Kaldi ASR: Applications and Industry Users

The second community meeting will focus on applications built with Kaldi components, both commercial and non-commercial, and engage past, current and future developers of Kaldi-based solutions and products. Participants will share their thoughts on how to make Kaldi easier to customize, scale up, deploy, and maintain in real-time and off-line use cases.

Note: if you have registered for the previous townhall, you don’t have to register again.

Agenda (all times are in EDT)

• 11:30-11:35 Welcome and meeting goals (Jan Trmal and Sanjeev Khudanpur)
• 11:35-11:45 What is being planned — k2 and Lhotse (Dan Povey and Piotr Żelasko). Please note that the full presentation on K2 and Lhotse were done in the previous Townhal and you can watch them from the recording
• 11:45-13:15 Panel discussion (Moderated by Mei-Yuh Hwang)
• 13:15-13:xx Audience Q&A (All panelists)

Panelists and Other Prospective Participants

• Guoguo Chen, Co-founder Vobil.com and SEASALT.AI
• Ivan Medennikov, Leading Researcher, STC-innovations Ltd.
• Johnathan Oelsner, VP Engineering, Verint
• Jungsuk Kim, Principal ML Scientist, Twilio Inc.
• Kirill ‘kkm’ Katsnelson, Kaldi & linguistics, speech and voice expert
• Marc Ferras, Principal Scientist, Sony Corp.
• Mei-Yuh Hwang, Partner Research Manager, Microsoft
• Miguel Jetté, Director Speech R&D, Rev.com
• Mohamed El-Geish, Director of AI, Cisco
• Nagendra Goel, CEO, GoVivace Inc.
• Nickolay Shmyrev, CEO, ACTechnologies LLC
• Petr Schwarz, CTO, Phonexia s.r.o
• Raphael Cohen, VP of Research, Chorus.ai
• Tao Ma, VP of Language Technology, ASAPP
• Themos Stafylakis, Head of Machine Learning and Voice Biometrics, Omilia
• Wonkyum Lee, Lead Software Engineer, Gridspace
• Xavier Anguera, Co-Founder - CTO, ELSA Corp.
• Xin (Mike) Lei, CTO Mobvoi Ltd.

• Yishay Carmiel, Founder, IntelligentWire

• Patrick Nguyen, Speech & ML expert