Synopsis "Auditory Representation Learning"
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new electricity" according to Andrew Ng, a professorat Stanford University. Today AI is transforming every sector of industry, academics, and business. From smartphones to supercomputers, the mainmedium of operating and communicating with humans is through AI. Specifically, voice-based access in digital devices, such as smartphones, is equipped withan AI-enabled personal assistant, e.g., OK Google, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, Amazon Echo, etc. Along with AI, there are rapid advancements in the Internet ofThings (IoT) where many electronic devices are connected through the Internet.Since an AI-enabled IoT framework is used in real-life noise scenarios, we need aknowledge of both signal processing and machine learning to propose a feasiblesolution to develop a noise robust voice-based access system in the IoT. Hence, there is a great demand for speech and audio technology in the near future sincevoice is the most important form of human communication and possibly humanmachineinteractions.One of the important aspects of speech and audio processing applications isto come up with a better representation of the sounds so that variabilities in thesignals are largely reduced. For example, in the speech recognition task, we needa feature representation that reduces the variability in speakers, dialects, microphones, and provide robustness to the background noise [
