Professor Jon Barker

PhD

School of Computer Science

Personal Chair

School Ethics Lead

Member of the Speech and Hearing (SpandH) research group

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j.p.barker@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Jon Barker
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

Professor Jon Barker is a member of the Speech and Hearing Research Group. He has a first degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from Cambridge University, UK. After receiving a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 1999, he worked for some time at GIPSA-lab, Grenoble and IDIAP research institute in Switzerland before returning to Sheffield where he has had a permanent post since 2002.

His research interests lie in noise-robust speech processing. Key application areas include distant-microphone speech recognition, speech intelligibility prediction and improved speech processing for hearing-aid users.

Research interests

Professor Barker’s research interests are focused around machine listening and the computational modelling of human hearing. A recent focus has been on modelling speech intelligibility, ie can we predict whether or not a speech signal will be intelligible to a given listener?

This understanding will help us produce better signal processing for application such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. Another strand of his work is about taking insights gained from human auditory perception and using them to engineer robust automatic speech processing systems.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Yue Z, Loweimi E, Cvetkovic Z, Barker J & Christensen H (2026) . Computer Speech & Language, 95, 101839-101839.
  • Roa-Dabike G, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2025) . IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, 6, 722-734.
  • Roa G, Bannister S, Firth JL, Graetzer S, Vos R, Akeroyd MA, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Greasley A & Whitmer WM (2025) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 157(4_Supplement), A321-A321.
  • Leglaive S, Fraticelli M, ElGhazaly H, Borne L, Sadeghi M, Wisdom S, Pariente M, Hershey JR, Pressnitzer D & Barker JP (2025) . Computer Speech & Language, 89, 101685-101685.
  • Roa Dabike G, Cox TJ, Miller AJ, Fazenda BM, Graetzer S, Vos RR, Akeroyd MA, Firth J, Whitmer WM, Bannister S , Greasley A et al (2024) . Data in Brief, 57, 111199-111199.
  • Whitmer WM, McShefferty D, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Roa G, Fazenda B, Firth JL, Graetzer S , Greasley A et al (2024) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(4_Supplement), A121-A121.
  • Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Roa G, Fazenda B, Firth JL, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos R & Whitmer WM (2024) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(3_Supplement), A277-A277.
  • Bannister S, Greasley AE, Cox TJ, Akeroyd MA, Barker J, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer SN, Roa Dabike G, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2024) . Frontiers in Psychology, 15.
  • Firth JL, Cox TJ, Greasley A, Barker JP, Whitmer WM, Fazenda B, Bannister S, Graetzer S, Vos R, Roa G & Akeroyd MA (2023) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(3_supplement), A332-A332.
  • Akeroyd MA, Firth JL, Naylor G, Barker JP, Culling J, Cox TJ, Bailey W, Graetzer S, Viveros Muñoz R, Porter E & Griffiths H (2023) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(3_supplement), A48-A48.
  • Graetzer S, Akeroyd MA, Barker J, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Naylor G, Porter E & Viveros-Muñoz R (2022) . Data in Brief, 41.
  • Akeroyd MA, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Culling J, Graetzer S, Naylor G, Porter E & Viveros Muñoz R (2020) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(4_Supplement), 2711-2711.
  • Graetzer S, Akeroyd M, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Naylor G, Porter E & Muñoz RV (2020) .
  • Cooke M, Garcia Lecumberri ML, Barker J & Marxer R (2019) . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(2), EL136-EL141.
  • Alghamdi N, Maddock S, Marxer R, Barker J & Brown GJ (2018) . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(6), 523-529.
  • Marxer R, Barker JP, Alghamdi N & Maddock S (2018) . Speech Communication, 100, 58-68.
