Research Associate
Supervisor: John H.L. Hansen

Hynek Bořil was born in Most, Czech Republic. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and information technology at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. In August 2007, he joined the Center for Robust Speech Systems, Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, as a Research Associate. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE ICASSP, IEEE ASRU, and EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Research interests:

• Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
  • Normalization of Lombard Effect
  • Noise and Channel Equalization
• Cognitive Load/Distraction Classification
• Prosody Modeling
• Analysis of Speech Production Development in Infants

Recent publications:

Conferences/Workshops:

• Bořil, H., Hansen, J.H.L. (2009) "Unsupervised equalization of Lombard effect for speech recognition in noisy adverse environment," in Proc. of ICASSP'09, 3937-3940 (Taipei, Taiwan).
• Bořil, H., Krishnamurthy, N., Hansen, J.H.L. (2009). "Online Noise and Lombard Effect Compensation for In-Vehicle Automatic Speech Recognition," in Proc. of 4th Biennial Workshop on DSP for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety (Dallas, TX).
• Bořil, H., Boyraz, P., Hansen, J.H.L. (2009). "Towards a Multi-Modal Driver's Stress Detection," in Proc. of 4th Biennial Workshop on DSP for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety (Dallas, Texas).
• Bořil, H., Hansen, J.H.L. (2009). "Reduced Complexity of Lombard Effect for Speech Recognition in Noisy Adverse Environments," In Proc. Interspeech'09 (Brighton, UK).
• Kleinschmidt, T., Boyraz, P., Bořil, H., Sridharan, S., Hansen, J.H.L. (2009). "Assesment of Speech Dialog Systems using Multi-Modal Cognitive Load Analysis and Driving Performance Metrics,", accepted to IEEE ICVES'09 (Pune, India).

Journal Papers:

• Bořil, H., Hansen, J.H.L. (2009). "Unsupervised Equalization of Lombard Effect for Speech Recognition in Noisy Adverse Environments," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 15 pages, in press.

Contact

Email: Hynek Bořil
Office: ECSN 4.326
Tel: 972.883.6237
Homepage:
http://utd.edu/~hynek