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.

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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

Research associates

KTP associates

  • Protima Nomo Sudro (Speech and Deep Learning Researcher)
Research students

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
  • 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)

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