• Period: Oct 2012 - Mar 2014
• Title: "Corpus-Driven Spoken Dialog Management"
• Collaboration Institutes:
  • Nara Institute of Science and Technology, JAPAN
  • Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), SINGAPORE
• My Role:
  • Development of cognitive learning algorithm for corpus-driven dialog management
• Project Outcome:
  
  • Prototype of non-Goal Dialog System on Examples of Drama Television

• Period: July 2010 - March 2013
• Title: "The Universal Speech Translation Advanced Research (U-STAR) Consortium"
• Collaboration Institutes:
  • National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), JAPAN
  • Advanced Telecommunication Research (ATR), JAPAN
  • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), KOREA
  • National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), THAILAND
  • Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), CHINA
  • Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), INDONESIA
  • Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), INDIA
  • Institute of Information Technology (IOIT), VIETNAM
  • Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), SINGAPORE
  • Department of Information Technology and Telecom (DITT), BHUTAN
  • Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology (KICS-UET), PAKISTAN
  • Language Technology Kendra (LTK), NEPAL
  • Mongolia University of Science and Technology (MUST), MONGOLIA
  • National University of Mongolia (NUM), MONGOLIA
  • University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), SRI LANKA
  • University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD), PHILIPPINES
• My Role (Only July 2010 - May 2011):
  • Person in charge of the whole activities
  • Bridging communication between different institutes
• Project Outcome:
  
  • As continuation of A-STAR, successfully united additional members, covering 14 languages
  • The project is currently still continuing under I2R
  • Further details of current status can be found in http://www.ustar-consortium.com/qws/slot/u50227/index.html

• Period: June 2006 - July 2009
• Title: "The Asian Speech Translation Advanced Research (A-STAR) Consortium"
• Collaboration Institutes:
  • National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), JAPAN
  • Advanced Telecommunication Research (ATR), JAPAN
  • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), KOREA
  • National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), THAILAND
  • Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), CHINA
  • Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), INDONESIA
  • Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), INDIA
  • Institute of Information Technology (IOIT), VIETNAM
  • Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), SINGAPORE
• My Role:
  • Person in charge of the whole activities
  • Bridging communication between different institutes
  • Suport researcher from Indonesia, Thai, India, and Vietnam on how to collect speech data and develop ASR and TTS for S2ST system.
• Project Outcome:
  
  • The first Asian network-based speech-to-speech translation system

• Period: September 2007 - April 2008
• Title: "Research on IGOS Linux Voice Comman in Indonesian Language to Aid People with Diffrent Abilities and Illiteracy"
• Collaboration Institutes:
  • Spoken Language Communication Group, ATR/NICT, JAPAN
  • R&D PT.TELKOM (TELKOMRisTI), INDONESIA
  • Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), INDONESIA
• My Role:
  • Bridging communication between JAPAN and INDONESIA
  • Supervising Indonesian researcher (TELKOMRisTi and BPPT) on how to develop LVCSR system.
• Project Outcome:
  
  • The first IGOS linux voice command in Indonesian language

• Period: September 2007 - April 2008
• Title: "Research on IGOS Linux Voice Comman in Indonesian Language to Aid People with Diffrent Abilities and Illiteracy"
• Collaboration Institutes:
  • Spoken Language Communication Group, ATR/NICT, JAPAN
  • R&D PT.TELKOM (TELKOMRisTI), INDONESIA
  • Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), INDONESIA
• My Role:
  • Bridging communication between JAPAN and INDONESIA
  • Supervising Indonesian researcher (TELKOMRisTi and BPPT) on how to develop LVCSR system.
• Project Outcome:
  
  • The first IGOS linux voice command in Indonesian language

• Period: September 2005 - April 2006
• Title: "Research and Development of the Indonesian LVCSR System"
• Collaboration Institutes:
  • Spoken Language Communication Group, ATR, JAPAN
  • R&D PT.TELKOM (TELKOMRisTI), INDONESIA
  • Informatics Engineering Dept, STT TELKOM, INDONESIA
• My Role:
  • Bridging communication between JAPAN and INDONESIA
  • Supervising Indonesian researcher (TELKOMRisTi and STT TELKOM) on how to design & collect large-vocaburay speech data and develop LVCSR system.
• Project Outcome:
  
  • The first Indonesian large-vocabulary speech corpus (~ 80 hours of speech)
  • The first Indonesian large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system

• Period: October 2003 - April 2004
• Title: "Telecommunication System for Hearing and Speaking Impaired People"
• Collaboration Institutes:
  • Spoken Language Communication Group, ATR, JAPAN
  • R&D PT.TELKOM (TELKOMRisTI), INDONESIA
  • EE Dept, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), INDONESIA
  • Indonesian University of Education (UPI), INDONESIA
• My Role:
  • Bridging communication between JAPAN and INDONESIA
  • Supervising Indonesian researcher (TELKOMRisTi and ITB) on how to collect speech data and develop ASR system.
• Project Outcome:
  
  • The first Indonesian small-vocabulary speech corpus
  • The first Indonesian small-vocabulary word-based speech recognition system