Professor Jon Barker

PhD

School of Computer Science

Personal Chair

School Ethics Lead

Member of the Speech and Hearing (SpandH) research group

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j.p.barker@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1824

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Professor Jon Barker
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
Profile

Professor Jon Barker is a member of the Speech and Hearing Research Group. He has a first degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from Cambridge University, UK. After receiving a PhD from the University of 91Ö±²¥ in 1999, he worked for some time at GIPSA-lab, Grenoble and IDIAP research institute in Switzerland before returning to 91Ö±²¥ where he has had a permanent post since 2002.

His research interests lie in noise-robust speech processing. Key application areas include distant-microphone speech recognition, speech intelligibility prediction and improved speech processing for hearing-aid users.

Research interests

Professor Barker’s research interests are focused around machine listening and the computational modelling of human hearing. A recent focus has been on modelling speech intelligibility, ie can we predict whether or not a speech signal will be intelligible to a given listener?

This understanding will help us produce better signal processing for application such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. Another strand of his work is about taking insights gained from human auditory perception and using them to engineer robust automatic speech processing systems.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Leglaive S, Fraticelli M, ElGhazaly H, Borne L, Sadeghi M, Wisdom S, Pariente M, Hershey JR, Pressnitzer D & Barker JP (2025) . Computer Speech & Language, 89, 101685-101685. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR, Cox TJ, Miller AJ, Fazenda BM, Graetzer S, Vos RR, Akeroyd MA, Firth J, Whitmer WM, Bannister S , Greasley A et al (2024) . Data in Brief, 111199-111199. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Roa G, Fazenda B, Firth JL, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos R & Whitmer WM (2024) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(3_Supplement), A277-A277. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bannister S, Greasley AE, Cox TJ, Akeroyd MA, Barker J, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer SN, Roa Dabike G, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2024) . Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1310176. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Firth JL, Cox TJ, Greasley A, Barker JP, Whitmer WM, Fazenda B, Bannister S, Graetzer S, Vos R, Roa G & Akeroyd MA (2023) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(3_supplement), A332-A332. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Akeroyd MA, Firth JL, Naylor G, Barker JP, Culling J, Cox TJ, Bailey W, Graetzer S, Viveros Muñoz R, Porter E & Griffiths H (2023) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(3_supplement), A48-A48. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Graetzer S, Akeroyd MA, Barker J, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Naylor G, Porter E & Viveros-Muñoz R (2022) . Data in Brief, 41. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Loweimi E, Christensen H, Barker J & Cvetkovic Z (2022) . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 30, 2968-2980. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Akeroyd MA, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Culling J, Graetzer S, Naylor G, Porter E & Viveros Muñoz R (2020) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(4), 2711-2711. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cooke M, García Lecumberri ML, Barker J & Marxer R (2019) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(2), EL136-EL141. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alghamdi N, Maddock S, Marxer R, Barker J & Brown GJ (2018) . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(6), 523-529. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marxer R, Barker JP, Alghamdi N & Maddock S (2018) . Speech Communication, 100, 58-68. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alghamdi N, Maddock S, Barker J & Brown GJ (2017) . Speech Communication, 95, 127-136. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vincent E, Watanabe S, Nugraha AA, Barker J & Marxer R (2017) . Computer Speech & Language, 46, 535-557. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Marxer R, Vincent E & Watanabe S (2017) . Computer Speech and Language, 46, 605-626. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker JP (2017) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(5), 3693-3693. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Marxer R, Vincent E & Watanabe S (2017) . Computer Speech & Language. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gonzalez JA, Gómez AM, Peinado AM, Ma N & Barker J (2017) . Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marxer R, Barker J, Cooke M & Garcia Lecumberri ML (2016) . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(5), EL458-EL463. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cooke M, Barker J & Lecumber MLG (2013) , 137-172. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vincent E, Barker J, Watanabe S, Le Roux J, Nesta F & Matassoni M (2013) . 2013 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2013 - Proceedings, 162-167. RIS download Bibtex download
