Dept. Computer Science
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello
Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK
Tel:
+44 114 222 1807
Fax: +44 114 222 1810
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e-mail: r.k.moore@dcs.shef.ac.uk
http://www.dcs/shef.ac.uk/~roger/
Prof Roger K Moore
BA(Hons) MSc PhD FIOA FISCA MIET MIEEE
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26th February 1952
British
Married with one child
Chair of Spoken Language Processing in the ‘Speech and Hearing’ research
group, Dept. Computer Science, University of Sheffield.
Editor-in-Chief of ‘Computer Speech & Language’.
Editorial Board Member for ‘Speech Communication’, ‘Languages’ and the
‘International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence’.
Associate Editor for the ‘Advances in Cognitive Informatics and Natural
Intelligence’ (ACINI) Book Series.
Visiting Professor, Bristol Robotics Laboratory.
Visiting Professor, Psychology and Language Sciences, University College
London.
2014-15 Distinguished Lecturer International Speech Communication Association
Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association since 2008.
General Chair for INTERSPEECH, Brighton (6th-10th September 2009).
Chief Scientific Officer of ‘20/20 Speech Ltd.’ (now ‘Aurix Ltd.’) from 1999 to
2004.
Head of the UK Government’s ‘Speech Research Unit’ (SRU) from 1985 until its
privatisation in 1999.
President of the ‘International Speech Communication Association’ (ISCA) from
1997 to 2001.
President of the ‘Permanent Council of the International Conferences on Spoken
Language Processing’ (PC-ICSLP) from 1996 to 2000.
Author and co-author of over 150 scientific publications in Speech Technology
algorithms, applications and assessment and related areas (h-index = 23).
Recipient of the 1999 NATO RTO Scientific Achievement Award for “repeated
contribution in scientific and technological cooperation”.
Recipient of the 1994 UK Institute of Acoustics Tyndall Medal for “distinguished
work in the field of speech research and technology”.
Founder Member of the European Speech Communication Association.
Moore, Prof. R. K.
Employment History
2011 to ...
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND
Bristol
Visiting Professor
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Attached to the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.
2004 to ...
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Sheffield
Chair in Spoken Language Processing
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Based in the Dept. of Computer Science.
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Director of the ‘Speech and Hearing’ (SPandH) research group (2004-2010).
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Responsible for providing research leadership for a group of 6 academic staff, ~5 research staff and ~20
research students.
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Director & Admissions Tutor: MSc degree in ‘Human Language Technology’
Responsible for Staff Development and SRDS
Responsible for careers and placements.
2007 - 2009
AURIX LTD.
Malvern
20/20 SPEECH LTD.
Malvern
Chief Scientific Advisor
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Technical consultant
1999 - 2004
Chief Scientific Officer
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Founded the company from the privatised ‘Speech Research Unit’ as a Joint Venture between DERA
(now QinetiQ) and NXT plc.
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1990 to ...
Grew the company from 18 ex-DERA staff to ~40 by 2002.
Responsible for ‘Science & Technology’ group of 20 scientists/engineers.
Inspiration behind the Aurix® line of high-performance speech technology products.
Product Manager for Aurix® Media Content Management System (AMCMS).
Director of 20/20 Speech Consulting Ltd.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
London
Visiting Professor
Attached to Psychology and Language Sciences (formerly Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics).
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Provide advice/guidance to research staff and graduate students.
1985 - 1999
DEFENCE EVALUATION & RESEARCH AGENCY
Malvern
Head of the UK Government ‘Speech Research Unit’
Responsible for growing the Unit to ~25 staff with an annual turnover of ~£1.5M.
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Research leader and programme coordinator for ‘speech signal processing’, ‘acoustic-phonetic
modelling’, linguistic constraints’, ‘strategic speech research’, ‘speech systems technology &
assessment’, ‘user interface’, ‘speech research operations’ and ‘speech research products’.
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Derived income from non-MoD as well as MoD sources.
Conducted personal research into a unified approach to ‘Speech Pattern Processing’.
Rose to the rank of ‘Deputy Chief Scientific Officer (DCSO)/Senior Fellow – Grade 5 – Individual
Merit’
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1980 - 1985
ROYAL SIGNALS & RADAR ESTABLISHMENT
Malvern
Section Leader
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Head-hunted to establish and manage speech recognition research.
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Line manager for three research staff.
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Initiated research on advanced algorithms for automatic speech recognition.
1979 - 1980
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
London
Associate Research Assistant
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Funded by the ‘Joint Speech Research Unit’ (JSRU).
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Project entitled ‘An investigation into some fundamental problems in the automatic recognition of
continuous speech’.
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Based in the Dept. of Phonetics & Linguistics.
1976 - 1979
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
London
Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Individual research project entitled ‘A multilevel approach to automatic speech understanding’.
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Based in the Dept. of Phonetics & Linguistics.
Academic Qualifications
1977
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
London
Certificate of Proficiency in Phonetics: first class
1974 – 1976
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Colchester
PhD degree in ‘Electrical & Electronics Engineering’
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Thesis title: ‘A descriptive technique for the analysis and design of speech understanding systems’; 21
July 1977.
1973 – 1974
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Colchester
MSc degree in ‘Electrical & Electronics Engineering’
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Dissertation title: ‘The evaluation and optimisation of a basic speech recogniser’; 17 July 1975.
1970 – 1973
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Colchester
BA(Hons) degree in ‘Computers & Communications Engineering’: upper-second class
Professional Qualifications/Memberships
1979 - …
International Speech Communications Association (ISCA)
Elected to Fellow in 2008
1982 - …
Institute of Acoustics
St. Albans
Elected to Fellow in 1987
1975 - …
Institute of Engineering and Technology
Member
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London
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Honours & Awards
2008
INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (ISCA)
ISCA Fellow
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“In recognition of his applications of human speech perception and production models to speech
technologies and his service to ISCA as President”
2000
DEFENCE EVALUATION & RESEARCH AGENCY (DERA)
Farnborough
Honorary DERA Senior Fellow
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“In recognition of outstanding creative, intellectual contributions.”
1999
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (NATO)
Brussels
NATO RTO Scientific Achievement Award
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“For repeated contribution in scientific and technological cooperation.”
1994
INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS
St. Albans
Tyndall Medal
“For distinguished work in the field of speech research and technology.”
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National & International Research Leadership Roles
2014-15
ISCA DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
Responsible for the overall organisation and management of the annual conference of the International
Speech Communication Association (762 papers, 1200 attendees, £440K turnover), Brighton, 6th-10th
September 2009.
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2009
ISCA INTERSPEECH CONFERENCE
General Chair
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Responsible for the overall organisation and management of the annual conference of the International
Speech Communication Association (762 papers, 1200 attendees, £440K turnover), Brighton, 6th-10th
September 2009.
2004 - 2007
IEEE SPEECH & LANGUAGE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Elected Committee Member
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SLTC reviewer for the IEEE International Conferences on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP).
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2002 - 2003
Responsible for ‘international relations’.
JOINT ISCA/PC-ICSLP WORKING PARTY
Chairman
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Tasked with merging the PC-ICSLP with ISCA in order to create a single INTERSPEECH series of
international conferences.
1997 - 2001
President
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INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (ISCA)
Responsible for leading an association of ~1000 members
Responsible for transforming the European Speech Communication Association (ESCA) into ISCA.
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1997 - 1998
NATO AD-HOC EXPERT GROUP ON NARROWBAND SPEECH CODING
(NATO/AC302(SG/11)/AHEG)
UK Delegate
Contributed to the creation of a new NATO standard (STANAG) for narrow-band secure voice
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communication at 2400/1200 bps.
1996 – 2000 PERMANENT COUNCIL FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING (PC-ICSLP)
President
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1993 - 1998
Responsible for overseeing the ICSLP series of International Conferences on Spoken Language
Processing.
EUROPEAN EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP ON LANGUAGE
ENGINEERING STANDARDS (EAGLES)
Chairman: Spoken Language Working Group
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Coordinated the work of ~50 European experts
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Published 360,000-word ‘EAGLES Handbook of Standards and Resources’.
1991 - 1998
MEMBER: DTI SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (SALT) COMMITTEE
1990 - 1993
MEMBER: INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS COUNCIL
1989 - 1992
UK NATIONAL SPEECH DATABASE PROJECT (SCRIBE)
Project Leader
Coordinated the production (on CD-ROM) of the ‘Spoken Corpus Recordings in British English’.
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Project resulted from my SALTUS-2000 proposals.
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Lead to the establishment of the DTI/SERC ‘Speech and Language Technology’ (SALT) programme.
1989 - 1991
1988 - 1997
MEMBER: DTI-IED/SERC SPEECH & VISION SUB-COMMITTEE
EUROPEAN SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (ESCA)
Vice-President (1994 - 1997); Advisory Council Member (1988 - 1992); Founder member (1988)
1984 - 1987
IOA SPEECH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT GROUP (STAG)
Founder & Chairman
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Led to the initiation of a national project funded under the Alvey programme.
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Lead to the formation of the pan-European ESPRIT project ‘Multilingual Speech I/O Assessment:
Speech Assessment Methods’ (SAM).
1983 - 1984
MEMBER: ALVEY MMI ADVISORY BOARD
1980 - 1985
MEMBER: GCHQ SPEECH RESEARCH ADVISORY PANEL
1980 – 1999
NATO RESEARCH STUDY GROUP ON SPEECH PROCESSING
(NATO/AC243/PANEL III/RSG10)
Chairman (1983 – 1988); UK National Delegate (1988 – 1999)
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Responsible for instigating numerous international collaborative research projects in speech technology.
1979 - ...
INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS SPEECH GROUP
Chairman (1984 – 1990)
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Secretary (1983 – 1984); Treasurer (1981 – 1982); Committee member (1979 – 1981)
Journal Editorships
2012 - ...
LANGUAGES
Editorial Board Member
2007 - ... ADVANCES IN COGNITIVE INFORMATICS AND NATURAL INTELLIGENCE (ACINI)
Associate Editor
2005 - ...
INT. J. COGNITIVE INFORMATICS AND NATURAL INTELLIGENCE (IJCINI)
Editorial Board Member
2005 - ...
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
Editor-in-Chief
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Responsible for the scientific content, for coordinating the refereeing process and liaison with the
Publisher (Elsevier).
1997 - ...
JOURNAL OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION
Editorial Board Member
Membership of Editorial Boards
2005 - ...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE INFORMATICS
AND NATURAL INTELLIGENCE (IJCINI)
1997 - ...
SPEECH COMMUNICATION
Elsevier
1985 - 2005
COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
Elsevier
1996 - 1997
FREE SPEECH JOURNAL
WWW
1994 - 2002
Idea Group Inc
NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING Cambridge University Press
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Grants Awarded
1.12.13 – 30.11.16
EU FRAMEWORK 7
€770,083
Co-Investigator (with Tony Prescott)
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EASEL: Expressive Agents for Symbiotic Education and Learning
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Partners: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Sheffield, Universita di Pisa, University of Twente,
Semmelweis University.
7.10.13 – 6.1.15
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EPSRC Upgrading Small Scale Equipment Base
£4,000
Personal proportion of £49,746 award to the Sheffield Centre for Robotics.
1.10.12 – 30.9.14
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£82,508
Personal proportion of £825,082 award to the Sheffield Centre for Robotics.
1.11.12 – 31.3.13
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EPSRC Robotics & Autonomous Systems Capital Grant
CCDRI Network Scholarship
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Search and Rescue 2020: The role of voice communications in the Search and Rescue environment.
1.1.11 – 31.12.11
EU FRAMEWORK 7
€89,500
Co-Investigator (with Tony Prescott)
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CA-RoboCom: Robot Companions for the Citizen
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EU FP7 ICT Flagship Coordinating Action
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Collaboration with 9 European partners led by The BioRobotics Institute, Italy.
