Department of Engineering

Statistical modelling of human computer dialogue; spoken language understanding and generation; human language technologies; natural language processing

Speech recognition; speech synthesis; limited resource and language independent speech technology; language learning and assessment; assistive speech technology

Computer perception in relation to sound, and its applications

Speech recognition; speaker verification; computer music composition

Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition; robust speaker recognition; speaker adaptation; machine learning; speaker identification and verification

Robotics; realtime gesture recognition

Machine learning and statistical pattern recognition; signal processing

Statistical modelling for speech and language processing; statistical machine translation; speech synthesis