  • González JA, Peinado AM, Ma N, Gómez AM & Barker J (2013) . IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 21(3), 624-635. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Carmona JL, Barker J, Gomez AM & Ma N (2013) . IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 20(6), 563-566. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2012) . Computer Speech and Language. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Vincent E (2012) . Computer Speech and Language. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Vincent E, Ma N, Christensen H & Green P (2012) . Computer Speech and Language. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2012) Combining speech fragment decoding and adaptive noise floor modelling.. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 20, 818-827. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cooke M, Barker J, Lecumberri MLG & Wasilewski K (2011) Crowdsourcing for word recognition in noise. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 3049-3052. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Ma N, Coy A & Cooke M (2010) . COMPUT SPEECH LANG, 24(1), 94-111. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Shao X (2009) . IEEE T AUDIO SPEECH, 17(3), 446-458. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Shao X & Barker J (2008) . SPEECH COMMUN, 50(4), 337-353. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Ma N, Wrigley SN & Barker J (2008) Improving source localisation in multi-source, reverberant conditions: exploiting local spectro-temporal location cues.. Abstract for Acoust. Soc. Am. mtg. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cooke M, Garcia Lecumberri ML & Barker J (2008) . J Acoust Soc Am, 123(1), 414-427. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Green P, Barker J & Coy A (2007) . SPEECH COMMUN, 49(12), 874-891. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Cooke M (2007) . SPEECH COMMUN, 49(5), 402-417. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coy A & Barker J (2007) . SPEECH COMMUN, 49(5), 384-401. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cooke M, Barker J, Cunningham S & Shao X (2006) . J Acoust Soc Am, 120(5 Pt 1), 2421-2424. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harding S, Barker J & Brown GJ (2006) . IEEE T AUDIO SPEECH, 14(1), 58-67. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker JP, Cooke MP & Ellis DPW (2005) . SPEECH COMMUN, 45(1), 5-25. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2004) . SPEECH COMMUN, 43(1-2), 123-142. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ellis D & Barker J (2003) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(4), 2230-2230. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Cooke M (1999) . Speech Communication, 27, 159-174. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Cooke M (1999) Is the sine-wave speech cocktail party worth attending?. SPEECH COMMUNICATION, 27(3-4), 159-174. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Cooke M (1997) Modelling the recognition of sine-wave sentences. BRITISH JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY, 31(2), 112-113. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker JP & Cooke MP (1996) . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 2682-2682. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Graetzer S, Akeroyd M, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Naylor G, Porter E & Muñoz RV () Clarity: Machine Learning Challenges to Revolutionise Hearing Device Processing. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Barker JP, Marxer R, Vincent E & Watanabe S (2017) , New Era for Robust Speech Recognition (pp. 327-344). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mandel MI & Barker JP (2017) , New Era for Robust Speech Recognition (pp. 51-77). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cooke M, Barker J & Lecumberri MLG (2013) Crowdsourcing in Speech Perception In Eskanazi M, Levow G-A, Meng H, Parent G & Sundermann D (Ed.), Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing (pp. 137-169). John Wiley and Sons RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J (2012) In Virtanen T, Singh R & Raj B (Ed.), Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition (pp. 371-398). Wiley RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J (2006) Robust automatic speech recognition In Wang D-L & Brown GJ (Ed.), Computational Auditory Scene Analysis: Principals, Algorithms and Applications (pp. 297-350). Wiley/IEEE Press RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Barker J, Akeroyd MA, Bailey W, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Firth J, Graetzer S & Naylor G (2024) . ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 14 April 2024 - 19 April 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2024) . 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW) (pp 93-94), 14 April 2024 - 19 April 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sutherland R, Close G, Hain T, Goetze S & Barker J (2024) Using Speech Foundational Models in Loss Functions for Hearing Aid Speech Enhancement. European Signal Processing Conference (pp 421-425) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Akeroyd MA, Bailey W, Barker J, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Graetzer S, Naylor G, PodwiÅ„ska Z & Tu Z (2023) . ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 June 2023 - 10 June 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cox TJ, Barker J, Bailey W, Graetzer S, Akeroyd MA, Culling JF & Naylor G (2023) . ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 June 2023 - 10 June 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR, Bannister S, Firth J, Graetzer S, Vos R, Akeroyd MA, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Greasley A & Whitmer W (2023) The First Cadenza Signal Processing Challenge: Improving Music for Those With a Hearing Loss. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3528 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Deadman J & Barker J (2022) . ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Deadman J, Ma N & Barker J (2022) . ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Loweimi E, Cvetkovic Z, Christensen H & Barker J (2022) . ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, Vol. 2022-May (pp 7372-7376) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker E, Barker J, Gaizauskas R, Ma N & Paramita ML (2022) SNuC: The 91Ö±²¥ Numbers Spoken Language Corpus. 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 (pp 1978-1984) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Akeroyd MA, Firth J, Griffiths H, Naylor G, Porter E, Barker J, Cox TJ, Graetzer S, Harris L, Podwinska Z , Culling JF et al (2022) Predicting Speech Intelligibility for People with Hearing Loss: The Clarity Challenges. Internoise 2022 - 51st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J (2021) . Interspeech 2021 (pp 691-695). Brno, Czechia, 30 August 2021 - 3 September 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang J, Zorila C, Doddipatla R & Barker J (2021) . ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J (2021) , Vol. 00 (pp 296-300) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR & Barker J (2021) . ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Falconer L, Coy A & Barker J (2021) . SoutheastCon 2021, 10 March 2021 - 13 March 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang J, Zorila C, Doddipatla R & Barker J (2020) . ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xiong F, Barker J & Christensen H (2020) Deep learning of articulatory-based representations and applications for improving dysarthric speech recognition. Speech Communication - 13th ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (pp 331-335) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xiong F, Barker J, Yue Z & Christensen H (2020) . ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Xiong F, Christensen H & Barker J (2020) . ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Xiong F, Barker J & Christensen H (2019) . ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 12 May 2019 - 17 May 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker JP & Hain T (2018) . 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings, 15 April 2018 - 20 April 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker , Saz Torralba O & Hain (2017) . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T (2017) . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 5 March 2017 - 9 March 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abel A, Marxer R, Barker J, Watt R, Whitmer B, Derleth P & Hussain A (2016) (pp 331-342) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T (2015) Source-filter separation of speech signal in the phase domain. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 598-602) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Marxer R, Barker J & Brown GJ (2015) . 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), 13 December 2015 - 17 December 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Foster P, Sigtia S, Krstulovic S, Barker J & Plumbley MD (2015) . 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), 18 October 2015 - 21 October 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alghamdi N, Maddock SC, Brown GJ & Barker J (2015) Investigating the Impact of Artificial Enhancement of Lip Visibility on the Intelligibility of Spectrally-Distorted Speech. FAAVSP-2015 (pp 93-98), 11 September 2015 - 13 September 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Marxer R, Vincent E & Watanabe S (2015) . 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), 13 December 2015 - 17 December 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marxer R, Cooke M & Barker J (2015) A framework for the evaluation of microscopic intelligibility models. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 2558-2562) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lin L, Barker J & Brown GJ (2015) The effect of cochlear implant processing on speaker intelligibility: A perceptual study and computer model. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 1566-1570) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Doulaty M, Barker J & Hain T (2015) (pp 173-184) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Al Dabel M & Barker J (2014) Speech pre-enhancement using a discriminative microscopic intelligibility model. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 2068-2072) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N & Barker J (2013) A fragment-decoding plus missing-data imputation system evaluated on the 2nd CHiME challenge. Proceedings of the 2nd CHiME Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (pp 53-58) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vincent E, Barker J, Watanabe S, Roux JL, Nesta F & Matassoni M (2013) The second ‘CHiME’ Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Datasets, tasks and baselines. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N & Barker J (2012) Coupling identification and reconstruction of missing features for noise-robust automatic speech recognition. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, Vol. 3 (pp 2637-2640) RIS download Bibtex download
  • González JA, Peinado AM, Gómez AM, Ma N & Barker J (2012) . ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings (pp 4693-4696) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Recent advances in fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments.. Proceedings of ISCA Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (pp 68-73) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Binaural cues for fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2011 (pp 1657-1660) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Incorporating localisation cues in a fragment decoding framework for distant binaural speech recognition.. IEEE Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA’11) (pp 207-212) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cooke M, Barker J, Garcia Lecumberri ML, Wasilewski K & Assoc ISC (2011) Crowdsourcing for word recognition in noise. 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5 (pp 3056-+) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Binaural cues for fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1657-1660) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Morales-Cordovilla JA, Ma N, Sánchez V, Carmona JL, Peinado AM & Barker J (2011) . ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings (pp 4808-4811) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2010) Distant microphone speech recognition in a noisy indoor environment: combining soft missing data and speech fragment decoding.. