People 
Phonexia was founded in 2006 by members of Speech@FIT research group at Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology.
The owners of Phonexia are (in alphabetical order):
Lukáš Burget, Ph.D.
Lukáš Burget (Ing. [MS] Brno University of Technology, 1999, Ph.D. Brno University of Technology, 2004) holds the position of assistant professor at Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic. His PhD thesis (successfully defended in November 2004) was on "Complementarity of Speech Recognition Systems an System combination". From 2000 to 2002, he was a visiting researcher at OGI Portland, USA under supervision of Prof. Hynek Hermansky. Lukas Burget has worked on EU-sponsored projects "Multimodal meeting manager" (M4, 5th FP) and "Augmented Multimodal interaction" (AMI, 6th FP) as well as on projects sponsored by Czech grant agencies. He is member of IEEE and ISCA. His scientific interests are in the field of speech processing, namely acoustic modeling for speech recognition.
In Phonexia, Lukáš is responsible for development and implementation of core speech recognition and keyword spotting algorithms.
Tomáš Kašpárek
Tomáš Kašpárek (Ing. [MS] Brno University of Technology, 2002) works as HPC system specialist and Unix system administrator at Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic. Tomáš has worked on EU-sponsored project "Speech driven interfaces for consumer applications" (SPEECON). His scientific interests are in the field of operating and distributed systems, high performance and large storage systems and HPC systems based on clusters.
In Phonexia, Tomáš is responsible for company’s own HPC system administrations and implementation as well as for offering consultations and services on HPC and storage systems for our customers.
Pavel Matějka, Ph.D.
Pavel Matějka (Ing. [MS] Brno University of Technology, 2001) is PhD student at Institute of Radioelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication and Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, FIT, BUT. He is planning to submit his doctoral thesis "Language identification" at the end of 2006. He has been with the Anthropic speech processing group at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, USA, from 10/2002 till 6/2003. He has actively participated in EU-projects M4 (Multimodal Meeting manager), AMI (Augmented Multimodal Interaction) and in project "Language identification" sponsored by industry. His scientific interests are in the field of language and speaker identification and speech recognition, namely phoneme recognition based on novel feature extractions.
In Phonexia, Pavel serves as its CEO and legal represntative. From the technical point of view, he is responsible for Phonexia's speech applications in security and defense.
Petr Schwarz, Ph.D.
Petr Schwarz (Ing. [MS] Brno University of Technology, 2001) is post-gradual student of Speech processing group at the Faculty of Information Technology, FIT, BUT. He is planning to submit his doctoral thesis "Robust phoneme recognition" in summer 2006. He has been with the Anthropic speech processing group of Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, USA, from 10/2002 till 6/2003. Petr has actively participated in EU-projects SpeechDat-East, SpeeCon and M4 (Multimodal Meeting manager) as well as in GACR-sponsored project "Voice technologies for support of information society". He is currently participating in EU-project AMI (Augmented Multimodal Interaction). Petr Schwarz is author or co-author of more than 15 papers at reviewed international conferences. He is member of IEEE and ISCA. His research interests include speech recognition, namely phoneme recognition based on novel features and neural networks. He has been active also in keyword-spotting and on-line implementation of speech processing algorithms.
Igor Szöke
Igor Szöke (Ing. [MS] Brno University of Technology, 2003) is post-gradual student of Speech processing group at the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), BUT since September 2003. He was at internship at ESIEE Paris, France as a member of very low bit-rate coder developing group for 5 months. His research interests has been Czech text-to-speech system using harmonic and noise model for prosody modification, automatically derived units and their use in language identification and very low bit-rate coding. He is actually dealing with acoustic, word and phoneme lattices keyword spotting, indexing and searching in informal continuous speech. He also cooperates on time modifications of voice using PSOLA technique. He is the author or co-author in 5 papers published on internation conferences. He has been active in EU-sponsored projects Multimodal Meeting Manager (M4, 5th FP) and Augmented Multimodal Interaction (AMI, 6th FP).
In Phonexia, Igor is responsible for financial planning. He is also involved in Phonexia's speech search acitivities.
