People

Dr Jon Barker

Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK 

Research interests: Robust ASR, audiovisual speech perception

Email: j.barker@dcs.shef.ac.uk

Website: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jon/

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Dr Jonas Beskow

Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Research interests: audiovisual speech research

Email: beskow at kth dot se

Website: http://www.speech.kth.se/~beskow/

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Prof Jeff Bowers

Dept of Psychology, University of Bristol, UK 

Research interests: Cognitive psychology, reading, computational modelling, speech perception

Email: J.Bowers@bris.ac.uk

Website:  http://psychology.psy.bris.ac.uk/people/jeffbowers.htm

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Dr Guy Brown

Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK

Research interests: Computational auditory scene analysis, auditory modelling

Email: g.brown@dcs.shef.ac.uk

Website: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~guy

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Prof Rolf Carlson

Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Research interests: all aspects of Speech Technology, with special attention on speech synthesis and spoken dialog systems

Email: rolf at speech.kth.se

Website: http://www.speech.kth.se/~rolf/

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Prof Jasone Cenoz

Department of Philology and Translation Studies, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain 

Research interests: Multilingualism, psychology, language planning, L2 acquisition

Email: jasone.cenoz@ehu.es

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Prof Martin Cooke

Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK 

Research interests: Computational models of HSP, scene analysis, robust ASR

Email: m.cooke@dcs.shef.ac.uk

Website:  http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~martin/

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Dr Anna Corazza

Dept of Informatics, University "Frederick II" of Naples, Italy 

Research interests: NLP, machine learning, statistical POS, syntactic parsing

Email: corazza@na.infn.it

Website: http://people.na.infn.it/~corazza/

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Dr Gianpaolo Coro

Dept of Informatics, University "Frederick II" of Naples, Italy

Email: coro@na.infn.it

Website: http://people.na.infn.it/~coro/index.htm

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Dr Francesco Cutugno

Dept of Informatics, University "Frederick II" of Naples, Italy 

Research interests: Speech synthesis and recognition, HSP and ASR models, multilevel annotation

Email: cutugno@unina.it

Website: http://people.na.infn.it/~cutugno/

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Dr Kris Demuynck

Department of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Research interests: ASR search

Email: Kris.Demuynck@esat.kuleuven.be

Website: http://www.kuleuven.be/cv/u0009102e.htm

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Prof MariaPaola D’Imperio

Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

Research interests: Prosody, intonation, tonal alignment, laboratory phonology

Email: Dimperio@lpl.univ-aix.fr

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Dr Mirjam Ernestus

Radboud University Nijmegen & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Research interests: Psycholinguistics, phonetics, casual speech

Email: Mirjam.Ernestus@mpi.nl

Website: http://www.mpi.nl/Members/MirjamErnestus/

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Dr Robert Espesser

Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

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Prof Dr Ulrich Frauenfelder

Dept of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Research interests: Psycholinguistics, logopedics, cognitive psychology

Email: Ulrich.Frauenfelder@unige.ch

Website: http://www.unige.ch/fapse/PSY/persons/frauenfelder/ulihome.html

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Dr M. Luisa García Lecumberri

Dept of Philology and Translation Studies, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain

Research interests: Phonetics, L2 acquisition, adverse conditions

Email: fipgalem@vc.ehu.es

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Prof Gareth Gaskell

Dept of Psychology, University of York, UK 

Research interests: Experimental psycholinguistics, spoken word recognition, computational modelling

Email: g.gaskell@psych.york.ac.uk

Website:  http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mgg5

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Prof Dr Mircea Giurgiu

Dept of Communications, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania 

Research interests: Engineering methods for ASR, text-to-speech, web-based applications

Email: Mircea.Giurgiu@com.utcluj.ro

Website: http://193.226.6.174/people/giurgiu/giurgiu.html

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Prof Björn Granström

Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Research interests: Speech communication, perception and synthesis of speech

Email: bjorn@speech.kth.se

Website: http://www.speech.kth.se/~bjorn/

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Prof Carlos Gussenhoven

Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Research interests: General and experimental phonology, prosody, intonation

Email: C.Gussenhoven@let.ru.nl

Website: http://www.ru.nl/taalwetenschap/c.gussenhoven/

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Prof Sarah Hawkins

S2S Co-ordinator

Dept of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK 

Research Interests: Acoustic phonetics, FPD, perception, adverse conditions, formant synthesis

Email: sh110@cam.ac.uk

Website:  http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/people/sarah/

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Prof David House

Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Research interests: multimodal speech synthesis and prosody generation for spoken dialog systems, audio-visual perception of prosody, and educational applications of speech technology. Other research interests include phonetic variation in spontaneous speech and the perception of tone and intonation.

