Speech Science Forum 4th June - Prof. Roger Moore
On June 4th, Prof. Roger Moore will deliver an online talk entitled "Spoken language technology now seems to work - so what’s left to be done?" for the Speech Science Forum. If you would like to attend the talk, for those on the mailing list, simply click the provided Teams link at 4pm. If you are not subscribed to the mailing list, please contact the organiser for the link.
Talk title: Spoken language technology now seems to work - so what’s left to be done?
Talk Abstract: Recent years have seen steady improvements in the quality and performance of voice-based human-machine interaction driven by a significant convergence in the methods and techniques employed. As a consequence, spoken language technology has finally emerged from the research laboratory into the real world, and members of the general public now regularly encounter speech-enabled services and devices while going about their daily lives. Does this mean that our job as speech technology researchers is finally done? This talk addresses this issue, and argues that the standard architecture for a contemporary communicative agent fails to exploit some fundamental properties of human spoken language. An alternative needs-driven cognitive architecture is proposed which models speech-based interaction as an emergent property of coupled hierarchical feedback control processes. The implications for future spoken language systems will be discussed.
Professor of Spoken Language Processing in the `Speech and Hearing` Research Group (SPandH; https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/research/groups/spandh)
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Prof. Roger K. Moore studied Computer and Communications Engineering at the University of Essex and was awarded the BA (Hons) degree in 1973. He subsequently received the MSc and PhD degrees from the same university in 1975 and 1977 respectively, both theses being on the topic of automatic speech recognition.
After a period of post-doctoral research in the Phonetics Department at University College London, Prof. Moore was head-hunted in 1980 to establish a speech recognition research team at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) in Malvern.
In 1985 Prof. Moore became head of the newly created `Speech Research Unit` (SRU) and subsequently rose to the position of Senior Fellow (Deputy Chief Scientific Officer - Individual Merit) in the `Defence and Evaluation Research Agency` (DERA).
Following the privatisation of the SRU in 1999, Prof. Moore continued to provide the technical lead as Chief Scientific Officer at 20/20 Speech Ltd. (now Aurix Ltd.) - a joint venture company between DERA (now QinetiQ) and NXT plc.
In 2004 Prof. Moore was appointed Professor of Spoken Language Processing in the `Speech and Hearing` Research Group (SPandH) at Sheffield University, where he is pioneering research that is aimed at developing computational models of spoken language processing by both mind and machine.
Further information
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Organiser
Dr. Antony Scott Trotter
Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences