Scholar
Torbjørn Svendsen
Google Scholar ID: A_-fr8oAAAAJ
Professor, NTNU
Citations & Impact
Citations
415
H-index
12
i10-index
13
Publications
20
Co-authors
5
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- ISCA Fellow.
- IEEE Life Senior Member.
- Member of the Editorial Board of Speech Communication journal.
- Reviewer for numerous international journals including IEEE Transactions (Communications; Signal Processing; Audio, Speech and Language Processing; Multimedia), EURASIP journals, etc.
- Reviewed projects for EU Language Engineering program, Academy of Finland, and research councils of Norway, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, and South Africa.
- Opponent or committee member for 26 doctoral theses.
- National-level appointments: grant committee member for IKTPLUSS (Research Council of Norway), chair of VERDIKT program board, member of Norwegian Language Council.
- Advisory board member of the Norwegian Language Bank (Språkbanken).
- Technical committee member for Eurospeech 2001 and Interspeech 2012.
Background
- Born in 1955, currently Professor at the Department of Electronic Systems, NTNU.
- Research interests have centered on speech signal processing since 1979; early work focused on speech compression (source coding), which was the topic of his PhD thesis.
- Since the mid-1980s, primary focus has been on automatic speech recognition, also including spoken dialogue systems and speech synthesis.
- Core research areas include speech analysis methods and lexical modeling (e.g., pronunciation modeling).
- Recently exploring new paradigms for speech recognition by integrating phonetic and linguistic knowledge into a statistical framework based on detection of language-universal phonetic features.
- Current research challenges include reliable recognition of children's speech and transcription of conversational, accented, and dialectal speech.
