Speech Perception Links

While surfing the Web, I collected and grouped some links, interesting for someone designing Analog VLSI Chips for the Perception of Speech, but seperate groups might also be interesting for someone with a more

limited

subject of interest.

Links can be found on:
Analog VLSI for Perception
Neurobiology
NNs, AI, HMM, LPC, FFT, etc.

Last time I checked (but only the Analog VLSI stuff): 30 July 1997. I haven't checked the other links for about 2 years now, and this list is getting old, but I just don't feel like putting in the effort to maintain it up to date. It does still provide a good starting point though.

Analog VLSI for Perception

Did you look at my research page?

A good starting point for a search is the Physics of Computation, Carver Mead's group at Caltech (Where else?).

Also look at:

Collective Computation and Sensorimotor Systems,Georgia Tech, USA.: Steve Deweerth's group.
Sensory Communications & Analog VLSI Lab, Johns Hopkins, USA.: Andreas Andreou's lab.
Systems, Circuits and ANN Lab, Michigan State University, USA: Fathi Salam's group.
K-Lab, Caltech, USA.: Christof Koch's lab. If your not convinced that there is a lot to learn from nature about signal processing for perception, you will be after checking out this page.
Purkinje Park, Caltech, USA.: Jim Bower's Lab. You can find GENESIS, a simulator of biological neural systems, here.
Vision chips home page, Adelaide, AUS.: Containing information on most of the artificial retinae hanging around.
MRC, U. Idaho, USA.: A page with lots of links on VLSI in general.
Synaptics, USA.: Synaptics Research Web page. From the people who developed the famous Handwritten Character Recognitizer for automatic Cashier check reading which was a great engineering feat, but a commercial .... (ahem). They also brought you: The TouchPad. (I prefer my Logitech Marble Trackball though.)
Papers can be found at:
my publications page: Only the best :)
Anaprose, Caltech, USA.: Publications from the people at Carver's.
I specially recommend:
John Lazzaro's publications: (or at least some of them).
Lloyd Watts thesis.: It also contains a basic description of the biological cochlea, which is readable if you are an electrical engineer and not a physiologist.
Rahul Sarpeshkar's papers: Stuff on silicon cochlea, but also on motion detetecion, neuron models and noise.

Neurobiology Stuff

A good starting point for a search is the Neuroscience Internet Resource Guide. Or try the Internet Neuroscience Resources from CNBC & NPC.
Visit Darmstadt for lots of stuff on audition.

These are my favorite sites: (I know its not much, but it's better than nothing)

Communication and Neuroscience, Keele University, UK.: They do everything that I would like to do in the domain of audition (and more), except the realization of Analog VLSI circuits.
Speech and Hearing Laboratory, Loughborough University of Technology, UK.: Ray Meddis' Lab
Speech and Hearing Research Group, Sheffield University, UK.: Computer Science for speech recognition.
The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, USA.: Joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Retinal Vision lab, UTH, USA: Greg Maguire's lab at the University of Texas in Houston. Warning: this one runs on a pour little PC. Sometimes it is reasonably fast, other times you might not be able to reach it at all. It is worth it to keep trying though.
American Physiological Society Publications: You can search the table of contents of the publications of the APS here.
American Physiological Society Publications: Yes ! Somebody is finally getting it. Here you can actually find abstracts from the Journal of Physiology online.
Internet Neuroscience Resources: from CNBC & NPC. Check out their Journals section for TOC's of several journals.

NNs, AI, HMM, LPC, FFT, etc.

A large list of sites is given here. It uses a logo for every link, so it takes very long to load if you don't delay the image loading!

Personally I find these sites interesting:

UTCS Neural Nets Research Group, University of Texas, USA.: This site has lots of links to other NN groups, even to some doing VLSI. And extremely important: we're on it!
Auditory List Homepage, MIT, USA.: Journal Contents, Auditory Models, and more to come.
OGI Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon, USA.: Homepage of the OGI tools, a freeware speech processing and visualization environment. I haven't compiled the latest version yet, but the previous compilation was a nightmare on our Suns. But hey, it's free!
Malcolm Slaney's Stuff.: This guy wrote the Mathematica notebook for Lyon's cochlear model. Be sure to check out his auditory model inversion page.
Speech Language Systems Group, MIT, Cambridge, USA.: The group with Stephanie Seneff. She published an interesting paper about a model for auditory speech processing, but nowadays they seem to be way of into high level language models and alike. Not really my piece of cake, but I included the link in the hope something might come up, and because you can go all over MIT from here.
Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble, F.: Seems like some interesting stuff is going on here.
Automatic Speech Recognition Lab, University of Illinois, USA.: Nothing much yet, but the page is still under construction and looks promising.
Neuron Digest.: Right, the Neuron Digest.
Colibri Electronic Newsletter.: Information on conferences, workshops, jobs, etc. in the fields of language, speech and logic.
The Human-Languages Page.: Not really speech processing, but interesting anyway.
Papers can be found at:
The Computation and Language E-Print Archive.: Publications on Neural Networks can be found here.
Connectionist Models of Categorical Perception of Speech.: A paper in HTML format from R.I. Damper at the University of Southampton VSSP Group.
SPIE abstracts.: You can find SPIE papers on Vision here.
Vision and Image Processing Article Archive, SEL-HPC, UK.: More papers on Vision and Image Processing.

André van Schaik (Andre.van_Schaik@di.epfl.ch), July 1997. If you have a comment about this page, click here.