Awards and Achievements

Awards

• Achiever of the Year 2007 - bag-of-sounds

• The Enterprise Challenge Awards 2005 - Intelligent Voice Profiling System

• The Enterprise Challenge Awards 2004 - Voice Enabling Tan Tock Seng Hospital

• NSTB Technology Innovation Awards 1996 - Chinese Dictation Kit

International Benchmarking

• NIST SRE 2008: Won 1^st place in the core test condition, among the 46 international teams, in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 2008 Speaker Recognition Evaluation International Benchmarking.

• Won 1^st place in 17 categories, 2^nd place in 12 categories among all 36 categories in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 2007 Language Recognition Evaluation International Benchmarking.

• Won overall 2^nd place in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, US) 2007 Rich Transcription Evaluation international benchmarking.

• Won 1^st place in the 4th Spoken Language Translation Evaluation international benchmarking (Chinese-English Track) organized by the 2007 international workshop of spoken language translation (IWSLT 2007).

• Won 2^nd place in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, US) 2006 Speaker Recognition Evaluation international benchmarking in 4 categories.

• Won overall 3^rd place in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, US) 2005 Language Recognition Evaluation international benchmarking.

• Best Chinese Information Retrieval Systems, NTCIR 4, NTCIR 5 international benchmarking in 2004 and 2005, respectively.