Hi, I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Acoustics Research Group at the University of Salford working on The Cadenza Project: Improving Music Listening for those with Hearing Impairment.

I hold a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Sheffield under the supervision of Professor Jon Barker. In my project, I worked on the automatic sung speech recognition task, also known as automatic lyrics transcription. For this, I first studied the key differences between sung and spoken speech that make the former more difficult to recognise. Then, I used these differences to inform and adapt deep learning technologies designed for spoken speech to sung speech.

Education

  • PhD Computer Science
    University of Sheffield, UK
    2018-2022

  • MSc Advanced Computer Science
    University of Sheffield, UK
    2015-2016

  • Bs Informatics Engineering
    Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
    1998-2004