  • Alghamdi N, Maddock S, Barker J & Brown GJ (2017) . Speech Communication, 95, 127-136.
  • Vincent E, Watanabe S, Nugraha AA, Barker J & Marxer R (2017) . Computer Speech & Language, 46, 535-557.
  • Barker JP (2017) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(5_Supplement), 3693-3693.
  • Barker J, Marxer R, Vincent E & Watanabe S (2017) . Computer Speech & Language, 46, 386-387.
  • Gonzalez JA, Gómez AM, Peinado AM, Ma N & Barker J (2017) . Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 36, 3731-3760.
  • Barker J, Marxer R, Vincent E & Watanabe S (2016) . Computer Speech and Language.
  • Marxer R, Barker J, Cooke M & Garcia Lecumberri ML (2016) . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(5), EL458-EL463.
  • Vincent E, Barker J, Watanabe S, Le Roux J, Nesta F & Matassoni M (2013) . 2013 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Asru 2013 Proceedings, 162-167.
  • Carmona JL, Barker J, Gomez AM & Ma N (2013) . IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 20(6), 563-566.
  • Cooke M, Barker J & Lecumber MLG (2013) , 137-172.
  • González JA, Peinado AM, Ma N, Gómez AM & Barker J (2013) . IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 21(3), 624-635.
  • Barker J & Vincent E (2012) . Computer Speech and Language.
  • Barker J, Vincent E, Ma N, Christensen H & Green P (2012) . Computer Speech and Language.
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2012) . Computer Speech and Language.
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2012) Combining speech fragment decoding and adaptive noise floor modelling.. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 20, 818-827.
  • Cooke M, Barker J, Lecumberri MLG & Wasilewski K (2011) Crowdsourcing for word recognition in noise. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech, 3049-3052.
  • Barker J, Ma N, Coy A & Cooke M (2010) . COMPUT SPEECH LANG, 24(1), 94-111.
  • Barker J & Shao X (2009) . IEEE T AUDIO SPEECH, 17(3), 446-458.
  • Christensen H, Ma N, Wrigley SN & Barker J (2008) Improving source localisation in multi-source, reverberant conditions: exploiting local spectro-temporal location cues.. Abstract for Acoust. Soc. Am. mtg.
  • Shao X & Barker J (2008) . SPEECH COMMUN, 50(4), 337-353.
  • Cooke M, Garcia Lecumberri ML & Barker J (2008) . J Acoust Soc Am, 123(1), 414-427.
  • Ma N, Green P, Barker J & Coy A (2007) . SPEECH COMMUN, 49(12), 874-891.
  • Barker J & Cooke M (2007) . SPEECH COMMUN, 49(5), 402-417.
  • Coy A & Barker J (2007) . SPEECH COMMUN, 49(5), 384-401.
  • Cooke M, Barker J, Cunningham S & Shao X (2006) . J Acoust Soc Am, 120(5 Pt 1), 2421-2424.
  • Harding S, Barker J & Brown GJ (2006) . IEEE T AUDIO SPEECH, 14(1), 58-67.
  • Barker JP, Cooke MP & Ellis DPW (2005) . SPEECH COMMUN, 45(1), 5-25.
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2004) . SPEECH COMMUN, 43(1-2), 123-142.
  • Ellis D & Barker J (2003) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(4_Supplement), 2230-2230.
  • Barker J & Cooke M (1999) . Speech Communication, 27, 159-174.
  • Barker J & Cooke M (1999) Is the sine-wave speech cocktail party worth attending?. SPEECH COMMUNICATION, 27(3-4), 159-174.
  • Barker J & Cooke M (1997) Modelling the recognition of sine-wave sentences. BRITISH JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY, 31(2), 112-113.
  • Barker JP & Cooke MP (1996) . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 2682-2682.
  • Yue Z, Loweimi E, Christensen H, Barker J & Cvetkovic Z () . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 30, 2968-2980.

Book chapters

  • Barker JP, Marxer R, Vincent E & Watanabe S (2017) , New Era for Robust Speech Recognition (pp. 327-344). Springer International Publishing
  • Mandel MI & Barker JP (2017) , New Era for Robust Speech Recognition (pp. 51-77). Springer International Publishing
  • Cooke M, Barker J & Lecumberri MLG (2013) Crowdsourcing in Speech Perception In Eskanazi M, Levow G-A, Meng H, Parent G & Sundermann D (Ed.), Crowdsourcing for Speech Processing (pp. 137-169). John Wiley and Sons
  • Barker J (2012) In Virtanen T, Singh R & Raj B (Ed.), Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition (pp. 371-398). Wiley
  • Barker J (2006) Robust automatic speech recognition In Wang D-L & Brown GJ (Ed.), Computational Auditory Scene Analysis: Principals, Algorithms and Applications (pp. 297-350). Wiley/IEEE Press