1.4.11 - 31.3.14
NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i)
£348,000
Co-Investigator (with PDG)
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DiSArM: Digital Speech Recovery from Articulator Movement
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Collaboration with the University of Hull.
1.1.09 - 31.12.12
EU FRAMEWORK 7
£352,549
Co-Investigator (with PDG)
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SCALE: Speech Communication with Adaptive Learning
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4-year Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN)
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Partners: University of Saarland, Swiss Foundation Dalle Molle, Radboud University Nijmegen, RWTH
Aachen, University of Edinburgh, Motorola, Philips and EURICE.
1.1.09 - 31.12.10
EU FRAMEWORK 7
£285,520
Co-Investigator (with PW & MH)
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SERA: Social Engagement with Robots and Agents
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2-year STREP:
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Partners: Österreichische Studiengesellschaft für Kybernetik, University of Sheffield, University of
Twente and University Duisburg-Essen
1.3.09 – 29.2.12
ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH
Co-Investigator (with PDG)
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REdRESS: Recognition and Reconstruction of Speech following Laryngectomy
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Collaboration with the University of Hull
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£45,386
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1.5.07 – 30.4.11
EU FRAMEWORK 6
£168,923
Co-Investigator (with GB, JB & WW)
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S2S: Sound to Sense
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4-year Marie Curie Research Training Network (RTN)
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Partners: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Univerzita Karlova V Praze Prague, CNRS Paris, Universita
Defli Studi Di Napoli Federica II, Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Norges Teknisk
Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Trondhiem, Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca, Universidad del
Pais Vasco, Universite de Geneva, University of Bristol and University of York.
1.12.06 – 30.11.09
EU FRAMEWORK 6
£241,064
Principal Investigator
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ACORNS: Acquisition of Communication and Recognition Skills
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3-year STREP project funded under the ‘Future and Emerging Technologies’ (FET) programme
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Partners: Radbound University Nijmegen, University of Leuven, University of Stockholm and Helsinki
University
1.11.06 - 31.10.10
EU FRAMEWORK 6
£1,167,175
Principal Investigator (from May 2009)
COMPANIONS: Intelligent, Persistent, Personalised Multimodal Interfaces to the Internet
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4-year Integrated Project (IP)
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Partners: University of Oxford, University of Teesside, Charles University Prague, Swedish Institute of
Computer Science, Napier University, University of Tampere, University of West Bohemia, University
of Washington, University of Albany, As An Angel, Loquendo, Telefonica and France Telecom.
November 2005
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£2,900
Visit to VoiceSignal and Microsoft in the US
August 2005
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UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Health Sector Travel Bursary
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
£700
Travel Grant
To present a paper at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI) held in
Irvine California
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Teaching
2011 - …
COM2002/3002/6222 ‘HUMAN CENTRED SYSTEMS DESIGN’
5/20 credits
COM4035 ‘DARWIN RESEARCH PROJECT’
5/40 credits
COM2005/3005 ‘BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTING AND ROBOTICS’
5/20 credits
2010 - 2011
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2006 - 2009 COM6078 ‘SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING BY MIND AND MACHINE’
10 credits
2005 - 2009
COM6075 ‘HLT METHODS, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS’
20 credits
COM3502/4502/6502 ‘SPEECH PROCESSING’
10 credits
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Research Students
2012 - ...
SAEID MOKARAM
PhD Supervisor
Thesis Title: The Role of Voice Communications in the Search and Rescue Environment
2010 - ...
SIDDHARTH SEHGAL
PhD joint Supervisor
Thesis Title: Recognition of Dysarthric Speech
2010 - ...
MAURO NICOLAO
PhD Supervisor
DIONYSIS BASAKOS
PhD Supervisor
ANDREJ LUNESKI
PhD Supervisor
Thesis Title: Reactive Speech Synthesis
2009 - ...
Thesis Title: Emotional MultiAgent Systems
2007 - 2013
Thesis Title: AFFECTiNet – Affective Computer-Mediated Interaction Framework for Collaborative Networks
2007 - 2011
GUILLAUME AIMETTI
PhD Supervisor
Thesis Title: A Computational Model of Early Language Acquisition: A Data-Driven Approach Inspired by the
Empiricist View of Cognitive Development
2006 - 2012
TIM KEMPTON
PhD Supervisor
Thesis Title: Machine-Assisted Phonemic Analysis
2006 - 2011
ROBIN HOFE
PhD Supervisor
Thesis Title: Biomimetic Vocal Tract Modelling: an Artificial Speaker to Investigate the Energetics of Speech
Production
2005 - 2009
THOMAS POULSEN
PhD Supervisor
Thesis Title: The Use of Computational Simulations to Investigate Neural Models of Acoustic Signalling and Hearing
2005 - 2008
JOE POLIFRONI
PhD 2nd Supervisor
Thesis Title: Learning Database Content for Spoken Dialogue System Design
2004 - 2010
VIKTORIA MAIER
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Thesis Title: Temporal Episodic Memory Model: Towards proactive Case-based Automatic Speech Recognition
2004 - 2008
MATT GIBSON
PhD 2nd Supervisor
Thesis Title: Discriminative Training in Speaker Adaptation
2004 - 2008
FRANCOIS MAIRESSE
PhD 2nd Supervisor
Thesis Title: Linguistic Style Variation in Spoken Language Generation
1994 - 1997
WENDY HOLMES
Industrial PhD Advisor
Thesis Title: Segment-based Approaches to Automatic Speech Recognition
1990 - 1996
MICHAEL TOMLINSON
Industrial PhD Advisor
Thesis Title: Integration of Audio and Visual Speech
External Examiner
2006 - 2008
MPHIL ON ‘COMPUTER SPEECH, TEXT AND INTERNET TECHNOLOGY’
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Thesis Examiner
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PhD. Frédéric Delaunay, A rear-projected robotic head for social human-robot interaction, University of
Plymouth, March 2013.
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PhD. Jiaming Zhang, Contextual recognition of robot emotions, University of Sheffield, March 2012.
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Ph.D. Dirkjan Krijnders, Signal-driven sound processing for uncontrolled environments, University of Groningen,
The Netherlands, July 2010.
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Ph.D. Sri Rama Murty Kodukula, Significance of excitation source information for speech analysis, Indian
Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, June 2009.
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Ph.D. Lisa Gustavsson, The language learning infant: Effects of speech input, vocal output, and feedback,
Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan Stockholm, Sweden, May 2009.
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PhD. Prakasith Kayasith, A Study on dysarthric speech assessments and automatic speech error analysis,
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand, June 2008.
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PhD. André Coy, Exploiting primitive grouping constraints for noise robust automatic speech recognition: studies
with simultaneous speech, University of Sheffield, April 2008.
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Ph.D. Mathius De Wachter, Example-based continuous speech recognition, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May
2007.
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Ph.D. Amit Malegaonkar, Speaker-based indexation of conversational audio, University of Hertfordshire,
Hatfield, November 2006.
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Ph.D. Bala Kolluru, Broadcast news: classification, summarisation and evaluation, University of Sheffield,
September 2006.
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Ph.D. Alastair James, Improving distributed speech recognition in packet loss, University of East Anglia,
Norwich, August 2006.
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Ph.D. Ben Kraal, Considering design for automatic speech recognition in use, University of Canberra, Australia,
May 2006.
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Ph.D. Plamen Prodanov, Error handling in multimodal voice-enabled interfaces of tour-guide robots using
graphical models, EPFL, Switzerland, June 2006.
PhD. Matt Robinson, Modelling normal and impaired human speech recognition in noise using a computational
auditory model, University of Sheffield, December 2011.
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Ph.D. Hemant Misra, Multi-stream processing for noise robust speech recognition, IDIAP, Switzerland, April
2006.
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Ph.D. Odette Sharenborg, Narrowing the gap between automatic and human word recognition, University of
Nijmegen, September 2005.
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Ph.D. Dimitrios Rentzos, Speaker modelling for voice conversion, Brunel University, January 2005.
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Ph.D. Thomas Hain, Hidden Markov sequence models for automatic speech recognition, Cambridge University
Engineering Dept., January 2002.
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Ph.D. Narada Dilp Warakoda, Nonlinear dynamical systems for automatic speech recognition, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, June 2001.
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Ph.D. Gethin Williams, Knowing what you don’t know: roles for confidence measures in automatic speech
recognition, University of Sheffield, August 1999.
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Ph.D. Jason Humphries, Accent modelling and adaptation in automatic speech recognition, Cambridge University
Engineering Dept., January 1998.
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Ph.D. Sabine Deligne, Modeles de sequences de longueurs variables, application au traitment du language naturel
et de la parole, Ecole National Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, October 1996.
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Ph.D. David A James, The application of classical information retrieval techniques to spoken documents, Downing
College Cambridge, February 1995.
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Ph.D. Russell J. Collingham, Towards an automatic speech recognition system for use by deaf students in lectures,
University of Durham, September 1994.
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Ph.D. Mats Blomberg, Towards production-oriented techniques for speech recognition, Kungliga Tekniska
Hogskolan Stockholm, Sweden, December 1994.
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Ph.D. Erik Harborg, Hidden Markov models applied to automatic speech recognition, Universitetet I Trondheim,
Norway, August 1990.
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Ph.D. Ian Howard, University College London, October 1989.
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M.Litt. Ceri S. Carlill, Distance metrics for speech spectra - a multidimensional scaling study, Wolfson College
Oxford, Michaelmas 1988
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M.Sc. Thomas J. Bryans, Mouth opening measurement for analysis of speech, The Queen’s University Belfast,
October 1985.
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Ph.D. Norman Black, Filterbank analysis of speech, The Queen’s University Belfast, October 1983.
M.Res. Nicholas Cook, Automatic analysis and transcription of prosody, University of York, December 2004.
Ph.D. Febe de Wet, Automatic speech recognition in adverse acoustic conditions, Katholieke Universiteit
Nijmegen, November 2003.
Ph.D. Paul Cosgrove, Detection of frequency and intensity changes using synthetic vowels and other sounds,
University of Keele, September 1988.
Scientific Meeting Organiser
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General Chair for INTERSPEECH 2009, the annual conference of the International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA), >1200 attendees, Brighton (6th-10th September 2009).
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Co-organiser of European Science Foundation (ESF) Workshop on ‘Models of Language Evolution, Acquisition
and Processing’, Leuven, November 2007.
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Organiser (and moderator) of plenary panel session on ‘Grand Challenges in SLT’ at IEEE Workshop on Spoken
Language Technology (SLT), Aruba, 2006.
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Organiser (and moderator) of plenary panel discussion on ‘Ubiquitous Speech Processing’ at INTERSPEECH,
Lisbon, 2005.
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Co-organiser of a special session on ‘E-inclusion and Spoken Language Processing’ at INTERSPEECH, Lisbon,
2005.
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Organiser (and moderator) of a panel session on ‘Open Source Software’, EUROSPEECH, Budapest, 1999.
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Organiser (and moderator) of a panel session on ‘Prospects for the next millennium: a survey of attendees’ at the
IEEE Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding, Santa Barbara, California, 14-17 December (1997).
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Co-organiser of IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), Santa Barbara,
CA, 1997.
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Co-organiser of ESCA European and Research Workshop on ‘Speech Under Stress’, Lisbon, 14-15 September
1995.
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Organiser of Special Session on ‘Computational Phonetics’ at the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences, Stockholm, 13-19 August 1995.
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Organiser of ESCA European Tutorial and Research Workshop on ‘Neural Networks and Speech’
(NEUROSPEECH), Edinburgh, 1989.
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Co-organiser of IEE international conference on ‘Speech Input/Output’, London, 1986.
Co-organiser of NATO workshop on ‘Structure of Multimodal Dialogue Including Voice’, Corsica, 1986.
Conference Panel Discussion Moderator/Participant
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Invited Panel Member for Special Session: ‘Structure-Based and Template-Based ASR’, INTERSPEECH, Antwerp
(2007).
