Professor Thomas Hain
School of Computer Science
Professor of Speech and Audio Technology
Director of UKRI CDT in Speech and Language Technologies
Director of Centre for Speech and Language Technology (VoiceBase)
Member of the Speech and Hearing (SpandH) research group
+44 114 222 1836
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School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
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- Profile
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Thomas Hain obtained the degree 'Dipl.-Ing' in Electrical/Communication Engineering in 1994 from the University of Technology, Vienna. He joined the Speech Technology Group at Philips Speech Processing which he left in a senior position.
In 1997 he joined the Speech, Vision and Robotics Group at the Cambridge University Engineering Department as Research Associate and PhD Student. He took up a Lectureship at the SVR group in 2001.
In 2004 he joined the Speech and Hearing Group to work as Lecturer in Computer Science. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2008 and Reader in 2011.
- Research interests
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Thomas' research interests cover many areas in natural language processing, speech, audio and multimedia technology, machine learning, and complex system optimisation and design.
His interests include: large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, non-linear methods in speech processing, low bit-rate speech coding, machine learning, multi-modal systems, image classification, microphone arrays, system and resource optimisation.
- Publications
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Books
- The HTK Book. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Engineering Department.
- The HTK Book (for HTK Version 3.5, documentation alpha version). Cambridge University Engineering Department: Cambridge University Engineering Department.
Journal articles
- . Computer Speech and Language, 74.
- . Frontiers in Signal Processing, 2.
- . Neural Netw, 142, 329-339.
- . Journal of Big Data, 8.
- . Computer Speech & Language, 55, 187-199.
- . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 27(3), 572-582.
- . Multimedia Tools and Applications, 77(23), 30533-30550.
- . Computer Speech and Language, 46, 327-342.
- . Computer Speech and Language, 41, 180-194.
- . Computer Speech and Language, 28(6), 1255-1268.
- . ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 8086-8090.
- . IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, PP(99).
- . IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, 20(2), 353-355.
- Supervised and unsupervised Web-based language model domain adaptation. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, 1, 182-185.
- . 2012 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2012 - Proceedings, 398-403.
- . ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 4341-4344.
- . IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
- . IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 18(6), 1269-1279.
- . IEEE SIGNAL PROC LET, 17(1), 95-98.
- Discrimininative training of narrow band - Wide band adapted systems for meeting recognition. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 1217-1220.
- Automatic speech recognition for scientific purposes - WebASR. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 504-507.
- Discrimininative training of narrow band - Wide band adapted systems for meeting recognition. INTERSPEECH 2008 - 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 1217-1220.
- Application of CMLLR in narrow band wide band adapted systems. International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007, 4, 2860-2863.
- Recognition and understanding of meetings the AMI and AMIDA projects. 2007 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2007, Proceedings, 238-247.
- . ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 4.
- Corrections to "Automatic Transcription of Conversational Telephone Speech".. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 14, 727-727.
- Strategies for language model web-data collection. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 1.
- . IEEE T SPEECH AUDI P, 13(6), 1173-1185.
- . SPEECH COMMUNICATION, 46(2), 171-188.
Chapters
- , Statistical Language and Speech Processing (pp. 61-72).
- , Multimodal Signal Processing (pp. 56-83). Cambridge University Press
- In Clark A, Fox C & Lappin S (Ed.), The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (pp. 299-332). Wiley-Blackwell
- (pp. 285-296).
- , Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 28-39). Edinburgh: Springer.
Conference proceedings papers
- Automatic Speech Recognition System-Independent Word Error Rate Estimation. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings (pp 1979-1987)
- Improving Accented Speech Recognition using Data Augmentation based on Unsupervised Text-to-Speech Synthesis. European Signal Processing Conference (pp 136-140)
- Character Error Rate Estimation for Automatic Speech Recognition of Short Utterances. European Signal Processing Conference (pp 131-135)
- Improving Acoustic Word Embeddings through Correspondence Training of Self-supervised Speech Representations. EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 1 (pp 1959-1967)
- Non-Intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction for Hearing-Impaired Users Using Intermediate ASR Features and Human Memory Models.. ICASSP (pp 306-310)
- Hallucination in Perceptual Metric-Driven Speech Enhancement Networks. European Signal Processing Conference (pp 21-25)
- Using Speech Foundational Models in Loss Functions for Hearing Aid Speech Enhancement. European Signal Processing Conference (pp 421-425)
- . 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 16 December 2023 - 20 December 2023.
