Simon King

John Dines, Hui Liang, Lakshmi Saheer, Matthew Gibson, William Byrne, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo: Personalising speech-to-speech translation: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis. Computer Speech & Language 27(2): 420-437 (2013)

Dong Wang, Javier Tejedor, Simon King, Joe Frankel: Term-Dependent Confidence Normalisation for Out-of-Vocabulary Spoken Term Detection. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 27(2): 358-375 (2012)

Keiichiro Oura, Junichi Yamagishi, Mirjam Wester, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda: Analysis of unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using KLD-based transform mapping. Speech Communication 54(6): 703-714 (2012)

Kei Hashimoto, Junichi Yamagishi, William Byrne, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda: Impacts of machine translation and speech synthesis on speech-to-speech translation. Speech Communication 54(7): 857-866 (2012)

Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel, Ravichander Vipperla, Nicholas W. D. Evans, Raphaël Troncy: Direct posterior confidence for out-of-vocabulary spoken term detection. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 30(3): 16 (2012)

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Ranniery Maia, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Heiga Zen: Cepstral analysis based on the glimpse proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. ICASSP 2012: 3997-4000

Rasmus Dall, Christophe Veaux, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Analysis of speaker clustering strategies for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2012

Heng Lu, Simon King: Using Bayesian Networks to find relevant context features for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2012

Rubén San Segundo, Juan Manuel Montero, Verónica López-Ludeña, Simon King: Detecting Acronyms from Capital Letter Sequences in Spanish. INTERSPEECH 2012

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Mel cepstral coefficient modification based on the Glimpse Proportion measure for improving the intelligibility of HMM-generated synthetic speech in noise. INTERSPEECH 2012

Christophe Veaux, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Using HMM-based Speech Synthesis to Reconstruct the Voice of Individuals with Degenerative Speech Disorders. INTERSPEECH 2012

Chen-Yu Yang, Georgina Brown, Liang Lu, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Noise-robust whispered speech recognition using a non-audible-murmur microphone with VTS compensation. ISCSLP 2012: 220-223

Adriana Stan, Peter Bell, Simon King: A grapheme-based method for automatic alignment of speech and text data. SLT 2012: 286-290

Catherine Mayo, Robert A. J. Clark, Simon King: Listeners' weighting of acoustic cues to synthetic speech naturalness: A multidimensional scaling analysis. Speech Communication 53(3): 311-326 (2011)

Adriana Stan, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Matthew P. Aylett: The Romanian speech synthesis (RSS) corpus: Building a high quality HMM-based speech synthesis system using a high sampling rate. Speech Communication 53(3): 442-450 (2011)

Dong Wang, Simon King: Letter-to-Sound Pronunciation Prediction Using Conditional Random Fields. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 18(2): 122-125 (2011)

Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel: Stochastic Pronunciation Modeling for Out-of-Vocabulary Spoken Term Detection. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 19(4): 688-698 (2011)

Christophe Veaux, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Voice banking and voice reconstruction for MND patients. ASSETS 2011: 305-306

Kei Hashimoto, Junichi Yamagishi, William J. Byrne, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda: An analysis of machine translation and speech synthesis in speech-to-speech translation system. ICASSP 2011: 5108-5111

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Evaluation of objective measures for intelligibility prediction of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. ICASSP 2011: 5112-5115

Sandra Andraszewicz, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Vocal attractiveness of statistical speech synthesisers. ICASSP 2011: 5368-5371

Dong Wang, Nicholas W. D. Evans, Raphaël Troncy, Simon King: Handling overlaps in spoken term detection. ICASSP 2011: 5656-5659

Korin Richmond, Phil Hoole, Simon King: Announcing the Electromagnetic Articulography (Day 1) Subset of the mngu0 Articulatory Corpus. INTERSPEECH 2011: 1505-1508

Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Can Objective Measures Predict the Intelligibility of Modified HMM-Based Synthetic Speech in Noise? INTERSPEECH 2011: 1837-1840

Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Unsupervised Continuous-Valued Word Features for Phrase-Break Prediction without a Part-of-Speech Tagger. INTERSPEECH 2011: 2157-2160

Ming Lei, Junichi Yamagishi, Korin Richmond, Zhen-Hua Ling, Simon King, Li-Rong Dai: Formant-Controlled HMM-Based Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2011: 2777-2780

John Dines, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Measuring the Gap Between HMM-Based ASR and TTS. J. Sel. Topics Signal Processing 4(6): 1046-1058 (2010)

Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Juan Manuel Montero, Javier Macías Guarasa: Analysis of statistical parametric and unit selection speech synthesis systems applied to emotional speech. Speech Communication 52(5): 394-404 (2010)

Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Yong Guan, Rile Hu, Keiichiro Oura, Yi-Jian Wu, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, Mikko 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 & Language Processing 18(5): 984-1004 (2010)

Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Kay Berkling: Synthesis of Child Speech With HMM Adaptation and Voice Conversion. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 18(5): 1005-1016 (2010)

Mikko Kurimo, William Byrne, John Dines, Philip N. Garner, Matthew Gibson, Yong Guan, Teemu Hirsimäki, Reima Karhila, Simon King, Hui Liang, Keiichiro Oura, Lakshmi Saheer, Matt Shannon, Sayaki Shiota, Jilei Tian: Personalising Speech-To-Speech Translation in the EMIME Project. ACL (System Demonstrations) 2010: 48-53

Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Mirjam Wester: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis. ICASSP 2010: 4594-4597

Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Simple methods for improving speaker-similarity of HMM-based speech synthesis. ICASSP 2010: 4610-4613

Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel, Peter Bell: Stochastic pronunciation modelling and soft match for out-of-vocabulary spoken term detection. ICASSP 2010: 5294-5297

Volker Strom, Simon King: A classifier-based target cost for unit selection speech synthesis trained on perceptual data. INTERSPEECH 2010: 150-153

Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Bela Usabaev: Roles of the average voice in speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2010: 418-421

Javier Tejedor, Doroteo Torre Toledano, Miguel Bautista, Simon King, Dong Wang, José Colás: Augmented set of features for confidence estimation in spoken term detection. INTERSPEECH 2010: 701-704

Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: The role of higher-level linguistic features in HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2010: 841-844

Dong Wang, Simon King, Nicholas W. D. Evans, Raphaël Troncy: CRF-based stochastic pronunciation modeling for out-of-vocabulary spoken term detection. INTERSPEECH 2010: 1668-1671

Junichi Yamagishi, Takashi Nose, Heiga Zen, Zhen-Hua Ling, Tomoki Toda, Keiichi Tokuda, Simon King, Steve Renals: Robust Speaker-Adaptive HMM-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 17(6): 1208-1230 (2009)

Peter Bell, Simon King: Diagonal priors for full covariance speech recognition. ASRU 2009: 113-117

Dong Wang, Javier Tejedor, Joe Frankel, Simon King, José Colás: Posterior-based confidence measures for spoken term detection. ICASSP 2009: 4889-4892

Junichi Yamagishi, Bela Usabaev, Simon King, Oliver Watts, John Dines, Jilei Tian, Rile Hu, Yong Guan, Keiichiro Oura, Keiichi Tokuda, Reima Karhila, Mikko Kurimo: Thousands of voices for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2009: 420-423

John Dines, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King: Measuring the gap between HMM-based ASR and TTS. INTERSPEECH 2009: 1391-1394

Matthew P. Aylett, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi: Speech synthesis without a phone inventory. INTERSPEECH 2009: 2087-2090

Javier Tejedor, Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel, José Colás: A posterior probability-based system hybridisation and combination for spoken term detection. INTERSPEECH 2009: 2131-2134

Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel: Stochastic pronunciation modelling for spoken term detection. INTERSPEECH 2009: 2135-2138

Dong Wang, Simon King, Joe Frankel, Peter Bell: Term-dependent confidence for out-of-vocabulary term detection. INTERSPEECH 2009: 2139-2142

Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Kay Berkling: HMM adaptation and voice conversion for the synthesis of child speech: a comparison. INTERSPEECH 2009: 2627-2630

Olga Goubanova, Simon King: Bayesian networks for phone duration prediction. Speech Communication 50(4): 301-311 (2008)

Javier Tejedor, Dong Wang, Joe Frankel, Simon King, José Colás: A comparison of grapheme and phoneme-based units for Spanish spoken term detection. Speech Communication 50(11-12): 980-991 (2008)

Dong Wang, Joe Frankel, Javier Tejedor, Simon King: A comparison of phone and grapheme-based spoken term detection. ICASSP 2008: 4969-4972

Junichi Yamagishi, Zhen-Hua Ling, Simon King: Robustness of HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2008: 581-584

Peter Bell, Simon King: A shrinkage estimator for speech recognition with full covariance HMMs. INTERSPEECH 2008: 910-913

Peter Bell, Simon King: Covariance updates for discriminative training by constrained line search. INTERSPEECH 2008: 914

Dong Wang, Ivan Himawan, Joe Frankel, Simon King: A posterior approach for microphone array based speech recognition. INTERSPEECH 2008: 996-999

