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How could machine learning help people with a hearing impairment? It is one of the challenges in the field of automatic speech recognition - even the most sophisticated existing hearing aids still face difficulties perceiving speech-in-noise. The Clarity Challenge focused on the next generation of hearing aids which could use machine learning. Kateřina Žmolíková, a member of BUT Speech@FIT, a "speech research" group, won the first place in the MBSTOI evaluation category and also was awarded an Amazon student prize (first place). Have a look at her presentation and paper.

Maker Faire, a festival of innovators, creators and inventions, held at the Brno Exhibition Centre at the end of October, showcased the results of work of students and the BUT Speech@FIT research group. For example, the visitors could see a 3D-printed robotic arm, an innovative smart greenhouse solution or the ATCO2 project which processes voice data from air-traffic communications. More than 6,000 people visited the second year of the Brno Maker Faire festival which presented over 80 projects.

Last week, Saravan Rajendran, vice-president of Data Center Group at Intel, made his first "post-pandemic" trip abroad and visited Brno. At the Faculty of Information Technology, he negotiated possible co-operation in the field of P4 programmable networks.  The negotiations led to several suggestions aimed at contractual research involving students. The interest of Intel in co-operation in the field of the utilisation of the P4 programming language is based on successes achieved by the ANT group and the Liberouter project within the CESNET association.