Professor Roger K. Moore

BA (Hons), MSc, PhD

School of Computer Science

Professor of Spoken Language Processing

Deputy Head of School

Head of the Speech and Hearing (SpandH) research group

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r.k.moore@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (DCS)

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Professor Roger K. Moore
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

Prof. Roger K. Moore has over 40 years’ experience in Speech Technology R&D and, although an engineer by training, much of his research has been based on insights from human speech perception and production.  

As Head of the UK Government's Speech Research Unit from 1985 to 1999, he was responsible for the development of the Aurix range of speech technology products and the subsequent formation of 20/20 Speech Ltd.  

Since 2004 he has been Professor of Spoken Language Processing at the University of Sheffield, and also holds Visiting Chairs at Bristol Robotics Laboratory and University College London Psychology & Language Sciences.  He was President of the European/International Speech Communication Association from 1997 to 2001, General Chair for INTERSPEECH-2009 and ISCA Distinguished Lecturer during 2014-15.  

In 2017 he organised the first international workshop on ‘Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR)’.  Prof. Moore is the current Editor-in-Chief of Computer Speech & Language and in 2016 he was awarded the LREC Antonio Zampoli Prize for "Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Language Resources & Language Technology Evaluation within Human Language Technologies".

Research interests

Prof. Moore is currently working on a unified theory of spoken language processing in the general area of `Cognitive Informatics` called `PRESENCE` (PREdictive SENsorimotor Control and Emulation). PRESENCE weaves together accounts from a wide variety of different disciplines concerned with the behaviour of living systems - many of them outside the normal realms of spoken language - and compiles them into a new framework that is intended to breathe life into a new generation of research into spoken language processing.

Prof. Moore is involved in collaborations aimed at Clinical Applications of Speech Technology (particularly for  individuals with speaking difficulties) and he is becoming increasingly involved in Creative Applications of Speech Technology through interactions with colleagues from the performing arts.

Publications

Books

  • (2017) . Springer International Publishing.
  • Gibbon D, Moore R & Winski R (2013) Spoken language system and corpus design.
  • (1997) . De Gruyter.
  • (1997) . De Gruyter.