Conference proceedings

  • Sutherland R, Close G, Hain T, Goetze S & Barker J (2024) . Proceedings of 2024 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) (pp 421-425). Lyon, France, 26 August 2024 - 26 August 2024.
  • Barker J, Akeroyd MA, Bailey W, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Firth J, Graetzer S & Naylor G (2024) . ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 11551-11555), 14 April 2024 - 19 April 2024.
  • Dabike GR, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2024) . 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW) (pp 93-94), 14 April 2024 - 19 April 2024.
  • Mogridge R, Close G, Sutherland R, Hain T, Barker J, Goetze S & Ragni A (2024) Non-Intrusive Speech Intelligibility Prediction for Hearing-Impaired Users Using Intermediate ASR Features and Human Memory Models.. ICASSP (pp 306-310)
  • Akeroyd MA, Bailey W, Barker J, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Graetzer S, Naylor G, PodwiÅ„ska Z & Tu Z (2023) . ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 1-5), 4 June 2023 - 10 June 2023.
  • Cox TJ, Barker J, Bailey W, Graetzer S, Akeroyd MA, Culling JF & Naylor G (2023) . ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 1-2), 4 June 2023 - 10 June 2023.
  • Cox T, Akeroyd M, Barker J, Culling J, Firth J, Graetzer S, Griffiths H, Harris L, Viveros Munoz R, Naylor G , Podwinska Z et al (2023) . INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, Vol. 265(3) (pp 4599-4606)
  • Dabike GR, Bannister S, Firth J, Graetzer S, Vos R, Akeroyd MA, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Greasley A & Whitmer W (2023) The First Cadenza Signal Processing Challenge: Improving Music for Those With a Hearing Loss. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3528
  • Barker E, Barker J, Gaizauskas R, Ma N & Paramita ML (2022) SNuC: The Sheffield Numbers Spoken Language Corpus. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp 1978-1984). Marseille, France, 20 June 2022 - 20 June 2022.
  • Deadman J & Barker J (2022) . ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 591-595), 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022.
  • Yue Z, Loweimi E, Cvetkovic Z, Christensen H & Barker J (2022) . ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 7372-7376), 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022.
  • Tu Z, Deadman J, Ma N & Barker J (2022) . ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 7447-7451), 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022.
  • Yue Z, Barker J, Christensen H, McKean C, Ashton E, Wren Y, Gadgil S & Bright R (2021) . Interspeech 2021 (pp 2946-2950). Brno, Czechia, 30 August 2021 - 30 August 2021.
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J (2021) . Interspeech 2021 (pp 691-695). Brno, Czechia, 30 August 2021 - 3 September 2021.
  • Zhang J, Zorila C, Doddipatla R & Barker J (2021) . ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 6084-6088), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J (2021) . ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 296-300), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
  • Dabike GR & Barker J (2021) . ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 6513-6517), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
  • Falconer L, Coy A & Barker J (2021) . SoutheastCon 2021 (pp 1-8), 10 March 2021 - 13 March 2021.
  • Yue Z, Christensen H & Barker J (2020) . Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp 4581-4585). Shanghai, China (Online), 25 October 2020 - 25 October 2020.
  • Xiong F, Barker J, Yue Z & Christensen H (2020) . Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020) (pp 7424-7428). Barcelona, Spain, 4 May 2020 - 4 May 2020.
  • Yue Z, Xiong F, Christensen H & Barker J (2020) . Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020) (pp 6094-6098). Barcelona, Spain, 4 May 2020 - 4 May 2020.
  • Zhang J, Zorila C, Doddipatla R & Barker J (2020) . ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020.
  • Xiong F, Barker J & Christensen H (2020) Deep learning of articulatory-based representations and applications for improving dysarthric speech recognition. Speech Communication 13th ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (pp 331-335)
  • Dabike GR & Barker J (2019) . Interspeech 2019 Proceedings (pp 579-583). Graz, Austria, 15 September 2019 - 15 September 2019.
  • Xiong F, Barker J & Christensen H (2019) . ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 5836-5840), 12 May 2019 - 17 May 2019.
  • Loweimi E, Barker JP & Hain T (2018) . 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 15 April 2018 - 15 April 2018.
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T (2018) . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2018-S (pp 696-700). Hyderabad, India, 2 September 2018 - 2 September 2018.
