Mauro Nicolao

According to our database, Mauro Nicolao authored at least 16 papers between 2006 and 2023.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2023

Measuring prosody in child speech using SoapBox Fluency API.

Mauro Nicolao, Brenda McGuirk, Declan Moore, Niall Mullally, Lora Lynn O'Mahony, Emma O'Neill, Amelia C. Kelly

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

2020

Tatistical Context-Dependent Units Boundary Correction for Corpus-based Unit-Selection Text-to-Speech.

Claudio Zito, Fabio Tesser, Mauro Nicolao, Piero Cosi

CoRR, 2020

2018

Improved Acoustic Modelling for Automatic Literacy Assessment of Children.

Mauro Nicolao, Michiel Sanders, Thomas Hain

Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2018

2017

Toward a Needs-Based Architecture for 'Intelligent' Communicative Agents: Speaking with Intention.

Roger K. Moore, Mauro Nicolao

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2017

Unsupervised crosslingual adaptation of tokenisers for spoken language recognition.

Raymond W. M. Ng, Mauro Nicolao, Thomas Hain

Comput. Speech Lang., 2017

2016

Using phone features to improve dialogue state tracking generalisation to unseen states.

Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Mauro Nicolao, Phil D. Green

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2016 Conference, 2016

The Sheffield language recognition system in NIST LRE 2015.

Raymond W. M. Ng, Mauro Nicolao, Oscar Saz, Madina Hasan, Bhusan Chettri, Mortaza Doulaty, Tan Lee, Thomas Hain

Proceedings of the Odyssey 2016: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 2016

A Framework for Collecting Realistic Recordings of Dysarthric Speech - the homeService Corpus.

Mauro Nicolao, Heidi Christensen, Stuart P. Cunningham, Phil D. Green, Thomas Hain

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

2015

Automatic assessment of English learner pronunciation using discriminative classifiers.

Mauro Nicolao, Amy V. Beeston, Thomas Hain

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2015

2014

Comparing open source ASR toolkits on Italian children speech.

Piero Cosi, Mauro Nicolao, Giulio Paci, Giacomo Sommavilla, Fabio Tesser

Proceedings of the 4st Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, 2014

2013

A phonetic-contrast motivated adaptation to control the degree-of-articulation on Italian HMM-based synthetic voices.

Mauro Nicolao, Fabio Tesser, Roger K. Moore

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

2012

Establishing some principles of human speech production through two-dimensional computational models.

Mauro Nicolao, Roger K. Moore

Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Statistical And Perceptual Audition, 2012

C2H: A Computational Model of H&H-based Phonetic Contrast in Synthetic Speech.

Mauro Nicolao, Javier Latorre, Roger K. Moore

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

2011

Reactive Speech Synthesis: Actively Managing Phonetic Contrast along an H&H Continuum.

Roger K. Moore, Mauro Nicolao

Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2011

2010

Two vocoder techniques for neutral to emotional timbre conversion.

Fabio Tesser, Enrico Zovato, Mauro Nicolao, Piero Cosi

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

2006

Voice GMM modelling for FESTIVAL/MBROLA emotive TTS synthesis.

Mauro Nicolao, Carlo Drioli, Piero Cosi

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