UK and Ireland Speech (UKIS) Conference
The UK and Ireland Speech annual conference is a meeting of the UK and Irish speech technology research community. Its aim is to provide a forum where early career researchers in the area of speech and language technology can meet other researchers, present their work, obtain feedback, and form networks.
2024 – University of Cambridge
The eleventh UK Speech conference was held at the University of Cambridge on the 1st and 2nd of July 2024. This was our largest conference to date! Our new UKIS committee came into effect at the end of this conference. Many thanks to Kate Knill and the local organising team and to our outgoing UK Speech/UKIS committee members: Catherine Lai, Sebastien Le Maguer and Thomas Merritt.
[Abstract Book][UK Speech 2024 website]
2023 – University of Sheffield
The tenth UK Speech conference was held at the University of Sheffield on the 14th and 15th of June 2023.
[Abstract Book][UK Speech 2023 website]
2022 – University of Edinburgh
The ninth UK Speech conference was held at the University of Edinburgh on the 5th and 6th of September 2022 .
[Abstract Book][UK Speech 2012 website]
2019 – University of Birmingham
The eighth UK Speech conference was held at the University of Birmingham on the 24th and 25th of June 2019.
[Abstract Book][UK Speech 2019 website]
2018 – Trinity College Dublin
The seventh UK Speech conference was held in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, on the 25th and 26th of June 2018.
[Abstract Book] [UK Speech 2018 website]
2017 – University of Cambridge
The sixth UK Speech conference took place at the University of Cambridge on the 11th and 12th of September 2017.
[Abstract Book] [UK Speech 2017 website]
2016 – The University of Sheffield
The fifth UK Speech conference took place at the University of Sheffield on the 20th and 21st of June 2016.
[Abstract Book] [UK Speech 2016 website]
2015 – University of East Anglia
The fourth UK Speech conference took place in Norwich at the University of East Anglia on the 2nd and 3rd of July 2015.
2014 – The University of Edinburgh
The third UK Speech Conference took place at the University of Edinburgh on the 9th and 10th June 2014.
2013 – University of Cambridge
The second UK Speech conference was held in Cambridge on the 17th and 18th September 2013. Here are the slides for the talks:
- An Introduction to Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems, Blaise Thomson
- What’s Happening In Accents & Dialects?, Martin Russell, Andrew DeMarco, Christophe Veaux, Maryam Najafian
- What’s Happening in Speech Enhancement and Acoustic Signal Processing?, Khan Baykaner, Andrew Hines, Alastair Moore
- (Deep) Neural Networks for Speech Recognition, Steve Renals
2012 – University of Birmingham
The first UK Speech conference was held at the University Of Birmingham on the 17th and 18th December 2012 and attracted 80 delegates. There were 50 posters from individual researchers. Thanks to Arnab Goshal for organising the programme and to Martin Russell for local arrangements.
Young Speech Researchers Meetings
In the past, UK Speech organised one-day meetings, workshops and courses for researchers working in speech science & technology and allied areas.
2008 – University of Surrey in Guilford
The Young Researchers meeting in 2008 was organized by the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at Surrey.
2007 – University College London
The Young Researchers meeting in 2007 was held at the University College London on the 12th April 2017.
2005 – University College London
The Young Researchers meeting in 2008 was held at the University College London with 6 talks and 22 posters.
2004 – University College London
The UK Speech one-day meeting for young speech researchers was held at UCL on 22 April 2004. The topic of the meeting was “What industry wants from speech research” and there were keynote talks from industrialists working in the speech processing industry.
2003 – University College London
The UK Speech one-day meeting for young speech researchers was held at UCL on 24 April 2003. The conference had 6 oral presentations and 22 posters from many aspects of speech research, analysis and processing.