Simon King

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1996-2023
Publications (10 Years): 72

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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)
Atli Thor Sigurgeirsson, Simon King
Do Prosody Transfer Models Transfer Prosody? CoRR (2023)
Tian Huey Teh, Vivian Hu, Devang S. Ram Mohan, Zack Hodari, Christopher G. R. Wallis, Tomás Gómez Ibarrondo, Alexandra Torresquintero, James Leoni, Mark Gales, Simon King
Ensemble Prosody Prediction For Expressive Speech Synthesis. 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)
Atli Thor Sigurgeirsson, Simon King
Using a Large Language Model to Control Speaking Style for Expressive TTS. CoRR (2023)
Atli Þór Sigurgeirsson, Simon King
Do Prosody Transfer Models Transfer Prosodyƒ. ICASSP (2023)
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)
Jason Fong, Daniel Lyth, Gustav Eje Henter, Hao Tang, Simon King
Speech Audio Corrector: using speech from non-target speakers for one-off correction of mispronunciations in grapheme-input text-to-speech. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Johannah O'Mahony, Catherine Lai, Simon King
Combining conversational speech with read speech to improve prosody in Text-to-Speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Sébastien Le Maguer, Simon King, Naomi Harte
Back to the Future: Extending the Blizzard Challenge 2013. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Alexandra Torresquintero, Tian Huey Teh, Christopher G. R. Wallis, Marlene Staib, Devang S. Ram Mohan, Vivian Hu, Lorenzo Foglianti, Jiameng Gao, Simon King
ADEPT: A Dataset for Evaluating Prosody Transfer. Interspeech (2021)
Berrak Sisman, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Haizhou Li
An Overview of Voice Conversion and Its Challenges: From Statistical Modeling to Deep Learning. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 29 (2021)
Devang S. Ram Mohan, Qinmin Vivian Hu, Tian Huey Teh, Alexandra Torresquintero, Christopher G. R. Wallis, Marlene Staib, Lorenzo Foglianti, Jiameng Gao, Simon King
Ctrl-P: Temporal Control of Prosodic Variation for Speech Synthesis. CoRR (2021)
Devang S. Ram Mohan, Qinmin Vivian Hu, Tian Huey Teh, Alexandra Torresquintero, Christopher G. R. Wallis, Marlene Staib, Lorenzo Foglianti, Jiameng Gao, Simon King
Ctrl-P: Temporal Control of Prosodic Variation for Speech Synthesis. Interspeech (2021)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
Detection and Analysis of Attention Errors in Sequence-to-Sequence Text-to-Speech. Interspeech (2021)
Xin Wang, Shinji Takaki, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Keiichi Tokuda
Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 28 (2020)
Jacob J. Webber, Olivier Perrotin, Simon King
Hider-Finder-Combiner: An Adversarial Architecture for General Speech Signal Modification. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Berrak Sisman, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Haizhou Li
An Overview of Voice Conversion and its Challenges: From Statistical Modeling to Deep Learning. CoRR (2020)
Pilar Oplustil Gallegos, Jennifer Williams, Joanna Rownicka, Simon King
An Unsupervised Method to Select a Speaker Subset from Large Multi-Speaker Speech Synthesis Datasets. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Ivan Himawan, Sandesh Aryal, Iris Ouyang, Sam Kang, Pierre Lanchantin, Simon King
Speaker Adaptation of a Multilingual Acoustic Model for Cross-Language Synthesis. ICASSP (2020)
Jennifer Williams, Joanna Rownicka, Pilar Oplustil, Simon King
Comparison of Speech Representations for Automatic Quality Estimation in Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Synthesis. Odyssey (2020)
Zack Hodari, Catherine Lai, Simon King
Perception of prosodic variation for speech synthesis using an unsupervised discrete representation of F0. CoRR (2020)
Pilar Oplustil Gallegos, Simon King
Using previous acoustic context to improve Text-to-Speech synthesis. CoRR (2020)
Jennifer Williams, Joanna Rownicka, Pilar Oplustil, Simon King
Comparison of Speech Representations for Automatic Quality Estimation in Multi-Speaker Text-to-Speech Synthesis. CoRR (2020)
Carol Chermaz, Simon King
A Sound Engineering Approach to Near End Listening Enhancement. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Mateusz Dubiel, Martin Halvey, Pilar Oplustil Gallegos, Simon King
Persuasive Synthetic Speech: Voice Perception and User Behaviour. CIU (2020)
Jason Fong, Jason Taylor, Simon King
Testing the Limits of Representation Mixing for Pronunciation Correction in End-to-End Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Oliver Watts, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
Speech Waveform Reconstruction Using Convolutional Neural Networks with Noise and Periodic Inputs. ICASSP (2019)
Jason Fong, Pilar Oplustil Gallegos, Zack Hodari, Simon King
Investigating the Robustness of Sequence-to-Sequence Text-to-Speech Models to Imperfectly-Transcribed Training Data. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Zack Hodari, Oliver Watts, Simon King
Using generative modelling to produce varied intonation for speech synthesis. CoRR (2019)
Carol Chermaz, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Henning F. Schepker, Simon King
Evaluating Near End Listening Enhancement Algorithms in Realistic Environments. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Jennifer Williams, Simon King
Disentangling Style Factors from Speaker Representations. INTERSPEECH (2019)
