Emeritus Professor Philip Green
PhD
School of Computer Science
Honorary Academic
Member of the Speech and Hearing (SpandH) research group
p.green@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1828
+44 114 222 1828
Regent Court (DCS)
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Emeritus Professor Philip Green
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Phil Green is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science in the Speech and Hearing group which he founded when he came to Sheffield in 1985. His first degree, in Cybernetics was awarded by the University of Reading in 1967 and his PhD, from Keele University, in 1971.
He was head of Computer Science from 2004 to 2008.
- Research interests
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Professor Green has worked in several areas of speech research, particularly Automatic Speech Recognition, Auditory Scene Analysis and, latterly, Clinical Applications of Speech Technology. He has been involved in research projects worth around £30m and has coordinated 5 International collaborations.
- Publications
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Books
- Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. Springer International Publishing.
Journal articles
- Non-parallel articulatory-to-acoustic conversion using multiview-based time warping. Applied Sciences, 12(3).
- Sequence labeling to detect stuttering events in read speech. Computer Speech & Language. View this article in WRRO
- A real-time silent speech system for voice restoration after total laryngectomy. Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología, 38(4), 148-154.
- Direct Speech Reconstruction From Articulatory Sensor Data by Machine Learning. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 25(12), 2362-2374. View this article in WRRO
- An Innovative Speech-Based User Interface for Smarthomes and IoT Solutions to Help People with Speech and Motor Disabilities. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 242, 306-313. View this article in WRRO
- Restoring speech following total removal of the larynx by a learned transformation from sensor data to acoustics. JASA Express Letters, 141(3), EL307-EL307. View this article in WRRO
- Restoring Speech Following Total Removal of the Larynx. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 242, 314-321. View this article in WRRO
- A silent speech system based on permanent magnet articulography and direct synthesis. Computer Speech & Language, 39, 67-87. View this article in WRRO
- Intelligibility Assessment and Speech Recognizer Word Accuracy Rate Prediction for Dysarthric Speakers in a Factor Analysis Subspace. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 6(3).
- A hearing-inspired approach for distant-microphone speech recognition in the presence of multiple sources. Computer Speech & Language, 27(3), 820-836.
- Performance of the MVOCA silent speech interface across multiple speakers. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 1140-1143.
- The PASCAL CHiME speech separation and recognition challenge. Computer Speech & Language, 27(3), 621-633.
- Building personalised synthetic voices for individuals with severe speech impairment. Computer Speech and Language, 27(6), 1178-1193.
- A voice-input voice-output communication aid for people with severe speech impairment.. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, PP(99). View this article in WRRO
- Small-Vocabulary Speech Recognition Using a Silent Speech Interface Based on Magnetic Sensing. Speech Communication.
- Combining Speech Fragment Decoding and Adaptive Noise Floor Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 20(3), 818-827.
- Reconstructing the Voice of an Individual Following Laryngectomy. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 27(1), 61-66.
- Speech synthesis parameter generation for the assistive silent speech interface MVOCA. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 3009-3012.
- Isolated word recognition of silent speech using magnetic implants and sensors. Medical Engineering & Physics, 32(10), 1189-1197.
- Evaluation of a silent speech interface based on magnetic sensing. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010, 246-249.
- Combining neural network and rule-based systems for dysarthria diagnosis. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2226-2229.
- Exploiting correlogram structure for robust speech recognition with multiple speech sources. Speech Communication, 49(12), 874-891. View this article in WRRO
- A speech-controlled environmental control system for people with severe dysarthria. Medical Engineering & Physics, 29(5), 586-593.
- Mood state effects of chocolate. Journal of Affective Disorders, 92(2-3), 149-159.
- Automatic speech recognition and training for severely dysarthric users of assistive technology: The STARDUST project. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 20(2-3), 149-156.
- Speech technology for e-inclusion of people with physical disabilities and disordered speech. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 445-448.
- Speech enhancement with missing data techniques using recurrent neural networks. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 1.
- Robust automatic speech recognition with missing and unreliable acoustic data. Speech Communication, 34(3), 267-285.
- Mapping the auditory scene. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10(3-4), 419-421.
- Auditory scene analysis and hidden Markov model recognition of speech in noise. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 1, 401-404.
