Dr Stuart Cunningham

BEng, PhD

Human Communication Sciences, School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery

Senior Lecturer

s.cunningham@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2421

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Dr Stuart Cunningham
Human Communication Sciences, School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery
Room 127
362 Mushroom Lane
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S10 2TS
Profile

Dr Cunningham is a senior lecturer in Human Communication Sciences. Prior to joining the department he worked as a research associate in the department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering at Barnsley Hospital.

He has previously worked as a research associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ.

He obtained a BEng in Software Engineering and PhD in Computer Science from the University of ºù«Ӱҵ.

Research interests

Robust automatic speech recognition. The use of speech technology in assistive technology and speech and language therapy.

  • Auditory-inspired representations of speech signals and their application in automatic speech recognition.

  • The perception of speech in adverse acoustic conditions.

Current projects

  • Speech Therapy through Articulation Therapy - with Mark Hawley, Peter Cudd, Rebecca Palmer, and Pam Enderby.
    University of ºù«Ӱҵ.
  • Natural Speech Technology - PI Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh). EPSRC Programme Grant.
  • Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid - PI Mark Hawley. NIHR i4i programme.
  • Development of test of audio visual speech perception for children - with Dilys Treharne and Harriet Crook. British Society of Audiology.

Collaborators

  • Mark Hawley, School of Health and Related Research, University of ºù«Ӱҵ.
  • Pam Enderby, School of Health and Related Research, University of ºù«Ӱҵ.
  • Phil Green, Department of Computer Science, ºù«Ӱҵ.
Publications