- MUST: A Multilingual Student-Teacher Learning approach for low-resource speech recognition
- . 2023 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), 22 October 2023 - 25 October 2023.
- . 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) Proceedings (pp 151-155). Dublin, Ireland, 18 August 2023 - 18 August 2023.
- . ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 June 2023 - 10 June 2023.
- . ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 June 2023 - 10 June 2023.
- PAMGAN+/-: Improving phase-aware speech enhancement performance via expanded discriminator training. AES Convention Europe 2023: 154th Audio Engineering Society Conference (pp 10656). Espoo, Helsinki, FInland, 13 May 2023 - 13 May 2023.
- . ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Rhodes Island, Greece, 4 June 2023 - 4 June 2023.
- . IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, Vol. 2023-October
- . 2022 29th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 24 October 2022 - 26 October 2022.
- Non-intrusive Speech Intelligibility Estimated By Metric Prediction for Hearing Impaired Individuals for the Clarity Prediction Challenge 1. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 18 September 2022 - 22 September 2022.
- . ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022.
- . ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 7267-7271)
- MetricGAN+/-: Increasing Robustness of Noise Reduction on Unseen Data. Proc. 30th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2022. Belgrade, Serbia, 29 August 2022 - 2 September 2022.
- . 2021 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 13 December 2021 - 17 December 2021.
- . ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
- . ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
- . ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 6473-6477). Toronto, ON, Canada, 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
- . 2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) (pp 758-765). Shenzhen, China, 19 January 2021 - 22 January 2021.
- . 2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 18 January 2021 - 21 January 2021.
- , Vol. 00 (pp 750-757)
- (pp 559-573)
- Uncertainty Aware Review Hallucination for Science Article Classification. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (pp 5004-5009)
- . The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2020) (pp 451-458). Tokyo, Japan, 1 November 2020 - 5 November 2020.
- . Interspeech 2020 (pp 4084-4088). Shanghai, China, 25 October 2020 - 29 October 2020.
- . Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp 2992-2996). Shanghai, China, 25 October 2020 - 29 October 2020.
- . Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp 4611-4615). Shanghai, China, 25 October 2020 - 29 October 2020.
- . Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp 1530-1534). Shanghai, China, 25 October 2020 - 29 October 2020.
- . ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 7579-7583). Barcelona, Spain (virtual), 4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020.
- . 2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 14 December 2019 - 18 December 2019.
- . 2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 14 December 2019 - 18 December 2019.
- . 2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 14 December 2019 - 18 December 2019.
- Message from the technical program chairs. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2019-September (pp 13-15)
- . 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 18 December 2018 - 21 December 2018.
- . 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings, 15 April 2018 - 20 April 2018.
- . Proceedings of Interspeech 2018 (pp 1666-1670), 2 September 2018 - 6 September 2018.
- . 2018 4th International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP), 21 March 2018 - 24 March 2018.
- . 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 16 December 2017 - 20 December 2017.
- . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 2715-2719)
- . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
- . Proceedings - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (pp 4925-4929)
- . International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP)
- . Interspeech 2017
- . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 5 March 2017 - 9 March 2017.
- . ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings (pp 5310-5314)
- . 2016 IEEE/ACS 13th International Conference of Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), 29 November 2016 - 2 December 2016.
- . 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2015 - Proceedings (pp 624-631)
- . Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech)
- . Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) (pp 1613-1617)
- . Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, September 2016 - September 2016.
- . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 08-12-September-2016 (pp 3798-3802)
- . Combining weak tokenisers for phonotactic language recognition in a resource-constrained setting (pp 2939-2943), 9 September 2016 - 12 September 2016.