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T (2017) . Interspeech 2017 (pp 2466-2470). Stockholm, 20 August 2017 - 20 August 2017.
  • Loweimi E, Barker J, Torralba OS & Hain T (2017) . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Stockholm, 20 August 2017 - 20 August 2017.
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T (2017) . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 2017. New Orleans
  • Abel A, Marxer R, Barker J, Watt R, Whitmer B, Derleth P & Hussain A (2016) (pp 331-342)
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T (2016) Use of Generalised Nonlinearity in Vector Taylor Series Noise Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Vol. 2016 (pp 3798-3802). San Fransisco, 8 September 2016 - 8 September 2016.
  • Loweimi E, Barker J & Hain T (2015) Source-filter Separation of Speech Signal in the Phase Domain. 16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2015), VOLS 1-5 (pp 598-602). Dresden, Germany, 6 September 2016 - 6 September 2016.
  • Barker J, Marxer R, Vincent E & Watanabe S (2015) . 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) (pp 504-511), 13 December 2015 - 17 December 2015.
  • Ma N, Marxer R, Barker J & Brown GJ (2015) . ASRU 2015 Proceedings (pp 490-495). Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
  • Foster P, Sigtia S, Krstulovic S, Barker J & Plumbley MD (2015) . 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) (pp 1-5), 18 October 2015 - 21 October 2015.
  • Loweimi E, Doulaty M, Barker J & Hain T (2015) (pp 173-184)
  • Alghamdi N, Maddock SC, Brown GJ & Barker J (2015) Investigating the Impact of Artificial Enhancement of Lip Visibility on the Intelligibility of Spectrally-Distorted Speech. FAAVSP-2015 (pp 93-98), 11 September 2015 - 13 September 2015.
  • Marxer R, Cooke M & Barker J (2015) A framework for the evaluation of microscopic intelligibility models. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech, Vol. 2015-January (pp 2558-2562)
  • Al Dabel M & Barker J (2014) Speech pre-enhancement using a discriminative microscopic intelligibility model. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech (pp 2068-2072)
  • Vincent E, Barker J, Watanabe S, Roux JL, Nesta F & Matassoni M (2013) The second ‘CHiME’ Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge: Datasets, tasks and baselines. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE
  • Ma N & Barker J (2013) A fragment-decoding plus missing-data imputation system evaluated on the 2nd CHiME challenge. Proceedings of the 2nd CHiME Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (pp 53-58)
  • Ma N & Barker J (2012) Coupling identification and reconstruction of missing features for noise-robust automatic speech recognition. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012 Interspeech 2012, Vol. 3 (pp 2637-2640)
  • González JA, Peinado AM, Gómez AM, Ma N & Barker J (2012) . ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings (pp 4693-4696)
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Binaural cues for fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech (pp 1657-1660)
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Recent advances in fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments.. Proceedings of ISCA Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (pp 68-73)
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Binaural cues for fragment-based speech recognition in reverberant multisource environments. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2011 (pp 1657-1660)
  • Morales-Cordovilla JA, Ma N, Sánchez V, Carmona JL, Peinado AM & Barker J (2011) . ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings (pp 4808-4811)
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2011) Incorporating localisation cues in a fragment decoding framework for distant binaural speech recognition.. IEEE Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA’11) (pp 207-212)
  • Cooke M, Barker J, Garcia Lecumberri ML & Wasilewski K (2011) Crowdsourcing for word recognition in noise. 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5 (pp 3056-+)
  • Kabir A, Barker J & Giurgiu M (2010) Robust Formant Estimation: Increasing the Reliability by Comparison among three Methods. Proceedings of the International Conference on Circuits, Systems and Signals, (Recent Advances in Circuits, Sistems and Signals) (pp 341-344)
  • Kabir A, Barker J & Giurgiu M (2010) An Approach to Vocal Tract Length Normalization by Robust Formant Estimation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Circuits, Systems and Signals, (Recent Advances in Circuits, Sistems and Signals) (pp 345-348)