Journal articles

  • Bennion MR, Spencer R, Moore RK & Kenyon R (2025) . JMIR Human Factors, 12.
  • Huang G & Moore RK (2024) . Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 11.
  • Chetouani M, Briefer EF, Dassow A, Marxer R, Moore RK, Obin N & Stowell D (2023) . Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 24(1), 1-4.
  • Huang G & Moore RK (2023) . Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning, 3(1), 208-230.
  • Huang G & Moore RK (2022) . Frontiers in Virtual Reality.
  • Marge M, Espy-Wilson C, Ward NG, Alwan A, Artzi Y, Bansal M, Blankenship G, Chai J, Daumé H, Dey D , Harper M et al (2022) . Computer Speech & Language, 71.
  • ter Haar SM, Fernandez AA, Gratier M, Knörnschild M, Levelt C, Moore RK, Vellema M, Wang X & Oller DK (2021) . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1836).
  • Simmonds-Buckley M, Bennion MR, Kellett S, Millings A, Hardy GE & Moore RK (2020) . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(10).
  • Bennion MR, Hardy GE, Moore RK, Kellett S & Millings A (2020) . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(5).
  • Bennion M, Hardy G, Moore R, Kellett S & Millings A (2019) . BMJ Health & Care Informatics, 26(1).
  • Cameron D, Millings A, Fernando S, Collins EC, Moore RK, Sharkey A, Evers V & Prescott A (2018) . Connection Science, 30(4), 343-361.
  • Moore RK & Nicolao M (2017) . Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4.
  • Gonzalez JA, Cheah LA, Gomez AM, Green PD, Gilbert JM, Ell SR, Moore RK & Holdsworth E (2017) . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 25(12), 2362-2374.
  • Gilbert JM, Gonzalez Lopez JA, Cheah LA, Ell SR, Green P, Moore RK & Holdsworth E (2017) . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(3), EL307-EL307.
  • Bennion MR, Hardy G, Moore RK & Millings A (2017) . BMJ Open, 7(1).
  • Gonzalez JA, Cheah LA, Green PD, Gilbert JM, Ell SR, Moore RK & Holdsworth E (2017) . Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 242, 314-321.
  • Moore RK, Marxer R & Thill S (2016) . Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 3.
  • Gonzalez JA, Cheah LA, Gilbert JM, Bai J, Ell SR, Green PD & Moore RK (2016) . Computer Speech & Language, 39, 67-87.
  • Moore RK (2016) . International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 13.
  • Moore RK, Thill S & Marxer R (2016) . Dagstuhl Reports, 6, 154-194.
  • Moore RK (2014) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 8791, 21-36.
  • Kempton T & Moore RK (2014) . SPEECH COMMUNICATION, 56, 152-166.
  • Moore RK (2013) , 119-133.
  • Moore RK (2012) . Sci Rep, 2, 864.
  • Crook N, Field D, Smith C, Harding S, Pulman S, Cavazza M, Charlton D, Moore R & Boye J (2012) . Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 6(1-2), 13-25.
  • Green PD (2012) . Speech Communication.
  • Crook N, Field D, Smith C, Harding S, Pulman S, Cavazza M, Charlton D, Moore R & Boye J (2012) Generating context-sensitive ECA responses to user barge-in interruptions. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 1-13.
  • Worgan SF & Moore RK (2011) . Speech Communication, 53(9-10), 1104-1114.
  • Wilks Y, Catizone R, Worgan S, Dingli A, Moore R, Field D & Cheng WW (2011) . COMPUT SPEECH LANG, 25(2), 140-157.
  • Worgan SF & Moore RK (2010) . ECOL PSYCHOL, 22(4), 327-343.
  • Kirchner R, Moore RK & Chen TY (2010) . J PHONETICS, 38(4), 540-547.
  • Aimetti G, Moore RK & Ten Bosch L (2010) Discovering an optimal set of minimally contrasting acoustic speech units: A point of focus for whole-word pattern matchinga1. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech 2010, 310-313.
  • Gilbert JM, Rybchenko SI, Hofe R, Ell SR, Fagan MJ, Moore RK & Green P (2010) . Med Eng Phys, 32(10), 1189-1197.
  • Elshaw M, Moore RK & Klein M (2010) . CONNECT SCI, 22(2), 157-175.
  • Hofe R, Ell SR, Fagan MJ, Gilbert JM, Green PD, Moore RK & Rybchenko SI (2010) Evaluation of a silent speech interface based on magnetic sensing. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech 2010, 246-249.
  • Gilbert JM, Rybchenko SI, Hofe R, Ell SR, Fagan MJ, Moore RK & Green P (2010) Isolated word recognition of silent speech using magnetic implants and sensors. Medical Engineering and Physics.
  • Hofe R & Moore RK (2009) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(4_Supplement), 2495-2495.
  • Hofe R & Moore R (2008) . CONNECT SCI, 20(4), 319-336.
  • Boves L, Bosch LT & Moore R (2007) . Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics Icci 2007, 349-356.
  • Mairesse F, Walker MA, Mehl MR & Moore RK (2007) Using linguistic cues for the automatic recognition of personality in conversation and text. J ARTIF INTELL RES, 30, 457-500.
  • Moore RK (2007) . IEEE T COMPUT, 56(9), 1176-1188.
  • Moore RK (2007) . SPEECH COMMUN, 49(5), 418-435.
  • (2006) . IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 14(3), 1094-1094.
  • Moore RK (2005) Results from a survey of attendees at ASRU 1997 and 2003. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 117-120.
  • Maier V & Moore RK (2005) An investigation into a simulation of episodic memory for automatic speech recognition. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1245-1248.
  • Moore RK, Acero A, Cohen J, Dalsgaard P & Furui S (2005) Panel on ubiquitous speech processing. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.
  • Mariani J, Moore RK & Furui S (2005) . Speech Communication, 47(1-2), 3-6.
  • Gilbert M, Moore RK & Zweig G (2005) . IEEE T SPEECH AUDI P, 13(5), 633-634.
  • Moore RK (1998) Dictation and Voice Control: Automatic Speech Recognition in the Marketplace. IEE Colloquium Digest(499), 7/4.
  • Moore RK (1996) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99(3), 1710-1713.
  • Jensen U, Moore RK, Dalsgaard P & Lindberg B (1994) . Computer Speech & Language, 8(3), 247-260.
  • Moore RK (1990) . Speech Communication, 9(1), ix-ix.
  • Moore RK & Peeling SM (1989) . Computer Speech & Language, 3(2), 119-131.
  • Peeling SM & Moore RK (1988) . Speech Communication, 7(4), 403-409.
  • Moore RK (1981) , 427-441.
  • Moore RK (1981) . Pattern Recognition, 14(1-6), 261-265.
  • Moore RK (1979) . IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI-1(1), 86-88.
  • Moore R (1977) . IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 25(2), 178-183.
  • Liu X, Zhang J, Zhou S, van der Plas TL, Vijayaraghavan A, Grishina A, Zhuang M, Schofield D, Tomlinson C, Wang Y , Li R et al () . Nature Machine Intelligence.
  • Moore RK () Vocal interactivity in crowds, flocks and swarms : implications for voice user interfaces. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR 2019), 94-99.
  • Hofe R, Bai J, Cheah LA, Ell SR, Gilbert JM, Moore RK & Green PD () . Interspeech 2013, 1140-1143.
  • Hofe R, Ell SR, Fagan MJ, Gilbert JM, Green PD, Moore RK & Rybchenko SI () . Interspeech 2011, 3009-3012.

