Professor at Sheffield University. Speech, audio, language,machine learning, blockchains, agents.
Joined April 2010
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Thomas Hain retweeted
13 Nov 2025
Congratulations to @AmitMeghanani on passing his #PhD #viva for his thesis "Improving Content Representations in Self-supervised Speech Models"! Huge thanks to his supervisor @thomashain and his viva examiners Prof Mark Gales (@Cambridge_Eng) and Dr Anton Ragni (Sheffield)!
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Thomas Hain retweeted
2 Sep 2025
Could #AI technologies for processing #speech or #written #text / #language help your business? Want to leverage insights and value from existing documents or speech interactions? Our ‘SLT Consultancy Hub’ can help you - for FREE! Find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/cons…
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Thomas Hain retweeted
23 Jun 2025
Final #PhD #talk of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference afternoon is Shaun Cassini with “The Representation of Prosodic Emphasis in Self-Supervised Speech Models”. slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Thomas Hain retweeted
23 Jun 2025
Afternoon session of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference is underway! Kicking off with another exciting #keynote: @BussoCarlos from @LTIatCMU talking about “Improving Generalization in Speech Emotion Recognition” slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Thomas Hain retweeted
9 Jun 2025
Not long until our #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference on 23 June!
#Keynote Spotlight: @BussoCarlos from @LTIatCMU will be giving a talk entitled "Improving Generalization in #Speech #Emotion Recognition".
Find out more and #register (by 15 June) at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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Thomas Hain retweeted
5 Jun 2025
Registration deadline extended to 15 June!! Secure your place at our annual #conference now!
Join us on 23 June to hear about our #PhD students’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc research! Cool keynote speakers too! Check out our website for more info!
slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annu…
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27 Mar 2025
As promised, here is a further PhD opportunity, to join my group. findaphd.com/phds/project/de…
I am happy to answer any questions.
Please remember the previously announced 2 CDT affiliated positions, and there should be one more in due course. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV053/two-fu…
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Thomas Hain retweeted
6 Mar 2025
Congratulations to @GeorgeCloseSLT on passing his #PhD #viva with minor corrections! Huge thanks to his supervisors @stefan_goetze and @thomashain; his viva examiners Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Gerkmann (Hamburg) and @rogerkmoore (Sheffield); and his sponsors @toshiba Europe Ltd!
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13 Feb 2025
I am looking for excellent PhD candidates working on speech, langauge and machine learning. The first announcemnt is out - more to come. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV053/two-fu…
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2 Sep 2024
We are at #interspeech2024 ! Looking forward to seeing you at our posters and presentation…
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Thomas Hain retweeted
3 Jun 2024
Really excited to be in #Edinburgh for the Joint Annual #Conference of @Edin_CDT_NLP and @sltcdt. First day has just kicked off with a keynote from @seraphinagt, Head of Safety @cohere! bit.ly/nlpsltconf #ukri #phd #research #cdt #sheffield
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Thomas Hain retweeted
17 May 2024
Massive thanks to Dr Emily Clements (@emclem16) from Outside / @KingsCollegeLon for her fascinating talk in our "Industrial R&D and Entrepreneurial Talk Series" entitled "Science and Business: How to Speak Both Languages" and discussing #entrepreneurship with our #PhD students!
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2 May 2024
Many congratulations to @WillRavenscrof1. If you are working on speech enhancement you may have seen his papers in recent ICASSP, ASRU, Interspeech ...
2 May 2024
Huge congratulations to @WillRavenscrof1 on passing his #PhD #viva with very minor corrections! Huge thanks to Will's supervisors @thomashain & @stefan_goetze and his viva examiners
@patrickanaylor (@imperialeee) & Yoshi Gotoh. Massive thanks also to his sponsors @3M!
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23 Jan 2024
Speech technology is not available for many languages due to a lack of data - and foundation models have role to play here. If you are interested in this topic, consider contributing to this #interspeech2024 special session sites.google.com/view/is24-s… ! We look forward to your paper!
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Thomas Hain retweeted
18 Jan 2024
Super New Year news in the form of another paper for @AmitMeghanani! Accepted to #EACL2024 (18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) - congratulations!!
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Thomas Hain retweeted
26 Dec 2023
Merry Christmas!
There's huge value "locked inside" your business' #speech interactions and #written documents / data. Supporting a #PhD project can help unlock this!
Take a break from the turkey and presents to find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/indu…
#ai #research #hohoho
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Thomas Hain retweeted
19 Dec 2023
More great pre-Christmas news in the form of another paper accepted to #ICASSP2024 (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing) - congratulations to @AmitMeghanani!!
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Thomas Hain retweeted
15 Dec 2023
Christmas has come early for some of our #PhD #students! @Hy_Quack, @WillRavenscrof1, @GeorgeCloseSLT, @RhiannonMogrid1, and Robbie Sutherland had 4 papers accepted at #ICASSP2024 (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing)! Congratulations to all!
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Thomas Hain retweeted
Come join us on the 30th of November for our event on ethics and regulation in A.I. We have organised for two expert speakers to come and give their insights on the field's ethical and regulatory challenges.
See the flyer for more details. Ticket link: su.sheffield.ac.uk/events/pr…
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Thomas Hain retweeted
23 Oct 2023
Massively excited to announce that the SLT CDT has its first #PhD! Huge congratulations to @danaesavi who passed her #PhD #viva today with minor corrections! Many thanks to the examiners @vlachos_nlp (Cambridge) and @carolscarton.
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