  • Christensen H & Barker J (2010) Speaker turn tracking with mobile microphones: Combining location and pitch information. European Signal Processing Conference (pp 954-958)
  • Kabir A, Barker J & Giurgiu M (2010) . Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 7745
  • Kabir A, Giurgiu M & Barker J (2010) . 2010 8th International Conference on Communications Comm 2010 (pp 79-82)
  • Ma N, Barker J, Christensen H & Green P (2010) Distant microphone speech recognition in a noisy indoor environment: combining soft missing data and speech fragment decoding.. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical And Perceptual Audition
  • Christensen H, Barker J, Ma N & Green P (2010) The CHiME corpus: A resource and a challenge for computational hearing in multisource environments. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech 2010 (pp 1918-1921)
  • Christensen H, Ma N, Wrigley SN & Barker J (2009) A SPEECH FRAGMENT APPROACH TO LOCALISING MULTIPLE SPEAKERS IN REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENTS. 2009 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1- 8, PROCEEDINGS (pp 4593-4596)
  • Christensen H & Barker J (2009) Using location cues to track speaker changes from mobile, binaural microphones. INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, VOLS 1-5 (pp 124-127)
  • Arnaud E, Christensen H, Lu Y-C, Barker J, Khalidov V, Hansard ME, Holveck B, Mathieu H, Narasimha R, Taillant E , Forbes F et al (2008) The CAVA corpus: synchronised stereoscopic and binaural datasets with head movements.. ICMI (pp 109-116)
  • Christensen H, Ma N, Wrigley SN & Barker J (2007) Integrating pitch and localisation cues at a speech fragment level. INTERSPEECH 2007: 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, VOLS 1-4 (pp 2752-2755)
  • Barker J & Shao X (2007) Audio-visual speech fragment decoding. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2007)
  • Ma N, Barker J & Green P (2007) Applying word duration constraints by using unrolled HMMs. INTERSPEECH 2007: 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, VOLS 1-4 (pp 353-356)
  • Brown GJ, Harding S & Barker JP (2006) Speech separation based on the statistics of binaural auditory features. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings, Vol. 5 (pp V949-V952)
  • Palomäki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2006) Recognition of reverberant speech using full cepstral features and spectral missing data. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings, Vol. 1 (pp I289-I292)
  • Shao X & Barker J (2006) Audio-Visual Speech Recognition in the Presence of a Competing Speaker. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1292-1295)
  • Coy A & Barker J (2006) A Multipitch Tracker for Monaural Speech Segmentation. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1678-1681)
  • Barker J, Coy A, Ma N & Cooke M (2006) Recent advances in speech fragment decoding techniques. INTERSPEECH 2006 AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 85-88)
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2006) Recognition of reverberant speech using full cepstral features and spectral missing data. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-13 (pp 289-292)
  • Brown GJ, Harding S & Barker JP (2006) Speech separation based on the statistics of binaural auditory features. 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-13 (pp 5807-5810)
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker JP (2006) Recognition of reverberant speech using full cepstral features and spectral missing data. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol I, Proceedings (pp 289-292). Toulouse, FRANCE, 14 May 2006 - 19 May 2006.
  • Brown GJ, Harding S & Barker JP (2006) Speech separation based on the statistics of binaural auditory features. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol V, Proceedings (pp 949-952)
  • Coy A & Barker J (2005) Soft harmonic masks for recognising speech in the presence of a competing speaker. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 2641-2644)
  • Harding S, Barker J & Brown GJ (2005) Binaural feature selection for missing data speech recognition. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 1269-1272)
  • Barker J (2005) Tracking facial markers with an adaptive marker collocation model. 2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 665-668)
  • Coy A & Barker J (2005) Recognising speech in the presence of a competing speaker using a 'speech fragment decoder'. 2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 425-428)
  • Harding S, Barker J & Brown GJ (2005) Mask estimation based on sound localisation for missing data speech recognition. 2005 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5 (pp 537-540)
