Career
Waibel"s research interests focus on speech recognition and translation and human communication signals and systems One significant scientific contribution of Waibel are Time delay neural networks, which he developed. Doctor Waibel was one of the founders of C-STAR, an international consortium for speech translation research, and served as its chairman from 1998-2000.
His team developed the JANUS speech translation system, the first American and European Speech Translation system, and more recently the first real-time simultaneous speech translation system for lectures.
His lab has also developed a number of multimodal systems including perceptual Meeting Rooms, Meeting Recognizers, Meeting Browsers and multimodal dialog systems for humanoid robots. Waibel directed the CHIL program (FP-6 Integrated Project on multimodality) in Europe and National Science Foundation-ITR project STR-DUST (the first domain independent speech translation project) in the United States. He is project coordinator of the Intellectual Property European Union-BRIDGE, funded by the European Commission and started on February 1, 2012.
In the areas of speech, speech translation, and multimodal interfaces Doctor Waibel holds several patents and has founded and co-founded several successful commercial ventures.
