Deb Roy

I attended Deb Roy's talk at Interspeech 2009 about the Human Speechome project.

Deb Roy filmed the first 4 years of life of his newborn child at home, 24/7. From the ceiling, using state-of-the-art technology.


I was very impressed by the presentation. The corpus is a very significant contribution and it highlights the importance of studying complex phenomena from actual data. The data visualization techniques are also very important to making sense of so much data.

I was also happy to see that significant privacy issues of the project were satisfactorily handled. However, I consider it too close to some ethical borderlines that should not be crossed.