Simon's former students

PhD students by completion date

MSc dissertation students and visiting students

1997-1998
1998-1999
- Angela Michelfelder
- Simon Ahern
1999-2000
- None
2000-1
- Jesper Salomon - support vector machines for phone recognition (Edinburgh MSc thesis | DTU MSc thesis)
2001-2
- Fiona Couper speech recognition with linear dynamical models
- Annika Hämäläinen exploiting uncertainty in speech recognition system design (based at BTexact)
- David Rojas recognising accents/dialects, possibly using the keyword lexicon
- Christophe Van Bael Using the Keyword Lexicon for speech recognition
- Graeme Milligan Speech recognition system partitioning using Handel-C
2002-3
- Ben Gillett - voice transformation for speech synthesis (M.Res.)
- Tiina Karsikas (Saarbrücken) - speech recognition of non-native speakers of English
- Massimo Petrillo (Naples) - automatic annotation of intonation
- Guy Woodward Synthesising the Oxford English Dictionary
- José Llarena ASR using phonetic features - learning the sub-word unit inventory
- Yoko Saikachi Building a unit selection voice for Festival
- Kelly Vincent ASR using phonetic features - models of syllable-sized units
- Andra Willits Low resource speaker verification
- Jordi Adell (UPC Barcelona) - parameter tying for LDMs
2003-4
- None (on sabbatical)
2004-5
- Ferran Diego (UPC Barcelona) - learning finite state pronunciation models
- Naresh Bansal (IIT Guwahati) - speaker diarization on AMI data using dynamic Bayesian networks