Language and Speech Laboratory

m.cooke@ikerbasque.org

Martin Cooke

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

Projects

Language and Speech – Established Research Group (Type A – Excellence) (2016-2021)

Enriched Communication across the Lifespan (ENRICH) (2016-2020)

DIACEX: Dissecting Foreign Accent (2013-2016)

INSPIRE: Investigating Speech Processing In Realistic Environments (2012-2015)

Language and Speech (2010-2015)

The Listening Talker (LISTA) (2010-2013)

Sound to Sense (2006-2011)

Online International Web Transcription Tool With Automatic Feedback And Multimedia Links (2001-2002)

Journal Papers

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke, Mirjam Wester. (in_press) A bi-directional task-based corpus of learners’ conversational speech.. Int. J. Learner Corpus Research :-. Abstract

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

Jian Gong, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. (in_p) Ab initio perceptual learning of foreign language sounds: Spanish consonant acquisition by Chinese learners. System :-. Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. (2018) Effects of exposure to noise during perceptual training of non-native language sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143:2602-2610. Abstract || PDF

Yan Tang, Martin Cooke, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao. (2016) Evaluating the predictions of objective intelligibility metrics for modified and synthetic speech. Computer Speech and Language 35:73-92. Abstract || PDF

Sophie Meetings, Samuel Evans, Nadine Lavan, Dana Boebinger, Katja Krieger-Redwood, Martin Cooke, Sophie Scott. (2016) Distinct neural systems recruited when speech production is modulated by different masking sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140:8-19. Abstract || PDF

Ricard Marxer, Jon Barker, Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. (2016) A corpus of noise-induced word misperceptions for English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140:-. 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

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Jian Gong, Martin Cooke. (2015) Exploring the representation of second language sounds in first language space. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 19:1-12. Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Yan Tang. (2015) The effect of speech modification on nonnative listeners for matrix-style sentences.. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America-EL 137:151-157. Abstract || PDF

Jian Gong, Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. (2015) A quantitative model of first language influence in second language consonant learning. Speech Communication 69:17-30. Abstract || PDF

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke, Christopher Bryant. (2015) Accent evaluation from extemporaneous child speech. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 51:227-246. Abstract || PDF

Máté Attila Tóth, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Yan Tang, Martin Cooke. (2015) A corpus of noise-induced word misperceptions for Spanish. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 137:184-189. Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke, Simon King, Maeva Garnier, Vincent Aubanel. (2014) The listening talker: a review of human and algorithmic context-induced modifications of speech. Computer Speech and Language :-. Abstract || PDF

Vincent Aubanel, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. (2014) The Sharvard corpus: A phonemically-balanced Spanish sentence resource for audiology.. Int. J. Audiology 53:633-638. Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo, Julian Villegas. (2014) The contribution of durational and spectral changes to the Lombard speech intelligibility benefit. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 135:874-883. Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke, Simon King, Bastiaan Kleijn, Yannis Stylianou. (2014) Introduction to the Special Issue on The listening talker: context-dependent speech production and perception. Computer Speech and Language 28:540-542. || PDF

Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo, Cassia Valentini, Yannis Stylianou, Bastian Sauert, Yan Tang. (2013) Evaluating the intelligibility benefit of speech modifications in known noise conditions. Speech Communication :-. 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

Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. (2012) The intelligibility of Lombard speech for non-native listeners. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 132:1120-1129. Abstract || PDF

Joanna Sankowska, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. (2011) Interaction of intrinsic vowel and consonant durational correlates with foreigner directed speech. Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 47:109-119. 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

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke, Anne Cutler. (2010) Non-native speech perception in adverse conditions: a review. Speech Communication 52:864-886. Abstract || PDF

Anne Cutler, Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. (2010) Preface to Special Issue on Non-native listening in adverse conditions. Speech Communication 52:863-863.

Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Odette Scharenborg, Wim Van Dommelen. (2010) Language-independent processing in speech perception: identification of English intervocalic consonants by speakers of eight European languages. Speech Communication 52:954-967. Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke, John Hershey, Steven Rennie. (2010) Monaural speech separation and recognition challenge. Computer Speech and Language 24:1-15. Abstract || PDF

Jon Barker, Ning Ma, Andre Coy, Martin Cooke. (2010) Speech fragment decoding techniques for simultaneous speaker identification and speech recognition. Computer Speech and Language 24:94-111. Abstract || PDF

Esther Gómez Lacabex, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. (2009) Identification of the contrast full vowel-schwa: training effects and generalization to a new perceptual context. Ilha do Desterro,Special Issue: English interphonology 55:-. Abstract

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

Sven Mattys, Joanna Brooks, Martin Cooke. (2009) Recognising speech under a processing load: dissociating energetic from informational factors. Cognitive Psychology :-. 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

