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Maryam Najafian: University of Birmingham Three Minute Thesis Final (2013)

Maryam Najafian, School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences finalist from the 2013 Birmingham Three Minute Thesis competition, delivers her three-minute presentation explaining her PhD research on modelling accents for automatic speech recognition to create better automated phone systems. Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a research communication competition developed by the University of Queensland in 2008, in which doctoral researchers have just three minutes to deliver an engaging presentation on their thesis topic, its originality and its significance. www.intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/3MT