- . USES
- . Proceedings of The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop Odyssey 2016
- A framework for collecting realistic recordings of dysarthric speech - The homeService corpus. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 1993-1997)
- . ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, Vol. 2016-May (pp 6120-6124)
- . 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 20 March 2016 - 25 March 2016.
- The OpenCourseWare metadiscourse (OCWMD) corpus. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 1770-1776)
- . Interspeech 2016
- . 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), 13 December 2015 - 17 December 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)
- Unsupervised domain discovery using latent dirichlet allocation for acoustic modelling in speech recognition. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 3640-3644)
- . 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), 13 December 2015 - 17 December 2015.
- . 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), 13 December 2015 - 17 December 2015.
- . Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, September 2015 - September 2015.
- Data-selective transfer learning for multi-domain speech recognition. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 2897-2901)
- . 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 19 April 2015 - 24 April 2015.
- . 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 19 April 2015 - 24 April 2015.
- AN INVESTIGATION INTO SPEAKER INFORMED DNN FRONT-END FOR LVCSR. 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP) (pp 4300-4304)
- QUALITY ESTIMATION FOR ASR K-BEST LIST RESCORING IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION. 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP) (pp 5226-5230)
- Annotating meta-discourse in academic lectures from different disciplines.. SLaTE (pp 161-166)
- The 2015 sheffield system for transcription of Multi-Genre Broadcast media.. ASRU (pp 624-631)
- . IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living (TechAAL)
- Noise-matched training of CRF based sentence end detection models. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 349-353)
- A study on the stability and effectiveness of features in quality estimation for spoken language translation. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2015-January (pp 2257-2261)
- (pp 173-184)
- . 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 19 April 2015 - 24 April 2015.
- Using Topic Segmentation Models for the Automatic Organisation of MOOCs resources.. EDM (pp 524-527)
- . 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 7 December 2014 - 10 December 2014.
- . 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- . 2014 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2014 - Proceedings (pp 141-146)
- . 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 7 December 2014 - 10 December 2014.
- . 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 7 December 2014 - 10 December 2014.
- The USFD SLT System for IWSLT 2014. IWSLT
- Extending Limabeam with discrimination and coarse gradients. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 2440-2444)
- Multi-pass sentence-end detection of lecture speech. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 2902-2906)
- Speaker dependent bottleneck layer training for Speaker adaptation in automatic speech recognition. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 2199-2203)
- Adaptive speech recognition and dialogue management for users with speech disorders. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1033-1037)
- . 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 May 2014 - 9 May 2014.
- Asynchronous factorisation of speaker and background with feature transforms in speech recognition. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) (pp 1238-1242), 25 August 2013 - 29 August 2013.
- Adaptation of lecture speech recognition system with machine translation output. Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Vancouver, Canada
- The 91Ö±²¥ Wargames Corpus. 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2013), VOLS 1-5 (pp 1115-1119)
- Asynchronous Factorisation of Speaker and Background with Feature Transforms in Speech Recognition. 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2013), VOLS 1-5 (pp 1237-1241)
- Learning speaker-specific pronunciations of disordered speech. 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2013), VOLS 1-5 (pp 1158-1162)
- Combining in-domain and out-of-domain speech data for automatic recognition of disordered speech. 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2013), VOLS 1-5 (pp 3609-3612)
- Automatic transcription of multi-genre media archives. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1012 (pp 26-31)
- Learning speaker-specific pronunciations of disordered speech. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 1159-1163)
- Combining in-domain and out-of-domain speech data for automatic recognition of disordered speech. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 3642-3645)
- The 91Ö±²¥ Wargames Corpus.. 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013). Lyon, France, 25 August 2013 - 29 August 2013.
