People

Full telephone numbers of speech people are +420 5 4114 xxxx, where xxxx is the four-digit extension. All speech offices are located on the 2nd floor of the “L” building of the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT, see floor plan. To find your way to us, use the VGS-IT directions page.

• Current people
• Alumni
• Past people

* Petr Motlíček also holds a research scientist position at IDIAP Research Institute.
** Pavel Smrž is also heading the Knowledge Technology Research Group at FIT BUT.
*** Igor Szöke is also the CEO of ReplayWell.

* Ján Pavlus works with the Artificial Intelligence and Medical Technologies group at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno.
** Amrutha Prasad works with Petr Motlicek at the IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland.

Alumni

PhD

• Karel Beneš, 2025, Language models supporting imperfect handwriting and speech recognition systems, Karel is Machine Learning Researcher with Newton Technologies & Beey AI.
• Ladislav Mošner, 2026, Far-Field Speaker Verification Incorporating Multichannel Processing, Láďa is researcher at BUT Speech@FIT and a technical advisor in Omilia.
• Federico Nicolás Landini, 2024, From Modular to End-to-End Speaker Diarization, Fede is Research Scientist at Deepgram in London.
• Murali Karthick Baskar, 2023, Semi-Supervised Speech-to-Text Recognition with Text-to-Speech Critic, Karthick is researcher with Google Research N.Y.
• Anna Silnova, 2022, Exploiting Uncertainty Information in Speaker Verification and Diarization. Anna is a senior researcher at BUT Speech@FIT.
• Ekaterina Egorova, 2022, Out-of-Vocabulary Words Detection and Recovery. Ekaterina is a NLP Researcher at Seznam.cz
• Kateřina Žmolíková, 2022, Neural Target Speech Extraction. Katka is an AI Research Scientist with Meta AI in London.
• Ondřej Novotný, 2021, Improving Robustness of Speaker Recognition using Discriminative Techniques. Ondra is the chief scientist at ThreatMark.
• Lucas Ondel, 2021, Discovering Acoustic Units from Speech: a Bayesian Approach. Lucas is a researcher at LIMSI.
• Santosh Kesiraju, 2020, Generative models for learning document representations along with their uncertainties (thesis co-supervised by Lukas Burget and defended at IIIT Hyderabad, India). Santosh is researcher at BUT Speech@FIT.
• Karel Veselý, 2018, Semi-Supervised Training of Deep Neural Networks for Speech Recognition. Karel is a senior researcher at BUT Speech@FIT.
• Mirko Hannemann, 2016, Finite-state based recognition networks for forward-backward speech decoding. Mirko is a research staff member in the Siri Speech team at Apple.
• Oldřich Plchot, 2014, Extensions to Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Speaker Recognition. Olda is a senior researcher at BUT Speech@FIT.
• Michal Fapšo, 2014, Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection. Michal is with Escape Motions.
• Mehdi Soufifar, 2014, Subspace Modeling of Discrete features for Language Recognition (thesis co-supervised by Lukas Burget and defended at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway). Mehdi is with Companybook.
• Ondřej Glembek, 2012, Optimization of Gaussian Mixture Subspace Models and Related Scoring Algorithms in Speaker Verification. Ondra is Researcher at Phrase.
• Tomáš Mikolov, 2012, Statistical language models based on neural networks. Tom is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of BottleCap AI.
• Marcel Kockmann, 2012, Subspace Modeling of Prosodic Features for Speaker Verification. Marcel is with Voicetrust.
• Igor Szöke, 2010, Hybrid word-subword spoken term detection. Igi is a senior researcher at BUT Speech@FIT and the CEO of ReplayWell.
• Petr Schwarz, 2009, Phoneme recognition based on long temporal context. Petr is senior researcher at BUT Speech@FIT.
• Pavel Matějka, 2009, Phonotactic and acoustic language recognition (defended at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication). Pavel is co-founder and director of CoLibri.
• Ilya Oparin, 2008, Language models for automatic speech recognition of inflectional languages (defended at the University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences). Ilya is a manager at the Siri Speech team at Apple.
• Martin Karafiát, 2008, Study of Linear Transformations Applied to Training of Cross-Domain Adapted Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Systems. Martin is a senior researcher at BUT Speech@FIT.
• František Grézl, 2007, TRAP-based probabilistic features for automatic speech recognition. Franta is a senior researcher at BUT Speech@FIT.
• Lukáš Burget, 2004, Complementarity of Speech Recognition Systems and System Combination. Lukáš is the research director of BUT Speech@FIT.
• Petr Motlíček, 2003, Modeling of Spectra and Temporal Trajectories in Speech Processing. Petr is a Senior Research Scientist at IDIAP research institute and Associate Professor at FIT BUT.

Past employees and long-term visitors

• Ricardo Germán Barchi, 2023, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
• Leonardo Daniel Pepino, 2023, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
• Martin Bernardo Meza, 2023, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
• Lautaro Estienne, 2023, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
• Lin Zhang, 2023, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Hitotsubashi 2-1-2
• Juan Ignacio Álvarez Trejos, 2023, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• Saskia Wepner 2022-23, TU Graz
• Ondrej Glembek 2014-23, Phrase
• Hari Krishna Vydana 2019-21, Cerence Inc.
• Bhargav Pulugundla 2019-21, Amazon
• Beltran Labrador 2019-20, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• Shuai Wang 2018-19, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Radek Fér 2011-2017, Radek is with Seznam.cz.
• Xiaowei Jiang, 2016, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Harish Mallidi, 2015, Johns Hopkins University
• Ruizhi Li, 2015, Johns Hopkins University
• Marelie Davel, Charl van Heerden and Neil Taylor, 2015, Northwest University
• Alicia Lozano, 2014 and 2019-21, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
• Vijayaditya Peddinti and Matthew Maciejewski, 2015, Johns Hopkins University
• Su Zhu, 2014-2015, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Mireia Diez Sánchez, 2013, University of the Basque Country
• Tetsuji Ogawa, 2014 and 2015, Waseda University
• Shakti Rath, 2011-2013, IIT Madras, funded by South-Moravian SomoPro program. Shakti is with the Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore.
• Luis Fernando D’Haro 2011-2012, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• Yonatan Vaizman 2010, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Yonatan is with the University of South California in San Diego.
• Doris Baum, 2010, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
• David Martinez, 2010, University of Zaragoza
• Christopher McCool, 2010, IDIAP. Chris is with Australian Centre of Excellence for Robotics Vision (ACRV).
• Jesús Villalba López, 2009, University of Zaragoza. Jesus is with Cirrus Logic.