Book chapters

  • Moore RK (2020) In Mansell W (Ed.), The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory (pp. 557-582). Academic Press (Elsevier)
  • Hawker B & Moore RK (2020) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 159-170). Springer International Publishing
  • Linjawi M & Moore RK (2019) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 319-330). Springer International Publishing
  • Gonzalez JA, Cheah LA, Gilbert JM, Bai J, Ell SR, Green PD & Moore RK (2017) (pp. 295-316).
  • Cheah LA, Gilbert JM, Gonzalez JA, Bai J, Ell SR, Green PD & Moore RK (2017) (pp. 22-38).
  • (2015) , Robots that Talk and Listen (pp. 315-336). DE GRUYTER
  • Moore RK (2015) From talking and listening robots to intelligent communicative machines, ROBOTS THAT TALK AND LISTEN: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL IMPACT (pp. 317-335).
  • Moore RK (2014) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 21-36). Springer International Publishing
  • Moore RK (2011) , Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop (pp. 5-5). Springer New York
  • Moore RK (2010) In Chen F & Jokinen K (Ed.), Speech Technology: Theory and Applications (pp. 89-103). Springer Verlag
  • Renals S & Hain T (2010) In Clark A, Fox C & Lappin S (Ed.), The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (pp. 299-332). Wiley-Blackwell
  • Moore RK (2009) In Gaskell G (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 723-738). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Luneski A & Moore RK (2008) (pp. 315-322).
  • Peeling SM, Moore RK & Varga AP (1987) , Recent Advances in Speech Understanding and Dialog Systems (pp. 261-265). Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Conference proceedings