  • Brown GJ, Kalle Palomäki K & Barker J (2004) A Missing Data Approach for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition in the Presence of Reverberation. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA) (pp 449-452)
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Ellis D (2002) Temporal integration as a consequence of multi-source decoding. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on the Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech (TIPS)
  • Palomaki KJ, Brown GJ & Barker J (2002) Missing data speech recognition in reverberant conditions. 2002 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS I-IV, PROCEEDINGS (pp 65-68)
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Ellis D (2001) Combining bottom-up and top-down constraints for robust ASR: The multisource decoder. Proceedings of Workshop on consistent and reliable acoustic cues for sound analysis (CRAC-01)
  • Morris AC, Barker J & Bourlard H (2001) From Missing Data to Maybe Useful Data: Soft Data Modelling for Noise Robust ASR. Proceedings of the Worshop on Innovation in Speech Processing (WISP 2001)
  • Green P, Barker J, Cooke M & Josifovski L (2001) Handling Missing and Unreliable Information in Speech Recognition. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS-2001)
  • Barker J, Green P & Cooke M (2001) Linking Auditory Scene Analysis and Robust ASR by Missing Data Techniques. Proceedings of the Worshop on Innovation in Speech Processing (WISP 2001)
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Green PD (2001) Robust ASR based on clean speech models: an evaluation of missing data techniques for connected digit recognition in noise.. INTERSPEECH (pp 213-217)
  • Brown GJ, Barker J & Wang DL (2001) A neural oscillator sound separator for missing data speech recognition. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vol. 4 (pp 2907-2912)
  • Brown GJ, Barker J & Wang DL (2001) A neural oscillator sound separator for missing data speech recognition. IJCNN'01: INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS, VOLS 1-4, PROCEEDINGS (pp 2907-2912)
  • Barker J, Josifovski L, Cooke M & Green PD (2000) Soft decisions in missing data techniques for robust automatic speech recognition.. INTERSPEECH (pp 373-376)
  • Barker J, Cooke M & Ellis DPW (2000) Decoding speech in the presence of other sound sources.. INTERSPEECH (pp 270-273)
  • Barker JP & Berthommier F (1999) Evidence of correlation between acoustic and visual features of speech. Proc. ICPhS ’99
  • Barker JP & Berthommier F (1999) Estimation of speech acoustics from visual speech features: A comparison of linear and non-linear models. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) ’99
  • Barker JP, Berthommier F & Schwartz JL (1998) Is primitive AV coherence an aid to segment the scene?. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) ’98
  • Barker J, Williams G & Renals S (1998) Acoustic confidence measures for segmenting broadcast news.. ICSLP
  • Barker J & Cooke M (1997) Modelling the recognition of spectrally reduced speech.. EUROSPEECH
  • Zhang J, Zorila C, Doddipatla R & Barker J () . Interspeech 2022
  • Yue Z, Loweimi E, Christensen H, Barker J & Cvetkovic Z () . Interspeech 2022
  • Deadman J & Barker J () . Interspeech 2022 (pp 266-270)
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J () . Interspeech 2022 (pp 3493-3497)
  • Tu Z, Ma N & Barker J () . Interspeech 2022 (pp 3488-3492)
  • Barker J, Akeroyd M, Cox TJ, Culling JF, Firth J, Graetzer S, Griffiths H, Harris L, Naylor G, Podwinska Z , Porter E et al () . Interspeech 2022
  • Zhang J, Zorilă C, Doddipatla R & Barker J () . Interspeech 2021 (pp 3495-3499)
  • Graetzer S, Barker J, Cox TJ, Akeroyd M, Culling JF, Naylor G, Porter E & Muñoz RV () . Interspeech 2021
  • Deadman J & Barker J () . Interspeech 2020 (pp 349-353)
  • Watanabe S, Mandel M, Barker J, Vincent E, Arora A, Chang X, Khudanpur S, Manohar V, Povey D, Raj D , Snyder D et al () . 6th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2020)
  • Barker J, Watanabe S, Vincent E & Trmal J () . Interspeech 2018
  • Gogate M, Adeel A, Marxer R, Barker J & Hussain A () . Interspeech 2018 (pp 2723-2727)
  • Marxer R & Barker J () . Interspeech 2017 (pp 1988-1992)
  • Mandel MI & Barker J () . Interspeech 2016 (pp 1991-1995)
  • Lecumberri MLG, Barker J, Marxer R & Cooke M () . Interspeech 2016 (pp 640-644)
  • Tóth AM, Cooke M & Barker J () . Interspeech 2016 (pp 630-634)
  • Lin L, Barker J & Brown GJ () . Interspeech 2015 (pp 1566-1570)
  • Barker J & Coy A () Towards Solving the Cocktail Party Problem through Primitive Grouping and Model Combination. Proceedings of Forum Acusticum
  • Rajaravivarma V, Lord E & Barker J () . Southcon/96 Conference Record (pp 624-627)

