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CSTR Old News
June 2011
CSTR hosts HSCMA-2011 . The Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays was held from 30 May to 1 June 2011 in the Informatics Forum.
May 2011
Best paper award. Z. Ling, K. Richmond, J. Yamagishi, and R. Wang. Integrating articulatory features into HMM-based parametric speech synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 17(6):1171-1185, August 2009, DOI:10.1109/TASL.2009.2014796. Awarded IEEE Signal Processing Society 2010 Young Author Best Paper Award at ICASSP-2011.
May 2011
EPSRC Programme Grant - Natural Speech Technology. Natural Speech Technology (NST) is a 5-year EPSRC Programme Grant with the aim of significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in speech technology by making it more natural, approaching human levels of reliability, adaptability and conversational richness. NST is a collaboration between the CSTR, the Speech Group at the University of Cambridge and the Speech and Hearing Research Group (SpandH), University of Sheffield.
April 2011
Science Festival. Mike Lincoln and Jean Carletta present their work on automatic meeting analysis at the Edinburgh Science Festival.
April 2011
Ravichander Vipperla's PhD viva. Congratulations to Ravichander Vipperla successfully defending his thesis at his PhD viva.
March 2011
John Logie Baird Award. Congratulations to Speech Graphics, a CSTR spinout company in the area of audio-driven animation for high fidelty lip-sync, who have won the 2011 John Logie Baird Award for knowledge transfer.
February 2011
EPSRC Healthcare Partnership Grant - Ultrax. Ultrax aims to develop current Ultrasound technology into a viable tool for giving visual feedback of what is happening inside a user's mouth as they talk. One of the major intended uses of this is for speech therapy for children. Ultrax is a collaboration between CSTR, the Clinical Audiology, Speech and Language (CASL) Research Centre at Queen Margaret University, and Edinburgh-based SME Articulate Instruments.
January 2011
New project - RSE/NSFC travel grant.
The Royal Society of Edinburgh / National Science Foundation China travel grant has been awarded to CSTR and USTC for further joint and linked research on our novel framework for speech synthesis. Junichi Yamagishi and Korin Richmond will visit USTC in China.
January 2011
New Research Fellow. Welcome to Christophe Veaux, who joins us from IRCAM. He'll be working on a new voice reconstruction project.
January 2011
ISCA Advisory Council. Steve Renals, elected to the ISCA Advisory Council.
2009
CSTR research features in Where Tomorrow Begins, an exhibition reflecting on Scottish Innovation.
October 2009
Welcome to new PhD students Karl Isaac, Liang Lu, Angeliki-Spyridoula Vlachostergiou, Cassia Valentini and Erich Zwyssig.
June 2009
CSTR is organising a one-day workshop on Facial Analysis and Animation, sponsored by The British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition.
2009
Congratulations to Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Alfred Dielmann, Giulia Garau, Fiona Couper Kenney, Zhang Le, Tim Mills and Gabriel Murray for finishing their PhD.
1 March 2008
The EC funded EMIME project starts: Effective Multilingual Interaction for Mobile Environments.
29 February 2008
Congratulations to Gabriel Murray on a successful PhD viva!
February 2008
Congratulations to Jochen Ehnes awarded a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship to work at CSTR on Natural Interaction with Projected User Interfaces.
February 2008
Welcome to back to: EdSST short-term fellow Ingmar Steiner, visiting from University of the Saarland and working on speech synthesis; AMIDA trainee Javier Tejedor visiting from UAM and working on spoken term detection; and Simon King, back from five months visiting Nagoya Institute of Technology.
January 2008
Welcome to Blaise Potard, visiting for eight months from LORIA (Nancy,
France), working on the articulatory-acoustic mapping.
November 2007
Two six month Marie Curie Fellowships in quantitative analysis and modelling of articulatory data for outstanding young graduate researchers and PhD candidates as part of EdSST.
Further information
November 2007
Welcome to EdSST short-term fellow Marko Liker, visiting for six months from University of Zagreb, working on lingual coarticulation index using EPG.
October 2007
Welcome to EdSST short-term fellow Zhenhua Ling, visiting for six months from USTC, working on the integration of articulatory features into HMM speech synthesis.
September 2007
Welcome to new PhD student Michael Berger, working on realistic speech animation.
September 2007
Welcome to EdSST short-term fellow Chao Qin, visiting for six months from
UC Merced, working on acoustic-articulatory mapping. And congratulations to him for winning a best student paper award at Interspeech 2007.