- HomeService: Voice-enabled assistive technology in the home using cloud-based automatic speech recognition. SLPAT 2013 - 4th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2013, Workshop Proceedings (pp 29-34)
- CRF-based diacritisation of colloquial Arabic for automatic speech recognition. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, Vol. 3 (pp 1822-1825)
- An alignment matching method to explore pseudosyllable properties across different corpora. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, Vol. 1 (pp 862-865)
- A comparative study of adaptive, automatic recognition of disordered speech. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, Vol. 2 (pp 1774-1777)
- RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTS IN AUTOMATIC SOUTH AFRICAN BROADCAST NEWS TRANSCRIPTION. 3rd Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, SLTU 2012 (pp 102-106)
- Extending Audio Notetaker to Browse WebASR Transcriptions. ±õ²Ô³Ù±ð°ù²õ±è±ð±ð³¦³ó’11
- An Analysis of Automatic Speech Recognition with Multiple Microphones. ±õ²Ô³Ù±ð°ù²õ±è±ð±ð³¦³ó’11. Florence
- Web-based automatic speech recognition service - webASR. ±õ²Ô³Ù±ð°ù²õ±è±ð±ð³¦³ó’11
- An Investigation in Speech Recognition for Colloquial Arabic. ±õ²Ô³Ù±ð°ù²õ±è±ð±ð³¦³ó’11
- Making an automatic speech recognition service freely available on the web. ±õ²Ô³Ù±ð°ù²õ±è±ð±ð³¦³ó’11
- Cross-language phone recognition when the target language phoneme inventory is not known. ±õ²Ô³Ù±ð°ù²õ±è±ð±ð³¦³ó’11. Florence
- Extending Audio Notetaker to Browse WebASR Transcriptions. 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5 (pp 3336-+)
- Meeting Recognition. Tutorial interspeech 2010
- The AMIDA 2009 Meeting Transcription System. 11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2010 (INTERSPEECH 2010), VOLS 1-4 (pp 358-361)
- The AMIDA 2009 Meeting Transcription System. ±õ²Ô³Ù±ð°ù²õ±è±ð±ð³¦³ó’10 (pp 358-361)
- Real-Time ASR from Meetings. INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, VOLS 1-5 (pp 2067-+)
- Real-time ASR from meetings. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 2119-2122)
- Interpretation of multiparty meetings the AMI and AMIDA projects. 2008 HANDS-FREE SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND MICROPHONE ARRAYS (pp 116-+)
- . 2008 Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Proceedings, HSCMA 2008 (pp 115-118)
- Automatic speech recognition for scientific purposes - webASR. INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5 (pp 504-507)
- BOB: A LEXICON AND PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARY GENERATOR. 2008 IEEE WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY: SLT 2008, PROCEEDINGS (pp 217-220)
- The 2007 AMI(DA) system for meeting transcription. MULTIMODAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR PERCEPTION OF HUMANS, Vol. 4625 (pp 414-428)
- Application of CMLLR in narrow band wide band adapted systems. ±õ²Ô³Ù±ð°ù²õ±è±ð±ð³¦³ó’07 (pp 282-285). Antwerp
- Temporal Masking for Unsupervised Minimum Bayes Risk Speaker Adaptation. INTERSPEECH 2007: 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, VOLS 1-4 (pp 1577-1580)
- The AMI system for the transcription of speech in meetings. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol IV, Pts 1-3 (pp 357-360)
- The segmentation of multi-channel meeting recordings for automatic speech recognition. INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP, Vol. 3 (pp 1213-1216)
- Hypothesis Spaces For Minimum Bayes Risk Training In Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 2406-2409)
- Automatic Speech Recognition Experiments with Articulatory Data. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 353-356)
- Audio-visual processing in meetings: Seven questions and current AMI answers. Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, Vol. 4299 (pp 24-35)
- Strategies for language model web-data collection. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol I, Proceedings (pp 1069-1072). Toulouse, FRANCE, 14 May 2006 - 19 May 2006.
