ELOQUENCE Project Plenary Meeting and Workshop
International project "ELOQUENCE: Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Interactions for Context-Aware, and Bias-Controlled Dialogue Systems for Safety-Critical Applications", Grant agreement ID 101135916, HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT, organized plenary meeting and workshop for project participants and stakeholders hosted at the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
ELOQUENCE Project Plenary Meeting
International project "ELOQUENCE: Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Interactions for Context-Aware, and Bias-Controlled Dialogue Systems for Safety-Critical Applications", Grant agreement ID 101135916, HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT, plenary meeting, Naples, Italy
ELOQUENCE Project Kick-Off Meeting
International project "ELOQUENCE: Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Interactions for Context-Aware, and Bias-Controlled Dialogue Systems for Safety-Critical Applications", Grant agreement ID 101135916, HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT, kick-off meeting, Madrid, Spain
ELOQUENCE Project Started
Started realization of the project "Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Interactions for Context-Aware, and Bias-Controlled Dialogue Systems for Safety-Critical Applications", Grant agreement ID 101135916, HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT (2024-2026)
AI-SPEAK Project Started
Started realization of the project "Multimodal Multilingual Human-Machine Speech Communication", Grant No. 7449, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (2024-2026)
Axioms, An Open Access Journal from MDPI
A special issue entitled "Recent Advances of Computational and Mathematical Applications in Deep Learning" is open for submissions
Serbian AI Society
"Flexible Robots in Smart Automation of Operations in Precision Agriculture", lecturers Željana Grbović and Dimitrije Stefanović, moderator and panel discussion Dr Branislav Popović, innovation working group lead (online)
Sinteza Conference 2023 (Keynote Speaker)
"Style Adaptation Based on Image Processing Methods Using CycleGAN", keyonote lecture, Belgrade, Serbia
Serbian AI Society
"Progress in the Development of Text-to-Speech in Serbian Based on AI/DNN and Its Implementation Potential", lecturer Dr Siniša Suzič, moderator and panel discussion Dr Branislav Popović, innovation working group lead (online)
YU INFO Conference 2023
"Implementations of Systems for Automatic Speech Recognition in Serbian", oral presentation, "Progress in the Development of Text-to-Speech in Serbian Based on AI/DNN and Its Implementation Potential", oral presentation, Kopaonik, Serbia
EUSIPCO Conference 2022
"Speech Enhancement Using Augmented SSL CycleGAN", poster presentation, "Overcoming Data Sparsity in Automatic Transcription of Dictated Medical Findings", poster presentation, Belgrade, Serbia
Serbian Broadcasting Corporation (RTS 2, RTS Planeta)
Science in Motion :: Development of Artificial Intelligence Through Projects :: Presentation of the project S-ADAPT: Speaker/Style Adaptation for Digital Voice Assistants Based on Image Processing Methods", Grant No. 6524560, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
SICAAI Conference 2022
"Development of Speech Technology for Serbian and Its Applications", First Serbian International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence, Kragujevac, Serbia
DEET Award
Award for an associate or a researcher elected in research or scientific title with the largest number of papers on the SCI list in 2021, Department for Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2021
TELFOR Conference 2021
"Recurrent Neural Networks and Morphological Features in Language Modeling for Serbian", oral presentation, "Emotion Recognition from Speech Based on ML Algorithms Applied on Two Serbian Datasets", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia
SPECOM Conference 2021
"Methods for Using Class Based N-gram Language Models in the Kaldi Toolkit", oral presentation, St. Petersburg, Russia
National Geographic :: News
S-ADAPT: The Best Projects of Serbian Scientists in the Field of Artificial Intelligence (Serbian)
International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020
Lecture entitled "Speech Technologies for Persons with Disabilities" on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, under the slogan "For a Life Without Barriers", as part of a seminar on "Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Digital Dociety", organized by Handy Center "Koloseum", Belgrade, Serbia
ASTEK Conference 2020
"Assistive Speech Technologies in Serbian", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia
Serbian Broadcasting Corporation :: rts.rs
Texts From the RTS Portal Automatically Read in the Voice of Dragan Vučelić :: Article :: rts.rs / Contemorary
Serbian Broadcasting Corporation :: rts.rs
Opened Exhibition Dedicated to Scientific Projects for the Development of Artificial Intelligence :: Article :: rts.rs / Science
IcETRAN Conference 2020
"Automatic Speech Recognition System for Dictating Medical Findings", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia
S-ADAPT Project Started
Started realization of the project "Speaker/Style Adaptation for Digital Voice Assistants Based on Image Processing Methods", Grant No. 6524560, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (2020-2022)
InfostudHub Webinar
"Speech Technologies in Serbian", invited talk.
Automatic Speech Recognition System for Dictating Medical Findings
Automatic Speech Recognition System for Dictating Medical Findings, developed by Alfanum - Speech Technologies Ltd (Novi Sad, Serbia) for the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund of the Republic of Serbia (client) successfully implemented.
