Phonetics at Oxford University

Zeynab Raeesy

Position: DPhil candidate

Address: Phonetics Laboratory, 41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF

I am a PhD student at the Phonetics laboratory , University of Oxford. The area of my research is speech acoustics and articulation relations, where I use a database of dynamic MRI of human articulations to automatically extract acoustic and articulatory features and study their correlations. I am working under the supervision of professor John Coleman. I was awarded the Clarendon fund from 2009-2012 to pursue my studies at Oxford, and I am a member of The Queen's College of university of Oxford.

Prior to this, in 2008-2009, I did my MPhil in Computer Text, Speech and Internet Technology (CSTIT) at the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge university. My thesis title was "HMM Model Interpolation for Speech Synthesis", supervised by Matt Gibson and Bill Byrne.

Research Interests:

Human speech production, Acoustics and articulation mapping, Biomedical image processing and automatic feature extraction, Speech recognition and synthesis

Publications:

2014, Zeynab Raeesy, Sylvia Rueda, Jayaram K. Udupa, John Coleman, A New Technique for Automatic Shape Extraction from Vocal Tract MRI, 10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2014), Cologne, Germany, to appear.

2013, Zeynab Raeesy, Sylvia Rueda, Jayaram K. Udupa, John Coleman, Automatic Segmentation of vocal tract MR Images, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI 2013), pp. 1328-1331, San Francisco, CA.

2011, Zeynab Raeesy, Ladan Baghai-Ravary, John Coleman, Parametrising Degreeof Articulator Movement from Dynamic MRI Data, 12th Interspeech, pp. 2853-2856,Florence, Italy.

2011, Zeynab Raeesy, Speaker-Specic Typical Vocal Tract Shapes obtained usingDynamic MRI, 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 1658-1661,Hong Kong, China.

Teaching:

Hilary terms 2010-2011/2011-2012,Tutor: Acoustic phonetics practicals with Praat, University of Oxford