- Strategies for language model web-data collection. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-13 (pp 1069-1072)
- The AMI meeting transcription system: Progress and performance. Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, Vol. 4299 (pp 419-431)
- The AMI Meeting Corpus. 5th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research
- Applying vocal tract length normalization to meeting recordings. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 265-268)
- Transcription of conference room meetings: An investigation. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 1661-1664)
- The development of the AMI system for the transcription of speech in meetings. MACHINE LEARNING FOR MULTIMODAL INTERACTION, Vol. 3869 (pp 344-356)
- The 2005 AMI system for the transcription of speech in meetings. MACHINE LEARNING FOR MULTIMODAL INTERACTION, Vol. 3869 (pp 450-462)
- Progress in Broadcast News English Transcription. EARS STT Technical Meeting 2004. Montreal, Canada
- Cambridge STT Overview. EARS Mid-year Meeting 2004
- Using VTLN for Broadcast News Transcription. ±õ°ä³§³¢±Ê’04. Cambridge University, UK
- Development of the 2003 CU-HTK conversational telephone speech transcription system. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, Vol. 1
- Development of the 2003 CU-HTK Conversational Telephone Speech transcription system. 2004 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOL I, PROCEEDINGS (pp 249-252)
- Single Pronunciation Dictionaries - Construction and Performance. EARS STT Technical Meeting 2004
- 2003 CU-HTK Broadcast News English System Development. Rich Transcription Workshop 2003s
- 2003 CU-HTK English CTS Systems. Rich Transcription Workshop 2003s. Boston, Ma
- CU-HTK RT-03 Mandarin CTS System. Rich Transcription Workshop 2003
- Recent Experiments with HTK Broadcast News and Conversational Telephone Systems. EARS Mid-year meeting 2003
- Recent advances in broadcast news transcription. ASRU'03: 2003 IEEE WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING ASRU '03 (pp 105-110)
- Implicit Pronunciation Modelling in ASR. ITRW PMLA 2002. Estes Park, Colorado
- CU-HTK APRIL 2002 SWITCHBOARD SYSTEM. Rich Transcription Workshop 2002. Vienna, VA
- New features in the CU-HTK system for transcription of conversational telephone speech. 2001 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS I-VI, PROCEEDINGS (pp 57-60)
- The CU-HTK March 2000 HUB5E Transcription System. Speech Transcription Workshop 2000. College Park, Maryland
- Modelling sub-phone insertions and deletions in continuous speech recognition. ICSLP 2000
- Dynamic HMM selection for continuous speech recognition. ·¡³Ü°ù´Ç²õ±è±ð±ð³¦³ó’99 (pp 1327-1330). Budapest
- The 1998 HTK Broadcast News Transcription System: Development and Results. 1999 DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop. Herndon, VA
- The CUHTK-Entropic 10xRT Broadcast News Transcription System. 1999 DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop (pp 271-275). Herndon, VA
- Improvements in Accuracy and Speed in the HTK Broadcast News Transcription System. ·¡³Ü°ù´Ç²õ±è±ð±ð³¦³ó’99
- Hidden model sequences. Hub5 Workshop’99
- RECENT EXPERIMENTS WITH THE CU-HTK HUB5 SYSTEM. Hub5 Workshop’99
- The 1998 HTK system for transcription of conversational telephone speech. ICASSP '99: 1999 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, PROCEEDINGS VOLS I-VI (pp 57-60)
- SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF BROADCAST NEWS AUDIO. ±õ°ä³§³¢±Ê’98
- The 1997 HTK Broadcast News Transcription System. 1998 DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop (pp 41-48)
- CU-HTK Acoustic modeling experiments. Hub5 Workshop 98
- Segment Generation and Clustering in the HTK Broadcast News Transcription System. 1998 DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop (pp 133-137)
- Experiments in broadcast news transcription. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1998 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-6 (pp 909-912)
- . ±õ°ä´¡³§³§±Ê’94 (pp 561-564)
- . The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2024)
- Transcription-free fine-tuning of speech separation models for noisy and reverberant multi-speaker automatic speech recognition. Proceedings of Interspeech 2024. Kos Island, Greece, 1 September 2024 - 1 September 2024.
- Combining Conformer and Dual-Path-Transformer Networks for Single Channel Noisy Reverberant Speech Separation. ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- 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.
- PROGRESSIVE UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION FOR ASR USING ENSEMBLE MODELS AND MULTI-STAGE TRAINING. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
- SCORE: Self-supervised correspondence fine-tuning for improved content representations. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024). Seoul, Korea, 14 April 2024 - 14 April 2024.
