Andrew P. Breen

According to our database, Andrew P. Breen authored at least 26 papers between 1987 and 2020.

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2020

On Open and Strong-Scaling Tools for Atom Probe Crystallography: High-Throughput Methods for Indexing Crystal Structure and Orientation.

Markus Kühbach, Matthew Kasemer, Baptiste Gault, Andrew Breen

CoRR, 2020

2018

Comprehensive Evaluation of Statistical Speech Waveform Synthesis.

Thomas Merritt, Bartosz Putrycz, Adam Nadolski, Tianjun Ye, Daniel Korzekwa, Wiktor Dolecki, Thomas Drugman, Viacheslav Klimkov, Alexis Moinet, Andrew Breen, Rafal Kuklinski, Nikko Strom, Roberto Barra-Chicote

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

2015

Pruning redundant synthesis units based on static and delta unit appearance frequency.

Heng Lu, Wei Zhang, Xu Shao, Quan Zhou, Wenhui Lei, Hongbin Zhou, Andrew P. Breen

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

2014

Creating Expressive TTS Voices for Conversation Agent Applications.

Andrew Breen

Proceedings of the Speech and Computer - 16th International Conference, 2014

2012

Towards automatic phonetic segmentation for TTS.

Asaf Rendel, Alexander Sorin, Ron Hoory, Andrew Breen

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

2010

Refined statistical model tuning for speech synthesis.

Xu Shao, Vincent Pollet, Andrew P. Breen

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

2008

Synthesis by generation and concatenation of multiform segments.

Vincent Pollet, Andrew P. Breen

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

2004

A database design for a TTS synthesis system using lexical diphones.

Tanya Lambert, Andrew P. Breen

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

2003

Unit selection in concatenative TTS synthesis systems based on mel filter bank amplitudes and phonetic context.

Tanya Lambert, Andrew P. Breen, Barry Eggleton, Stephen J. Cox, Ben P. Milner

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Implementing an SSML compliant concatenative TTS system.

Andrew P. Breen, Steve Minnis, Barry Eggleton

Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

2002

Refocussing on the text normalisation process in text-to-speech systems.

Andrew P. Breen, Barry Eggleton, Peter Dion, Steve Minnis

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

2000

Modeling visual coarticulation in synthetic talking heads using a lip motion unit inventory with concatenative synthesis.

Steve Minnis, Andrew P. Breen

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

Using F0 within a phonologically motivated method of unit selection.

Andrew P. Breen, James Salter

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

A system for the research into multi-modal man-machine communication within a virtual environment.

Andrew P. Breen, Barry Eggleton, Gavin E. Churcher, Paul Deans, Simon Downey

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

1999

CART-based duration modeling using a novel method of extracting prosodic features.

Paul Deans, Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson

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

1998

Non-uniform unit selection and the similarity metric within BT's Laureate TTS system.

Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson

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

Overview of the maya spoken language system.

Simon Downey, Andrew P. Breen, Maria Fernández, Edward Kaneen

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

A phonologically motivated method of selecting non-uniform units.

Andrew P. Breen, Peter Jackson

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

A fast method of producing talking head mouth shapes from real speech.

Andrew P. Breen, O. Gloaguen, P. Stern

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

1996

An investigation into the generation of mouth shapes for a talking head.

Andrew P. Breen, E. Bowers, W. Welsh

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

1995

A simple method of predicting the duration of syllables.

Andrew P. Breen

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

1994

The BT Laureate text-to-speech system.

Andrew P. Breen

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

1992

A comparison of statistical and rule based methods of determining segmental durations.

Andrew P. Breen

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1992

1991

An investigation into synthesis-by-analysis.

Andrew P. Breen

PhD thesis, 1991

1989

Methods for dynamic excitation control in parallel formant speech synthesis.

David M. Howard, Andrew P. Breen

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1989

1987

Segmentation of the speech waveform using differentiated first and second formant tracks.

Andrew P. Breen

Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Technology, 1987