Serhat Gorgun,

Koc Holding,

Information Technologies Group,

GVZ Speech Technologies Co.,

General Manager,

Unalan Mh., Camlica Is Merkezi,

81190, Uskudar

Istanbul

Turkey  

http://www.gvz.com.tr/index_eng.htm

Dir. Tel.: +90 216 556 15 31

serhat@gvz.com.tr

As GVZ Speech Technologies Co., we are a multilingual Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, Voice Authentication and Natural Language Processing technologies vendor company.

We are proud to state that we are the first (and currently the only) company that implemented speech technologies projects in Turkey and Turkish Language. Please find some of the projects that we have installed below:

-          Turkcell (the largest GSM operator in Turkey with more than 14 millon subscribers) Voice Portal Project;

-          ARIA (the third largest GSM operator in Turkey) Unified Messaging Project, SMS-to-Speech Project;

-          Biletix (the largest ticket sales company in Turkey) Movie Ticket Sales Line;

-          Kocbank (one of the largest private banks in Turkey) Stock Quotes System;

-          Turk.Net (one of the larges ISPs in Turkey) Unified Messaging System;

-          KocNet (largest enterprise ISP in Turkey) Unified Messaging System;

-          Arcelik (largest home appliances producer in Turkey) Intelligent Home Project;

-          Turkish Airlines (largest airlines company in Turkey);

  100% of the source codes are produced by our engineers and the Intellectual Property Rights of our technologies are owned b our company. I would like to list the issued patents of our company, to give you an impression regarding the know how of our company:

-          Adaptive Weiner filtering using a dynamic suppression factor'', Issued Jan 6, 1998. U.S. Patent No: 5,706,395.

-          Method of out of vocabulary word rejection Issued June 5, 2001. U.S. Patent No: 6,243,677.

-          Adaptive Weiner filtering using line spectral frequencies, Issued July 17, 2001. U.S. Patent No: 6,263,307.

-          Voice Conversion by Segmental Codebook Mapping of Line Spectral Frequencies and Excitation, Filed 1997

-          Face Synthesis System and Methodology, Issued September 10, 2002. U.S. Patent No: 6,449,595.

-          Speech Conversion System and Method, Filed 2000.

In this perspective with our huge know how in Speech Technologies (Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, Speaker Verification, Language Understanding, Keyword Spotting, Voice Activity Detection, Voice Suppression, Speech Conversion etc) we will add a great value to the project.

ASSOC. PROF. LEVENT M. ARSLAN

Industrial Experience:

Technical Consultant, Board Member: GVZ, Istanbul, 2000-present

Technical Consultant: TUBITAK, Istanbul, 2000-present

Technical Consultant: Sakhr Software Co., Cairo, Egypt, 1998-2000

Member of Technical Staff: Entropic Research Lab, Washington, DC, USA, 1996-1998

Research Intern: Texas Instruments SISL Lab., Dallas, TX, USA, Summer 1995

Research Intern: Texas Instruments SISL Lab., Dallas, TX, USA, Summer 1994

Areas of interest:

Digital Signal Processing

Automatic Speech Recognition

Speech Enhancement

Text-to-Speech Synthesis

3-D Face Modeling

Voice Conversion

Education

High School Diploma, Ankara Fen Lisesi., Turkey, 1986
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Bogazici University., Turkey, 1991

Senior Project: "Edge Detection Using Linear Prediction Methods"
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Duke University, USA, 1993.

M.S. Thesis title: "Markov Model Based Phoneme Class Partitioning for Improved Iterative Speech Enhancement"
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Duke University, USA, 1996.

Ph.D. Thesis title: "Foreign Accent Classification in American English"

Journal Publications

L.M. Arslan and D. Talkin Codebook Based Face Point Trajectory Synthesis Algorithm using Speech Input

Speech Communication Journal , vol.27, No.2, pp. 81-93, March 1999.

L.M. Arslan and J.H.L. Hansen Selective Training for Hidden Markov Models

IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing , vol.7, No.1, pp. 46-55, January 1999.

L.M. Arslan and J.H.L. Hansen Likelihood Decision Boundary Estimation Between HMM Pairs in Speech Recognition

IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing , vol. 6, no. 4, July 1998.

L.M. Arslan and J.H.L. Hansen A Study of Temporal Features and Frequency Characteristics in American English Foreign Accent

Journal of Acoust. Soc. of America, vol.102, No.1, pp. 28-40, July 1997

(appeared as featured article).

L.M. Arslan and J.H.L. Hansen Speech Enhancement for Cross-Talk Interference

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol.4, No.4, pp. 92-95, April 1997.

L.M. Arslan and J.H.L. Hansen Language Accent Classification in American English

Speech Communication Journal, vol.18, No.4, pp. 353-367, August 1996.

J.H.L. Hansen and L.M. Arslan Robust Feature-Estimation and Objective Quality Assessment for Noisy Speech Recognition using the Credit Card Corpus,

IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, vol.3, No.3, pp. 169-184, May 1995.

