Speech and Hearing
The Speech and Hearing Research Group is concerned with computational modelling of auditory and speech perception in humans and machines; robustness in speech recognition and large vocabulary speech recognition systems and their applications.
The Speech and Hearing Research Group (SpandH) was established in 1986. Since then, it has gained an international reputation for research in the fields of computational hearing, speech perception, speech technology and its applications.
Research areas
- Computational modelling of auditory and speech perception in humans and machines
- Robustness in speech recognition
- Large vocabulary speech recognition systems and their applications
- Healthcare applications of speech technology
Impact
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Core members
Academic staff
- Prof. Roger K. Moore (research group head)
- Prof. Jon Barker
- Prof. Guy Brown
- Prof. Heidi Christensen
- Prof. Phil Green (Emeritus Professor)
- Dr Yoshi Gotoh
- Prof. Thomas Hain
- Dr Ning Ma
- Dr Anton Ragni
Research associates
- Mr Mingjie Chen
- Dr Bahman Mirheidari
- Dr Madhurananda Pahar
- Dr Shreyas Ramoji
- Dr Sridhar Seshan
- Dr Jianyuan Sun
- Dr Fuxiang Tao
KTP associates
- Protima Nomo Sudro (Speech and Deep Learning Researcher)
- Research students
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Supervisor Thomas Hain
- Muhammad Umar Farooq
- Olga Iakovenko
- Elaf Islam
- Chanho Park
- Wenjie Peng
- Xinying Wei
Supervisor Guy Brown
- Dimitrios Pappas
Supervisor Heidi Christensen
- Hend Elghazaly
Supervisor Yoshi Gotoh
- Abdulaziz Alrashidi
Supervisor Roger Moore
- Bader Matar F Alotaibi
Supervisor Ning Ma
- Veronica Rowe
Supervisor Anton Ragni
- Wanli Sun
- Xiaozhou Tan
- Previous members
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- Dr Salil Deena (AI Lab Mauritius)
- Dr Rasa Lileikyte
- Dr Erfan Loweimi (University of Edinburgh)
- Dr Raymond Ng (Signalmedia)
- Dr Inigo Casanueava (PolyAI, Cambridge)
- Dr JJ Atria
- Dr Jose Gonzalez (University of Granada)
- Dr Sarah Creer (SCHARR, University of Sheffield)
- Dr Robin Hofe (Luxembourg)