Event type:

In person

Date & time:

04 Jun 2020, 16:00 – 17:00

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.

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Speech Science Forum 4th June - Prof. Roger Moore

04 Jun 2020, 16:00 – 17:00

Professor Roger Moore

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

Ticketing

Open

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Dr. Antony Scott Trotter

Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences

07504204514

t.trotter@ucl.ac.uk