Expert profile: Dr Steve Beet

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I graduated from the University of Liverpool (UK) in 1980, receiving my PhD (in 
non-linear enhancement of deep-sea divers' speech) from the same 
institution in 1985. On leaving Liverpool, I worked at what is now 20/20 
Speech, as part of the team headed by Roger Moore. Following a period lecturing 
at the University of Sheffield, I worked briefly at Canon Research Centre 
Europe, and am now at Aculab, an international computer telephony company based 
in Milton Keynes.
 
I've worked on a variety of speech technology projects since 1980: auditory 
modelling, speech synthesis, robust connected-word automatic speech recognition 
(ASR), embedded isolated-word ASR, adaptive neural networks, and more. I'm 
currently working on speech signal processing and coding, as well as some 
related topics such as echo cancellation.