Martin Cooke is currently Ikerbasque Professor (Basque Foundation for Science) at the University of the Basque Country. Prior to this, he was Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Research Interests
Computational auditory scene analysis
Active hearing
Speech perception
Effect of noise on speech production
Computational models of second language acquisition
Martin Cooke, Vincent Aubanel. (in_p) Effects of linear and nonlinear speech rate changes on speech intelligibility in stationary and fluctuating maskers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America :-. Abstract || PDF
Yan Tang, Martin Cooke, Bruno Fazenda, Trevor Cox. (2016) A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140:1858-1870. Abstract || PDF
Vincent Aubanel, Martin Cooke. (2013) Strategies adopted by talkers faced with fluctuating and competing-speech maskers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America :-. Abstract || PDF
Yan Chen Lu, Martin Cooke. (2011) Motion strategies for binaural localisation of speech sources in azimuth and distance by artificial listeners. Speech Communication :-. Abstract || PDF
Yan-Chen Lu, Martin Cooke. (2010) Binaural Estimation of Sound Source Distance
via the Direct-to-Reverberant Energy Ratio for
Static and Moving Sources. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 18:1793-1805. Abstract || PDF
Martin Cooke, Youyi Lu. (2010) Spectral and temporal changes to speech produced in the presence of energetic and informational maskers. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128:2059-2069. Abstract || PDF
Youyi Lu, Martin Cooke. (2009) Speech production modifications produced in the presence of
low-pass and high-pass filtered noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126:1495-1499. Abstract || PDF
Youyi Lu, Martin Cooke. (2009) The contribution of changes in F0 and spectral tilt to increased intelligibility of speech produced in noise. Speech Communication 51:1253-1262. Abstract || PDF
Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Jon Barker. (2008) The foreign language cocktail party problem: energetic and informational masking effects in non-native speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123:414-427. Abstract || PDF
Youyi Lu, Martin Cooke. (2008) Speech production modifications produced by competing talkers, babble and stationary noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124:3261-3275. Abstract || PDF
Sarah Simpson, Martin Cooke. (2005) Consonant identification is N-talker babble is a nonmonotonic function of N. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118:2775-2778. Abstract || PDF
Martin Cooke, Dan Ellis. (2004) Introduction to the special issue on the recognition and organization of real-world sound. Speech Communication 43:273-274.
Martin Cooke. (2003) Glimpsing speech. Journal of Phonetics 31:579-584.
Martin Cooke, Dan Ellis. (2001) The auditory organisation of speech and other sources in listeners and computational models. Speech Communication 35:141-177. || PDF
Máté Attila Tóth, Martin Cooke. Undoing misperceptions: a microscopic analysis of consistent confusions through signal modifications. Interspeech San Francisco. 2016 Abstract || PDF
Yan Tang, Martin Cooke. Glimpse-based metrics for predicting speech intelligibility in additive noise conditions. Interspeech San Francisco. 2016 Abstract || PDF
Vincent Aubanel, Martin Cooke. Information-preserving temporal reallocation of speech in the presence of fluctuating maskers. Interspeech Lyon, France. 2013 Abstract || PDF
Yan Tang, Martin Cooke. Optimised spectral weightings for noise-dependent speech intelligibility enhancement. Interspeech 2012 Portland, US. 2012 Abstract || PDF
Yan Tang, Martin Cooke, Petko N. Petkov. Optimal frequency filtering for speech intelligibility boosting under a constant energy constraint. Proc. Int. Workshop on the Listening Talker Edinburgh. 2012
Yan Tang, Martin Cooke. Subjective and objective evaluation of speech intelligibility enhancement under constant energy and duration constraints. Interspeech 2011 Florence, Italy. 2011 Abstract || PDF
Yan Tang, Martin Cooke. Energy reallocation strategies for speech enhancement in known noise conditions. Interspeech 2010 Makuhari, Japan. 2010 Abstract
Odette Scharenborg, Martin Cooke. Comparing Human and Machine Recognition Performance on a VCV Corpus. Proc. Workshop on Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge Discovery Aalborg, Denmark. 2008 || PDF
Martin Cooke, Scharenborg, O. The Interspeech 2008 Consonant Challenge. Proc. Interspeech 2008 Brisbane. 2008
Yan-Chen Lu, Martin Cooke. Binaural distance perception based on direct-to-reverberant energy ratio. Int. Workshop for Acoustic Echo and Noise Control Seattle. 2008 Abstract || PDF
Cliona Quigley, S Onat, Sue Harding, Martin Cooke, Peter Konig. Audiovisual interaction in the control of human overt attention. 4th Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms Brno. 2008
Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. Effect of cross-word context on plosive identification in noise for native and non-native listeners. ICPhS 07 Saarbrucken. 2007
Sue Harding, Martin Cooke, Peter Konig. Auditory gist perception: an alternative to attentional selection of auditory streams?. 4th Int. Workshop Attention in Cognitive Systems Hyderabad. 2007
E. Gomez Lacabex, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. Perception of English vowel reduction by trained Spanish learners. New Sounds 2007: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech Florianópolis, Brasil. 2007 || PDF
Jon Barker, Martin Cooke, D.P.W. Ellis. Combining bottom-up and top-down constraints for robust ASR: the multisource decoder. Proc. Workshop on Consistent and Reliable Acoustic Cues for Sound Analysis Aalborg. 2001
Jon Barker, Martin Cooke, P.D. Green. Robust ASR based on clean speech models: an evaluation of missing data techniques for connected digit recognition in noise. Interspeech Aalborg. 2001
Martin Cooke. Interactive explorations in speech and hearing. Proc. European Workshop on Education and Research in Speech Communication Sciences in Associated Countries Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 2000
Jon Barker, Martin Cooke, D.P.W. Ellis. Decoding speech in the presence of other sound sources. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing Beijing. 2000
Martin Cooke. Auditory Scene Analysis, Computational Models. International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioural Science Ed.: J. Wright. Pub.: Elsevier. Pags:-. (2015) Abstract
Martin Cooke. Auditory Scene Analysis: Computational Models. International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioural Science Ed.: J Wright. Pub.: Elsevier. Pags:223-228. (2015) Abstract || PDF
Jian Gong, Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. Towards a quantitative model of Mandarin Chinese perception of English consonants. Achievements and perspectives in SLA of speech: New Sounds 2010 Ed.: Magdalena Wrembel, Malgorzata Kul and Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk. Pub.: Peter Lang Verlag. Pags:103-113. (2011) Abstract || PDF
Esther Gómez Lacabex, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. Training and generalization effects of English vowel reduction for Spanish listeners. Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology: Perception and Production Ed.: Michael A. Watkins, Andreia S. Rauber and Barbara O. Baptista . Pub.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pags:32-42. (2009)
Martin Cooke, Lu, Y.-C., Lu, Y., Horaud, R.. Active hearing, active speaking. Auditory signal processing in hearing-impaired listeners Ed.: T. Dau, J.M. Buchholz, J.M. Harte, T.U. Christiansen. Pub.: Centertryk. Pags:-. (2008)
Martin Cooke. Making sense of everyday speech: a glimpsing account. Speech Separation by Humans and Machines Ed.: P. Divenyi. Pub.: Kluwer. Pags:305-314. (2005)