BUT is among world's five best institutions in the field of speech recognition

The latest ranking of the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars has confirmed that researchers from the Faculty of Information Technology, BUT, are among the world leaders in the field of speech recognition. BUT is among the five most important world institutions in this field - next to Google, Facebook, IBM and Carnegie Mellon University. FIT researchers Lukáš Burget, Jan Černocký and Pavel Matějka are also on the list of TOP100 world's most influential researchers. Brno University of Technology is the only institution from the Czech Republic in this ranking. BUT researchers succeeded together with Tomáš Mikolov, a FIT graduate. AMiner indexes authors, publications and data from the field of computer science. The Faculty of Information Technology, BUT, and the research group BUT Speech@FIT are among the leaders in the field of speech data mining for a long time. This year, Brno will host InterSpeech 2021, the world's largest conference in this field.