Peter Bell and Simon King. Diagonal priors for full covariance speech recognition. In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Merano, Italy, December 2009. [ bib | DOI | .pdf | Abstract ]

Heiga Zen, Keiichiro Oura, Takashi Nose, Junichi Yamagishi, Shinji Sako, Tomoki Toda, Takashi Masuko, Alan W. Black, and Keiichi Tokuda. Recent development of the HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS). In Proc. 2009 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), Sapporo, Japan, October 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

J. Sebastian Andersson, Joao P. Cabral, Leonardo Badino, Junichi Yamagishi, and Robert A.J. Clark. Glottal source and prosodic prominence modelling in HMM-based speech synthesis for the Blizzard Challenge 2009. In The Blizzard Challenge 2009, Edinburgh, U.K., September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Dong Wang, Simon King, and Joe Frankel. Stochastic pronunciation modelling for spoken term detection. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 2135-2138, Brighton, UK, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Maria Wolters, Ravichander Vipperla, and Steve Renals. Age recognition for spoken dialogue systems: Do we need it? In Proc. Interspeech, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Songfang Huang and Steve Renals. A parallel training algorithm for hierarchical Pitman-Yor process language models. In Proc. Interspeech'09, pages 2695-2698, Brighton, UK, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, and Kay Berkling. HMM adaptation and voice conversion for the synthesis of child speech: A comparison. In Proc. Interspeech 2009, pages 2627-2630, Brighton, U.K., September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Simon King and Vasilis Karaiskos. The Blizzard Challenge 2009. In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop, Edinburgh, UK, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel, and Peter Bell. Term-dependent confidence for out-of-vocabulary term detection. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 2139-2142, Brighton, UK, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Michal Dziemianko, Gregor Hofer, and Hiroshi Shimodaira. HMM-based automatic eye-blink synthesis from speech. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 1799-1802, Brighton, UK, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Leonardo Badino, J. Sebastian Andersson, Junichi Yamagishi, and Robert A.J. Clark. Identification of contrast and its emphatic realization in HMM-based speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech 2009, Brighton, U.K., September 2009. [ bib | .PDF | Abstract ]

Junichi Yamagishi, Mike Lincoln, Simon King, John Dines, Matthew Gibson, Jilei Tian, and Yong Guan. Analysis of unsupervised and noise-robust speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis systems toward a unified ASR and TTS framework. In Proc. Interspeech 2009, Edinburgh, U.K., September 2009. [ bib | Abstract ]

K. Richmond. Preliminary inversion mapping results with a new EMA corpus. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 2835-2838, Brighton, UK, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

K. Richmond, R. Clark, and S. Fitt. Robust LTS rules with the Combilex speech technology lexicon. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 1295-1298, Brighton, UK, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

J. Dines, J. Yamagishi, and S. King. Measuring the gap between HMM-based ASR and TTS. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 1391-1394, Brighton, U.K., September 2009. [ bib | Abstract ]

Javier Tejedor, Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel, and Jose Colas. A posterior probability-based system hybridisation and combination for spoken term detection. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 2131-2134, Brighton, UK, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

I. Steiner and K. Richmond. Towards unsupervised articulatory resynthesis of German utterances using EMA data. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 2055-2058, Brighton, UK, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

J. Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Rile Hu, Yong Guan, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, and Mikko Kurimo. Thousands of voices for HMM-based speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 420-423, Brighton, U.K., September 2009. [ bib | http | Abstract ]

Atef Ben Youssef, Pierre Badin, Gérard Bailly, and Panikos Heracleous. Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion using speech recognition and trajectory formation based on phoneme hidden markov models. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 2255-2258, Brighton, UK, September 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

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. IEEE SPS 2010 Young Author Best Paper Award. [ bib | DOI | Abstract ]

Jochen Ehnes. A tangible interface for the AMI content linking device - the automated meeting assistant. In Lucia Lo Bello and Giancarlo Iannizzotto, editors, Proceedings of HSI 2009, pages 306-313, May 2009. Best Paper Award (Human Machine Interaction). [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Songfang Huang and Bowen Zhou. An EM algorithm for SCFG in formal syntax-based translation. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'09), pages 4813-4816, Taiwan, China, April 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Dong Wang, Tejedor Tejedor, Joe Frankel, and Simon King. Posterior-based confidence measures for spoken term detection. In Proc. ICASSP09, Taiwan, April 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

