Oliver Watts

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2008-2023
Publications (10 Years): 30

Top Topics

Speech Synthesis

Formant Frequencies

Top Venues

Publications

Holly Wilson, Scott Wellington, Foteini Simistira Liwicki, Vibha Gupta, Rajkumar Saini, Kanjar De, Nosheen Abid, Sumit Rakesh, Johan Eriksson, Oliver Watts, Xi Chen, Mohammad Golbabaee, Michael J. Proulx, Marcus Liwicki, Eamonn O'Neill, Benjamin Metcalfe
Performance of data-driven inner speech decoding with same-task EEG-fMRI data fusion and bimodal models. CoRR (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)
Molly Bowden, Emily Beswick, Johnny Tam, David Perry, Alice Smith, Judy Newton, Siddharthan Chandran, Oliver Watts, Suvankar Pal
A systematic review and narrative analysis of digital speech biomarkers in Motor Neuron Disease. npj Digit. Medicine 6 (2023)
Oliver Watts, Lovisa Wihlborg, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao
Puffin: pitch-synchronous neural waveform generation for fullband speech on modest devices. 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)
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)
Oliver Watts, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
Speech Waveform Reconstruction Using Convolutional Neural Networks with Noise and Periodic Inputs. ICASSP (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)
Zack Hodari, Oliver Watts, Simon King
Using generative modelling to produce varied intonation for speech synthesis. CoRR (2019)
Zack Hodari, Oliver Watts, Simon King
Using generative modelling to produce varied intonation for speech synthesis. SSW (2019)
Adèle Aubin, Alessandra Cervone, Oliver Watts, Simon King
Improving Speech Synthesis with Discourse Relations. INTERSPEECH (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)
Zack Hodari, Oliver Watts, Srikanth Ronanki, Simon King
Learning Interpretable Control Dimensions for Speech Synthesis by Using External Data. INTERSPEECH (2018)
Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Simon King
A Hierarchical Encoder-Decoder Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi
Learning Word Vector Representations Based on Acoustic Counts. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Joseph Mendelson, Pilar Oplustil, Oliver Watts, Simon King
Nativization of Foreign Names in TTS for Automatic Reading of World News in Swahili. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi
Parallel and cascaded deep neural networks for text-to-speech synthesis. SSW (2016)
Takenori Yoshimura, Gustav Eje Henter, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi, Keiichi Tokuda
A Hierarchical Predictor of Synthetic Speech Naturalness Using Neural Networks. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi
Syllable-Level Representations of Suprasegmental Features for DNN-Based Text-to-Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Gustav Eje Henter, Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Mirjam Wester, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Robust TTS duration modelling using DNNS. ICASSP (2016)
Oliver Watts, Gustav Eje Henter, Thomas Merritt, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
From HMMS to DNNS: Where do the improvements come from? ICASSP (2016)
Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Robert A. J. Clark
Wavelet-based decomposition of F0 as a secondary task for DNN-based speech synthesis with multi-task learning. ICASSP (2016)
Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Gustav Eje Henter
Median-based generation of synthetic speech durations using a non-parametric approach. SLT (2016)
Srikanth Ronanki, Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King
A Demonstration of the Merlin Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System. SSW (2016)
Adriana Stan, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Junichi Yamagishi, Peter Bell, Oliver Watts, Robert A. J. Clark, Simon King
ALISA: An automatic lightly supervised speech segmentation and alignment tool. Comput. Speech Lang. 35 (2016)
Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Gustav Eje Henter
Median-Based Generation of Synthetic Speech Durations using a Non-Parametric Approach. CoRR (2016)
Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King
Merlin: An Open Source Neural Network Speech Synthesis System. SSW (2016)
Thomas Merritt, Junichi Yamagishi, Zhizheng Wu, Oliver Watts, Simon King
Deep neural network context embeddings for model selection in rich-context HMM synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Oliver Watts, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Sentence-level control vectors for deep neural network speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Rosie Kay, Oliver Watts, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Cassie Mayo
Knowledge versus data in TTS: evaluation of a continuum of synthesis systems. INTERSPEECH (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)
Tiberiu Boros, Adriana Stan, Oliver Watts, Stefan Daniel Dumitrescu
RSS-TOBI - A Prosodically Enhanced Romanian Speech Corpus. LREC (2014)
Oliver Watts, Siva Reddy Gangireddy, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Steve Renals, Adriana Stan, Mircea Giurgiu
Neural net word representations for phrase-break prediction without a part of speech tagger. ICASSP (2014)
Moses Ekpenyong, Eno-Abasi Urua, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi
Statistical parametric speech synthesis for Ibibio. Speech Commun. 56 (2014)
Yoshitaka Mamiya, Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Robert A. J. Clark, Simon King, Adriana Stan
Lightly supervised GMM VAD to use audiobook for speech synthesiser. ICASSP (2013)
Adriana Stan, Oliver Watts, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Mircea Giurgiu, Robert A. J. Clark, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
TUNDRA: a multilingual corpus of found data for TTS research created with light supervision. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Juan Manuel Montero
Towards speaking style transplantation in speech synthesis. SSW (2013)
Heng Lu, Simon King, Oliver Watts
Combining a vector space representation of linguistic context with a deep neural network for text-to-speech synthesis. SSW (2013)
Yoshitaka Mamiya, Adriana Stan, Junichi Yamagishi, Peter Bell, Oliver Watts, Robert A. J. Clark, Simon King
Using adaptation to improve speech transcription alignment in noisy and reverberant environments. SSW (2013)
Oliver Watts, Adriana Stan, Robert A. J. Clark, Yoshitaka Mamiya, Mircea Giurgiu, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Unsupervised and lightly-supervised learning for rapid construction of TTS systems in multiple languages from 'found' data: evaluation and analysis. SSW (2013)
Oliver Watts, Bowen Zhou
Unsupervised Features from Text for Speech Synthesis in a Speech-to-Speech Translation System. INTERSPEECH (2011)
Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Unsupervised Continuous-Valued Word Features for Phrase-Break Prediction without a Part-of-Speech Tagger. INTERSPEECH (2011)
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 Trans. Speech Audio Process. 18 (5) (2010)
Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Kay Berkling
Synthesis of Child Speech With HMM Adaptation and Voice Conversion. IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process. 18 (5) (2010)
Junichi Yamagishi, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Bela Usabaev
Roles of the average voice in speaker-adaptive HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
The role of higher-level linguistic features in HMM-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Letter-based speech synthesis. SSW (2010)
Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Kay Berkling
HMM adaptation and voice conversion for the synthesis of child speech: a comparison. INTERSPEECH (2009)
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)
Oliver Watts, Junichi Yamagishi, Kay Berkling, Simon King
HMM-based synthesis of child speech. WOCCI (2008)