Andrew P. Breen

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1987-2015
Publications (10 Years): 1

Top Topics

Functional Units

Pruning Algorithm

Top Venues

Publications

Heng Lu, Wei Zhang, Xu Shao, Quan Zhou, Wenhui Lei, Hongbin Zhou, Andrew P. Breen
Pruning redundant synthesis units based on static and delta unit appearance frequency. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Xu Shao, Vincent Pollet, Andrew P. Breen
Refined statistical model tuning for speech synthesis. SSW (2010)
Vincent Pollet, Andrew P. Breen
Synthesis by generation and concatenation of multiform segments. INTERSPEECH (2008)
Tanya Lambert, Andrew P. Breen
A database design for a TTS synthesis system using lexical diphones. INTERSPEECH (2004)
Tanya Lambert, Andrew P. Breen, Barry Eggleton, Stephen J. Cox, Ben P. Milner
Unit selection in concatenative TTS synthesis systems based on mel filter bank amplitudes and phonetic context. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Andrew P. Breen, Steve Minnis, Barry Eggleton
Implementing an SSML compliant concatenative TTS system. INTERSPEECH (2003)
Andrew P. Breen, Barry Eggleton, Peter Dion, Steve Minnis
Refocussing on the text normalisation process in text-to-speech systems. INTERSPEECH (2002)
Andrew P. Breen, Barry Eggleton, Gavin Churcher, Paul Deans, Simon Downey
A system for the research into multi-modal man-machine communication within a virtual environment. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Steve Minnis, Andrew P. Breen
Modeling visual coarticulation in synthetic talking heads using a lip motion unit inventory with concatenative synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Andrew P. Breen, James Salter
Using F0 within a phonologically motivated method of unit selection. INTERSPEECH (2000)
Paul Deans, Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson
CART-based duration modeling using a novel method of extracting prosodic features. EUROSPEECH (1999)
Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson
A phonologically motivated method of selecting non-uniform units. ICSLP (1998)
Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson
Non-uniform unit selection and the similarity metric within BT's Laureate TTS system. SSW (1998)
Simon Downey, Andrew P. Breen, Maria Fernández, Edward Kaneen
Overview of the maya spoken language system. ICSLP (1998)
Andrew P. Breen, O. Gloaguen, P. Stern
A fast method of producing talking head mouth shapes from real speech. ICSLP (1998)
Andrew P. Breen, E. Bowers, W. Welsh
An investigation into the generation of mouth shapes for a talking head. ICSLP (1996)
Andrew P. Breen
A simple method of predicting the duration of syllables. EUROSPEECH (1995)
Andrew P. Breen
The BT Laureate text-to-speech system. SSW (1994)
Andrew P. Breen
A comparison of statistical and rule based methods of determining segmental durations. ICSLP (1992)
David M. Howard, Andrew P. Breen
Methods for dynamic excitation control in parallel formant speech synthesis. ICASSP (1989)
Andrew P. Breen
Segmentation of the speech waveform using differentiated first and second formant tracks. ECST (1987)