Peter Smit

M.Sc.(Tech.), Doctoral Student

Office:

Room T-C312 in Computer Science Building,
Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi campus area, Espoo

Postal Address:

Aalto University School of Science,
Department of Information and Computer Science,
P.O. Box 15400, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland

Telephone:

+358 9 470 23284

Email:

firstname.lastname@aalto.fi

Personal webpage:

http://petersmit.eu/

About Me

I'm a research assistant in the speech group led by Mikko Kurimo. Until February 2011 I was involved in the EMIME project. Until June 2011 I was a student in the Macadamia programme.

Publications

• Reima Karhila, Rama Sanand Doddipatla, Mikko Kurimo, and Peter Smit. Creating synthetic voices for children by adapting adult average voice using stacked transformations and VTLN. In Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, Kyoto, March 2012.
• Peter Smit. Stacked transformations for foreign accented speech recognition. Master's thesis. May 2011.
• Peter Smit and Mikko Kurimo. Using stacked transformations for recognizing foreign accented speech. In Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011. More details (pdf) (poster).

Recent Presentations

• Slides for my Master's Thesis presentation, "Stacked Transformations for foreign accented speech recognition", May 18, 2011.
• Slides on Regression Class Tree CMLLR for the course "T-61.5910 Research Project in Computer and Information Science", Dec. 7, 2010.
• Slides on Eigenvoice Adaptation for the course "T-61.6090 Adaptation in speech and language processing", Nov. 29, 2010.

Recent Course Reports

• T-61.6090: A Review Of Eigenvoice Adaptation - November 2010
• T-61.5910: Implementation of Regression Class Tree based CMLLR in the TKK speech recognizer - October 2010 (work done in summer 2009)

Honours

• Selected to the Honours Programme in Information and Computer Science for the academic year 2009-2010