1. SPandH Overview January 2010 Phil Green Speech and Hearing Research Group Dept of Computer Science University of Sheffield pdg@dcs.shef.ac.uk

2. SPandH Nov 2009 Phonetics & Linguistics Hearing & Acoustics Electrical Engineering & Signal Processing Speech & Language Therapy Speech Research Communities

3. SPandH SPandH Nov 2009 The only major UK speech group within a computer science dept. (UEDIN may contest this..) 2 professors, 4 academics, 6 researchers, ~10 research students. Interests across speech science/technology divide. Computational modelling is a common theme. Common interests with other Sheffield DCS groups: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Robotics

4. SPandH Nov 2009 hearing phonetics perception human speech recognition ASR synthesis Thomas Hain Yoshi Gotoh Jon Barker Phil Green Roger Moore Guy Brown

5. SPandH Research Themes Computational Auditory Scene Analysis Speech Perception in Adverse Conditions ‘Missing Data’ Recognition Multisource decoding Audio-Visual Recognition Exemplar-based Recognition Expressive Synthesis Large Vocabulary ASR WebASR Audio-Visual Diarisation Clinical Applications