Two exciting opportunities for companies to explore how extracting knowledge from #speech interactions and / or written text could really benefit your business! SLT Consultancy Hub: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/slt-hub and PhD co-sponsorship: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/industry #nlp #nlproc

It's induction week again! Super excited to be welcoming our brand new Cohort 5 #PhD students to #Sheffield and the #CDT. We have lots of activities scheduled to help them settle in and get started on our unique training and research programme! #induction #introweek #cohort5 #slt

Massively excited to announce that the SLT CDT has its first #PhD! Huge congratulations to Danae Sánchez who passed her #PhD #viva today with minor corrections! Many thanks to the examiners Andreas Vlachos (Cambridge) and Carolina Scarton.

Come join us on the 30th of November for our event on ethics and regulation in A.I. We have organised for two expert speakers to come and give their insights on the field's ethical and regulatory challenges. See the flyer for more details. Ticket link: su.sheffield.ac.uk/events/product…

Christmas has come early for some of our #PhD #students! Hussein Yusufali, Will Ravenscroft, George Close, Rhiannon Mogridge, and Robbie Sutherland had 4 papers accepted at #ICASSP2024 (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing)! Congratulations to all!

More great pre-Christmas news in the form of another paper accepted to #ICASSP2024 (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing) - congratulations to Amit Meghanani!!

Merry Christmas! There's huge value "locked inside" your business' #speech interactions and #written documents / data. Supporting a #PhD project can help unlock this! Take a break from the turkey and presents to find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/industry #ai #research #hohoho

Super New Year news in the form of another paper for Amit Meghanani! Accepted to #EACL2024 (18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) - congratulations!!

Speech technology is not available for many languages due to a lack of data - and foundation models have role to play here. If you are interested in this topic, consider contributing to this #interspeech2024 special session sites.google.com/view/is24-ssl-… ! We look forward to your paper!

Many congratulations to Will Ravenscroft. If you are working on speech enhancement you may have seen his papers in recent ICASSP, ASRU, Interspeech ...

Massive thanks to Dr Emily Clements (Emily Clements) from Outside / King's College London for her fascinating talk in our "Industrial R&D and Entrepreneurial Talk Series" entitled "Science and Business: How to Speak Both Languages" and discussing #entrepreneurship with our #PhD students!

Really excited to be in #Edinburgh for the Joint Annual #Conference of UKRI CDT in Natural Language Processing and CDT in Speech and Language Technologies. First day has just kicked off with a keynote from Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant @ ACL 🇦🇹, Head of Safety cohere! bit.ly/nlpsltconf #ukri #phd #research #cdt #sheffield

We are at #interspeech2024 ! Looking forward to seeing you at our posters and presentation…

I am looking for excellent PhD candidates working on speech, langauge and machine learning. The first announcemnt is out - more to come. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV053/two…

Congratulations to George Close on passing his #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to his supervisors Stefan Goetze and Thomas Hain; his viva examiners Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Gerkmann (Hamburg) and Roger K Moore (Sheffield); and his sponsors Toshiba Europe Ltd!

As promised, here is a further PhD opportunity, to join my group. findaphd.com/phds/project/d… I am happy to answer any questions. Please remember the previously announced 2 CDT affiliated positions, and there should be one more in due course. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV053/two…

Registration deadline extended to 15 June!! Secure your place at our annual #conference now! Join us on 23 June to hear about our #PhD students’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc research! Cool keynote speakers too! Check out our website for more info! slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…

Not long until our #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference on 23 June! #Keynote Spotlight: Carlos Busso from Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon will be giving a talk entitled "Improving Generalization in #Speech #Emotion Recognition". Find out more and #register (by 15 June) at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…

Afternoon session of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference is underway! Kicking off with another exciting #keynote: Carlos Busso from Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon talking about “Improving Generalization in Speech Emotion Recognition” slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…

Final #PhD #talk of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference afternoon is Shaun Cassini with “The Representation of Prosodic Emphasis in Self-Supervised Speech Models”. slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…