Gaston Hilkhuysen

Status:	Research Associate
Email:	g.hilkhuysen@ucl.ac.uk
Primary Dept.:	Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences

Research Projects

• Performance-based measures of speech quality (2010-2013)
  This project seeks to design and test new methods for the evaluation of speech communication systems. The area of application is for systems which operate at high levels of speech intelligibility or for systems which make little change to intelligibility (such as noise-reduction systems). Conventional intelligibility testing is not appropriate in these circumstances, and existing measures of speech quality are based on subjective opinion rather than speech communication performance.
• Centre for Law Enforcement Audio Research (CLEAR) (2007-2012)
  The CLEAR project aims to create a centre of excellence in tools and techniques for the cleaning of poor-quality audio recordings of speech. The centre is initially funded by the U.K. Home Office for a period of five years and will be run in collaboration with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College.

Selected Publications