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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham : A - Electronic, Electrical and computer engineering
Human and computer recognition of regional accents and ethnic groups from British English speech
This paper is concerned with automatic identification of regional accents, and ethnic groups within an accent, from speech. The method is calibrated on the international US-NIST-2003 Language Identification standard task and is state-of-the-art. Accent recognition performance is superior to any published result, and recognition of ethnic groups has not been attempted previously. Crucial speech data was collected with government funding by our spin-out company, The Speech Ark. Expertise in detection technology was key in securing £623k long-term funding from GCHQ, and PhD funding from Novauris Limited. The same techniques are applied to stroke rehabilitation in the EU CogWatch project.