Anne Cutler, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. (2008) Consonant identification in noise by native and non-native listeners: Effects of local context. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124(2):1264-1268. Abstract || PDF

Cliodhna Quigley, Selim Onat, Sue Harding, Martin Cooke, Peter Konig. (2008) Audio-visual integration during overt visual attention. J. Eye Movement Research 1:1-17. Abstract || PDF

Sue Harding, Martin Cooke, Peter Konig. (2008) Auditory gist perception: an alternative to attentional selection of auditory streams?. LNAI 4840:319-416. 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

Jon Barker, Martin Cooke. (2007) Modelling speaker intelligibility in noise. Speech Communication 49:402-417. Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke. (2006) A glimpsing model of speech perception in noise. Acoustical Society of America 11:1562-1573. Abstract || PDF

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. (2006) Effect of masker type on native and non-native consonant perception in noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119 (4):2445-2454. Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke, Jon Barker, Stuart Cunningham, Xu Shao. (2006) An audio-visual corpus for speech perception and automatic speech recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120:2421-2424. 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

Jon Barker, Martin Cooke, Dan Ellis. (2005) Decoding speech in the presence of other sources. Speech Communication 45:5-25. 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, Phil Green, Ljubomir Josifovski, Ascencion Vizinho. (2001) Robust automatic speech recognition with missing and uncertain acoustic data. Speech Communication 34:141-177. Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke, Dan Ellis. (2001) The auditory organisation of speech and other sources in listeners and computational models. Speech Communication 35:141-177. || PDF

Conference Papers

Jian Gong, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. Can intensive exposure to foreign language sounds affect the perception of native sounds?. Interspeech San Francisco. 2016 Abstract || PDF

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Jon Barker, Ricard Marxer, Martin Cooke. Language effects in noise-induced word misperceptions. Interspeech San Francisco. 2016 Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. The effects of modified speech styles on intelligibility for non-native listeners. Interspeech San Francisco. 2016 Abstract || PDF

Máté Attila Tóth, Martin Cooke, Jon Barker. Misperceptions arising from speech-in-babble interactions. Interspeech San Francisco. 2016 Abstract || 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

Ricard Marxer, Martin Cooke, Jon Barker. A Framework for the Evaluation of Microscopic Intelligibility Models. Interspeech Dresden. 2015 Abstract || PDF

Yan Tang, Martin Cooke, Bruno Fazenda, Trevor Cox. A glimpse-based approach for predicting binaural intelligibility with single and multiple maskers in anechoic conditions. Interspeech Dresden. 2015 Abstract || PDF

Mirjam Wester, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. /u/-fronting in English speakers’ L1 but not in L2.. Int. Cong. Phonetic Sciences Glasgow. 2015 Abstract || PDF

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Roberto Barra Chicote, Rubén Pérez Ramón, Junichi Yamagishi, Martin Cooke. Generating segmental foreign accent. Interspeech Singapore. 2014 Abstract || PDF

Mirjam Wester, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. DIAPIX-FL: A Symmetric Corpus of Problem-Solving Dialogues in First and Second Languages.. Interspeech Singapore. 2014 Abstract || PDF

Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao. Intelligibility-enhancing speech modifications: the Hurricane Challenge. Interspeech Lyon, France. 2013 Abstract || PDF

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Máté Attila Tóth, Yan Tang, Martin Cooke. Elicitation and analysis of a corpus of robust noise-induced word misperceptions in Spanish. Interspeech Lyon, France. 2013 Abstract || PDF

Vincent Aubanel, Martin Cooke. Information-preserving temporal reallocation of speech in the presence of fluctuating maskers. Interspeech Lyon, France. 2013 Abstract || PDF

Vincent Aubanel, Martin Cooke, Emma Foster, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Catherine Mayo. Effects of the availability of visual information and presence of competing conversations on speech production. Interspeech Portland, US. 2012 || PDF

Yan Tang, Martin Cooke. Optimised spectral weightings for noise-dependent speech intelligibility enhancement. Interspeech 2012 Portland, US. 2012 Abstract || PDF

Catherine Mayo, Vincent Aubanel, Martin Cooke. Effect of prosodic changes on speech intelligibility. Interspeech Portland. 2012 Abstract || PDF

Julian Villegas, Martin Cooke. Maximising objective speech intelligibility by local f0 modulation. Interspeech Portland. 2012 Abstract || PDF

Julian Villegas, Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo. The role of durational changes in the Lombard speech advantage. Proc. Int. Workshop on the Listening Talker Edinburgh. 2012 || PDF

Vincent Aubanel, Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo, Robert Clark. Overlap behaviour in task-oriented dialogue. Proc. Int. Workshop on the Listening Talker Edinburgh. 2012 || PDF

Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Yan Tang, Mirjam Wester. Do non-native listeners benefit from speech modifications designed to promote intelligibility for native listeners. Proc. Int. Workshop on the Listening Talker Edinburgh. 2012 || PDF