Joe Frankel, Dong Wang, Simon King: Growing bottleneck features for tandem ASR. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1549

Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda, Heiga Zen, Junichi Yamagishi: Unsupervised adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1869-1872

Volker Strom, Simon King: Investigating festival's target cost function using perceptual experiments. INTERSPEECH 2008: 1873-1876

László Tóth, Joe Frankel, Gábor Gosztolya, Simon King: Cross-lingual portability of MLP-based tandem features - a case study for English and Hungarian. INTERSPEECH 2008: 2695-2698

Joe Frankel, Mirjam Wester, Simon King: Articulatory feature recognition using dynamic Bayesian networks. Computer Speech & Language 21(4): 620-640 (2007)

Joe Frankel, Simon King: Factoring Gaussian precision matrices for linear dynamic models. Pattern Recognition Letters 28(16): 2264-2272 (2007)

Robert A. J. Clark, Korin Richmond, Simon King: Multisyn: Open-domain unit selection for the Festival speech synthesis system. Speech Communication 49(4): 317-330 (2007)

Joe Frankel, Simon King: Speech Recognition Using Linear Dynamic Models. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 15(1): 246-256 (2007)

Özgür Çetin, Mathew Magimai-Doss, Karen Livescu, Arthur Kantor, Simon King, Chris D. Bartels, Joe Frankel: Monolingual and crosslingual comparison of tandem features derived from articulatory and phone MLPS. ASRU 2007: 36-41

Shane Ahern, Dean Eckles, Nathaniel Good, Simon King, Mor Naaman, Rahul Nair: Over-exposed?: privacy patterns and considerations in online and mobile photo sharing. CHI 2007: 357-366

Simon King, Jodi Forlizzi: Slow messaging: intimate communication for couples living at a distance. DPPI 2007: 451-454

Volker Strom, Ani Nenkova, Robert A. J. Clark, Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, Jason M. Brenier, Simon King, Dan Jurafsky: Modelling prominence and emphasis improves unit-selection synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2007: 1282-1285

Peter Bell, Simon King: Sparse Gaussian graphical models for speech recognition. INTERSPEECH 2007: 2113-2116

Joe Frankel, Mathew Magimai-Doss, Simon King, Karen Livescu, Özgür Çetin: Articulatory feature classifiers trained on 2000 hours of telephone speech. INTERSPEECH 2007: 2485-2488

Amy Hwang, Shane Ahern, Simon King, Mor Naaman, Rahul Nair, Jeannie Hui-I Yang: Zurfer: mobile multimedia access in spatial, social and topical context. ACM Multimedia 2007: 557-560

Shane Ahern, Simon King, Mor Naaman, Rahul Nair: Summarization of online image collections via implicit feedback. WWW 2007: 1325-1326

Joe Frankel, Simon King: Observation process adaptation for linear dynamic models. Speech Communication 48(9): 1192-1199 (2006)

Jithendra Vepa, Simon King: Subjective evaluation of join cost and smoothing methods for unit selection speech synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing 14(5): 1763-1771 (2006)

Robert A. J. Clark, Simon King: Joint prosodic and segmental unit selection speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2006

Volker Strom, Robert A. J. Clark, Simon King: Expressive prosody for unit-selection speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2006

Jürgen Bokowski, Simon King, Susanne Mock, Ileana Streinu: The Topological Representation of Oriented Matroids. Discrete & Computational Geometry 33(4): 645-668 (2005)

Marc Davis, Nancy A. Van House, Jeffrey Towle, Simon King, Shane Ahern, Carrie Burgener, Dan Perkel, Megan Finn, Vijay Viswanathan, Matthew Rothenberg: MMM2: mobile media metadata for media sharing. CHI Extended Abstracts 2005: 1335-1338

Robert A. J. Clark, Korin Richmond, Simon King: Multisyn voices from ARCTIC data for the blizzard challenge. INTERSPEECH 2005: 101-104

Catherine Mayo, Robert A. J. Clark, Simon King: Multidimensional scaling of listener responses to synthetic speech. INTERSPEECH 2005: 1725-1728

Olga Goubanova, Simon King: Predicting consonant duration with Bayesian belief networks. INTERSPEECH 2005: 1941-1944

Joe Frankel, Simon King: A hybrid ANN/DBN approach to articulatory feature recognition. INTERSPEECH 2005: 3045-3048

Chris D. Bartels, Kevin Duh, Jeff Bilmes, Katrin Kirchhoff, Simon King: Genetic triangulation of graphical models for speech and language processing. INTERSPEECH 2005: 3329-3332