  • Huang G & Moore RK (2025) . 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp 580-588), 4 March 2025 - 6 March 2025.
  • Yusufali H, Moore RK & Goetze S (2024) . ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Proceedings (pp 12016-12020). Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 14 April 2024 - 14 April 2024.
  • Yusufali H, Goetze S & Moore R (2023) . HCI International 2023 – Late Breaking Papers, Vol. 14055. Copenhagen, Denmark, 23 July 2023 - 23 July 2023.
  • Moore RK & Marxer R (2023) . Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2023 (pp 401-405). Dublin, Ireland, 20 August 2023 - 20 August 2023.
  • Moore RK (2023) Local Minima Drive Communications in Cooperative Interaction. Proceedings of the Aisb Convention 2023 (pp 51-56)
  • Skidmore L & Moore R (2022) . Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) (pp 272-278), July 2022 - July 2022.
  • Broughton SJ, Jalal MA & Moore RK (2021) . Interspeech 2021 (pp 806-810). Brno, Czechia, 30 August 2021 - 3 September 2021.
  • Al-Hammadi D & Moore RK (2021) . 2021 National Computing Colleges Conference (NCCC) (pp 1-6), 27 March 2021 - 28 March 2021.
  • Jalal MA, Milner R, Hain T & Moore RK (2020) . Interspeech 2020 (pp 4084-4088). Shanghai, China, 25 October 2020 - 25 October 2020.
  • Jalal MA, Mihaylova L & Moore RK (2020) An end-to-end deep neural network for facial emotion classification. 2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION). Ottawa, Canada, 2 July 2019 - 2 July 2019.
  • Jalal MA, Aftab W, Moore RK & Mihaylova L (2020) Dual stream spatio-temporal motion fusion with self-attention for action recognition. 2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION). Ottawa, Canada, 2 July 2019 - 2 July 2019.
  • Jalal MA, Moore RK & Hain T (2019) . 2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU) (pp 853-859), 14 December 2019 - 18 December 2019.
  • Jalal MA, Loweimi E, Moore RK & Hain T (2019) . Proceedings of Interspeech 2019 (pp 1701-1705). Graz, Austria, 15 September 2019 - 19 September 2019.
  • Skidmore L & Moore RK (2019) . Proceedings of Interspeech 2019 (pp 1846-1850). Graz, Austria, 15 September 2019 - 19 September 2019.
  • Moore RK & Skidmore L (2019) . Proceedings Interspeech 2019 (pp 2340-2344). Graz, Austria, 15 September 2019 - 19 September 2019.
  • Clark L, Cowan BR, Edwards J, Munteanu C, Murad C, Aylett M, Moore RK, Edlund J, Szekely E, Healey P , Harte N et al (2019) . Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp 1-8)
  • AlSaleh MMS, Moore R, Christensen H & Arvaneh M (2019) . 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (pp 976-981). Miyazaki, Japan, 7 October 2018 - 7 October 2018.
  • AlSaleh M, Moore R, Christensen H & Arvaneh M (2018) . 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (pp 1952-1955). Honolulu, Hawaii, 18 July 2018 - 18 July 2018.
  • Jalal MA, Chen R, Moore R & Mihaylova LS (2018) . 2018 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) (pp 573-579). UK, 10 July 2018 - 10 July 2018.
  • Chen R, Jalal MDA, Mihaylova L & Moore R (2018) . 2018 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) (pp 565-572). UK, 10 July 2018 - 10 July 2018.
  • Linjawi M & Moore RK (2018) . Conference proceedings TAROS 2018, Vol. 10965 (pp 381-392). Bristol, UK, 25 July 2018 - 27 July 2018.
  • Cheah LA, Gilbert JM, Gonzalez JA, Green PD, R. Ell S, K. Moore R & Holdsworth E (2018) . Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 19 January 2018 - 21 January 2018.
  • Moore RK & Mitchinson B (2017) Creating a voice for MiRo, the world's first commercial biomimetic robot. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2017 (pp 3419-3420). Stockholm, Sweden, 20 August 2017 - 20 August 2017.
  • Gonzalez Lopez JA, Cheah LA, Green PD, Gilbert JM, Ell SR, Moore RK & Holdsworth E (2017) . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech (pp 3986-3990). Stockholm, 20 August 2017 - 20 August 2017.
  • Cameron D, Fernando S, Cowles-Naja E, Perkins A, Collins E, Millings A, Szollosy M, Moore R, Sharkey A & Prescott A (2017) . Proceedings of the 18th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) Conference, Vol. 10454 (pp 290-299). University of Surrey, Guildford
  • Moore RK & Mitchinson B (2017) . Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2017, Vol. 10384 (pp 363-374). Stanford, CA, 26 July 2017 - 26 July 2017.
  • Cameron D, Fernando S, Collins EC, Millings A, Szollosy M, Moore R, Sharkey A & Prescott A (2017) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 10384 (pp 73-85). Stanford University, California
