Raveesh Meena

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH) Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH | Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, Sweden. Earlier, in March 2016, I successfully defended my PhD in Speech Communication at the same department. The title of my PhD thesis is "Data-driven Methods for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Applications in Language Understanding, Turn-taking, Error Detection, and Knowledge Acquisition"

My research interests lie in research and development of the Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS's), which can be described as application interfaces that have the potential of endowing machines (such as computers, cars, robots, smartphones) with the ability to converse with humans in naturally spoken language. Yes, in spoken English or Swedish! Examples from everyday use of dialogue system is the Apple's speech enabled personal assistant Siri and the voice-operated automatic telephony systems. Robots with conversational skills are gradually making their way into everyday human lives, e.g., the Furhat social robot.