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Invited Panel Member for Special Session: ‘Novel Techniques for the NATO Non-Native Air-Traffic Control and
HIWIRE Cockpit Databases’, INTERSPEECH, Antwerp (2007).
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Organiser/Moderator of Plenary Panel Session: ‘Grand Challenges in SLT’, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language
Technology (SLT), Aruba, (2006).
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Invited Moderator of Plenary Panel Session: ‘Ubiquitous Speech Processing’, ISCA INTERSPEECH, Lisbon, 8th
September (2005).
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Invited Panel Member: ‘Bridging the Gap between Human and Automatic Speech Processing’, ISCA
INTERSPSEECH, Lisbon, 6th September (2005).
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Invited Moderator of Panel Session: ‘Barriers to E-inclusion and Spoken Language Processing’, ISCA
INTERSPSEECH, Lisbon, 5th September (2005).
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Invited Moderator of Panel Session: ‘Making Sense of the Various Standards and Specifications for Speech
Applications’, VoiceWorldEurope, London, 6th May (2004).
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Invited Plenary Panel Member: ‘Industry Panel’, IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and
Understanding (ASRU), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, 1-4 December (2003).
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Organiser/Moderator of Panel Session: ‘Open Source Software’, EUROSPEECH, Budapest (1999).
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Organiser/Moderator of Panel Session: ‘Prospects for the next millennium: a survey of attendees’, IEEE
Workshop on Speech Recognition and Understanding, Santa Barbara, California, 14-17 December (1997).
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Invited Discussant in Special Session: ‘Speech Recognition and Perception from an Articulatory Point of View’,
Conference of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, (1994).
Invited Moderator of Panel Session: ‘Automatic Speech Recognition is a solved problem: a fact or a convenient
fiction?’, ICSLP, Sydney (1998).
Membership of International Scientific Review Committees
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ISCA INTERSPEECH, Lyon, August 2013.
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International Symposium on Automatic Detection of Errors in Pronunciation training (IS ADEPT), Stockholm, 6-8
June 2012.
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3rd IEEE Int. Conf. on Social Signal Processing (SocialCom-11), Boston, 9-11 October 2011.
ISCA INTERSPEECH, Portland Oregon, September 2012.
ASE/IEEE Int. Conf. on Social Signal Processing (SocialCom-12), Amsterdam, 3-6 September 2012.
ECAI Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems: Bridging the Gap among Language, Motor Control
and Vision (MLIS 2012), Montpellier, 27-28 August 2012.
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ISCA EUROSPEECH, Geneva, 1-4 September 2003.
International Congress on Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 2011.
ISCA INTERSPEECH, Makuhari, Japan, 26-30 September 2010,
12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON 2010),
Chalkidiki, Greece, 27-30May 2010.
ISCA INTERSPEECH, Brisbane, 22-26 September 2008.
ISCA ITRW on ‘Speech Analysis & Processing for Knowledge Discovery’, Aalborg, Denmark, 4-6 June 2008.
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) workshop, Kyoto, 9-13 December 2007.
ISCA INTERSPEECH, Antwerp, 27-31 August 2007.
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, (ICPhS), Saarbrüchen, 6-10 August 2007.
ParaLing'07: International workshop on ‘Paralinguistic Speech - between models and data’, Saarbrücken, 2-3
August 2007.
IEEE ICASSP, Hawaii, 16-20 April 2007.
IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) workshop, Aruba, 10-13 December 2007.
ISCA INTERSPEECH, Pittsburgh, 17-21 September 2006.
SPECOM, St. Petersburg, 2006.
IEEE ICASSP, Toulouse, 14-19 May, 2006.
SPECOM, Patras, Greece, 17-19 October, 2005.
ISCA INTERSPEECH, Lisbon, 5-8 September, 2005.
IEEE ICASSP, Philadelphia, 19-23 March, 2005.
ISCA INTERSPEECH, Jeju Island, Korea, 4-8 October, 2004.
IEEE ICASSP, Montreal, 17-21 May 2004.
18th International Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan, April 4-9, 2004.
IEEE ASRU Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding workshop, US Virgin Islands, 30 Nov.–4 Dec.
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ISCA Workshop on Auditory Quality of Systems, Akademie Mont-Cenis, Germany, 23-25 April 2003.
International STI Symposium, Soesterberg, 24-25 October 2002.
ICSLP-02, 17-20 September, 2002, Denver, Colorado.
LREC-2002, 29-31 May, 2002, Las Palmas, Spain.
ESCA EUROSPEECH’01, Aalborg, 2001.
ICSLP-2000, Beijing, 2000.
LREC-2000, Athens, 2000.
ESCA EUROSPEECH’99, Budapest, September, 1999.
ESCA Workshop on ‘Accessing information in spoken audio’, Cambridge, April 1999.
ICSLP’98, Sydney, 1998.
EUSIPCO, Athens, 1998.
ESCA Workshop on ‘Modeling pronunciation variation for automatic speech recognition’, Netherlands, May 1998.
GFCP Journees d’Etude sur la Parole, 1998.
LREC, Spain, 1998.; ESCA EUROSPEECH’97, Rhodes, 1997.
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Other Achievements
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Reviewer for QNRF, NZ Marsden Fund
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Regular reviewer for: EPSRC grant proposals, DTI and EU research projects, COST, the Dutch Research Council,
the Flanders Research Foundation and for journals such as Computer Speech and Language, Speech
Communication, IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence, Journal of Sound and Vibration and IEE Proceedings.
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2009: Invited Expert for an EU Consultation Workshop on the ‘ICT FP7 2011-2012 Work Programme’,
Luxembourg, 24th/25th November.
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2009: Chris Green won a national ‘Science Engineering and Technology’ (SET) award for his 3rd-year project 'The
Emotion Shuffle' (under my supervision).
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2008: Invited Expert for an EU Validation Workshop on ‘The Prospective of Speech-based Interfaces for future
Digital Services’, Seville, 3rd/4th March.
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2006-8: Expert reviewer for EU FP6 project ASPI.
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2004-7: Member of the International Assessment Panel for the Dutch/Flemish HLT programme STEVIN.
Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College.
Visiting Scientist: Bristol Robotics Laboratory, 26April – 28 May 2010.
Member of the Advisory Committee for the 2010 Young Researchers Round Table on Spoken Dialogue Systems
(YRRSDS'10), Waseda University, Tokyo, 22-23 September 2010.
2006: Successful bid to the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) to host its annual conference
INTERSPEECH in the UK (Brighton) in 2009.
2003-4: Expert reviewer for EU Framework 5 projects: M4, IMAGINE, GEMINI, INSPIRE and PF-STAR.
1997: Panel member for Toshiba Fellowship Programme.
1996: Visiting Research Fellow at the Max-Planc Institute for Psycho-Linguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
1995: Assessor for the Danish Technical Research Council.
1994: Appointed to the Advisory Board for the ‘Institute for Language Speech and Hearing’ at the University of
Sheffield.
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1989: Led the research and development of ‘ARMADA’ – one of only two or three real-time sub-word-HMM
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1990: Invited to Japan to propose a mechanism for international cooperation on speech databases and assessment
(leading to the formation of COCOSDA).
1986: Invented ‘HMM Decomposition’.
1985: Worked with PA Technology to develop ‘MICROTALK’ – one of only three real-time HMM-based ASR
systems available in the world.
1984: Founder of the Institute of Acoustics specialist sub-group on Speech Technology Assessment (STAG).
1983: Invited to the US National Bureau of Standards (Washington) to advise them, and an IEEE Standards
Working Group, on the preparation of guidelines for the assessment of automatic speech recognition systems.
1983: Led the first UK laboratory to apply ‘hidden Markov modelling’ (HMM) to speech.
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Publications
BOOKS & EDITTED WORKS
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Gilbert M, Moore R K and Zweig G (Eds.). IEEE TRANS. SPEECH & AUDIO PROCESSING: Special Issue on
‘Data Mining of Speech, Audio and Dialog’, Vol. 13, No. 5, September (2005).
Gibbon D, Mertins I and Moore R K (Eds.). HANDBOOK OF MULTIMODAL AND SPOKEN DIALOGUE
SYSTEMS: RESOURCES, TERMINOLOGY AND PRODUCT EVALUATION, Kluwer Academic Publishers
(2000).
Gibbon D, Moore R K and Winsky R (Eds.). THE EAGLES HANDBOOK OF STANDARDS AND RESOURCES
FOR SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS, Mouton de Gruyter (1997).
Moore R K (Ed.). SPEECH COMMUNICATION: Special Issue on ‘Speech Under Stress’, North-Holland, Vol. 20,
Nos. 1-2, November (1996).
Moore R K (Ed.). SPEECH COMMUNICATION: Special Issue on ‘Neural Networks and Speech NEUROSPEECH’, North-Holland, vol. 9, No. 1, February (1990).
BOOK CHAPTERS
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Moore, R. K. (2013). Spoken language processing: Where do we go from here? In R. Trappl (Ed.), Your Virtual
Butler, LNAI (Vol. 7407, pp. 111-125). Heidelberg: Springer.
Moore, R. K. (2010). Cognitive approaches to spoken language technology. In F. Chen & K. Jokinen (Eds.), Speech
Technology: Theory and Applications (pp. 89-103). New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London: Springer.
Luneski, A., Moore, R. K., & Bamidis, P. D. (2008). Affective computing and collaborative networks: towards
emotion-aware interaction. In L. M. Camarinha-Matos & W. Picard (Eds.), Pervasive Collaborative Networks (Vol.
283, pp. 315-322). Boston: Springer.
Moore, R K. ‘Spoken Language Processing by Machine’, OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, G.
Gaskell (ed.), Oxford University Press, (2007).
Moore, R. K. ‘Speech recognition’, THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LINGUISTICS (2nd Edition),
Oxford University Press, (2003).
Moore R K. ‘Speech pattern processing’, COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SPEECH PATTERN PROCESSING,
K Ponting (ed.), NATO ASI Series F, Vol.169, Springer-Verlag, pp 1-9, (1998).
Moore R K. ‘Users guide’, EAGLES HANDBOOK OF STANDARDS AND RESOURCES FOR SPOKEN
LANGUAGE SYSTEMS, D Gibbon, R K Moore and R Winsky (eds.), Mouton de Gruyter, pp 1-28, (1997).
Moore R K. ‘Automatic Speech Recognition: Theory and Practice’, EUROPEAN STUDIES IN PHONETICS AND
SPEECH COMMUNICATION, G Bloothooft, V Hazan, D Huber and J Llisterri (eds.), CIP-Gegevens Koninklijke
Bibliotheek, Den Haag, pp 133-137, (1995).
Moore R K. ‘Twenty things we still don’t know about speech’, PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SPEECH
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, H Niemann and R deMori (eds.), Infix, Germany (1994).
Moore R K. ‘The EAGLES working group on spoken language’, ADVANCED SPEECH APPLICATIONS:
EUROPEAN RESEARCH ON SPEECH TECHNOLOGY, K C Varghese, S Pfleger and J P Lefevre, SpringerVerlag (1994).
Moore R K. ‘Recognition - the stochastic modelling approach’, SPEECH PROCESSING, C Rowden (ed.),
McGraw-Hill, Chapter 7 (1992).
Peeling S M, Moore R K and Varga A P. ‘Isolated digit recognition using the multi-layer perceptron’, NATO ASI
Series, Vol. F46, RECENT ADVANCES IN SPEECH UNDERSTANDING AND DIALOGUE SYSTEMS, H
Niemann et al (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp 261-265 (1988).
McCann C A, Edmondson W and Moore R K. ‘Practical issues in dialogue design’, THE STRUCTURE OF
MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE, M M Taylor, F Neel and D G Bouwhuis (eds.), North-Holland, Chapter 34, pp 497511 (1988).