- Computational auditory scene analysis: listening to several things at once. Endeavour, 17(4), 186-190.
- SPEECH RECOGNITION - WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW.. Computer Bulletin (London), 1(pt 3), 5-7.
- KNOWLEDGE-BASED SPEECH UNDERSTANDING: TOWARDS A REPRESENTATIONAL APPROACH., 337-340.
- A representational approach to knowledge-based acoustic-phonetic processing in speech recognition. ICASSP '86. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
Chapters
- Voice Restoration After Laryngectomy Based on Magnetic Sensing of Articulator Movement and Statistical Articulation-to-Speech Conversion, Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (pp. 295-316). Springer International Publishing View this article in WRRO
- Towards an Intraoral-Based Silent Speech Restoration System for Post-laryngectomy Voice Replacement, Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (pp. 22-38). Springer International Publishing View this article in WRRO
- On Finding Objects in Spectrograms: A Multiscale Relaxation Labelling Approach, Recent Advances in Speech Understanding and Dialog Systems (pp. 129-133). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Building Personalized Synthetic Voices for Individuals with Dysarthria using the HTS Toolkit, Computer Synthesized Speech Technologies (pp. 92-115). IGI Global
Conference proceedings papers
- Phase-Based Feature Representations for Improving Recognition of Dysarthric Speech. 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 18 December 2018 - 21 December 2018.
- A lightly supervised approach to detect stuttering in children's speech. Proceedings of Interspeech 2018 (pp 3433-3437), 2 September 2018 - 6 September 2018. View this article in WRRO
- A Wearable Silent Speech Interface based on Magnetic Sensors with Motion-Artefact Removal. Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 19 January 2018 - 21 January 2018.
- Embedding speech technology into intelligent tutoring systems using the CloudCAST speech technology platform. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 10858 LNCS (pp 421-424)
- Cloud-Based Speech Technology for Assistive Technology Applications (CloudCAST). Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 242 (pp 322-329) View this article in WRRO
- Detecting Stuttering Events in Transcripts of Children’s Speech (pp 217-228) View this article in WRRO
- An Innovative Speech-Based Interface to Control AAL and IoT Solutions to Help People with Speech and Motor Disability (pp 269-278)
- Interspeech 2017. Interspeech 2017
- Using phone features to improve dialogue state tracking
generalisation to unseen states. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group
on Discourse and Dialogue, September 2016 - September 2016. View this article in WRRO
- A framework for collecting realistic recordings of dysarthric speech - The homeService corpus. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 1993-1997) View this article in WRRO
- Preliminary Evaluation of a Silent Speech Interface based on Intra-Oral Magnetic Sensing. Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 21 February 2016 - 23 February 2016.
- Direct Speech Generation for a Silent Speech Interface based on Permanent Magnet Articulography. Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 21 February 2016 - 23 February 2016.
- Knowledge transfer between speakers for personalised dialogue management. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, September 2015 - September 2015.
- Integrating User-Centred Design in the Development of a Silent Speech Interface Based on Permanent Magnetic Articulography (pp 324-337)
- A User-centric Design of Permanent Magnetic Articulography based Assistive Speech Technology. Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, 12 January 2015 - 15 January 2015.
- Speech-enabled environmental control in an AAL setting for people with speech disorders: a case study. IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living (TechAAL)
- Remote Speech Technology for Speech Professionals - the CloudCAST initiative. Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, September 2015 - September 2015.
- Analysis of phonetic similarity in a silent speech interface based on permanent magnetic articulography. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1018-1022)
- Automatic selection of speakers for improved acoustic modelling: recognition of disordered speech with sparse data. 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 7 December 2014 - 10 December 2014.