SENVIBE Meeting and Training
SENVIBE meeting and training hosted at the University of Southampton, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton, UK
TELFOR Conference 2019
"Transfer Learning in Automatic Speech Recognition for Serbian", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia
TAKTONS Conference 2019
"Focus of Attention Determination in Automatic Speech Recognition", oral presentation, Novi Sad, Serbia
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE Conference 2019
"How the Advent of Machine Learning Transforms Speech Technologies", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia
IDC IHMI Conference 2019
"Central Audio-Library of the University of Novi Sad", oral presentation, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
SENVIBE Meeting and Training
SENVIBE meeting and training hosted at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
TREND Conference 2019
"Central Audio Library of the University of Novi Sad", oral presentation, Kopaonik, Serbia
SENVIBE Project Kick-Off Meeting
International project "SENVIBE: Strengthening Educational Capacities by Building Competences and Cooperation in the Field of Noise and Vibration Engineering", no. 598241-EPP-1-2018-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP, kick-off meeting, Novi Sad, Serbia
Al Jazeera Balkans :: Context
Guest appearance in the informative talk-show program Context of the regional Al Jazeera Balkans television, on the topic "Young Innovators in the Region Need Support", Belgrade, Serbia
Coffee with Scientists 2018
Coffee with Scientists, Big Shopping Center, a program organized as part of "The European Researchers' Night" manifestation in Novi Sad, Serbia
SPECOM Conference 2018
"A Comparison of Language Model Training Techniques in a Continuous Speech Recognition System for Serbian", poster presentation, Leipzig, Germany
Internet Portal "Moj Novi Sad" :: mojnovisad.com :: Interview
"Thanks to the Axon application, human-machine communication is enabled", an interview published as part of "The European Researchers' Night" manifestation in Novi Sad, Serbia (Serbian)
Novosadski reporter :: Newspaper Interview
"Permanent financing of scientists - a necessity", an interview published as part of "The European Researchers' Night" manifestation in Novi Sad, Serbia (Serbian)
ERASMUS+ Project Approved
International project "SENVIBE: Strengthening Educational Capacities by Building Competences and Cooperation in the Field of Noise and Vibration Engineering", no. 598241-EPP-1-2018-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP, approved (2018-2021)
The Science that Connects
"The Science that Connects" competition, one of nine multidisciplinary teams chosen to be presented as part of "The European Researchers' Night" manifestation in Novi Sad, Serbia
62nd International Fair of Technics and Technical Achievements
Presentation of "Axon Voice Assistant" application at the 62nd International Fair of Technics and Technical Achievements in Belgrade, Serbia, 21-26 May 2018
RTS WORLD :: Serbia Online
Studio interview for the satelite television channel of the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation (RTS SVET), program Serbia Online (Srbija na vezi) - A presentation of the award-winning application Axon Voice Assistant (Serbian)
Blic :: Newspaper Reportage
Blic Online :: Serbian Edition :: "Nikola Tesla Would Have Been Proud of These Three Young People From Serbia" (Serbian)
Blic :: Newspaper Reportage
Blic :: Printed edition :: "Even Tesla Would Have Been Proud of Them" (Serbian)
On the Trails of Nikola Tesla
"On the Trails of Nikola Tesla", a contest for the best innovative idea for a new product or service - "Voice Assistant - An Application for Serbian and Other South Slavic Languages", Union of Engineers and Technicians of Serbia, second place, Belgrade, Serbia
DOGS Conference 2017
"Fast Sequence-Trained Deep Neural Network Models for Serbian Speech Recognition", oral presentation, Novi Sad, Serbia
SPECOM Conference 2017
"End-to-End Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition for the Serbian Language" and "Language Model Optimization for a Deep Neural Network Based Speech Recognition System for Serbian", oral presentations, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
ERASMUS+ Staff Mobility Programme
Staff exchange between University of Novi Sad and University of West Bohemia. Research and teaching activities organized at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Pilsen, Czech Republic, May 22 - June 04, 2017.
Spring School on Optimization and Data Science
COST Action TD1207 on "Mathematical Optimization in Decision Support Systems for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks", 13-17 March 2017, Novi Sad, Serbia
JT-DH Conference 2016
"The Use of Semantic Word Classes in Document Classification", oral presentation, Ljubljana, Slovenia
SISY Conference 2016
"Advanced Voice Activity Detection on Mobile Phones by Using Microphone Array and Phoneme-Specific Gaussian Mixture Models", oral presentation, Subotica, Serbia
SPECOM Conference 2016
"A Phonetic Segmentation Procedure Based on Hidden Markov Models", poster presentation, "A Linguistic Interpretation of the Atom Decomposition of Fundamental Frequency Contour for American English", poster presentation, Budapest, Hungary
Voice Assistant
Beta version of Voice Assistant application for the Serbian language released :: AlfaNum Speech Technologies
EUREKA Project Approved
International project "DANSPLAT: A Platform for the Applications of Speech Technologies on Smartphones for the Languages of the Danube Region", id Е! 9944, approved (2014-2016)
CABUNS Project Approved
Project "Central Audio-Library of the University of Novi Sad (CABUNS)", PSNTR No. 114-451-2570/2016-02, approved (2016-2019)
TELFOR Conference 2015
"Voice Assistant Application for the Serbian Language", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia
TAKTONS Conference 2015
"A Robust Voice Activity Detection in Voice Assistant Application", oral presentation, "Automatic Word Clustering Based on Semantics – an Approach for Serbian", oral presentation, Novi Sad, Serbia
ETAI Conference 2015
"Serbian Mobile Speech Database Collection and Evaluation", oral presentation, "The Use of Statistical Language Models for Grammar and Semantic Error Handling in Spell Checking Applications for Serbian", oral presentation, Ohrid, Macedonia
SPECOM Conference 2015
"Deep Neural Network Based Continuous Speech Recognition for Serbian Using the Kaldi Toolkit", oral presentation, Athens, Greece
CEVAS :: Centre of Excellence
Centre for Vibro-Acoustic Systems and Signal Processing (CEVAS) accredited as the Centre of Excellence by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.