  • Mokaram S & Moore RK (2017) . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp 5840-5844), 5 March 2017 - 9 March 2017.
  • Caspar L & Moore RK (2017) PrimEmo : a neural implementation of survival circuits supporting primitive emotions. Proceedings of AISB Annual Convention 2017 (pp 173-180). Bath, UK, 18 April 2017 - 18 April 2017.
  • Moore RK (2017) A needs-driven cognitive architecture for future 'intelligent' communicative agents. Proceedings of EUCognition 2016 - "Cognitive Robot Architectures" , Vol. 1855(1855) (pp 50-51). Vienna, Austria
  • (2017) . Interspeech 2017
  • Moore RK (2016) . Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 427 (pp 281-291)
  • AlSaleh MM, Arvaneh M, Christensen H & Moore RK (2016) . Proceedings of 2016 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA) (pp 1-5). Jeju, South Korea, 13 December 2016 - 16 December 2016.
  • Reidsma D, Charisi V, Davison D, Wijnen F, van der Meij J, Evers V, Cameron D, Fernando S, Moore R, Prescott T , Mazzei D et al (2016) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9793 (pp 297-306). Edinburgh, UK, 19 July 2016 - 19 July 2016.
  • Vouloutsi V, Blancas M, Zucca R, Omedas P, Reidsma D, Davison D, Charisi V, Wijnen F, van der Meij J, Evers V , Cameron D et al (2016) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9793 (pp 353-364). Edinburgh, UK, 19 July 2016 - 19 July 2016.
  • Cameron D, Fernando S, Millings A, Szollosy M, Collins EC, Moore R, Sharkey A & Prescott A (2016) . Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9793 (pp 413-417). Edinburgh, UK
  • Cameron D, Fernando S, Millings A, Szollosy M, Collins E, Moore R, Sharkey A & Prescott A (2016) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 9716 (pp 33-39). Sheffield, UK, 28 June 2016 - 28 June 2016.
  • Cheah LA, Bai J, Gonzalez JA, Gilbert JM, Ell SR, Green PD & Moore RK (2016) . Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (pp 108-116), 21 February 2016 - 23 February 2016.
  • Gonzalez JA, Cheah LA, Gilbert JM, Bai J, Ell SR, Green PD & Moore RK (2016) . Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (pp 96-105), 21 February 2016 - 23 February 2016.
  • Cheah LA, Gilbert JM, Gonzalez JA, Bai J, Ell SR, Fagan MJ, Moore RK, Green PD & Rychenko SI (2015) (pp 324-337)
  • Mokaram S & Moore RK (2015) Speech-Based Location Estimation of First Responders in a Simulated Search and Rescue Scenario. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (pp 2734-2738 (5)). Dresden, Germany, 6 September 2015 - 6 September 2015.
  • Cameron D, Fernando S, Millings A, Moore R, Sharkey A & Prescott T (2015) . Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9222 (pp 348-353). Barcelona, Spain
  • A. Cheah L, Bai J, A. Gonzalez J, R. Ell S, M. Gilbert J, K. Moore R & D. Green P (2015) . Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (pp 109-116), 12 January 2015 - 15 January 2015.
  • Cameron D, Fernando S, Collins E, Millings A, Moore R, Sharkey A, Evers V & Prescott T (2015) Presence of life-like robot expressions influences children's enjoyment of human-robot interactions in the field. Proceedings of the AISB Convention 2015. Canterbury, UK
  • Moore RK (2014) On the use of the 'pure data' programming language for teaching and public outreach in speech processing. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech (pp 1498-1499)
  • Meah LFS & Moore RK (2014) (pp 256-265)
  • Fernando S, Collins EC, Duff A, Moore RK, Verschure PFMJ & Prescott TJ (2014) . Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 8608 (pp 392-395). Milan, Italy
  • Nicolao M, Tesser F & Moore RK (2013) A phonetic-contrast motivated adaptation to control the degree-of-articulation on Italian HMM-based synthetic voices. 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis Ssw 2013 (pp 107-112)
  • Hofe R, Bai J, Cheah LA, Ell SR, Gilbert JM, Moore RK & Green PD (2013) Performance of the MVOCA Silent Speech Interface Across Multiple Speakers. 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2013), VOLS 1-5 (pp 1139-1142)
  • Nicolao M, Latorre J & Moore RK (2012) C2H: A Computational Model of H&H-based Phonetic Contrast in Synthetic Speech. 13TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2012 (INTERSPEECH 2012), VOLS 1-3 (pp 986-989)
  • Nicolao M & Moore RK (2012) Establishing some principles of human speech production through two-dimensional computational models. Sapa Scale Conference 2012 (pp 5-10)
  • Kempton T, Moore RK & Hain T (2011) Cross-language phone recognition when the target language phoneme inventory is not known. Գٱ𳦳’11. Florence
