Phil Woodland

Phil Woodland is a Professor of Information Engineering in the Machine Intelligence Laboratory (formerly the Speech Vision and Robotics (SVR) group), of which he is currently the head, and a Professorial Fellow of Peterhouse. He is also the head of the Speech Research Group, and works closely with other staff members of the group Prof. Mark Gales, Dr. Bill Byrne, and Prof. Steve Young.

Current & New Research Projects

• Natural Speech Technology ESPRC-funded Programme with the Universities of Edinburgh and Sheffield
• BABEL (IARPA funded project - subontract to IBM)
• HTK Version 3 HTK 3.5 released

Recently completed projects:

• Broad Operational Language Translation (DARPA funded project - subcontract to IBM)
• AGILE (DARPA GALE funded project) - Integrated Automatic Speech Recognition and Statistical Machine Translation.
• HTK Rich Audio Transcription (DARPA EARS funded project)
  (local web-pages)
• CoreTex (EU funded: Improving Core Speech Recognition technology)
• Multimedia Document Retrieval (EPSRC funded)

Teaching (2015-2016)

• First Year Undergraduates Maths Course (Fast Pace, Michaelmas Term)
  Material available on 1A Maths Moodle Page (local access only)
  
• Fourth year engineering undergraduates
  Module 4F11: Speech and Language Processing.
  Material available on 4F11 Moodle Page (local access only)
  
• Masters (MPhil) in Machine Learning Speech and Language Technology
  Introduction to Machine Learning and Spoken Language Processing Moodle Page (local access only)
  Speech Recognition Moodle Page (local access only)
  Speech and Language Processing Applications Moodle Page (local access only)
  

Publications

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