Mark Huckvale - Curriculum Vitae

Current
Position

1990-

Senior Lecturer in Speech Sciences, Phonetics & Linguistics, University College London

1989-

Technical Director, Marquesa Search Systems Ltd

Previous
Positions

1986-1990

SERC Advanced Research Fellow, UCL

1983-1986

Research Assistant, UCL

1979-1983

Software Engineer, Scicon Consultancy International.

1976-1979

Postgraduate Research Student, UCL

Qualifications

1984 PhD University of London

"An Interactive Speech Pattern Audiometer"

1976 BSc (Hons) University of Warwick

Physics

Experience

for PhD:

Designed, constructed and evaluated a micro-processor controlled audiometer system for the assessment of hearing ability using tests presented at comfortable listening levels.

at Scicon:

Systems programmer for team developing small business systems. Various projects in defence area. Project leader for bi-lingual, English/Arabic database system. Consultant on Patent Office automated trademark search system.

at UCL: (as research assistant)

Development of architecture for automatic speech recognition. Design of representational language for speech knowledge for use in recognition and synthesis. Software development of speech analysis workbench.

at UCL: (as research fellow)

Methods for modelling variability of speech. Feature detectors for phonetic characteristics of speech. Connectionist architectures and knowledge representation for speech recognition.

at UCL: (as lecturer/senior-lecturer)

Teaching in speech acoustics, perception & hearing, connectionism, digital signal processing, computer speech processing, experimental phonetics, programming. Research in speech recognition through non-linear phonological analysis, speech synthesis, language modelling.

as Consultant:

Consultant to Patent Office and Computer Sciences Ltd on design and implementation of Trademarks database search system (using ICL CAFS and fuzzy retrieval techniques).

at Marquesa Search Systems:

Design and implementation of CD-ROM publishing software. Database design and implementation for CD-ROM trademarks product 'Marquesa'. Image processing and storage of trademark devices for CD-ROM publishing. PC software for CD-ROM search and image decompression/display.

Grants Held

1983-1996

'Acoustic Modelling of Phonetic Segments', MoD University Research Agreement with RSRE, £100k.

1986-1991

'Fundamental relations between acoustic and phonetic descriptions of speech', SERC Advanced Fellowship, £125k.

1990-1993

(with A.Faulkner and S.Rosen) 'Computational Modelling of Aspects of Speech Perception', MRC Cognitive Science Initiative, £150k.

1996-1997

(with S.Greenbaum) 'Development of an automatic parsing system', EPSRC £176k

1997-2000

(with J.House) 'Integrated prosodic approach to speech synthesis', EPSRC £190k

1997-2000

(with V.Hazan) 'Automatic enhancement of speech', EPSRC £150k

1998-2001

'Enhanced Language Modelling', EPSRC £160k

Other Activities

1987-1993

Editor, Institute of Acoustics Speech Group Newsletter - 'Speakeasy'.

1991-1993

UK Academic representative, Speech and Language Technology Club.

1997-1999

European Co-ordinator for working group on Computer Aided Learning in Socrates thematic network on speech communication.

Recent
Publications

• M.Huckvale, (1998) "Opportunities for Re-convergence of Engineering and Cognitive Science Accounts of Spoken Word Recognition", Proc. IOA Conference Speech and Hearing, Windermere, November.
• S. Hawkins, J. House, M. Huckvale, J. Local, R. Ogden, (1998) "ProSynth: An integrated prosodic approach to device-independent, natural-sounding speech synthesis", Proc. ICSLP, Sydney.
• A. Fang, J. House, M. Huckvale, (1998) "Investigating the syntactic characteristics of English tone units", Proc. ICSLP, Sydney.
• V. Hazan, A. Simpson, M. Huckvale, (1998) "Enhancement techniques to improve the intelligibility of consonants in noise: speaker and listener effects", Proc. ICSLP, Sydney.
• Chung, H. & Huckvale, M. (1999) "Modeling of Temporal Compression in Korean". In Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics VIII--Proceedings of the 1999 Harvard International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, 16 July-18 July 1999, Cambridge, U.S.A. Cambridge: Department of Linguistics, Harvard University.
• M.Huckvale, C. Bowerman, A. Eriksson, M. Rosner, M. Tatham, M. Wolters, (1999) "Computer Aided Learning and use of the Internet", in The Landscape of Future Education in Speech Communication Sciences: 3 Recommendations, G. Bloothooft et al. (eds.), Utrecht: OTS Publications.
• Chung, H., Huckvale, M. & Kim, K. (1999) "A New Korean Speech Synthesis System and Temporal Model". In Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Speech Processing, 18 Aug-20 Aug, Seoul, Korea, vol.1, 203-208.
• Bowerman, C., Eriksson, A., Huckvale, M., Rosner, M., Tatham, M.& Wolters, M., (1999) "Criteria for Evaluating Internet Tutorials in Speech Communication Sciences", Proc. EuroSpeech-99, Budapest, pp 2455-2458
• M.Huckvale, (1999) "Representation and processing of linguistic structures for an all-prosodic synthesis system using XML", Proc. EuroSpeech99, Budapest, Hungary.
• Chung, H., Kim, K. & Huckvale, M. (1999) "Consonantal and Prosodic Influences on Korean Vowel Duration". In Proceedings of EuroSpeech99, Budapest, Hungary.
• Fang, A.C. and M. Huckvale. (2000) "Enhanced Language Modelling with Phonologically Constrained Morphological Analysis". In Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics and Speech Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, 5-9 June.
• Ogden, R., Hawkins, S., House, J., Huckvale, M., Local, J., Carter, P., Dankovicova, J., Heid, S., (2000) "ProSynth: an Integrated Prosodic Approach to Device-Independent Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis", in Computer Speech and Language, 14, 177-210.
• Fang, A.C., Huckvale, M.A., (2000) "Out of vocabulary rate reduction through dispersion based lexicon acquisition", Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2000. pp 251-263
• M.Huckvale, (2001) "The Use and Potential of Extensible Mark-Up (XML) in Speech Generation", in Keller et al, Improvements in Speech Synthesis, Wiley.
• Huckvale, M., Fang, A., (2001) "Experiments in apply morphological analysis in speech recognition and their cognitive explanation", IOA Workshop on Innovation in Speech Processing, Stratford-on-Avon, May.
• Huckvale, M., Hunter, G., (2001) "Learning on the job: the application of machine learning within the speech decoder", IOA Workshop on Innovation in Speech Processing, Stratford-on-Avon, May.
• Huckvale, M., Fang, A., (2002) "Using Phonologically-Constrained Morphological Analysis in Speech Recognition", Computer Speech and Language, to appear.
• Huckvale, M., (2002) "Speech Synthesis, Speech Simulation and Speech Science", Proc. International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, Denver, to appear.
• Huckvale, M., (2002) "The Reliability of the ITU-P.85 Standard for the Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Systems", Proc. International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, Denver, to appear.