Honza gave a keynote talk at the Israeli annual speech conference AFEKA held in Tel Aviv (http://www.afekaconference.co.il/sp2017)

Slides are available at https://drive.google.com/open…

Sylva and Honza in a concert tonight - this time, their folklore band performs with the choir of Gymnasium Videnska (high school specialized in IT from which we have lots of good graduates at our faculty). To complete the link, the choir's conductor is Honza's brother ;) See
http://www.gvid.cz/wp-conte…/…/2017/06/koncert2017-leto4.jpg for details.

Lukas, Mireia Diez Sánchez, Anya Silnova, Oldrich Plchot, and Johan Rohdin left for SCALE workshop at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at JHU (https://hltcoe.jhu.edu/research/scale/scale-2017/). The guys will work with the world's best speaker recognition (SR) researchers on the issues of robustness, DNN applications in SR and more. Have a good time in the US!

S. Umesh will come to Brno to give a lecture on Acoustic Modelling of low-resource Indian languages. S. Umesh is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology – Madras. His research interests are mainly in automatic speech recognition particularly in low-resource modelling and speaker normalization & adaptation. He has also been a visiting researcher at AT&T Laboratories, Cambridge University and RWTH-Aachen under the Humboldt Fellowship. He is currently leading a consortium of 12 Indian institutions to develop speech based systems in agricultural domain. His talk takes place on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 13:00 in room E105 - don't miss it!

http://vgs-it.fit.vutbr.cz/…/s-umesh-acoustic-modelling-of…/

Speech guys have improved their bow-shooting skills, some are so advanced that they've bought their personal bows!