Moore R K. ‘Computational techniques’, ELECTRONIC SPEECH RECOGNITION, Bristow G (ed.), Collins,
Chapter 4, pp 130-157 (1986).
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15. Moore R K. ‘Systems for isolated and connected word recognition’, NATO ASI Series, Vol.F16, NEW SYSTEMS
AND ARCHITECTURES FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SYNTHESIS, De Mori R and Suen
C Y (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp 73-143 (1985).
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‘Speech recognition systems and theories of speech perception’, THE COGNITIVE
REPRESENTATION OF SPEECH, Myers, Laver and Anderson (eds.), North Holland, pp 427-441 (1981).
PATENTS
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Moore R K. ‘Speech synthesis apparatus and method’, Patent Application no. US 2004/0073427, 15 April (2004).
Moore R K. ‘Speech synthesis’, Patent Application no. GB 2392592A, 3 March (2004).
Moore R K. ‘Speech synthesis apparatus and method’, Patent Application no. 0219870.3, 22 Aug (2003).
Moore R K and Series R W. ‘Human-machine interface apparatus’, Patent Application no. US 2002/0015037 A1, 7
Feb. (2002).
Moore R K and Holmes W. ‘Speech synthesis from interpolated voices’, Patent Application no. WO 01/93247 A1, 6
December (2001).
Howell D N L, Hilton C S, Bridle J S, Moore R K and Russell M J. ‘Improvements in methods and apparatus for
signature verification’, Patent Application no. WO 91/07729 9024411.2, November (1990).
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Kempton, T., & Moore, R. K. (2013). Discovering the phoneme inventory of an unwritten language: a machineassisted approach. Speech Communication.
Hofe, R., Ell, S. R., Fagan, M. J., Gilbert, J. M., Green, P. D., Moore, R. K., & Rybchenko, S. I. (2013). Smallvocabulary speech recognition using a silent speech interface based on magnetic sensing. Speech Communication,
55(1), 22-32.
Moore, R. K. (2012). A Bayesian explanation of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ effect and related psychological phenomena.
Nature Scientific Reports, 2(864), doi:10.1038/srep00864.
Moore, R. K. (2012). Finding rhythm in speech: a response to Cummins. Empirical Musicology Review, 7(1-2), 3644.
Crook, N. T., Field, D., Smith, C., Harding, S., Pulman, S., Cavazza, M., Charlton, D., Moore, R. K., & Boye, J.
(2012). Generating context-sensitive ECA responses to user barge-in interruptions. Journal on Multimodal User
Interfaces, 6(1-2), 13-25.
Worgan, S., & Moore, R. K. (2011). Towards the detection of social dominance in dialogue. Speech Communication,
53(9-10), 1104-1114.
Wilks, Y., Worgan, S., Dingli, A., Catizone, R., Moore, R., Field, D., & Cheng, W. (2011). A prototype for a
conversational companion for reminiscing about images. Computer, Speech and Language, 25(2), 140-157.
Kirchner, R., Moore, R. K., & Chen, T.-Y. (2010). Computing phonological generalization over real speech
exemplars. Journal of Phonetics, 38(4), 540-547.
Gilbert, J. M., Rybchenko, S. I., Hofe, R., Ell, S. R., Fagan, M. J., Moore, R. K., & Green, P. (2010). Isolated word
recognition of silent speech using magnetic implants and sensors. Medical Engineering & Physics, 32, 1189-1197.
Worgan, S., & Moore, R. K. (2010). Speech as the perception of affordances. Ecological Psychology, 22(4), 327343.
Elshaw, M., Moore, R. K., & Klein, M. (2010). Attention-gating recurrent self-organising working memory for
emergent speech representation. Connection Science, 22(2), 157-175.
Hofe, R., & Moore, R. K. (2009). Biomimetic vocal tract modeling: preliminary results of vocalization experiments.
Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA), 6(1), 1-8 060004.
ten Bosch, L., Van hamme, H., Boves, L., & Moore, R. K. (2009). A computational model of language acquisition:
the emergence of words. Fundamenta Informaticae, 90, 229-249.
Hofe, R., & Moore, R. K. (2008). Towards an investigation of speech energetics using 'AnTon': an animatronic
model of a human tongue and vocal tract. Connection Science, 20(4), 319–336.
Mairesse, F., Walker, M.A., Mehl, M.R. and Moore, R.K. ‘Using linguistic cues for the automatic recognition of
personality in conversation’, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol.30, pp.457-500, November (2007).
Moore R K. ‘PRESENCE: A human-inspired architecture for speech-based human-machine interaction’, IEEE
Trans. Computers, Special Issue on Emergent Systems, Algorithms an Architectures for Speech-Based HumanMachine Interaction, Vol.56, No.9, pp.1176-1188, September (2007).
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17. Scharenborg O., Wan V and Moore R K. ‘Towards capturing fine phonetic variation in speech using articulatory
features’, J. Speech Communication, Special Issue on Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation, Vol.49, pp.811826, (2007).
18. Moore R K. ‘Spoken Language Processing: Piecing Together the Puzzle’, J. Speech Communication, Special Issue
on Bridging the Gap Between Human and Automatic Speech Processing, Vol.49, pp.418-435, (2007).
19. Moore R K. ‘Preface: Special Issue in Honour of Louis Pols’, J. Speech Communication, Vol.47, pp.4-5,
September-October (2005).
20. Moore R K. ‘Critique: The potential role of speech production models in automatic speech recognition’, Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.99, No.3, pp 1710-1713, March (1996).
21. Jensen U, Moore R K, Dalsgaard P and Lindberg B. ‘Modelling intonation contours at the phrase level using
continuous density hidden Markov models’, Computer Speech and Language 8, pp 247-260, (1994).
22. Moore R K and Peeling S M. ‘Minimally distinct word-pair discrimination using a back-propagation network’,
Computer Speech and Language 3, pp 119-131 (1989).
23. Peeling S M and Moore R K. ‘Isolated digit recognition experiments using the multi-layer perceptron’, Speech
Communication 7, pp 403-409, September (1988).
24. Russell M J, Moore R K and Tomlinson, M J. ‘Dynamic programming and statistical modelling in automatic speech
recognition’, J. Operational Research Society, Vol.37, No.1, pp 21-30 (1986).
25. Moore, R. K. (1981). Speech recognition systems and theories of speech perception. Advances in Psychology, 7,
427-441.
26. Moore R K. ‘A multilevel approach to pattern processing’, Pattern Recognition 14, pp 261-265 (1981).
27. Moore R K. ‘A dynamic programming algorithm for the distance between two finite areas’, IEEE Trans. Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence 1, pp 86-88 (1979).
28. Moore R K. ‘Evaluating speech recognisers’, IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 25, pp 178-183
(1977).
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Nicolao, M., Tesser, F., & Moore, R. K. (2013). A phonetic-contrast motivated adaptation to control the degree-ofarticulation on Italian HMM-based synthetic voices. 8th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW8). Barcelona, Spain.
Hofe, R., Bai, J., Cheah, L. A., Ell, S. R., Gilbert, J. M., Moore, R. K., & Green, P. D. (2013). Performance of the
MVOCA silent speech interface across multiple speakers. In INTERSPEECH (pp. 1140–1143).
Basakos, D., Kefalas, P., & Moore, R. K. (2013). Emotional BDI agents: The influence of emotions on cognitive
decision-making process. 8th South East European Doctoral Student Conference (DSC 2013), Thessaloniki, Greece.
Nicolao, M., Latorre, J., & Moore, R. K. (2012). C2H: A computational model of H&H-based phonetic contrast in
synthetic speech, INTERSPEECH. Portland, USA.
Nicolao, M., & Moore, R. K. (2012). Establishing some principles of human speech production through bidimensional computational models, SAPA-SCALE 2012. Portland, Oregon.
Moore, R. K. (2011). Progress and prospects for speech technology: Results from three sexennial surveys,
INTERSPEECH. Florence, Italy.
Kempton, T., Moore, R. K., & Hain, T. (2011). Cross-language phone recognition when the target language
phoneme inventory is not known, INTERSPEECH. Florence, Italy.
Hofe, R., Ell, S. R., Fagen, M. J., Gilbert, J. M., Green, P. D., Moore, R. K., & Rybchenko, S. I. (2011). Speech
synthesis parameter generation for the assistive silent speech interface MVOCA, INTERSPEECH. Florence, Italy.
Moore, R. K., & Nicolao, M. (2011). Reactive speech synthesis: actively managing phonetic contrast along an H&H
continuum, 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (ICPhS). Hong Kong.
Aimetti, G., Moore, R. K., & ten Bosch, L. (2010). Discovering an optimal set of minimally contrasting acoustic
speech units: a point of focus for whole-word pattern matching, INTERSPEECH. Makahuri, Japan.
Hofe, R., Ell, S. R., Fagan, M. J., Gilbert, J. M., Green, P. D., Moore, R. K., & Rybchenko, S. I. (2010). Evaluation
of a Silent Speech Interface Based on Magnetic Sensing, INTERSPEECH. Makuhari, Japan.
Aimetti, G., ten Bosch, L., & Moore, R. K. (2009). Modelling early language acquisition with a dynamic systems
perspective, 9th Int. Conf. on Epigenetic Robotics. Venice.
Moore, R. K., & ten Bosch, L. (2009). Modelling vocabulary growth from birth to young adulthood,
INTERSPEECH. Brighton, UK.
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14. Aimetti, G., & Moore, R. K. (2009). Discovering keywords from cross-modal input: ecological vs. engineering
methods for enhancing acoustic repetitions, INTERSPEECH. Brighton, UK.
15. Kempton, T., & Moore, R. K. (2009). Finding allophones: an evaluation on consonants in the TIMIT corpus,
INTERSPEECH. Brighton, UK.
16. Maier, V., & Moore, R. K. (2009). The case for case-based automatic speech recognition, INTERSPEECH.
Brighton, UK.
17. Kirchner, R., & Moore, R. K. (2009). Computing phonological generalization over real speech exemplars, 83rd
Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. San Francisco.
18. Poulsen, T., & Moore, R. K. (2009). Evolving spiking neural parameters for behavioral sequences, 19th International
Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2009). Limassol, Cyprus.
19. Worgan, S., & Moore, R. K. (2009). Spoken language processing as an aspect of human behaviour, Grounding
Language in Perception and (Inter) Action. Wenham, MA.
20. Hofe, R., & Moore, R. K. (2008). AnTon: an animatronic model of a human tongue and vocal tract,
INTERSPEECH. Brisbane, Australia.
21. Hofe, R., & Moore, R. K. (2008). Animatronic model of a human tongue, Artificial Life XI. Winchester.
22. Hofe, R., & Moore, R. K. (2008). AnTon: Using an animatronic tongue and vocal tract model to investigate human
language learning from an energetics point of view, Epigenetic Robotics. Brighton.
23. Kirchner, R., & Moore, R. K. (2008). Speech production with an exemplar-based lexicon, The 16th Manchester
Phonology Meeting. Manchester.
24. Luneski, A., Moore, R. K., & Bamidis, P. (2008). Affective interaction in collaborative networks, The 9th IFIP
Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises. Poznan, Poland.
25. Kirchner, R., & Moore, R. K. (2008). Modelling exemplar-based phonologization, Symposium on Phonologization.
Chicago.
26. Kempton, T., & Moore, R. K. (2008). Language identification: insights from the classification of hand annotated
phone transcripts, Odyssey Workshop on Speaker and Language Recognition. Stellenbosch, South Africa.
27. Moore, R K. ‘Towards speech-based human-robot interaction’, Proc. Symposium on Language and Robotics,
Aveiro, Portugal, 10-12 Dec. (2007).
28. Maier, V and Moore, R K. ‘Temporal episodic memory model: an evolution of MINERVA2’, Proc.
INTERSPEECH, Antwerp, 27-31 August (2007).