Posters

  • Alghamdi N, Maddock S, Brown GJ & Barker J (2015) A comparison of audiovisual and auditory-only training on the perception of spectrally-distorted speech. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Theses

  • Barker J (1998) The relationship between auditory organisation and speech perception: Studies with spectrally reduced speech.

Other

  • Christensen H, Barker J, Lu Y-C, Xavier J, Caseiro R & Araújo H (2009) POPeye: Real-time, binaural sound source localisation on an audio-visual robot-head.
  • Christensen H & Barker J (2009) Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data.

Preprints

  • Roa-Dabike G, Cox TJ, Barker JP, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2025) , arXiv.
  • Dabike GR, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker JP, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2024) , arXiv.
  • Leglaive S, Fraticelli M, ElGhazaly H, Borne L, Sadeghi M, Wisdom S, Pariente M, Hershey JR, Pressnitzer D & Barker JP (2024) , arXiv.
  • Mogridge R, Close G, Sutherland R, Hain T, Barker J, Goetze S & Ragni A (2024) , arXiv.
  • Cox TJ, Barker J, Bailey W, Graetzer S, Akeroyd MA, Culling JF & Naylor G (2023) , arXiv.
  • Dabike GR, Bannister S, Firth J, Graetzer S, Vos R, Akeroyd MA, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Greasley A & Whitmer W (2023) , arXiv.
  • Dabike GR, Akeroyd MA, Bannister S, Barker J, Cox TJ, Fazenda B, Firth J, Graetzer S, Greasley A, Vos RR & Whitmer WM (2023) , arXiv.
  • Tu Z, Deadman J, Ma N & Barker J (2022) , arXiv.
  • Watanabe S, Mandel M, Barker J, Vincent E, Arora A, Chang X, Khudanpur S, Manohar V, Povey D, Raj D , Snyder D et al (2020) , arXiv.
  • Gogate M, Adeel A, Marxer R, Barker J & Hussain A (2018) , arXiv.
  • Barker J, Watanabe S, Vincent E & Trmal J (2018) , arXiv.
Grants
  • EnhanceMusic: , EPSRC, 06/2022 - 11/2026, £377,568, as PI
  • , EPSRC, 10/2019 to 10/2025, £480,416, as PI
  • , EPSRC, 04/2019 to 09/2027, £5,508,850, as Co-PI
  • TAPAS: , EC H2020, 11/2017 to 06/2022, £468,000, as Co-PI
  • , EPSRC, 03/2016 - 09/2019, £974,161, as Co-PI
  • Deep learning of articulatory-based representations of dysarthric speech, Industrial, 02/2016 to 01/2017, £46,624, as Co-PI
  • , EPSRC, 10/2015 to 09/2018, £125,493, as PI
  • INSPIRE: Investigating Speech In Real Environments, EC FP7, 01/2012 to 12/2015, £308,473, as PI
  •  EPSRC, 07/2010 to 09/2010, £9,978, as PI
  • CHIME: , EPSRC, 06/2009 to 05/2012, £326,245, as PI
  • Audio-Visual Speech Recognition in the Presence of Non-Stationary Noise, EPSRC, 02/2005 to 05/2007, £116,853, as PI
Professional activities and memberships
  • Member of the  research group
  • Co-founder of the CHiME series of International Workshops and Robust Speech Recognition Evaluations, 2011 onwards.
  • EURASIP Best Paper Award, 2009; for best paper in Speech Communication during 2005.
  • ISCA Best Paper Award, 2008; for best paper in Speech Communication 2005-2007.