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Research Interests
My primary research focus is on automatic speech recognition (ASR). I am particularly interested the following topics:
- methods for cross-domain and cross-lingual adaptation
- regularisation methods, particularly multi-task learning
- algorithms for efficient alignment and search of audio data
- lightly supervised and semi-supervised training
- end-to-end and raw-waveform methods
- ASR systems for minority or under-resourced languages
- speech recognition and alignment of broadcast media
Qualifications
2010, PhD in Automatic Speech Recognition, University of Edinburgh.
2005, MPhil, Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology, University of Cambridge.
2002, BA, Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
Biography
Peter Bell is a Reader in Speech Technology in the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) in the School of Informatics. His research covers many different aspects of acoustic modelling for speech recognition. After receiving MA and MPhil degrees from Cambridge University, he obtained his PhD from Edinburgh in 2010, supervised by Prof Simon King. Since graduating, he has continued his research at CSTR, working primarily with Prof Steve Renals on several large projects funded by EPSRC, H2020 and others. He is currently Co-Investigator on the IARPA-funded MATERIAL programme and the EPSRC-funded SpeechWave project. From 2012-2019, Peter divided his time between the academic and commerical worlds as part-time speech scientist at Quorate Technology Ltd. He carries out consultancy for a number of other companies.
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Efficient intelligibility evaluation using keyword spotting: A study on audio-visual speech enhancement
Valentini Botinhao, C., Aldana Blanco, A. L., Klejch, O. & Bell, P., 5 May 2023, ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 5 p. (International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Explanations for automatic speech recognition
Wu, X., Bell, P. & Rajan, A., 5 May 2023, ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 5 p. (International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Multimodal Dyadic Impression Recognition via Listener Adaptive Cross-Domain Fusion
Li, Y., Bell, P. & Lai, C., 5 May 2023, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 5 p. (International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Do dialogue representations align with perception? An empirical study
Wallbridge, S., Bell, P. & Lai, C., 2 May 2023, Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol. 198. p. 2696–2713 (ACL proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Situating Automatic Speech Recognition Development within Communities of Under-heard Language Speakers
Reitmaier, T., Wallington, E., Klejch, O., Markl, N., Lam-Yee-Mui, L-M., Pearson, J., Jones, M., Bell, P. & Robinson, S., 19 Apr 2023, CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, p. 1-17 17 p. 406Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Activities
- 1 Participation in conference
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UK and Ireland Speech Workshop 2022
Catherine Lai (Chair) & Peter Bell (Chair)
5 Sep 2022 → 6 Sep 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Prizes
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Best student paper at Interspeech 2022
Wallbridge, Sarenne (Recipient), Bell, Peter (Recipient) & Lai, Catherine (Recipient), 22 Sep 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired 5G-IoT enabled, multi-modal Hearing Aids
1/03/21 → 28/02/25
Project: Research
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Unmute : Opening Spoken Language Interaction to the Currently Unheard
Bell, P., Goldwater, S. & Renals, S.
1/12/20 → 30/11/23
Project: Research
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Consolidated Studentships - Bell 2020
Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations
1/09/20 → 28/02/25
Project: Research
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CAPS-AI: Constructing the Agenda: Public Service AI in News and Media Production
Jones, B., Luger, E. & Bell, P.
1/11/21 → 31/01/22
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Adapting End to End Speech Recognition System (Year 2)
Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations
26/12/19 → 31/01/22
Project: Research
Datasets
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The Edinburgh International Accents of English Corpus
Bell, P. (Creator), Klejch, O. (Creator), Carmantini, A. (Creator), Markl, N. (Creator), Bogoychev, N. (Creator) & Sanabria Teixidor, R. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 30 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3832
Dataset