07 August 2008

PhD Research Studentship Available

Perceptual Constancy in Real-Room Listening by Humans and Machines

Speech and Hearing Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK

A PhD research studentship is available at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, as part of a joint EPSRC-funded project with the Department of Psychology, University of Reading. The project aims to elucidate the mechanisms by which human listeners achieve perceptual constancy in hearing, and to improve the performance of machine systems by incorporating human-like processing into them. In particular, the project will focus on the effect of room reverberation on human listeners and automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Currently, ASR systems perform poorly when speech is contaminated by room reverberation, and we will investigate whether their performance can be improved by applying signal processing techniques that resemble human mechanisms of perceptual constancy.

More details are available here.

The deadline for applications is Friday 5th September 2008