  • Hofe R, Ell SR, Fagan MJ, Gilbert JM, Green PD, Moore RK & Rybchenko SI (2011) Speech Synthesis Parameter Generation for the Assistive Silent Speech Interface MVOCA. 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5 (pp 3020-+)
  • Moore RK (2011) Progress and Prospects for Speech Technology: Results from Three Sexennial Surveys. 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5 (pp 1544-1547)
  • Moore RK & Nicolao M (2011) Reactive speech synthesis: actively managing phonetic contrast along an H&H continuum. 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (ICPhS). Hong Kong
  • Hofe R, Ell SR, Fagan MJ, Gilbert JM, Green PD, Moore RK & Rybchenko SI (2010) Evaluation of a Silent Speech Interface Based on Magnetic Sensing. 11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2010 (INTERSPEECH 2010), VOLS 1-4 (pp 246-249)
  • Aimetti G, Moore RK & ten Bosch L (2010) Discovering an Optimal Set of Minimally Contrasting Acoustic Speech Units: A Point of Focus for Whole-Word Pattern Matching. 11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2010 (INTERSPEECH 2010), VOLS 1-4 (pp 310-313)
  • Hofe R & Moore RK (2009) . Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (pp 060004-060004)
  • Poulsen TM & Moore RK (2009) Evolving Spiking Neural Parameters for Behavioral Sequences. ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS - ICANN 2009, PT II, Vol. 5769 (pp 784-793)
  • Kempton T & Moore RK (2009) . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech (pp 1651-1654)
  • Moore RK & Bosch LT (2009) Modelling vocabulary growth from birth to young adulthood. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech (pp 1727-1730)
  • Aimetti G, Moore RK, Ten Bosch L, Räsänen O & Laine UK (2009) Discovering keywords from cross-modal input: Ecological vs. engineering methods for enhancing acoustic repetitions. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech (pp 1171-1174)
  • Maier V & Moore RK (2009) . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech (pp 3027-3030)
  • Moore RK & ten Bosch L (2009) Modelling Vocabulary Growth from Birth to Young Adulthood. INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1695-1698)
  • Maier V & Moore RK (2009) The Case for Case-Based Automatic Speech Recognition. INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, VOLS 1-5 (pp 2999-3002)
  • Aimetti G, Moore RK, ten Bosch L, Rasanen O & Laine UK (2009) Discovering Keywords from Cross-Modal Input: Ecological vs. Engineering Methods for Enhancing Acoustic Repetitions. INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1151-1154)
  • Kempton T & Moore RK (2009) Finding Allophones: an Evaluation on Consonants in the TIMIT Corpus. INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1631-1634)
  • ten Bosch L, Boves L, Van Hamme H & Moore RK (2009) . FUNDAMENTA INFORMATICAE, Vol. 90(3) (pp 229-249)
  • Aimetti G & Moore RK (2009) A Computational Model of Preverbal Infant Word Learning. Proceedings of Iccm 2009 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp 432-433)
  • Hofe R & Moore RK (2008) AnTon: an Animatronic Model of a Human Tongue and Vocal Tract. INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5 (pp 2647-2650)
  • Kempton T & Moore RK (2008) Language identification: Insights from the classification of hand annotated phone transcripts. Odyssey 2008 Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop
  • Kempton T & Moore RK (2008) Language identification: Insights from the classification of hand annotated phone transcripts. Odyssey 2008: Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop
  • Hofe R & Moore RK (2008) . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech (pp 2647-2650)
  • Hofe R & Moore RK (2008) Animatronic model of a human tongue.. ALIFE (pp 775-775)
  • Maier V & Moore RK (2007) Temporal Episodic Memory Model: An Evolution of MINERVA2. INTERSPEECH 2007: 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, VOLS 1-4 (pp 2256-2259)
  • Scharenborg O, Wan V & Moore RK (2007) . SPEECH COMMUNICATION, Vol. 49(10-11) (pp 811-826)
  • Poulsen TM & Moore RK (2007) Sound localization through evolutionary learning applied to spiking neural networks. 2007 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence, Vols 1 and 2 (pp 350-356)
  • Moore RK (2005) Towards a unified theory of Spoken Language Processing. ICCI 2005: FOURTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE INFORMATICS - PROCEEDINGS (pp 167-172)
  • Hawley MS, Green P, Enderby P, Cunningham S & Moore RK (2005) Speech technology for e-inclusion of people with physical disabilities and disordered speech. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 445-448)
