Professor at Sheffield University. Speech, audio, language,machine learning, blockchains, agents.
Sheffield, UK
Joined April 2010
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Congratulations to @AmitMeghanani on passing his #PhD #viva for his thesis "Improving Content Representations in Self-supervised Speech Models"! Huge thanks to his supervisor @thomashain and his viva examiners Prof Mark Gales (@Cambridge_Eng) and Dr Anton Ragni (Sheffield)!
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Final #PhD #talk of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference afternoon is Shaun Cassini with “The Representation of Prosodic Emphasis in Self-Supervised Speech Models”. slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Afternoon session of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference is underway! Kicking off with another exciting #keynote: @BussoCarlos from @LTIatCMU talking about “Improving Generalization in Speech Emotion Recognition” slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Not long until our #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference on 23 June!
#Keynote Spotlight: @BussoCarlos from @LTIatCMU will be giving a talk entitled "Improving Generalization in #Speech #Emotion Recognition".
Find out more and #register (by 15 June) at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Registration deadline extended to 15 June!! Secure your place at our annual #conference now!
Join us on 23 June to hear about our #PhD students’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc research! Cool keynote speakers too! Check out our website for more info!
slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
As promised, here is a further PhD opportunity, to join my group. findaphd.com/phds/project/de…
I am happy to answer any questions.
Please remember the previously announced 2 CDT affiliated positions, and there should be one more in due course. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV053/two-fu…
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Congratulations to @GeorgeCloseSLT on passing his #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to his supervisors @stefan_goetze and @thomashain; his viva examiners Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Gerkmann (Hamburg) and @rogerkmoore (Sheffield); and his sponsors @toshiba Europe Ltd!
I am looking for excellent PhD candidates working on speech, langauge and machine learning. The first announcemnt is out - more to come. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV053/two-fu…
Thomas Hain retweeted
Really excited to be in #Edinburgh for the Joint Annual #Conference of @Edin_CDT_NLP and @sltcdt. First day has just kicked off with a keynote from @seraphinagt, Head of Safety @cohere! bit.ly/nlpsltconf #ukri #phd #research #cdt #sheffield
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Massive thanks to Dr Emily Clements (@emclem16) from Outside / @KingsCollegeLon for her fascinating talk in our "Industrial R&D and Entrepreneurial Talk Series" entitled "Science and Business: How to Speak Both Languages" and discussing #entrepreneurship with our #PhD students!
Many congratulations to @WillRavenscrof1. If you are working on speech enhancement you may have seen his papers in recent ICASSP, ASRU, Interspeech ...
Huge congratulations to @WillRavenscrof1 on passing his #PhD #viva with very minor corrections! Huge thanks to Will's supervisors @thomashain & @stefan_goetze and his viva examiners
@patrickanaylor (@imperialeee) & Yoshi Gotoh. Massive thanks also to his sponsors @3M!
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Speech technology is not available for many languages due to a lack of data - and foundation models have role to play here. If you are interested in this topic, consider contributing to this #interspeech2024 special session sites.google.com/view/is24-s… ! We look forward to your paper!
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Super New Year news in the form of another paper for @AmitMeghanani! Accepted to #EACL2024 (18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) - congratulations!!
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More great pre-Christmas news in the form of another paper accepted to #ICASSP2024 (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing) - congratulations to @AmitMeghanani!!
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Christmas has come early for some of our #PhD #students! @Hy_Quack, @WillRavenscrof1, @GeorgeCloseSLT, @RhiannonMogrid1, and Robbie Sutherland had 4 papers accepted at #ICASSP2024 (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing)! Congratulations to all!
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Come join us on the 30th of November for our event on ethics and regulation in A.I. We have organised for two expert speakers to come and give their insights on the field's ethical and regulatory challenges.
See the flyer for more details. Ticket link: su.sheffield.ac.uk/events/pr…
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Massively excited to announce that the SLT CDT has its first #PhD! Huge congratulations to @danaesavi who passed her #PhD #viva today with minor corrections! Many thanks to the examiners @vlachos_nlp (Cambridge) and @carolscarton.
