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Jul 16, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Xiaomi’s Voice AI Chief Daniel Povey Named ISCA Fellow for Pioneering Open‑Source Speech Tools

Daniel Povey, Xiaomi’s chief scientist for speech, was elected a 2026 ISCA Fellow in recognition of his groundbreaking work on acoustic modeling, sequence‑training methods such as Minimum Phone Error, and the creation of the Kaldi toolkit and its next‑generation extensions that power modern multilingual ASR and TTS systems.