Applied Research Projects
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Project Title: Scenario Conscious Text-to-Speech Synthesis
(COMPLETED)
Project Code: 20210330M006
Schedule: 2020/11 - 2021/05
Description:
To provide a text-to-speech system that produces speech of different styles according to the scenario it works
in.
Research Assistants: Raymond Chung
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Project Title: Elderly-friendly Text-to-speech Synthesis System
(COMPLETED)
Project Code: 1718203-0
Schedule: 2018/04 - 2020/01
Description:
To provide a bilingual text-to-speech system for elderly use in English and Chinese.
Research Assistants: Zhaoyu Liu and Xinyuan Yu
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Project Title: A Personalized E-Learning Platform
(COMPLETED)
Project Code: HKUST-MIT Research Alliance Consortium Project
Schedule: 2016/07/01 - 2018/06/30
Description:
The long-term goal of our R&D mission is to significantly improve the
learning effectiveness of learners on e-learning platforms through
personalization, as opposed to the traditional one-size-fits-all approach.
To achieve this goal, our project will consist of three major components:
modeling a student's learning profile; continual assessment with an aim at
identifying the areas of and reasons for any underperformance; and
recommending personalized remedial learning activities.
Collaborator:
Prof. D. Y. Yeung (principal investigator),
Prof. T. C. Pong,
Prof. Raymond Wong,
CS Department of HKUST.
Research Assistants: Yingke Zhu
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Project Title:
Articulation Screening and Training Tool
(COMPLETED)
Project Code: OGCIO Project
Schedule: 2014/09/01 - 2016/06/30
Description:
To develop a mobile Android App to help local hearing-impaired people
learn the articulation of Cantonese consonants.
Collaborator:
The Hong Kong Society for the Deaf;
Dr. Kam Tim WOO, ECE Department of HKUST;
Dr. Albert WONG, ECE Department of HKUST.
Research Assistants: Dongpeng CHEN, Yingke ZHU.
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Project Title: Extending GONG for the Support of Teaching Speech Recognition
(COMPLETED)
Project Code: HKUST-1-AQ
Schedule: 2005/01/01 - 2005/12/31
Description:
This projects intends to enhance the Gong system (previously developed by the
co-investigator) to support the tuition of speech recognition so that speech
segmentation techniques may be effectively taught to students.
Collaborator:
Dr. David Rossiter,
CS Department of HKUST.
Research Assistants: Gibson LAM
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Project Title: Use Speech Recognition and Multi-media Technologies
to Teach Oral English
(COMPLETED)
Project Code: UGC Interface Projects 2000
Schedule: 2001/9/1 - 2003/10/31
Description:
In this project, we will develop a multi-media tool that uses state-of-the-art
speech processing technologies for teaching secondary school students spoken
English communication skills. The proposed learning tool will focus on
enhancing four different aspects of the students' English communication skill,
namely, pronunciation, intonation, vocabulary and expressions.
Collaborator (Principal Investigator):
Dr. Manhung Siu,
EEE Department of HKUST.
Research Assistants: Mimi NG, Jimmy FUNG, LI Chak Fai, CHAN Siu Man,
Tim NG
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Project Title: A Passenger Route Guidance System for Multi-modal
Public Transport Network
(COMPLETED)
Project Code: SSRI01/02.EG06
Schedule: 2002/7/1 - 2004/6/30
Description:
This project will develop an online passenger pre-trip route planning or
en-route guidance system in a multi-modal public transport network. This
system will take advantage of the Transportation Information System (TIS) to
be developed by the Transport Department, which is a database that
centralizes the collection and processing of comprehensive transport
information including traffic conditions, progress of road works, traffic
diversion measures, public transport services, and traffic accidents.
Collaborator (Principal Investigator):
Dr. Hong Kam LO,
Department of Civil Engineering in HKUST.
Research Assistants: Alan CHAN, Roger HSIAO
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Project Title: A Communicator between Cantonese and Putonghua Speakers
(COMPLETED)
Project Code: SSRI99/00.EG06
Schedule: 2000/7/1 - 2003/06/30
Description:
In this project, we propose to apply recent advances in human language
technologies to build a Communicator between people speaking
Cantonese and Putonghua.
The communicator will employ state-of-the-art technologies in speech
recognition, machine translation, and speech synthesis to translate
spoken Cantonese to Putonghua and vice versa.
Collaborator: Dr. Manhung Siu, EEE Department of HKUST.
Research Assistants: Tim NG
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Project Title: Development of Acoustic and Articulatory Models to
Recognize Speech
(COMPLETED)
Project Code: ASTRI 001.01/02
Schedule: 2001/11/1 - 2003/1/31
Description:
The project is funded by ASTRI to develop a
web-based pronunciation learning tool to teach kids of age 9-11 English
pronunciation. Besides our PLASER (Pronunciation Learning via Automatic
SpEech Recognition) technology, articulatory acoustic modeling will also
be employed to enhance speech recognition accuracy.
Collaborator:
Collaborator: Dr. Manhung Siu, EEE Department of HKUST.
Research Assistants: Mimi NG, TAM Yik Cheung, Simon HO, Tim NG, AU Wing
Hei, CHAN Siu Man, Karen LEUNG
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Project Title: Effective Learning of English Pronunciation via Speech
Recognition Technology
(COMPLETED)
Project Code: QEF99/00.EG01
Schedule: 2000/7/1 - 2002/10/31
Description:
This project investigates how to apply Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
technology to teaching English pronunciation in the school environment.
In the course, we will develop a multimedia teaching and self-learning tool
called "PLASER" (Pronunciation Learning via Automatic SpEech Recognition)
through which students may learn English pronunciations at their own pace
in class or after school with reduced supervision. With the ASR technology,
PLASER can tell if a student says an English word correctly, and if he or
she does not, exactly where the student is wrong. The project demands
advanced techniques in acoustic modeling, garbage rejection, language
modeling, and noise robustness.
(video)
Collaborator: Dr. Manhung Siu, EEE Department of HKUST.
Research Assistants: Mimi NG, TAM Yik Cheung, Arthur CHAN, Ivan CHAN, Franco HO, Jimmy FUNG, Karen LEUNG, Jacqueline LO, Simon HO
