Ramon Sanabria

Ph.D. Candidate

Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation

Centre for Speech Technology Research

The University of Edinburgh


Email: ${FIRST_INITAL}.${SURNAME}[at]ed.ac.uk

Office: 3.05 Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street



About the guy up here

I am a first second third-year Ph.D. candidate at The University of Edinburgh's (UoE) Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation and Centre for Speech Technology Research supervised by Prof. Hao Tang, and Prof. Sharon Goldwater. The main goal of my research is to unlock language technologies for the (already decreasing) 6,500 world's languages. Since a large number of these languages do not have a writing system, my investigation focuses on methods that rely solely on speech -- rather than text. My work places special focus on slightly-supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods to address the (usually) low-resource data constraints that many of these languages face.


Before joining UoE, I obtained my M.Sc. at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in The School of Computer Science’s Language Technologies Institute (LTI) advised by Prof. Florian Metze. Previous to that, I worked with Prof. Fernando De La Torre and Francisco Vicente in the Robotics Institute at CMU.


I obtained my B.Sc. degree in Audiovisual Engineering at La Salle University advised by Prof. Ignasi Iriondo. During that time, I collaborated with PAL Robotics' signal processing department under the supervision of Dr. Jordi Adell.


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