J. Cabral, S. Renals, K. Richmond, and J. Yamagishi. HMM-based speech synthesis with an acoustic glottal source model. In Proc. The First Young Researchers Workshop in Speech Technology, April 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Christine Johnson, Pauline Campbell, Christine DePlacido, Amy Liddell, and Maria Wolters. Does peripheral hearing loss affect RGDT thresholds in older adults. In Proceedings of the American Auditory Society Conference, March 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Jochen Ehnes. An automated meeting assistant: A tangible mixed reality interface for the AMIDA automatic content linking device. In Filipe and Cordeiro [38], pages 952-962. [ bib | DOI | .pdf | Abstract ]

Gabriel Murray, Thomas Kleinbauer, Peter Poller, Tilman Becker, Steve Renals, and Jonathan Kilgour. Extrinsic summarization evaluation: A decision audit task. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 6(2):1-29, 2009. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf | Abstract ]

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems. PhD thesis, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, January 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Ravi Chander Vipperla, Maria Wolters, Kallirroi Georgila, and Steve Renals. Speech input from older users in smart environments: Challenges and perspectives. In Proc. HCI International: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Intelligent and Ubiquitous Interaction Environments, number 5615 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2009. [ bib | DOI | http | .pdf | Abstract ]

Jochen Ehnes. A tangible mixed reality interface for the AMI automated meeting assistant. In Michael J. Smith and Gavriel Salvendy, editors, Human Interface and the Management of Information, volume 5617 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 485-494. Springer, 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver Lemon, and Hiroshi Shimodaira. Evaluation of a hierarchical reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system. Computer Speech and Language, 24(2):395-429, 2009. [ bib | DOI | .pdf | Abstract ]

Sarah Creer, Phil Green, Stuart Cunningham, and Junichi Yamagishi. Building personalised synthesised voices for individuals with dysarthria using the HTS toolkit. In John W. Mullennix and Steven E. Stern, editors, Computer Synthesized Speech Technologies: Tools for Aiding Impairment. IGI Global, 1st edition, 2009. in press. [ bib | Abstract ]

Matthew P. Aylett, Simon King, and Junichi Yamagishi. Speech synthesis without a phone inventory. In Interspeech, pages 2087-2090, 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Richard S. McGowan and Michael A. Berger. Acoustic-articulatory mapping in vowels by locally weighted regression. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(4):2011-2032, 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Martin I. Tietze, Andi Winterboer, and Johanna D. Moore. The effect of linguistic devices in information presentation messages on recall and comprehension. In Proceedings ENLG09, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Maria Wolters, Kallirroi Georgila, Sarah MacPherson, and Johanna Moore. Being old doesn't mean acting old: Older users' interaction with spoken dialogue systems. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 2(1):1-39, 2009. [ bib | http | Abstract ]

Junichi Yamagishi, Takashi Nose, Heiga Zen, Zhenhua Ling, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Simon King, and Steve Renals. Robust speaker-adaptive HMM-based text-to-speech synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 17(6):1208-1230, 2009. [ bib | http | www: | Abstract ]

Joaquim Filipe and José Cordeiro, editors. Enterprise Information Systems, 11th International Conference, ICEIS 2009, Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009. Proceedings, volume 24 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, 2009. [ bib | DOI ]

Le Zhang. Modelling Speech Dynamics with Trajectory-HMMs. PhD thesis, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, January 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Maria Wolters, Kallirroi Georgila, Robert Logie, Sarah MacPherson, Johanna Moore, and Matt Watson. Reducing working memory load in spoken dialogue systems. Interacting with Computers, 21(4):276-287, 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Y. Hifny and S. Renals. Speech recognition using augmented conditional random fields. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 17(2):354-365, 2009. [ bib | http | .pdf | Abstract ]

John Niekrasz and Johanna Moore. Participant subjectivity and involvement as a basis for discourse segmentation. In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, pages 54-61, 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]

Atef Ben Youssef, Viet-Anh Tran, Pierre Badin, and Gérard Bailly. Hmms and gmms based methods in acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion. In Proc. RJCP, pages 186-192, Avignon, France, 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]