- Adaptive speech recognition and dialogue management for users with speech disorders. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1033-1037)
- Combining in-domain and out-of-domain speech data for automatic recognition of disordered speech. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 3642-3645)
- Dysarthria intelligibility assessment in a factor analysis total variability space. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 2133-2137)
- Learning speaker-specific pronunciations of disordered speech. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1159-1163)
- Performance of the MVOCA Silent Speech Interface Across Multiple Speakers. 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2013), VOLS 1-5 (pp 1139-1142)
- Dysarthria Intelligibility Assessment in a Factor Analysis Total Variability Space. 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2013), VOLS 1-5 (pp 2132-2136)
- Learning speaker-specific pronunciations of disordered speech. 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2013), VOLS 1-5 (pp 1158-1162)
- HomeService: Voice-enabled assistive technology in the home using cloud-based automatic speech recognition. SLPAT 2013 - 4th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2013, Workshop Proceedings (pp 29-34)
- A comparative study of adaptive, automatic recognition of disordered speech. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, Vol. 2 (pp 1774-1777)
- Incorporating localisation cues in a fragment decoding framework for distant binaural speech recognition. 2011 Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, 30 May 2011 - 1 June 2011.
- Binaural cues for fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1657-1660)
- Speech Synthesis Parameter Generation for the Assistive Silent Speech Interface MVOCA. 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5 (pp 3020-+)
- Distant microphone speech recognition in a noisy indoor environment: combining soft missing data and speech fragment decoding. ISCA Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing, SAPA 2010
- The CHiME corpus: A resource and a challenge for computational hearing in multisource environments. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010 (pp 1918-1921)
- Evaluation of a Silent Speech Interface Based on Magnetic Sensing. 11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2010 (INTERSPEECH 2010), VOLS 1-2 (pp 246-+)
- Modelling the prepausal lengthening effect for speech recognition: a dynamic Bayesian network approach. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 19 April 2009 - 24 April 2009.
- Personalizing synthetic voices for people with progressive speech disorders: Judging voice similarity. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1427-1430)
- A 'speechiness' measure to improve speech decoding in the presence of other sound sources. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1285-1288)
- Combining neural network and rule-based systems for dysarthria diagnosis. INTERSPEECH 2008 - 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp 2226-2229)
- A 'speechiness' measure to improve speech decoding in the presence of other sound sources. INTERSPEECH 2008 - 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp 1285-1288)
- Applying word duration constraints by using unrolled HMMs. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 1 (pp 353-356)
- Development of a Voice-Input Voice-Output Communication Aid (VIVOCA) for People with Severe Dysarthria (pp 882-885)
- Exploiting dendritic autocorrelogram structure to identify spectro-temporal regions dominated by a single sound source. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2 (pp 669-672)
- Context-dependent word duration modelling for robust speech recognition. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 2609-2612)
- From WER and RIL to MER and WIL: Improved evaluation measures for connected speech recognition. 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004 (pp 2765-2768)
- Revisiting dysarthria assessment intelligibility metrics. 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004 (pp 485-488)
- Automatic speech recognition with sparse training data for dysarthric speakers. EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 1189-1192)
- Multitask learning in connectionist robust ASR using recurrent neural networks. EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 1813-1816)
- An integrated toolkit deploying speech technology for computer based speech training with application to dysarthric speakers. EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 2213-2216)
- Speech recognition with missing data using recurrent neural nets. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
- Robust ASR based on clean speech models: An evaluation of missing data techniques for connected digit recognition in noise. EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 213-216)
- Soft decisions in missing data techniques for robust automatic speech recognition. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000
- Speaker recognition with recurrent neural networks. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000
- A neural network for classification with incomplete data: Application to robust ASR. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000
- STATE BASED IMPUTATION OF MISSING DATA FOR ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SPEECH ENHANCEMENT. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999 (pp 2837-2840)
