Publications by Oliver Watts

[1]	Oliver Watts. Unsupervised Learning for Text-to-Speech Synthesis. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[2]	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. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[3]	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. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[4]	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. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[5]	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. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[6]	Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, and Simon King. Letter-based speech synthesis. In Proc. Speech Synthesis Workshop 2010, pages 317-322, Nara, Japan, September 2010. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[7]	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. [ bib \| DOI \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[8]	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. [ bib \| DOI \| Abstract ]
[9]	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 ]
[10]	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 ]
[11]	Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Kay Berkling, and Simon King. HMM-based synthesis of child speech. In Proc. of The 1st Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction (ICMI'08 post-conference workshop), Crete, Greece, October 2008. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]