Congrats to Jason Clarke on passing his #PhD #viva for his thesis on Robust Audiovisual Active Speaker Detection for Egocentric Recordings! Huge thanks to his supervisors Prof Stefan Goetze and Dr Yoshi Gotoh and his viva examiners Prof Philip Jackson (Surrey) and @rogerkmoore.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Mary Hewitt on passing her #PhD #viva for her thesis "Speaking to the Edge: Conversational Control of Smart Home IoT with LLM AI and Deterministic Gatekeeping"! Thanks to supervisor @hamishcunningham.bsky.social and viva examiners @prof-thakker.bsky.social & @naletras.bsky.social

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

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!