  • Moore RK (2004) Modelling data entry rates for asr and alternative input methods. 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP 2004 (pp 2285-2288)
  • Moore RK (2003) Spoken language output: Realising the vision. Eurospeech 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 2909-2912)
  • Moore RK (2003) A comparison of the data requirements of automatic speech recognition systems and human listeners. Eurospeech 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp 2581-2584)
  • Moore RK (2001) Message from the ISCA president. Eurospeech 2001 Scandinavia 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp i)
  • Moore RK (1998) Dictation and voice control. IEE Colloquium Digest, Vol. 499 (pp 7/4)
  • Tomlinson MJ, Russell MJ, Moore RK, Buckland AP & Fawley MA (1997) Modelling asynchrony in speech using elementary single-signal decomposition. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings, Vol. 2 (pp 1247-1250)
  • Garner PN, Browning SR, Moore RK & Russell MJ (1996) Theory of word frequencies and its application to dialogue move recognition. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP Proceedings, Vol. 3 (pp 1880-1883)
  • Nowell P & Moore RK (1995) THE APPLICATION OF DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES TO NON-WORD BASED TOPIC SPOTTING. 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Eurospeech 1995 (pp 1355-1358)
  • Winski R, Moore R & Gibbon D (1995) EAGLES SPOKEN LANGUAGE WORKING GROUP: OVERVIEW AND RESULTS. 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Eurospeech 1995 (pp 841-844)
  • Moore RK (1993) WHITHER A THEORY OF SPEECH PATTERN PROCESSING?. 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Eurospeech 1993 (pp 43-47)
  • Jensen U, Moore RK, Dalsgaard P & Lindberg B (1993) MODELLING OF INTONATION CONTOURS AT THE SENTENCE LEVEL USING CHMMS AND THE 1961 O'CONNOR AND ARNOLD SCHEME. 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Eurospeech 1993 (pp 785-788)
  • Varga AP & Moore RK (1991) SIMULTANEOUS RECOGNITION OF CONCURRENT SPEECH SIGNALS USING HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL DECOMPOSITION. 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Eurospeech 1991 (pp 1175-1178)
  • Beet SW, Powrie HEG, Moore RK & Tomlinson MJ (1988) IMPROVED SPEECH RECOGNITION USING A REDUCED AUDITORY REPRESENTATION.. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings (pp 75-78)
  • Moore RK (1985) (pp 73-143)
  • Russell M & Moore R (1985) . ICASSP '85. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (pp 5-8), 26 April 1985 - 29 April 1985.
  • Moore RK (1984) OVERVIEW OF SPEECH INPUT.. undefined (pp 25-38)
  • Moore RK, Beardsley D, Russell MJ & Tomlinson MJ (1982) TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED DISCRIMINATIVE NETWORK FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION.. undefined
  • Russell MJ, Moore RK & Tomlinson MJ (1982) AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION USING LOCAL TIMESCALE VARIABILITY INFORMATION.. undefined
  • Moore RK () . Interspeech 2016 (pp 2636-2640)
  • Moore RK, Li H & Liao S-H () . Interspeech 2016 (pp 3007-3011)
  • Moore RK & Marxer R () . Interspeech 2016 (pp 3012-3016)
  • Gonzalez JA, Cheah LA, Bai J, Ell SR, Gilbert JM, Moore RK & Green PD () . Interspeech 2014 (pp 1018-1022)
  • Nicolao M, Latorre J & Moore RK () . Interspeech 2012 (pp 987-990)
  • Moore RK () . Interspeech 2011 (pp 1533-1536)
  • Moore RK & Nicolao M () Reactive speech synthesis: actively managing phonetic contrast along an H&H continuum
  • Moore RK () . Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP '98 (Cat. No.98CH36181), Vol. 2 (pp 1049-1052)
  • Moore RK, Russell MJ, Nowell P, Downey SN & Browning SR () . Proceedings of ICASSP '94. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. i (pp I/541-I/544)
  • Russel MJ, Ponting KM, Peeling SM, Browning SR, Bridle JS, Moore RK, Galiano I & Howell P () . International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (pp 69-72)
  • Varga AP & Moore RK () . International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (pp 845-848)
  • Varga A, Moore R, Bridle J, Ponting K & Russel M () . ICASSP-88., International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (pp 481-484)
  • Moore R, Russell M & Tomlinson M () . ICASSP '83. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 8 (pp 1041-1044)
  • Russell M, Moore R & Tomlinson M () . ICASSP '83. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 8 (pp 1037-1040)
  • Moore R, Russell M & Tomlinson M () . ICASSP '82. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 7 (pp 1270-1273)

