Publications by Leonardo Badino

[1]	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 ]
[2]	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 ]
[3]	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 ]
[4]	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. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[5]	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 ]
[6]	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 ]
[7]	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 ]
[8]	Matthew P. Aylett, J. Sebastian Andersson, Leonardo Badino, and Christopher J. Pidcock. The Cerevoice Blizzard entry 2007: Are small database errors worse than compression artifacts? In Proc. Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2007, Bonn, Germany, 2007. [ bib \| .pdf \| Abstract ]
[9]	Enrico Zovato, Stefano Sandri, Silvia Quazza, and Leonardo Badino. Prosodic analysis of a multi-style corpus in the perspective of emotional speech synthesis. In Proc. ICSLP 2004, Jeju, Korea, 2004. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[10]	Leonardo Badino. Chinese text word segmentation considering semantic links among sentences. In Proc. ICSLP 2004, Jeju, Korea, 2004. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[11]	Leonardo Badino, Claudia Barolo, and Silvia Quazza. Language independent phoneme mapping for foreign TTS. In Proc. 5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Pittsburgh, USA, 2004. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[12]	Leonardo Badino, Claudia Barolo, and Silvia Quazza. A general approach to TTS reading of mixed-language texts. In Proc. ICSLP 2004, Jeju, Korea, 2004. [ bib \| .pdf ]