CDT in Speech and Language Technologies

Our annual #conference is on 8 June. Non-Sheffield #PhD students can present their #AI and #ML #speech or #NLProc research too - just submit an abstract! #Keynotes from @egrefen (@GoogleDeepMind) & @wang_wenwu (@cvssp_research). Find out more at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…

Join us in Sept on a fully-funded 3.5 year #AI #PhD studentship on “#Metamodelling of #Speech Domains” supervised by @thomashain! Deadline for applications is 19 April. Find out more and apply here: slt-cdt.ac.uk/apply #speech #Sheffield #research #university

Interested in doing an #AI #PhD on computational #speech processing? We have a fully-funded 3.5 year studentship on “#Metamodelling of #Speech Domains” available - Sept 2026 start! Find out more and apply here: slt-cdt.ac.uk/apply #speech #Sheffield #research #university

Join us on 8 June in #Sheffield to hear about #PhD students’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc research! #Keynotes from @egrefen (@GoogleDeepMind) & @wang_wenwu (@cvssp_research). Find out more and #register (by 31 May) at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…

Our annual #conference is on 8 June. Join us in #Sheffield to hear about our #PhD students' #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc research! Non-Sheffield PhD student? Present your #speech / #NLProc work! Submit an abstract! Check our website for more info slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…

Our annual #conference is on 8 June. Join us in #Sheffield to hear about our #PhD students’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc research! Are you a PhD student and want to present your #speech / #NLProc work? Submit an abstract! Check our website for more info slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…

Congratulations to @SLTpickard on passing his #PhD #viva for his thesis on human and language model processing of idiomatic expressions! Thanks to supervisors Dr @carolscarton and Prof @AlineVillav and viva examiners Prof Lonneke van der Plas (@USI_en) and Prof Rob Gaizauskas!

Congratulations to Jason Clarke on passing his #PhD #viva for his thesis on Robust Audiovisual Active Speaker Detection for Egocentric Recordings! Thanks to supervisors @stefan_goetze and Dr Yoshi Gotoh and viva examiners Prof Philip Jackson (@cvssp_research) and @rogerkmoore!

Congratulations to Mary Hewitt on passing her #PhD #viva for her thesis "Speaking to the Edge: Conversational Control of Smart Home IoT with LLM AI and Deterministic Gatekeeping"! Huge thanks to her supervisor @hcunningham and her viva examiners @prof_thakker and @nikaletras!

It was great to host @c_christodoulop, a Principal Technology Advisor in the #AI #Compliance team of the @ICOnews, yesterday. He gave a really interesting talk entitled "With great power... My journey in Responsible AI" as well as meeting with our #PhD students and academics.

Congratulations to @AmitMeghanani on passing his #PhD #viva for his thesis "Improving Content Representations in Self-supervised Speech Models"! Huge thanks to his supervisor @thomashain and his viva examiners Prof Mark Gales (@Cambridge_Eng) and Dr Anton Ragni (Sheffield)!

Could #AI technologies for processing #speech or #written #text / #language help your business? Want to leverage insights and value from existing documents or speech interactions? Our ‘SLT Consultancy Hub’ can help you - for FREE! Find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/consultancy-hub

Could #AI technologies for processing #speech or #written #text / #language help your business? Want to leverage insights and value from existing documents or speech interactions? Our ‘SLT Consultancy Hub’ can help you - for FREE! Find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/consultancy-hub

Congratulations to @acid_robin on passing his #PhD #viva with minor corrections for his thesis "Graphical Summarisation of Argumentative Text"! Huge thanks to his supervisor @RobGaizauskas and his viva examiners Professor Chris Reed (@dundeeuni) and @dianamaynard (Sheffield)!

Could #AI technologies for processing #speech or #written #text / #language help your business? Want to leverage insights and value from existing documents or speech interactions? Our ‘SLT Consultancy Hub’ can help you - for FREE! Find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/consultancy-hub

Could #AI technologies for processing #speech or #written #text / #language help your business? Want to leverage insights and value from existing documents or speech interactions? Our ‘SLT Consultancy Hub’ can help you - for FREE! Find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/consultancy-hub

Could #AI technologies for processing #speech or #written #text / #language help your business? Want to leverage insights and value from existing documents or speech interactions? Our ‘SLT Consultancy Hub’ can help you - for FREE! Find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/consultancy-hub

Could #AI technologies for processing #speech or #written #text / #language help your business? Want to leverage insights and value from existing documents or speech interactions? Our ‘SLT Consultancy Hub’ can help you - for FREE! Find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/consultancy-hub

Happy to announce our journal paper on tongue twisters, Train and Constrain (TwistList 2.0), has now been officially published in @CompLingJournal! (Thanks to @chenghua_lin and Chen Tang) direct.mit.edu/coli/article/5… @sltcdt #nlp #nlproc #nlg

It's a wrap! Huge thanks to all our keynotes, student speakers, poster presenters, and audience for making our 2025 #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference interactive, insightful, and FUN! See you next year... if not before! #speech #nlproc #nlp #sheffield