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Speech Research Group
The Speech Research Group is part of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory. Its mission is to advance our
knowledge of
computer-based spoken language processing and develop effective algorithms for
implementing applications. Its primary specialism is in large vocabulary
speech transcription and related technologies. It also has active research
interests in spoken dialogue systems, multimedia document retrieval, speech
synthesis and machine learning.
Research Areas
The research topic areas covered by the Speech Research Group include:
- acoustic modelling using statistical models
- basic research in machine learning
- dialogue optimisation using reinforcement learning
- large vocabulary recognition
- multimedia document retrieval
- portability in speech recognition
- speaker and environment adaptation
- spoken dialogue systems and VoiceXML
- statistical language modelling
- statistical machine translation
- transcription of found speech
For a simple introduction to speech recognition click here.
People
Faculty Staff
Research Associates
Graduate Students
Current and Recent Projects
Publications
See also the home pages of the faculty staff.
Other Things We Do
- The HTK
HMM Toolkit is developed and maintained by the Speech Research Group.
Joining Us
The Speech Group welcomes applications from prospective PhD students
and those seeking Post Doctoral positions. We also offer a taught Masters course
taking 1 year full-time or 2 years part time. More details are given
in the following links; prospective candidates are also encouraged to
contact Speech Group Staff members directly.
Seminars
Details of seminars organised in the MI Lab are available on the
seminars page
