Hagen Soltau

Hagen Soltau is a Research Scientist at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he works on novel speech recognition technologies. He received the MS degree from the Technical University of Karlsruhe in Germany in 1997 on using Neural Networks for music style recognition and the PhD degree from Karlsruhe University in 2005 on using articulatory attributes for compensating hyperarticulated speech. Before joining IBM in 2004, Hagen worked on several European projects (Verbmobil, Nespole, TC-STAR) focusing on large vocabulary speech recognition, language identification, and acoustic modeling. At IBM, he worked on conversational speech recognition as part of the DARPA EARS program, and since 2006 on Arabic speech recognition and translation as part of the GALE and RATS DARPA programs. His main research includes acoustic modeling, LVCSR search, and statistical machine translation.