#7 SpeechPitch: Roger K. Moore

02/06/2023 1h 41min

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, we have a conversation with Roger K. Moore, Professor of Spoken Language Processing at the University of Sheffield. Prof. Moore has more than 50 years' experience in research and development of speech technology, having been President of the European/International Speech Communication Association from 1997 to 2001, and the Head of the UK Government's Speech Research Unit from 1985 to 1999.
During this conversation, Prof. Moore spoke to us about the development of the field of speech technology in the last 40 years, and shared his views on the past and future of the field, as well as on the possible impacts of Large Language Models in speech technology . We further discussed his own work on speech recognition and animal vocalisations, and got to learn about his experience as a professor and his love for photography.