The Centre for Speech Technology Research, The university of Edinburgh

Publications by Rob Clark

[1] S. Andersson, J. Yamagishi, and R.A.J. Clark. Synthesis and evaluation of conversational characteristics in HMM-based speech synthesis. Speech Communication, 54(2):175-188, 2012. [ bib | DOI | Abstract ]
[2] Leonardo Badino, Robert A.J. Clark, and Mirjam Wester. Towards hierarchical prosodic prominence generation in TTS synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, Portland, USA, 2012. [ bib | .pdf ]
[3] Anna C. Janska, Erich Schröger, Thomas Jacobsen, and Robert A. J. Clark. Asymmetries in the perception of synthesized speech. In Proc. Interspeech, Portland, USA, 2012. [ bib | .pdf ]
[4] A. G. Pipe, R. Vaidyanathan, C. Melhuish, P. Bremner, P. Robinson, R. A. J. Clark, A. Lenz, K. Eder, N. Hawes, Z. Ghahramani, M. Fraser, M. Mermehdi, P. Healey, and S. Skachek. Affective robotics: Human motion and behavioural inspiration for cooperation between humans and assistive robots. In Yoseph Bar-Cohen, editor, Biomimetics: Nature-Based Innovation, chapter 15. Taylor and Francis, 2011. [ bib ]
[5] 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 ]
[6] Korin Richmond, Robert Clark, and Sue Fitt. On generating Combilex pronunciations via morphological analysis. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 1974-1977, Makuhari, Japan, September 2010. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[7] Sebastian Andersson, Junichi Yamagishi, and Robert Clark. Utilising spontaneous conversational speech in HMM-based speech synthesis. In The 7th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, September 2010. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[8] Sebastian Andersson, Kallirroi Georgila, David Traum, Matthew Aylett, and Robert Clark. Prediction and realisation of conversational characteristics by utilising spontaneous speech for unit selection. In Speech Prosody 2010, May 2010. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[9] Anna C. Janska and Robert A. J. Clark. Native and non-native speaker judgements on the quality of synthesized speech. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 1121-1124, 2010. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[10] Michael White, Robert A. J. Clark, and Johanna D. Moore. Generating tailored, comparative descriptions with contextually appropriate intonation. Computational Linguistics, 36(2):159-201, 2010. [ bib | DOI | Abstract ]
[11] Anna C. Janska and Robert A. J. Clark. Further exploration of the possibilities and pitfalls of multidimensional scaling as a tool for the evaluation of the quality of synthesized speech. In The 7th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pages 142-147, 2010. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[12] 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 ]
[13] 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 ]
[14] 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 ]
[15] 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 ]
[16] Leonardo Badino, Robert A.J. Clark, and Volker Strom. Including pitch accent optionality in unit selection text-to-speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, Brisbane, 2008. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]
[17] Leonardo Badino and Robert A.J. Clark. Automatic labeling of contrastive word pairs from spontaneous spoken english. In in 2008 IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Goa, India, 2008. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[18] 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 ]
[19] Volker Strom, Ani Nenkova, Robert Clark, Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, Jason Brenier, Simon King, and Dan Jurafsky. Modelling prominence and emphasis improves unit-selection synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[20] K. Richmond, V. Strom, R. Clark, J. Yamagishi, and S. Fitt. Festival multisyn voices for the 2007 blizzard challenge. In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop (in Proc. SSW6), Bonn, Germany, August 2007. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[21] Leonardo Badino and Robert A.J. Clark. Issues of optionality in pitch accent placement. In Proc. 6th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Bonn, Germany, 2007. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[22] David Beaver, Brady Zack Clark, Edward Flemming, T. Florian Jaeger, and Maria Wolters. When semantics meets phonetics: Acoustical studies of second occurrence focus. Language, 83(2):245-276, 2007. [ bib | .pdf ]
[23] Robert A. J. Clark, Korin Richmond, and Simon King. Multisyn: Open-domain unit selection for the Festival speech synthesis system. Speech Communication, 49(4):317-330, 2007. [ bib | DOI | .pdf | Abstract ]
[24] R. Clark, K. Richmond, V. Strom, and S. King. Multisyn voices for the Blizzard Challenge 2006. In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop (Interspeech Satellite), Pittsburgh, USA, September 2006. (http://festvox.org/blizzard/blizzard2006.html). [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[25] Robert A. J. Clark and Simon King. Joint prosodic and segmental unit selection speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, USA, September 2006. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]
[26] Volker Strom, Robert Clark, and Simon King. Expressive prosody for unit-selection speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, Pittsburgh, 2006. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]
[27] Robert A.J. Clark, Korin Richmond, and Simon King. Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the Blizzard challenge. In Proc. Interspeech 2005, September 2005. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[28] 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 ]
[29] G. Hofer, K. Richmond, and R. Clark. Informed blending of databases for emotional speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, September 2005. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]
[30] Dominika Oliver and Robert A. J. Clark. Modelling pitch accent types for Polish speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech 2005, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ]
[31] Robert A.J. Clark, Korin Richmond, and Simon King. Festival 2 - build your own general purpose unit selection speech synthesiser. In Proc. 5th ISCA workshop on speech synthesis, 2004. [ bib | .ps | .pdf | Abstract ]
[32] Rachel Baker, Robert A.J. Clark, and Michael White. Synthesising contextually appropriate intonation in limited domains. In Proc. 5th ISCA workshop on speech synthesis, Pittsburgh, USA, 2004. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]
[33] Robert A. J. Clark. Generating Synthetic Pitch Contours Using Prosodic Structure. PhD thesis, The University of Edinburgh, 2003. [ bib | .ps.gz | .pdf ]
[34] Robert A. J. Clark. Modelling pitch accents for concept-to-speech synthesis. In Proc. XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, volume 2, pages 1141-1144, 2003. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]
[35] Robert A. J. Clark. Using prosodic structure to improve pitch range variation in text to speech synthesis. In Proc. XIVth international congress of phonetic sciences, volume 1, pages 69-72, 1999. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]
[36] Robert. A. J. Clark and Kurt E. Dusterhoff. Objective methods for evaluating synthetic intonation. In Proc. Eurospeech 1999, volume 4, pages 1623-1626, 1999. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]
[37] Robert A. J. Clark. Language acquisition and implication for language change: A computational model. In Proceedings of the GALA 97 Conference on Language Acquisition, pages 322-326, 1997. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]
[38] Robert A.J. Clark. Internal and external factors affecting language change: A computational model. Master's thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. [ bib | .ps | .pdf ]