November 2009

A new project on using computer technology to address problems of Auditory Hallucinations has just started. In collaboration with Mental Health Sciences, a part of the UCL Medical School, the project is funded by the National Institute for Medical Research.

UCL SECReT is the new national Security Science Doctoral Research Training centre. UCL SECReT brings together over 20 research groups at UCL and 30 partners from industry, academia and government to offer the most comprehensive, integrated 4-year PhD programme for students wishing to pursue security or crime-related research. For September 2010, UCL SECReT is offering 13 scholarships paying full PhD fees and approx £17,000 per annum as a stipend for each of four years.

October 2009

Announcing the availability of a PhD studentship in Performance-based measures of speech quality. To start September 2010 or earlier, application closing date: 1st December.

September 2009

Welcome to our new Masters students attending the MA Phonetics, the MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, and the MRes Speech Language and Cognition. Follow link for joining information for new students.

Members of the department helped organise the Interspeech2009 conference in Brighton. Over 700 papers on speech topics were presented to over 1200 delegates.

KLAIR is a virtual infant that runs on an ordinary PC that sees, hears and speaks. It is designed to enable new research into how social interactions can aid computational models of infant spoken language acquisition.

August 2009

The annual Summer Course in English Phonetics ran between 10-21 August at UCL, providing students from all over the world an opportunity to study the Phonetics of English over two weeks in London.