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical And Perceptual Audition RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kabir A, Barker J & Giurgiu M (2010) Robust Formant Estimation: Increasing the Reliability by Comparison among three Methods. Proceedings of the International Conference on Circuits, Systems and Signals, (Recent Advances in Circuits, Sistems and Signals) (pp 341-344) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kabir A, Barker J & Giurgiu M (2010) An Approach to Vocal Tract Length Normalization by Robust Formant Estimation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Circuits, Systems and Signals, (Recent Advances in Circuits, Sistems and Signals) (pp 345-348) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H & Barker J (2010) Speaker turn tracking with mobile microphones: Combining location and pitch information. European Signal Processing Conference (pp 954-958) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kabir A, Giurgiu M & Barker J (2010) . 2010 8th International Conference on Communications, COMM 2010 (pp 79-82) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Barker J, Ma N & Green P (2010) The CHiME corpus: A resource and a challenge for computational hearing in multisource environments. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010 (pp 1918-1921) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kabir A, Barker J & Giurgiu M (2010) . Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 7745 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H & Barker J (2009) Using location cues to track speaker changes from mobile, binaural microphones. INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, VOLS 1-5 (pp 124-127) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Ma N, Wrigley SN & Barker J (2009) A SPEECH FRAGMENT APPROACH TO LOCALISING MULTIPLE SPEAKERS IN REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENTS. 2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1- 8, PROCEEDINGS (pp 4593-4596) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Arnaud E, Christensen H, Lu Y-C, Barker J, Khalidov V, Hansard ME, Holveck B, Mathieu H, Narasimha R, Taillant E , Forbes F et al (2008) The CAVA corpus: synchronised stereoscopic and binaural datasets with head movements.. ICMI (pp 109-116) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Shao X (2007) Audio-visual speech fragment decoding. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2007) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma N, Barker J & Green P (2007) Applying word duration constraints by using unrolled HMMs. INTERSPEECH 2007: 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, VOLS 1-4 (pp 353-356) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Ma N, Wrigley SN & Barker J (2007) Integrating pitch and localisation cues at a speech fragment level. INTERSPEECH 2007: 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, VOLS 1-4 (pp 2752-2755) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Harding S & Barker JP (2006) Speech separation based on the statistics of binaural auditory features. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, Vol. 5 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Palomäki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2006) Recognition of reverberant speech using full cepstral features and spectral missing data. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, Vol. 1 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Shao X & Barker J (2006) Audio-Visual Speech Recognition in the Presence of a Competing Speaker. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1292-1295) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coy A & Barker J (2006) A Multipitch Tracker for Monaural Speech Segmentation. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1678-1681) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Coy A, Ma N & Cooke M (2006) Recent advances in speech fragment decoding techniques. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 85-88) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2006) Recognition of reverberant speech using full cepstral features and spectral missing data. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-13 (pp 289-292) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Harding S & Barker JP (2006) Speech separation based on the statistics of binaural auditory features. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-13 (pp 5807-5810) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2006) Recognition of reverberant speech using full cepstral features and spectral missing data. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol I, Proceedings (pp 289-292). Toulouse, FRANCE, 14 May 2006 - 19 May 2006. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Harding S & Barker JP (2006) Speech separation based on the statistics of binaural auditory features. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol V, Proceedings (pp 949-952) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coy A & Barker J (2005) Soft harmonic masks for recognising speech in the presence of a competing speaker. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 2641-2644) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harding S, Barker J & Brown GJ (2005) Binaural feature selection for missing data speech recognition. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 1269-1272) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coy A & Barker J (2005) Recognising speech in the presence of a competing speaker using a 'speech fragment decoder'. 2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 425-428) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J (2005) Tracking facial markers with an adaptive marker collocation model. 2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 665-668) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harding S, Barker J & Brown GJ (2005) Mask estimation based on sound localisation for missing data speech recognition. 2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 537-540) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Kalle Palomäki K & Barker J (2004) A Missing Data Approach for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition in the Presence of Reverberation. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) (pp 449-452) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Ellis D (2002) Temporal integration as a consequence of multi-source decoding. