Sources: ayesha.lti.cs.cmu.edu, cylab.cmu.edu)
In this episode of ‘Night Owls’, Joe Klein and I talked to Rita about her work. Usually, when people say something is “extraordinary” or “amazing”, it’s an overstatement or exaggeration.
Not in this case. Rita is doing extraordinary work. As a result, and entirely because of her, this is an extraordinary podcast.
‘Night Owls’ podcast Episode #42: Interview with Rita Singh, Research Professor, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science Center for Voice Intelligence and Security, Carnegie Mellon University.
Ed Note: you can also listen to this episode (and previous episodes) on the major podcast platforms: Apple, Amazon and Spotify.
Fascinating interview. Many thanks to all.
Not in my life have I heard such an astonishing interview. My goodness, what an intellect. What a massive curiosity led her to this juncture. What a privilege to listen to Dr. Singh.
Fred