Simon King, Chris D. Bartels, Jeff Bilmes: SVitchboard 1: small vocabulary tasks from Switchboard. INTERSPEECH 2005: 3385-3388

Shane Ahern, Simon King, Hong Qu, Marc Davis: PhotoRouter: destination-centric mobile media messaging. ACM Multimedia 2005: 209-210

Marc Davis, John F. Canny, Nancy A. Van House, Nathan Good, Simon King, Rahul Nair, Carrie Burgener, Bruce Rinehart, Rachel M. Strickland, Guy Campbell, Scott Fisher, Nick Reid: MMM2: mobile media metadata for media sharing. ACM Multimedia 2005: 267-268

Marc Davis, Michael Smith, John F. Canny, Nathan Good, Simon King, Rajkumar Janakiraman: Towards context-aware face recognition. ACM Multimedia 2005: 483-486

Shane Ahern, Simon King, Marc Davis: MMM2: mobile media metadata for photo sharing. ACM Multimedia 2005: 790-791

Alexander Gutkin, Simon King: Inductive String Template-Based Learning of Spoken Language. PRIS 2005: 43-51

Alexander Gutkin, Simon King: Structural Representation of Speech for Phonetic Classification. ICPR (3) 2004: 438-441

Joe Frankel, Mirjam Wester, Simon King: Articulatory feature recognition using dynamic Bayesian networks. INTERSPEECH 2004

Alexander Gutkin, Simon King: Phone classification in pseudo-euclidean vector spaces. INTERSPEECH 2004

Yoshinori Shiga, Simon King: Estimating detailed spectral envelopes using articulatory clustering. INTERSPEECH 2004

Yoshinori Shiga, Simon King: Source-filter separation for articulation-to-speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2004

Jithendra Vepa, Simon King: Subjective evaluation of join cost functions used in unit selection speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2004

Marc Davis, Simon King, Nathan Good, Risto Sarvas: From context to content: leveraging context to infer media metadata. ACM Multimedia 2004: 188-195

Korin Richmond, Simon King, Paul Taylor: Modelling the uncertainty in recovering articulation from acoustics. Computer Speech & Language 17(2-3): 153-172 (2003)

Ben Gillett, Simon King: Transforming voice quality. INTERSPEECH 2003

Ben Gillett, Simon King: Transforming F0 contours. INTERSPEECH 2003

James Horlock, Simon King: Named entity extraction from word lattices. INTERSPEECH 2003

James Horlock, Simon King: Discriminative methods for improving named entity extraction on speech data. INTERSPEECH 2003

Yoshinori Shiga, Simon King: Estimating the spectral envelope of voiced speech using multi-frame analysis. INTERSPEECH 2003

Yoshinori Shiga, Simon King: Estimation of voice source and vocal tract characteristics based on multi-frame analysis. INTERSPEECH 2003

Jithendra Vepa, Simon King: Kalman-filter based join cost for unit-selection speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2003

Jesper Salomon, Simon King, Jesper Salomon: Framewise phone classification using support vector machines. INTERSPEECH 2002

Jithendra Vepa, Simon King, Paul Taylor: Objective distance measures for spectral discontinuities in concatenative speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH 2002

Joe Frankel, Simon King: ASR - articulatory speech recognition. INTERSPEECH 2001: 599-602

Simon King, Paul Taylor: Detection of phonological features in continuous speech using neural networks. Computer Speech & Language 14(4): 333-353 (2000)

Joe Frankel, Korin Richmond, Simon King, Paul Taylor: An automatic speech recognition system using neural networks and linear dynamic models to recover and model articulatory traces. INTERSPEECH 2000: 254-257

Ton de Jong, Wouter R. van Joolingen, Janine Swaak, Koen Veermans, Renate Limbach, Simon King, Daniel Gureghian: Self-directed learning in simulation-based discovery environments. J. Comp. Assisted Learning 14(3): 235-246 (1998)

Simon King, Todd A. Stephenson, Stephen Isard, Paul Taylor, Alex Strachan: Speech recognition via phonetically featured syllables. ICSLP 1998

Simon King, Thomas Portele, Florian Höfer: Speech synthesis using non-uniform units in the Verbmobil project. EUROSPEECH 1997

Paul Taylor, Simon King, Stephen Isard, Helen Wright, Jacqueline C. Kowtko: Using intonation to constrain language models in speech recognition. EUROSPEECH 1997

Paul Taylor, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Stephen Isard, Simon King, Jacqueline C. Kowtko: Using prosodic information to constrain language models for spoken dialogue. ICSLP 1996