CDT in Speech and Language Technologies

It is great to welcome everyone to the 2025 #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference! It’s off to a great start with a #keynote from Prof Simon Dobnik entitled “Beyond pixels and words”. slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confe...

Not long until our #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference on 23 June!

#Keynote Spotlight: Professor Carlos Busso from @cmu.edu will be giving a talk entitled "Improving Generalization in #Speech #Emotion Recognition".

Find out more and #register (by 15 June) at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confe...

🎉🥳 congratulations to Cliodhna. It was a privilege to examine this excellent MPhil thesis.

Congratulations to @greatlikecheese.bsky.social on passing her #MPhil #viva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to her supervisors Prof Guy J Brown, Dr Ning Ma, & Prof Nicola Dibben; and her viva examiners @christianilbury.bsky.social (Univ of Edinburgh) & Prof Heidi Christensen (Univ of Sheffield)!

Registration deadline extended to 15 June!! Secure your place at our annual #conference now!

Join us on 23 June to hear about our #PhD students’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc research! Cool keynote speakers too! Check out our website for more info!

slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confe...

Congratulations to Edward Gow-Smith on passing his #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to his supervisor @alinevillav.bsky.social and his viva examiners Professor Dr Hinrich Schütze (@cislmu.bsky.social) and Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi (University of Sheffield)!

Our annual #conference is now less than 5 weeks away!

Join us on 23 June in sunny #Sheffield to hear about our #PhD students’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc research! Check out our website for more info!

slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confe...

Congratulations to Sam Schmück (formerly Sam Hollands) on passing his #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to his supervisors Professor Heidi Christensen and Dr Daniel J Blackburn; and his viva examiners @catlai.bsky.social (Edinburgh) and Dr Ning Ma (Sheffield)!

Congratulations to Tomas Goldsack on passing his #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to his supervisors Prof Chenghua Lin and @carolscarton.bsky.social; his viva examiners Dr Stuart Middleton (Southampton) and @dianamaynard.bsky.social (Sheffield); and his sponsors the AMRC!

Last few days to get your application in for one of our two fully-funded 3.5 year #AI #PhD studentships in #spoken #language #technologies available for Sept 2025 start!

** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 **

slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/apply

#speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield

We have two affiliated fully-funded 3.5 year #AI #PhD studentships in #spoken #language #technologies available for Sept 2025 start!

** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 **

slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/apply

#speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield

Applications for two affiliated fully-funded 3.5 year #spoken #language #technologies #AI #PhD studentships open!

Join us! Sept 2025 start!

** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 **

slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/apply

#speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield

We have two affiliated fully-funded 3.5 year #AI #PhD studentships in #spoken #language #technologies available for Sept 2025 start!

** Apply now! Deadline: 13 Apr 2025 **

slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/apply

#speech #nlp #nlproc #research #sheffield

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Massive congratulations to Guanyu Huang on passing her #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to supervisor @rogerkmoore.bsky.social, examiners @maryellenfoster.bsky.social (Glasgow) and @chaona-chen.bsky.social sky.social (Sheffield), and 'Internal Coordinator' @stevemaddock.bsky.social!

Hello friends, colleagues, and 🦋! We're excited to be joining the speech processing and NLProc communities here! We'll be promoting the fantastic work of the PhD students in the @ukri.org AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Speech and Language Technologies (SLT) and their Applications!