AI forSpeech & Audio

Ian McLoughlin / 马国岭

Professor & Cluster Director
ICT Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology
Get in touch at ian.mcloughlin@singaporetech.edu.sg

Novel AI techniques deployed in the area of speech & audio

Speech AI

Language/Dialect ID, ASR, Enhancement, super-audible speech, and much more

Audio AI
(Machine Hearing)

Endowing computers with the ability to understand sound

The Bionic Voice
Project

Empowering voice-loss patients with the power to regain speech

AI-based speech denoising (AIDN)

Using AI hybrid methods to denoise speech in real time

In addition to impactful research projects, see the papers published by Professor Ian McLoughlin:

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For a full list of papers, please head over to the Google Scholar page.

Read some of Professor McLoughlin's general press articles related to speech and audio AI:

Are phones listening to us? What they can learn from the sound of your voiceAI advancements can learn a lot about us from our tone of voice -- which could have dark consequences for the future of personal privacy.

Sonic attacks in China and Cuba: how sound can be a weaponUS diplomats in Cuba and China have shown symptoms of brain injuries.

Explainer: how the latest earphones translate languagesTime to chuck out the phrase books?

AI can predict whether your relationship will last based on how you speak to your partnerA new study analysing the outcomes of couple's therapy shows computers are getting ever closer to determining what we are really think and feel.

Selfies could replace security passwords – but only with an upgradePlans to introduce voice and facial recognition technology for online shopping and banking point to a password-free future.

Was Neil Armstrong misquoted? Study suggests his accent could've been to blameNew research has found that Neil Armstrong's strong midwestern accent is making it impossible for us to work out what he actually said when he first set foot on the moon.

Can voice recognition technology really identify a masked jihadi?When facial recognition isn't possible, it's time to bring in the voice recognition experts.

How to teach AI to speak Welsh (and other minority languages)There's no reason why AI systems can't speak any language – but is there a reason why it should?

Bionic Voice Project

This is an update video describing the latest state of the project at the end of 2019: a real-time wearable reconstruction system.

Professor Ian McLoughlin

Dr Olivier Perrotin

Dr Hamid Sharifzadeh

Dr Jacqui Allen

My books

Some of my awards and publicity

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TheTimes_7_October_2017_crop.pdf

The Times, 7 October 2017

ST_110122_D2_The big 5 @ NTU (1).pdf

ST_110122_D5_Sustainability2_electric bikes_big.pdf

StraitsTimes_BritishCouncil.pdf

ST_100710_B20_Cities of the future.pdf

PIFIcertificate.pdf

List of funding received (by value)

Awarded as PI

S$150,000,000 from National Research Foundation (Singapore), shared among 8 PIs for establishment of Research Centre of Excellence, 2008-2018
S$1,400,000 personal research funding from Future Cities Lab (share of $50m)
S$1,020,000 research funding from EOS, Singapore, 2009-2012
S$266,011 Ignition fund, SIT + 30% co-funding from industry partner, Oct. 2020
NZ$260,000 from Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, New Zealand, 2003
S$180,000 exploratory development funding from Singapore Ministry of Health, 2007-2009
S$168,000 acad. res. Fund., Singapore Ministry of Education, 2011-2013
£80,000 (approx.) two PhD Scholarships, Oct. 2017, Feb. 2018
£60,000 Huawei HIRP funding, Nov. 2019
£60,000 Huawei HIRP funding, 2016-2017
£52,000 Google Faculty Funding, 2016-2018
S$100,000 acad. res. fund., Singapore Ministry of Education, 2007-2010
RMB500,000 award under 100 Talent Programme from Anhui Province, China, 2014-2015
RMB400,000 start up funding, USTC, China, 2012
S$60,000 RSO manpower funding, NTU, Singapore, 2007
S$50,000 startup funding, NTU, Singapore 2007
£23,000 EIRA (Industrial) funding, Jan. 2019
RMB200,000 Huawei HIRP funding, China, 2013-2015
RMB150,000 innovation fund, USTC, China, 2012

Awarded as Co-PI

S$1,400,000 Infocomm. Development Agency funding, Singapore, 2008-2011
NZ$1,400,000 (approx.) from Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, New Zealand, 2001
S$433,000 with Alex Binder, and PI Adams Kong at NTU, Singapore, 2024
£230,000 Road Safety Trust research funding, start Jan. 2019
S$268,000 Singapore Ministry of Trade & Industry funding, 2009-2010
S$144,000 acad. res. manpower funding, Singapore Ministry of Education, 2007-2010
£32,000 EIRA (Industrial) funding – second project with Mindspire Ltd, from May 2019

Projects completed with Google, Huawei (x2 so far), Ericsson, Simoco/Philips, Her Majesty's Government Communications Centre, Alibaba, Electec, iFlytek