This technology has been retired.

Dan Chazan is a staff member of the IBM Research Lab in Haifa. He received his B.S.c, M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, 1963, and 1965 respectively. His research interests over the years have been in optimal control theory, various fields of applied math, numerical analysis and optimization, applications of Image processing, operations research, numerical problems involved with simulation with applications to biological systems, hydrology, and econometric modeling. In recent years, Dr. Chazan has been involved mostly in signal processing, mainly with applications to speech and speech recognition.

Ron Hoory is a staff member of the IBM Research Lab in Haifa. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. His area of expertise is speech processing, including speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech coding, speech reconstruction, and noise cancellation. Since 1993, Mr. Hoory has worked with the audio/video group at the IBM Haifa Research Lab on various research projects in speech processing.

Alex Sorin is a staff member of the IBM Research Lab in Haifa. He received his M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Oil and Gas High Institute, Moscow, USSR, in 1979. Mr. Sorin joined IBM in 1988. His areas of expertise includes signal and image processing with application to seismology, document imaging and OCR, and speech analysis. In recent years, he has been involved in speech analysis and coding projects.

Ophir Azulai is a staff member of the IBM Research Lab in Haifa. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel, in 2001. His areas of expertise are video compression technology, optimization techniques for multimedia algorithms, and multimedia streaming technology. Since 2000, Mr. Azulai has been working on various projects in speech and video processing.

For platform(s):

• Windows NT
• Windows 2000

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For topics:

• networking
• pervasive
• speech recognition
• voice
• Codec
• decoder