Email: davidh@speech.kth.se

Website: www.speech.kth.se/~davidh/

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Dr Sara Howard

Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK

Research interests: Children’s language disorders, auditory phonetics, EPG

Email: s.howard@sheffield.ac.uk

Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hcs/staff/howard

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Dr Magne Johnsen

Dept of Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Research interests: Machine speech and pattern recognition

Email: mhj@iet.ntnu.no

Website: http://www.iet.ntnu.no/~mhj

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Prof Jacques Koreman

Institute for Language and Communication Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Research interests: Phonetics, voice quality, speech and speaker recognition

Email: jacques.koreman@hf.ntnu.no

Website: http://www.hf.ntnu.no/isk/koreman/homepage.php

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Prof John Local

Dept of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, UK

Research interests: Auditory phonetics, interactional analysis, attitude

Email: lang4@york.ac.uk

Website: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang4/

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Dr Sven Mattys

Dept of Psychology, University of Bristol, UK 

Research interests: Cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, HSP, language development

Email: sven.mattys@bristol.ac.uk

Website: http://psychology.psy.bris.ac.uk/people/svenmattys.htm

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Dr Christine Meunier

Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

Research interests: Acoustic phonetics, cross-linguistic production and perception

Email: christine.meunier@lpl.univ-aix.fr

Website: http://aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~meunier/

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Dr Michele Miozzo

Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK

Research interests: Neurolinguistics, psychology, morphology

Email: mm584@cam.ac.uk

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Prof Roger Moore

Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK 

Research interests: Speech technology algorithms, application, assessment, bridging HSP & ASR

Email: r.k.moore@dcs.shef.ac.uk

Website: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roger/

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Prof Noël Nguyen

Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

Research interests: Articulatory and acoustic phonetics, French, FPD, perception

Email: Noel.Nguyen@lpl.univ-aix.fr

Website: http://aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~nguyen/

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Dr Dennis Norris

Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge, UK

Research interests: Spoken word recognition, computational perception models, memory

Email: dennis.norris@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/people-pages.php?id=98

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Dr Richard Ogden

Dept of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, UK 

Research interests: Auditory phonetics; interactional analysis; Finnish

Email: rao1@york.ac.uk

Website: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~rao1/

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Prof Zdena Palková

Dept of Phonetics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 

Research interests: Syntax, intonation, prosody

Email: zdena.palkova@ff.cuni.cz

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Dr Brechtje Post

Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK

Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, morphology, intonation, French, L2

Email: bmbp2@cam.ac.uk

Website: http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~bmbp2/

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Dr Odette Scharenborg

Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Department of Language and Speech, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Email: O.Scharenborg@let.ru.nl

Website: http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/odettes.php

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Dr Radek Skarnitzl

Dept of Phonetics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Research interests:  English, German phonetics, acoustic phonetics

Email: radek.skarnitzl@ff.cuni.cz

Website: http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/lide.php?x=ska

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Dr Helmer Strik

Dept of Language and Speech, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Research interests: ASR, pronunciation variation and assessment, episodic speech recognition

Email: strik@let.ru.nl

Website: http://lands.let.ru.nl/~strik/

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Prof Torbjørn Svendsen

Dept of Telecommunications and Electronics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Research interests: Speech processing, ASR, text-to-speech, pronunciation modelling

Email: torbjorn@iet.ntnu.no

Website: http://www.iet.ntnu.no/~torbjorn/

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Dr Louis ten Bosch

Dept of Linguistics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands 

Research interests: ASR, phonetics, articulatory features, human-machine interaction

Email: l.tenbosch@let.ru.nl

Website: http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/staffPERperson.php3?name=tenbosch

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Prof Dirk Van Compernolle

Dept of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 

Research interests: Exemplar-based ASR, speech recognition architectures

Email: compi@esat.kuleuven.be

Website: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~compi/

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Prof Wim van Dommelen

Dept of Linguistics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Research interests: Phonetics, foreign language production and perception, hearing in noise

Email: wim.van.dommelen@hf.ntnu.no

Website: http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/folk/dommelen/indexe.html

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Prof Hugo Van hamme

Dept of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Research interests: Noise robust speech recognition, acoustic modelling, missing data theory, computer aided learning

Email: hugo.vanhamme@esat.kuleuven.be

Website: http://www.kuleuven.be/cv/u0040707e.htm

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Dr Jan Volín

Dept of Phonetics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Research interests: Intonation, L1-L2 interaction

Email: jan.volin@ff.cuni.cz

Website: http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/en/lide-menu.php?x=vol

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Prof Bill Wells

Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK

Research interests: Speech development and difficulties, phonetics, interactional analysis

Email: bill.wells@sheffield.ac.uk

Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hcs/staff/wells/

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Dr Laurence White

Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol

Website: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~pslsw/

Research interests: Speech production and perception, including timing, rhythm, prosodic structure, word segmentation.

 

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