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A fully computational model to predict speech performance of cochlear implant users, from microphone input to listener's phoneme confusions. Finally out: doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2… with manohar bance, Cambridge Hearing Group, Iwan Roberts, Tobias Goehring

Congratulations Richard from ISVRsouthampton and Guy's and St Thomas' on your PhD. It was an honour to be a first reader/examiner of this great work on improving diagnoses by applying deep learning to neuroscientific measures.

Finished my first term with lectures at UCL. Really happy about the enthusiasm I received from many students and course evaluations where they felt prepared for a career in data science. Great motivation to deliver in our new speech technology route. Good luck in the coursework!

Job ad now live! *Funded PhD opportunity* at UCL (London, UK) researching how central cognitive pathways interact with hearing loss, using behaviour and pupillometry. Deadline 8th June. Full details and application portal: bit.ly/43noqb0 SHaPS UCL Psych & Lang Sci [please RT]

Is meeting all of my five MSc project students on one day too much? Certainly not, very rewarding for me with the motivation that I saw in their eyes and progress. Deserves to be concluded with a sixth symphony.

I'm officially to loudness what A4 is to paper. 🙃 Our computational model has become international standard ISO 532-3, contributing to a quieter world and UN UN DESA Sustainable Development Goal 3 Healthy Lives and Well-Being. iso.org/standard/69856… Sustainable UCL

New publication on a highly accurate, data-driven diagnosis of hearing loss sustained during military service: doi.org/10.1177/233121… It's already helping veterans to get a fair compensation.

Highly recommended read. I'm always hard to myself and respect that attitude in those close to me. But there is no one size fits all in stress management, and it could even kill. You don't see if a person has SLE or other auto immune disorders.

Chance to combine a day trip to Cambridge with linguistics/NLP "science sightseeing" at my college:

Michael Chesnaye from ISVRsouthampton just got our paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Biomedial Engineering . It's about faster measurements of auditory brainstem responses by using Bayesian active learning. Soon to be found here: doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2… IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society

👻 Happy Halloween UCL Psych & Lang Sci 👻

Santa Clause came early... Thank you HEADacoustics for the support!

Should scientists post more selfies?

Later today at the Cambridge Hearing Group Christmas Symposium. Also in Potsdam next month, still a few (but not many) tickets left: speech-in-noise.eu

Results of high-frequency audiometry based on Bayesian Active Learning (it works well) with my colleagues from Denmark, now in Trends in Hearing: doi.org/10.1177/233121…

The thinker and the listener, that's what my lab is about. Thx to the The Royal Society for this research grant that allows us high-quality recordings for auditory perception. We'll work on the thinker. (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinker_o…)

Consider submitting an abstract to VCCA 2024 (virtual conference on computational audiology) - deadline 1st May. This is a great conference & even has free registration! More details here: computationalaudiology.com/vcca2024-call-… @CompAudiology

Back to Manchester, invited by UK Acoustics Network Plus to give a talk on loudness at Acoustics 2024, today, 10:30.