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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Campbell, Nick | |
| Main Department | CLCS | |
| College Title | Stokes Professor | |
| nick.campbell@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1626 | |
| Web | http://www.speech-data.jp | |
| Fax | +353 1 896 2941 | |
| Notes | lab phone: +353 1254 2749, web: people.tcd.ie/nick, mail: nick@tcd.ie | |
| Biography | |
| Nick Campbell (nick@tcd,ie) is SFI Stokes Professor of Speech & Communication Technology at Trinity College Dublin (The University of Dublin) in Ireland. He received his Ph.D. degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Sussex in the U.K., and was previously engaged at the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, (as nick@nict.go.jp) and as Chief Researcher in the Department of Acoustics and Speech Research, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (as nick@atr.jp), Kyoto, Japan, where he also served as Research Director for the JST/CREST Expressive Speech Processing and the SCOPE “Robot’s Ears” projects. He was first invited as a Research Fellow at the IBM U.K. Scientific Centre, where he developed algorithms for speech synthesis, and later at the AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he worked on the synthesis of Japanese. He served as Senior Linguist at the Edinburgh University Centre for Speech Technology Research before joining ATR in 1990. His research interests are based on large speech databases, and include nonverbal speech processing, concatenative speech synthesis, and prosodic information modeling. He spends his spare time working with postgraduate students as Visiting Professor at the School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan, and was also Visiting Professor at Kobe University, Kobe, Japan for 10 years. | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Board member: International Speech Communication Association | 2009-present |
| Member, Spoken Language Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society | Oct 2011 - present |
| Board Member - European Language Resources Association (ELRA) | Nov 2010 |
| Vice President - European Language Resources Association | Feb 2011 - |
| Board member: Japan British Association of the Kansai | 2005-present |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| International Phonetic Association, Coordinating Committee on Speech I/O Database Assessment, International Committee of Acoustic Society of Japan, International Speech Communication Association Institute of Acoustics (adherent) U.K., Acoustic Society of America, Acoustic Society of Japan. IEEE Signal Processing Society |
| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Fellow of Trinity College Dublin | 2010 |
| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| Arabic | Basic | Basic | Basic |
| English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| French | Medium | Medium | Basic |
| Irish | Basic | Basic | Basic |
| Japanese | Fluent | Medium | Fluent |
| Description of Research Interests |
| My background is in experimental psychology and linguistics, but most of my experience is in speech technology. I prefer corpus-based approaches and have pioneered advanced (and paradigm-shifting) methods of speech synthesis and natural conversational speech collection in a multimodal environment. My principal interest is in speech prosody, extending this research to social interaction to show how the voice is used in discourse to express personal relations as well as propositional content. Most of my previous work has used speech materials collected in Japan, and I am happy now to be in Ireland where I can confirm the universality of my previous findings - both for Irish and for Hiberno-English. Ultimately, I am working to produce a friendlier speech-based human-machine interface for web-based information, customer-services, games, and robotics, while trying to understand how humans perform such often perfect communication. |
| Research Interests | |||
| Cognition | Communication Sciences | Communication engineering, technology | Computational linguistics |
| Computer Science/Engineering | Databases, database management, data mining | Discourse & Dialogue | Human computer interactions |
| Information Technology | Intelligent agents | Language and technology | Multimedia |
| Numerical analysis | Remote sensing | Signal processing | Speech Processing |
| Speech processing/technology | Speech synthesis | Virtual Reality |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | FastNet |
| Summary | Focus on Actions in Social Talk; Network-Enabling Technology ( €1,232,002.90 over 5 years) |
| Funding Agency | SFI |
| Programme | PI |
| Type of Project | speech technology & corpus development |
| Date from | April 1st 2010 |
| Date to | March 31st 2015 |
| Person Months | 60 |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Expressive Speech Processing and Prosody Engineering: An Illustrated Essay on the Fragmented Nature of Real Interactive Speech in, editor(s)FangChen ·KristiinaJokinen , Speech Technology Theory and Applications, New York Dordrech tHeidelberg London, Springer, 2010, pp105 - 120, [Nick Campbell] | |
| Tools and resources for visualising conversational speech interaction in, editor(s)Kipp, Martin, Paggio, and Heylen , Multimodal Corpora; from Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin, Springer Verlag, 2010, pp176 - 188, [Nick Campbell] Url DOI |
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| Nick Campbell, An Audio-Visual Approach to Measuring Discourse Synchrony in Multimodal Conversation Data, Interspeech 2009, Brighton, England, September 2009, edited by ISCA , 2009 Notes: [Special Session: Active Listening & Synchrony (Wed-Ses2-S1)] Url TARA - Full Text |
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| Nick Campbell, The expanding role of prosody in speech communication technology, DIAHOLMIA, KTH, Sweden, June 2009, 2009 Notes: [ Keynote Talk] Url |
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| Nick Campbell, Tracking the second channel of information in speech, IEEE International workshop on Social Signal Processing, Amsterdam, September , 2009 Notes: [Keynote Talk] Url |
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