Baybars Kulebi

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Biography

Baybars Külebi is team leader of speech in the Language Technologies Unit of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación. Here he works in the research and development of speech models in addition to development of prototypes and pre-commercial products.
 

He has a Dr.rer.Nat in Astronomy from the University of Heidelberg, on stellar evolution. After a post-doc in ICE-CSIC, he started working in the industry as a software developer, concentrating on machine learning based audio processing products. He has entrepreneurial experience and a contributor to the open source projects. His main interests are speech models and corpora of under resourced languages, found data, on device DL model inference and finally product design.

Educació

  • Dr.rer.Nat in Astronomy, Ruprecht-Karl-Universität Heidelberg, Sep 2007 – Dec 2010
  • M.S. in Physics, Middle East Technical University, Feb 2005 – Nov 2006
  • B.S. in Physics, Middle East Technical University, Oct 2002 – Jan 2005

Research

  • Külebi, B.; Armentano-Oller, C.; Rodriguez-Penagos, C., Villegas M. 2022. ParlamentParla: A Speech Corpus of Catalan Parliamentary Sessions. In Proceedings of the Workshop ParlaCLARIN III within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 125–130, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
  • Külebi, B., Öktem, A., Peiró-Lilja, A., Pascual, S., Farrús, M., 2020, CATOTRON — A Neural Text-to-Speech System in Catalan, Proc. Interspeech 2020, 490-491, 
  • Külebi, B.; Öktem, A., 2018, Building an Open Source Automatic Speech Recognition System for Catalan, Proc. IberSPEECH 2018, 25-29, DOI: 10.21437/IberSPEECH.2018-6.