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on the Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech (TIPS) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker J (2002) Missing data speech recognition in reverberant conditions. 2002 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS I-IV, PROCEEDINGS (pp 65-68) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Ellis D (2001) Combining bottom-up and top-down constraints for robust ASR: The multisource decoder. Proceedings of Workshop on consistent and reliable acoustic cues for sound analysis (CRAC-01) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Morris AC, Barker J & Bourlard H (2001) From Missing Data to Maybe Useful Data: Soft Data Modelling for Noise Robust ASR. Proceedings of the Worshop on Innovation in Speech Processing (WISP 2001) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Green P, Barker J, Cooke M & Josifovski L (2001) Handling Missing and Unreliable Information in Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS-2001) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Green P & Cooke M (2001) Linking Auditory Scene Analysis and Robust ASR by Missing Data Techniques. Proceedings of the Worshop on Innovation in Speech Processing (WISP 2001) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Green PD (2001) Robust ASR based on clean speech models: an evaluation of missing data techniques for connected digit recognition in noise.. INTERSPEECH (pp 213-217) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Barker J & Wang DL (2001) A neural oscillator sound separator for missing data speech recognition. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vol. 4 (pp 2907-2912) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brown GJ, Barker J & Wang DL (2001) A neural oscillator sound separator for missing data speech recognition. IJCNN'01: INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS, VOLS 1-4, PROCEEDINGS (pp 2907-2912) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Josifovski L, Cooke M & Green PD (2000) Soft decisions in missing data techniques for robust automatic speech recognition.. INTERSPEECH (pp 373-376) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Ellis DPW (2000) Decoding speech in the presence of other sound sources.. INTERSPEECH (pp 270-273) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker JP & Berthommier F (1999) Evidence of correlation between acoustic and visual features of speech. Proc. ICPhS ’99 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker JP & Berthommier F (1999) Estimation of speech acoustics from visual speech features: A comparison of linear and non-linear models. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) ’99 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker JP, Berthommier F & Schwartz JL (1998) Is primitive AV coherence an aid to segment the scene?. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) ’98 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Williams G & Renals S (1998) Acoustic confidence measures for segmenting broadcast news.. ICSLP RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Cooke M (1997) Modelling the recognition of spectrally reduced speech.. EUROSPEECH RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mogridge R, Close G, Sutherland R, Hain T, Barker J, Goetze S & Ragni A () Non-intrusive speech intelligibility prediction for hearing-impaired users using intermediate ASR features and human memory models. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2024). Seoul, Korea, 14 April 2024 - 14 April 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang J, Zorila C, Doddipatla R & Barker J () . Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Loweimi E, Christensen H, Barker J & Cvetkovic Z () . Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Deadman J & Barker J () . Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J () . Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J () . Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Akeroyd M, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Firth J, Graetzer S, Griffiths H, Harris L, Naylor G, Podwinska Z , Porter E et al () . Interspeech 2022 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang J, Zorilă C, Doddipatla R & Barker J () . Interspeech 2021 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Barker J, Christensen H, McKean C, Ashton E, Wren Y, Gadgil S & Bright R () . Interspeech 2021 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Graetzer S, Barker J, Cox TJ, Akeroyd M, Culling JF, Naylor G, Porter E & Muñoz RV () . Interspeech 2021 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Deadman J & Barker J () . Interspeech 2020 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR & Barker J () . Interspeech 2019 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Watanabe S, Vincent E & Trmal J () . Interspeech 2018 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gogate M, Adeel A, Marxer R, Barker J & Hussain A () . Interspeech 2018 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T () . Interspeech 2018 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T () . Interspeech 2017 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marxer R & Barker J () . Interspeech 2017 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T () . Interspeech 2016 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mandel MI & Barker J () . Interspeech 2016 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lecumberri MLG, Barker J, Marxer R & Cooke M () . Interspeech 2016 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tóth AM, Cooke M & Barker J () . Interspeech 2016 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rajaravivarma V, Lord E & Barker J () . Southcon/96 Conference Record RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yue Z, Christensen H & Barker J () Autoencoder bottleneck features with multi-task optimisation for improved continuous dysarthric speech recognition. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J & Coy A () Towards Solving the Cocktail Party Problem through Primitive Grouping and Model Combination. Proceedings of Forum Acusticum RIS download Bibtex download

