Central and Eastern European Survey

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Type of Organisation: public
Number of Employees: Less than 10
Activities developed: Research, Education, Software, Distance learning.

ACHIEVEMENTS: a) educational: a new course (1996) on Digital Speech Processing for Telecommunications (42h courses, 26 practical classes) for students in the fifth year of Telecommunications Speciality and fo MS in Telecommunications. This course is a result of TEMPUS S-JEP "DIDAPRO" 08012/1994 b) research: automatic speech recognition for Romanian using DTW, ANN-MLP, HMM. Original software and hardware fully developed and implemented in our laboratory of Speech Processing RESEARCH PROFJECTS: (with Romanian Ministry of Education and Research) - "Speech Analysis and Synthesis", Contract 73F/1991-1992; - "Artificial Neural Networks with Applications in Telecommunications", Contract 1081B/ Theme A12, 1993; - "Digital Signal Processing for Telecommunications", Contract 4003-A9/1995; - "Automatic Speech Recognition with TMS320xx signal processors" EDUCATION AND TRAINING: Speech Processing for Telecommunications, course held by Prof. Giurgiu Mircea to the students in the 5-th year on Telecommunications. Fall semester, 3h/week course, 2h/week laboratory, 14 weeks. Prof. Giurgiu is leading diploma projects on Speech Processing for Telecommunications Applications and on ASR with HMM and ANN and since 1997 on Distance Learning facilities for advanced Speech Processing. IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND TOOLS: - Speech Acquisition Cards (PCM and Delta) - Automatic Speech Acquisition over the Telephone Line - Software environment for Speech Acquisition and preprocessing (FFT, LPC, cepstrum, Vector Quantization - dedicated software for ASR with DTW, HMM and ANN-MLP COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES: - Novel LAN with 3 486/66 MHz, 16 MB RAM, 420 MB HDD, 3 Pentium 133 MHz, 16 MB RAM, 2,4 GB HDD, Server COMPAQ, 1 PC Linux Machine - Internet Access (Email and WWW) - Modem Access on an internal line - Fax at the DEpartment of Communications COLLABORATIONS: - 2 weeks (1993) and 1 month (1995) specialization of Prof. Mircea Giurgiu at Departamento de Electronica y Tecnologia de Computadores, Universidad de Granada, Spain (Supervizor: Prof.dr. Antonio Rubio) - attendance at NATO ASI in Jersey, July, 1997

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