April-Sept 2007
Welcome to visitor
Javier Tejedor from UAM, who will work on spoken term detection.
April 2007
Welcome to
Ivan Himawan, visiting for one year from Queensland University of Technology, supported by the AMIDA training scheme and working on ad hoc microphone arrays.
April 2007
Welcome to
Jochen Ehnes, supported by the AMIDA training scheme, working on projected user interfaces.
April 2007
Welcome to Junichi
Yamagishi who joins us to work on ESPRC-funded project
"Automatically-determined Unit Inventories for Unit Selection
Text-to-Speech Synthesis".
April 2007
New ESPRC-funded project "Automatic target cost and database design
for unit-selection speech synthesis" started.
March 2007
New ESPRC-funded project "An Edinburgh Speech Production Facility" started.
16-23 February 2007
Welcome to visitor Barbara Forbes, who will work on articulatory
feature detection.
January 2007
Grant awarded from British Council UK-India Education and Research
Initiative (UKIERI) - in collaboration with IIT Guwahati and IIIT
December 2006
New ESPRC-funded project "An Edinburgh Speech Production Facility" started.
November 2006
New ESPRC-funded project "Data-driven articulatory modelling:
foundations for a new generation of speech synthesis" started.
October 2006
New EU Integrated Project AMIDA started, coordinated by CSTR and IDIAP.
September 2006
Welcome to new PhD students: Sebastian Andersson, Leonardo Badino,
Joao Cabral, Vipperla Ravi Chander, Tanja Kocjancic, Martin I. Tietze
and Dong Wang.
September 2006
New Scottish
Enterprise Edinburgh-Stanford Link-funded project "Efficient
model-level integration of novel methods into HMM speech recognition"
started.
June 2006
New ESPRC-funded project "Automatically-determined Unit Inventories
for Unit Selection Text-to-Speech Synthesis" started.
July-August 2006
Partha and Simon participate in JHU summer workshop on speech
and language engineering on Articulatory Feature-based Speech Recognition
1 February 2006
Five open Marie Curie early
stage research positions on the EdSST
project.
1 February 2006
Welcome to Andreu Cabrero from UPC Barcelona visiting for 6 months
(supported by the AMI
Training Programme).
5 January 2006
EdSST (Edinburgh Speech Science and
Technology), an interdisciplinary training programme in speech science
and technology, starts today. This project is supported by the
European Commission Marie Curie programme, under the Early Stage
Research Training (EST) scheme, and is in collaboration with Queen Margaret
University College (QMUC) Speech Science Research Centre (SSRC).
22 December 2005
Congratualtions to Yoshi Shiga on passing his PhD viva!
9 December 2005
Congratualtions to Alexander Gutkin on passing his PhD viva!
1 November 2005
MATCH (Mobilizing
Advanced Technologies for Care at Home), a Scottish Funding Council
Strategic Research Development Grant, starts today. MATCH is
collaboration of CSTR and HCRC with the Universities of Stirling,
Dundee and Glasgow. The overall aim is to develop a research base for
advanced technologies in support of social and health care at
home. CSTR is concerned with the development of spoken dialogue
systems for home care applications (eg for elderly users) and for
microphone array-based speech recognition systems that do not
require users to wear microphones.
19 October 2005
Announcement of at least seven Ph.D. studentships.
3 October 2005
Welcome to Nynke Van der Vliet (working with Jean Carletta on
qualitative meetings analysis) visiting from University of Twente on
the AMI
Training Programme
12 September 2005
Welcome to new PhD students Peter Bell, Songfang Huang and Partha Lal.
1-2 September 2005
31 August 2005
One-day meeting on
Trajectory models for speech processing
23 August 2005
Welcome to Prof. Keiichi Tokuda of the Nagoya Institute of Technology,
Japan visiting for two weeks (funded by EPSRC travel grant).
19 August 2005
Farewell to Simone Ashby, who is relocating to Canada, and Ferran
Diego returning to UPC.
12 August 2005
Farewell to AMI trainees Arlo Faria (starting graduate study at UC
Berkeley) and Naresh Bansal (returning to IIT Guwahati).
2 August 2005
MATCH - Mobilising Advanced Technologies for Care at Home - a SHEFC
Strategic Research and Development Grant
(SRDG)
has been awarded to a consortium comprising Stirling, Dundee,
Edinburgh and Glasgow. The goal is to develop a research base
for advanced technologies in support of social and health care at
home. The Edinburgh component, involving Steve Renals, Johanna
Moore and Maria Wolters, is concerned with speech communication.
