History of Speech and Language Technology

Victor Sorokin is the Head of the Speech Research Group of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, a position he has held since 1986. He received his D.E. degree from the Moscow Aviation Institute, and his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems. He has been engaged in research at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems at various levels since 1963 in a variety of areas including experimental and theoretical studies of speech production, synthesis, recognition, compression, and speaker verification. He is a council member of the Russian Acoustical Society and of the Russian Speech Technologies Consortium.

An interview was conducted with Dr. Sorokin at Interspeech 2005, the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology in Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2005, by Dr. Janet Baker. The text of this interview has not yet been transcribed, but a brief excerpt of the recorded interview is available.

Brief excerpt of recorded interview.