Presentations

  • Huang G & Moore R Get off on the right foot with whom?: How users’ profiles affect their perception and experience with a social robot. London, UK.
  • Huang G & Moore RK Better curious than smart?: Enhance inclusiveness between mismatched conversational partners: An opinion paper. Hamburg, Germany.

Preprints

  • Liu X, Zhang J, Zhou S, van der Plas TL, Vijayaraghavan A, Grishina A, Zhuang M, Schofield D, Tomlinson C, Wang Y , Li R et al (2025) , arXiv.
  • Barrow B & Moore RK (2025) The Influence of Facial Features on the Perceived Trustworthiness of a Social Robot.
  • Moore RK (2023) Local Minima Drive Communications in Cooperative Interaction.
  • Moore RK (2022) Whither the Priors for (Vocal) Interactivity?.
  • Broughton SJ, Jalal MA & Moore RK (2021) , arXiv.
  • Moore RK (2019) , PeerJ.
  • Moore RK (2019) , PeerJ.
  • Moore RK & Skidmore L (2019) , arXiv.
  • Moore RK & Mitchinson B (2017) , arXiv.
  • Fernando S, Moore RK, Cameron D, Collins EC, Millings A, Sharkey AJ & Prescott TJ (2016) , arXiv.
  • Cameron D, Fernando S, Collins E, Millings A, Moore R, Sharkey A & Prescott T (2016) , arXiv.
Grants
  • EASEL: , EU FP7, 11/2023 - 10/2016, £516,297, as PI
Professional activities and memberships
  • Chair of Spoken Language Processing in the ‘Speech and Hearing’ research group, Dept. Computer Science, University of Sheffield.
  • Editor-in-Chief of ‘Computer Speech & Language’.
  • Editorial Board Member for ‘Speech Communication’, ‘Languages’ and the ‘International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence’.
  • Associate Editor for the ‘Advances in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence’ (ACINI) Book Series.
  • Visiting Professor, Bristol Robotics Laboratory.
  • Visiting Professor, Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London.
  • 2014-15 Distinguished Lecturer International Speech Communication Association
  • Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association since 2008.
  • General Chair for INTERSPEECH, Brighton (6th-10th September 2009).
  • Chief Scientific Officer of ‘20/20 Speech Ltd.’ (now ‘Aurix Ltd.’) from 1999 to 2004.
  • Head of the UK Government’s ‘Speech Research Unit’ (SRU) from 1985 until its privatisation in 1999.
  • President of the ‘International Speech Communication Association’ (ISCA) from 1997 to 2001.
  • President of the ‘Permanent Council of the International Conferences on Spoken Language Processing’ (PC-ICSLP) from 1996 to 2000.
  • Author and co-author of over 150 scientific publications in Speech Technology algorithms, applications and assessment and related areas (h-index = 23).
  • Recipient of the 1999 NATO RTO Scientific Achievement Award for “repeated contribution in scientific and technological cooperation”.
  • Recipient of the 1994 UK Institute of Acoustics Tyndall Medal for “distinguished work in the field of speech research and technology”.
  • Founder Member of the European Speech Communication Association.

Links

Speech and Hearing research group