Jordi Robert-Ribes

Selected articles and publications

New Technologies

• "Predicting the Speed and Patterns of Technology Take-Up". Robert-Ribes, J & Wing, P.
  Introduction to the Bass model of diffusion of innovation and how it can be practically applied to the assessment of investments in new or emerging technologies.
  An interactive simulation is also available at www.andorraweb.com/bass
  Australian Venture Capital Journal, n131 (May 2004), ISSN 1038-4324, pp34-36.
  [view article online]

• "Early-stage investments in WiFi are still possible".
  Is it too late for further early-stage investing in WiFi (Wireless Fidelity or 802.11)?
  Which areas will be more promising for early-stage investing in WiFi?
  Australian Venture Capital Journal, n122 (July 2003), pages 29-30.
  [download pdf 172kb]

• "Hello computer".
  What speech recognition can do for your company, the main barriers to its introduction and how you should approach the introduction of a speech recognition system in your company.
  Intelligent Enterprise Asia, April 2003, pp 28-30.
  [read copy html 36kb]

• "Future Landscape for the Speech Recognition Industry."
  A consolidation will occur within the recognition-engine companies. Speech-application providers will specialise. The use of open standards is therefore vital.
  Unpublished manuscript. Drafted November 2002.
  [download pdf 28kb]

• "The internet is hypenning... partly just hype and partly already hapenning". Robert-Ribes, J. (2001). Telecommunications Journal of Australia, 51(4), pp. 45-54. (ISSN 0040-2486)
  [download pdf 44kb]

Andorra & Technology

• L'Internet... ha canviat el món realment? Conferència a la Societat Andorrana de Ciències (7 Juny 2001) (veure'n el text [pdf 392k]).
• L'internet és tan sols una novetat més Publicat al "Butlletí de la Societat Andorrana de Ciències", num 76, Nov 2000.
• L'Andorra de la Innovació Publicat a "Revista d'Informàtica del CDIA", Primavera 2000.
• Què sera quan vivim en digital? Publicat a "Revista d'Informrmàtica del CDIA", num. 72, Estiu 1999.

Audio processing

• "Semi-automatic captioning of TV programs, an Australian perspective". Robert-Ribes, J., Pfeiffer, S., Ellison, R. & Burnham, D. (1999). Proceedings of TAO Workshop on TV closed captions for the hearing impaired people. pp 87-100. Tokyo (Japan), 20 November 1999, Telecommunications Advancement Organisation of Japan.

• "Why captions have to be on time". Burnham D., Robert-Ribes J. and Ellison R. International Conference on Audiovisual Speech Processing 1998, pp. 153-156. ISBN 0-643-063951.

• "On the use of automatic speech recognition for TV captioning". Robert-Ribes, J. (1998). 5th Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing. pp. 1659-1662.

• "Speech, silence, music and noise classification of TV broadcast material". Samouelian, A., Robert-Ribes, J. and Plumpe, M. (1998). 5th Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing. pp. 1099-1102.

• "Automatic generation of hyperlinks between audio and transcript." Robert-Ribes J, and Mukhtar RG. 1997. 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Eurospeech97: pp 903-906.

Audio-visual speech processing

• "Complementarity and synergy in bimodal speech: Auditory, visual and audio-visual identification of French oral vowels in noise". Robert-Ribes, J., Schwartz, J.L., Lallouache, T. and Escudier, P. (1998). Journal Acoustic Society America, 103(6), pp. 3677-3689.

• "Exploiting sensor fusion architectures and stimuli complementarity in AV speech recognition".Robert-Ribes J, Piquemal M, Schwartz JL and Escudier P (1996). In Stork DG (Ed.) NATO Advanced Study Institute, Speechreading by man and machine: models, systems and applications.

• "A comparison of models for fusion of the auditory and visual sensors in speech perception". Robert-Ribes J, Schwartz JL and Escudier P (1995). Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol. 9(4-5), 1995.