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is talk is about interpreting human communication inmeetings using audio, video and other signals. Meetings are an interesting and challenging problem, since the communication in a meeting is conversational and involves multiple speakers and multiple modalities. is results in signi cant research problems in signal processing (identify and segregate the different speakers), in speech recognition (recognize spontaneous and overlapped speech), and in meeting interpretation (take account of both individual and group behaviours). Addressing these problems requires an interdisciplinary effort. In this talk, I’ll discuss the capture and annotation of multimodal meeting recordings – resulting in the AMI meeting corpus – and how we have built on this to develop techniques and applications for the recognition, indexing and interpretation of meetings. Biography Steve Renals is director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) and professor of Speech Technology in the School of Informatics, at the University of Edinburgh. He received a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield in 1986, an MSc in Arti cial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1987, and a PhD in Speech Recognition and Neural Networks, also from Edinburgh, in 1990. From 1991–92 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, and was then an EPSRC postdoctoral fellow in Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1992–94). From 1994–2003 he was a lecturer, then reader, in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, moving to Edinburgh in 2003. He is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing and IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and a former member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Machine Learning and Signal Processing. Session Chair: Mary Harper