Laughter Synthesis worked on National Academy of Engineering Radio(WTOP)... Link
November 2004
“For English, press 1...”
From $tretch, November 2004:
Today’s technology gives businesses a way out of having to answer the phone. It is rare to ever get a real person...Link
Prof. Narayanan Synthesizes Laughter
From IMSC News:
Prof. Shri Narayanan likes to leave them laughing. He and Shiva Sundaram, a PhD student in electrical engineering...Link
October 2004
Gaming Technology Helps Troops Learn Language
From IEEE Intelligent Systems, September/October 2004, pages 4-7:
For many people, learning a language means years of classes and hours of audiotapes...
September 2004
How Many Academics Does It Take?
From USC Trojan Family Magazine, Volume 36, Number 3, pages 38-45:
We tend to think of Universities as intellectual power plants in which professors...
July 2004
MRI used to create movies of speech production
From IMSC News, page 2:
Using MRI, Prof. Shri Narayanan and a team of interdisciplinary collaborators have created real-time movies of speech production...
June 2004
Automated phone angst
From Texas Innovator, June 2004:
There is a new weapon in the battle against automated and telemarketing phone calls...Link
May 2004
Intricacies of Speech Captured by MRI
From Advance Online Editions for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists:
A team of researchers at USC has applied cutting-edge imaging tools to the study of human speech...Link
USC team develops new tool to capture orchestration of normal speech
From USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Volume 5, Number 2, page 14:
A team of USC researchers has brought cutting-edge imaging tools to the study of human speech...
In the News
From USC Engineer, Volume 2, Issue 2, page 6:
Shrikanth Narayanan, a computer scientist and linguist working in the Integrated Media Systems Center...
“Say or press ‘1’ if you want...”
From USC Engineer, Volume 2, Issue 2, page 15:
Do you get frustrated trying to navigate through annoying automated phone answering systems...
Ideas Underlie Successful Businesses
From Economic Development Futures Web Journal, May 20, 2004:
Tired of being left on hold? New software will gauge which callers are pissed off by listening...Link
Escape From Automated-Phone Hell
From Newsweek magazine, May 17 Issue:
Press 3 if you feel like using the F word. We're not there yet, but...Link
April 2004
Quel robot e un vero idiota
From Panorama, April 15, 2004:
Se cercate il numero di un privato...
IMSC system recognizes frustration in caller’s voice
From IMSC News, page 5:
Say or press 1 if you want...
Taming Phone Rage
From Inc.com, April 9, 2004:
Tired of being left on hold? New software will gauge which callers are pissed off by listening...Link
Researchers use MRI to capture the intricacies of speech
From News-Medical.Net:
A team of USC researchers has brought cutting-edge imaging tools to the study of human speech...Link
Software Program May Provide Calm for Irate Callers
From USC Chronicle, Volume 23, Number 26, page 5:
Say or press 1 if you want...
Sensing phone call emotions
From Daily Trojan, April 7, 2004:
Recently, Shrikanth Narayanan, director of the Speech Analysis and Interpretation Lab, created a new feature...Link
March 2004
Detecting phone rage
From USC Chronicle, Volume 23, Number 23, page 2:
On Feb. 10, WIRED reported on a new software program developed by engineer Shrikanth Narayanan that...
Press 1 for happy, 2 for $*@#*%*&*!
From Australian Financial Review, March 27, 2004:
Today you have to swear at a speech recognition system to get transferred to a human operator...
VR system “knows when you 're swearing”
From Neuvoice Industry News, 03/15/2004:
Researchers at the University of Southern California have devised a voice recognition system which can tell...Link
Hate being on hold? Future software will sense it
From The Miami Herald, March 6, 2004:
Who among us has not experienced the frustration of being trapped in an automated phone system...
To Speak to an Operator, Start Swearing Now
From Financial Times (London, England), March 5, 2004:
Who among us has not experienced the frustration of being trapped in...
British Broadcasting Corp., BBC 5 With Darcy Lambton
March 5, 2004: Prof. Narayanan was interviewed for a live radio show on the speech recognition-call center project...Link
To Speak to an Operator, Start Swearing Now
From ACM TechNews, Volume 6, Issue 614:
University of Southern California researchers are working on software that switches...Link
Anger meter
From Focus Magazine, Germany, March 1, 2004:
Shrikanth Narayanan's program determines the defree of frustration of users...Link
February 2004
Accentuate The Positive
From Technology Review, page 16:
The automated telephone call centers companies use to reduce costs can drive customers crazy...
A Way Out of Automated Phone Hell
From Wired News, February 10, 2004:
Getting transferred from one automated message to another while stuck in a company's convoluted telephone system...Link
September 2003
NSF Early Career Award Goes to Narayanan
From USC Chronicle, Volume 23, Number 2, page 1:
Shrikanth Narayanan, a speech processing investigator in the USC School of Engineering's Integrated Media Systems Center, has received...
From USC Chronicle, Volume 23, Number 5, page 1:
Their work, funded by annual faculty fellowships, have led to innovative projects and unexpected collaborations...
June 2003
Prof. Narayanan receives NSF Career award
From IMSC News, page 1:
Dr. Shrikanth Narayanan, a key IMSC investigator in speech processing, has received an Early Career Award...
April 2003
Shri receives the 2003 Junior Faculty Research Award
From Chronicle, Volume 22, Number 31:
A USC school of Engineering state-of-the school address and awards ceremony was attended...