1 August 2005
Welcome to Sue
Fitt, returning to CSTR to work as a research fellow on a
pronunciation lexicon for speech synthesis (Scottish Enterprise
Proof of Concept).
18 July 2005
Welcome to Louis ten Bosch and Bert Cranen visiting for 2 weeks from
Radboud University Nijmegen.
11-13 July 2005
CSTR and the AMI project host MLMI-05: Workshop
on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interfaces, Edinburgh
MLMI-05 online proceedings
MLMI-05 online proceedings
11-15 July 2005
CSTR hosts the summer school organised by the European Masters in
Speech and Language
8 July 2005
Congratulations to Olga Goubanova on passing her Ph.D. viva!
14 June 2005
Welcome to Jindrich
Matousek and Daniel Tihelka, visiting for 2 weeks from the Artificial Intelligence Section of the Department of
Cybernetics at The University of West
Bohemia, Czech Republic. (supported by the ERASMUS teacher
mobility programme).
6 June 2005
Scottish Enterprise,
Proof of
Concept grant awarded to Rob
Clark and Nick Wright. CSTR will be developing and commercialising
a new pronunciation lexicon and other aspects of speech synthesis
technology.
4 May 2005
Welcome to Naresh Bansal from
IIT Guwahati, India, visiting for 3 months (supported by the AMI Training Programme).
24 February 2005
Welcome to Ferran Diego,
visiting for 6 months (supported by the AMI Training
Programme).
2 February 2005
Welcome to Bartosz
Dobrzelecki, who has joined us as a part-time web-developer.
25 January 2005
Welcome to two new members of CSTR:
Volker Strom working on Speech
Synthesis (the Expressions
project); and Arlo Faria,
visiting for 6 months (supported by the
AMI Training
Programme).
5 January 2005
Welcome to three new members of CSTR:
Cassie Mayo, working on perceptually rigorous speech
synthesis evaluation methods,
Simone
Ashby working on the AMI project, and
Gregor Hofer, starting PhD study.
6 December 2004
EPSRC grant awarded to Cassie Mayo, Rob Clark and Simon King to
develop perceptually rigorous speech synthesis evaluation methods,
1 Jan 2005 - 31 Dec 2007.
1 November 2004
Welcome to Melissa Kronenthal, new member of CSTR, working on the AMI project.
29 October 2004
Research fellow in speech synthesis. Following the appointment of
Rob Clark to a lectureship,
we are seeking a research fellow to work on speech synthesis. More
details
25 October 2004
Tunji Odejobi (Aston University) is visiting CSTR for the week,
working on prosodic features for Yoruba speech synthesis.
14 October 2004
An Informatics Inaugural Lecture by Steve Renals: Speech Recognition and Understanding in Realistic Environments.
29 September 2004
"Scottish speech synthesis" makes the headlines after a
visit from Jim Wallace MSP.
20 September 2004
16 September 2004
Congratulations to Rob Clark who has been appointed to the Lectureship in Speech Technology, starting in January.
1 September 2004
Welcome to Hiroshi Shimodaira, new member of CSTR and Lecturer in
Speech Technology in the School of Informatics.
2 July 2004
Lectureship in Speech Technology -
Following the appointment of Simon King to an EPSRC Advanced
Fellowship at Edinburgh, applications are invited for a fixed term
Lectureship in Speech Technology in the Centre for Speech Technology
Research (CSTR).
23 June 2004
Congratulations to Simon King, who has been awarded a 5-year EPSRC
Advanced Fellowship!
21 June 2004
CSTR moves (phase 2): CSTR is now located in one place as the remining
members move into additional refurbished accomodation in 5 Buccleuch Place.
31 May 2004
Mikko Kurimo (Helsinki University of Technology) has begun a two month
visit. He will be working on language modelling for meetings within
the AMI project, and is supported by a grant from the Royal Society.
15 April 2004
Hiroshi Shimodaira, currently co-director of the Intelligent
Information Processing Laboratory, JAIST, has accepted a lectureship
in speech technology in the School of Informatics, and will join CSTR
in September 2004.
16 February 2004
Mike Lincoln has joined CSTR as a research fellow on the AMI project.
9 February 2004
CSTR moves (phase 1): about half of CSTR have moved into newly
refurbished accomodation in 5 Buccleuch Place.