29. Moore, R K. and Maier, V. ‘Preserving fine phonetic detail using episodic memory: automatic speech recognition
with MINERVA2’, Proc. ICPhS, Saarbruchen, 6-10 August (2007).
30. Boves L, ten Bosch L and Moore R K. ‘ACORNS – Towards Computational Modeling of Communication and
Recognition Skills’, Proc. 6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, 6-8
August (2007).
31. Poulsen, T and Moore, R K. ‘Sound localization through evolutionary learning applied to spiking neural networks’,
IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI’07), Honolulu, Hawaii, 1-5 April 2007.
32. Scharenborg O, Wan V and Moore R K. ‘Capturing fine-phonetic detail in speech through automatic classification
of articulatory features’, Proc. ISCA workshop on Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation, Toulouse, 20 May
2006.
33. Moore R K. ‘Results from a survey of attendees at ASRU 1997 and 2003’, Proc. INTERSPEECH 2005 Lisbon, 5-9
September (2005).
34. Hawley M S, Green P D, Enderby P, Cunningham S P and Moore R K. ‘Speech technology for e-inclusion of
people with physical disabilities and disordered speech’, Proc. INTERSPEECH 2005 Lisbon, 5-9 September (2005).
35. Maier V and Moore R K. ‘An investigation into a simulation of episodic memory for automatic speech recognition’,
Proc. INTERSPEECH 2005 Lisbon, 5-9 September (2005).
36. Moore R K. ‘Towards a unified theory of spoken language processing’, Proc. 4th IEEE International Conference on
Cognitive Informatics, Irvine, CA, USA, 8-10 August (2005).
37. Moore R K. ‘Modelling data entry rates for ASR and alternative input methods’, Proc. INTERSPEECH 2004 ICSLP,
Jeju, Korea, 4-8 October (2004).
38. Moore R K. ‘A comparison of the data requirements of automatic speech recognition systems and human listeners’,
Proc. EUROSPEECH’03, Geneva, pp. 2582-2584, 1-4 September (2003).
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39. Moore R K. ‘Understanding speech understanding’, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing, Seattle, 12-14 May (1998).
40. Tomlinson M J, Russell M J, Moore R K, Buckland A P and Fawley M A. ‘Modelling asynchrony in speech using
elementary single-signal decomposition’, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp
1247-1250, Munich, 20-24 April (1997).
41. Garner P N, Browning S R, Moore R K and Russell M J. ‘A theory of word frequencies and its application to
dialogue move recognition’, Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp 1880-1883,
Philadelphia, 3-6 October (1996).
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
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Moore, R. K. (2014). Spoken language Processing: Time to Look Outside? In 2nd International Conference on
Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2014). Grenoble.
Moore, R. K. (2012). Spoken language interaction with 'intelligent' systems: How are we doing, and what do we
need to do next?, EUCogII Workshop on Challenges for Artificial Cognitive Systems II. Oxford.
Moore, R. K. (2011). ‘Interacting with Purpose (and Feeling!): What Neuropsychology and the Performing Arts Can
Tell Us About 'Real' Spoken Language Behaviour’, International Workshop on Paralinguistic Information and its
Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS2011). Granada, Spain, 2-3 September.
Moore, R. K. (2010). ‘Kõnekeele Töötlemine: Homse päeva tehnoloogia täna või tänapäeva tehnoloogia homme?
(Spoken Language Processing: tomorrow’s technology today or today’s technology tomorrow?)’, Estonian HLT
Conference. Tartu, Estonia, 25-26 November.
Moore R K. ‘Automatic Speech Recognition: Progress & Prospects’, Opening invited talk at the Association of
Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (AHHP) Spring Conference, Leeds, 23rd February (2007).
Moore R K. ‘Interaction and Language’, Invited talk in the session on ‘Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics’ at
the EU IST Conference, Helsinki, 22nd November (2006).
Moore R K. ‘Research Challenges in the Automation of Spoken Language Interaction’, Keynote talk, COST278 and
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Applied Spoken Language Interaction in Distributed
Environments, Aalborg University, Denmark, 10-11 November (2005).
Moore R K. ‘Cognitive Informatics: The Future of Spoken Language Processing?’, Keynote talk, SPECOM – 10th
Int. Conf. on Speech and Computer, Patras, Greece, 17-19 October (2005).
Moore R K. ‘Spoken Language Technology: Where Do We Go From Here?’, Invited Keynote talk at the 38th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’2000), Hong Kong, 3-6 October (2000).
Moore R K. ‘Let’s Talk Speech’, keynote talk at Inst. Of Acoustics 25th anniversary conference, 13 May 1999,
Acoustics Bulletin, vol.24, no.3, pp11-15, May/June (1999).
Moore R K. ‘The EAGLES working group on spoken language (handing over the handbook)’, Keynote Talk,
Language Engineering Convention, London, 16-18 October (1995).
Moore R K. ‘Speech pattern processing: from blue sky ideas to a unified theory?’, Tyndall Medal Lecture, Institute
of Acoustics Conference on Speech and Hearing, Windermere, November (1994).
Moore R K. ‘Twenty things we still don’t know about speech’, Keynote Talk, CRIM/FORWISS workshop on
Progress and Prospects of Speech Research and Technology, Munich, 5-7 September (1994).
Moore R K. ‘Whither a theory of speech pattern processing?’, Keynote Talk, EUROSPEECH’93, Berlin, 21-23
September (1993).
INVITED CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
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Moore, R. K. (2014). Towards Communicative Machines. In AISB-50 Symposium on Embodied vs. Simulated
Behaviour and Cognition: What can Robotics contribute to the Language Sciences? London.
Moore, R. K. (2013). Interpreting intentional behaviour. In Dagstuhl Seminar 13451 on Computational Audio
Analysis. Dagstuhl, Germany.
Moore, R. K. (2013). The Uncanny Valley: what it is, why it matters, and how we might be able to avoid it,
International Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction, Christ's College, University of Cambridge, 26-30
August.
Nicolao, M., & Moore, R. K. (2012). Actively managing phonetic contrast along an H&H continuum in automatic
speech synthesis, 5th Workshop on Speech in Noise: Intelligibility and Quality. Vitoria, Spain.
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Moore, R. K. (2012). Some insights into talker-listener-environment coupling, energetics and the contrastive
particulate structure of spoken language, The Listening Talker - an interdisciplinary workshop on natural and
synthetic modification of speech in response to listening conditions. Edinburgh.
Moore, R. K. (2012). Do robots need cognition, and does cognition need robots: a response to Matthias Scheutz.
EUCog III Meeting, Vienna.
Moore, R. K. (2011). Discovering the particulate structure of speech, Workshop on Developmental Speech
Recognition. Bielefeld.
Moore, R. K. (2010). Invited talk - response to F. Cummins: "Looking for rhythm in speech", British Psychological
Society Language & Music Seminar on "Entrainment & Meaning". Cambridge.
Moore, R. K. (2009). Invited talk - Progress and prospects for speech technology: results of a survey, IEEE
Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding. Moreno, Italy.
Hofe, R., & Moore, R. K. (2009). Biomimetic vocal tract modeling: Synthesis of speech articulation, 157th Meeting:
Acoustical Society of America. Portland, Oregon.
Moore, R. K. (2009). Speech and emotion, FET09: European Future Technologies Conference. Prague.
Moore R K. ‘PREdictive SENsorimotor Control and Emulation (PRESENCE): Implications for Future Spoken
Language Technology’, Invited talk at the CONTACT International Workshop on ‘Is a neural theory of language
possible? Development of unified representations in natural and artificial systems’, Lecce, Italy, 28-30 June (2007).
Moore R K. ‘Sensorimotor Overlap in Living Organisms’, Opening Invited talk at the One Day Meeting on ‘Unified
Models for Speech Recognition and Synthesis’, University of Birmingham, 11th January (2007).
Moore R K. ‘The Future of Spoken Language Technology: Does it Have One?’, Invited talk at The Society for
Research in Rehabilitation (SRR) Winter Conference, Sheffield, 8th February (2007).
Moore R K. ‘Speculating on the Future for Automatic Speech Recognition’, Invited talk on a survey of attendees,
IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, 1-4
December (2003).
Moore R K. ‘Progress, Promises and Prospects for Automatic Speech Recognition’, UKCoD/NADP Conf. on New
Technologies in Communication for Deaf People’, London, 4th October (2005).
Moore R K. ‘Predicting the Future of Speech Technology: speculation & trends’, Invited talk at LangTech 2004,
Paris, 24-25 November (2003).
Moore R K. ‘Towards a Theory of Speech Recognition: bridging ASR & HSR’, Invited talk at the workshop on
‘Innovative Approaches Bridging Automatic and Human Speech Recognition’, University of Nijmegen, 17
November (2003).
Moore R K. ‘Spoken Language Output: Realising the Vision’, Invited talk at the ELSNET Special Session ‘Towards
a Roadmap for Speech Technology’, Proc. EUROSPEECH’03, Geneva, pp. 2909-2912, 1-4 September (2003).
Moore R K. ‘The Future of Speech-Based Services: Bringing in the Benefit’, Invited lecture, COST249 workshop
on Voice Operated Telecom Services (VOTS2000), Gent, 11-12 May (2000).
Moore R K. ‘Speech Recognition Systems: Present and Future’, invited opening lecture, Heraeus Seminar, Bad
Honef, 3-5 April (2000).
Moore R K. ‘Dictation and Voice Control’, invited lecture at IEE Colloquium on Speech and Language
Engineering, 19 November (1998).
Mariani J J and Moore R K. ‘Roadmap of challenges and achievements in speech processing, with focus on the
contribution of EU speech projects", EU Speech Projects Day, Rhodes, 22 September (1997).
Moore R K. ‘Where do we go from here?’, Closing discussion, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computational
Models of Speech Pattern Processing, Jersey, 7-18 July (1997).
Moore R K. ‘What is speech pattern processing?’, Opening lecture, NATO Advanced Study Institute on
Computational Models of Speech Pattern Processing, Jersey, 7-18 July (1997).
Moore R K. ‘Moving speech recognition from the lab to real world environments: challenges and solutions’, Invited
lecture, IIR Conference on Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech, London, 14 February (1996).
Moore R K. ‘Computational phonetics’, Invited Talk, XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,
Stockholm, 13-19 August (1995).
Moore R K. ‘Pre-lexical processing: a view from ASR’, invited lecture, workshop on Methods and Models of
Spoken Word Recognition, Max-Planc Institute, Nijmegen, 26-27 January (1995).
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29. Moore R K. ‘Topic spotting in speech’, invited talk, SALT Club meeting on Information Retrieval, 3-4 January
(1995).
30. Moore R K. ‘Speech technology response to speech production models in automatic speech recognition’, invited
critique in a special session on Speech Recognition and Perception from an Articulatory Point of View, Acoustical
Society of America, Boston, June (1994).
31. Moore R K. ‘Are current technologies up to the challenge?’, COST workshop on Speech Recognition Over the
Telephone, Rome, 5-6 November (1992).
32. Moore R K. ‘The state-of-the-art in speech’, Proc. ELSNET/SALT workshop on Integrating Speech and Natural
Language, Dublin, July (1992).
33. Moore R K. ‘The future for standards in speech technology’, NPL workshop on Standards and Methods in Speech
Technology Assessment, 7 July (1992).
34. Moore R K. ‘User needs in speech research’, Proc. workshop on European Textual Corpora, Pisa Italy, 23-26
January (1992).
35. Moore R K. ‘Speech recognition: available assessment methods and needs for standardisation’, Proc. workshop on
International Co-operation and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Speech I/O Assessment Methods, Chiavari
Italy, 26-28 September (1991).
36. Moore R K. ‘International co-ordination of research standards in speech science and technology’, Proc. ICSLP-90
workshop on International Co-ordination of Spoken Language Database and Assessment Techniques for Speech
Input/Output, Kobe Japan, November (1990).
