Senior Speech Recognition Expert
Greater Seattle Area
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- Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Speech Components Group
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Nikko Ström’s Summary
Nikko Ström is an internationally recognized researcher in the Automatic Speech Recognition field. He has fifteen years of experience from a few of the most prominent research laboratories and companies in the world. He has published extensively at international conferences, journals, patents, and books.
After two years as a Research Scientist at the MIT Lab for Computer Science he joined the startup Tellme Networks in 2000, and in 2007 he transitioned to the Speech Components Group at Microsoft.
He achieved his Ph.D. at the Speech Communications Lab at KTH in Stockholm in 1997. The thesis makes significant contributions in speaker adaptation and Artificial Neural Network technologies.
As part of his thesis work, Nikko Ström developed the world's first continuous speech recognizer for the Swedish language. He also published Open Source Artificial Neural Network software (The NICO Toolkit), which has been downloaded by thousands of researchers worldwide.
During '94-'95 he was an invited guest researcher at the Advanced Telephony Research Lab in Kyoto, Japan, where he contributed to world class research in the speaker adaptation field.
More recently, as a hobby, he developed and published Quite BASIC, a website, educational resource, and application development tool for classic BASIC.
Nikko Ström’s Specialties:
Automatic Speech Recognition,
Speech Recognition, Voice Recognition, ASR,
Speech Technology
