Thoughts

I am sure 99% of the people would not step into such a blog title; this is natural because we are conditioned like that since our birth. We always equate birth to "happy" and death to "sad" knowing very well that being mortal means a death always comes with a birth.  Unlike birthday which occurs every year after a birth and gets celebrated most often, we get some sort of experience in organizing a birthday event. We know the exact date, giving us ample time to plan (inviting people, making arrangements, planning venue, planning food) the birthday and added to this you could go onto any e-commerce site and order the arrangements.  Everything is comfortably done, for a birthday, because the date and time is known prior. However death in a family come knocking suddenly and without any prior appointment which makes planning ahead of time impossible. Added to that in a big city most of us are unaware what to do and then there is a limited time frame to do the needful. 

Often it is difficult to emphasize the difficulty that one faces during speech signal processing. Thanks to the large population use of speech recognition in the form of Alexa, Google Home when most of us are asking for a very limited information ("call my mother", "play the top 50 international hits" or "switch off the lights") which is quite well captured by the speech recognition engine in the form of contextual knowledge (it knows where you are; it knows your calendar, it know you parents phone number, it knows your preference, it knows your facebook likes .... ). Same Same - Different Different:   You speak X = /My voice is my password/ and I speak Y= /My voice is my password/. In speech recognition both our speech samples (X and Y) need to be recognized as "My voice is my password" while in speaker biometric X has to be attributed to you and and Y has to be attributed to me! In this blog post we try to show   visually   what it means to pro