People and Projects
People
Current PhD students
PhD graduates
- Gethin Williams (Knowing What You Don't Know: Roles for Confidence Measures in Automatics Speech Recognition), 1999
- Miguel Carreira Perpiñán (Continuous latent variable models for dimensionality reduction and sequential data reconstruction), 2001
- Costis Kompis (Automatic Voicemail Summarisation for Mobile Messaging), 2002
- Vincent Wan (Speaker Verification using Support Vector Machines), 2003
- Yasser Hifny (Conditional Random Fields for Continuous Speech Recognition), 2007
- Gabriel Murray (Using Speech-Specific Characteristics for Automatic Speech Summarization), 2008
- Alfred Dielmann (Dynamic Bayesian networks for meeting segmentation), 2008
- Giulia Garau (Combining spectral representations and speaker normalisation), 2008
- Zhang Le (Trajectory HMMs), 2008
- Heriberto Cuayáhuitl (Reinforcement learning of spoken dialogue strategies), 2009
- Songfang Huang (Bayesian language modelling), 2009
- Joao Cabral (source models for HMM speech synthesis), 2010
- Ravi Chander Vipperla (speech recognition for voices that display ageing), 2011
Projects
Current projects
- MultiMemo Home [joint with Glasgow and QMU] (EPSRC, 3.5 years, 2009-2013)
- AMIDA: Augmented Multiparty Interaction with Distance Access (EC IST Integrated Project. 3 years, 2006-2009)
- MATCH: Mobilising Advanced Technology for Care at Home (SFC SRDG project, 4 years, 2005-2009)
- EdSST: Edinburgh Speech Science and Technology (Marie Curie Early Stage Training Site, 4 years, 2006-2009)
- Data-driven articulatory modelling (EPSRC, 3 years, 2006-2009)
- EMIME: Effective Multilingual Interaction in Mobile Environments (EC IST STREP, 3 years, 2008-2011, PI: Simon King)
- Edinburgh Speech Production Facility (EPSRC, 3 years, 2007-2010, PI: Alice Turk)
- SSPNet: Social Signal Processing Network (EC IST NoE, 5 years, 2009-2014)
- SCALE: Speech Communication with Adaptive Learning (Marie Curie ITN, 4 years, 2009-2013)
Some previous projects
- AMI: Augmented Multiparty Interaction (EC IST Integrated Project. 3 years, 2004-2006)
- M4:
MultiModal Meeting Manager (EC IST Programme, 3 years, 2002-2005)
- S3L: Statistical Summarization of Spoken Language (EPSRC, 3 years, 2002-2005)
- SWAG: Spoken Word Archive Group (EU/US Working Group supported by DELOS in Europe and NSF in the US, 2001-2003)
- Speech Summarization using Prosodic Information (EPSRC ROPA 2001-2002)
- SToBS: Structured Transcription of Broadcast Speech (EPSRC 1998-2001)
- The
THISL
Spoken Document Retrieval Project (ESPRIT Long Term Research Programme 1997-2000)
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SPRACH:
Speech Recognition Algorithms for Connectionist Hybrids
(ESPRIT Long Term Research Programme 1995-1998)
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Wernicke: A Neural Network Based, Speaker-Independent,
Large Vocabulary, Continuous Speech Recognition System
(ESPRIT Long Term Research Programme 1992-1995)