Cheng-I Lai, Alberto Abad, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi, Najim Dehak, Simon King
Attentive Filtering Networks for Audio Replay Attack Detection. ICASSP (2019)
Martin Cooke, Simon King, Valérie Hazan, Yannis Stylianou, Esther Janse, Deniz Baskent, Volker Hohmann, Axel H. Winneke, Inma Hernáez
Enriched communication across the lifespan. Proces. del Leng. Natural 63 (2019)
Avashna Govender, Anita E. Wagner, Simon King
Using Pupil Dilation to Measure Cognitive Load When Listening to Text-to-Speech in Quiet and in Noise. INTERSPEECH (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)
Olympia Simantiraki, Martin Cooke, Simon King
Impact of Different Speech Types on Listening Effort. INTERSPEECH (2018)
José Novoa, Juan Pablo Escudero, Jorge Wuth, Víctor Poblete, Simon King, Richard M. Stern, Néstor Becerra Yoma
Exploring the robustness of features and enhancement on speech recognition systems in highly-reverberant real environments. CoRR (2018)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Oliver Watts, Felipe Espic, Simon King
Examplar-Based Speechwaveform Generation for Text-To-Speech. SLT (2018)
Avashna Govender, Simon King
Measuring the Cognitive Load of Synthetic Speech Using a Dual Task Paradigm. INTERSPEECH (2018)
Zack Hodari, Oliver Watts, Srikanth Ronanki, Simon King
Learning Interpretable Control Dimensions for Speech Synthesis by Using External Data. INTERSPEECH (2018)
Avashna Govender, Simon King
Using Pupillometry to Measure the Cognitive Load of Synthetic Speech. INTERSPEECH (2018)
Gustav Eje Henter, Simon King, Thomas Merritt, Gilles Degottex
Analysing Shortcomings of Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. CoRR (2018)
Cheng-I Lai, Alberto Abad, Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi, Najim Dehak, Simon King
Attentive Filtering Networks for Audio Replay Attack Detection. CoRR (2018)
Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo, Cenk Demiroglu, Simon King
Using Eigenvoices and Nearest-Neighbors in HMM-Based Cross-Lingual Speaker Adaptation With Limited Data. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 25 (4) (2017)
Josué Fredes, José Novoa, Simon King, Richard M. Stern, Néstor Becerra Yoma
Locally Normalized Filter Banks Applied to Deep Neural-Network-Based Robust Speech Recognition. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 24 (4) (2017)
Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Simon King
A Hierarchical Encoder-Decoder Model for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Felipe Espic, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Simon King
Direct Modelling of Magnitude and Phase Spectra for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Kei Sawada, Keiichi Tokuda, Simon King, Alan W. Black
The blizzard machine learning challenge 2017. ASRU (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)
Manu Airaksinen, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Lauri Juvela, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King, Paavo Alku
GlottDNN - A Full-Band Glottal Vocoder for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Srikanth Ronanki, Siva Reddy Gangireddy, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Simon King
DNN-based Speech Synthesis for Indian Languages from ASCII text. SSW (2016)
Thomas Merritt, Robert A. J. Clark, Zhizheng Wu, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
Deep neural network-guided unit selection synthesis. ICASSP (2016)
Felipe Espic, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Waveform Generation Based on Signal Reshaping for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2016)
Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Investigating gated recurrent networks for speech synthesis. ICASSP (2016)
Srikanth Ronanki, Gustav Eje Henter, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
A Template-Based Approach for Speech Synthesis Intonation Generation Using LSTMs. 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)
Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Improving Trajectory Modelling for DNN-based Speech Synthesis by using Stacked Bottleneck Features and Minimum Trajectory Error Training. CoRR (2016)
Zhizheng Wu, Phillip L. De Leon, Cenk Demiroglu, Ali Khodabakhsh, Simon King, Zhen-Hua Ling, Daisuke Saito, Bryan Stewart, Tomoki Toda, Mirjam Wester, Junichi Yamagishi
Anti-Spoofing for Text-Independent Speaker Verification: An Initial Database, Comparison of Countermeasures, and Human Performance. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 24 (4) (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)
Srikanth Ronanki, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Gustav Eje Henter
Median-based generation of synthetic speech durations using a non-parametric approach. SLT (2016)
Korin Richmond, Simon King
Smooth talking: Articulatory join costs for unit selection. ICASSP (2016)
Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Investigating gated recurrent neural networks for speech synthesis. CoRR (2016)
Víctor Poblete, Juan Pablo Escudero, Josué Fredes, José Novoa, Richard M. Stern, Simon King, Néstor Becerra Yoma
The Use of Locally Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (LNCC) to Improve Speaker Recognition Accuracy in Highly Reverberant Rooms. INTERSPEECH (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, Siva Reddy Gangireddy, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Simon King
DNN-based Speech Synthesis for Indian Languages from ASCII text. CoRR (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, Simon King
