Cassia Valentini-Botinhao

ORCID

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2011-2023
Publications (10 Years): 31

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University of Edinburgh, UK (PHD)

Education History

University of Edinburgh, UK

PHD

Publications

Jacob J. Webber, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Evelyn Williams, Gustav Eje Henter, Simon King
Autovocoder: Fast Waveform Generation from a Learned Speech Representation Using Differentiable Digital Signal Processing. ICASSP (2023)
Oliver Watts, Lovisa Wihlborg, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
PUFFIN: Pitch-Synchronous Neural Waveform Generation for Fullband Speech on Modest Devices. ICASSP (2023)
Ziya Khan, Lovisa Wihlborg, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts
Controlling formant frequencies with neural text-to-speech for the manipulation of perceived speaker age. INTERSPEECH (2023)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Andrea Lorena Aldana Blanco, Ondrej Klejch, Peter Bell
Efficient Intelligibility Evaluation Using Keyword Spotting: A Study on Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement. ICASSP (2023)
Alistair Carson, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King, Stefan Bilbao
Differentiable Grey-box Modelling of Phaser Effects using Frame-based Spectral Processing. CoRR (2023)
Oliver Watts, Lovisa Wihlborg, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
Puffin: pitch-synchronous neural waveform generation for fullband speech on modest devices. CoRR (2022)
Andrea Lorena Aldana Blanco, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Ondrej Klejch, Mandar Gogate, Kia Dashtipour, Amir Hussain, Peter Bell
AVSE Challenge: Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement Challenge. SLT (2022)
Jacob J. Webber, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Evelyn Williams, Gustav Eje Henter, Simon King
Autovocoder: Fast Waveform Generation from a Learned Speech Representation using Differentiable Digital Signal Processing. CoRR (2022)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Korin Richmond, Gustav Eje Henter
Predicting pairwise preferences between TTS audio stimuli using parallel ratings data and anti-symmetric twin neural networks. CoRR (2022)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Korin Richmond, Gustav Eje Henter
Predicting pairwise preferences between TTS audio stimuli using parallel ratings data and anti-symmetric twin neural networks. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
Detection and Analysis of Attention Errors in Sequence-to-Sequence Text-to-Speech. Interspeech (2021)
Jonathan Clayton, Scott Wellington, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts
Decoding Imagined, Heard, and Spoken Speech: Classification and Regression of EEG Using a 14-Channel Dry-Contact Mobile Headset. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Jan Rennies, Henning F. Schepker, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Martin Cooke
Intelligibility-Enhancing Speech Modifications - The Hurricane Challenge 2.0. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Oliver Watts, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
Speech Waveform Reconstruction Using Convolutional Neural Networks with Noise and Periodic Inputs. ICASSP (2019)
Avashna Govender, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
Measuring the contribution to cognitive load of each predicted vocoder speech parameter in DNN-based speech synthesis. SSW (2019)
Oliver Watts, Gustav Eje Henter, Jason Fong, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
Where do the improvements come from in sequence-to-sequence neural TTS? SSW (2019)
Carol Chermaz, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Henning F. Schepker, Simon King
Evaluating Near End Listening Enhancement Algorithms in Realistic Environments. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Bajibabu Bollepalli, Lauri Juvela, Manu Airaksinen, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Paavo Alku
Normal-to-Lombard adaptation of speech synthesis using long short-term memory recurrent neural networks. Speech Commun. 110 (2019)
Oliver Watts, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Felipe Espic, Simon King
Exemplar-based Speech Waveform Generation. INTERSPEECH (2018)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts, Felipe Espic, Simon King
Examplar-Based Speechwaveform Generation for Text-To-Speech. SLT (2018)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi
Speech Enhancement of Noisy and Reverberant Speech for Text-to-Speech. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 26 (8) (2018)
Felipe Espic, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
Direct Modelling of Magnitude and Phase Spectra for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter, Junichi Yamagishi
Misperceptions of the Emotional Content of Natural and Vocoded Speech in a Car. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi
Speech Intelligibility in Cars: The Effect of Speaking Style, Noise and Listener Age. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Michael Pucher, Bettina Zillinger, Markus Toman, Dietmar Schabus, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Erich Schmid, Thomas Woltron
Influence of speaker familiarity on blind and visually impaired children's and young adults' perception of synthetic voices. Comput. Speech Lang. 46 (2017)
Yan Tang, Martin Cooke, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
