Department of Computer Science

News

• We welcome new PhD student Jisi Zhang to the group. He will be working with Prof. Jon Barker.
  (Posted: Feb 5, 2018)
• We welcome new post-doc researcher Dr Feifei Xiong to the group. He will be working with Prof. Jon Barker and Dr. Heidi Christensen.
  (Posted: Feb 1, 2018)
• We welcome new PhD student Gerardo Roa Dabike to the group. He will be working with Prof. Jon Barker.
  (Posted: Jan 25, 2018)
• We are pleased to announce that Erfan Loweimi just passed his PhD viva.
  (Posted: Jan 15, 2018)
• We welcome new PhD student Jose A Lopez Saenz to the group. He will be working with Prof. Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: Jan 1, 2018)
• We welcome new PhD student Yanpei Shi to the group. He will be working with Prof. Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: Nov 1, 2017)
• We welcome new PhD student Lubna Alhinti to the group. She will be working with Dr. Heidi Christensen.
  (Posted: Oct 1, 2017)
• We welcome new PhD student Hector Romero to the group. He will be working with Prof. Guy Brown.
  (Posted: Sep 18, 2017)
• We welcome new PhD student Bader Alotaibi to the group. He will be working with Prof. Roger Moore.
  (Posted: August 8, 2017)
• We welcome new visitor Dina AlHammadi to the group. She will be working with Prof. Roger Moore on personality recognition through social signals.
  (Posted: July 12, 2016)
• We welcome new visitor Dimitrios Pappas to the group. He will be working with Prof. Guy Brown.
  (Posted: June 23, 2016)
• We welcome new visitor Antoine Chammas to the group. He will be working with Prof. Phil Green and Dr. Jose Andres Gonzalez.
  (Posted: June 15, 2016)
• We are pleased to announce that Yulan Liu just passed her PhD viva.
  (Posted: April 5, 2017)
• We are pleased to announce that Mortaza Doulaty just passed his PhD viva.
  (Posted: March 7, 2017)
• We are pleased to announce that Saeid Mokaram just passed his PhD viva.
  (Posted: February 22, 2017)
• We are pleased to announce that Rosanna Milner just passed her PhD viva.
  (Posted: February 10, 2017)
• We are pleased to announce that Iñigo Casanueva just passed his PhD viva.
  (Posted: February 9, 2017)
• We welcome new PhD student Harry Jackson to the group, who will be working with Prof. Roger Moore.
  (Posted: November 15, 2015)
• Maryam Al Dabel has been awarded her PhD.
  (Posted: November 15, 2015)
• We welcome Dr. Angel Gomez from the University of Granada who is visting SPandH for the Summer to work on silent speech with Dr. Jose Andres Gonzalez & Prof. Phil Green and with Dr. Jon Barker & Dr. Ricard Marxer on CHIME topics.
  (Posted: June 3, 2016)
• We welcome new PhD student Sadeen Alharbi to the group, who will be working with Dr. Anthony Simons and Prof. Phil Green.
  (Posted: January 15, 2016)
• We welcome new visitor Dr. Chengli Sun to the group. He will be working with Prof. Guy Brown about speech enhancement.
  (Posted: January 15, 2016)
• We welcome new PhD student Mashael AlSaleh to the group, who will be working with Prof. Roger Moore.
  (Posted: October 7, 2015)
• We welcome new PhD student Bahman Mirheidari to the group, who will be working with Dr. Heidi Christensen and Prof. Phil Green.
  (Posted: September 1, 2015)
• We welcome new PhD student Salah Al-Obaidi to the group, who will be working with Dr. Yoshi Gotoh.
  (Posted: June 1, 2015)
• Manal Al Ghamdi has been awarded her PhD.
  (Posted: May 20, 2015)
• Amy Beeston has been awarded her PhD.
  (Posted: May 20, 2015)
• We welcome Dr. Salil Deena to the group. He'll be working on the NST project with Prof. Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: Sep 25, 2014)
• It's a great pleasure to welcome Dr. Lin Lin to SPandH. Lin is with the Signal Detection & Processing Lab, Department of Communication and Engineering, Jilin University. She is working here for a year with Dr. Jon Barker and Prof. Guy Brown on a project that is investigating the factors underlying speaker intelligibility in cochlear-implanted listeners.
