Modern communications systems often require speech to be captured by microphones some distance from the talker of interest. This generally leads to high levels of reverberation. Whilst reverberation adds a wonderful quality to music it can hinder speech intelligibility and is especially detrimental to automatic speech recognition. In this talk, Dr. Moore will give an overview of the main approaches to speech dereverberation and some of the applications that the Speech and Audio Processing lab at Imperial College is working on, including spherical microphone arrays, robot audition and hearing aids.
Alastair H. Moore is a post-doctoral research associate in the Communications and Signal Processing Research Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Imperial College London. He received the MEng degree in electronic engineering with music technology systems from the University of York in 2005 and the PhD degree, also from the University of York, in 2010. He spent 3 years as a hardware design engineer for Imagination Technologies plc, designing radio and networked audio consumer electronics products before joining Imperial College in 2012.
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