Evaluating the predictions of objective intelligibility metrics for modified and synthetic speech. Comput. Speech Lang. 35 (2016)
Felipe Espic, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Waveform Generation Based on Signal Reshaping for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi
Investigating RNN-based speech enhancement methods for noise-robust Text-to-Speech. SSW (2016)
Rasmus Dall, Sandrine Brognaux, Korin Richmond, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter, Julia Hirschberg, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Testing the consistency assumption: Pronunciation variant forced alignment in read and spontaneous speech synthesis. ICASSP (2016)
Adriana Stan, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Bogdan Orza, Mircea Giurgiu
Blind speech segmentation using spectrogram image-based features and Mel cepstral coefficients. SLT (2016)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi
Speech Enhancement for a Noise-Robust Text-to-Speech Synthesis System Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Ling-Hui Chen, Tuomo Raitio, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhen-Hua Ling, Junichi Yamagishi
A Deep Generative Architecture for Postfiltering in Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 23 (11) (2015)
Adriana Stan, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mircea Giurgiu, Simon King
Phonetic segmentation of speech using STEP and t-SNE. SpeD (2015)
Mirjam Wester, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Gustav Eje Henter
Are we using enough listeners? no! - an empirically-supported critique of interspeech 2014 TTS evaluations. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Michael Pucher, Markus Toman, Dietmar Schabus, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Bettina Zillinger, Erich Schmid
Influence of speaker familiarity on blind and visually impaired children's perception of synthetic voices in audio games. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Benigno Uria, Iain Murray, Steve Renals, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, John Bridle
Modelling acoustic feature dependencies with artificial neural networks: Trajectory-RNADE. ICASSP (2015)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Towards minimum perceptual error training for DNN-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Markus Toman, Michael Pucher, Dietmar Schabus, Junichi Yamagishi
Intelligibility of time-compressed synthetic speech: Compression method and speaking style. Speech Commun. 74 (2015)
Zhizheng Wu, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts, Simon King
Deep neural networks employing Multi-Task Learning and stacked bottleneck features for speech synthesis. ICASSP (2015)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Markus Toman, Michael Pucher, Dietmar Schabus, Junichi Yamagishi
Intelligibility analysis of fast synthesized speech. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Ling-Hui Chen, Tuomo Raitio, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Zhen-Hua Ling
DNN-based stochastic postfilter for HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mirjam Wester
Using linguistic predictability and the lombard effect to increase the intelligibility of synthetic speech in noise. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Ranniery Maia
Intelligibility enhancement of HMM-generated speech in additive noise by modifying Mel cepstral coefficients to increase the glimpse proportion. Comput. Speech Lang. 28 (2) (2014)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Elizabeth Godoy, Yannis Stylianou, Bastian Sauert, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi
Improving intelligibility in noise of HMM-generated speech via noise-dependent and -independent methods. ICASSP (2013)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Yannis Stylianou
Combining perceptually-motivated spectral shaping with loudness and duration modification for intelligibility enhancement of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Using neighbourhood density and selective SNR boosting to increase the intelligibility of synthetic speech in noise. SSW (2013)
Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
Intelligibility-enhancing speech modifications: the hurricane challenge. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Martin Cooke, Catherine Mayo, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Yannis Stylianou, Bastian Sauert, Yan Tang
Evaluating the intelligibility benefit of speech modifications in known noise conditions. Speech Commun. 55 (4) (2013)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Sabine Degenkolb-Weyers, Andreas K. Maier, Elmar Nöth, Ulrich Eysholdt, Tobias Bocklet
Automatic detection of sigmatism in children. WOCCI (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)
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)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Evaluating speech intelligibility enhancement for HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. SAPA@INTERSPEECH (2012)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Can Objective Measures Predict the Intelligibility of Modified HMM-Based Synthetic Speech in Noise? INTERSPEECH (2011)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Evaluation of objective measures for intelligibility prediction of HMM-based synthetic speech in noise. ICASSP (2011)

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