Alistair Conkie

According to our database, Alistair Conkie authored at least 41 papers between 1990 and 2021.

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2021

Combining speakers of multiple languages to improve quality of neural voices.

Javier Latorre, Charlotte Bailleul, Tuuli Morrill, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou

Proceedings of the 11th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2021

2020

Generating Multilingual Voices Using Speaker Space Translation Based on Bilingual Speaker Data.

Soumi Maiti, Erik Marchi, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

Scalable Multilingual Frontend for TTS.

Alistair Conkie, Andrew M. Finch

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

2017

Siri On-Device Deep Learning-Guided Unit Selection Text-to-Speech System.

Tim Capes, Paul Coles, Alistair Conkie, Ladan Golipour, Abie Hadjitarkhani, Qiong Hu, Nancy Huddleston, Melvyn Hunt, Jiangchuan Li, Matthias Neeracher, Kishore Prahallad, Tuomo Raitio, Ramya Rasipuram, Greg Townsend, Becci Williamson, David Winarsky, Zhizheng Wu, Hepeng Zhang

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

2015

Voice Sample Synthesis.

Juergen Schroeter, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Second Edition, 2015

2013

Role of pausing in text-to-speech synthesis for simultaneous interpretation.

Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the Eighth ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2013

Prosodically modifying speech for unit selection speech synthesis databases.

Ladan Golipour, Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the Eighth ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2013

Unsupervised prominence prediction for speech synthesis.

Mahnoosh Mehrabani, Taniya Mishra, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

2012

Building Text-To-Speech Voices in the Cloud.

Alistair Conkie, Thomas Okken, Yeon-Jun Kim, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

Word Prominence Detection using Robust yet Simple Prosodic Features.

Taniya Mishra, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Predicting Character-Appropriate Voices for a TTS-based Storyteller System.

Erica Greene, Taniya Mishra, Patrick Haffner, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

2011

Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results.

Alan W. Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Wright Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young, Maxine Eskénazi

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, 2011

Enriching Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Automatic Dialog Act Tags.

Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Srinivas Bangalore

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

AT&T VoiceBuilder: A Cloud-Based Text-to-Speech Voice Builder Tool.

Yeon-Jun Kim, Thomas Okken, Alistair Conkie, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Using F0 to constrain the unit selection Viterbi network.

Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

2010

Speech acts and dialog TTS.

Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yeon-Jun Kim, Mark C. Beutnagel

Proceedings of the Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2010

Composite TTS voices.

Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2010

Demonstration of AT&T "Let's Go": A production-grade statistical spoken dialog system.

Jason D. Williams, Iker Arizmendi, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2010

2008

Improving preselection in unit selection synthesis.

Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal, Yeon-Jun Kim, Marc C. Beutnagel

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

2006

Six approaches to limited domain concatenative speech synthesis.

Robert J. Utama, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Phonetically enriched labeling in unit selection TTS synthesis.

Yeon-Jun Kim, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Marc C. Beutnagel

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Expanding phonetic coverage in unit selection synthesis through unit substitution from a donor voice.

Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

2005

Perceptually-based data-driven join costs: comparing join types.

Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

2004

Data-driven perceptually based join costs.

Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the Fifth ISCA ITRW on Speech Synthesis, 2004

Pronunciation lexicon adaptation for TTS voice building.

Yeon-Jun Kim, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

2002

Automatic segmentation combining an HMM-based approach and spectral boundary correction.

Yeon-Jun Kim, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

2000

Perceptually based automatic prosody labeling and prosodically enriched unit selection improve concatenative text-to-speech synthesis.

Colin W. Wightman, Ann K. Syrdal, Georg Stemmer, Alistair Conkie, Mark C. Beutnagel

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Corpus-based techniques in the AT&t nextgen synthesis system.

Ann K. Syrdal, Colin W. Wightman, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou, Marc C. Beutnagel, Juergen Schroeter, Volker Strom, Ki-Seung Lee, Matthew J. Makashay

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Preselection of candidate units in a unit selection-based text-to-speech synthesis system.

Alistair Conkie, Mark C. Beutnagel, Ann K. Syrdal, Philip E. Brown

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

Multimodal Speech Synthesis.

Juergen Schroeter, Jörn Ostermann, Hans Peter Graf, Marc C. Beutnagel, Eric Cosatto, Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou

Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2000

1999

Prosody recognition from speech utterances using acoustic and linguistic based models of prosodic events.

Alistair Conkie, Giuseppe Riccardi, Richard C. Rose

Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

Interaction of units in a unit selection database.

Mark C. Beutnagel, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

1998

Three methods of intonation modeling.

Ann K. Syrdal, Gregor Möhler, Kurt E. Dusterhoff, Alistair Conkie, Alan W. Black

Proceedings of the Third ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1998

Parametric modeling of intonation using vector quantization.

Gregor Möhler, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the Third ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1998

Diphone synthesis using unit selection.

Mark C. Beutnagel, Alistair Conkie, Ann K. Syrdal

Proceedings of the Third ESCA/COCOSDA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1998

Exploration of acoustic correlates in speaker selection for concatenative synthesis.

Ann K. Syrdal, Alistair Conkie, Yannis Stylianou

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

TD-PSOLA versus harmonic plus noise model in diphone based speech synthesis.

Ann K. Syrdal, Yannis Stylianou, Laurie Garrison, Alistair Conkie, Jürgen Schröter

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1998

1994

Optimal coupling of diphones.

Alistair Conkie, Stephen Isard

Proceedings of the Second ESCA/IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 1994

1992

Behaviour Based Robotic Assembly using Vision.

Prabhas Chongstitvatana, Alistair Conkie

Proceedings of the Advances in Machine Vision: Strategies and Applications, 1992

1990

Design as intelligent behaviour: An AI in design research programme.

Tim Smithers, Alistair Conkie, Jim Doheny, Brian Logan, Karl Millington, Ming Xi Tang

Artif. Intell. Eng., 1990

An uncalibrated stereo visual servo system.

Alistair Conkie, Prabhas Chongstitvatana

Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, 1990