37. Moore R K. ‘The technology of speech recognition’, CCTA/Blenhiem-Online Conf. on Knowledge Based Systems
in Government, Bristol, 8-10 Nov. (1988).
38. Moore R K. ‘The future of speech systems’, IFS Executive Briefing on Speech Technology in Industry’, London, 1
Nov. (1988).
39. Moore R K, ‘SALTUS-2000 - speech and language technology: a UK strategy’, special address, FASE conference,
Speech 88, Edinburgh, 22-26 August (1988).
40. Moore R K. ‘Automatic speech recognition: past, present and future’, 2nd Franco-Brittanic Meeting on Speech,
Univ. Sussex, 4-6 July (1988).
41. Moore R K. ‘The Institute of Acoustics Speech Group’, 1st French-British Meeting on Speech, Lannion, France, 3-5
June (1987).
42. Moore R K. ‘Experiences in performance evaluation’, Speech Tech’86, New York, USA, 28-30 April (1986).
43. Moore R K. ‘Some relationships between Boltzmann machines and current algorithms for automatic speech
recognition’, Joint Inst. Acoustics Speech Group / British Pattern Recognition Assoc. Meeting, London, 7 January
(1985).
44. Moore R K. ‘Overview of speech input’, IFS Conf. on Speech Technology, Brighton, October (1984).
45. Russell M J, Moore R K and Tomlinson M J. ‘Dynamic programming and statistical modelling in automatic speech
recognition’, National Operational Research Conf., Lancaster, 6 September (1984).
46. Moore R K. ‘Assessment activities in automatic speech recognition’, Inst. Acoustics Speech Group Workshop on
Speech Input/Output Assessment, London, 1 December (1983).
47. Moore R K. ‘Talking to machines’, British Association for the Advancement of Science Conf., Liverpool, 10
September (1982).
48. Moore R K. ‘Military and civil applications of automatic speech recognition’, SERC Speech Recognition
Workshop, Didcot, 15 July (1982).
49. Moore R K. ‘Speech recognition at RSRE’, IEE Colloquium on The Computer Recognition of Speech, London, 18
May (1981).
50. Moore R K. ‘Speech recognition systems and theories of speech perception’, Conference on The Cognitive
Representation of Speech, Edinburgh (1981).
DISTINGUISHED LECTURES
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Moore, R. K. (2012). Computers that Talk and Listen. Distinguished Visiting Speaker: York University Public
Lecture series (14th November 2012).
Moore, R. K. (2010). Spoken language processing: where do we go from here?, Distinguished Lecture at SEERC,
Thessaloniki (11th February 2010).
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Moore, R. K. (2008). Spoken language processing: where do we go from here?, Distinguished Lecture at the WISP2008 Workshop on Image and Speech Processing. Hyderabad, India.
Moore R K. ‘Spoken language processing: where do we go from here?’, Distinguished Lecture at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 22nd November (2007).
Moore R K. ‘Computer Speech Recognition: a viable technology?’, Distinguished Lecture at the AGM of the
National Association of Deafened People, Nottingham, 17 June (2006).
INVITED TUTORIALS
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Moore, R. K. (2013). Tutorial - The Uncanny Valley: what it is, why it matters, and how we might be able to avoid
it. In The International Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction. Cambridge, August.
Moore, R. K. (2008). Tutorial – Individuality & emotion in speech and language: implications for artificial
conversational agents, 4.5hr Tutorial at 22nd Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series/Companions Fall School. Prague.
Moore R K. & Cutler A. ‘Speech Recognition by Mind and Machine’, 3hr Tutorial at INTERSPEECH 2008,
Brisbane, September (2008).
Moore R K. ‘How to Give a Good Presentation’, Invited talk to students at INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp, August
(2007).
Moore R K. & Cutler A. ‘Spoken Language Processing by Mind and Machine’, 3hr Tutorial at INTERSPEECH
2007, Antwerp, August (2007).
Moore R K. ‘Spoken Language Processing: Separating Science Fact from Science Fiction’, Invited tutorial at the
41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2003), Sapporo Convention Center,
Sapporo, Japan, 7-12 July (2003).
Moore R K. ‘Assessment of Speech Input Systems’, Proc. ESCA Tutorial Day on Speech Input/Output Assessment,
Noordwijkerhout, Holland, 20 Sept. (1989).
Moore R K. ‘Stochastic modelling for speech pattern processing’, Univ. of Essex short course on Speech
Processing, 14-18 March (1988).
Moore R K. ‘Stochastic modelling’, DSAC Seminar on Pattern Recognition and Data Fusion, 26-27 January (1988).
Moore R K. ‘Advances in speech pattern processing’, Summer School on Speech, Sound and Hearing Research,
Bollerup Castle, Sweden, 7 August (1986).
Moore R K. ‘Systems for isolated and connected word recognition’, NATO ASI on New Systems and Architectures
for Automatic Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Bonas, France, 2-14 July (1984).
Moore R K. ‘Assessment of speech systems’, AGARD Lecture Series No.129 on Speech Processing, NorwayDenmark-Holland, 20-28 June (1983).
Moore R K. ‘Techniques for automatic speech recognition’, AGARD Lecture Series No.129 on Speech Processing,
Norway-Denmark-Holland, 20-28 June (1983).
UNREFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS
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Ell, S. R., Bai, J., Cheah, L., Fagan, M., Gilbert, J., Green, P., Hofe, R., Moore, R., & Rybchenko, S. (2012).
Electronic speech restoration following laryngectomy, 14th British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology & ENT.
Glasgow.
Nicolao, M., & Moore, R. K. (2012). Consonant production control in a computational model of hyper & hypo
theory (C2H), The Listening Talker - an interdisciplinary workshop on natural and synthetic modification of speech
in response to listening conditions. Edinburgh.
Moore, R. K. (2012). Extending Maturana and Varela's symbolic representation of autopoiesis to create a rich visual
language for envisioning a wide range of enactive systems with different degrees of complexity, Foundations of
Enactive Cognitive Science. Cumberland Lodge, Great Park of Windsor.
Moore, R. K., & Maier, V. (2012). Visual, vocal and behavioural affordances: some effects of consistency, 5th
International Conference on Cognitive Systems - CogSys 2012. Vienna.
Crook, N., Smith, C., Cavazza, M., Pulman, S., Moore, R. K., & Boye, J. (2010). Handling user interruptions in an
embodied conversational agent, AAMAS 2010: 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems. Toronto.
Elshaw, M., Moore, R. K., & Klein, M. (2009). Hierarchical recurrent self-organising memory (H-RSOM)
architecture for an emergent speech representation towards robot grounding, Natural Computing and Intelligent
Robotics. Sunderland.
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Elshaw, M., & Moore, R. K. (2009). A recurrent working memory architecture for emergent speech representation,
Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience. Frankfurt, Germany.
Luneski, A., Bamidis, P., & Moore, R. K. (2009). AFFEECTiNet - Affective computer-mediated interaction
framework for collaborative networks, Workshop on Specification and Computation of Emotions in Collaborative
Networks (SCACSNET'09). Thessaloniki, Greece.
Worgan, S., & Moore, R. K. (2008). Enabling reinforcement learning for open dialogue systems through speech
stress detection, Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation. Bellagio, Italy.
Moore R K. ‘Research Challenges in the Automation of Spoken Language Interaction’, COST278 and ISCA
Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Applied Spoken Language Interaction in Distributed Environments,
Aalborg University, Denmark, 10-11 November (2005).
Moore R K. ‘Cognitive Informatics: The Future of Spoken Language Processing?’, SPECOM – 10th Int. Conf. on
Speech and Computer, Patras, Greece, 17-19 October (2005).
Moore R K and Cunningham S P. ‘Plasticity in systems for automatic speech recognition: a review’, Proc. ISCA
Workshop on ‘Plasticity in Speech Perception’, pp. 109-112, London, 15-17 June (2005).
Moore R K and Cutler A. ‘Constraints on theories of human vs. machine recognition of speech’, Proc. SPRAAC
Workshop on Human Speech Recognition as Pattern Classification, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen, 11-13 July (2001).
Moore R K. ‘There’s no data like more data (but when will enough be enough?)’, Proc. Inst. Of Acoustics
Workshop on Innovation in Speech Processing, IoA Proceedings vol.23, pt.3, pp.19-26, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2-3
April (2001).
Nowell P and Moore R K. ‘The application of dynamic programming techniques to non-word based topic spotting’,
Proc. EUROSPEECH’95, Madrid, 18-21 September (1995).
Winski R, Moore R K and Gibbon D. ‘EAGLES spoken language working group: overview and results’, Proc.
EUROSPEECH’95, Madrid, 18-21 September (1995).
Moore R K. ‘Computational phonetics’, Proc. XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, 13-19
August (1995).
Bird, S, Browning S R, Moore R K and Russell M J. ‘Dialogue move recognition using topic spotting techniques’,
Proc. ESCA ETRW on Dialogue, May (1995).
Moore R K. ‘Speech pattern processing: from blue sky ideas to a unified theory?’, Proc. Institute of Acoustics
Conference on Speech and Hearing, Windermere, November (1994).
Brooke N M, Tomlinson M J and Moore R K. ‘Automatic speech recognition that includes visual speech cues’,
Proc. Institute of Acoustics Conference on Speech and Hearing, Windermere, November (1994).
Moore R K, Russell M J, Nowell P, Downey S N and Browning S R. ‘A comparison of phoneme decision tree
(PDT) and context adaptive phone (CAP) based approaches to vocabulary-independent speech recognition’, Proc.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Adelaide, 19-22 April (1994).
Moore R K. ‘Whither a theory of speech pattern processing?’, Proc. EUROSPEECH’93, Berlin, 21-23 September
(1993).
Jensen U, Moore R K, Dalsgaard P and Lindberg B.’Modelling of intonation contours at the sentence level using
CHMMs and the 1961 O’Conner and Arnold scheme’, Proc. EUROSPEECH’93, Berlin, 21-23 September (1993).
Moore R K. ‘The EAGLES working group on spoken language, CEC Speech Projects day, Berlin, 20 September
(1993).
Moore, R. K., & Browning, S. R. (1992). Results of an exercise to collect ‘genuine’ spoken enquiries using WoZ
techniques, Institute of Acoustics Speech and Hearing Conference. Windermere.
Moore R K and Morris A. ‘Experiences collecting genuine spoken enquiries using WOZ techniques’, Proc. 5th
DARPA workshop on Speech and Natural Language, New York, February (1992).
Varga A P and Moore R K. ‘Simultaneous recognition of concurrent speech signals using hidden Markov model
decomposition’, Proc. ESCA EUROSPEECH conference, Genova Italy, September (1991).
Browning S R, Moore R K, Ponting K M and Russell M J. ‘A phonetically motivated analysis of the performance of
the ARM continuous speech recognition system’, Proc. Inst. Of Acoustics Conf. on Speech and Hearing,
Windermere, November (1990).
Russell M J, Ponting K M, Peeling S M, Browning S R, Bridle J S and Moore R K. ‘The ARM continuous speech
recognition system’, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Albuquerque, 3-6 April
(1990).
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30. Varga A P and Moore R K. ‘Hidden Markov model decomposition of speech and noise’, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Albuquerque, 3-6 April pp 845-848, (1990).
31. Moore R K and Peeling S M. ‘Phonetic discrimination using the multi-layer perceptron’, Proc. FASE SPEECH-88
Conference, Edinburgh, 22-26 August (1988).
32. Varga A P, Moore R K, Bridle J S, Ponting K M and Russell M J. ‘Noise compensation algorithms for use with
hidden Markov model based speech recognition’, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,
New York, 11-14 April (1988).
33. Beet S W, Powrie H, Moore R K and Tomlinson M J. ‘Improved speech recognition using a reduced auditory
representation’, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, New York, 11-14 April (1988).