Posters

  • Alghamdi N, Maddock S, Brown GJ & Barker J (2015) A comparison of audiovisual and auditory-only training on the perception of spectrally-distorted speech. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. RIS download Bibtex download

Theses / Dissertations

  • Barker J (1998) The relationship between auditory organisation and speech perception: Studies with spectrally reduced speech. RIS download Bibtex download

Other

  • Christensen H, Barker J, Lu Y-C, Xavier J, Caseiro R & Araújo H (2009) POPeye: Real-time, binaural sound source localisation on an audio-visual robot-head. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H & Barker J (2009) Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data. RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Dabike GR, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2024) The first Cadenza challenges: using machine learning competitions to improve music for listeners with a hearing loss, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sutherland R, Close G, Hain T, Goetze S & Barker J (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Leglaive S, Fraticelli M, ElGhazaly H, Borne L, Sadeghi M, Wisdom S, Pariente M, Hershey JR, Pressnitzer D & Barker JP (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mogridge R, Close G, Sutherland R, Hain T, Barker J, Goetze S & Ragni A (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cox TJ, Barker J, Bailey W, Graetzer S, Akeroyd MA, Culling JF & Naylor G (2023) Overview Of The 2023 Icassp Sp Clarity Challenge: Speech Enhancement For Hearing Aids, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR, Bannister S, Firth J, Graetzer S, Vos R, Akeroyd MA, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Greasley A & Whitmer W (2023) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dabike GR, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos R & Whitmer W (2023) The Cadenza ICASSP 2024 Grand Challenge, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tu Z, Deadman J, Ma N & Barker J (2022) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Watanabe S, Mandel M, Barker J, Vincent E, Arora A, Chang X, Khudanpur S, Manohar V, Povey D, Raj D , Snyder D et al (2020) CHiME-6 Challenge:Tackling Multispeaker Speech Recognition for Unsegmented Recordings, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gogate M, Adeel A, Marxer R, Barker J & Hussain A (2018) DNN driven Speaker Independent Audio-Visual Mask Estimation for Speech Separation, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker J, Watanabe S, Vincent E & Trmal J (2018) The fifth 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Dataset, task and baselines, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
Grants

Current grants

  • EnhanceMusic: , EPSRC, 06/2022 - 11/2026, £377,568, as PI
  • , EPSRC, 10/2019 to 10/2025, £480,416, as PI
  • , EPSRC, 04/2019 to 09/2027, £5,508,850, as Co-PI
  • TAPAS: , EC H2020, 11/2017 to 06/2022, £468,000, as Co-PI

Previous grants

  • Deep learning of articulatory-based representations of dysarthric speech, Google, 02/2016 to 01/2017, £46,624, as Co-PI
  • , EPSRC, 10/2015 to 09/2018, £125,493, as PI
  • INSPIRE: Investigating Speech In Real Environments, EC FP7, 01/2012 to 12/2015, £308,473, as PI
  •  EPSRC, 07/2010 to 09/2010, £9,978, as PI
  • CHIME: Computational Hearing in Multisource Environments, EPSRC, 06/2009 to 05/2012, £326,245, as PI
  • Audio-Visual Speech Recognition in the Presence of Non-Stationary Noise, EPSRC, 02/2005 to 05/2007, £116,853, as PI
Professional activities and memberships
  • Member of the  research group
  • Co-founder of the CHiME series of International Workshops and Robust Speech Recognition Evaluations, 2011 onwards.
  • EURASIP Best Paper Award, 2009; for best paper in Speech Communication during 2005.
  • ISCA Best Paper Award, 2008; for best paper in Speech Communication 2005-2007.