- MULTI-CMGAN+/+: LEVERAGING MULTI-OBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY METRIC PREDICTION FOR SPEECH ENHANCEMENT. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
- Adapting pretrained models for adult to child voice conversion, EUSIPCO 2023. Adapting pretrained models for adult to child voice conversion
- Probing Statistical Representations. Probing Statistical Representations for End-to-End ASR
- On time domain conformer models for monaural speech separation in noisy reverberant acoustic environments. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding. Beitou, Taipei, 16 December 2023 - 16 December 2023.
- DERIVING TRANSLATIONAL ACOUSTIC SUB-WORD EMBEDDINGS. Proceedings of the IEEE
- SIMULATION OF TEACHER-LEARNER INTERACTION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRONUNCIATION LEARNING. IEEE
- . 7th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2023)
- . INTERSPEECH 2023
- Learning Cross-lingual Mappings for Data Augmentation to Improve Low-Resource Speech Recognition. INTERSPEECH 2023. Dublin, Ireland, 20 August 2023 - 20 August 2023.
- On data sampling strategies for training neural network speech separation models. 2023 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). Helsinki, Finland, 4 September 2023 - 4 September 2023.
- Utterance Weighted Multi-Dilation Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberation. Utterance Weighted Multi-Dilation Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberation, 1 September 2022.
- Receptive Field Analysis of Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberation. IEEE 30th European Signal Processing Conference
- Non-Linear Pairwise Language Mappings for Low-Resource Multilingual Acoustic Model Fusion. Interspeech 2022, 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
- Investigating the Impact of Cross-lingual Acoustic-Phonetic Similarities on Multilingual Speech Recognition. Interspeech 2022, 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
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Reports
- Clarity Prediction Challenge 1 Entry: Non-intrusive Speech Intelligibility Metric Prediction - Technical Report
- Data Dependence of Speech Decoder Parameters
- Confidence-informed unsupervised Minimum Bayes Risk acoustic model adaptation
- Conversational multi-party speech recognition using remote microphones
- Automatic Transcription of Conversational Telephone Speech. Development of the CU-HTK 2002 System
Theses / Dissertations
- Hidden Model Sequence Models for Automatic Speech Recognition.
- On the Use of Iterated Function Systems for Coding of Grayscale Images.
Datasets
Other
Preprints
- Using Speech Foundational Models in Loss Functions for Hearing Aid Speech Enhancement, arXiv.
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- Transcription-Free Fine-Tuning of Speech Separation Models for Noisy and Reverberant Multi-Speaker Automatic Speech Recognition, arXiv.
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- Automatic Speech Recognition System-Independent Word Error Rate Estimation.
- Hallucination in Perceptual Metric-Driven Speech Enhancement Networks, arXiv.
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- Progressive unsupervised domain adaptation for ASR using ensemble models and multi-stage training.
- Non-Intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction for Hearing-Impaired Users using Intermediate ASR Features and Human Memory Models, arXiv.
- Multi-CMGAN+/+: Leveraging Multi-Objective Speech Quality Metric Prediction for Speech Enhancement.
- Fast Word Error Rate Estimation Using Self-Supervised Representations For Speech And Text.
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- Towards domain generalisation in ASR with elitist sampling and ensemble knowledge distillation, arXiv.
- Dynamic Kernels and Channel Attention with Multi-Layer Embedding Aggregation for Speaker Verification, arXiv.
- Probing Statistical Representations For End-To-End ASR, arXiv.
- Deformable Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Noisy Reverberant Speech Separation.
- Unsupervised data selection for Speech Recognition with contrastive loss ratios.
- Non-Linear Pairwise Language Mappings for Low-Resource Multilingual Acoustic Model Fusion.
- Investigating the Impact of Cross-lingual Acoustic-Phonetic Similarities on Multilingual Speech Recognition.
- A cross-corpus study on speech emotion recognition.
- Insights on Neural Representations for End-to-End Speech Recognition, arXiv.
- Utterance Weighted Multi-Dilation Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberation.
- Receptive Field Analysis of Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberation.