34. Moore R K. ‘Speech technology in a multilingual NATO environment’, Proc. Military Speech Tech., Washington,
17-19 November (1987).
35. Peeling S M, Moore R K and Tomlinson M J. ‘The multi-layer perceptron as a tool for speech pattern processing
research’, Proc. Inst. Of Acoustics Conf. on Speech and Hearing, Windermere 28-30 November (1986).
36. Beet S W, Moore R K and Tomlinson M J. ‘Auditory modelling for automatic speech recognition’, Proc. Inst. Of
Acoustics Conf. on Speech and Hearing, Windermere 28-30 November (1986).
37. Lowe D, Tomlinson M J and Moore R K. ‘The Wigner distribution as a speech signal processing tool’, Proc. Inst.
Of Acoustics Conf. on Speech and Hearing, Windermere 28-30 November (1986).
38. Moore R K and Bridle J S. ‘Speech research at RSRE’, Proc. Inst. Of Acoustics Conf. on Speech and Hearing,
Windermere 28-30 November (1986).
39. Moore R K. ‘The NATO research study group on speech processing: RSG10’, Proc. Speech Tech’86, New York,
USA, pp 201-203, 28-30 April (1986).
40. Russell M J and Moore R K. ‘Explicit modelling of state occupancy in hidden Markov models for automatic speech
recognition’, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Tampa, 26-29 March (1985).
41. Bridle J S and Moore R K. ‘Boltzmann machines for speech pattern processing’, Proc. Inst. Acoustics Autumn
Conf., Windermere, pp 315-322, November (1984).
42. Moore R K, Tomlinson M J and Beet S W. ‘The acoustic flow of speech’, Proc. Inst. Acoustics Autumn Conf.,
Windermere, pp 241-248, November (1984).
43. Russell M J, Deacon J C A and Moore R K. ‘Some implications of the effect of template choice on the performance
of an automatic speech recogniser’, Proc. Inst. Acoustics Autumn Conf., Windermere, pp 287-292, November
(1984).
44. Moore R K. ‘Overview of speech input’, Proc. IFS Conf. on Speech Technology, Brighton, October (1984).
45. Moore R K, Russell M J and Tomlinson M J. ‘Introducing phonetic discrimination into whole-word pattern
matching’, Presented at 10th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Utrecht, 1-6 August (1983).
46. Moore R K, Russell M J and Tomlinson M J. ‘The discriminative network; a mechanism for focusing recognition in
whole-word pattern matching’, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Boston, 14-16
April, pp1041-1044 (1983).
47. Russell M J, Moore R K and Tomlinson M J. ‘Some techniques for incorporating local timescale variability
information into a dynamic time warping algorithm for automatic speech recognition’, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on
Acoustic s, Speech and Signal Processing, Boston, 14-16 April, pp1037-1040 (1983).
48. Moore R K, Beardsley D, Russell M J and Tomlinson M J. ‘Towards an integrated discriminative network for
automatic speech recognition’, Proc. Inst. Acoustics Autumn Conf., Bournmouth, 9-10 November, pp C1.1-C1.5
(1982).
49. Russell M J, Moore R K and Tomlinson M J. ‘Automatic speech recognition using local timescale variability
information’, Proc. Inst. Acoustics Autumn Conf., Bournmouth, 9-10 November, pp C3.1-C3.5 (1982).
50. Moore R K, Russell M J and Tomlinson M J. ‘Locally constrained dynamic programming in automatic speech
recognition’, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Paris, May 3-5, pp 1270-1273
(1982).
51. Moore R K. ‘Dynamic programming variations in automatic speech recognition’, Proc. Inst. Acoustics Spring Conf.,
Newcastle, April 21-24, pp 269-272 (1981).
52. Moore R K. ‘A multilevel computer system for automatic speech recognition’, Proc. Inst. Acoustics Autumn Conf.,
Cambridge, pp 15.H4.1-15.H4.3 (1978).
TECHNICAL REPORTS
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Moore R K. ‘Towards Ruggedised Speech Technology: A Pre-Cursor Study’, 20/20 Speech Doc. No. 50303-rkm-1,
March (2003).
Moore R K., Tomlinson M J, Mellor B A, Carter D and Skilling A I. ‘Technical consultancy on proposed Jaguar
X150 voice control system’, 20/20 Speech Doc. No. 210602-rkm-1, June (2002).
Moore R K, Carter D and Mellor B A. ‘Conversational interfaces (CVI): workplan for 2002’, 20/20 Speech Doc.
No. 032102-RM-1, November (2001).
Moore R K. ‘Flexible features in VersaTalk’, 20/20 Speech Doc. No. 311001-rkm-1, 31 October (2001).
Hansen J H L, Swail C, South A, Moore R K, Steeneken H, Cupples E J, Anderson T, Vloeberghs C, Trancoso I and
Verlinde P. ‘The Impact of Speech Under “Stress” on Military Speech Technology’, NATO RTO Technical Report
RTO-TR-10 AC/323(IST)TP/5, March (2000).
Moore R K. ‘Synthetic communicative agents - a state-of-the-art review and proposal for future work’,
DERA/S&P/SPI/IP990100, March (1999).
Moore R K, Tomlinson M J, Varga A P, Buchanan I A and Abbott M G. ‘An assessment of the operational benefits
of automatic speech recognition technology within the MoD’, DERA/S&P/SPI/CR990062/1.1, February (1999).
Moore R K.
‘Progress report on NATO ad-hoc working group on narrowband voice coding’,
DERA/S&P/SPI/CR990020, January (1999).
Moore R K. ‘1st meeting of NATO ad-hoc experts group on narrowband speech coding’, Deliverable Report,
DERA/CIS/CIS5/TR/9729/1.0, August (1997).
Moore R K. ‘Exploratory meeting of the NATO ad-hoc experts group on narrowband speech coding’, Deliverable
Report, DRA/CIS(SE1)/302/020/AHEG/R1/1.0, March (1997).
Moore R K. ‘Specification and assessment of speech and language based systems’, in Potentials of Speech and
Language Technology Systems for Military Use: An Application and Technology Oriented Study, H J M Steeneken
(Ed.), NATO DRG document AC243(Panel 3)TR/21, (1996).
Mellor B A, Tomlinson M J and Moore R K. ‘Options for the evaluation of speech technology in armoured
vehicles’, Milestone Report, DRA/CIS(SE1)/377/01/04/AFV/V1.0, September (1996).
Moore R K, Tomlinson M J and Buckland A P. ‘Technical improvements in automatic speech recognition for
military applications’, Milestone Report, DRA/CIS/CSE1/CR95.85.03.301/1, December (1995).
Moore R K. ‘General working standards: the EAGLES handbook of standards and resources for spoken language
systems’, Milestone Report, DRA/CIS(SE1)/374/016/SPDAT-D3112/1.0, October (1995).
Moore R K, Tomlinson M J, Buckland A P and Stevens D A. ‘The state-of-the-art in automatic speech recognition’,
Milestone Report, DRA/CIS/CSE1/CR94.85.03.303/1.0, September (1994).
Moore R K. ‘The capability profile’, CSE1 Research Note, DRA/CIS/CSE1/RN94/08, August (1994).
Tomlinson M J, Buckland A P and Moore R K. ‘Progress on agreed standards for speech input assessment and their
future direction’, Milestone Report, DRA/CIS/CSE1/CR93.85.05.104/1.0, December (1993).
Moore R K. ‘A mapping from the JSRU synthesiser symbol set to SAMPA’, CSE1 Research Note No.261,
November (1993).
Nowell P and Moore R K. ‘A non-word based approach to topic spotting in speech’, DRA Memorandum No.4815,
October (1993).
Moore R K and Russell M J. ‘Progress in vocabulary-independent speech recognition’, DRA Memorandum
No.4772, June (1993).
Nowell P and Moore R K. ‘Initial experiments in topic spotting’, DRA Memorandum No.4782, May (1993).
Moore R K. ‘PHONOTAX (a phonemic syntax for the English syllable’, CSE1 Research Note No.248, April
(1993).
Moore R K. ‘Context adaptive phone (CAP) modelling for automatic speech recognition’, DRA Memorandum
No.4751, February (1993).
Moore R K. ‘Baseline performance of the ASTRA (Automatic Speech TRAnscription) system’, DRA Memorandum
No.4754, October (1992).
Varga A P, Moore R K, Tomlinson M J, Russell M J and Ponting K M. ‘ARMADA exploitation discussion
document’, SP4 Research Note No.139, December (1990).
Moore R K. ‘Speech and language technology: a UK strategy’, RSRE Memorandum No.4194, August (1988).
Moore R K and Peeling S M. ‘Experiments in minimally distinct word-pair discrimination using the multi-layer
perceptron’, RSRE Memorandum No.4153, April (1988).
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28. Moore R K. ‘Connected Digit Recognition in a Multilingual Environment’, RSRE Memorandum No.4134, February
(1988).
29. Peeling S M and Moore R K. ‘Experiments in isolated digit recognition using the multi-layer perceptron’, RSRE
Memorandum No.4073, December (1987).
30. Moore R K. ‘Connected digit recognition in a multilingual environment’, Project II Final report, NATO AC/243
(Panel 3/RSG 10) D/11, (1987).
31. Moore R K. ‘Signal decomposition using Markov modelling techniques’, RSRE Memorandum No.3931, July
(1986).
32. Russell M J and Moore R K. ‘Application of semi-Markov models to automatic speech recognition’, RSRE
Research Review, pp 69-72 (1985).
33. Russell M J, Moore R K, Tomlinson M J and Deacon J C A. ‘RSRE speech database recordings (1983) part II:
recordings made for automatic speech recognition assessment and research’, RSRE Report No.84008, May (1984).
34. Deacon J C A, Moore R K, Pratt R L, Russell M J and Tomlinson M J. ‘RSRE speech database recordings (1983)
part 1: specification of vocabulary and recording procedure’, RSRE Report No.83010, December (1983).
35. Moore R K, Russell M J and Tomlinson M J. ‘Improving automatic speech recognition techniques using temporal
variability measurements’, RSRE Research Review 6, pp 12.1-12.3 (1982).
36. Moore R K. ‘A multilevel approach to automatic speech understanding’, Science Research Council Final Report
(1979).
INVITED TALKS, LECTURES & SEMINARS
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Moore, R. K. (2013). Invited lecture – Progress & prospects for speech technology: what ordinary people think.
INTERSPEECH special session celebrating the 25th anniversary of ISCA, Lyon, 29th August.
Moore, R. K. (2013). Invited lecture - Talking with Machines. The Voice, Wellcome Collection, London, 1st March.
Moore, R. K. (2013). Seminar - Spoken language processing: where do we go from here? School of Computer
Science, University of Coventry, 13th February.
Moore, R. K. (2012). Speaking and Listening Machines: Siri and beyond. The Voice Symposium, London Science
Museum's Dana Centre, 16th November.
Moore, R. K. (2012). Seminar - Spoken language processing: where do we go from here? School of Computer
Science, University of Lincoln, 25th April.
Moore, R. K. (2012). Invited talk - Progress & prospects in spoken language processing. Institute of Acoustics
Speech & Hearing AGM, 20th April.
Moore, R. K. (2012). Seminar - Spoken language processing: where do we go from here? Science and Technology
Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire, 14th March.
Moore, R. K. (2012). Seminar - Spoken language processing: where do we go from here? School of Computer
Science, University of Birmingham, 1st March.
Moore, R. K. (2011). Invited talk - Progress & prospects in spoken language processing. LanG network, Glasgow
University, 23rd May.
Moore, R. K. (2011). Seminar - Speech technology: How it works (and why it sometimes doesn't!). Modern
Languages Teaching Centre, University of Sheffield, 23rd March.
Moore, R. K. (2011). Invited talk - Progress and prospects in spoken language processing. Materials and
Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, 21st March.
