The Centre for Speech Technology Research, The university of Edinburgh

Publications by Thomas Merritt

[1] 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. [ bib | http | .pdf | Abstract ]
[2] Thomas Merritt, Robert A J Clark, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi, and Simon King. Deep neural network-guided unit selection synthesis. In Proc. ICASSP, 2016. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[3] Thomas Merritt, Srikanth Ronanki, Zhizheng Wu, and Oliver Watts. The CSTR entry to the Blizzard Challenge 2016. In Proc. Blizzard Challenge, 2016. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[4] 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. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[5] Thomas Merritt, Javier Latorre, and Simon King. Attributing modelling errors in HMM synthesis by stepping gradually from natural to modelled speech. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 4220-4224, Brisbane, April 2015. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[6] Thomas Merritt, Tuomo Raitio, and Simon King. Investigating source and filter contributions, and their interaction, to statistical parametric speech synthesis. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 1509-1513, Singapore, September 2014. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[7] 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 ]
[8] Matthew Aylett, Rasmus Dall, Arnab Ghoshal, Gustav Eje Henter, and Thomas Merritt. A flexible front-end for HTS. In Proc. Interspeech, pages 1283-1287, September 2014. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
[9] Thomas Merritt and Simon King. Investigating the shortcomings of HMM synthesis. In 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, pages 185-190, Barcelona, Spain, August 2013. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]