140 speech technology researchers took part in the 5th national UKspeech conference on 20-21st June 2016. This year, the
conference was organised by the Speech and Hearing Group, Department of
Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.
The conference had 60
posters, 5 oral presentation and 3 keynote speakers including Prof Phil Green
talking about “Clinical Challenges of Speech Technology” and giving examples
from many recent CATCH projects.
In addition, three
CATCH-related PhD students presented their work:
- Zahra Ommani: “Spoken Dialogue System Assisting Older People”
- Sabah Al-Hameed: “Towards simple and robust audio-based detection of biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease”
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- Bahman Mirheidari “Towards the Automatic Conversation Analysis of People with Dementia”
UK Speech Website: http://www.ukspeech.org.uk
Conference Website: http://ukspeech.dcs.shef.ac.uk
Written by Heidi
Christensen, photos by Simon Butler
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