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Lee, Kai-Fu was born on December 3, 1961 in Taipei, Taiwan. Son of Tien-Min and Yah-Ching (Wong) Lee. came to the United States, 1973.
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Speech Recognition has a long history of being one of the difficult problems in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. As one goes from problem solving tasks such as puzzles and chess to perceptual tasks such as speech and vision, the problem characteristics change dramatically: knowledge poor to knowledge rich; low data rates to high data rates; slow response time (minutes to hours) to instantaneous response time. These characteristics taken together increase the computational complexity of the problem by several orders of magnitude. Further, speech provides a challenging task domain which embodies many of the requirements of intelligent behavior: operate in real time; exploit vast amounts of knowledge, tolerate errorful, unexpected unknown input; use symbols and abstractions; communicate in natural language and learn from the environment. Voice input to computers offers a number of advantages. It provides a natural, fast, hands free, eyes free, location free input medium. However, there are many as yet unsolved problems that prevent routine use of speech as an input device by non-experts. These include cost, real time response, speaker independence, robustness to variations such as noise, microphone, speech rate and loudness, and the ability to handle non-grammatical speech. Satisfactory solutions to each of these problems can be expected within the next decade. Recognition of unrestricted spontaneous continuous speech appears unsolvable at present. However, by the addition of simple constraints, such as clarification dialog to resolve ambiguity, we believe it will be possible to develop systems capable of accepting very large vocabulary continuous speechdictation.
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Lee, Kai-Fu was born on December 3, 1961 in Taipei, Taiwan. Son of Tien-Min and Yah-Ching (Wong) Lee. came to the United States, 1973.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, summa cum laude, Columbia University, New York City, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1988.
Research scientist, assistant professor Carnegie Mellon University School Computer Science, 1988-1990. Principal speech scientist special projects Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California, 1990-1991, manager speech & language laboratory, advanced technical group, 1991-1993, director interactive media laboratory, advanced technical group, 1993-1994, vice president interactive media group, 1995-1996. Vice president, general manager Web Products division Silicon Graphics, Inc., 1996, president Cosmo software.
Joined Microsoft Corporation, 1998, corporation vice president, natural interactive services division, 1998—2005. Founder Microsoft Research Asia, China, 1998—2000. Joined Goggle, Inc., Mountain View, California, 2005, founding president Google China, 2005—2009.
Founder Innovation Works, China, since 2009. Coordinator language and speech workshops Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), 1989—1991. Adjunct professor Carnegie Mellon University School Computer Science, since 1990.
Keynote speaker Eurospeech Conference, Paris, 1989, Berlin, 93, San Jose, California, 93. Lecturer in field; consultant to major corporations.
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Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (reviewer procs. and transactions, member speech technical committee 1991-1995, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ICASSP Conference organizing committee 1992, organizing committee workshop on speech recognition 1991), Acoustical Society American (reviewer journal), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (coordinator committee spoken language 1989=90, language and speech workshop committee 1991, chair speech session workshop on speech and language 1989), Chinese Software Professional Association (advising committee since 1993). Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Shen-Ling Hsieh, August 6, 1983. 1 child, Jennifer Lee.