J.H.L. Hansen and L.Arslan Markov Model Based Phoneme Class Partitioning for Improved Constrained Iterative Speech Enhancement

IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, vol.3, No.1, pp. 98-104, January 1995.

L.M. Arslan Speaker Transformation Algorithm using Segmental Codebooks (STASC)

accepted to Speech Communication Journal , (February 1999).

Peer Reviewed Conference Publications

L.M. Arslan and D. Talkin Speech Driven 3-D Face Point Trajectory Synthesis Algorithm

ICSLP Proceedings, Sydney, Australia, November 1998.

L.M. Arslan and D. Talkin 3-D Face Point Trajectory Synthesis using an Automatically derived Visual Phoneme Similarity matrix

AVSP Proceedings, Terrigal, Australia, December 1998.

F.Galanes, J.Unverferth, L.Arslan, D.Talkin Generation of lip-synched synthetic faces from phonetically clustered face movement data

AVSP Proceedings, Terrigal, Australia, December 1998.

L.M. Arslan and D. Talkin Speaker Transformation using Sentence HMM Based Alignments and Detailed Prosody Modification

IEEE Proc. ICASSP, Seattle, USA, May 1998.

L.M. Arslan and D. Talkin Voice Conversion by Codebook Mapping of Line Spectral Frequencies and Excitation Spectrum

EUROSPEECH Proceedings, Rhodes, Greece, September 1997.

L.M. Arslan and J.H.L. Hansen A Study of Frequency Characteristics in Foreign Accent

IEEE Proc. ICASSP, Munich, Germany, April 1997.

L.M. Arslan and J.H.L. Hansen Improved HMM Training and Scoring Strategies with Application to Accent Classification

IEEE Proc. ICASSP, vol.2, pp. 589-592, Atlanta, USA, May 1996 .

L.M. Arslan and J.H.L. Hansen New Methods for Adaptive Noise Suppression

IEEE Proc. ICASSP vol.1, pp. 812-815, Detroit, USA, May 1995.

L.M. Arslan and J.H.L. Hansen Foreign Accent Classification using Source Generator Based Prosodic Features

IEEE Proc. ICASSP vol.1, pp. 836-839, Detroit, USA, May 1995.

L.M. Arslan and J.H.L. Hansen A Minimum Cost Based Phoneme Class Detector for Improved Iterative Speech Enhancement

IEEE Proc. ICASSP vol.2, pp. 045-048, Adelaide, Australia, April 1994.

J. Hansen, B. Womack and L.Arslan A Source Generator Based Production Model for Environmental Robustness in Speech Recognition

ICSLP Proceedings, vol.3, pp. 1003-1006, Yokohama, Japan, September 1994.

Patents

Adaptive Weiner filtering using a dynamic suppression factor , L. Arslan, A. Mccree, and V. Viswanathan. Issued Jan 6, 1998. US Patent No: 5706395.

Speaker-Dependent Garbage Models for Out of Vocabulary Word Rejection, L. Arslan, L. Netsch, and Raja Rajasekaran. Filed 1998.

Voice Conversion by Segmental Codebook Mapping of Line Spectral Frequencies and Excitation, L. Arslan, and D. Talkin. Filed 1997.

3-D Face Point Trajectory Synthesis, L.M. Arslan, and D. Talkin. Filed 1998.

SERHAT GÖRGÜN

Professional Experience:

General Manager: GVZ, Istanbul, 2000-present

Depth Accounts Manager: Microsoft, Istanbul, 1999-2000

Sales Manager: KocSistem Information Technologies, Istanbul, 1995-1999

Areas of interest:

Automatic Speech Recognition

Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Education

Middle East Technical University, Department of Management

Languages:

Turkish (native speaker)

English (fluent)

German (moderate)

HAŞİM SAK

Professional Experience:

Software Development Manager: GVZ, Istanbul, 2000-present

Education

Bilkent University, Computer Engineering & Information Science, June 2000

Grade Point Average: 3.54 on a 4.0 scale

Major Courses:

Computer Networks, Database Management Systems, Distributed Systems,

Object-Oriented Programming, Algorithms, Compiler Design,

Computer Graphics, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems

Projects Developed

A moderate JAVA Compiler implemented in C

A Cooperative Caching Web Proxy Server implemented in C

Simple Web Server and Web Client implemented in JAVA

E-Commerce System on WEB implemented in JAVA

Image Morphing implemented in JAVA

Interactive Calculus Visualization Aid implemented in DELPHI

Reservation Program for Cinemas, Theatres implemented in DELPHI

Hierarchical Human Modeling with Computer Graphics implemented in C using OpenGL

Computer Skills

Application Development Programs: JAVA, C, C++, Delphi, Pascal, OpenGL, SQL, RDBMS, Network Programming in JAVA and C

Package Programs: Lotus-Notes, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Access, MS-PowerPoint

Operating Systems: Windows ‘98/NT, UNIX, MSDOS

Language Proficiency

Turkish (native speaker), Advanced English