Dr Simone Graetzer
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Current positions
Research Fellow
Biography
I am a Senior Research Fellow in Speech Signal Processing on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded project, Clarity: Challenges to Revolutionise Hearing Device Processing, in the Acoustics Research Group. I am also a Senior Research Fellow on the Cadenza Project on signal processing to improve music listening for users of hearing aids and on the Innovate UK funded Future Homes project, in which we are investigating the human response to air source heat pump noise. I am a Co-Investigator in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Sound Futures.
I am a member of the Institute of Acoustics, the Acoustical Society of America and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). I am Chair of the Early Career Executive Board of the UK Acoustics Network Plus (UKAN+), and EDI Lead. I am also the Vice President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG-SLPAT). I am on the UK and Ireland Speech Committee and the European Acoustics Association Technical Committee on Audio Signal Processing.
Areas of Research
Speech intelligibility, privacy and security; speech enhancement; speech signal processing for hearing aids; subjective evaluation of speech and audio, psychoacoustics; human factors in acoustics; communication in noise; general speech and audio signal processing; soundscapes; listening effort/difficulty; machine learning for audio/speech