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Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, and Junichi Yamagishi.
Learning word vector representations based on acoustic counts.
In Proceedings of Interspeech, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017.
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Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, and Simon King.
A Hierarchical Encoder-Decoder Model for Statistical Parametric
Speech Synthesis.
In Proc. Interspeech 2017, August 2017.
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[3]
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Srikanth Ronanki, Sam Ribeiro, Felipe Espic, and Oliver Watts.
The CSTR entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2017.
In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop (Interspeech Satellite),
Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017.
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[4]
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Joseph Mendelson, Pilar Oplustil, Oliver Watts, and Simon King.
Nativization of foreign names in tts for automatic reading of world
news in swahili.
In Interspeech 2017, May 2017.
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[5]
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Srikanth Ronanki, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Felipe Espic, and Oliver Watts.
The CSTR entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2017.
In Proc. Blizzard Challenge, 2017.
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[6]
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Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Simon King, and Gustav Eje Henter.
Median-Based Generation of Synthetic Speech Durations using a
Non-Parametric Approach.
In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT),
December 2016.
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[7]
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Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, and Junichi Yamagishi.
Syllable-level representations of suprasegmental features for
DNN-based text-to-speech synthesis.
In Proceedings of Interspeech, San Francisco, United States,
September 2016.
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[8]
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Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, and Junichi Yamagishi.
Parallel and cascaded deep neural networks for text-to-speech
synthesis.
In 9th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW9), Sunnyvale,
United States, September 2016.
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[9]
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Srikanth Ronanki, Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, and Simon King.
A Demonstration of the Merlin Open Source Neural Network Speech
Synthesis System.
In Proc. Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW9), September 2016.
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[10]
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Takenori Yoshimura, Gustav Eje Henter, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Junichi
Yamagishi, and Keiichi Tokuda.
A hierarchical predictor of synthetic speech naturalness using neural
networks.
In Interspeech 2016, pages 342-346. International Speech
Communication Association, September 2016.
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[11]
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Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, and Simon King.
Merlin: An open source neural network speech synthesis system.
In 9th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (2016), pages 218-223,
September 2016.
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[12]
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Mirjam Wester, Oliver Watts, and Gustav Eje Henter.
Evaluating comprehension of natural and synthetic conversational
speech.
In Speech Prosody, volume 8, pages 736-740, Boston, MA, June
2016.
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[13]
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Gustav Eje Henter, Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu,
and Simon King.
Robust TTS duration modelling using DNNs.
In Proc. ICASSP, volume 41, pages 5130-5134, Shanghai, China,
March 2016.
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[14]
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Oliver Watts, Gustav Eje Henter, Thomas Merritt, Zhizheng Wu, and Simon King.
From HMMs to DNNs: where do the improvements come from?
In Proc. ICASSP, volume 41, pages 5505-5509, Shanghai, China,
March 2016.
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[15]
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Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, and Robert A. J. Clark.
Wavelet-based decomposition of f0 as a secondary task for DNN-based
speech synthesis with multi-task learning.
In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, China, March 2016.
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[16]
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Adriana Stan, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Junichi Yamagishi, Peter Bell, Oliver Watts,
Rob Clark, and Simon King.
ALISA: An automatic lightly supervised speech segmentation and
alignment tool.
Computer Speech and Language, 35:116-133, 2016.
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Thomas Merritt, Srikanth Ronanki, Zhizheng Wu, and Oliver Watts.
The CSTR entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2016.
In Proc. Blizzard Challenge, 2016.
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[18]
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Lau Chee Yong, Oliver Watts, and Simon King.
Combining lightly-supervised learning and user feedback to construct
and improve a statistical parametric speech synthesizer for malay.
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and
Technology, 11(11):1227-1232, December 2015.
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[19]
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Thomas Merritt, Junichi Yamagishi, Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, and Simon King.
Deep neural network context embeddings for model selection in
rich-context HMM synthesis.
In Proc. Interspeech, Dresden, September 2015.
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[20]
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Oliver Watts, Srikanth Ronanki, Zhizheng Wu, Tuomo Raitio, and Antti Suni.
The NST-GlottHMM entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2015.
In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop (Interspeech Satellite),
Berlin, Germany, September 2015.
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[21]
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Oliver Watts, Srikanth Ronanki, Zhizheng Wu, Tuomo Raitio, and A. Suni.
The nst-glotthmm entry to the blizzard challenge 2015.
In Proceedings of Blizzard Challenge 2015, September 2015.
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[22]
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Oliver Watts, Zhizheng Wu, and Simon King.
Sentence-level control vectors for deep neural network speech
synthesis.
In INTERSPEECH 2015 16th Annual Conference of the International
Speech Communication Association, pages 2217-2221. International Speech
Communication Association, September 2015.
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[23]
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Z. Wu, C. Valentini-Botinhao, O. Watts, and S. King.
Deep neural networks employing multi-task learning and stacked
bottleneck features for speech synthesis.
In Proc. ICASSP, pages 4460-4464, Brisbane, Australia, April
2015.
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[24]
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Zhizheng Wu, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts, and Simon King.
Deep neural network employing multi-task learning and stacked
bottleneck features for speech synthesis.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2015.