Journal articles

  • Ridley H, Cunningham S, Darby J, Henry J & Stocker R (2024) . IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 1-12. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alhinti L, Christensen H & Cunningham S (2020) . Speech Communication. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jeffery T, Cunningham S & Whiteside SP (2018) . Journal of Voice, 32(5), 644.e11-644.e24. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Judge S, Hawley MS, Cunningham S & Kirton A (2015) . Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 39(7), 448-453. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Herrmann F, Cunningham SP & Whiteside SP (2014) . Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 44(1), 59-74. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Weinel J, Cunningham S, Griffiths D, Roberts S & Picking R (2014) . Leonardo Music Journal, 24(24), 17-20. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cunningham S & Grout V (2014) . Multimedia Tools and Applications, 72(3), 2299-2320. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Creer S, Cunningham S, Green PD & Yamagishi J (2012) . Computer Speech and Language, 27(6), 1178-1193. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hawley M, Cunningham S, Green P, Enderby P, Palmer R, Segal S & O'Neill P (2012) A Voice-Input Voice-Output Communication Aid for People with Severe Speech Impairment. IEEE Transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering, 1(21), 23-31. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Creer S, Cunningham S, Hawley M & Wallis P (2011) . Applied Artificial Intelligence, 25(6), 445-473. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ahmad Khan Z, Green P, Creer S & Cunningham S (2011) . AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 27(1), 61-66. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Payr S, Wallis P, Cunningham S & Hawley M (2009) Research on social engagement with a rabbitic user interface. Roots for the Future of Ambient Intelligence - Adjunct Proceedings, 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2009, 65-68. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Herrmann F, Whiteside SP & Cunningham S (2009) An acoustic investigation into coarticulation and speech motor control: High vs. low frequency syllables.. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America.. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Herrmann F, Whiteside SP & Cunningham S (2008) . Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 4. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hawley MS, Enderby P, Green P, Cunningham S, Brownsell S, Carmichael J, Parker M, Hatzis A, O'Neill P & Palmer R (2007) . Med Eng Phys, 29(5), 586-593. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cooke M, Barker J, Cunningham S & Shao X (2006) . J Acoust Soc Am, 120(5 Pt 1), 2421-2424. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Parker M, Cunningham S, Enderby P, Hawley M & Green P (2006) . Clin Linguist Phon, 20(2-3), 149-156. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hawley MS, Green P, Enderby P, Cunningham S & Moore RK (2005) Speech technology for e-inclusion of people with physical disabilities and disordered speech. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 445-448. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Palmer R & Enderby P (2004) The effect of three practice conditions,on the consistency of chronic dysarthric speech. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY, 12(4), 183-188. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cunningham S & McGregor I () . Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pennington L, Cunningham S, Hiu S, Khattab G & Ryan V () . Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation, 1-94. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alhinti L, Cunningham S & Christensen H () . PLOS ONE, 18(8), e0287971-e0287971. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Clarke ZC, Judge S, Fryer K, Cunningham S, Toogood J & Hawley MS () . Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 1-13. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Green PD () A voice-input voice-output communication aid for people with severe speech impairment.. IEEE Trans on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Cunningham S, Nicholls S & Owens S (2017) , SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (pp. 57-66). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rutter B & Cunningham S (2013) The Recording of Audio and Video Data. In Muller N & Ball M (Ed.), Research Methods in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics A Practical Guide John Wiley & Sons RIS download Bibtex download
  • Creer S, Green PD, Cunningham S & Yamagishi J (2010) Building personalised synthetic voices for individuals with dysarthria using the HTS toolkit In Mullennix J & Stern S (Ed.), Computer Synthesized Speech Technologies Medical Info Science Reference RIS download Bibtex download
  • Creer S, Green PD, Cunningham SP & Yamagishi J (2010) Building personalized synthetic voices for individuals with dysarthria using the HTS toolkit In Mullennix JW & Stern SE (Ed.), Computer Synthesized Speech Technologies: tools for aiding impairment (pp. 92-115). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cunningham S, Grout V & Picking R () , Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction (pp. 235-263). IGI Global RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Brooke A, Crossley M, Lloyd H & Cunningham S (2024) . 2024 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), Vol. 1 (pp 1-8), 5 August 2024 - 8 August 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Davies L, Vagapov Y, Grout V, Cunningham S & Anuchin A (2021) . 2021 28th International Workshop on Electric Drives: Improving Reliability of Electric Drives (IWED), 27 January 2021 - 29 January 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sehgal S, Cunningham S & Green P (2019) . 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) (pp 13-20), 18 December 2018 - 21 December 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sehgal S, Cunningham S & Green P (2018) . 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 18 December 2018 - 21 December 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Coy A, Green P, Cunningham S, Christensen H, Atria JJ, Rudzicz F, Malavasi M & Desideri L (2018) Embedding speech technology into intelligent tutoring systems using the CloudCAST speech technology platform. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 10858 LNCS (pp 421-424) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Owens S & Cunningham S (2017) . ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Vol. Part F131930 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Weinel J & Cunningham S (2017) . ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Vol. Part F131930 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cunningham S, Green P, Christensen H, Atria JJ, Coy A, Malavasi M, Desideri L & Rudzicz F (2017) . Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 242 (pp 322-329) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nicolao M, Christensen H, Cunningham S, Green P & Hain T (2016) A framework for collecting realistic recordings of dysarthric speech - The homeService corpus. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 (pp 1993-1997) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sehgal S & Cunningham S (2015) . Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, Vol. W15-5112 (pp 65-71). Dresden, Germany, 11 September 2015 - 11 September 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Green P, Marxer R, Cunningham S, Christensen H, Rudzicz F, Yancheva M, Coy A, Malavasi M & Desideri L (2015) . Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, September 2015 - September 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Herrmann F, Cunningham S & Whiteside SP (2015) Bark and Hz scaled F2 Locus equations: Sex differences and individual differences.. pp.1-5 retrieved from: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0351.pdf. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Nicolao M, Cunningham S, Green P, Deena S & Hain T (2015) . IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living (TechAAL) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gemmeke JF, Sehgal S, Cunningham S & Van hamme H (2014) . 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 7 December 2014 - 10 December 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Casanueva I, Cunningham S, Green P & Hain T (2014) . 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 7 December 2014 - 10 December 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stockton R & Cunningham S (2014) An investigation into user perceptions of privacy and trust and their real-world practices. Proceedings of the 10th International Network Conference, INC 2014 (pp 139-149) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Griffiths D, Cunningham S & Weinel J (2013) . Proceedings of the 8th Audio Mostly Conference RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cunningham S, Weinel J, Roberts S, Grout V & Griffiths D (2013) . Proceedings of the 8th Audio Mostly Conference RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Casanuevo I, Cunningham S, Green P & Hain T (2013) HomeService: Voice-enabled assistive technology in the home using cloud-based automatic speech recognition. SLPAT 2013 - 4th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2013, Workshop Proceedings (pp 29-34) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Christensen H, Cunningham S, Fox C, Green P & Hain T (2012) A comparative study of adaptive, automatic recognition of disordered speech. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012, Vol. 2 (pp 1774-1777) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cunningham S, Grout V & Hebblewhite R (2012) Computer game audio: The unappreciated scholar of the half-life generation. Audio Mostly 2006: A Conference on Sound in Games, AM 2006 - Proceedings (pp 9-14) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Allemand S, Wright M & Cunningham S (2011) Implementation of ambisonics technology for surround sound performance. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 11 (pp 609-610) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cunningham S & Grout V (2009) Audio compression exploiting repetition (ACER): Challenges and solutions. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 09 (pp 359-366) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Creer SM, Cunningham SP, Green PD & Fatema K (2009) Personalizing synthetic voices for people with progressive speech disorders: judging voice similarity. INTERSPEECH 2009: 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2009, VOLS 1-5 (pp 1451-1454) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Herrmann F, Whiteside SP & Cunningham S (2008) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 123(5) (pp 3071-3071) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Grout V, Cunningham S & Hebblewhite R (2008) An illustrative discussion of different perspectives in network engineering. Proceedings of the 7th International Network Conference, INC 2008 (pp 91-104) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Davies G, Cunningham S & Grout V (2007) Visual stimulus for aural pleasure. Audio Mostly 2007 - 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound, Conference Proceedings (pp 25-30) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Robinson N & Cunningham S (2007) Security enhancement in public ICT services in wales. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 07 (pp 495-504) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hawley M, Cunningham S, Cardinaux F, Coy A, O'Neill P, Seghal S & Enderby P (2007) Challenges in developing a Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid for People with Severe Dysarthria. CHALLENGES FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 20 (pp 363-367) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hawley MS, Enderby P, Green P, Cunningham S & Palmer R (2006) Development of a voice-input voice-output communication aid (VIVOCA) for people with severe dysarthria. COMPUTERS HELPING PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 4061 (pp 882-885) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cunningham S, Grout V & Hebblewhite R (2006) Computer game audio: The unappreciated scholar of the half-life generation. Audio Mostly 2006 - Proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Sound in Games (pp 9-14) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Grout V, Picking R, Cunningham S & Hebblewhite R (2006) Realistic large-scale network optimisation. Proceedings of the 6th International Network Conference, INC 2006 (pp 121-129) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hatzis A, Green PD, Carmichael J, Cunningham SP, Palmer R, Parker M & O'Neill P (2003) An integrated toolkit deploying speech technology for computer based speech training with application to dysarthric speakers.. INTERSPEECH RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cunningham S & Cooke M (2000) On the intelligibility of bandpass-filtered speech. BRITISH JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY, Vol. 34(2) (pp 104-105) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alhinti L, Cunningham S & Christensen H () . Interspeech 2020 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Green P, Marxer R, Cunningham S, Christensen H, Rudzicz F, Yancheva M, Coy A, Malavasi M, Desideri L & Tamburini F () . Interspeech 2016 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Creer SM, Cunningham SP, Green PD & Fatema K () . Interspeech 2009 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alhinti L, Christensen H & Cunningham S () Towards the Understanding of Communicating Emotions for People with Dysarthria. Workshop in Speech and Hearing Disorders (WSPD 2018) RIS download Bibtex download