Moore, R. K. (2010). Invited talk - Spoken language processing: where do we go from here? McGill University,
Montreal, Canada.
Moore, R. K. (2010). Progress & prospects in spoken language processing. Centre for Linguistic Research,
University of Sheffield, 10th June.
Moore, R. K. (2010). Towards cognitively-inspired spoken language processing. Bristol Robotics Laboratory, 19th
May.
Moore, R. K. (2010). Speech processing for sound artists: a review of speech technology. invited talk presented at
the London College of Communication, 17th February.
Moore, R. K. (2010). Spoken language processing: where do we go from here?, invited talk presented to the Dept.
Psychology, Manchester University, 4th February.
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17. Moore, R. K. (2010). Spoken language processing: where do we go from here?, invited talk presented to the SCALE
Winter Workshop, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, 12th January.
18. Moore, R. K. (2009). Spoken language processing: where do we go from here?, invited talk presented to the
Robotics and Intelligent Systems Group, Plymouth University (March 2009).
19. Moore R K. ‘Choosing the Best Analysis Unit for Speech Processing: a speech technology perspective’, invited
lecture at the ‘Sound to Sense’ (S2S) project meeting. Naples, April (2008).
20. Moore R K. ‘Persona: personality and emotion’, invited talk at the COMPANIONS project meeting, Paris,
September (2007).
21. Moore R K. ‘Spoken Language Processing: where do we go from here?’, invited lecture presented at Cambridge
University Engineering Dept., May (2007).
22. Moore R K. ‘The Recognition Problem May Not be a Recognition Problem’, invited talk at a special symposium on
the occasion of Lou Boves’ 60th birthday, Radbound University of Nijmegen, 6 April (2006).
23. Moore R K. ‘The Implications of Perceptual Control Theory for (Computational) Models of Spoken Language
Processing’, Invited talk to the Academic Department of Psychiatry, University of Sheffield, March (2006).
24. Moore R K. ‘How good does ASR need to be … and when will it be that good?’, Invited lecture presented at
Dundee University, February (2006); HCS Sheffield, May (2005); UEA Norwich, November (2004); ITRI Brighton,
November (2003); Birmingham University, October (2003); Tokyo Institute of Technology, July (2003); ATR
Kyoto, July (2003); University College London, June (2003); Edinburgh University, May (2003).
25. Moore R K. ‘Towards human performance in automatic speech recognition’, invited seminar at UCL Phonetics
Dept., 19 February (1998).
26. Moore R K. ‘Moving speech technology from the lab to real-world applications: challenges and solutions’, invited
lecture at the University of Trondhiem, Norway, 3 February (1998).
27. Moore R K. ‘Twenty things we still don’t know about speech’, invited talk at the Institute for Language, Speech and
Hearing, Sheffield, 8 October (1997).
28. Moore R K. ‘Structured modelling of speech and non-speech signals’, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, 27 April
(1989).
29. Moore R K. ‘Research issues in automatic speech recognition’, Exeter University, 16 May (1986).
30. Moore R K. ‘Research issues in speech pattern modelling’, Cambridge M.Phil Course, February (1986).
31. Moore R K. ‘Trends in speech pattern modelling’, Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, November (1985).
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
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Kirchner, R., & Moore, R. K. (2009). Computing phonological generalization over real speech exemplars, 83rd
Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. San Francisco.
2. Kirchner, R., & Moore, R. K. (2008). Computing phonological generalization over real speech exemplars, The 6th
International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Banff, Canada.
3. Kirchner, R., & Moore, R. K. (2008). Speech production with an exemplar-based lexicon, The 16th Manchester
Phonology Meeting. Manchester.
4. Kirchner, R., & Moore, R. K. (2008). Modelling exemplar-based phonologization, Symposium on Phonologization.
Chicago.
5. Moore R K. ‘Context-adaptive phone (CAP) modelling for vocabulary-independent automatic speech recognition’,
IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition, Snowbird, Utah, 12-15 December (1993).
6. Moore R K, Tomlinson M J and Morris A. ‘Whither the wizard?’, ESCA ETRW on the Structure of Multimodal
Dialogue’, Maratea Italy, 16-20 September (1991).
7. Moore R K. ‘Pre-SCRIBE’, SALT Club review meeting on JFIT-funded Speech and Language projects, 26 June
(1991).
8. Moore R K, Varga A P and Kadirkamanathan M. ‘Automatic separation of speech and other complex sounds using
hidden Markov model decomposition’, Inst. of Acoustics Speech Group Meeting on the Perceptual Separation of
Speech and Other Complex Sounds, Univ. Sussex, 27 February (1991).
9. Moore R K. ‘SCRIBE: a progress report’, Inst. of Acoustics Speech Group Meeting on the Collection and
Measurement of Spoken Language, 23 February (1990).
10. Moore R K. ‘Stochastic modelling of H&H variability’, NATO ASI on Speech Production and Speech Modelling,
Bonas France, July (1989).
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11. Moore R K. ‘Speech pattern processing’, Signal Processing Group Review, SP4 Research Note No.33, July (1987).
12. Moore R K. ‘Discriminative behaviour in speech pattern processing’, Leeds Experimental Phonetics Symposium,
24-26 September (1986).
13. Russell M J, Moore R K and Tomlinson M J. ‘Some techniques for changing the duration of a word which are
consistent with temporal structure’, Presented at the Inst. of Acoustics Speech Group Meeting on Temporal Aspects
of Speech, Cambridge, 9 December (1983).
14. Moore R K. ‘A quantitative assessment of spectral variability and contrast: the discriminative network’, Presented at
the Leeds Experimental Phonetics Symposium, Leeds, September (1983).
15. Moore R K. ‘A quantitative assessment of temporal variability and contrast’, Presented at Leeds Experimental
Phonetics Symposium, Leeds, September (1982).
16. Russell M J, Moore R K and Tomlinson M J. ‘The automatic determination of significant temporal contrasts in
speech’, Presented at Inst. Acoustics Speech Group Meeting, Malvern, 20 April (1982).
PERFORMANCES
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Mackay, R. ‘Fizz^Fizz Live’ (featuring “a formant synthesiser, originally created by Prof. Roger Moore”),
ARTiculate RoadShow, EPSRC Creative Speech Technology project, Scarborough, January (2013).
Mackay, R. Fizz^Fizz (10’) For Poet, Mezzo-Soprano, and laptops (featuring “a formant synthesiser, originally
created by Prof. Roger Moore”), Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, New York, NY 10012, April (2013).
(http://www.harvestworks.org/apr-4-articulate-speech-technology-in-the-arts-and-science/)
Public Outreach
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‘MakeSpeech’, University of Sheffield Computer Science Cutler’s Ambassadors Scheme, 3rd October (2013).
‘Prof. Moore’s Digital Voice Factory’, York Festival of Ideas, June (2013).
‘Prof. Moore’s Digital Voice Factory’, The Voice, Wellcome Collection, London, 1st March (2013).
‘Language, Sounds and Artificial Voices: a conversation with artist Anna Barham’, Site Gallery, Sheffield,
February (2013).
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‘Prof. Moore’s Digital Voice Factory’, ARTiculate RoadShow, EPSRC Creative Speech Technology project,
Scarborough, January (2013).
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‘Prof. Moore’s Digital Voice Factory’, ARTiculate RoadShow, EPSRC Creative Speech Technology project, YorkSheffield-Hull, December (2012).
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‘Beyond Speech’, Exhibit by Rob Mackay, ARTiculate RoadShow, EPSRC Creative Speech Technology project,
York-Sheffield-Hull, December (2012).
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‘Computers that Talk and Listen’, Royston High School, National Science and Engineering Week, March (2009).
‘Computers that Talk and Listen’, Chesterfield Sixth-Form College, National Science and Engineering Week,
March (2008).
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‘Computers that Talk and Listen’, Thomas Rotherham Sixth-Form College, National Science and Engineering
Week, March (2008).
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‘Computers that Talk and Listen’, Thomas Rotherham Sixth Form College, National Science and Engineering
Week, March (2007).
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‘Computers that Talk and Listen’, European Social Fund (ESF) Summer School, Sheffield, July (2007).
‘Speech Technology: Science Fiction becomes Science Fact’, Wyvern Trust, 13 February (2000).
‘Talking and Listening Computers’, Inst. of Physics, 2 February (2000).
TV, Radio & Press
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The Diary: Aye, robot but no scary stuff.
The Sheffield Star, 29
(http://www.thestar.co.uk/community/the-diary/the-diary-aye-robot-but-no-scary-stuff-1-5613498).
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«Real Humans»: pourquoi fabriquer des robots à notre image?
(http://www.slate.fr/story/70279/real-humans-pourquoi-fabriquer-robots-androides).
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The rise and fall of voice. Physics.Org, 7 January 2013 (http://www.physics.org/featuredetail.asp?id=76)
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Geller, T. (2012). Talking to Machines. Communications of the ACM, 55(4), 14-16.
Emotional
synthetic
voices.
BBC
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011h9fs).
World
Service
‘Click’,
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December
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Trying to make the computer say “no”, Brighton Argus, 7th September 2009.
Motormouth, Science Magazine, Vol. 321, No. 5892, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol321/issue5892/rsamples.dtl, 22 August 2008.
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‘Artificial tongue could improve speech recognition’, interview with Dr. Chris Smith for The Naked Scientists:
Science Radio & Science Podcasts, http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/949/ .
27th July 2008.
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‘Artificial mouth sets tongues wagging’, David Robson, New Scientist, 23rd July 2008, pp.26.
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19926666.500-artificial-tongue-mimics-human-speech.html
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‘The International Korean Phonetic Alphabet’, Ulsan Munhwa Broadcasting Corp. (MBC), 9 October (2004).
themselves
‘Evening Share’, BBC South, 24 December (2003).
‘Keeping an Ear on E-mails and Eyes on the Road’, The Engineer, 19 April (2002).
‘Handing it Over’, Computer Telephony magazine, Vol.7, No.1, pp 38-40, Feb (2000).
‘CyberTranscriber’, BBC Hereford & Worcester, 4 March (1998).
‘The Acid Test’, interview with Dr. Christopher Riley, BBC Radio 5, 17 November (1996).
‘Word of Mouth’, interview with Frank Delaney, BBC Radio 4, 21 March (1995).
‘Computers sprout ears and learn to take notes’, EXECUTIVE, June (1990).
‘Statistics ease voice translation’, NEW ELECTRONICS, April (1990).
‘Science in Action’, BBC World Service, 20 October (1989).
CHANNEL 4 NEWS, 16 October (1989).
‘British breakthrough in speech-wise computers’, THE INDEPENDENT, 10 October (1989).
‘Talking to the cockpit’, CENTRAL TELEVISION NEWS, 20 October (1986).
‘A quantum leap towards the hearing computer’, COMPUTING, 18 Sept. (1986).
‘RSRE’, SCIENCE NOW, BBC Radio 4, 17 Feb. (1986).
‘Giving computers a fair hearing’, THE ECONOMIST, 15 June (1985).
‘Computer he say ...’, WORCESTER EVENING NEWS, 29 May (1985).
‘How speech recognisers work’, SENSOR REVIEW, October (1983).
‘How the spoken word is captured’, SENSOR REVIEW, October (1983).
‘The art of talking to a computer’, SENSOR REVIEW, October (1983).
‘Automatic speech recognition systems’, ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, Sept. (1983).
‘On the trail of robots who listen’, THE GUARDIAN, 11 Sept. (1982).
‘Teaching computers to talk’, INSIGHT, May 1980.
‘Now 10,000 robots work in world factories’, THE TIMES, 18 Feb. (1980).
‘Speech recognition’, SCIENCE NOW, BBC Radio 4 (1979).
‘The robots are coming’, HORIZON, BBC Television, 28 May (1979).
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Interests & Actvities
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Family, photography (Associate of the Royal Photographic Society), running and cycling
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