Yulan Liu

Past Members, Research Students

I am currently a PhD student focusing on environment modeling in DNN front-end for robust distant speech recognition.

Research topics

Environment modeling in DNN front-end
Speaker adaptation with DNN front-end
Speaker-environment factorisation in DNN front-end

Academic history

(2013-present) PhD candidate, University of Sheffield, UK.
(2012) Junior researcher in SCALE project, University of Sheffield, UK.
(2007-2011) BSc. Acoustics, Nanjing University, China.

Contact

E-mail: acp12yl@sheffield.ac.uk

Personal webpage

http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/Y.Liu/index.html#

Publications

2016

Thomas Hain; Jeremy Christian; Oscar Saz; Salil Deena; Madina Hasan; Raymond W. M. Ng; Rosanna Milner; Mortaza Doulaty; Yulan Liu: webASR 2 - Improved Cloud Based Speech Technology. In: Morgan, Nelson (Ed.): Interspeech 2016, 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 8-12, 2016, pp. 1613–1617, ISCA, 2016. (Type: Proceedings Article | Links)

Yulan Liu; Charles Fox; Madina Hasan; Thomas Hain: The Sheffield Wargame Corpus - Day Two and Day Three. In: Morgan, Nelson (Ed.): Interspeech 2016, 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 8-12, 2016, pp. 3833–3837, ISCA, 2016. (Type: Proceedings Article | Links)

2015

Yulan Liu; Penny Karanasou; Thomas Hain: An Investigation Into Speaker Informed DNN Front-end for LVCSR. In: Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015 IEEE International Conference on, 2015. (Type: Proceedings Article | )

Oscar Saz; Mortaza Doulaty; Salil Deena; Rosanna Milner; Raymond W. M. Ng; Madina Hasan; Yulan Liu; Thomas Hain: The 2015 sheffield system for transcription of Multi-Genre Broadcast media. In: 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2015, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, December 13-17, 2015, pp. 624–631, IEEE, 2015. (Type: Proceedings Article | Links)

Yulan Liu; Penny Karanasou; Thomas Hain: An investigation into speaker informed DNN front-end for LVCSR. In: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, April 19-24, 2015, pp. 4300–4304, IEEE, 2015. (Type: Proceedings Article | Links)

2014

Pengyuan Zhang; Yulan Liu; Thomas Hain: Semi-Supervised DNN Training in Meeting Recognition. In: 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014), South Lake Tahoe, USA, 2014. (Type: Proceedings Article | Links)

Yulan Liu; Pengyuan Zhang; Thomas Hain: Using neural network front-ends on far field multiple microphones based speech recognition. In: Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 5542-5546, 2014. (Type: Proceedings Article | Links)

Yulan Liu; Pengyuan Zhang; Thomas Hain: Using neural network front-ends on far field multiple microphones based speech recognition. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014, Florence, Italy, May 4-9, 2014, pp. 5542–5546, IEEE, 2014. (Type: Proceedings Article | Links)

Pengyuan Zhang; Yulan Liu; Thomas Hain: Semi-supervised DNN training in meeting recognition. In: 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2014, South Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, December 7-10, 2014, pp. 141–146, IEEE, 2014. (Type: Proceedings Article | Links)

2013

Charles Fox; Yulan Liu; Erich Zwyssig; Thomas Hain: The sheffield wargames corpus. In: Bimbot, Frédéric; Cerisara, Christophe; Fougeron, Cécile; Gravier, Guillaume; Lamel, Lori; Pellegrino, François; Perrier, Pascal (Ed.): INTERSPEECH 2013, 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Lyon, France, August 25-29, 2013, pp. 1116–1120, ISCA, 2013. (Type: Proceedings Article | Links)

Charles Fox; Yulan Liu; Erich Zwyssig; Thomas Hain: The Sheffield Wargames Corpus. In: Proc. Interspeech 2013, ISCA, 2013. (Type: Book Chapter | )