Prof Stephen Cox

Job Title	Contact	Location
Professor of Computing Science	Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2582	Biology 2.20

Career

Stephen Cox trained firstly as a physicist and then as an electronic engineer, and began his career at the UK Government Communications Centre developing signal-processing algorithms. He joined the Speech Applications Division at BT Laboratories to work on speech recognition in 1984. From 1987--89, he worked at the Speech Research Unit at (what was then) RSRE, Malvern, where he researched into adaptation of speech recognition algorithms to new speakers. He returned to BT in 1989 to lead a team of researchers developing speech recognition algorithms for use on the UK telephone network. He joined the School of Computing Sciences at UEA as a lecturer in 1991. In 1994 he was an invited consultant at AT&T Bell Labs, New Jersey, where he worked on confidence measures for speech recognition. He was visiting scientist at Nuance Communications Inc., CA, in 2000.

Website

http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/Research/speechgroup/

Key Research Interests

Stephen Cox is part of the Speech, Language and Music Group

His principal research interest is in speech processing, especially automatic speech recognition. Current research projects are in the use of speaker adaptation for speech recognition, speech synthesis, confidence measures for speech recognisers and automatic routing of telephone enquiries. He is the author of over 60 papers in the field of speech processing.

Selected Publications:

Read, I. and Cox, S. J., Stochastic and Syntactic Techniques for Predicting Phrase Breaks. Computer Speech and Language, Volume 21, Issue 3, Page(s) 519-542, 2007.

Huang, Q. and Cox, S. J., Task-Independent Call-Routing. Speech Communication, Volume 48, Issues 3-4, Page(s) 374-389, 2006.

Cox, S. J., Lincoln, M., Nakisa, M., Wells, M., Tutt, M. and Abbott, S., The Development and Evaluation of a Speech to Sign Translation System to Assist Transactions. Int. Journal of Human Computer Interaction, Volume 16, Issue 2, Page(s) 141-161, 2003.

Cox, S. J. and Dasmahapatra, S., High Level Approaches to Confidence Estimation in Speech Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio, Volume 10, Issue 7, Page(s) 460-471, 2002.

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Current Research Projects and Grants

Project Title	Start Date	End Date	Funding Body	Project Members
LILiR2 Language Independent Lip Reading	31/5/2007	29/9/2010	EPSRC	Richard Harvey, Stephen Cox, Barry Theobald

Past Research Projects and Grants

Project Title	Start Date	End Date	Funding Body	Project Members
Classification of anaesthesia breath sounds (COABS) -AU076	1/2/2003	1/10/2003	Ipswich NHS	N/A
Essential sign language	1/10/2002	6/9/2004	CEC (Framework 1-5)	Ralph Elliott, Stephen Cox, John Glauert
Annotatiuon of speech database (Nuance 3)	1/4/2002	30/6/2002	Nuance Communications Inc.	Stephen Cox, Ben Milner
VISTA - Virtual interface for a set-top box agent (LINK)	12/3/2002	11/9/2003	ESRC	Stephen Cox, Caroline Rose, Hugh Graham, Nicholas Wilkinson
Annotation of speech database	14/1/2002	22/2/2002	Nuance Communications Inc.	Stephen Cox, Ben Milner
Annotation of a large speech database	1/6/2001	11/1/2002	Nuance Communications Inc.	Stephen Cox, Ben Milner, Gavin Cawley
Telephone speech recognition prototype for deaf users	31/3/2001	31/8/2002	RNID	N/A
Virtual signing, capture, animation storage and transmission	1/1/2000	31/12/2002	Post Office Counters Ltd	N/A
Confidence measures for speech recognition	16/2/1998	15/8/2001	EPSRC	Stephen Cox, Gavin Cawley

External Activities and Indicators of Esteem

Member IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, 2006

Chairman, UK Institute of Acoustics Speech Group, 1998-2003

Keynote speech, AMI Workshop on “Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms”, Martigny, Switzerland, 2004

Key Responsibilities

Director of Speech Language and Virtual Humans Laboratory
Director of Admissions

University of East Anglia - UEA

Computing Sciences