Improving Trajectory Modelling for DNN-Based Speech Synthesis by Using Stacked Bottleneck Features and Minimum Generation Error Training. IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 24 (7) (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)
Soheil Khorram, Hossein Sameti, Simon King
Soft context clustering for F0 modeling in HMM-based speech synthesis. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2015 (2015)
Zhizheng Wu, Ali Khodabakhsh, Cenk Demiroglu, Junichi Yamagishi, Daisuke Saito, Tomoki Toda, Simon King
SAS: A speaker verification spoofing database containing diverse attacks. ICASSP (2015)
Pierre Lanchantin, Christophe Veaux, Mark J. F. Gales, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi
Reconstructing voices within the multiple-average-voice-model framework. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Simon King
What speech synthesis can do for you (and what you can do for speech synthesis). ICPhS (2015)
Oliver Watts, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Sentence-level control vectors for deep neural network speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Christophe Veaux, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King
A Comparison of Manual and Automatic Voice Repair for Individual with Vocal Disabilities. SLPAT@Interspeech (2015)
Adriana Stan, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Mircea Giurgiu, Simon King
Phonetic segmentation of speech using STEP and t-SNE. SpeD (2015)
Josué Fredes, José Novoa, Víctor Poblete, Simon King, Richard M. Stern, Néstor Becerra Yoma
Robustness to additive noise of locally-normalized cepstral coefficients in speaker verification. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Zhizheng Wu, Pawel Swietojanski, Christophe Veaux, Steve Renals, Simon King
A study of speaker adaptation for DNN-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Víctor Poblete, Felipe Espic, Simon King, Richard M. Stern, Fernando Huenupán, Josué Fredes, Néstor Becerra Yoma
A perceptually-motivated low-complexity instantaneous linear channel normalization technique applied to speaker verification. Comput. Speech Lang. 31 (1) (2015)
Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Minimum trajectory error training for deep neural networks, combined with stacked bottleneck features. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Zhizheng Wu, Simon King
Towards minimum perceptual error training for DNN-based speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2015)
Thomas Merritt, Javier Latorre, Simon King
Attributing modelling errors in HMM synthesis by stepping gradually from natural to modelled speech. ICASSP (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)
Javier Tejedor, Doroteo T. Toledano, Dong Wang, Simon King, José Colás
Feature analysis for discriminative confidence estimation in spoken term detection. Comput. Speech Lang. 28 (5) (2014)
Martin Cooke, Simon King, Maeva Garnier, Vincent Aubanel
The listening talker: A review of human and algorithmic context-induced modifications of speech. Comput. Speech Lang. 28 (2) (2014)
Jianhua Tao, Keikichi Hirose, Keiichi Tokuda, Alan W. Black, Simon King
Introduction to the Issue on Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process. 8 (2) (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)
Thomas Merritt, Tuomo Raitio, Simon King
Investigating source and filter contributions, and their interaction, to statistical parametric speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Gustav Eje Henter, Thomas Merritt, Matt Shannon, Catherine Mayo, Simon King
Measuring the perceptual effects of modelling assumptions in speech synthesis using stimuli constructed from repeated natural speech. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Herman Kamper, Aren Jansen, Simon King, Sharon Goldwater
Unsupervised lexical clustering of speech segments using fixed-dimensional acoustic embeddings. SLT (2014)
Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Julián D. Echeverry-Correa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Rubén San-Segundo-Hernández, Javier Ferreiros, Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King, Juan Manuel Montero-Martínez
Development of a genre-dependent TTS system with cross-speaker speaking-style transplantation. SLAM@INTERSPEECH (2014)
Moses Ekpenyong, Eno-Abasi Urua, Oliver Watts, Simon King, Junichi Yamagishi
Statistical parametric speech synthesis for Ibibio. Speech Commun. 56 (2014)
Rasmus Dall, Marcus Tomalin, Mirjam Wester, William J. Byrne, Simon King
Investigating automatic & human filled pause insertion for speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Soheil Khorram, Hossein Sameti, Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad, Simon King, Thomas Drugman
Context-dependent acoustic modeling based on hidden maximum entropy model for statistical parametric speech synthesis. EURASIP J. Audio Speech Music. Process. 2014 (2014)
Martin Cooke, Simon King, W. Bastiaan Kleijn, Yannis Stylianou
Introduction to the Special Issue on The listening talker: context-dependent speech production and perception. Comput. Speech Lang. 28 (2) (2014)
Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín, Juan Manuel Montero, Simon King
A comparison of open-source segmentation architectures for dealing with imperfect data from the media in speech synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2014)

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