Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Cambridge Research Laboratory

Speech Technology Group, Selected Recent Scientific Publications

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2010   ↑ to top

Automatic feature selection from a large number of features for phone duration prediction G. Webster, S. Buchholz, J. Latorre Proc. Speech Prosody, Chicago, USA (May 2010)

Usages of an external duration model for HMM-based speech synthesis J. Latorre, S. Buchholz, M. Akamine Proc. Speech Prosody, Chicago, USA (May 2010)

Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Based on Product of Experts H. Zen, M. Gales, Y. Nankaku, K. Tokuda Proc. ICASSP 2010, Dallas, USA (March 2010)

2009   ↑ to top

Improving Joint Uncertainty Decoding by Predictive Methods for Noise Robust Speech Recognition H. Xu, M. Gales, K. Chin Proc. ASRU 2009, Merano, Italy (December 2009)

Comparison of Estimation Techniques in Joint Uncertainty Decoding for Noise Robust Speech Recognition H. Xu, K. Chin Proc. Interspeech 2009, Brighton (September 2009)

Compression Techniques Applied to Multiple Speech Recognition Systems C. Breslin, M. Stuttle, K.  Knill Proc. Interspeech 2009, Brighton (September 2009)

Context Dependent Additive Log F0 Model for HMM-based Speech Synthesis H. Zen, N. Braunschweiler Proc. Interspeech 2009, Brighton (September 2009)

Improved Language Modelling Using Bag of Word Pairs L. Chen, K. Chin, K.  Knill Proc. Interspeech 2009, Brighton (September 2009)

Joint Uncertainty Decoding with the Second Order Approximation for Noise Robust Speech Recognition H. Xu, K. Chin Proc. ICASSP 2009, Taipei (April 2009)

2008   ↑ to top

An Evaluation of Non-standard Features for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion G. Webster, N. Braunschweiler Proc. Interspeech 2008, Brisbane (September 2008)

Improving Japanese Language Models Using POS Information L. Chen, H. Nagae, M Stuttle Proc. Interspeech 2008, Brisbane (September 2008)

Sentence-based Emotional Classification for Text-to-Speech E. Spyropoulou, S Buchholz, S. Teufel Proc. CAFFEi 2008, (August 2008)

Comparing QMT1 and HMMs for the synthesis of American English Prosody S. Krstulovic, J. Latorre, S. Buchholz Proc. Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas (May 2008)

Efficient Language Model Look-Ahead Probabilities Generation Using Lower Order LM Look-Ahead Information L. Chen, K. Chin Proc. ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas (April 2008)

2007   ↑ to top

Sentence Level Intellibility Evaluation for Mandarin Text-to-Speech Systems Using Semantically Unpredictable Sentences J. Li, D. Sityaev, J. Hao Proc. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp (September 2007)

The Toshiba Entry for the 2007 Blizzard Challenge S. Buchholz, N. Braunschweiler, M. Morita, G. Webster Proc. The Blizzard Challenger 2007 Workshop, Bonn (August 2007)

How (not) to select your voice corpus: random selection vs phonologically balanced T. Lambert, N. Braunschweiler, S. Buchholz Proc. Sixth ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Bonn (August 2007)

Some aspects of prosody of friendly formal and friendly informal speaking styles D. Sityaev, G. Webster, N. Braunschweiler, S. Buchholz, K. Knill Proc. ICPhS XVI, Saarbruecken (August 2007)

2006   ↑ to top

Comparison of the ITU-T P.85 Standard to Other Methods for the Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Systems D. Sityaev, K. Knill, T. Burrows Proc. Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh (September 2006)

CoNLL-X Shared Task on Multilingual Dependency Parsing S. Buchholz, E. Marsi Proc. CoNLL-X, New York (June 2006)

Quality Control of Treebanks: Documenting, Converting and Patching S. Buchholz, D. Green Proc. LREC, Genoa (May 2006)

Adaptation of Prosodic Phrasing Models P. Bell, T. Burrows, P. Taylor Proc. Speech Prosody, Dresden (May 2006)

Analysis and Modelling of Question Intonation in American English D. Sityaev, T. Burrows, P. Jackson and K. Knill Proc. Speech Prosody, Dresden (May 2006)

The Prosodizer – Automatic Prosodic Annotations of Speech Synthesis Databases N. Braunschweiler Proc. Speech Prosody, Dresden (May 2006)

Robust Endpoint Detection for Speech Recognition Based on Discriminative Feature Extraction K. Yamamoto, F. Jabloun, K. Reinhard, A. Kawamura Proc. ICASSP 2006, (May 2006)

Investigating Prosodic Modifications for Polyglot Text-to-Speech Synthesis P. Olaszi, T. Burrows, K. Knill Proc. Multiling 2006, Stellenbosch (April 2006)

2005   ↑ to top

A Study on Endpoint Detection for Speech Recognition Based on Discriminative Feature Extraction K. Yamamoto, F. Jabloun, K. Reinhard, A. Kawamura Proc. Information Processing Society of Japan Audio Language Information Processing, Tokyo (December 2005)

A Comparison of Methods for Speaker –Dependent Pronunciation Tuning for Text-to-Speech Synthesis G. Webster, T. Burrows, K. Knill Proc. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon (September 2005)

Combining Models of Prosodic Phrasing and Pausing T. Burrows, P. Jackson, K. Knill, D. Sityaev Proc. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon (September 2005)

Influence of Syntax on Prosodic Boundary Prediction T. Ingulfsen, T. Burrows, S. Buchholz Proc. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon (September 2005)

Intonational Sequence of Tuscan Italian J. Bishop, M. Peake, D. Sityaev Proc. Interspeech 2005, Lisbon (September 2005)

2004   ↑ to top

Improving Letter-to-Pronunciation Accuracy with Automatic Morphologically Based Stress Prediction G. Webster Proc. Interspeech 2004, Jeju (October 2004)