1. HOARSE Mid Term Review Coordinator’s Report Phil Green University of Sheffield, UK

2. HOARSE Science HOARSE provides research training in –Hearing, –Auditory Perception, –Speech Production –Speech Technology These topics are richly-related, Traditionally they have been studied by disparate communities HOARSE is attempting to change that Scientific Importance: understanding human competence Commercial Importance: inform and improve speech technology

3. HOARSE Science: Objectives Overall objectives: –better understanding of speech production and hearing –explain the perceptual organisation of sound –improve speech technology Themes 1.Auditory Scene analysis 2.Reverberation 3.Speech Production 4.Automatic Speech Recognition 5.ASR Applications

4. HOARSE Science: Highlights Binaural cues in auditory scenes with multiple sources and reverberation (Merimaa, Worley) Perception of reverberation and sound spaces (Worley) Signal processing techniques in auditory scenes: blind source separation and microphone array beamforming (Bourgeois, Latoud) Studies of the singing voice (Bjorkner) Auditory Scene analysis in Music (Eggink) Classifying frequency-localised patterns for ASR – (Maier, Svojanovsky) How do listeners model simultaneous sound sources? (Perez, Adank)

5. HOARSE Networking 2-day workshops every 6 months –All YRs give update talks –Academics give overview talks as appropriate –Overview of the industrial scene by non-executive director –Steering committee meets during the workshop www.hoarsenet.org Methodology is multidisciplinary –Phonetics –Perceptual experiments –Acoustics –Instrumentation –Signal Processing –Mathematical Modelling Broad-brush work plan for each of 5 themes: progress against work plan is good but the plan itself is out-of-date Industrial links –Daimler-Chrysler –Non-executive director (Jordan Cohen, VoiceSignal) Other funded collaborations between HOARSE partners

6. HOARSE Training Each YR has a supervisor in her/his host lab and an advisor in a different lab YRs are encouraged to visit other HOARSE labs: at least 1 week in each lab is the norm Doctoral YRs take advantage of training programmes at their host institutions

7. Budget & Forecast to date