SPECOM Conference 2014
"Influence of Agent Behaviour on Human-Virtual Agent Body Interaction", poster presentation, "Speaker Detection Using Phoneme Specific Hidden Markov Models", oral presentation, Novi Sad, Serbia
DOGS Conference 2014
"Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition for Serbian using the Kaldi Toolkit", oral presentation, "Experiments with Regression Trees for Speaker Adaptation in Continuous Speech Recognition", oral presentation, Kopaonik, Serbia
ICIST Conference 2014
"Enhanced Gaussian Selection in Medium Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition", oral presentation, "An Educational Application Comprising Speech Technologies for Serbian Adapted to Visually Impaired Children - anMasterMind", poster presentation, Kopaonik, Serbia
CogInfoCom Conference 2013
"Temporal Discrete Cosine Transform for Speech Emotion Recognition", oral presentation, Budapest, Hungary
TAKTONS Conference 2013
"A System for Glottal Excitation Extraction from Speech Signal Comprising an Improved SEDREAMS Algorithm", Novi Sad, Serbia
AlfaNum Speech Tech Event 2013
Innovations in Speech Technologies: "Serbian Siri" – Talking With Your Smartphone
Researchers' Night 2013
Voice Assistant presentation, SPENS, Novi Sad, Serbia
SPECOM Conference 2013
"Automatic Morphological Annotation in a Text-to-Speech System for Hebrew", oral presentation, "Speech and Language Resources within Speech Recognition and Synthesis Systems for Serbian and Kindred South Slavic Languages", poster presentation, Pilsen, Czech Republic
EUREKA Project Approved
International project "S-VERIFY: Advanced Speaker Verification", id Е! 8719, approved (2014-2016)
Infoteh Conference 2013
"Deep Architectures for Automatic Emotion Recognition Based on Lip Shape" and "Language Model Reduction for Practical Implementation in LVCSR Systems", Jahorina, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
TELFOR Conference 2012
"Gaussian Selection Algorithm in Continuous Speech Recognition", Invited speaker, Belgrade, Serbia
DOGS Conference 2012
"A Novel S&M HGMMC Algorithm in a Handwritten Digits Clustering Task", Kovačica, Serbia
"Dobre vesti"
dobrevesti.rs :: Speech Technologies - A Journey Towards a Better Life (Serbian)
Aharon TTS
Beta version of "Moses" released :: Aharon Speech Technologies
SPECOM Conference 2011
"Improving the Performance of Gaussian Selection Algorithm", Kazan, Russia
Science Festival in Novi Sad 2011
Science Festival in Novi Sad, 7th & 8th May 2011 :: Alfanum Speech Technologies - Presentation of ASR and TTS technologies
New Project Cycle 2011 - 2014
Project "Development of Dialogue Systems for Serbian and Other South Slavic Languages", id TR32035 approved and started. Project "Human-Machine Speech Communication", id TR11001 ended.
DOGS Conference 2010
"Histogram Based and Cluster Based Methods for Automatic Emotion Recognition Based on Lip Shape", Iriški Venac, Serbia
TELFOR Conference 2010
"An Adaptive Recovery Strategy for Handling Miscommunication in Human-Machine Interaction", conference paper (coauthor)
3rd COST International Training School
Toward Autonomous, Adaptive and Context Avare Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issuses
Vip Mobile
Vip Student Project - Vip Photo Gallery
Vip Mobile
Vip Student Project - Vip Video Gallery
Vip Mobile Internship
Vip students internship impressions (Serbian)
Blic :: Newspaper Reportage
Blic Online :: Serbian Edition :: "A Journey Into The Future" (Serbian)
Mobilkom Austria :: Telekom Austria Group
Vip students in Vienna :: Video Reportage
e-tv :: Minister Jasna Matić Visiting Vip Mobile
New Generation of Vip Students (2009/2010) :: Video Reportage
Blic :: Newspaper Interview
Blic Online :: Vojvodina Edition :: "Introducing the Best Students of Vojvodina" (Serbian)
RTS Journal :: National News Interview
Scholarship od the Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia (2008/2009), Palace of Serbia (Palata Srbije), Belgrade :: Video reportage for the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation