Mauro Nicolao

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2006-2023
Publications (10 Years): 8

Top Topics

Spoken Language

Autistic Children

Automatic Assessment

Top Venues

SIGDIAL Conference

Publications

Mauro Nicolao, Brenda McGuirk, Declan Moore, Niall Mullally, Lora Lynn O'Mahony, Emma O'Neill, Amelia C. Kelly
Measuring prosody in child speech using SoapBox Fluency API. INTERSPEECH (2023)
Claudio Zito, Fabio Tesser, Mauro Nicolao, Piero Cosi
Tatistical Context-Dependent Units Boundary Correction for Corpus-based Unit-Selection Text-to-Speech. CoRR (2020)
Mauro Nicolao, Michiel Sanders, Thomas Hain
Improved Acoustic Modelling for Automatic Literacy Assessment of Children. INTERSPEECH (2018)
Roger K. Moore, Mauro Nicolao
Toward a Needs-Based Architecture for 'Intelligent' Communicative Agents: Speaking with Intention. Frontiers Robotics AI 4 (2017)
Raymond W. M. Ng, Mauro Nicolao, Thomas Hain
Unsupervised crosslingual adaptation of tokenisers for spoken language recognition. Comput. Speech Lang. 46 (2017)
Mauro Nicolao, Heidi Christensen, Stuart P. Cunningham, Phil D. Green, Thomas Hain
A Framework for Collecting Realistic Recordings of Dysarthric Speech - the homeService Corpus. LREC (2016)
Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Mauro Nicolao, Phil D. Green
Using phone features to improve dialogue state tracking generalisation to unseen states. SIGDIAL Conference (2016)
Raymond W. M. Ng, Mauro Nicolao, Oscar Saz, Madina Hasan, Bhusan Chettri, Mortaza Doulaty, Tan Lee, Thomas Hain
The Sheffield language recognition system in NIST LRE 2015. Odyssey (2016)
Mauro Nicolao, Amy V. Beeston, Thomas Hain
Automatic assessment of English learner pronunciation using discriminative classifiers. ICASSP (2015)
Piero Cosi, Mauro Nicolao, Giulio Paci, Giacomo Sommavilla, Fabio Tesser
Comparing open source ASR toolkits on Italian children speech. WOCCI (2014)
Mauro Nicolao, Fabio Tesser, Roger K. Moore
A phonetic-contrast motivated adaptation to control the degree-of-articulation on Italian HMM-based synthetic voices. SSW (2013)
Mauro Nicolao, Roger K. Moore
Establishing some principles of human speech production through two-dimensional computational models. SAPA@INTERSPEECH (2012)
Mauro Nicolao, Javier Latorre, Roger K. Moore
C2H: A Computational Model of H&H-based Phonetic Contrast in Synthetic Speech. INTERSPEECH (2012)
Roger K. Moore, Mauro Nicolao
Reactive Speech Synthesis: Actively Managing Phonetic Contrast along an H&H Continuum. ICPhS (2011)
Fabio Tesser, Enrico Zovato, Mauro Nicolao, Piero Cosi
Two vocoder techniques for neutral to emotional timbre conversion. SSW (2010)
Mauro Nicolao, Carlo Drioli, Piero Cosi
Voice GMM modelling for FESTIVAL/MBROLA emotive TTS synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2006)