Expert profile: Simon Arnfield [ Dr ]

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Description: I am currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University
   of Reading in the School of Linguistics. My main role is research into
   written and spoken databases and corpora. I have been involved in a
   number of projects on the creation of new corpora including the
   Emotion in Speech project, the Babel project, and the Marsec project.
   I worked on the Reading Electropalatograph to incorporate it into
   Entropic's Waves+ package and developed an interface to allow EPG data
   to be captured on a Sparc workstation. This formed part of the
   development of our state-of-the-art multi-channel physiological data
   acquisition system. I am also engaged upon a number of other research
   topics involved with speech corpora and database analysis with
   particular emphasis on prosody and suprasegmental features of speech.
   Recent past research has included articulatory tracking of lips; work
   on making use of pronouncing dictionaries for speech synthesis and
   recognition; making use of genetic algorithms for synthesis of
   intonation; analysis of pitch and jitter; case studies of EPG speech
   therapy; and possible developments for new systems for tongue movement
   tracking. Current research projects include development of a database
   of small group classroom discourse for anlysis of meta-language
   learning skills in children; digitsation of and cross referencing of
   multi-language medieaval manuscripts; articulatory control development
   in children; advanced online phonetics learning development; speech
   synthesis of intonation by analogy.