The Centre for Speech Technology Research, The university of Edinburgh

Publications by Cassie Mayo

[1] Rosie Kay, Oliver Watts, Roberto Barra-Chicote, and Cassie Mayo. Knowledge versus data in tts: evaluation of a continuum of synthesis systems. In INTERSPEECH 2015, 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015, pages 3335-3339, 2015. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[2] Gustav Eje Henter, Thomas Merritt, Matt Shannon, Catherine Mayo, and Simon King. Measuring the perceptual effects of modelling assumptions in speech synthesis using stimuli constructed from repeated natural speech. In Proc. Interspeech, volume 15, pages 1504-1508, September 2014. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[3] Mirjam Wester and Cassie Mayo. Accent rating by native and non-native listeners. In Proceedings of ICASSP, pages 7749-7753, Florence, Italy, May 2014. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[4] M. Cooke, C. Mayo, and C. Valentini-Botinhao. Intelligibility-enhancing speech modifications: the Hurricane Challenge. In Proc. Interspeech, Lyon, France, August 2013. [ bib | .pdf ]
[5] M. Cooke, C. Mayo, C. Valentini-Botinhao, Y. Stylianou, B. Sauert, and Y. Tang. Evaluating the intelligibility benefit of speech modifications in known noise conditions. Speech Communication, 55:572-585, 2013. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[6] Elizabeth Godoy, Catherine Mayo, and Yannis Stylianou. Linking loudness increases in normal and Lombard speech to decreasing vowel formant separation. In Proc. Interspeech, 2013. [ bib | .PDF | Abstract ]
[7] Catherine Mayo, Fiona Gibbon, and Robert A. J. Clark. Phonetically trained and untrained adults' transcription of place of articulation for intervocalic lingual stops with intermediate acoustic cues. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 56:779-791, 2013. [ bib | DOI | Abstract ]
[8] C. Mayo, V. Aubanel, and M. Cooke. Effect of prosodic changes on speech intelligibility. In Proc. Interspeech, Portland, OR, USA, 2012. [ bib ]
[9] M. Koutsogiannaki, M. Pettinato, C. Mayo, V. Kandia, and Y. Stylianou. Can modified casual speech reach the intelligibility of clear speech? In Proc. Interspeech, Portland, OR, USA, 2012. [ bib ]
[10] V. Aubanel, M. Cooke, E. Foster, M. L. Garcia-Lecumberri, and C. Mayo. Effects of the availability of visual information and presence of competing conversations on speech production. In Proc. Interspeech, Portland, OR, USA, 2012. [ bib ]
[11] C. Mayo, R. A. J. Clark, and S. King. Listeners' weighting of acoustic cues to synthetic speech naturalness: A multidimensional scaling analysis. Speech Communication, 53(3):311-326, 2011. [ bib | DOI | Abstract ]
[12] Vasilis Karaiskos, Simon King, Robert A. J. Clark, and Catherine Mayo. The blizzard challenge 2008. In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[13] F. Gibbon and C. Mayo. Adults' perception of conflicting acoustic cues associated with epg-defined undifferentiated gestures. In 4th International EPG Symposium, Edinburgh, UK., 2008. [ bib ]
[14] Robert A. J. Clark, Monika Podsiadlo, Mark Fraser, Catherine Mayo, and Simon King. Statistical analysis of the Blizzard Challenge 2007 listening test results. In Proc. Blizzard 2007 (in Proc. Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis), Bonn, Germany, August 2007. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[15] C. Mayo, R. A. J. Clark, and S. King. Multidimensional scaling of listener responses to synthetic speech. In Proc. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005. [ bib | .pdf ]
[16] C. Mayo and A. Turk. The influence of spectral distinctiveness on acoustic cue weighting in children's and adults' speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118:1730-1741, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ]
[17] C. Mayo and A. Turk. No available theories currently explain all adult-child cue weighting differences. In Proc. ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception, London, UK, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ]
[18] C. Mayo and A. Turk. The development of perceptual cue weighting within and across monosyllabic words. In LabPhon 9, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. [ bib ]
[19] C. Mayo and T. Turk. Adult-child differences in acoustic cue weighting are influenced by segmental context: Children are not always perceptually biased towards transitions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115:3184-3194, 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]
[20] C. Mayo and A. Turk. Is the development of cue weighting strategies in children's speech perception context-dependent? In XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ]
[21] C. Mayo, J. Scobbie, N. Hewlett, and D. Waters. The influence of phonemic awareness development on acoustic cue weighting in children's speech perception. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 46:1184-1196, 2003. [ bib | .pdf ]
[22] C. Mayo, A. Turk, and J. Watson. Development of cue weighting strategies in children's speech perception. In Proceedings of TIPS: Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech, Aix-en-Provence, 2002. [ bib ]
[23] C. Mayo, A. Turk, and J. Watson. Flexibility of acoustic cue weighting in children's speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109:2313, 2001. [ bib | .pdf ]
[24] C. Mayo. The relationship between phonemic awareness and cue weighting in speech perception: longitudinal and cross-sectional child studies. PhD thesis, Queen Margaret University College, 2000. [ bib | .pdf ]
[25] C. Mayo. Perceptual weighting and phonemic awareness in pre-reading and early-reading children. In XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, 1999. [ bib | .pdf ]
[26] C. Mayo. The development of phonemic awareness and perceptual weighting in relation to early and later literacy acquisition. In 20th Annual Child Phonology Conference, Bangor, Wales, 1999. [ bib ]
[27] C. Mayo. The developmental relationship between perceptual weighting and phonemic awareness. In LabPhon 6, University of York, UK, 1998. [ bib ]
[28] C. Mayo. A longitudinal study of perceptual weighting and phonemic awarenes. In Chicago Linguistics Society 34, 1998. [ bib ]
[29] C. Mayo, M. Aylett, and D. R. Ladd. Prosodic transcription of glasgow english: an evaluation study of GlaToBI. In Intonation: Theory, Models and Applications, 1997. [ bib | .pdf ]