Research interests are phonologically based automatic speech recognition, speech processing and computational linguistics in general. Have a look at some of my linguistics papers.
Latest project: WGNet, a 1-year ESRC-funded project led by Dick Hudson.
Earlier: I worked on the UCL component of the Synface project with Andy Faulkner and Catherine Siciliano, an EU-funded collaboration to develop a telephone-based communication aid for the hearing-impaired using synthetic talking heads.

Prior to that I worked as a consultant to the Centre for Speech & Language Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, developing a prototype reading tutor based on the CSLU Speech Toolkit. You can download a copy of the code from here. It's written in the scripting language Tcl/Tk which is used throughout the Toolkit.
Prior to that I worked on “Project HAL” - Automatic Speech Recognition using Government Phonology - based first at the SOAS linguistics department, then later at Root Mean Square in Longmont, Colorado.
From July 2004 to June 2005 I was joint President (as well as P&L departmental rep) for the UCL branch of AUT (Association of University Teachers, now UCU), the union for academic, research and related staff in the British pre-1992 universities.

Personal

I'm married to Sally and have a son, James, born in 1992. (Go here for a picture of me and James.)

Educated Southampton University (BSc Electronics 1979) and SOAS, University of London (MA / PhD in Linguistics 1991/1998). There is a downloadable copy of my PhD dissertation here.

I am currently looking for a job, so whether you're interested or not (!), please check out my CV.

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