During the second term, students choose one of these topics or may design their own project in collaboration with a member of staff. All projects are individually supervised. Where a project is of interest to or in collaboration with industry, there is always an academic supervisor as well as an industrial one. After the examinations, full-time students work exclusively on their projects until the end of August when they submit a dissertation describing their work on which an oral examination is held in late September. Part-time students will normally arrange to work on their projects at their own company or institution.
Projects normally involve the design and implementation of a working system of some kind.
Building a Spoken Dialogue System. Modelling Techniques for Speaker-Verification Systems. Customisation for Information Extraction. Voice Access to the World Wide Web. Bayesian Nets and Dialogue.