Alistair Conkie

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1990-2021
Publications (10 Years): 7

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Publications

Javier Latorre, Charlotte Bailleul, Tuuli Morrill, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou
Combining speakers of multiple languages to improve quality of neural voices. CoRR (2021)
Javier Latorre, Charlotte Bailleul, Tuuli Morrill, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou
Combining speakers of multiple languages to improve quality of neural voices. SSW (2021)
Alistair Conkie, Andrew M. Finch
Scalable Multilingual Frontend for TTS. CoRR (2020)
Soumi Maiti, Erik Marchi, Alistair Conkie
Generating Multilingual Voices Using Speaker Space Translation Based on Bilingual Speaker Data. ICASSP (2020)
Alistair Conkie, Andrew M. Finch
Scalable Multilingual Frontend for TTS. ICASSP (2020)
Soumi Maiti, Erik Marchi, Alistair Conkie
Generating Multilingual Voices Using Speaker Space Translation Based on Bilingual Speaker Data. CoRR (2020)
Tim Capes, Paul Coles, Alistair Conkie, Ladan Golipour, Abie Hadjitarkhani, Qiong Hu, Nancy Huddleston, Melvyn Hunt, Jiangchuan Li, Matthias Neeracher, Kishore Prahallad, Tuomo Raitio, Ramya Rasipuram, Greg Townsend, Becci Williamson, David Winarsky, Zhizheng Wu, Hepeng Zhang
Siri On-Device Deep Learning-Guided Unit Selection Text-to-Speech System. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Mahnoosh Mehrabani, Taniya Mishra, Alistair Conkie
Unsupervised prominence prediction for speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Ladan Golipour, Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
Prosodically modifying speech for unit selection speech synthesis databases. SSW (2013)
Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore, Alistair Conkie
Role of pausing in text-to-speech synthesis for simultaneous interpretation. SSW (2013)
Alistair Conkie, Thomas Okken, Yeon-Jun Kim, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio
Building Text-To-Speech Voices in the Cloud. LREC (2012)
Taniya Mishra, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Alistair Conkie
Word Prominence Detection using Robust yet Simple Prosodic Features. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Erica Greene, Taniya Mishra, Patrick Haffner, Alistair Conkie
Predicting Character-Appropriate Voices for a TTS-based Storyteller System. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Yeon-Jun Kim, Thomas Okken, Alistair Conkie, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio
AT&T VoiceBuilder: A Cloud-Based Text-to-Speech Voice Builder Tool. INTERSPEECH (2011)
Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Srinivas Bangalore
Enriching Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Automatic Dialog Act Tags. INTERSPEECH (2011)
Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
Using F0 to constrain the unit selection Viterbi network. ICASSP (2011)
Alan W. Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Wright Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young, Maxine Eskénazi
Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results. SIGDIAL Conference (2011)
Jason D. Williams, Iker Arizmendi, Alistair Conkie
Demonstration of AT&T "Let's Go": A production-grade statistical spoken dialog system. SLT (2010)
Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
Composite TTS voices. SSW (2010)
Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yeon-Jun Kim, Mark C. Beutnagel
Speech acts and dialog TTS. SSW (2010)
Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal, Yeon-Jun Kim, Marc C. Beutnagel
Improving preselection in unit selection synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Robert J. Utama, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie
Six approaches to limited domain concatenative speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2006)
Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
Expanding phonetic coverage in unit selection synthesis through unit substitution from a donor voice. INTERSPEECH (2006)
Yeon-Jun Kim, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Marc C. Beutnagel
Phonetically enriched labeling in unit selection TTS synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2006)
Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie
Perceptually-based data-driven join costs: comparing join types. INTERSPEECH (2005)
Yeon-Jun Kim, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie
Pronunciation lexicon adaptation for TTS voice building. INTERSPEECH (2004)
Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie
Data-driven perceptually based join costs. SSW (2004)
Yeon-Jun Kim, Alistair Conkie
Automatic segmentation combining an HMM-based approach and spectral boundary correction. INTERSPEECH (2002)
Alistair Conkie, Mark C. Beutnagel, Ann K. Syrdal, Philip E. Brown
Preselection of candidate units in a unit selection-based text-to-speech synthesis system. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Juergen Schroeter, Jörn Ostermann, Hans Peter Graf, Marc C. Beutnagel, Eric Cosatto, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou
Multimodal Speech Synthesis. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (I) (2000)
Colin W. Wightman, Ann K. Syrdal, Georg Stemmer, Alistair Conkie, Mark C. Beutnagel
Perceptually based automatic prosody labeling and prosodically enriched unit selection improve concatenative text-to-speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Ann K. Syrdal, Colin W. Wightman, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou, Marc C. Beutnagel, Juergen Schroeter, Volker Strom, Ki-Seung Lee, Matthew J. Makashay
Corpus-based techniques in the AT&t nextgen synthesis system. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Mark C. Beutnagel, Alistair Conkie
Interaction of units in a unit selection database. EUROSPEECH (1999)
Alistair Conkie, Giuseppe Riccardi, Richard C. Rose
Prosody recognition from speech utterances using acoustic and linguistic based models of prosodic events. EUROSPEECH (1999)
Gregor Möhler, Alistair Conkie
Parametric modeling of intonation using vector quantization. SSW (1998)
Ann K. Syrdal, Yannis Stylianou, Laurie Garrison, Alistair Conkie, Jürgen Schröter
TD-PSOLA versus harmonic plus noise model in diphone based speech synthesis. ICASSP (1998)
Ann K. Syrdal, Gregor Möhler, Kurt E. Dusterhoff, Alistair Conkie, Alan W. Black
Three methods of intonation modeling. SSW (1998)
Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou
Exploration of acoustic correlates in speaker selection for concatenative synthesis. ICSLP (1998)
Mark C. Beutnagel, Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal
Diphone synthesis using unit selection. SSW (1998)
Alistair Conkie, Stephen Isard
Optimal coupling of diphones. SSW (1994)
Tim Smithers, Alistair Conkie, Jim Doheny, Brian Logan, Karl Millington, Ming Xi Tang
Design as intelligent behaviour: An AI in design research programme. Artif. Intell. Eng. 5 (2) (1990)
Alistair Conkie, Prabhas Chongstitvatana
An uncalibrated stereo visual servo system. BMVC (1990)