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[25]
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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.
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Antti Suni, Tuomo Raitio, Dhananjaya Gowda, Reima Karhila, Matt Gibson, and
Oliver Watts.
The Simple4All entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2014.
In Proc. Blizzard Challenge 2014, September 2014.
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Tiberiu Boroș, Adriana Stan, Oliver Watts, and Stefan Daniel Dumitrescu.
RSS-TOBI - a prosodically enhanced Romanian speech corpus.
In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014.
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[28]
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Oliver Watts, Siva Gangireddy, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Steve Renals,
Adriana Stan, and Mircea Giurgiu.
Neural net word representations for phrase-break prediction without a
part of speech tagger.
In Proc. ICASSP, pages 2618-2622, Florence, Italy, May 2014.
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[29]
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Moses Ekpenyong, Eno-Abasi Urua, Oliver Watts, Simon King, and Junichi
Yamagishi.
Statistical parametric speech synthesis for Ibibio.
Speech Communication, 56:243-251, January 2014.
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Heng Lu, Simon King, and Oliver Watts.
Combining a vector space representation of linguistic context with a
deep neural network for text-to-speech synthesis.
In 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pages 281-285,
Barcelona, Spain, August 2013.
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[31]
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Yoshitaka Mamiya, Adriana Stan, Junichi Yamagishi, Peter Bell, Oliver Watts,
Robert Clark, and Simon King.
Using adaptation to improve speech transcription alignment in noisy
and reverberant environments.
In 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pages 61-66,
Barcelona, Spain, August 2013.
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[32]
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Oliver Watts, Adriana Stan, Rob Clark, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Mircea Giurgiu,
Junichi Yamagishi, and Simon King.
Unsupervised and lightly-supervised learning for rapid construction
of TTS systems in multiple languages from 'found' data: evaluation and
analysis.
In 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pages 121-126,
Barcelona, Spain, August 2013.
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Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts,
and Juan M. Montero.
Towards speaking style transplantation in speech synthesis.
In 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pages 179-183,
Barcelona, Spain, August 2013.
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Adriana Stan, Oliver Watts, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Mircea Giurgiu, Rob Clark,
Junichi Yamagishi, and Simon King.
TUNDRA: A Multilingual Corpus of Found Data for TTS Research Created
with Light Supervision.
In Proc. Interspeech, Lyon, France, August 2013.
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Oliver Watts, Adriana Stan, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Antti Suni, José Martín Burgos,
and Juan Manuel Montero.
The Simple4All entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2013.
In Proc. Blizzard Challenge 2013, August 2013.
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Yoshitaka Mamiya, Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Robert A.J. Clark, Simon
King, and Adriana Stan.
Lightly supervised gmm vad to use audiobook for speech synthesiser.
In Proc. ICASSP, 2013.
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Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Oliver Watts, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi,
Simon King, and Juan M Montero.
Simple4all proposals for the albayzin evaluations in speech
synthesis.
In Proc. Iberspeech 2012, 2012.
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Oliver Watts.
Unsupervised Learning for Text-to-Speech Synthesis.
PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012.
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[39]
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Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, and Simon King.
Unsupervised continuous-valued word features for phrase-break
prediction without a part-of-speech tagger.
In Proc. Interspeech, pages 2157-2160, Florence, Italy, August
2011.
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Oliver Watts and Bowen Zhou.
Unsupervised features from text for speech synthesis in a
speech-to-speech translation system.
In Proc. Interspeech, pages 2153-2156, Florence, Italy, August
2011.
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[41]
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Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, and Simon King.
The role of higher-level linguistic features in HMM-based speech
synthesis.
In Proc. Interspeech, pages 841-844, Makuhari, Japan,
September 2010.
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Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Simon King, and Bela Usabaev.
Roles of the average voice in speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech
synthesis.
In Proc. Interspeech, pages 418-421, Makuhari, Japan,
September 2010.
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[43]
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Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, and Simon King.
Letter-based speech synthesis.
In Proc. Speech Synthesis Workshop 2010, pages 317-322, Nara,
Japan, September 2010.
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O. Watts, J. Yamagishi, S. King, and K. Berkling.
Synthesis of child speech with HMM adaptation and voice conversion.
Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE Transactions on,
18(5):1005-1016, July 2010.
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J. Yamagishi, B. Usabaev, S. King, O. Watts, J. Dines, J. Tian, R. Hu, Y. Guan,
K. Oura, K. Tokuda, R. Karhila, and M. Kurimo.
Thousands of voices for HMM-based speech synthesis - analysis and
application of TTS systems built on various ASR corpora.
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,
18(5):984-1004, July 2010.
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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.
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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.
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Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Kay Berkling, and Simon King.
HMM-based synthesis of child speech.
In Proc. 1st Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction
(ICMI'08 post-conference workshop), Crete, Greece, October 2008.
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J. Sebastian Andersson, Leonardo Badino, Oliver S. Watts, and Matthew P.Aylett.
The CSTR/Cereproc Blizzard entry 2008: The inconvenient data.
In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop (in Proc. Interspeech
2008), Brisbane, Australia, 2008.
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