PhD, Dipl.-Ing.
Department: Computer Science
Faculty: Engineering
Speech and audio technology
Machine intelligence for natural interfaces
Telephone: +44 114 222 1836
Email: t.hain@sheffield.ac.uk
Thomas leads the Speech and Hearing Group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, and has founded the subgroup on machine intelligence for natural interfaces. He has published over 130 papers in international journals and conferences, and has been investigator on grants exceeding £6 million. His work covers a wide range of topics in natural language processing, speech, audio and multimedia technology, machine learning, and complex system optimisation and design.
Current international roles include:
Member of the Editorial Board, Computer Speech and Language
Elected Member IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee – Awards
Programme committee SLSP 2016
Designated Technical Chair Interspeech 2019
EPSRC Programme grant Natural Speech Technology
Google research award – WFST decoders
itslanguage – Tuto
BBC – Diarisation of broadcast media
dstl – Status 3