Automated Collection of Speech in Noise

Amazon Lab126 Engineering, 2015-16

Liaison(s): Philip Hilmes ’98, Kenneth Hild
Advisor(s): Ruye Wang
Students(s): Sebastian Krupa (TL), Adam Schiller, Orpheas Petroulas, Thomas Berrueta (S) Joshua Lam (S), Evan Kahn (S), Daniel Rodriguez (F)

The (Amazon) Lab126 clinic team was tasked with creating a set of automated test benches to allow greater reproducibility and ease of operation for testing the Alexa Voice Service. This consisted of a software component to automate the activation of various sound sources along with an automated positioning system which could move multiple devices around a room to test a variety of parameters. Furthermore, the team investigated the feasibility of replacing live speech with pre-recorded speech to further automate testing.