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Speech Science Forum 4th June - Prof. Roger Moore
04 June 2020, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
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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Dr. Antony Scott Trotter – Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences07504204514
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.
About the Speaker
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) at Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Prof. Moore <http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/R.K.Moore/> has over 40 years’ experience in Speech Technology R&D and, although an engineer by training, much of his research has been based on insights from human speech perception and production. As Head of the UK Government's Speech Research Unit from 1985 to 1999, he was responsible for the development of the Aurix range of speech technology products and the subsequent formation of 20/20 Speech Ltd. Since 2004 he has been Professor of Spoken Language Processing at the University of Sheffield, and also holds Visiting Chairs at Bristol Robotics Laboratory and University College London Psychology & Language Sciences. He was President of the European/International Speech Communication Association from 1997 to 2001, General Chair for INTERSPEECH-2009 and ISCA Distinguished Lecturer during 2014-15. In 2017 he organised the first international workshop on ‘Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR)’. Prof. Moore is the current Editor-in-Chief of Computer Speech & Language and in 2016 he was awarded the LREC Antonio Zampoli Prize for "Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Language Resources & Language Technology Evaluation within Human Language Technologies".
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