  (Posted: Feb 27, 2014)
• We welcome new visiting PhD student Lindon Falconer to the group. He is a PhD research student at University of The West Indies Jamaica and will be working with Dr Jon Barker.
  (Posted: Feb 15, 2014)
• We welcome new PhD student Taghreed Alqaisi to the group, who will be working with Dr. Yoshi Gotoh and Prof. Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: Dec 15, 2013)
• Jeff Adams, Head of Speech @ Amazon, is coming for a visit to the speech group (Oct 25, 2013) and will give a seminar at 12.
  (Posted: Oct 25, 2013)
• We welcome new PhD student Chenhao Wu to the group, who will be working with Prof. Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: Oct 4, 2013)
• We welcome new visitor Dr. Yan-Xiong Li to the group. Yan-Xiong will be working with Prof. Thomas Hain about speaker diarisation.
  (Posted: Oct 2, 2013)
• We welcome new PhD student Erfan Loweimi to the group, who will be working with Dr Jon Barker and Prof. Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: Sep 25, 2013)
• We are delighted to announce that Prof. Ray Meddis, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex, has been appointed a Visiting Professor with SPandH. This appointment recognises Ray's important contribution to hearing research and his friendship with our group over many years.
  (Posted: July 10, 2013)
• We welcome new PhD student Khairul Anuar Ishak to the group, who is working with Prof. Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: June 29, 2013)
• We welcome Dr. Jose Gonzales back to the group. He is working as RA on the DISARM project.
  (Posted: June 3, 2013)
• We welcome Mate Toth to the group. He is an INSPIRE-project PhD student who is visiting us from Martin Cooke's lab in Spain and who will be staying over the summer.
  (Posted: Apr 15, 2013)
• We welcome Dr. Pengyuan Zhang to the group, who is visiting for the remainder of this year. Pengyuan will be working with Dr Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: Apr 2, 2013)
• We welcome new PhD student Mortaza Doulaty who will be working with Dr Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: Feb 14, 2013)
• We welcome new PhD student Saeid Mokaram to the group, who is working with Prof. Roger Moore on the Search & Rescue 2020 network project.
  (Posted: Nov 22, 2012)
• We welcome new PhD student Rosanna Milner to the group. Rosanna is working on Speaker Diarisation, her PhD supervisor is Dr Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: Oct 1, 2012)
• We welcome new PhD student Alex Babescu to the group. Alex is working with Dr Jon Barker.
  (Posted: Oct 1, 2012)
• We welcome new PhD student Inigo Casanueva to the group. Inigo is working with Prof. Phil Green.
  (Posted: Sep 10, 2012)
• Usman Ghani has been awarded his PhD subject to minor corrections.
  (Posted: Sep 5, 2012)
• We welcome David Martinez to the group, who is visiting for the remainder of this year. David specialises on speech pathology detection and is in the final year of his PhD.
  (Posted: Aug 28, 2012)
• Tim Kempton has been awarded his PhD subject to minor corrections.
  (Posted: Apr 26, 2012)
• We welcome new PhD student Wadha Al-Mattar to the group. Wadha is working with Dr Jon Barker on monaural sensorimotor approaches to speech localisation.
  (Posted: April 18, 2012)
• Jonathan Laidler has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: March 29, 2012)
• Guillaume Aimetti has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: Oct 27, 2011)
• The Natural Speech Technology (NST) project featured in BBC Radio 4's programme Word of Mouth which was about "voice recognition". Listen again on BBC iPlayer or tune in for the repeat on Mon 22 Aug 2011 at 23:00 BST.
  (Posted: Aug 17, 2011)
• Emina Kurtic has been awarded her PhD.
  (Posted: May 24, 2011)
• 8 research positions in speech technology are available located at the Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh; Speech Research Group, University of Cambridge and Speech and Hearing Group, University of Sheffield. Further details. Closing date: 10 June 2011.
  (Posted: May 2, 2011)
• Natural Speech Technology (NST) - an EPSRC Programme Grant - starts today and will run for 5 years in collaboration with Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh and Speech Research Group, University of Cambridge.
  (Posted: May 1, 2011)
• Robin Hofe has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: March 24, 2011)
• Prof. Angelo Cangelosi (Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Plymouth) to visit the group on Monday 7 February 2011.
  (Posted: January 31, 2011)
• Prof. Phil Green to become new head of the group.
  (Posted: September 22, 2010)
• Prof. Roger Moore has set up a virtual Vocal Interactivity Lab - VILab which will encompass vocal interaction in and between humans, animals and robots.
  (Posted: September 22, 2010)
• Viktoria Maier has been awarded her PhD.
  (Posted: March 17, 2010)
• Yan-Chen Lu has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: Febuary 24, 2010)
• We welcome new PhD student Davide Marino to the group. Davide is working with Dr Thomas Hain.
  (Posted: January 18, 2010)
• We welcome new PhD student Mauro Nicolao to the group. Mauro is working with Prof Roger K Moore.
  (Posted: January 18, 2010)
• Youyi Lu has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: January 11, 2010)
• Prof Steve Greenberg to visit SpandH and give a talk on 21 October 2009.
  (Posted: October 16, 2009)
• Sarah Creer has been awarded her PhD.
  (Posted: October 12, 2009)
• We welcome new PhD student Sarah Al Shareef to the group. Sarah is working with Dr Thomas Hain on automatic speech recognition of conversational Arabic.
  (Posted: October 5, 2009)
• Thomas Poulsen has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: September 21, 2009)
• We welcome Dr Ning Ma back to the group. Dr Ma is working with Dr Jon Barker on the CHIME project.
  (Posted: June 1, 2009)
• VIVOCA2 (Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid) funded (cf VIVOCA1). The 2 year project will commence in October 2009. It operates within the NHS Health Technology Devices Programme and will be in conjunction with SCHARR, HCS, Barnsley NHS Trust and 3 industrials.
  (Posted: May 22, 2009)
• VIVOCA speech synthesis featured in Guardian newspaper article.
  (Posted: March 19, 2009)
• Robert Mill has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: February 19, 2009)
• Matt Gibson has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: January 23, 2009)
• New EPSRC research grant - CHIME: Computational Hearing In Multisource Environments.
  (Posted: January 6, 2009)
• We welcome new PhD student Amy Beeston to the group. Amy is working with Dr Guy Brown.
  (Posted: October 21, 2008)
• Ning Ma has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: September 15, 2008)
• Article on PhD student Robin Hofe's artificial tongue appears in New Scientist magazine.
  (Posted: July 23, 2008)
• We welcome new PhD student Jan Gorisch to the group. Jan is working with Dr Guy Brown.
  (Posted: April 11, 2008)
• Andre Coy has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: April 10, 2008)
• We welcome Sjoerd Cranen, an MSc student from Eindhoven, who will be visiting us for 6 - 7 months. Sjoerd is working with Dr Jon Barker.
  (Posted: February 6, 2008)
• We welcome Krishnan Ananthakrishnan who will be visiting us for 3 months. Krishnan is on sabbatical from University of South Australia.
  (Posted: February 6, 2008)
• We welcome new PhD student Matthew Robertson to the group. Matthew is working with Dr Guy Brown.
  (Posted: October 8, 2007)
• James Carmichael has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: October 2, 2007)
• We welcome new research associate Dr Mark Elshaw to the group. Mark is working with Prof Roger Moore on the ACORNS project. Mark was previously a research associate in the Hybrid Intelligent Systems, School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland.
  (Posted: July 16, 2007)
• We welcome new PhD student Guillaume Aimetti to the group. Guillaume is working with Prof Roger Moore on the ACORNS project.
  (Posted: June 11, 2007)
• We welcome new research associate Dr Asmaa El Hannani to the group. Dr El Hannani is working with Dr Thomas Hain on the AMIDA project.