- MISSING DATA THEORY, SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION AND SIGNAL-TO-NOISE ESTIMATION FOR ROBUST ASR: AN INTEGRATED STUDY. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999 (pp 2407-2410)
- CURRICULA AND COURSEWARE IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE ENGINEERING IN EUROPE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999 (pp 635-638)
- Optical Logo-Therapy (OLT): A Computer-Based Real Time Visual Feedback Application for Speech Training. 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997 (pp 1763-1766)
- EDUCATION IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE ENGINEERING IN EUROPE. 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997 (pp 1935-1938)
- A MACROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF AN EMOTIONAL SPEECH CORPUS. 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997 (pp 517-520)
- COMBINING HMM PROCESSING AND FORMANT MEASUREMENTS IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION. 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1995 (pp 2209-2212)
- HANDLING MISSING DATA IN SPEECH RECOGNITION. 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1994 (pp 1555-1558)
- A Speech Recognition Strategy Based on Making Acoustic Evidence and Phonetic Knowledge Explicit (pp 123-128)
- A SPEECH RECOGNITION STRATEGY BASED ON MAKING ACOUSTIC EVIDENCE AND PHONETIC KNOWLEDGE EXPLICIT. European Conference on Speech Technology, ECST 1987 (pp 1373-1376)
- Silent Speech: Restoring the Power of Speech to People whose Larynx has been Removed. IberSPEECH 2018
- Automatic recognition of children's read speech for stuttering application. WOCCI 2017: 6th International Workshop on Child Computer Interaction View this article in WRRO
- Evaluation of a Silent Speech Interface Based on Magnetic Sensing and Deep Learning for a Phonetically Rich Vocabulary. Interspeech 2017 View this article in WRRO
- Improving Generalisation to New Speakers in Spoken Dialogue State Tracking. Interspeech 2016 View this article in WRRO
- CloudCAST — Remote Speech Technology for Speech Professionals. Interspeech 2016
- Personalizing synthetic voices for people with progressive speech disorders: judging voice similarity. Interspeech 2009
- Speech enhancement with missing data techniques using recurrent neural networks. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
- Some solution to the missing feature problem in data classification, with application to noise robust ASR. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP '98 (Cat. No.98CH36181)
- Missing data techniques for robust speech recognition. 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
- Auditory scene analysis and hidden Markov model recognition of speech in noise. 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. Springer International Publishing.
- Grants
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Current grants
- CLOUDCAST: A cloud-based computational resource for clinical and educational applications of speech technology, LEVERHULME TRUST (THE), 01/2015 to 12/2018, £124,994, as PI
- Speech Technology for Articulation Rehabilitation, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH, 02/2015 to 07/2017, £271,158, as Co-PI
- SRAM: Speech Rehabilitation from Articulator Movement, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH, 01/2016 to 12/2018, £196,123, as PI
- CLOUDCAST: A cloud-based computational resource for clinical and educational applications of speech technology, TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE - UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK, 01/2015 to 12/2018, £27,000, as PI
Previous grants
- Studentship, NOKIA RESEARCH CENTRE, 01/2000 to 12/2002, £31,300, as PI
- Speech recognition for people with severe dysarthria, BARNSLEY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, 08/2000 to 08/2003, £103,146, as PI
- Inter-formant intelligibility dips for narrowband speech, EPSRC, 12/2000 to 11/2001, £33,536, as PI
- HOARSE: Hearing Organisation And Recognition of Speech in Europe, EUROPEAN COMMISSION - FP6/FP7, 09/2002 to 08/2006, £131,793, as PI
- Multisource decoding for speech in the presence of other sound sources, EPSRC, 07/2002 to 12/2005, £271,630, as PI
- Studentship, MOTOROLA INCORPORATED, 11/2001 to 10/2004, £42,000, as PI
- Studentship, MOTOROLA INCORPORATED, 11/2001 to 10/2004, £42,000, as PI
- AMI: Augmented Multi-party Interaction, EUROPEAN COMMISSION - FP6/FP7, 01/2004 to 12/2006, £413,049, as PI
- VIVOCA: Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid, BARNSLEY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, 01/2005 to 10/2008, £178,529, as Co-PI
- SPECS, BARNSLEY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, 02/2006 to 11/2010, £193,163, as Co-PI
- Studentship, EPSRC, 01/2005 to 03/2011, £125,000, as PI
- REdRESS: Recognition and Reconstruction of Speech following Laryngectomy, UNIVERSITY OF HULL, 03/2009 to 02/2012, £59,275, as PI
- VIVOCA II: Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid, BARNSLEY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, 06/2010 to 05/2013, £213,792, as Co-PI
- CHIME: Computational Hearing in Multisource Environments, EPSRC, 06/2009 to 05/2012, £326,245, as Co-PI
- SCALE: Speech Communication with Adaptive LEarning, EUROPEAN COMMISSION - FP6/FP7, 01/2009 to 12/2012, £284,423, as PI
- Natural Speech Technology, EPSRC, 05/2011 to 07/2016, £1,798,665, as Co-PI
- DiSARM: Digital Speech Recovery from Articulator Movement, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH, 10/2011 to 07/2015, £282,898, as PI