Vincent Aubanel, Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Catherine Mayo, Robert Clark. Lombard and temporal effects in concurrent conversations. Proc. Int. Workshop on the Listening Talker Edinburgh. 2012 || 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

Martin Cooke, Jon Barker, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Krzysztof Wasilewski. Crowdsourcing for word recognition in noise. Interspeech Florence. 2011 Abstract || PDF

Vincent Aubanel, Martin Cooke, Julian Villegas, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. Conversing in the presence of a competing conversation: effects on speech production. Interspeech Florence, Italy. 2011 || PDF

Jian Gong, Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. A computational modelling approach to the development of L2 sound acquisition. Int. Conf. Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) Hong Kong. 2011 Abstract || PDF

Joanna Sankowska, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. Vowel shortening in altered speech modes elicited via an interactive task. Int. Conf. Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) Hong Kong. 2011 Abstract || PDF

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

Julian Villegas, Martin Cooke, Vincent Aubanel, Marco A. Piccolino-Boniforti. MTRANS: A multi-channel, multi-tier speech annotation tool. Interspeech 2011 Florence, Italy. 2011 Abstract || PDF

Maria Paola Bissiri, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke, Jan Volín. The Role of Word-Initial Glottal Stops in Recognizing English Words. Interspeech 2011 Florence, Italy. 2011 Abstract || PDF

Jian Gong, Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. Towards a quantitative model of Mandarin Chinese perception of English consonants. New Sounds Poznan, Poland. 2010 Abstract || PDF

Joanna Sankowska, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. Interaction of intrinsic vowel and consonant durational correlates with foreigner directed speech. New Sounds Poznan, Poland. 2010 Abstract || PDF

Yan Tang, Martin Cooke. Energy reallocation strategies for speech enhancement in known noise conditions. Interspeech 2010 Makuhari, Japan. 2010 Abstract

Martin Cooke. Discovering consistent word confusions in noise. Interspeech Brighton. 2009 Abstract || PDF

Youyi Lu, Martin Cooke. Speaking in the presence of a competing talker. Interspeech Brighton. 2009 Abstract || PDF

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

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. The effect of training in noise on foreign language consonant acquisition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Paris. 2008 Abstract || PDF

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke, W. Van Dommelen, O. Scharenborg, F. Cutugno. The non-native consonant challenge for European languages. INTERSPEECH Brisbane (Australia). 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

Martin Cooke, Yan-Chen Lu, Youyi Lu, Radu Horaud. Active speaking, active hearing. Int. Symp. on Audiological and Auditory Research Helsingor. 2007

Jonny Laidler, Martin Cooke, Neil Lawrence. Model-driven detection of clean speech patches in noise. Interspeech Antwerp. 2007 Abstract || PDF

Anne Cutler, Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Dennis Pasveer. L2 consonant identification in noise: cross-language comparisons. Interspeech Antwerp. 2007 Abstract || PDF

Yan-Chen Lu, Martin Cooke, Heidi Christensen. Active binaural distance estimation for dynamic sources. Interspeech Antwerp. 2007 Abstract || PDF

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, Andre Coy, Ning Ma, Martin Cooke. Recent advances in speech fragment decoding techniques. Interspeech Pittsburgh. 2006

E. Gomez Lacabex, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. English vowel reduction by untrained Spanish learners: perception and production. PTLC London. 2005

Lee Harkis, Martin Cooke. A European Accent Map. Int. Congress Phonetic Science Barcelona. 2003

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, John Maidment, Martin Cooke, Anders Ericsson, Mircea Giurgiu. A web-based transcription tool. Int. Congress Phonetic Science Barcelona. 2003

Martin Cooke. A glimpsing model of speech perception. International Congress on Phonetic Science Barcelona. 2003

Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke, J. Maidment. Transcripción fonémica en internet. VIII Simposio Internacional de Comunicación Social Santiago de Cuba. 2003

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

Martin Cooke, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, J. Maidment. A tool for automatic feedback on phonemic transcription. Interspeech 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

P.D. Green, Jon Barker, Martin Cooke, L. Josifovski. Handling missing and unreliable information in speech recognition. Proc. AISTATS 2001 Key West. 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

Jon Barker, L. Josifovski, Martin Cooke, P.D. Green. Soft decisions in missing data techniques for robust ASR. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing Beijing. 2000

A.C. Morris, L. Josifovski, H. Bourlard, Martin Cooke, P.D. Green. A neural network for classification with incomplete data: application to robust ASR. Int. Conf. Spoken Language Processing Beijing. 2000

Book Chapters

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

Martin Cooke, Jon Barker, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. Crowdsourcing in Speech Perception. Crowdsourcing in Language and Speech Ed.: Maxine Eskenazi. Pub.: John Wiley. Pags:-. (2013) 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)

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