Bruce Millar

Also known as John Bruce Millar

Bruce Millar works on speech technology that spans cochlear implants and automatic speech recognition. He co-invented the Speech Processor with Graeme Clark and helped build Australia's speech research community. His research includes a method for selecting recognition-system speakers, the ANDOR interface for spoken-language data and the AVOZES audio-video corpus. He is an Emeritus Fellow at the Australian National University, a role he takes in 2010.

Now at: Australian National University
Works: 62
Citations: 446
h-index: 10
Badges: Founder
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Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

1980–1998

The Speech Processor

He works with Graeme Clark and Joe Tong on cochlear-implant research. The Speech Processor patent covers 1980–1998 and names him and Clark as co-inventors.
1984–1993

Building Australia's speech community

He and John Clark propose an Australian Speech Research Conference in 1984; the first Speech Science and Technology conference takes place in 1986. ASSTA forms in 1988, with Millar as a co-founder. At the University of Melbourne, he serves as a senior staff member at the Human Communication Research Centre from 1988 to 1993.
1990

Selecting recognition speakers

In a 1990 paper with S. R. Hawkins, he analyses speaker characteristics in isolated-word recognition and develops an algorithm to select a training set for optimum performance across speakers.
1994

The ANDOR interface

In 1994, he and Dave Davies present ANDOR, an interface for remote access to the Australian National Database of Spoken Language.
2004

The AVOZES corpus

In 2004, he and Roland Goecke present AVOZES, a corpus for studying audio-video speech parameters in automatic speech recognition.
As of October 2026

Emeritus Fellow at ANU

He is an ANU Emeritus Fellow, a role he takes in 2010.