  (Posted: May 14, 2007)
• BBC News has run an article on the use of poet Ian McMillan's voice in the VIVOCA (Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid) project.
  (Posted: February 26, 2007)
• Prof Phil Green interviewed on BBC Radio Sheffield regarding the use of poet Ian McMillan's voice in the VIVOCA (Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid) project.
  (Posted: February 21, 2007)
• Yasser H Abdel-Haleem has been awarded his PhD.
  (Posted: December 1, 2006)
• Information about the department's MSc in Human Language Technology (HLT) has been posted which has significant SpandH-related components.
  (Posted: December 1, 2006)
• We welcome new PhD student Timothy Kempton to the group. Timothy is working with Prof Roger Moore.
  (Posted: September 28, 2006)
• We welcome new PhD student Robin Hofe to the group. Robin is working with Prof Roger Moore on Reactive Speech Synthesis. Robin has an MSc (with distinction) in Electrical/Sound Engineering from the Technical University of Graz in Austria and, prior to joining SpandH, was working at the Space Research Institute in the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
  (Posted: May 17, 2006)
• New seminar list added.
  (Posted: February 24, 2006)
• Jana Eggink has been awarded her PhD. Jana is now working at Sony, Germany.
  (Posted: November 28, 2005)
• We welcome new research associate Dr Odette Scharenborg who joins us for a year from the Department of Language and Speech, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Dr Scharenborg is working with Prof Roger Moore.
  (Posted: November 21, 2005)
• We welcome four new PhD students to the group: Siripinyo Chantamunee, Sarah Creer, Yan-Chen Lu and Youyi Lu. We also welcome Mr. Siddharth Sehgal working as a research associate.
  (Posted: October 15, 2005)
• We welcome two new members to the group. Xu Shao joins as a Research Associate working with Dr Jon Barker on robust audio visual speech recognition; Thomas Poulsen joins as a PhD student working under the supervision of Prof Roger Moore.
  (Posted: March 9, 2005)
• New PhD opportunities posted.
  (Posted: February 1, 2005)
• Prof Martin Cooke to give his inaugural lecture on Wednesday 13 October 2004 entitled Glimpsing Speech: A perceptual and computational exploration of hearing.
  (Posted: October 1, 2004)
• Simon Makin has been awarded his PhD. Simon is now working at the School of Psychology, University of Reading.
  (Posted: August 10, 2004)
• Prof Roger Moore joins the Speech and Hearing Research Group. Prior to joining SpandH, Prof Moore was Chief Scientific Officer at 20/20 Speech Ltd. Among many responsibilities, he has been president of the International Speech Communication Association (1997-2001) and president of the Permanent Council of the ICSLP (1996-2000).
  (Posted: August 2, 2004)
• Simon Tucker has been awarded his PhD. Simon is now working on the AMI project in the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield.
  (Posted: January 26, 2004)
• Dr Thomas Hain joins the Speech and Hearing Research Group as a Lecturer. Prior to joining SpandH, Dr Hain was in the Speech Group at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
  (Posted: January 5, 2004)
• New PhD opportunities posted.
  (Posted: November 11, 2003)
• Professor Steve Renals to move to Edinburgh University in October to become director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research. Scientific coordination of m4 to move to Edinburgh. Administrative coordination of m4 to remain at Sheffield.
  Principle Investigator for m4 at Sheffield to be Dr Guy Brown.
  (Posted: July 23, 2003)
• Vincent Wan has been awarded his PhD. Vinny is now working on the M4 project here in the Speech and Hearing Research Group.
  (Posted: January 10, 2003)
• Stuart Wrigley has been awarded his PhD. Stu is now working on the M4 project here in the Speech and Hearing Research Group.
  (Posted: November 26, 2002)
• New EU project: MultiModal Meeting Manager (M4).
• New EU project: HOARSE Research Training Network
• New EPSRC project on Multisource decoding for speech in the presence of other sound sources.
• New EPSRC project on Speech Summarization (S3L)
• Download the papers that appeared in Consistent & Reliable Acoustic Cues for sound analysis (CRAC) Workshop
• Matlab Auditory Demonstrations available to download.