- Efficient Non-Autoregressive GAN Voice Conversion using VQWav2vec Features and Dynamic Convolution.
- MetricGAN+/-: Increasing Robustness of Noise Reduction on Unseen Data.
- Multiple-hypothesis CTC-based semi-supervised adaptation of end-to-end speech recognition, arXiv.
- Towards Low-Resource StarGAN Voice Conversion using Weight Adaptive Instance Normalization.
- Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Representation Learning for Voice Conversion using WaveNet Auto-encoders.
- Automatic Genre and Show Identification of Broadcast Media, arXiv.
- The 2015 91Ö±²¥ System for Transcription of Multi-Genre Broadcast Media, arXiv.
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation Based Organisation of Broadcast Media Archives for Deep Neural Network Adaptation, arXiv.
- Background-tracking Acoustic Features for Genre Identification of Broadcast Shows, arXiv.
- Data-selective Transfer Learning for Multi-Domain Speech Recognition, arXiv.
- Unsupervised Domain Discovery using Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Acoustic Modelling in Speech Recognition, arXiv.
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- The USFD Spoken Language Translation System for IWSLT 2014.
- Grants
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Current grants
- Automatic voice conversion for transforming professional adult voice actors to artificial child voice actors, Innovate UK, 01/2021 - 01/2023, £173,605, as PI
- , EPSRC, 04/2019 to 09/2027, £5,508,850, as PI
- VoiceBase Centre, VoiceBase Inc., 04/2018 - 03/2022, £1,499,972, as PI
- WFST-based integration of ASR and MT in Spoken Language Translation, Google, 03/2014 to 12/2022, £63,588, as PI
Previous grants
- MAUDIE: Multimedia Analysis for Unsupervised Dubbing In Entertainment, Innovate UK, 05/2018 to 07/2021, £393,115, as PI
- TUTO II: Reading skills tutoring system, ITSLANGUAGE BV, 08/2017 to 12/2019, £121,439, as PI
- Sound Source Separation Based on Deep Learning, Industrial, 05/2019 - 04/2020, £48,000, as PI
- Acoustic correlates of emotions for automatic recognition, Industrial, 10/2018 to 09/2019, £48,900, as PI
- Bridge Project, VoiceBase Inc., 09/2017 to 03/2018, £61,200, as PI
- STATUS IV: Speech Technology and Translation Universal Survey, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, 01/2017 to 10/2017, £60,000, as PI
- TUTO: Reading skills tutoring system, ITSLANGUAGE BV, 09/2016 to 08/2017, £61,983, as PI
- STATUS III: Speech Technology and Translation Universal Survey, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, 01/2015 to 07/2016, £78,684, as PI
- STATUS II: Speech Technology and Translation Universal Survey, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, 11/2013 to 05/2014, £98,982, as PI
- ItsLanguage, ITSLANGUAGE BV, 11/2012 to 03/2015, £68,333, as PI
- German System Adaptation, ITSLANGUAGE BV, 11/2012 to 03/2015, £42,373, as PI
- DocuMeet: Transcription, summarisation and documentation of meetings using advanced speech technologies, indexing and browsing capabilities, European Commission - FP7, 11/2012 to 10/2014, £368,433, as PI
- STATUS: Speech Technology and Translation Universal Survey, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, 10/2012 to 08/2013, £73,726, as PI
- A Joint Model of Spoken Language Translation, Google, 09/2011 to 12/2016, £43,014, as PI
- , EPSRC, 05/2011 to 07/2016, £1,798,665, as PI
- Unsupervised Domain Adaptation, CISCO, 11/2010 to 04/2012, £121,745, as PI
- , European Commission - FP6, 10/2006 to 12/2009, £467,074, as PI
- , European Commission - FP6, 10/2006 to 12/2009, £345,350, as PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Head of the research group
- Editorial Board member,
- Associate Editor,
- Organising committee member, ASRU 2013
- Area Chair, Interspeech 2014, Speech Recognition - Signal Processing, Acoustic Modelling, Robustness and Adaptation.
- Area Chair, ICPR 2014, Track 3 Image, Speech. Signal and Video Processing
- Programme Committee,